This a further collaboration of two authors who previously crafted a similar book on the Littorio Class battleships. The vessels are covered impressively by this book, the survivors of a class designed before WWI – Very Highly Recommended
Nelson’s Navy in 100 Objects
The ‘in 100 Objects’ series is proving very popular, providing a fascinating look at a subject through a cross section of objects that define it. This new book in the series reads well and contains a very interesting selection of images that are almost entirely provided in full colour through the body of the book – Very Highly Recommended
Wargames, Terrain & Buildings, WWI Trench Systems
The war games series has proved very popular with both war gamers and military history enthusiasts. The high photographic content provides considerable detail of the trenches and buildings constructed in WWI – Highly Recommended
Hitler’s War in Africa, 1941-1942, The Road To Cairo
The author provides an engaging narrative of the German involvement in North Africa and the motivations of Mussolini and Hitler. An occasion where Hitler again had to prop up Mussolini and attempt to sort out the mess the Italians had made – Very Highly Recommended
Lockheed Constellation, A History
The Lockheed Constellation was an elegant airliner that grew from pre-war work to design and develop a four engine airliner with pressurized cabin and trans Atlantic range. At a time of conversion of bomber designs, the Connie was a stylish civil airliner that was also to be employed in military roles – Very Highly Recommended
Images of War, Red Army Auxiliary Armoured Vehicles 1930-1945, Rare Photographs From Wartime Archives
Bureaucratic incompetence and Stalin’s purges combined in 1940 to leave the Red Army almost entirely without armoured auxiliary vehicles. A welcome addition to the highly popular Images Of War Series, covering Soviet efforts to provide an adequate range of armoured vehicles – Very Highly Recommended
Pendant Numbers of the Royal Navy, A Record of the Allocation of Pendant Numbers to Royal Navy Warships and Auxiliaries, Fifth Edition
The fifth edition of this standard reference work contains updated information. The authors have included significant new information on the British Pacific Fleet in WWII – Most Highly Recommended
Surviving The Arctic Convoys, The Wartime Memoir of Leading Seaman Charlie Erswell
The Arctic Convoys to the Soviets were the most arduous naval actions of WWII. The far left have always made much of how the Soviets won the war. The courage of Red Army troops and pilots was impressive, but what is frequently neglected is the part British seamen played in the epic convoy battles to supply the Soviets – Most Highly Recommended
Hitler’s Fortresses In The East, The Sieges Of Ternopol, Kovel, Pozan & Breslau 1944-1945
By 1944, even the loyalist Nazis could see defeat as the most probable outcome, but fought on hard in the East to slow the Soviet advance. Excellent research, presentation and illustration of the final acts of WWII on the Eastern Front – Very Highly Recommended
Mussolini’s Defeat at Hill 731, March 1941, How the Greeks Halted Italy’s Albanian Offensive
Mussolini was one of the most unlucky dictators, always trying to impress Hitler and always failing. Excellent research and presentation of one of the most important, but least researched, parts of WWII – Very Highly Recommended