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Autumn 2018 - Spring 2019


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July 2018 2
August 2018 5
September 2018 8
October 2018 11
November 2018 13
December 2018 14
January 2019 16
February 2019 18
March 2019 21
April 2019 24
May 2019 26
June 2019 31

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JULY 2018 Publication Dark History of Russia
Michael Kerrigan
In the past 100 years alone, Russia
Native American Myths & Legends has seen immense revolutions:
Chris McNab from monarchy to the world’s first
Native American culture is founded socialist state, from Communism to Dark History of Russia
on stories told orally and handed Capitalism, from mass poverty to 244 x 186mm (9¾ x 7½”)
down through the generations, Europe’s new super rich. In that time, Extent: 224pp
including myths that reveal the origin Native American Myths & it has endured civil war, world war Word count: 58,000 words
of a tribe, legends that chronicle Legends and the Cold War, as well as famines, Illustrations: 180 col & b/w photos
heroes who fought gods, yarns that 244 x 186mm (9¾ x 7½”) & a/ws
assassinations and massacres.
tell of malevolent trickster spirits, and Extent: 224pp ISBN: 978-1-78274-631-7
Word count: 50,000 words Ranging from medieval Kievan Rus £19.99 Hardback
canny morality tales for the ages. to Vladimir Putin, Dark History of
Illustrations: 180 b/w and colour
Encompassing creation myths and Russia explores the brutality and
photographs and artworks
family life, spirits and gods, warfare ISBN: 978-1-78274-628-7 skulduggery employed in maintaining
and death, Native American Myths & £19.99 Hardback power in the Slav heartland.
Legends is an informative exploration
of the beliefs of North America’s first
inhabitants.
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had to be fashioned into a machine for making the future; Opposite: ‘By the End
people had to make themselves its moving parts. there was of the Five-year plan
no place in such a scheme for individualism or freedom of Collectivization Should
expression: the good citizen put society, and socialism, first. be Completed,’ this poster
(by the Latvian artist
‘dEkuLakizatiOn’

Tempering
gustav klutsis (1895–
52 P E O P L E , F A M I LY A N D C U L T U R E P E O P L E , F A M I LY A N D C U L T U R E 53 60 P E O P L E , F A M I LY A N D C U L T U R E P E O P L E , F A M I LY A N D C U L T U R E 61 the soviet leadership’s resentments against the kulaks became 1938) enthuses.
intensely emotional. ‘We must smash the kulaks, eliminate them
as a class,’ said stalin. the leaders had clashed with the kulaks

The STeel
‘Then he said: “The next time you go out, take these things ‘At this time these supernatural powers, made an extraordinary demonstration.
from the start; sturdily self-reliant, they had been slow to adapt Below: the rural
with you, and use them as I tell you, and do not run from people had flint knives Having first painted his body in red and black paint, he wafted a to the social template the communists wanted to fit them into. revolution marches
these animals. When they run at you, as soon as they get given them, and they cut strong bowstring through the ceremonial incense, then wrapped lenin had sparred with the kulaks in the first months of the on beneath a banner
pretty close, shoot the arrows at them, as I have taught you; up the bodies of the dead it around his neck and covered himself with a robe. He told the revolution. From 1930, however, their liquidation was official reading ‘We as Collective
and you will see that they will run from you or will run in a buffalo. It is not healthful other men in the room to grip the loose ends of the bowstring soviet policy. the kulaks were to be sent to the gulags or Workers Will Eradicate
circle around you.” to eat the meat raw, so and then pull on them with all their strength. They did so, forcibly removed from their familial lands. the Kulaks…’ in 1932. in stalin’s soviet Union, the brave new future was built in
‘Now, as people became plenty, one day three men went Old Man gathered soft horrified when the boy’s decapitated head suddenly rolled out
out on to the plain to see the buffalo, but they had no arms. dry rotten driftwood and from beneath the robe. They put the head back, and when they
Of those expelled (at a conservative brutality and bloodshed. sheer terror held sway across the
estimate, almost two million in the
Below: A famous They saw the animals, but when the buffalo saw the men, they made punk of it, and lifted the robe up an old man was sitting beneath it. Three more first 12 months), some were sent to ‘workers’ state’.
depiction of a Native ran after them and killed two of them, but one got away. One then got a piece of hard times they replaced and lifted the robe, and each time revealed a smaller, less desirable, plots in nearby
American buffalo hunt. day after this, the people went on a little hill to look about, wood, and drilled a hole different state beneath – first a pile of human

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districts; others were shipped to


Many of the tribes in the and the buffalo saw them, and said, “Saiyah, there is some in it with an arrow point, bones, next nothing at all and finally the boy When he saw them he unsettled areas in western siberia, the onya, cuT yourself loose and come to us. let’s Opposite: ‘Let’s hit the
more of our food,” and they rushed on them. This time the and gave them a pointed returned in perfect health.
North American interior
kicked over a cooking Urals or Kazakhstan. work together to finish with the bosses.’ this is the target on the state grain
and plains were utterly people did not run. They began to shoot at the buffalo with piece of hard wood, and He was lauded as a powerful addition to stalin’s suspicion of these small climactic romantic moment in one of the classic procurements fully and on
dependent on the buffalo the bows and arrows Na´pi had given them, and the buffalo taught them how to make the circle of medicine men, but that status pot onto the fire and farmers takes us back to russia’s works of soviet literature, How the Steel was time.’ Soviet citizens went
for their way of life. began to fall; but in the fight a person was killed. a fire with fire sticks, and was about to change. During an altercation magically disappeared in history of the carnivalesque. like the Tempered. ‘i would be a poor husband to you if you expected through life surrounded
to cook the flesh of these between the boy and the chief of the tribe, top-hatted plutocrat, the caricatured me to put you before the party,’ an impassioned pavel Korchagin by urgent exhortation of
animals and eat it. Young Wolf, over the butchering of a buffalo figure of the backward but grasping continues; ‘For i shall always put the party first.’ An epic of the this kind.
‘They got a kind of carcass – the chief repeatedly pushed the boy off the carcass, peasant perhaps had a place in Civil War, this novel appeared in serial form between 1932 and
stone that was in the saying he wanted the hide for a robe, even though the boy had the cartoon art of the party press. 1934; a book-length edition followed in 1936. that same year,
land, and then took killed the animal – the boy struck and killed the chief with a historical and immediate experience its author nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–36) died. the novel had been
another harder stone and buffalo leg. Infuriated, the tribe’s warriors decided that the boy alike had made russia’s country based loosely on his own life.
worked one upon the must be killed. They tracked him down to his grandmother’s people conservative and resistant
other, and hollowed out lodge, but when he saw them he kicked over a cooking pot onto to change – certainly when change EmOtiOnaL EnginEEring
the softer one, and made the fire and magically disappeared in the smoke. The warriors was imposed upon them by city- the title How the Steel was Tempered seems almost comical
a kettle of it. This was the fashion of their dishes. Above: A Blackfoot ran outside, only to see the boy in the distance walking off to the dwelling strangers. they were also now in the closeness with which it conforms to the oddly
‘Also Old Man said to the people: “Now, if you are medicine man, his human east. They chased him, but no matter how fast they went they undoubtedly selfish – if that’s how industrialized aesthetics of the ‘socialist-realist’ school. ever
overcome, you may go and sleep, and get power. Something form obscured by his never seemed to get any closer. we want to characterize the desire since lenin had (in 1920) famously characterized communism
will come to you in your dream that will help you. Whatever ceremonial outfit. The Eventually, the boy appeared to his pursuers on top of a
these animals tell you to do, you must obey them, as they medicine man could nearby hill. On five separate occasions he appeared, each time
appear to you in your sleep. Be guided by them. If anybody mediate between the wearing a different form of elaborate warrior dress, his body
wants help, if you are alone and travelling, and cry aloud for physical world and the painted in bright colours. After his fifth appearance, however, far left: An early
help, your prayer will be answered. It may be by the eagles, spirit world. he disappeared from view, and it was at this time that a dreadful photograph – another
perhaps by the buffalo, or by the bears. Whatever animal famine descended upon the Cheyenne people. Hunger and studio shot from edward
answers your prayer, you must listen to him.” That was how starvation stalked through the Cheyenne villages, the people Sheriff curtis – of
the first people got through the world, by the power of their looking in vain to their spells and rituals to break the cycle. Hastobiga, a Navaho
dreams.’ The boy, meanwhile, was continuing onwards with his medicine man.

Abandoned Civilisations
Kieron Connolly
Aircraft Anatomy Temples hidden deep in the jungle,
Paul E. Eden and cities half-buried in desert sands,
Soph Moeng and carved slabs from ancient
With 232 detailed line drawings, monuments scattered carelessly on Abandoned Civilisations
Aircraft Anatomy shows how a wide the ground… Images like these are 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”)
selection of classic and modern Aircraft Anatomy bound to make us wonder: Who built Extent: 224pp
military aircraft were put together. 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”) these places? And how could such Word count: 12,000 words
Extent: 512pp mighty civilisations have collapsed? Illustrations: 150 colour photographs
From World War II to the present
Word count: 100,000 words ISBN: 978-1-78274-667-6
day, each complex line drawing is From Mesoamerican pyramids to the
Illustrations: 770 colour photographs £19.99 Hardback
annotated with an exhaustive key giant statues of Easter Island, from
and 232 line artworks the Great Sphinx of Giza to Pompeii,
including up to 200 entries. The
ISBN: 978-1-78274-655-3
illustrations are complemented by Persepolis and Petra, Abandoned
£24.99 Paperback
colour photographs with extended Civilisations explores more than 90
captions, plus detailed information lost worlds around the globe.
about each aircraft’s operational
specifications.

all photographs:
Waset, Luxor, Egypt all photographs:
The ruins of Waset (Thebes) are Borobudur, Magelang, Central
found today within the modern Java, Indonesia
city of Luxor. Located 400 miles Constructed in the 9th century ce
(644km) up the River Nile from during the reign of the Sailendra
Memphis, Waset was the capital Dynasty, the Buddhist temple at
of Egypt during the New Kingdom Borobudur was abandoned in
(c.1,550 – c.1,077 bce). the 14th century following the
Built during the reign of conversion of Java to Islam.
Pharaoh Amenhotep III (1,388– A step pyramid structure, the
1,350 bce), the Luxor Temple temple has nine platforms: the
(above) is dedicated to the lower six are square, the upper
rejuvenation of kingship. three are round. With more than
Rams at the Temple of Karnak 500 statues and more than 2,500
(right) – Amun, the local deity, was relief panels, Borobudur is the
identified with the Ram. world’s largest Buddhist temple.
Pillars support the portico in Pilgrims pass through the corridors
the courtyard of the Temple of and stairways, following narrative
Ramesses III (opposite). stone reliefs of Budda’s life as they
ascend physically through the
temple and metaphorically through
the levels of Buddhist cosmology.

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Native American Warriors AUGUST 2018 Publication
Martin J. Dougherty
Experienced in skirmishing, guerrilla
warfare and in stealth tactics, Native Secret Operations of World War II
Americans had to change their Alexander Stilwell
forms of warfare drastically with Native American Warriors How were agents recruited for
the introduction from Europe of the 285 x 213mm (11¼ x 8½”) secret operations during World War
horse, gunpowder and firearms. Extent: 224 pages II? How effective were resistance
Divided by region, Native American Word count: 50,000 words movements? How successful were Secret Operations of World
Warriors includes accounts of major Illustrations: 180 colour and black- the missions? And how brutal War II
and-white photographs and artworks were the reprisals? Ranging from 244 x 186mm (9½ x 7½”)
battles and campaigns, including
ISBN: 978-1-78274-669-0 the American and British special Extent: 224pp
the Pequot War and the French- £19.99 Hardback Word count: 50,000 words
Indian Wars. Fully illustrated, this is ops organisations to resistance
Illustrations: 180 b/w and colour
an accessible guide to the fighting movements across Europe, Secret
photographs and artworks
techniques of the original inhabitants Operations of World War II is a ISBN: 978-1-78274-632-4
of North America. fascinating account of the official £19.99 Hardback
organisations and underground
cells active around the world during
the conflict.
58 N O RT H E R N T R I B E S NORT HERN TRI B E S 59 60 NORTHER N TR IBES N O RT H E R N T R I B E S 61

