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Panzerjäger vs KV-1
Eastern Front 1941–43
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
On the Soviet side, based upon lessons from the Spanish Civil War, the Red Army decided to develop a heavy "breakthrough†? tank to smash enemy infantry defenses. This resulted in the KV-1 and KV-2 tanks, introduced in 1939. At the start of Operation Barbarossa, both these tanks were virtually...
The Rise of Hitler
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
In 1945, amidst the ruins of a bomb-damaged German home a tattered book, Deutschland Erwache, was recovered as a souvenir by a British soldier. This rare and invaluable primary resource now forms the basis of The Rise of Hitler Illustrated, which is a photographic record of Hitlers' rise to power...
by Bruno Mugnai
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
In this issue: Warriors and Warfare of the Han Dynasty (part two) Chun L. Wang, Four Centuries of Italian Armours (12th-15th century) (part two) Mario Venturi, The Venetian Army and Navy in the Ottoman War of 1684-99(part nine) Bruno Mugnai, The Austrian Light Infantry, 1792-1800(part one) Paolo...
by Laura A. Macaluso
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
During World War I, New Haven was a hive of wartime activity. The city hummed with munition production from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, while food conservation campaigns, canning kitchens and book drives contributed to the war effort. Meanwhile, Walter Camp, father of American football,...
by Bruno Mugnai
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
In this book: Ancient and Medieval Chinese Warfare: The First Dynasties - Captured Ensigns at the Battle of Agnadello - 1509 - The Venetian Army and Navy in the Holy League War, 1684-99 (part two) - Italian Units of the British Army, 1806-1814 - Forgotten Fronts of WWI: German Samoa (part two)
Air Wars 1920-1939
The Development and Evolution of Fighter Tactics
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Spain (1936-9), China (1937 onwards), Mongolia (1939), Finland (1939-40) and France (1939-40) were a testing ground for a new approach to air tactics with western democracies and totalitarian states analysing the resulting lessons. Attention in Air Wars 1920-1939: The Development and Evolution of...
Chindit vs Japanese Infantryman
1943–44
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
In order to keep China in the war against the Japanese, the Western Allies believed they had to return to Northern Burma. Colonel Orde Wingate, a military maverick and proponent of guerrilla warfare, knew that a different type of British infantryman was required for this role – the Chindit, indoctrinated...
Luftwaffe Bombers in the Blitz 1940-1941
Rare photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Luftwaffe Bombers in the Blitz will comprise of some 140-150 images of German bomber aircraft during the Blitz of 1940-1941. The images will cover the entirety of the Blitz and will also depict losses across Britain during this period. Each picture will tell its own story, and will be fully captioned...
Il-2 Shturmovik
Red Avenger
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
The Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik armoured attack aircraft became an icon of Soviet resistance on the Eastern Front in the Second World War. Known throughout the Wehrmacht as the Fleischer ( Butcher ), the Il-2 took a terrible toll on German infantry and armoured vehicles including tanks and assault guns...
Soviet Strategic Bombers
The Hammer in the Hammer and the Sickle
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
The history of Soviet strategic bombers after the Second World War is a fascinating one: from the reverse-engineering of interned American Boeing B-29 bombers into the first Soviet strategic bomber, the Tu-4; to the huge jet and turbo-prop powered aircraft of today's Russian Air Force. This comprehensive...
Mosquito Attack!
A Norwegian RAF Pilot at War
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
In 1943, Norwegians formed their third squadron flying under RAF Command: No. 333 Squadron. One flight would fly the trusty Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat whereas the other operated the ultra-modern, wooden wonder: the de Havilland Mosquito. One of the chosen few to fly the Mosquito was 21-year-old...
The Lion and the Rose
The 4th Battalion The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1919
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
The Lion and the Rose tells the story of an infantry battalion in the Great War. Based on many unpublished sources, the book narrates the individual parts played by nearly 2,000 of those who served with the 4th King’s Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment from the day that war was declared in 1914 until...
Fuel Fire And Fear
RAF Flight Engineer at War
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
During the Second World War the need for an on-board technical expert to join the Bomber Crews evolved. The various systems on the latest 4-engined 'Heavy Bombers', namely the Handley Page Halifax, Shorts Stirling and Avro Lancaster witnessed the development of Flight Engineers. This book provides...
B-24 Bridge Busters
RAF Liberators Over Burma
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
B-24 Bridge Busters: RAF Liberators over Burma provides a gripping and detailed account of RAF Liberator missions against the Japanese in Asia. British and Commonwealth aircrews displayed great gallantry in many instances on low-level precise bombing sorties destroying specific targets, including...