SS-Obergruppenführer ReinhardHeydrich was the ablest Nazi of them
all. A talented linguist, musician and the perfect German
administrator, he rose through the ranks from relative obscurity
in the 1920s to the pinnacle of power in the Third Reich by
1936. Becoming an SS and Police General, Hitler appointed him
the Acting German Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia. He was
assassinated in Prague in the spring of 1942 by British SOE
trained commandos parachuted into Czechoslovakia.
New in card cover - A4 format, 110pp,
130 photos, maps
An extensively illustrated history of the Anti Partizan
operations of the Karstwehr -Batallion,
SS-24.Waffen-Gebirgs-Division. The Karstjager mountain division
was composed mainly of Austrian, Italian and Spanish soldiers. The
book covers their engagements in Slovenia and Northern Italy and
features more than 1,000 photos plus eyewitness accounts from
veterans, organization charts and profiles.
French text.
New in illustrated boards - Large format, 399pp, c1000 b/w &
colour photos, illustrations & maps
PANZER TRACTS NO. 3-5:
PANZERKAMPFWAGEN III UMBAU - CONVERSIONS
by Thomas L Jentz & Hilary Louis Doyle
For the first time the defining features of each converted
Pz.Kpfw.III plus all significant modifications have been correctly
identified by the Panzer Tracts team. The following models are
included:
A surviving Pz.Beob.Wg.III turret allowed correct drawing of the
unique details on the turret roof and modified gun mantle. The
book includes brand new four-view 1/35 scale drawings and the text
and data are based solely on primary sources.
New in card cover - A4 format, 52pp,
35 scale drawings, 59 b/w photos
The story of Geoffrey Pyke, a prisoner of war and escapee during
the First World War. In the Second World War he became an
inventor, convincing Churchill and Mountbatten of the voracity
of one of his schemes, Project Habakkuk, a plan to create large
vessels formed from icebergs and insulated with woodpulp which
could be used to land and take off aircraft. He gave birth to
the Mass Observation Movement and had a hand in numerous schemes
to defeat the Nazis. He committed suicide in 1948, having come
under suspicion by MI5 that he was in fact a senior Soviet
agent.
THE 3.7 INCH ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN IN
CANADIAN SERVICE
by Doug Knight
New in the popular Service Publications series, this compact book
provides details of the 3.7 Inch Anti-Aircraft un which was designed
for the British Army in the 1930s. It wa in service with the
Canadian Forces from 1941.
New in card cover -
24pp, 20 b/w photos, double page drawing