1759, the frontiers of the colonies of New-York, Making no concessions to his young readership, including Canadian mountains and forests. The Nipissing, Montagnais and Naskapi north of the Great made regular visits to Canada’s eastern shorelines,
Massachusetts and New-Hampshire, were frequently Sampson goes on in a similar vein for the entire entry, physical landscape of this region, as we shall see, had Lakes and up to the Hudson Bay region; the Cree, their appetites whetted by excellent fishing and CANADA AND ALASKA: TRIBAL AREAS
infested by those savages. In the depth of winter, making garish descriptions of children having ‘their a key impact on the type of warfare practised by the Chippewa and Algonquin dominating Canada’s the ability to trade European goods with the Native
1689, a party of those Indians, together with a brains beat out against the trees’ and women being The map here shows the major tribal territories of
indigenous inhabitants. central regions; the Blackfoot, Ojibway and Americans in return for high-quality furs
number of Frenchmen, surprized the town of disembowelled. Yet as with so many colonial sketches Canada and Alaska, at least in terms of the
In the massive Canadian forests, for example, we Assiniboine straddling the Canadian–US border; (particularly beaver).
Schenectady, in the night, while the inhabitants of the Native Americans, Sampson is keen to traditional tribal areas before the displacements
see styles of warfare similar to those exhibited by the and the Inuit and Yellowknife occupying the Yet while the British focused most of their colonial
were unalarmed and in a profound sleep; and emphasize the horrors at the expense of the more caused by settler expansion. The fortunes of the
Woodland tribes of the east. Moving further north into subarctic northern extremes. muscle on what is today the eastern seaboard of the
butchered them, with circumstances of most horrible sophisticated aspects of Canadian Indian culture, and tribes varied according to their geographical
the subarctic, however, the severe restrictions of In the period covered by this book United States, it was the French who became the
location and also their relations with the settlers. 12 unITED kInGDOm unITED kInGDOm 13 26 unITED kInGDOm unITED kInGDOm 27
barbarity. The whole village was instantly in a their techniques of waging war. climate and terrain shaped a much more localized and (1500–1890), the most profound challenge to dominant foreign settlers in Canada. By the early
blaze; women with child were ripped open, and The geographical reach of this chapter is extensive. No tribal area was entirely free from settler
temporary style of conflict, on account of most of these Northern tribes was the same as decades of the seventeenth century, ‘New France’ was
their infants cast into the flames. Sixty persons Chapter 1 has already touched upon the Iroquois and interference. The tribes of subarctic Canada, for
the environment being just as dangerous as any that of the US tribes – contact with the beginning to take shape, spurred by Samuel de
perished in the massacre, and twenty-seven were Algonquian tribes of eastern North America, which human enemy. colonizing Europeans. During the sixteenth Champlain’s foundation of the city of Québec in 1608. example, came into contact with traders for the S Oe W eA p O n S included not only firing the weapons but stripping, cleaning and of security and an imperturbable calmness.’ Sharing every The reception operations were a success, with large quantities
carried into captivity, the rest fled naked through the extended their territories out of the Great Lakes, century, both the French and the British Champlain knew that the fragility of the French Hudson’s Bay Company during the 1670s, and reloading them. Part of the purpose of training was to spot weak danger included Borrel’s participation in sabotage operations. of weapons being dropped in fields to be distributed among
suffered a consequent loss of major fur resources to STen gUn candidates, who would then be dropped from the course. As the sabotage operations increased and as the Germans Resistance fighters of various political colours. In January 1943,
snow to Albany.’ Quebec and the Maritimes. In this chapter we will TRIBES OF THE NORTH colonies in a hostile wilderness necessitated making
– Ezra Sampson (1813) range to the west and north, taking in the Indian the Europeans. Alaskan Indians encountered not
The term ‘Northern Tribes’ covers a large range of alliances with the local Indians. On this basis, he allied The Sten gun was a simple, rugged Candidates were given courses in demolition techniques moved south to occupy Vichy France after the Torch landings in the SOE agent and French pilot Henri Déricourt landed in
only settlers pushing up from the south, but also,
tribal territories and peoples. Note that when himself with the Algonquin, Huron and Montagnais design that was light to carry and easy to using high explosives as well as training in simpler methods of north Africa, the penalty for capture became more severe. men northern France with a brief to organize locations for Lysander
for a time, Russian traders coming into North
describing the Native Americans of Canada, against the Iroquois, and these tribes would also later
America across the Bering Strait. maintain. it could be broken down into Above: The Welford pistol was sabotage, such as destroying factory machinery with a heavy would be executed for helping agents while women would be landings to drop off and pick up agents. He began to liaise
excluding the Inuit and the Métis – assist the French in fighting British expansion.
descendants of marriages between Native three parts – barrel, body and butt – and designed to be straightforward hammer. Other training included ambushes, forced house deported to concentration camps. Despite the increasing risk, the closely with the Prosper network. However, Déricourt would
Americans and European settlers – it is more easily reassembled. it was an effective and easy to conceal. entrance and railway sabotage. Once this intensive training three members of the Prosper-Physician circuit were surprisingly become a controversial figure, some saying he had links with the
correct to refer to the ‘First Nations’, a term weapon at short ranges and it could be was over, the candidates moved to Beaulieu manor in the new lax about security. They were often to be seen eating in the same German intelligence services and others saying that he was an
that covers all aboriginal peoples in Canada used in either single-shot or automatic WelROD Forest. Here they would learn in greater depth about the way the restaurants and drinking and playing poker at the same café. agent of mI6.
stretching back to the Stone Age. As we are modes. The downside was that the Sten The Welrod was a bolt-action, single- occupied country was organized and where the major dangers

Inui
including Alaska in this chapter, however, we Koyukon
was likely to jam and was also prone to shot pistol specifically designed for use by lay. In Vichy, for example, the greatest threat was from the

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will use ‘Northern’ to refer to all Indian Inuit
Hare accidental discharge. undercover agents. it was used by both milice, whereas the local gendarmerie might be friendly. Below: SOe agents
people around and north of the Canadian Kutchin
border. They included the Algonquin, Yellowknife SOe and the OSS. it was designed to be Resistance to interrogation was another vital aspect of training. undergo canoe training
Dogrib BAlleSTeR-MOlinA piSTOl used at close range and was very quiet The candidates learned how to act out their part and avoid in Scotland.
Based on the famous Colt M1911A1, the when fired. it was a simple design featuring
Tlingit Inuit
CHIPPEWA INDIAN Ballester-Molina pistol was issued to SOe a cylinder with a bolt and a suppressor,
Chipewyan Hudson
A Chippewa Indian chief, here seen armed
with a simple war club, carved from a Bay agents partly because it was reliable and and the magazine acted as a grip. Once the
single piece of wood, and a long spear.
Sekani Naskapi effective and partly because it was not magazine was removed, the cylinder could
The long and well-crafted metal Beaver
Haida Cree Beothuk identifiable as a British-made weapon. be easily concealed down a trouser leg.
spearhead indicates a post-contact
time. Before contact with the Sarcee Montagnais
settlers and the introduction of
metals, the Native Americans FAiRBAiRn-SykeS
tended to tip their spears either Blackfoot FigHTing kniFe
Ojibway
through a basic process of Assiniboine Algonquin
tribes from what is today the Canadian–US border up  A Chippewa chief, seen wearing decorative sashes This double-edged stiletto

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fire-hardening, or through Nipissing
to the Alaskan homelands of the Inuit. There is over his tasselled buckskin shirt and a string of wampum fighting knife was issued to

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the manufacture of
Ottawa Huron

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beads. The Chippewa were steadily displaced from their chipped flint
something of an overlap with the next chapter, which SOe and OSS agents and

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lands during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. spearheads.
focuses on the Plains Indians, a ‘culture area’ that did was a standard weapon
itself extend into eastern and central Canada. Tribes be studied in this chapter, not only for their influence
 An Assiniboine village, consisting of loosely gathered tipis. Scalps hang from wooden frames outside, signifying for the British, Canadian,
earlier victories and declaring the bravery and martial talents of the tipi occupants. Note also the carrying frame such as the Cree and Blackfoot, for example, are on northern North America, but also because their
attached to the dog in the foreground, which was used to carry weapons as well as supplies on long-distance raids. generally classed as Plains Indians, but they will also territories embraced a wide spectrum of terrain, Australian, Dutch and
Belgian Commandos as
well as the US Rangers. The Right: georges Blind, a
FS knife was designed to member of the French
be effective in one-on-one Resistance, smiles defiantly
attacks in covert operations. moments before he is shot
by a german firing squad
left: A parachute Regiment at Dachau concentration
sergeant with a Sten gun. camp, 1944.

Military Aircraft, Tanks & Warships


Visual Encyclopedia
Jim winchester, robert The Plantagenets
jackson, david ross Ben Hubbard
From early jets to nuclear The Plantagenets held the English
submarines, from the Centurion throne for 350 years – longer than
A41 tank to the Bradley M2, Visual Visual Encyclopedia of Military any other dynasty in English history –
Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft, Aircraft, Tanks & Ships but this was not without kings being The Plantagenets
Tanks & Ships is a fascinating guide 285 x 225mm (11½ x 8½”) deposed, ransomed and imprisoned, 244 x 186mm (9½ x 7½”)
to 850 aircraft, tanks and ships from Extent: 448pp or without sons plotting against their Extent: 224pp
Word count: 90,000 words fathers for the throne and wives Word count: 50,000 words
the beginning of the Cold War to the
Illustrations: 850 colour artworks Illustrations: 200 colour and b/w
present day. Arranged by type and turning against their husbands.
ISBN: 978-1-78274-696-6 photographs, artworks, maps and
chronologically within each type, Encompassing the Hundred Years’
£24.99 Paperback illustrations
each entry features a full-colour War and the Wars of the Roses, The ISBN: 978-1-78274-649-2
artwork, an informative caption and Plantagenets is an accessible history £19.99 Hardback
technical specifications. of this dynasty from the coronation of
Henry, Count of Anjou, in 1145 to the
fall of Richard III in 1485.

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to slay him if he wished, because ‘my life is not so desirable to me
that I would live one day that I should be to your displeasure’.
Whether this scene has been embellished or not, there was
a reconciliation between the
two before the king’s death

hENRY iV
on 20 March 1413. Given the
severity of Henry IV’s illness
and the contents of his will

& hENRY V
it is hard to believe the king
passed away peacefully. In his
last document he describes
himself as ‘a sinful wretch’
whose life had been ‘misspent’.
Henry IV would never live down his usurpation of the throne. His body was entombed in
Canterbury Cathedral, where
He spent his reign searching for legitimacy while plots, uprisings it still lies today.
and foreign invasion threatened. It was left to his son, the warrior
Above: Father and son Henry V
king, Henry V, to restore honour to the Plantagenet crown.
are reconciled at this Henry IV’s usurpation and regicide of Richard II had hung over
death-bed rendering of his entire reign. Many in England and abroad had never stopped
Henry IV’s last hours. questioning the legitimacy of Henry’s kingship. His heir, Henry

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ichaRd ii had been a hated king, but he had legally Opposite: Henry V is V, was determined to restore the reputation of the royal house of
inherited the throne according to the Plantagenet commonly associated with Lancaster. After his coronation in 1413, Henry decided to prove
rules of succession. He had also been anointed with his victory over the French his right to rule through victory in war.
holy oil as the sovereign of England under the gaze at the Battle of Agincourt, To many, Henry V seemed cast from the mould of the
of God. Henry IV’s greatest task was to prove to his subjects shown here. famous Plantagenet warrior kings who had preceded him.
that he too, had a legitimate right to rule. To show his kingship He was tall and lean with dark cropped hair and at 26 was an
had divine significance, Henry was crowned on St Edward’s Day accomplished knight. Henry had fought Hotspur’s rebellious
and anointed with holy oil that had once belonged to former army alongside his father at Berwick and nearly died on the
Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket. The owner of the oil battlefield. Henry was struck by an arrow below his eye that
before Becket had supposedly been the Virgin Mary. sank so far into his face that it became embedded in the back of
According to legend, Mary had appeared before Becket Opposite: A portrait of his skull. Special tongs had to be made to extract the arrowhead,
with the vial of oil, telling him that the first king to be anointed King Henry V. After the which lay stuck six inches deep. It took two months for the
with it would be champion of the Church and recover all of disfiguring wound to heal. Henry made sure his image was only
arrow wound picked up at
the Plantagenet lands lost in France. Unfortunately for Henry,
the Battle of Shrewsbury, ever shown in profile afterwards.
the effects of the oil were not beneficial. After being anointed,
Henry insisted he was only War was Henry’s reason for being, but he was also a pious
painted in profile. man who allegedly remained celibate until his wedding night.

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Warplanes of World War II Modern Small Arms
Robert Jackson Chris McNab
Warplanes of World War II provides Modern Small Arms looks in detail at
a detailed look at 50 key aircraft in 280 of the most widely used pistols,
service between 1939 and 1945. rifles, submachine guns, machine
Warplanes profiled include fighters, Warplanes of World War II guns and other small arms of the last Modern Small Arms
bombers, ground attack and other 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”) 100 years. It includes famous small 163 x 123mm (6½ x 4¾”)
aircraft from the major combatants. Extent: 256pp arms such as the AK-47, the Lee Extent: 320pp
A large-format side-on colour Word count: 60,000 words Enfield, the Thompson sub-machine Word count: 60,000 words
artwork shows every detail of each Illustrations: 50 colour artworks and gun and the Sten. Arranged by type, Illustrations: 280 colour artworks
100 colour and black-and-white ISBN: 978-1-78274-216-6
aircraft, with notes indicating key each small arm is illustrated by a full
photographs £9.99 Flexibound
features. This is followed by an in- ISBN: 978-1-78274-673-7
colour artwork and accompanied
depth description of the aircraft’s £19.99 Hardback by a detailed specifications table.
development and service history, all Packed with colour and information,
accompanied by colour photographs the book is presented in a handy
and a detailed specification panel. pocket-book format.

