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BOOKSHELF – January
Title: Storm Clouds over the Pacific Author: Peter Harmsen Publisher: Casemate, Oxford ISBN: 9781636243016 Price: £19.95 This accessible book covers the 10-year period between 1931 and 1941 and, as such, is a countdown to the outbreak of war in the Far East. Even before the attac...
28 Feb 2024
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8 Jan 2024
Book Review Round-up 12-2023
We’ve reviewed the best books in Antiques and Militaria so you can select from the best!
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Ottoman Armies 1820-1914
At the start of this book, the reader is reminded that at the height of its power, the Ottoman Empire spread across a vast area, from the Balkans into North Afr...
7 Dec 2023
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12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend
The unit on which this work concentrates was formed in June 1943, making it a relatively late-comer to the war. Many of the troops who made up the division were...
9 Jul 2023
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Tank Gun Systems
Many of the tanks used in both world wars will be familiar to most military enthusiasts, who know what their capabilities were, but the internal layout remains ...
9 Jul 2023
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Siege of Budapest 1944-45
By 1944, the German army on the Eastern Front was being pushed back by a series of offensives launched by the Russian army. The situation was the very opposite ...
20 Jan 2023
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March past!
Mention the name Simon Fraser and hardly anyone would take notice. However, mention Lord Lovat and their reaction is different as they know the war hero of D-Da...
20 Jan 2023
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SU-155/ISU-152 Vs Tiger
Tank design leapt forward during WWII, from the lightweight in 1939, to the heavy machines by 1945. When the Tiger appeared, it redrew the lines and the Allies ...
26 Sep 2022
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Operation Jericho
Most books on bombing missions during WWII tend to focus on the well-known operations, such as the Dam Busters, the attacks on Tirpitz and the Schweinfurt raids...
25 Aug 2022
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Tiger vs Churchill
On the face of things, it would seem that pitting the Churchill tank, weighing less than 40 tons, against the 56-ton bulky might of the Tiger tank, with its 88m...
22 Jun 2022
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The Franco Prussian War
This is a war to which people pay little attention and yet from it, the foundations for modern-day Europe were laid. Lasting from July 1870 to January 1871, the...
5 May 2022
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German Mountain Troops 1942-1945
This highly illustrated book is the second volume and concluding work looking at the history of a truly elite unit in the German army during WWII, the Gebirgsja...
24 Jan 2022
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Animals in the Second World War
When we think of animals during WWII we tend to think of the obvious, such as horses, mules, dogs and pigeons. This small monograph on the subject is a good way...
24 May 2021