After 16 months of training and
garrison duty in France, Pionier-Bataillon 305 was sent to
the Eastern Front. This would lead to their destruction at
Stalingrad barely nine months later. Commanded by apolitical
officers, reservists mainly, its ranks were filled with
older-than-normal recruits. When they arrived on the Eastern
Front in May 1942 they sensed what awaited them. Weeks of
monotonous, endless marching were interspersed with
terrifying encounters and set-piece attacks. How would this
fresh battalion compare with experienced units? Was the
arrival of a tough, battle-hardened commander enough to
compensate for the unit’s lack of combat experience?
New in illustrated boards - 620pp, 330
+ photos, 56 maps/sketches, tables, appendices
The untold story of 24 Panzer-Division’s savage battles
on the outskirts of Stalingrad and in the devastated ruins
of the city itself. This detailed, day-by-day account begins
with the victorious advance in August 1942, and follows the
Division into the city as it is slowly and inexorably sucked
into the fiery crucible. Losses and casualties increased
daily until finally, after three months of draining combat,
the Division was reduced to a couple of panzers and a few
hundred men. A true labour of love by the author, this
astoundingly detailed account features many previously
unseen photographs and numerous plans and maps.
New in card cover
- 541pp, 210 photos, maps, plans, appendices, index
Leaping Horseman Books, 2003 ISBN
0975107607
SOLD
Web No. 31615-03
£35.00
THE CHURCHILL IN CANADIAN
SERVICE
by Mark W Tonner
Another volume in the popular Service Publications series
on weapons of the Canadian Armed Forces, this compact book
provides details of the Churchill's use by the army in WWII.
Includes illustrations of individual named vehicles.
New in card cover
- 24pp, 20 b/w photos, 4-view drawing
TAMING THE PANZERS: MONTY'S TANK BATTALIONS
3RTR AT WAR
by Patrick Delaforce
The story of 3rd Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment in WWII.
Their defence of Calais in May 1940 gave the BEF extra time
to evacuate from Dunkirk. In the spring of the following
year the refitted battalion fought the Panzers in the
ill-fated campaign in Greece, the 6 week camapign delaying
Operation Barbarossa. In April, 1941 the remnants of 3RTR
embarked for Egypt, fighting in all the main North African
battles under General Bernard Montgomery. Moving back to NW
Europe in 1944 to join the invasion, they were in the thick
of the desparate Normandy battles. Later, after Operation
Market Garden, they took part in the Ardennes campaign and
the advance from the Rhine to the Elbe.
This copy is
signed by the author.
Fine in card
cover - 255pp, numerous b/w photos & maps/plans
On 3rd August 1944, following the 20th July assassination
attempt on Adolf Hitler, SS Reichsfuhrer, Heinrich Himmler
was appointed commander of the reserve army. Four days
earlier, at the Wolfs Lair in East Prussia, 29. "RONA"
(Russische Nr.1) and 30. (Russische Nr.2)
Waffen-Grenadier-Divisions der SS, were formed. The fact
that Himmler formed SS units from the Russian federations
was paradoxical in view of Nazi views on Russian racial
characteristics, but it clearly illustrated the Third
Reich's dire situation at the time.
Brand new. German text.
New in Pictorial
boards - 130pp, 36 b/w illustrations , maps, tables