Wa r p la nes o f Wo r ld Wa r II G er ma ny

Heckler & Koch MP5 Heckler & Koch MP5SD FN F2000 QBZ-95
Junkers Ju 87 Stuka
The story of the Ju 52/3m, one of the most famous trans- Ju 52/3mg3e, the aircraft was designed as a heavy bomber
port aircraft in history, began on 13 October 1930, with the with a crew of four and armed with two MG 15 machine
The markings show this to be a Ju 87B- maiden flight of the single-engined Ju 52/1m commercial guns, one mounted in the dorsal position and the other in
2 from 7th Staffel, III Gruppe, Stuka- transport. Eighteen months later a new variant of the basic a retractable ‘dustbin’ suspended under the fuselage. Be-
The Ju 87’s pilot sat under a sliding canopy, geschwader 77 on the Eastern Front. design appeared; the Ju 52/3m, fitted with three 429kW tween 1934 and 1935, no fewer than 450 Ju 52/3ms were
with armour protection surrounding him. The (575hp) BMW 132A radial engines (licence-built Pratt & delivered to the Luftwaffe, the type entering service with
The Ju 87B was powered by a Junkers Jumo aircraft had an automatic dive control which Whitney Hornets). The modified aircraft was an immedi- KG 152 Hindenburg. In August 1936, 20 aircraft were sent
211Da 12-cylinder liquid-cooled engine. The would pull the aircraft out of its dive at a ate success. A rugged, reliable transport, capable of operat- to Spain where, flown by German volunteers, their first task
notch cut-out on the top of the fuselage is an preset altitude when engaged by the pilot. The rear gunner was also the radio operator, ing from small, rough, high-altitude airstrips, the Ju 523/m was to transport 10,000 troops from Spanish Morocco. In
intake for the oil cooler. although Ju 87Bs were also flown as single was an extremely efficient aircraft, and large numbers were the following November, about 50 Ju 52/3mg4e bombers
seat aircraft. The gunner had his own sliding ordered by Deutsche Lufthansa and other airlines around were included in the equipment of the German Condor
The Stuka was armed with a pair of canopy, and was armed with a MG 15 the world. The aircraft was eventually operated by 28 air- Legion, deployed to Spain in support of Franco’s Nation-
Rheinmetall-Borsig 7.92mm (0.31in) MG 17 7.92mm (0.31in) machine gun. lines. alist forces. Operations included the bombing of Republic-
machine guns with 1000 rounds of ammuni- In 1934 a military version of the Ju 52/3m was produced an-held Mediterranean ports and the support of the land
tion each. for use by the still-secret Luftwaffe. With the designation battle around Guernica, the destruction of which town
brought the German bombers Above: Junkers Ju 52/3m in the mottled camouflage scheme which 170 Ju 52s. When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union
notoriety. The Ju 52 was also de- was used in the Mediterranean and Balkans between 1941 and 1943. in June 1941, their offensive was supported by six Ju 52
livered to several Spanish Nation- Ju 52s suffered terrible losses to Allied fighters as they attempted to fly transport Gruppen. Another 150 aircraft were assigned to

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alist bomber units as the war pro- reinforcements to Tunisia in early 1943. support Rommel’s offensives in North Africa, and by the

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gressed. The last sortie was made end of the year around 300 Ju 52s were operating in the he Heckler & Koch MP5 is a masterpiece of weapons engineering. Its roller- he popularity of the Heckler & Koch MP5 series with special forces troops meant he FN F2000 is one of a new generation of assault rifles. Firing standard 5.56 x aving lagged behind the rest of the world in terms of assault rifle design, in the
on 26 March 1939, by which time for the
for the invasion
invasion ofof the
the Netherlands,
Netherlands, andand suffered
suffered serious
serious Mediterranean theatre. In July, August and September locked delayed blowback system harks back to the German MG42 machine gun that a silenced version, known as the MP5SD, was inevitable. The 9mm 45mm NATO rounds, it has a compact bullpup layout and a gas-operated, 1990s China revealed the QBZ-95 as a new generation of infantry firepower.
the Ju 52s had flown 5400 sorties losses (167
losses (167 aircraft)
aircraft) in
in the
the opening
opening stages
stages of
of the
the operation.
operation. 1942, Ju 52s and other transport aircraft ferried 46,000
and is the same system as is used in Heckler & Koch’s assault rifles. It also fires from Parabellum round it fires is standard and the gun’s configuration is little different rotating-bolt (seven lugs) operating mechanism. One distinctive feature is the front The impetus behind the rifle was the development of a 5.8 x 42mm cartridge
for the loss of 8 aircraft, 5 in the The next
The next large-scale
large-scale airborne
airborne operation,
operation, thethe invasion
invasion ofof men and 4000 tons (4064 tonnes) of equipment to North
air and 3 on the ground. Cretein
Crete inApril/May
April/May1941,
1941,was wasthe
thelast
lastof
ofits
itskind
kindundertaken
undertaken Africa, but after the Battle of El Alamein in October, se- a closed chamber, part of the reason for its considerable accuracy. The MP5 has from any other MP5 model. Yet the integral silencer is particularly effective. The ejection system; the spent cartridge cases are redirected from the chamber to an during the late 1980s, which Chinese designers claimed had superior performance
In Luftwaffe service the Ju 52 by the
by the Luftwaffe.
Luftwaffe. The
The force
force committed
committed included
included 493 493 Ju
Ju 52s
52s vere losses were inflicted on the Ju 52s by Desert Air Force now been in production since 1965, although the latest guns have the full range of barrel of the MP5SD has 30 x 3mm holes drilled along its length and is surrounded ejection port near the muzzle. This configuration aids accurate shooting (the to its Western rival, the 5.56 x 45mm NATO. The QBZ-95 was one of a family of
bomber was soon replaced by and over
and over 80
80 DFS
DFS 230
230 gliders.
gliders. The
The invasion
invasion –– Operation
Operation fighters, 70 aircraft being destroyed between 25 October fire-selection options: single-shot, three-round burst and full automatic. The quality by a two-chamber suppressor which sequentially diffuses the gases until the round shooter doesn’t have to cope with hot cases ejecting close to his face) and makes the weapons created to take the new cartridge. It is of bullpup layout and is a gas-
types such as the Ju 86 and Do Merkur –– cost
Merkur cost the
the Germans
Germans 7000 7000 men
men killed
killed or
or wound-
wound- and 1 December. The real martyrdom of the Ju 52 Gruppen
of its machining is consistently excellent and much of the weapon’s furniture is leaves the muzzle at subsonic speed. Both noise and blast reduction are weapon ideally suited to firing through vehicle ports. Other virtues of the FN F2000 operated, rotating-bolt rifle. The carrying handle at the top of the gun also
17, and from then on it operated ed (including
ed (including 2525 per
per cent
cent ofof the
the paratroops
paratroops dropped)
dropped) and and in the Mediterranean, however, came early in 1943, when
purely as a military transport. In the Germans and Italians made frantic efforts to resupply plastic to lighten the weapon. There are many variants of the MP5, but the two basic considerable and accuracy remains good over the reduced range. Several varieties are its completely ambidextrous layout and its modularity; it can take numerous incorporates an integral rear sight, although the gun can also take external optical
March 1938, during the ‘union’ the Axis forces in Tunisia. On one day alone – 7 April 1943 models are the MP5A2, which has a solid plastic butt, and the MP5A3, which has a of the MP5SD are available, each offering different configurations of furniture, fire- add-ons, from optical sights and laser rangefinders through to 40mm grenade or night-vision sights. Underbelly fitment includes a bayonet or a grenade
with Austria, 160 Ju 52s flew 2000 Type: Bomber/transport
Type: Bomber/transport – American and British fighters destroyed 52 out of 77 Ju launchers and riot-control weapons. It is used by the Belgian Special Forces Group, launcher. Other members of the family include sniper, carbine and light support
airborne troops to Vienna. The 52s near Cap Bon, most of the petrol-laden transports ex-
folding metal stock. selection (SD 4, 5 and 6 have three-round burst facility) and sight fittings.
following year, these aircraft took
Crew:
Crew: 2/3,plus
2/3, plus18
18troops
troopsoror12
12stretcher
stretchercases
cases
ploding in spectacular fashion. Between 5 and 22 April, no the Pakistani Army and the Saudi Arabian National Guard, among others. (bipod-mounted) weapons.
Either two 250kg (551lb) or four 50kg (110lb) part in the German occupation Powerplant:
Powerplant: three619kW
three 619kW(830hp)
(830hp)BMW
BMW132T-2
132T-2nine-cylinder
nine-cylinderradials
radials fewer than 432 German transport aircraft, mostly Ju 52s,
bombs could be carried on the wing pylons of Czechoslovakia. In April 1940 were destroyed for the loss of only 35 Allied fighters.
Maxspeed:
Max speed: 286km/h(178mph)
286km/h (178mph)
The large chin radiator was a characteristic in addition to the single 500kg (1100lb) or the Ju 52 was at the forefront of On the Russian front, five Ju 52 Gruppen took part in Country of origin: Germany Country of origin: Germany
of the Ju 87. The radiator itself was protect- 250kg (551lb) bomb carried in a cradle under Timeto
Time toheight:
height: 17mins
17 mins30
30secs
secstoto3000m
3000m(9842ft)
(9842ft) the Stalingrad airlift. Between 24 November 1942 and 31
the invasions of Denmark and
Calibre: 9mm Parabellum Calibre: 9mm Parabellum Country of origin: Belgium Country of origin: China
ed in an armoured ‘bath’. Hydralically-oper- the fuselage. The cradle was to ensure the Norway, 160 transports drop- January 1943, 266 Ju 52s were lost, 52 of them in a 24-hour
Serviceceiling:
Service ceiling: 5900m
5900m(19,357ft)
(19,357ft)
ated cooling gills at the rear of the cowling The 50kg (110lb) bombs shown here have bomb fell clear of the propeller during a dive ping paratroops to capture key series of attacks on Sverevo airfield. Length: 680mm (26.77in) Length: 550mm (21.65in) Calibre: 5.56 x 45mm NATO Calibre: 5.8 x 42mm
allowed more air to flow through the radiator extended detonator rods to make the bomb attack after it was released. Maxrange:
Max range: 1305km(811
1305km (811miles)
miles)
airfields and a 340 aircraft flying Despite the development of later transport aircraft,
at low speeds. explode above ground to maximize the blast Weight: 2.55kg (5.62lb) Weight: 2.9kg (6.39lb) Length: 694mm (27.32in) Length: 760mm (29.92in)
in supplies and reinforcements. Wingspan:
Wing span: 29.20m(95ft
29.20m (95ft8in)
8in) production of the Ju 52 continued to rise during most of
effect of the explosion. About 475 Ju 52s were available
Wingarea:
Wing area: 110.5m22(1189.3sq
110.5m (1189.3sqft)
ft)
World War II; 502 aircraft were delivered in 1941, a further Barrel: 225mm (8.85in), 6 grooves, rh Barrel: 146mm (5.75in), 6 grooves, rh Weight: 3.6kg (7.93lb) empty, standard configuration Weight: 3.4kg (749lb)
502 in 1942, and 887 in 1943, but by then production was
The terror of a Stuka attack during the early Length:
Length: 19.90m(65ft)
19.90m (65ft) being transferred to the Société Amiot in Occupied France, Feed/magazine capacity: 15- or 30-round detachable box magazine Feed/magazine capacity: 15- or 30-round detachable box magazine Barrel: 400mm (15.75in) Barrel: 520mm (20.47in)
years of Blitzkrieg was augmented by the Left: Close-up of the Ju 52/3m’s engine this firm being controlled by Junkers. Only a further 379
use of a siren on the undercarriage. However
Height:
Height: 4.52m(14ft
4.52m (14ft8in)
8in) Operation: Delayed blowback Operation: Delayed blowback Feed/magazine capacity: 30-round detachable box magazine Feed/magazine capacity: 30-round detachable box magazine
arrangement. Essentially similar to the aircraft were delivered from German factories in 1944,
in this case the siren is not mounted, single-engined variant from which it Weights:
Weights: 6500kg(14,330lb)
6500kg (14,330lb)empty;
empty;11,030kg
11,030kg(24,317lb)
(24,317lb)loaded
loaded when production ceased. Total production of the Ju 52/3m Cyclic rate of fire: 800rpm Cyclic rate of fire: 800rpm Operation: Gas Operation: gas, rotating bolt
although the fairing remains. was developed, the prototype flew in between 1939 and 1944 was 4845 aircraft.
Armament: four7.92mm
7.92mm(0.31in)
(0.31in)MG,
MG,oneoneeach
eachininforward
forwardand
andrear
rear
The Stuka’s gull wing allowed the fixed April 1932, powered by three Pratt &
Armament: four
Muzzle velocity: 400mps (1312fps) Muzzle velocity: 285mps (935fps) Cyclic rate of fire: 850rpm Cyclic rate of fire: 650rpm
dorsalpositions,
dorsal positions,one
oneinineach
eachbeam
beamposition
position
undercarriage to be kept short, thus reducing Whitney Hornet radials.
Effective range: 70m (230ft) Effective range: 50m (164ft) Muzzle velocity: 900mps (2953fps) Muzzle velocity: n/a
drag as much as possible.
Effective range: 500m (1640ft) Effective range: 500m (1640ft)
30 31 28 29

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How to Survive Anything, Anywhere American Classic Cars


Chris McNab Richard Nicholls
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HOW TO SURVIVE ANYTHING, ANYWHERE SURVIVAL NAVIGATION HOW TO SURVIVE ANYTHING, ANYWHERE SURVIVAL AT SEA

Taking a bearing from the map dehydration or starvation at sea before help to make drinking water, such as desalination
Lay the compass with the baseplate along the A arrives. Make sure that you look after your raft, equipment), and food supplies. Read through any
intended direction of travel and align the orienting checking for and repairing any damage both instructions that are contained in the boat relating
lines with the grid lines – the direction arrow will before and during the emergency. to the equipment.
now give you When you first get aboard, check over what Ration out food among the members of the
your bearing. supplies are available, including navigation and boat, and set a strict daily ration of water. Salvage
signalling equipment, water rations (or the means any useful materials floating from the wreck, as

