Organized during 1943, 10th SS
Panzer Division saw its first action in the spring of 1944
during the attempt to relieve an encircled German army on
the Eastern Front. Several months later they were ordered
west to Normandy, where by mid-June 1944 German defenses
against the Allied offensive were crumbling. Here the
division engaged in a series of armored ounterattacks
against British and American forces. The 10th SS gradually
had to fall back to Falaise, where the division escaped the
Allied encirclement with no tanks and only a fraction of its
men. They next defended against the Allied airborne assault
during Operation Market Garden in September 1944, fought in
Alsace before returning to the Eastern Front. There, east of
Berlin, the division participated in the final, futile
battles against the Red Army before escaping to
Czechoslovakia to surrender to the U.S. Army.
New in d/w -Large format, 383pp,
numerous b/w photographs, illustrations, 3-view drawings
January 31, 1968. A cold, dense
fog had settled over the city of Hue, South Vietnam. Nothing
could be seen or heard until the blinding flash and shocking
concussion of an exploding rocket tore through the fog. A
hail of rockets and mortar shells was followed by a
sustained ground attack. It was soon obvious to the Army,
Navy, Marine and Air Force personnel inside the compound
that a large group of people outside the compound wanted to
kill them. The Tet offensive on Hue was on. The intense
fighting lasted for a month and the NLF massacred thousands
of residents of the city.
Peace keeping in Bosnia's Civil
War, 1992-1993. A young cavalry lieutenant's moving and
shocking account of front line service in the cauldron of
war. Fresh from Germany he and his men found themselves in a
highly political and lethally dangerous civil war. They
witnessed appalling atrocities and human tragedy on a giant
scale. The foreword by Martin Bell, OBE, describes it as
"earning its place among the impartial narratives of the
Bosnian War"
Wellington’s Veterans and the Liberation of the New
World. In the aftermath of Waterloo, over 6,000 British
volunteers sailed across the Atlantic to aid Simon Bolivar
in his liberation of Gran Columbia from her oppressors in
Madrid. The expeditions were plagued with disaster from the
start, one ship sank shortly after leaving Portsmouth with
the loss of almost 200 lives. Those who reached the New
World faced disease, wild animals, mutiny and desertion, and
conditions on campaign were appalling. Nevertheless, those
who endured made key contributions to Bolivar’s
success.
A useful and extensively
illustrated volume for modellers and enthusiasts of the
legendary Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. contains many side-view
drawings illustrating paint schemes, camouflage and markings
of aircraft in service with the USAAF and RAF, as well as
other air arms such as the Chinese Nationalist and Brazilian
air forces.
New in card cover
- 160pp, c500 b/w photos, illustrations & side-views
