THE DEVONSHIRE AND DORSET
REGIMENT:
11TH, 39TH AND 54TH OF FOOT, 1958 - 2007
by The Trustees of the Military Museum of Devon & Dorset
Since its formation on 17th May 1958, The Devonshire and Dorset
Regiment has served in Cyprus, British Guyana, Northern Ireland,
West Germany, Malta, Belize, Berlin, the Falkland Islands, the
Gulf, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq. As a result of a
reorganisation of the British Army, the Devonshire and Dorsets
were merged into a new Regiment, The Rifles, on 1st February 2007.
This book tells the story, largely in photographic form, of the
many and varied achievements of all parts of the Regimental
Family.
The volume includes the Regimental Roll of Honour, Honours and
Awards, Regimental Appointments and an illustrated list of
Colonels-in-Chief.
New in d/w - 256pp, c1000 colour & b/w photos, illustrations &
maps
A fascinating, historical work. The book includes an exact
reprint of the official manual for members of the abortive "Werwolf"
organisation - Himmler's planned suicide squads who would form the
Third Reich's resistance movement in the closing months of WWII and
after!
Twenty-three stirring
accounts of what life flying as air-crew in World War Two was
really like. The writers are pilots, navigators and gunners who
flew medium and heavy bombers or Mosquitoes. It conveys the terror
of being coned by German searchlights over the target, attacks by
Luftwaffe night-fighters, catastrophic damage to aircraft and the
ensuing struggle to keep the machine airborne on the return trip
to base. It tells of the comradeship between the crew and often
the humour between them which was often bred from fear.
Selbstinszenierungen
in Carinhall. Today, the existence of the forest estate of
Carinhall, 65 kilometers north of Berlin, is only signified by two
gatehouses adorned with the coat of arms of Hermann Goering.
But in this long forgotten area is a wealth of history and myths.
Here, starting from 1933, in the grand residence, the fate of
Europe was often decided. The invasion of Czechoslovakia, the
Austrian Anschluss, the economy of the Third Reich, even ‘The
Final Solution’, were discussed and planned here. The authors
reconstruct the history of Goering’s residence and describe the
buildings, the visitors and the personalities who brought war and
holocaust to Europe.
German text.
New in card cover - 207pp, 173 b/w photos, illustrations, maps & plans
A dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa, its escalating clash
with US policy and its direct military clashes with the South
African Defence Force in Angola. The narrative gallops from Cuba's
first hesitant steps in rendering assistance to Algerian rebels
fighting France in 1961, to the war in the Congo (later Zaire and
now the Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1964-65, when 100 Cubans
led by Che Guevara, acting in support of the Simba rebels, were
confronted by white mercenaries from South Africa. The book
revolutionises our view of Cuba's international role, challenges
conventional beliefs about the Soviet Union in directing Cuba's
action in Africa.
New in d/w - 490pp,
numerous b/w photos, illustrations & maps