B Life raft and contents


Aboard larger vessels, the
contents of a life raft can have a
nasty habit of going missing.
Inspect the raft regularly, ticking
Resection off everything against a checklist
Resection involves plotting and replacing missing items.
your position using two visible
landmarks and a compass. Choose A. Sea anchor
landmarks about 90° apart if possible B. Paddles
(A), as these give less margin for error C. First-aid kit
than landmarks at narrow angles (B). D. Fishing line Improvised float
and hooks Tie the ankles of the trousers tight together then,
set the watch to true local time – do not and after 18:00, when it will indicate north. E. Bellows holding the trousers by the waistband or belt,
incorporate any daylight-saving additions or To make a reading in the southern hemisphere, Watch navigation F. Quoit and line swipe them over your head to fill with air. Hook
subtractions. Now hold the watch face flat. If in point the 12 o’clock mark itself at the sun, then An analogue watch G. Survival leaflets the tied ankles behind your neck to form a
the northern hemisphere, point the hour hand bisect the angle between mark and the hour hand can be used for H. Bailer rudimentary flotation device.
towards the sun and bisect the angle between the to find north, or south before 06:00 and after navigation. In the I. Repair kit, flares,
hour hand and the 12 o’clock mark on the watch 18:00. If you have a digital watch, simply draw northern hemisphere, stopper, sponge, A C
face. This direction is south, except before 06:00 out an analogue representation of the time on a point the hour hand knife Floating together
piece of paper or on the ground, and make at the sun and bisect J. Water, can When floating
the usual calculation. the angle between it N S openers, cup and in a group, tie
and 12 o’clock to find seasickness pills yourselves
NAVIGATION USING THE STARS AND MOON south. In the southern K. Torch (flashlight), I B D together so that
Stars have been used for navigation for centuries, hemisphere, point the batteries and bulb you do not float
but require knowledge of constellations and clear 12 o’clock mark at L. Resealing lids J apart, and also
skies to use. In the northern hemisphere, the the sun and bisect the tie a link to
easiest constellation to identify is the Big Dipper angle between the your grab bag
(known as the Plough in the United Kingdom), mark and the hour so that it does
H
part of the constellation called Ursa Major, or hand to find north. not get lost in
the Great Bear (see illustration). The two outer heavy waves.
stars on the cup of the Big Dipper (called Dubhe
and Merak) align themselves with a single F
E
isolated star. This is Polaris, the Pole (North) Star, MOON NAVIGATION
which gives you a permanent point of reference
for geographic north. If you can’t see the Big In addition to stars, the moon can provide navigational When looking at a quarter moon, draw an imaginary G
Dipper, Cassiopeia also directs you to Polaris. guidance. The illumination on the surface of the moon line through the ‘horns’ of the moon down to the K
Following a compass course Cassiopeia is a W- or M-shaped constellation, alters as it turns relation to the sun. If, therefore, the horizon – the place where the line touches the horizon
When following a compass course, turn your whole depending on which way you are looking at it. It moon rises at dusk just after the sun has set, the is due north in the northern hemisphere, due south in L
body with the compass held out in front of you lies on the opposite side of Polaris from the Big illuminated face will be pointing west. Conversely, after the southern hemisphere.
until the direction arrow is on the correct bearing. Dipper. Picture a straight line joining the tips of midnight, the illuminated face will be looking east.
Check your course regularly. the two outside arms of the W (or M), then

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Halloween Hauntings German Weapons of World War II
Brian innes Stephen Hart
Halloween Hauntings is a wide- From tanks to aircraft, small arms to
ranging guide to ghostly phenomena ships, German Weapons of World
from all parts of the globe. It covers War II is a compendium of the
cases throughout history: many of Halloween Hauntings most important pieces of German German Weapons of World
them famous, others less well known. Format: 244 x 186mm (9¾ x 7½”) weaponry and equipment that War II
It examines both malign spirits and Extent: 224pp were used during the conflict. Each 264 x 208mm (10½ x 8¼”)
gentle ghosts, apparitions, wraiths, Word count: 60,000 words item is illustrated by a full-colour Extent: 224 pages
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photographs Illustrations: 200 black-and-white
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late 1941and early 1943, the 50mm production tanks in 1936, designated The MG 34 became the standard supply of ammunition available, could
(1.96in) L/60-equipped Models J–M Panzer IV Model A. This design’s firepower asset in a nine-man German bring to a halt the attacks of powerful
remained the stalwarts of the German superstructure overhung the hull sides, infantry section, which existed to Allied forces. The light-role MG 34
panzer force. From late 1943, however, which facilitated subsequent up gunning service and protect the weapon’s fire was also a powerful offensive weapon.
the Germans steadily withdrew this and ample internal high-explosive effect. The primary MG 34 gunner was In April 1942, for example, the SS
Caption heading now-outclassed tank type from front- ammunition stowage for its 7.5cm typically the section’s most experienced Totenkopf Division was locked in
Caption text, caption text, caption line service, although 80 Model M (2.95in) KwK L/24 gun. The design’s soldier and one of the physically largest, bitter fighting around Demyansk on
text, caption text, caption text,
Command Tanks remained operational in suspension consisted of four bogies per as he had to lug the weapon around. the Eastern Front. On 21 April, platoon
caption text, caption text, caption
text, caption text, caption text, 1944. The remaining 704 Panzer III tanks side, each of which carried two small His teammate fed the ammunition belt, commander Sergeant Fiedler found
caption text, caption text, caption served in garrison units across Nazi- rubber tyred wheels supported by four periodically changed the barrel and his command pinned down and facing Maschinengewehr 34 (MG 34) Caption heading
text, caption text. occupied Europe. return rollers. This five-man vehicle cleared jammed rounds. In the defensive destruction through determined enemy Date: 1936 Caption text, caption text, caption
Calibre: 7.92mm (0.31in) Mauser Muzzle velocity: 762m/s (2500ft/s) text, caption text, caption text,
was powered by a 186kW (250hp) role, two other section soldiers brought ripostes. In desperation, Fiedler and his
Operation: Recoil, air-cooled Feed/Magazine: 50- or 75-round drum magazine or caption text, caption text, caption
Panzer IV medium tank engine, weighed 17.3 tonnes (17 tons) up fresh ammunition for the gun while crewmate charged the enemy positions, Weight: 12.1kg (27lb) up to 250-round belt text, caption text, caption text,
The Panzer IV’s developmental origins and featured armour of up to 20mm the other five deployed in foxholes to firing (in doctrinally bizarre fashion) Overall length: 1219mm (48in) Cyclic rate: 800–900rpm caption text, caption text, caption
Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf J began in early 1934 when it was (0.79in) thickness. protect the machine-gun nest from their MG 34 from the hip on the move. Barrel length: 627mm (24.75in) Range: 2000m (6560ft)+ text, caption text.
Crew: 5 Engine: 220kW (296hp) Maybach HL120TRM decided to design a medium close- In 1937, the Germans produced 45 enemy action. In just three minutes, the pair, belching
Production: 1941–42 Range: 155km (96 miles)
support tank with a low-velocity, short- Model Bs that featured 30mm (1.18in)- The impressive fire effect of the MG a storm of fire, assaulted three Soviet
Crew: 5 Speed: 40km/h (25mph)
Weight: 24 tonnes (23.6 tons) Armament: 1 x 50mm (1.96in) KwK 39 L/60; 2 x barrelled, 75mm (2.95in) gun to provide thick armour, which increased the 34, particularly with sustained fire, goes trenches; taken by surprise, some 38 Maschinengewehr 42 (MG 42) effective but also easier to produce
Dimensions: length: 6.28m (20ft 7in); width: 2.95m (9ft 7.92mm (0.31in) MG fire-support to the lighter Pz I, II and vehicle’s weight to 17.7 tonnes (17.4 a long way to explain the defensive Red Army soldiers capitulated. At the machine gun successor to the MG 34. Mauser
9in); height: 2.50m (8ft 2in) Armour: 10–50mm (0.39–1.96in) III tanks. Krupp produced 35 pre- tons). A larger 237kW (320hp) engine resilience often seen by German units, micro-tactical level, the potency of the While the MG 34’s prowess was feared applied their recent experience with
particularly during the war’s final two MG 34 in part helps explain the combat by Allied personnel, its performance cheap mass-production of the MP
years. Just a few MG 34s, well sited to effectiveness seen in many wartime was eclipsed by its successor, the MG 38 and MP 40 sub-machine guns
(1.96in) KwK 39 L/60 gun, which barrelled (24-calibre) 75mm (2.95in) gun exploit the ground and with a copious German units. 42, now widely accepted as the most to create the MG 42, which was
increased the vehicle’s weight to 22.3 fitted in the early Panzer IV. This gun had effective dual-purpose machine gun constructed using cheap and easy
tonnes (21.9 tons). The Model L featured a poor anti-tank performance but was ever designed by that time. In 1940, to produce die-cast and stamped
more effective spaced armour as well as ideal for the heavy close-fire support role Mauser began developing a more components. Despite these basic
a modified suspension to compensate for which the Model N was intended. In
for the new long 50mm (1.96in) gun, total during 1936–43, German factories
making the Model J nose-heavy. The constructed 6123 Panzer III tanks. In
Germans produced 703 Model L tanks in addition, German firms produced 381
June–December 1942. Subsequently, the Panzer III command tank variants.
production run of the Model M, which Just 98 Model A–F tanks fought in
ran from October 1942 to February the September 1939 Polish campaign,
1943, delivered 292 vehicles. The Model although 349 Panzer IIIs participated in
M sported novel thin armour side-skirts the May 1940 Western offensive. During
(Schürzen) to protect its wheels and 1941, the new 50mm (1.96in)-gunned Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf B

tracks from infantry-borne hollow- Model G performed well in the summer Crew: 5 Engine: 220kW (296hp) Maybach HL120TR
Caption heading Caption heading Caption heading
Production: 1937–38 Speed: 40km/h (25mph)
charge anti-tank weapons. In 1942–43, 1941 German onslaught against the Caption text, caption text, caption Caption text, caption text, caption Caption text, caption text, caption
Weight: 20.7 tonnes (20.3 tons) Range: 200km (124 miles)
German factories delivered 666 Model N Soviets. Here, the Germans committed text, caption text, caption text, text, caption text, caption text, text, caption text, caption text,
Dimensions: length: 5.92m (19ft 3in); width: 2.83m (9ft Armament: 1 x 7.5cm (2.95in) KwK37 L/24; 1 x
caption text, caption text, caption caption text, caption text, caption caption text, caption text, caption
tanks, the final version of the Panzer III. 1401 Panzer IIIs, of which 874 mounted 3in); height: 2.68m (8ft 10in) 7.92mm (0.31in) MG13s
text, caption text, caption text,
text, caption text, caption text, text, caption text, caption text,
This design was similar to its predecessor the 50mm (1.96in) L/42 gun. In both Armour: 5–30mm (0.19–1.18in)
caption text, caption text, caption caption text, caption text, caption caption text, caption text, caption
except that it mounted the short- the East and in North Africa between text, caption text. text, caption text. text, caption text.

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A R T I L L E R Y, R O C K E T S A N D M O R T A R S A R T I L L E R Y, R O C K E T S A N D M O R T A R S INFANTRY EQUIPMENT INFANTRY EQUIPMENT

Caption heading removed for transport. A total of 275 152mm (5.98in) Gun-Howitzer and resulted in the B-10, intended to be same tracked carriage. The Br-2, which PPSh-41
Caption text, caption text, caption guns were completed between 1934 and Model 1937 (ML-20) mounted on an unusual tracked carriage. was adopted to meet this requirement, Although the PPD-40 was an effective
text, caption text, caption text,
1937, when production was halted in This was the final modernization of Prototype guns were ready in 1932, but had a barrel closely based on that of the submachine gun, it was not well suited
caption text, caption text, caption
text, caption text, caption text, favour of the ML-20. the Model 1910/30. The barrel was prolonged trials revealed major problems B-10, mounted on the tracked carriage to wartime mass production. The
again virtually unchanged, but the new including slow elevation, a poor rate of of the 203mm (8in) B-4 howitzer. The PPSh-41 was carefully designed by
carriage offered greater elevation and fire and unacceptably short barrel life. gun was accepted for service in 1936; an Georgi Shpagin to make the greatest
traverse. The ML-20 was in production Various attempts to resolve these estimated 37 were completed by the time possible use of metal stampings to
between 1937 and 1947, by which time problems were unsuccessful before the production ended in 1940. ease production, while its chrome-
6800 had been completed. project was superseded by an official Despite the gun’s prolonged lined barrel reduced the essential PPS-43 Caption heading
The type was one of the most requirement for a trio of heavy artillery development, it still had problems with Calibre: 7.62mm (0.3in) Feed system: 35-round detachable box magazine Caption text, caption text, caption
maintenance required in the front line.
Length: 820mm (32.25in) Muzzle velocity: 488m/sec (1601ft/sec) text, caption text, caption text,
successful Soviet artillery pieces of the pieces – a 152mm (5.98in) gun, plus rapid barrel wear that were never fully Early-production models were fitted Length of barrel: 254mm (10in) Rate of fire: 700rpm caption text, caption text, caption
war. It out-ranged its main German 203mm (8in) and 280mm (11in) solved. Poor mobility was also an issue: with the 71-round drum magazines of Weight: 3.39kg (7.5lb) Effective range: 200m (656ft) text, caption text, caption text,
opponents, such as the 15cm (5.9in) howitzers – all of which would use the the complete gun could be towed for the PPD-40, but later examples used caption text, caption text, caption
sFH 18, which often allowed it to bring a simpler and more reliable 35-round text, caption text.

