Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence. This unique book
exposes for the first time the mysterious life and career of
Desmond Morton, intelligence officer and personal adviser to
Winston Churchill during the Second World War. After distinguished
service as artillery officer and aide-de-camp to General Haig
during the First World War, Morton worked for the Secret
Intelligence Service (SIS) from 1919 to 1934, and was involved in
secret operations against Bolshevik Russia and a resurgent
Germany. Morton met Churchill on the Western Front in 1916,
supporting him throughout the ‘wilderness years’ and moved to
Downing Street as the Prime Minister’s intelligence adviser in May
1940. There, he remained in a liaison role until the end of the
war.
A CARDBOARD CASTLE: AN INSIDE
HISTORY OF THE WARSAW PACT
Edited
by Vojtech Mastny & Malcolm Byrne
This is the first book to analyze, and interpret the history of
the Warsaw Pact between 1955 and 1991 based on the archives of the
alliance itself. The Soviet bloc military machine that held the West
in awe for most of the Cold War does not appear from the inside as
formidable as outsiders often believed in its surprisingly long
history. A chronology of the main events in the history of the
Warsaw Pact, a list of its leading officials, a selective
bibliography, and an analytical index add to the importance of a
publication that sets the new standard as a reference work on the
subject.
New in card cover - 726pp, b/w
ills,
bibliography, index
Central European
University Press, 2005
ISBN 9637326073
RUSSIAN CIVIL
WAR GAME
GUIDE NO.4: KORNILOVSKI SHOCK REGIMENT
by Major Thomas Hillman
A translation from M.
A. Kritsky's Russian original of a complete history of the most
famous regiment of the Russian Civil War, from its founding, to
the evacuation from the Crimea. The book deals with a few myths
about the Kornilovskis. In forty months from June, 1917 to
November, 1920, the Kornilov Regiment (which later became a
division) fought more than 570 battles against the Bolsheviks,
losing more than 48,000 men and women killed or injured
New in spiral bound card cover -
A4 format,, 128pp, colour & b/w photos & ills
Following the
successful Allied landings in Normandy in June 1944 German forces
battled for two months to contain the bridgehead, but their
last-ditch attempt to recover the initiative with Operation
Lüttich, the counter-attack from Mortain on August 7, failed. From
that starting point the author follows the footsteps of the German
retreat across France. Although nearly 300,000 men were either
killed, wounded, missing, or taken prisoner, by the beginning of
September German forces were once more standing firm along the 650
kilometres between Switzerland and the North Sea. This, is that
story told through hundreds of 'then and now' comparison
photographs.
MICHAEL WITTMANN
AND THE WAFFEN SS TIGER COMMANDERS
OF THE LEIBSTANDARTE IN WWII, VOLUME I
by Patrick Agte
Michael Wittmann was by far the most famous WWII tank ace,
destroying 138 enemy tanks and 132 anti-tank guns. This classic of
armoured warfare is both combat biography and unit history, as
Patrick Agte focuses on the life and career of Wittmann, but also
includes his fellow Tiger commanders in the 1st SS Panzer Division
Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. Volume One covers the Eastern Front,
where Wittmann racked up more than 100 kills and participated in the
Battle of Kursk in 1943. Includes maps, official documents,
newspaper clippings, and orders of battle.
