An account of German Paratroopers in the Poland Campaign,
1939. Although the fledgling paratroop operations in Belgium
and the Netherlands in 1940, and on Crete in 1941, attracted
worldwide attention, less well-known is that the use of
airborne forces had been planned for the invasion of Poland
in 1939, in an act that began the Second World War. On
several occasions the men of Parachute Regiment 1 were
sitting ready in their Ju52 transports, fully equipped and
ready to go. Many of these young and in-experienced
paratroopers would go on to experience the full horrors of
warfare and for some of them, the Polish Campaign would end
in a ‘hero‘s death’. The author uses war diaries, maps,
contemporary documents and photographs, including those from
various private collections around the world.
The
history of the military camp built in the grounds of Foxley
Manor, Herefordshire, from the outbreak of the Second World
War until the late 1960s when it was demolished. In 1944 and
1945 the US Army 123rd & 156th General Hospitals which were
based there received casualties from the European Theatre of
Operations. After the war the camp was used to house Polish
refugees. The book tells of the day to day activities on the
base, using eyewitness accounts and previously unpublished
photos.
New in card cover - 160pp, 135 b/w photos & illustrations
THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR VOLUME
1:
THE BATTLE FOR KHUZESTAN, SEPTEMBER 1980-MAY 1982
by E. R. Hooton & Tom Cooper
The Iran-Iraq War was one of the
bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century, accidentally
creating Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. There have been
many books on the conflict, but this is the first detailed
military history using materials from both sides, as well as
materials obtained from US intelligence and British
governmental archives. It provides a unique insight into a
war which began through miscalculation and rapidly escalated
into the longest conventional conflict in the post-WWII era.
This first volume looks at the background and describes in
detail how Saddam Hussein decided to invade, but hamstrung,
the Iraqi Army to restrict its greatest success to a narrow
strip of territory in Iran’s southern province of Khuzestan.
Middle east@War 5
New in card cover - A4 format, 80pp, numerous b/w photos,
maps & colour photos
From the shelling of the fort at Westerplatte, on the
Polish coast, on 1 September 1939, to the loss of thousands
of German refugees at sea in May 1945, the Baltic witnessed
continuous and ferocious fighting throughout the Second
World War. In this new book, the author chronicles such
major events as the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet campaign
against Sweden in 1942, the three wars in Finland 1939-44,
the Soviet liberation of the Baltic states, the German
evacuation of two million people from the East, and the
Soviet race westwards in 1945.
16 AIR ASSAULT BRIGADE:
BRITAIN'S RAPID REACTION FORCE
by Tim Ripley
A historical
narrative of 16 Brigade's operations since its formation in
1999 explaining the innovative tactics and operational
procedures used to move by air into battle. The book covers
military hardware including Apache attack helicopters, as
well as describing the elite combat units including the
Parachute Regiment and Pathfinders. Key personalities from
the Brigade are examined together with a comprehensive
analysis of how the Brigade has performed and how it is
likely to evolve in coming years.
New in d/w - 272pp. numerous colour &
b/w illustrations, maps, tactical diagrams.