down counter-battery fire without risk box magazine. Most were selective-fire
of retaliation. weapons, with the settings for single PPS-42 and PPS-43 the PPS. By end of the war, at least Caption heading
shot or full automatic being made by In 1942, an official requirement was 2,000,000 PPS-43s had been made, Caption text, caption text, caption
text, caption text, caption text,
152mm (5.98in) Gun Model 1935 a small lever just ahead of the trigger. issued for a submachine gun firing the but in view of the Red Army’s massive caption text, caption text, caption
(Br-2) The type proved to be highly effective same ammunition as the PPSh-41, but reserve stocks of submachine guns, text, caption text, caption text,
The first project to develop a long-range even in the most severe combat with a lower rate of fire and cheaper production ceased in 1946. caption text, text, caption text.
152mm (5.98in) gun began in 1929 conditions. Soviet factories completed and easier to produce. The resulting
approximately 6,000,000 before PPS-42 was certainly a simple design,
production ended in 1945. with most components being sheet-
steel stampings, which cut production
time and reduced the requirement for
skilled labour. It was fitted with a simple
folding stock and was only capable of
fully automatic fire fed by a 35-round
box magazine. More than 46,000 were
completed before production switched
to the improved PPS-43. This was a
very similar weapon, but had a different
design of folding stock and safety catch.
Under normal circumstances, the
152mm (5.98in) gun-howitzer 152mm (5.98in) Gun-Howitzer Model 1937 (ML-20) PPS-43 would probably have been
Model 1937 (ML-20) Weight (deployed): 7270kg (16,027lb) Height: 2.27m (7ft 5in) 152mm (5.98in) Gun Model 1935 (Br-2) 152mm (5.98in) gun Model 1935 adopted as the Red Army’s standard
This is an early-production ML-20 Weight (travelling order): 7930kg (17,482lb) Shell weight: 43.6kg (96lb) Weight (deployed): 18,200kg (40,100lb) Shell weight: 49kg (108lb) (Br-2)
fitted with the solid-tyred spoked Length: 8.18m (26ft 10in) (with limber; barrel retracted Elevation: −2° to +65° PPSh-41 submachine gun. However, a massive
Weight (travelling order): 19,500kg (43,000lb) Elevation: 0° to +60° The Br-2 served throughout the war,
wheels of the Model 1910/34. for travel) Traverse: 58° Length: 11.44m (37ft 6in) Traverse: 8° notably at Kursk in 1943 and in
Caption heading Calibre: 7.62mm (0.3in) Feed system: 71-round detachable drum magazine, investment had already been made
Caption text, caption text, caption Length: 843mm (33.2in) or 35-round detachable box magazine
Barrel length: 4.3m (14ft 1in) L/29 (without muzzle Rate of fire: 3–4rpm Barrel length: 7.17m (23ft 6in) L/47.2 Rate of fire: 1 round every 2–3 minutes support of 8th Guards Army at the for PPSh-41 production, which was
brake) Muzzle velocity: 650m/s (2133ft/s) text, caption text, caption text, Length of barrel: 269mm (10.6in) Muzzle velocity: 488m/sec (1601ft/sec)
Width: 2.49m (8ft 2in) Muzzle velocity: 880m/s (2887ft/s) Battle of the Seelow Heights.
Weight: 3.63kg (8lb) Rate of fire: 900rpm
running at over 1,000,000 a year, that
Width: 2.35m (7ft 9in) Maximum range: 17,265m (56,640ft) caption text, caption text, caption
Height: 3.2m (10ft 6in) Maximum range: 27,000m (88,580ft)
text, caption text, caption text, Effective range: 200m (656ft) it would have been uneconomical
caption text, text, caption text. to completely switch production to

96 97 108 109

8 9
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Ben hubbard Martin J. Dougherty
Beginning in 789CE, the Vikings The Aztec, Inca & Maya Empires
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settlements and invaded the Atlantic Columbian civilisations in
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84 T H E M AY A C I V I L I Z A T I O N T H E M AY A C I V I L I Z A T I O N 85 T H E M AY A C I V I L I Z A T I O N 97

THE RISE OF THE CITIES within the Mayan language family, right: The people of Tikal
The Mayan population was spread over a large area with and to the uneven spread of went about their daily
differing terrain. The lowlands of the north, mostly within the cultural traits as well as limit business with the temples
below: This reconstruction Yucatán peninsula, lay between the Gulf of Mexico and the technologies. The people of of their gods towering
of the site at Dos Pilas Caribbean Sea, but received relatively low rainfall and were the Guatemalan highlands are over them. During
shows aspects of the less agriculturally productive than the lands to the south. The often referred to as the K’iche’ ceremonies they would
Mayan religion – a Guatemalan highlands to the south were cooler and more fertile, Maya for their main language observe bound sacrifices
ceremony atop the temple though occasionally affected by volcanic activity. Between the group, while those living in the tumbling down the long
pyramid watched by the two was another area of lowlands, forming the third major Yucatán peninsula are typically staircase to a grisly death.
general populace, whilst division of Mayan territory. called Yucatec Maya. These
a ceremonial ball game is The different conditions in these major regions and many distinctions are very broad,
in progress. subregions contributed to the evolution of multiple languages of course; there were significant
variations in language, beliefs and customs
across quite short distances.
The growth of early Maya settlements depended first and above: San Bartolo
foremost on the availability of food, then on good leadership that became an important
could mitigate the inevitable setbacks and disasters that would centre for trade and
occur in the lifetime of any community. Those that weathered culture in the Late Pre-
difficult times in relative stability had a chance to grow into large Classic period. The oldest
towns and finally cities. known Mayan murals
The potential importance of any given city depended largely have been found there,
upon trade. Physical isolation due to difficult terrain might along with numerous
enhance security but ultimately limited the influence a city could carvings depicting gods
exert as well as limit access to goods that could not be sourced and cosmology.
locally. Political isolation arising from bad relations with other
cities would have the same effect.
In the longer term, those cities that joined the emerging
trade network and maintained at least neutral relations with
their neighbours prospered and continued to grow. As the cities
grew larger, trade became ever more important and those that
controlled it benefited the most. Often this was an accident of
geography, with some cities standing on important trade routes
and becoming the hubs of commerce.
Over time, some cities began to build roads and causeways
to their neighbours. These may have had religious significance,
but they certainly made trade easier and more efficient. Political
advantage was also gained from more rapid and regular

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Arranged thematically, the book
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dIcTATO R dIcTATOR
training, fighting techniques, armour
A steel mill in staninsk, 1948.
stalin had realized in the late
1920s that if Russia was to
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and different knightly orders.
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global market, the country ndaeped icillat iumquos ut unt quodistrum que net eati
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80 Training and FighTing Techniques Training and FighTing Techniques 81
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vidi ducius secatiat optatem iducit eumendi gendand dolorepe omnimusdam et

Training
aceatqui comnis delibus icipsum faccullent volupti intios enihili ciminve lestrum
plique eosam ea simintia ium, aut earion cus delictem ratus harum erupta cone doluptur, “The result was gruelling, shocking
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min est, seniminctio ditias laceperibus, utem aut et, que ressequo quo cus que earumqu encounters that must have left

and Fighting
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psychological scars on knights even
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Techniques
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nullutem nonsent, eos diciis audae nonem qui debis as estis aut officia pa volorepra
bATTLeFIeLd TACTICs or occasionally mace or axe. Most
On the battlefield, the mounted casualties in medieval battles
By the twelfth century, except in Italy, it had become unusual for anyone to become a knight potentially carried out two occurred during the pursuit of a
WORkERs knight but the son of a knight. But knighthood was far from being an honour automatically main tasks, which can be summed broken enemy, as running men
up as charge and pursuit. An initial were unable to defend themselves
Pore is excepud aernatia consequo granted when a noble boy came of age. The candidate for knighthood had to prove real charge would be conducted with from the knights riding them down
volupti tem fugias eatur as military prowess. He required the ability to control a mettlesome stallion, even if his steed couched lances, a manoeuvre as they fled.
magnisim re corit optatur, quam, was panicked or wounded. that was most effective when Although some battles were
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T
oditasp eribus ilictur, ommolenis infantry, then after the initial and then pursuit, a hopelessly
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a heavy lance, keeping The boys of noble families spent would have seen the mighty deeds
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it steady while charging the first seven years of their lives of his ancestors emblazoned on
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at a gallop and holding it firmly mostly under their mothers’ care. tapestries in his home. The boy
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enough to unseat an enemy who But even in young childhood, the would also have received toys
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moluptaecto inverentis dolo quatiatur? aut latur aut re niatusti ipsum had to be able to bear the weight to which he would crafted from pewter. Thanks to the
maxim sediaeperum que volore Id modicabores dolupiti nem. que mo doloriam quamet ipsandi of 18–32kg (40–70lb) of armour aspire as an adult. good records kept by the English
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aceaque quas ipis aliat omnis voluptiorro dolo torrum restiis doloriorem sinciis inctorem quam, suffocating heat of battle, and songs and I gave his sons toy castles and
the gruelling muscle burn stories of miniature siege engines to inspire Left: A knight ‘banneret’ was not a usually avoided a pitched battle. cavalry and infantry. Infantry some of the allied force, under
of fighting with a sword, hereditary office, but rather a title given Therefore, except in the case of came into greater prominence in heavy French attack, made a circle
sometimes for hours at a to an individual with good leadership surprise attack or ambush, most the fourteenth century, as we will of pikemen. Their knights would
skills. It was marked by a square banner,
stretch. Such abilities battles were waged between fairly see, but at no point could armies take shelter within the infantry
54 55 to be followed on the battlefield.
and endurance could equal competitors. The result was do without them. Archers or circle to regroup, then leave to
only be gained with Facing page: In this scene from the gruelling, shocking encounters that spearmen could slow an enemy fight again. The device ultimately
long and frequently Codex Manesse (1310), ladies look Above: Assault on emperor otto IV’s must have left psychological scars charge, protect the flank, or provide failed, but certainly extended the
painful training. So, on as their knights compete in a standard in the battle of bouvines on knights even though relatively the anvil against which the cavalry resistance of the allied army.
from childhood, tournament melée. (1214). otto was only saved from few knights died in battle before could strike and hold the enemy. A battle could take hours, with
death or capture by the efforts of his
the prospective the fourteenth century. Knights would often take positions the knights of the offensive army
Left: At the first stage of training to be a household knights.
knight was knight, young pages would have served Almost all battles of the high to protect infantrymen, and the repeatedly attacking a stationary,
trained for the noble members of the household and late Middle Ages were fought reverse was also true. For example, defensive enemy, then drawing off
feats of arms. where they lived. with a combination of heavy in the Battle of Bouvines in 1214, to catch their breath, regroup, and

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TIGER TANK UNIT ORGANISATION AND COMBAT TACTICS TIGER TANK UNIT ORGANISATION AND COMBAT TACTICS

CHAPTER 3 four-platoon companies when their heavy tanks were finally The 502nd Heavy Panzer Battalion lost its 2 Company,
delivered. The PzKpfw III (75) was a PzKpfw III Ausf N with which became 3 Company/503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion
the short L/24 7.5cm gun, capable of firing high explosive, high on 10 February, and got new 2 and 3 Companies on 1 April.

Tiger Tank Unit


explosive anti-tank, smoke and anti-personnel rounds. It was Possibly because it was treated as an experimental unit, 1
often known as PzKpfw III Kz (Kz for kurz, meaning short). Company/502nd Heavy Panzer Battalion had an anomalous
The 502nd Heavy Panzer Battalion was to have four table of organisation. It received nine PzKpfw III Lgs to

Organisation and
PzKpfw VIs in each of two platoons and five PzKpfw III Kzs supplement its nine III Kzs in late September 1942, and
in each of the other two, with one PzKpfw VI in the Company records show that it continued to operate all three types of
Headquarters, while the combat companies of the 501st and tank until the latter part of 1943. The 505th Heavy Panzer

