A collection of previously unpublished images
from the Soviet-Finnish Winter War of 1939-40. It also includes
bunker blueprints plus magnificent colour paintings. The author is a
WWII historian and professional guide and is an expert on the main
locations of the fighting. Drawn from Russian and Finnish archives,
this is a truly unique collection of unpublished photographs. The
images illustrate the Karelian battlefield and the book includes GPS
coordinates of the featured bunkers. The text is in four languages,
English, Russian, Finnish and Swedish.
New in illustrated
boards - Landscape format, 190pp, c800 b/w & colour photos, maps, plans &
paintings
The memoirs of two Trucial Oman Scouts. Antony Cawston was
commissioned into the Royal Artillery in India in 1945. He was
posted to the Gulf in 1958 and served in the Jebel Akhdar War,
leading to a period of service in the Trucial Oman Scouts. Michael
Curtis served in the British Army from 1959 to 1972, also with a
period in the Trucial Oman Scouts, latterly as commander of 'A'
Squadron. The book describes the history of the United Arab Emirates
from a disparate group of tribal sheikhdoms, characterised by
frequent internecine antagonisms, to the united country of today.
New in d/w - 188pp,
c50 colour
& b/w photos
Michael Curtis (Private Publication),
2011
ISBN 0954904419
There are two images of warfare that dominate Greek history. The
better known is that of Achilles, the Homeric hero skilled in
face-to-face combat to the death. The alternative model, equally
Greek and also taken from Homeric epic, is Odysseus, ‘the man of
twists and turns’ of 'The Odyssey'. To him, winning by stealth,
surprise or deceit was acceptable. It is common for popular writers
to assume that the hoplite phalanx was the only mode of warfare used
by the Greeks. The fact is, however, that the use of spies,
intelligence gathering, ambush, and surprise attacks at dawn or at
night were also a part of Greek warfare.
'Attack and Sink' was the signal that Admiral Donitz sent to
the commanders of the 21 U-boats of the Markgraf wolf-pack on the
9th September 1941. Convoy SC42 consisted of sixty three merchant
ships, heavily laden with vital supplies for the United Kingdom.
It covered an area of 25 miles of inhospitable ocean after setting
sail from Nova Scotia. The escort of one destroyer and three
corvettes of the Royal Canadian Navy, all untried in combat, were
hopelessly outclassed when the battle of SC42 commenced. The
battle lasted for seven days and covered 1,200 miles of ocean.
Radfan, Borneo, Aden - who fought these almost forgotten
conflicts and why? The early and mid 60's, National Service was
being phased out in the British Army and replaced by a regular
volunteer force. This book describes how some of the volunteers
responded, following them through recruit training, their posting
to an operational parachute battalion and finally into Battle.
