The author's experiences from 1941 to the end of WWII. He took part in the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941
with the 43 Motorcycle Infantry Battalion of the 13 Panzer
Division. After undertaking an Officer Candidate course in
Germany, he became a Leutnant and platoon leader to the division’s
reconnaissance battalion in April 1942. After being wounded he
went on to serve with Panzerjager Abteilung 88 as a platoon
commander on Marder tank destroyers. Later serving in Poland and
Galicia, Schiebel fought through Silesia and eastern Germany to
Karlsbad where, on May 7, 1945, PZJ Abteilung 88 surrendered to
American troops.
New in illustrated boards - 272pp,
12 colour images, 45 b/w photos, 4 colour 3D drawings.
This new volume on the world's first jet passenger
liner, features details from previously unpublished
enquiry and salvage reports, offering a unique insight
into the tragedies that blighted the early days of the
Comet's development. As part of his research into the
book, the author interviewed Harry Povey, the De
Havilland Production Manager and John Cunningham, the
Comet test pilot who would be the first to experience
flight at the helm of the iconic craft. Details of the
Nimrod military variant of the Comet are included and
the book features an interview with the commander of the
last ever Nimrod operational flight. It also includes a
wide array of historical sources and archival
information plus several hundred colour and black and
white photographs and illustrations
THE HISTORY OF THE CORPS OF
ROYAL
ENGINEERS: VOLUME XII
Edited by Brigadier A.
A. Wilson OBE
This latest volume of the official history covers the
activities of the Corps from 1980 until 2000. Chapters include
Revolution and Regeneration - The Evolution of Defence Policy from
1980-2000, A Corps for the New Millennium, Matching the Tools to
the Task, Conflict of Ideologies - Fighting the Cold War, The
Falklands War, The first Gulf War 1990-1991, The Balkans -
Operations in of the UN and NATO 1992-2000, Northern Ireland, and
Worldwide Commitments.
New in d/w - 784pp, numerous colour photos, illustrations & maps
The Inst. of Royal Engineers, 2011
ISBN 9780903530392
On 5 November, 1940
the eastbound convoy HX84 consisting of thirty-seven merchant
ships, escorted by the armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay,
was attacked in mid-Atlantic by the German pocket battleship
Admiral Scheer. The Jervis Bay, commanded by Captain Edward
Fegen, charged at the enemy. Hopelessly out-gunned, she was
blown out of the water. Captain Hugh Pettigrew, commanding the
lightly armed Canadian Pacific cargo liner, Beaverford, began a
desperate game of hide and seek with the Scheer until she was
sunk with no survivors. The neutral flag Swedish freighter,
Stureholm, commanded by Captain Olander, rescued survivors from
the Jervis Bay. Without this brave and dangerous gesture no one
would have lived to tell the tale of the death of the Jervis
Bay, whose Captain was awarded the VC.
THE YORK CHASSEURS: A CONDEMNED
REGIMENT OF GEORGE
III
by Pete Lines
Formed on 13 November 1813 from the ‘Better Class of Culprit and
Deserter’ and confined aboard Isle of Wight military prison ships,
this expendable corps of ‘Serial Deserters’ was dispatched to
survive or die in the pestilential islands of Barbados, St Vincent,
Jamaica, Grenada, Tobago and Guadeloupe, where 26 per cent
successfully deserted and 30 per cent perished. In this unique study
the author examines in detail every aspect of the regiment: its
composition, its involvement in the capture of the island of
Guadeloupe, the desertions and punishments, and its eventual
disbandment in Canada.