Combat Tactics
503rd Heavy Panzer Battalions had two PzKpfw VIs and two Battalion also operated both types of PzKpfw III alongside
PzKpfw III Kzs in each platoon, and one PzKpfw VI along its Tigers on the Eastern Front until Operation Zitadelle (the
with two PzKpfw III Kzs in the Company Headquarters offensive at Kursk) in July 1943.
(Kompanie-Truppe). This arrangement was formalised in the In general, however, the PzKpfw III Lgs proved to be
Wartime Organisation Table 1176d of 15 August 1942. no more effective than the Ausf Ns, and the Wartime
The development of the Tiger heavy tank caused Organisation Table 1176e of 5 March 1943 ordered that
a considerable upheaval in the organisation of MIXED PANZER COMPANIES the strength of each company was to be increased to 14
Alongside this, the battalion’s Headquarters Company PzKpfw VIs, organised in three platoons of four tanks each,
Germany’s armoured divisions. Initially, it was (Stabskompanie) was organised according to Wartime together with a Kompanie-Truppe of two tanks. Also, each
planned to use the new tanks in mixed platoons, Organisation Table 1150d of the same date, with two Tiger battalion had a signals platoon equipped with one standard
command tanks (Panzerbefehlswagen) and a PzKpfw III Ausf PzKpfw VI and two others transformed into command tanks
alongside PzKpfw III and IV medium tanks, but L, with the KwK39 5cm L/60 gun, known as the PzKpfw (SdKfz 267/268 Panzerbefehlswagen) with additional radio
that plan was soon shelved. III Lg (Lg for lang, meaning long) in its Signals Platoon equipment in place of some of their ammunition storage
(Nachrichtenzug), and five PzKpfw III Lgs in a separate platoon. bins. In all, total battalion strength numbered 45 tanks.
Soon after the decision to produce a heavy tank was Four months later, the first Tigers had gone into battle, and
taken, and even before their operating characteristics became an amended table of organisation was issued, swopping the Below: This picture, taken somewhere in northern Germany in 1945, of a Tiger
known, changes were made to the table of organisation PzKpfw III Kzs in the combat companies for PzKpfw III Lgs. alongside one of its main adversaries, a British Cromwell (probably a Mk IV), shows
of the German Army and Waffen-SS Panzer Divisions The original battalions had two combat companies each, clearly the huge difference in size between the two. An attempt may have been
to accommodate them. The first step was to establish but were upgraded to three during the first trimester of 1943. made to recover the Tiger, for a towing cable is attached to one of the front eyes.
heavy-tank companies (schwere Panzerkompanien – s.Pz.Kp)
as independent units (Heerestruppen), composed of three Despite the protests of most of the unit commanders Above: By the style in which its tactical number is painted (variations on which
platoons [Zuge] with three PzKpfw VIs each. Initially there involved, the PzKpfw IIIs were withdrawn from all except are often the only means of placing a tank in a particular unit), this Tiger seems
were two heavy tank companies, 501st and 502nd, created 1 Company/502nd and 505th Heavy Panzer Battalions and to have been part of s.Pz.Abt. 503, 2nd Company. It is halted on a road march
on 16 February 1942. The two were united and remustered were replaced with half-tracked armoured infantry carriers and is equipped with some very nonstandard items atop its turret.
as 1 and 2 Companies/501st Heavy Panzer Battalion (schwere (Leichter Schützenpanzerwagen, SdKfz 250), assigned to the
Panzerabteilung) on 10 May. Confusingly, 503rd Heavy battalion headquarters company for scouting and perimeter battalion to be formed, 510th, was not created until 6 June
Panzer Battalion had actually been formed five days earlier, guard duties. These changes were largely completed on the 1944, the day the Allies landed in Normandy. During the
and was thus, nominally at least, the German Army’s senior Eastern Front by the start of Operation Zitadelle. course of the war, some units’ designations were changed:
heavy tank battalion – 502nd Heavy Panzer Battalion was The reasons for this reorganisation were both tactical the reconstituted 501st became Heavy Panzer Battalion 424
created two weeks later. and logistical. The PzKpfw IIIs had been assigned to act in November 1944; the 502nd was redesignated 511th on
It was initially intended that the 501st and 503rd Heavy as the Tigers’ ‘minders’, and were simply not up to the 5 January 1945 and the 503rd was renamed Heavy Panzer
Panzer Battalions should be equipped with PzKpfw VI(P) task – a fact which should have been obvious all along, Battalion Feldherrnhalle on 21 December 1944.
s, and sent to North Africa, and that the 502nd should be since the inadequacies of the medium tanks had been Late in the war, the tanks allocated to Reserve Army
equipped with PzKpfw VI(H)s, and sent to the Eastern the reason for rushing the Tiger into production in the training units were pressed into combat service; these
Front. The Porsche-produced PzKpfw VI(P) was cancelled, first place. In addition, the presence of two types of tank units were equipped, as one might imagine, with a mix of
resulting in a delay while the 501st and 503rd Heavy Panzer within each company put a considerable burden on the the vehicles to be found on active service, including some
Battalions were retrained on the very different Henschel companies’ Vehicle Maintenance Section (Kraftfahrzeug- Tigers. A total of 30 Tigers (some reports suggest more)
tank. Thus it was that the 502nd Heavy Panzer Battalion Instandsetzungsgruppe) and the battalion’s Workshop and 15 King Tigers were shipped to army training units
became the first Tiger-equipped unit to go into action. Company (Werkstatt-Kompanie), and eliminating the in total, including the 14 Tigers which went to Paderborn
The pioneering units had vehicles before they began to receive medium tank simplified the task considerably. However, before September 1944 (see below), and a further eight
Tigers, of course. In April 1942, a decision had been taken that this did not mean the end of PzKpfw IIIs and IVs, only which went to SS training units. Tiger tanks were allocated
each Tiger tank sent into action should be accompanied by that the medium tanks were not now expected to defend to radio-control (Funklenk) units, which were trained to
a PzKpfw III to provide security, and Wartime Organisation the Tigers. deploy unmanned, remotely controlled half-tracked vehicles
Table 1176 was drawn up accordingly and issued on 25 In all, 11 heavy tank battalions were to be created within – SdKfz 301 Sprengstoffträger – packed with explosives.
April. A total of 10 PzKpfw III (75)s were issued, to make up the German Army, numbering 501 to 510, together with the The radio-controlled units were never successful, and what
3rd Battalion/Grossdeutschland Panzer Regiment. The latter remained of them was thrown into the fighting in 1945 in
Left: Said to be the first photograph of a Tiger tank ever published (in April was made up of the remnants of the 501st Battalion and the conventional role. When the Panzer-Lehr Division was
1943, but it was probably taken quite some time earlier), this is one of the 10 504th Battalion, together with one re-equipped company of formed in January 1944, from a collection of smaller Panzer-
heavy tanks that 8.Kp/SS-Pz.Rgt. 2 took to Russia in February 1943, for the the regiment itself. Units were formed as and when vehicles Lehr units, some of the 10 Tiger tanks that had been issued
successful counteroffensive around Kharkov. This type lacks cyclone air filters. to equip them came off the production lines, and the last to the 130th Panzer-Lehr Regiment the previous October
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Great World War II Weapons: Panther Tank Great World War II Weapons:
matthew hughes & chris B-17 Flying Fortress
mann Robert Jackson
Built to counter the Soviet T-34, Designed to protect the US coasts
Germany’s Panther tank was only from hostile warships, the Boeing
introduced in 1943, but by the end Great World War II Weapons: B-17 became a mainstay of Allied Great World War II Weapons:
of the war more than 6,000 had been Panther Tank daylight bombing raids on Nazi B-17 Flying Fortress
produced. Featuring 70 photographs 285 x 213mm (11¼ x 8½”) 285 x 213mm (11¼ x 8½”)
Germany. The B-17 Flying Fortress
and colour artworks, Panther Tank Extent: 96 pages Extent: 96 pages
Word count: 35,000 words gives a complete account of the
follows the development and service aircraft from its appearance to its Word count: 35,000 words
Illustrations: 70 colour and black- Illustrations: 70 photographs, 10
history of World War II’s finest retirement. The book ranges from the
and-white photographs, 10 colour artworks
all-rounder. Specification tables artworks aircraft’s design and development
provide manufacturing details, while ISBN: 978-1-78274-684-3
ISBN: 978-1-78274-682-9 history to its service record. £14.99 Paperback
comparison tables allow the reader £14.99 Paperback
to make at-a-glance assessments of
how the Panther matched its rivals.

COMBAT PERFORMANCE: WORLD WAR II EASTERN FRONT, 1943–5 COMBAT PERFORMANCE: WORLD WAR II EASTERN FRONT, 1943–5 COMBAT PERFORMANCE: WORLD WAR II EASTERN FRONT, 1943–5 COMBAT PERFORMANCE: WORLD WAR II EASTERN FRONT, 1943–5
THE B-17 FLYING FORTRESS OPERATIONS IN WESTERN EUROPE, 1944–45

the attack. This rigidity meant that German counter-attacks units. In one action in January 1944, Bäke’s unit fought for stabilised along the line of the Vistula river, the Germans
seldom met a coordinated response, and the Panthers and five days, destroying no fewer than 267 Soviet tanks for the attempted to shore up their front to meet the next Russian
Panzer IVs were able to inflict much larger losses than would
usually have been the case. Certainly, they were not able
loss of only one Tiger and four Panthers. Bäke’s unit then
provided the vanguard of the III Panzer Corps as it drove to
attack. To make matters worse for Germany, Romania, allied
to Germany, fell out of the war. Russian troops of Roman
CHAPTER 5
to use similar tactics against the better trained Allied tank the relief of trapped German troops who were attempting Malinovsky’s Second Ukrainian Front struck out to take

Operations in
crews in Italy and Normandy. to escape Soviet encirclement. In all these engagements, advantage of Rumania’s collapse and, spearheaded by the
What thwarted the Germans was the sheer weight of the Panthers proved their worth, but they were too few in Sixth Tank Army, took Bucharest in September 1944. More
Soviet matériel coupled to illogical ‘no retreat’ orders issued number to do any more than delay the Soviet push west. importantly, Russia captured the Ploesti oil fields, one of

Western Europe,
by Hitler. Panthers, along with countless German troops, One Soviet tank lieutenant, Degan, recalled the difficulty Germany’s last remaining sources of crude oil. Soon German
found themselves surrounded in the battles of 1944. These of fighting a tank such as the Panther: ‘I couldn’t do anything Panthers would be grounded by lack of fuel.
encircled troops either surrendered or fought ‘Cauldron’ with a German tank like a Tiger or Panther if I met it head The problem for the Panther crews was that after Kursk,

1944–45
(Kesselschlachten) battles to break the encirclement. In such on. If I was going to win, I had to find its weak spot, and the momentum of the war was towards Germany. Therefore,
battles, casualties were high, and they placed a premium on that meant approaching it from the side. So our usual tactics, they were increasingly fighting in a defensive role rather than
serviceable Panthers. Panthers were therefore organised into when we were advancing and knew that there might be a in the attacking formations described above. While it was a
special rescue units to relieve trapped pockets of Germans. tank ambush ahead, was to advance suddenly, stop and open big improvement over the Panzer IV, Guderian was forced to
One formation specially raised for this purpose was the fire as if we knew there was something there, and often turn count on the more reliable (and abundant) Panzer IV to the With the advent of the Mustang to protect and
Heavy Panzer Regiment Bäke, named after its commander, around and take to our heels. We hoped they would open war’s end, so resisted attempts to end production in favour of
Oberstleutnant Franz Bäke. The regiment combined one fire, and we would then be able to see where they were heavier but more temperamental tanks such as the Panther.
escort the Fortresses all the way to the target
Tiger battalion with 34 tanks, a Panther battalion with 46 firing from and could then fight back.’ and back again, aircraft losses fell, and
THE BATTLE FOR POLAND
tanks, and balanced supporting arms, including an infantry It was supply difficulties which halted the Russian consequently the damage caused to Germany’s
battalion, self-propelled artillery and engineer bridging summer 1944 offensive, rather than any real opposition. Having advanced into Poland, the Soviet commander,
The Russians were now established in Poland and East Georgi Zhukov, planned the final offensive into Germany war effort rose immensely. At the same time
Below: The Jagdpanther, with its potent 88mm (3.46in) gun. The Prussia, the heartland of German militarism, and stood and on to Berlin. By October 1944, the plans for a new production of the B-17 reached its wartime peak,
Jagdpanther was probably the finest tank destroyer of World War II, poised to move into Germany itself. The remaining German offensive were well advanced and 13 mechanised corps
and even more feared than the Panther by the Allies. Panthers fought with tenacity and courage but sheer weight were established to provide the main thrust into the
and new aircraft were arriving in East Anglia in
of numbers overwhelmed them. When the Russian advance Reich. These corps were made up of T-34s leavened with droves to join the fight against the Axis powers.
some heavy tank units made up with heavier JS tanks.
Below: A rear view of a mid-production Panther Ausf A. Note the The Russians also mobilised élite Guards Tank armies,
prominent commander’s cupola which is located well to the rear of the reminiscent of the days of the old Tsarist armies, to smash ‘First of all you must win the battle of the air. That must
turret, and the six Schürzen side skirting plates. through the German lines. come before you start a single sea or land engagement. If you
examine the conduct of my campaigns, you will find that we
In January 1945, the thunder of Russian artillery marked Above: A Panther Ausf A with a traversed turret. The turret on a never fought a land battle until the air battle was won.’
Above: With the Germans on the defensive from 1943 onwards, had sufficient armour to build huge tank armies which the attack across the Vistula River. Once the German lines had Panther Ausf A could traverse fully in only 15 seconds. Speed of So spoke Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in December Left: While ground crew service the aircraft, another paints mission Above: Bombs falling on target during an attack on oil storage facili-
camouflage measures such as these became increasingly common. dwarfed anything the Germans could put into the field, and been punctured, Russian armour raced through the gap to traverse could mean the difference between life and death for the crew. 1943, referring to the successful Allied campaigns of 1942–3 symbols on B-17G ‘Nine O Nine’ of the 333rd Bomb Squadron, 91st ties at Regensburg, 18 December 1944. An raid on Regensburg a year
Here a Panther’s distinctive profile has been disguised by wheat. the Germans were now outnumbered three-to-one. The push deep behind the German lines. Some Russian tanks were in North Africa. The initial object of these campaigns Bomb Group. This aircraft went on to complete 140 missions. earlier cost the Eighth Air Force some of its heaviest losses.
tables were finally turning from the heady days of 1941 equipped with a rudimentary form of Schnorkel gear which halt the Soviet push on Berlin. German troops in Pomerania had been to defend the Suez Canal and the Anglo-Persian
the Panther, as at the battle at Narva, proved its worth. The when the Wehrmacht had smashed into Russia and driven allowed amphibious crossings, and this enabled them to pass to the north also threatened any advance on Berlin with an oilfields. When this had been achieved the goal was As for the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg, it needed escort, and particularly the Mustangs, began to account for
accuracy and punch of the 75mm gun allowed the Panther to to the gates of Moscow. river obstacles such as the Vistula in the 1944 offensives. attack into the Russians’ flank. The early capture of Berlin widened to include the elimination of the Axis forces in only two weeks of round-the-clock work before production more enemy aircraft with every passing week.
destroy any enemy tank at distances from 2011m (2200yds). All along the front, Soviet forces moved forward in a The Germans fell back. Warsaw, the capital of Poland, was impossible. North Africa and the capture of the entire southern coast was back to normal. At an aircraft factory near Leipzig 160 On 6 March 1944 Mustangs appeared for the first time over
The Panther was also deployed across the Panzer units and series of set-piece battles which took advantage of their soon fell to the tanks of the Red Army which were now of the Mediterranean. By May 1943 the last pockets of Axis crated fighters were salvaged from the ruins; almost all were Berlin and took part in one of the most bitterly contested air
not in special formations like the Tiger tank. During 1944– limitless manpower and huge tank forces. Typically, after advancing at a rate of 80.5km (50 miles) a day. However, OPERATION ‘SPRING AWAKENING’
resistance in Tunisia had been wiped out, and General Erwin found to be repairable. Under the direction of Albert Speer, battles of the war. When it ended the Americans had lost 69
45, the Soviets gained a very healthy respect for its combat a heavy bombardment, an attack would be spearheaded by Berlin was not taken in this advance and the advance on The Germans continued to organise a bitter rearguard action. Rommel’s once proud Afrika Korps had ceased to exist. Vast the minister of munitions and war production, factories bombers – 15 of them belonging to the ill-fated 100th BG
power, and made great efforts to recover and repair disabled heavy tanks which would penetrate the German defences Berlin was not resumed until April 1945. The Russian Army’s In the west, this involved the Ardennes counter-offensive Allied land and air forces now stood idle in North Africa, and were hastily dispersed to make it more difficult for the Allies – and 11 fighters, but the Germans lost 80 aircraft, almost
vehicles so that the Red Army could deploy several Panther- and force an opening for the following T-34s and infantry. halt before Berlin has been the subject of hot debate. One (Battle of the ‘Bulge’) in late 1944. The collapse of the 1944
the question of their future employment became a matter of to attempt another knockout blow. half the defending force. Another heavily escorted attack
equipped tank companies against the vehicle’s inventors. The problem for the Germans was that there were too few explanation was the need to bring the logistical train forward Ardennes counter-offensive did not bring any respite for
urgent priority. on Berlin by 590 bombers on 8 March, when several key
Panthers available to halt the Soviets. The Soviets had the to supply the men and tanks. Fuel was short and ammunition the battle-weary German troops and tank crews. In 1945, LUFTWAFFE LOSSES
With no prospect of launching an invasion of Occupied factories were destroyed, cost the Americans 37 bombers
THE PANTHER AND THE SOVIET resources to attack again and again over the same ground was needed to replenish the tanks, as well as guns. The Hitler turned to the Waffen-SS formations of the Sixth SS
SUMMER OFFENSIVES OF 1944 Europe from England in 1943, there remained two Although in the final analysis the ‘Big Week’ offensive made and 17 fighters; but when 669 bombers again struck at the
and eventually wear down the German defenders. usually reliable tanks within the Soviet tank armies suffered Panzer Army for a new counter-offensive in the east. After a
alternatives: either the forces in North Africa could be little difference to the output of single-seat fighters for the German capital on the 22nd they encountered almost no
On 22 June 1944, the third anniversary of Operation Against these attacks, the Germans organised the Panthers mechanical breakdowns, as with the Panther, and cut down few days’ rest and receipt of newly produced Panthers, he
transferred to Burma and the Pacific to take part in the Luftwaffe, which reached the level of 2000 per month by opposition. Twelve bombers were shot down, but all of
Barbarossa, Soviet T-34s spearheaded a huge attack on the into mobile counter-attack units. These units would slice on Soviet effectiveness, as the rapid advances took their toll ordered the Sixth SS Panzer Army to Hungary to participate
war against Japan, or they could follow up their African the middle of 1944, the daylight offensive of January–April them were victims of the flak.
German lines, pushing the Germans back 724.2km (450 into the flank of any Soviet attack once the attack was on tracks and moving parts. There was also the question in the 10 February 1945 ‘Spring Awakening’ offensive. The
victory by invading Sicily and Italy. In the latter event the 1944 cost the Luftwaffe more than 1000 pilots, many of During this period many long-range missions were flown
miles) and destroying 25 German divisions. This advance underway. As many Soviet tanks were without radios, the of the increasingly desperate German resistance in front SS Hitlerjugend, for example, received 16 new Panther Ausf
objective would be to eliminate Italy from the war and open them experienced veterans. Although the claims of the by the Fifteenth Air Force’s B-17s and B-24s to targets in
proved how much Russian armour had improved, both in Soviets relied on their tank crews following pre-arranged of their capital. Units of every type – including Volkssturm G tanks, raising its Panzer strength to 44. After four weeks’
their tactics and standard of equipment. The Russians now tactics in which each tank was only prepared for its part in units composed of the very old and very young – fought to bitter, but futile, fighting in Hungary against overwhelming Fortress and Liberator gunners were vastly inflated in the the Balkans, the main strategic aim being to inflict as much
Left: Escorted by P-51 Mustang fighters, B-17Gs head for Berlin. The confusion of air battle, there was no escaping the fact that damage as possible on that sector of the enemy’s air power
60 61 62 63 long-range Mustang was able to escort the bombers all the way to the Luftwaffe lost an average of 50 fighter pilots every time which could be brought to bear on the Italian war zone.
their targets and back, engaging the German fighters. the Americans mounted a major raid. The Allied fighter Another aim was to delay the arrival of troop reinforcements
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DECEMBER 2018 Publication


Great World War II Weapons: The MP40 Great World War II Weapons: The Bismarck
‘Schmeisser’ Robert Jackson
Mike Ingram The Bismarck is an examination of the
Arguably the best submachine gun ship that represented the pinnacle of
in 1939 was Germany’s MP40. The Nazi Germany’s naval war machine.
MP40 ‘Schmeisser’ follows the path Great World War II Weapons: Beginning by tracing the regrowth of Great World War II Weapons:
of the weapon’s development from MP40 ‘Schmeisser’ the German navy after World War I The Bismarck
285 x 213mm (11¼ x 8½”) and Hitler’s plans for rearmament, the 285 x 213mm (11¼ x 8½”)
the first submachine gun designs
96pp book examines the Bismarck’s design, Extent: 96 pages
of World War I, through interwar Word count: 35,000 words
Illustrations: 10 colour artworks, 70 development and construction. A
models, culminating in the MP40 colour & b/w photos Illustrations: 70 colour and black-
itself. Artworks and technical data for chapter is devoted to the ship in action,
Word count: 35,000 and-white photographs, 10 colour
the gun, along with its predecessors including an account of her sinking of artworks
ISBN: 978-1-78274-683-6
and rivals, are included. £14.99 Paperback
HMS Hood, followed by Bismarck’s ISBN: 978-1-78274-685-0
own final showdown when she was £14.99 Paperback
torpedoed and sunk by the Royal Navy.

THE MP40 THE MP38 AND MP40 IN DETAIL THE MP40 THE MP38 AND MP40 IN DETAIL BISMARCK: THE FATAL VOYAGE BISMARCK: THE FATAL VOYAGE BISMARCK: THE FATAL VOYAGE BISMARCK: THE FATAL VOYAGE

Erma MP38
brace in place of the traditional wooden buttstock. This
THE MP36 was now made primarily from metal tubing and plastic that,
GREENLAND
Although little is known of its history, by 1936 ERMA had when folded, reduced the overall length of the MP38 to
it
developed the prototype of a completely new machine just 60cm (23.6in). To fold it, pressure was applied to the Stra
ark
pistol that was a direct forerunner of the MP38, which large knurled button above and behind the pistol grip. This Denm 4 Bisma
rck
it closely resembles. The key differences was that the allowed the frame to swing down and forwards. The frame 5 and
Prinz
MP36 had wooden furniture, including the pistol grip, a pivoted at its centre to lie horizontally below the gun. To
1 ICELAND Eug
en
spring-loaded firing pin, and a two-part bolt joined by a save weight, the solid pistol grip behind the trigger was
locking screw. Unlike its successors, it was select-fire, the replaced with one made from phenolic resin (a crude early
3
8 Prince of Wales/Hood 3
selector being located just above the trigger . It had the plastic) with paper-fibre filling instead of the traditional 4
2
7 SWEDEN
characteristic folding stock of the MP38 and 40 that were wood. A further weight-reducing measure was a circular 5
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to follow, though it was not lockable, and the butt plate hole cut into both sides of the magazine housing. 53
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had grooves machined into it. Unlike all previous designs, Another new innovation was the bar, with its hooklike 10 54

olk
35 6 •

Suff
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the cocking handle is located on the left-hand side. This projection at the front end of the barrel, which on early 32 Orkney Islands
2 Bergen

Norfolk/
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allowed the firer to keep his hand on the pistol grip at all models was made from cast aluminium or sheet steel. It 37 48 ge V
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11
times. The magazine housing was also unique in that it has been described as both a cooling aid or a barrel rest to 51 57
Victo rious/Rep
Fleet:
was canted 30 degrees to the left. prevent the weapon being pulled, still firing, back into a Home
49 Rodney
moving vehicle while traversing rough terrain. Unlike the
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Below: German reconnaissance unit in Russia in 1941 wearing Right: A German squad taking a rest outside Rostov. They are 14 16 7
camouflage made from bed linen. In the Russian winter, temperatures equipped with the standard infantry weapons: visible from left to 39
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ZIG-ZAG PATTERN
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were so low that metal became brittle and lubrication oil froze solid. right are two MP38s, an MG34 and several KAR 98K rifles. 19 20
17 18 31 Above: The British King George V class battleship Prince of Wales at water, passing through several bulkheads and coming to rest Above: The battleship Bismarck firing a salvo from her main
43 At 0630 hours on Wednesday 21 May, the B-Dienst (wireless anchor. Launched in May 1939, she was not yet fully completed when 11 BRITISH ISLES without exploding near the diesel dynamo room. It was only armament. The photo was taken in daylight; the dark effect is caused
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intelligence service) office on the Prinz Eugen decoded the Bismarck and Prinz Eugen made their breakout into the Atlantic. 9 Bismarck
10 discovered after the battleship returned to harbour. Two of by the vivid flash of the warship’s guns.
60 62 63 64 some British signals traffic indicating that reconnaissance destroyer flotilla the 20.3cm (8in) shells had pierced the ship’s side aft, on the
aircraft had been despatched to hunt for the German naval SLIPPED AWAY waterline, allowing 500 tons of water to pour in. The third and Ramillies and the cruiser Edinburgh were also released
force.Throughout the night of 20–21 May, the force steamed Less than two hours after Suckling had walked into Bowhill’s
Brest • OCCUPIED FRANCE entered one of the 13.3cm (5.25in) shell handling rooms, from escort duties to take part in the chase. The main concern

Sheffield/Renown

(Force H) Ark Royal


northwards up the Norwegian coast, following a zigzag office, aircraft of Coastal Command were on their way to bounced round the confined space like a streak of lightning, now was to reduce the Bismarck’s speed, giving the hunters
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pattern to avoid British submarines. At 0900 hours on 21 attack the German warships, but their operations were Prinz Eugen then expended its energy and fell to the floor, also without a chance to close in for the kill, and at 1440 hours on 24 May,
44 65 May, Lütjens ordered the task force to enter the Norwegian frustrated by bad weather. Shortly before nightfall on the exploding. By some miracle, no one was hurt. Admiral Tovey ordered the carrier Victorious to race ahead to
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fjords instead of making for the Atlantic with all speed. The 22nd, a Martin Maryland reconnaissance aircraft of No. 771 The Prince of Wales was so newly completed that she a flying-off point 185km (100nm) from the enemy ships and
25 27 Bismarck entered Korsfjord and then Grimstad fjord, just Naval Air Squadron from Hatston in the Orkneys penetrated had not yet finished working-up; the contractors were still launch a Swordfish strike against them.
south of Bergen, while the Prinz Eugen went into Kalvanes Korsfjord, but its crew, Lt N.E. Goddard RNVR (pilot) and working on her 35.5cm (14in) turrets when she sailed, and At 2210 hours, Victorious flew off nine Swordfish of No.
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Bay, to the north-west; the destroyer escorts went to Bergen. Commander G.A. Rotherham (observer) returned with the she was therefore not fully battleworthy, a fact of which 825 Squadron, led by Lt Cdr Eugene Esmonde. Flying through
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Lütjens signalled the cruiser to take on oil from the tanker news that the Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen were gone. Captain Leach was obviously conscious. The additional rain and sleet, they obtained radar contact with the enemy at
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Wollin and to be ready to sail in the evening. Meanwhile, In fact, they had already slipped away at 2200 hours the THE HUNT FOR THE BISMARCK damage had made her even more vulnerable, and Leach’s 2337 hours and briefly sighted the Bismarck, only to lose her
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four merchant ships were ordered alongside each of the big previous evening, continuing on a northerly heading in the intention now was to use his damaged ship to assist Wake- again. Twenty minutes later, the shadowing British cruisers
warships, one on each beam and quarter, as anti-torpedo company of their three destroyer escorts. Walker’s cuisers in maintaining contact with the enemy until redirected the Swordfish on to their target and they made
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protection for the engine rooms, propellers and rudders. At 2245 hours, Admiral Tovey left Scapa Flow with the 1. The Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen break out into the 6. British cruisers continue to shadow enemy warships Admiral Tovey’s main force could reach the scene. their attack through heavy defensive fire. One torpedo hit
That same afternoon, the Bismarck and her consort main body of the Home Fleet, heading for Icelandic waters North Sea, 20 May 1941; Norwegian agents report until contact lost the Bismarck amidships without causing significant damage;
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were photographed by a Photographic Reconnaissance to reinforce the heavy cruisers HMS Norfolk and Suffolk, their movement to the British Admiralty 7. Warships of the Home Fleet, including aircraft carrier THREE HITS the other eight missed. All the attacking Swordfish recovered
Unit Spitfire, one of two sent out to look for the ships. The which were patrolling the Denmark Strait. Three more 2. The Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen detected at Bergen Victorious, sail to intercept enemy warships What Leach had no means of knowing was that his gunners safely to the carrier, although two reconnaissance Fulmars
1 barrel 10 collar 19 sear 28 dismounting screw 37 rear sight leaf spring 46 attachment 55 bolt handle pin 64 recoil spring Spitfire pilot, Fg Off Michael Suckling, landed at Wick in cruisers were guarding Lütjens’ alternative breakout route, by air reconnaissance, but succeed in escaping, 8. The Prince Eugen detached on lone raiding sortie; had obtained three hits on the Bismarck, causing two of her out of six despatched failed to return. The returning crews
2 barrel cap 11 barrel nut 20 trigger axis screw 29 receiver lock screw retainer 38 chamber cover 47 buffer spring tube 56 bolt handle pin 65 buffer housing north-east Scotland, where his film was developed; he then between Iceland and the Faeroes. First to arrive were the 22 May 1941 German Fleet Commander decides to make for Brest fuel tanks to leak oil and contaminating others. As a result, reported no sign of the Prinz Eugen, which had in fact been
made a high-speed dash south with the precious prints, but Home Fleet’s two fastest ships, HMS Prince of Wales and the 3. British cruisers Arethusa, Birmingham and with the Bismarck, 24 May 1941 Lütjens had decided to abandon the sortie and steer south- detached by Admiral Lütjens to continue on her way alone.
3 front sight cover 12 barrel nut washer 21 sear lever 30 shoulder piece pivot 39 magazine 48 recoil spring second tube 57 firing pin 66 fore-end was forced to make an emergency landing near his home Hood, which had set out in advance of the main force; behind Manchester patrol Iceland–Faroes passage 9. The Bismarck unsuccessfully attacked by Swordfish west for St Nazaire, the only port on the Atlantic coast of
4 front sight retainer 13 stock pivot 22 trigger spring 31 main spring 40 magazine release cap 49 recoil spring tube large 58 recoil spring tube end 67 trigger guard town of Nottingham because of dense cloud. Rousing a them came Tovey’s Fleet Flagship, the new battleship King 4. The Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen detected and torpedo-bombers from HMS Victorious, 25 May 1941 France with a dry dock large enough to accommodate his THE FAIREY SWORDFISH
friend who was a garage proprietor, Suckling continued George V, the aircraft carrier Victorious, four cruisers and shadowed by cruisers Suffolk and Norfolk in Denmark 10. The Bismarck sighted by Catalina flying boat of No. flagship while repairs were carried out. The Fairey Swordfish, known universally as the ‘Stringbag’,
5 cover retainer 14 stock release 23 receiver lock 32 magazine guide 41 magazine release spring 50 extractor 59 chamber cover 68 lock frame screw his journey in the latter’s car, driving through the blackout six destroyers. The carrier was not yet fully worked up, and Strait, 23 May 1941 209 Squadron, RAF Coastal Command, 26 May 1941 Tovey’s ships were still 612km (330nm) to the south- appeared to be an anachronism from the moment of its
6 front sight 15 spring 24 bar 33 magazine release screw 42 magazine release catch 51 bolt 60 pistol grip 69 grip screw at dangerous speeds. Eventually, at 0100 hours on 22 May, her air group comprised only nine Fairey Swordfish torpedo/ 5. The Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen engaged by 11. Ark Royal launches a successful torpedo attack on the east and could not expect to make contact until 0700 hours conception; a slow, lumbering biplane that seemed to have
7 resting bar pin 16 pin 25 receiver lock spring 34 washer 43 sling 52 bolt handle 61 buffer spring 70 frame screw unshaven and still wearing his flying kit, he arrived at the battlecruiser Hood and battleship Prince of Wales Bismarck. One torpedo hit jams the battleship’s rudders on 25 May at the earliest. However, other ships were also no place in the increasingly streamlined world of 1930s
Air Ministry in London, where he handed over the package Right: The Prinz Eugen survived the war, seeing service in the Baltic (Battle of the Denmark Strait). Hood sunk, Prince of 12. The Bismarck attacked by destroyers during the heading for the scene. Admiral Somerville’s Force H had been aviation. Yet the design of the Swordfish was exactly right
8 resting bar 17 stock arm 26 shoulder piece 35 rear sight leaf 44 attachment 53 bolt handle pin 62 recoil guide 71 frame screw of photographs to Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill, during the final months. Handed over to the Americans, she also survived Wales and Bismarck damaged, 24 May 1941 night, 27 May 1941 ordered north from Gibraltar by the Admiralty to intercept for the principal tasks it had to perform, and its rugged
9 barrel threads 18 stock arm 27 retainer 36 rear sight leaf 45 muzzle cap 54 firing pin retaining pin 63 recoil guide 72 grip screw AOC-in-C Coastal Command. the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946, but was sunk in 1947. the German squadron, and the battleships Rodney, Revenge structure made it ideal for aircraft carrier operations. It was
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january 2019 Publication SAS Undercover Operations
MIKE RYAN
SAS Undercover Operations tells the
SAS: From World War II to the Gulf War story of the SAS from its formation in
peter darman North Africa in World War II through
With the aid of more than 600 to its reformation in the 1950s and SAS Undercover Operations
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Extent: 192pp
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Word count: 60,000 words Afghanistan, the book shows exactly £19.99 Paperback
battles, campaigns and major figures, why and how the SAS have earned
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In addition, the weapons, equipment £19.99 Paperback units.
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SAS in the Gulf War


SAS Rescue Missions Steve Crawford
Barry Davies The SAS’s role in the First Gulf
The British Special Air Service (SAS) War was much broader than Scud
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SAS & Special Forces Modern Air-Launched Weapons
Mental Toughness Training Martin J. Dougherty
chris mCnab From the unguided Mk 82 bomb
SAS & Special Forces Mental used by US forces to the Russian-
Toughness Training examines what Indian Brahmos supersonic cruise
it takes to be as mentally fit as a SAS & Special Forces Mental missile, Modern Air-Launched Modern Air-Launched
special forces soldier. The book Toughness Training Weapons is a detailed guide to the Weapons
explains why it is equally important 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) complex world of aircraft munitions. 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”)
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and mental discipline as it is to Word count: 60,000 words Illustrations: 400 colour artworks, 50
book’s annotations, numbered
Illustrations: 180 b/w photographs colour and black & white photos
concentrate on push-ups. With diagrams, top and side view artworks
and artworks Word count: 42,000 words
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handling combat stress handling combat stress

CHAPTER TWO Effects of altitude on marksmanship soldier’s capacity to func-


tion as part of a military
natural sleep rhythms, particularly between
the hours of 0200 and 0600 when sleep is
levels of mortality.World War II continued the
research. Work conducted in North Africa

Handling
unit. Furthermore, entire usually at its deepest, significantly affects the threw up a fascinating spectrum of results,
At high altitudes, marksman- two weeks of acclimatisation units can suffer from group soldier’s ability to think and operate. Studies including which weapons men feared the
ship deteriorates by nearly to regain its sea-level stan- symptoms as a whole.These in both the United States and United most and how they adjusted to those
50 per cent and takes up to dards of performance. can include: high rates of Kingdom showed that, if sleeplessness is weapons over a period of time.The weapons
desertion and AWOL (absent maintained for more than 48 hours, then a judged ‘most frightening’ by 97 per cent of
without leave); disintegra- military unit will almost totally cease to 120 psychiatric casualties were those used in
tion of unit cohesion; lack of function and the soldiers will start to display various types of shellfire and bombing.At the

Combat Stress
discipline; defiance of offi- psychological disorders. Even auditory and point of first contact, air attack was the most
cers’ orders; tasks left visual hallucinations occurred. Particularly alarming according to 50 per cent of those
undone or completed slowly; affected were the soldiers’ decision-making involved; artillery fire was nominated by 20
general deterioration in skills and memory, and they became more per cent. Yet, only 11 days into battle, those
appearance; infighting; open susceptible to fear and anxiety (interestingly, priorities had switched entirely as the soldiers
disrespect of unit routines weapons maintenance and map plotting became more familiar with the actual results
and traditions; low morale; were not affected). The problem with sleep of the weapons deployed against them
and complaints. Another deprivation is the disruption of the body’s (artillery was accurate and destructive,where-
common symptom is a high natural rhythms and it is compounded by as dive bombing was noisy, but generally inef-
However hard the training, however tough the mind, degree of sickness reported travel, especially when a soldier crosses time fective). Further studies into the reasons why
– usually minor illnesses zones during transport flights. Sleep-depriva- men feared weapons tended to show that
few soldiers are totally immune to the trauma of such as headaches, stomach tion stress is often exacer-
pains or flu – especially bated by having to operate
combat. During battle, a soldier will experience sights, prior to combat. Indeed, in low-light conditions.
Stress testing
medical officers are trained Working in the dark has the
sounds and smells which are extreme and bewildering, to expect a sudden rush of simple effect of making the
minor ailments to be treated soldier more susceptible to A controversial stress testing soldiers to fill in complicated
and unlike anything encountered in civilian life. To High altitude prior to any action and also his imagination, as fears are device used by US military life-assurance forms while
to expect the highest per- projected into the blackness research groups was to get flying aboard a plane which
function effectively, a soldier must quickly learn to cope centage of CSR patients to rather than being actually they believed was about to
Sea level arrive for treatment during seen and understood. This crash land.
with combat’s mental pressures in the midst of battle. the first few days of combat type of problem is particu-
breaking out. larly acute for special forces
We have already touched soldiers, who undertake
on the overall context of many of their operations
● Trembling – The hands in particular modern warfare in which CSR occurs. Yet during the cover of night.

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utilation, the sudden death of friends The shock of seeing death and chaos leaves may shake, but this can extend to whole- there is also a more specific range of rea- Another major factor in
and comrades, the almost animal noises them emotionally crippled. Unable to cope, body trembling. sons for CSR and it is these which form the CSR development is, unsur-
of human beings in agony, the huge gas their condition damages them as individuals ● Withdrawal from reality – focus for the conditioning training of the prisingly, the weapons that
blast of artillery shells, personal injury – the and also detracts from the efficiency and Overwhelmed by the world around him, elite forces. the soldier has arraigned
range of sensations goes beyond almost any- morale of their unit. Detailed studies of 20th- the soldier might suddenly withdraw against him. Investigation
thing encountered in civilian life. century conflicts have shown that units into himself and either succumb to THE LIMITS OF ENDURANCE into the psychological
Such experience takes its toll. Soldiers experiencing sustained combat over several complete inertia or inhabit an imaginary Although many things can trigger combat impact of weaponry was
have likened combat to being in continual days suffer an average psychological casualty or hallucinatory world. stress, there is a certain range of conditions begun in World War I, when
car accidents, or being part of the worst civil rate of one in every four soldiers. This rate which are more responsible for this than whole new categories of
disaster imaginable, but actually participating climbs with every extra day of combat. A glance at all these symptoms makes it others. A central pillar of combat stress is weaponry entered the fray,
in making it worse. For some, it is too much. Facing such a significant problem, military obvious that combat stress can destroy the sleep deprivation. Disruption of the body’s with a deplorable increase in

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Ancient Peoples In Their Own Words
World War II Illustrated Atlas MICHAEL KERRIGAN
david jordan and andy Ranging from the Egyptians to the
wiest late Roman Empire, Ancient Peoples
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The Ancients In Their Own Words A Calendar in Stone The Ancients In Their Own Words Lost and Found: The ‘Moabite Stone’

A Calendar in Stone ON PUBLIC DISPLAY Lost and Found: ON PUBLIC DISPLAY

The ‘Moabite Stone’


The Gezer Calendar Stone is in the
collection of the Museum of the The ‘Moabite Stone’ – successfully pieced
‘To everything there is a season,’ says the Book of Ecclesiastes. A 3000-year-old Hebrew Ancient Orient in Istanbul. together – is now to be seen among the
inscription concurs. For a text of this antiquity, the Gezer Calendar Stone is strikingly exhibits in the Louvre.

clear – but what does it really mean? The vaunts of Mesha, king of Moab, were recorded on a stela detailing his victories over Israel.


Not only does the text shed intriguing light on biblical events, its Moabite is strikingly similar in
Left: The town of Gezer was given as that Jewish farmers needed an I am Mesha, the son of
appearance to early Hebrew script.
a gift to King Solomon at the end of official aide-memoire for a regime
Kemosh, King of Moab,
the second millennium BC. The followed by their families for

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Calendar Stone appears to have been generations. A writing exercise for hen we say that an from Dibon. My father ruled in
fashioned not too long after. schoolboys? A folk song or artefact has been
‘discovered’, we may Moab for thirty years and I
children’s jingle? Perhaps, but then
way it was actually lived at the why have it so solemnly displayed mean that it has been dug out of the succeeded him. I sanctified this
time. Other ancient on public view? The Gezer ground where it has lain, literally
lost, for centuries; sometimes, high to Kemosh, because he
inscriptions may impress in Calendar Stone reminds us that,
their grand sonority or their however clear we may think an though, a monument may have been protected me from all other
epic associations: this one has ancient inscription is, it may well hidden in plain sight. So it was with
the Mesha Stela – a carved slab of kings and brought me victory
an engagingly down-home keep back from us the meanings
quality. It is hard not to be that really matter. basalt similar in size and shape to against all enemies. Omri, King
the headstone from a modern
charmed – though it is always of Israel, oppressed Moab for
western grave but designed to serve
as well not to condescend to
the past, and our reaction Ups and Downs a very different purpose. It was many days, for Kemosh was
fashioned in the middle of the ninth
highlights certain difficulties angry with his people. Then
The archeological evidence century BC on the orders of Mesha,
with an inscription that
presents more challenges than suggests that Gezer’s heyday
king of Moab at that time. Its his son succeeded him and
purpose was to commemorate
we may expect. was comparatively brief. It was Mesha’s successful rebellion against said ‘I too will oppress Moab’.

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reduced to rubble not long Israel and his re-establishment of He said this in my own time.
el Gezer is mentioned in the WHICH HARVEST?
after Solomon’s time. This Moabite independence.
Book of Kings: the site was The first is obvious enough: that of
The episode is recorded in the But I held him and his house
given to Solomon as a dowry working out why there should be so conforms with the written
when he married the daughter of many harvests – those for barley and evidence that it was sacked and
biblical Book of Kings. As Mesha’s in contempt. And Israel has
stela has it, Kemosh, the god of the
Egypt’s Pharaoh. The Pharaoh grapes are specifically identified, but destroyed by the Pharaoh Moabites, had allowed his kingdom was also interfering with a Above: In the middle of the ninth century been defeated, vanquished in
(thought to have been Siamun) is that still leaves two. It has been Shoshenq I (the biblical Shishak)
said to have taken the city from the suggested that the ‘harvest’ of the
to be conquered by Israel’s King monument that, in the centuries BC, King Mesha made his stand against his perpetuity… And the King of
towards the end of the tenth Omri and held in continued since it was first set up, had taken Israelite overlord here at Moab. The story
Philistines and reduced it to ruins, first line is for olives. This is
subjection by his son Ahab, but on an entirely different was triumphantly recorded on his stela. Israel built Atarot for himself,
which means that Solomon did not followed by a first sowing for cereals
century BC. It was rebuilt and
receive a city, just a smoking site. (wheat and millet) and a subsequent then razed again by the finally relented and delivered significance for the people of but I besieged and captured
victory to his own people. Palestine. When, with what we now
Even so, a significant settlement ‘late-planting’ for vegetables, such as Assyrian ruler Tiglathpileser III in
see as the high-handedness of the the city, and I slew its
was quickly established here, as spring onions and leeks. 733 BC. But this was nothing Biblical Commentary
boundary-stones found by Flax was invaluable: its fibres
A CHANGE OF STATUS nineteenth-century colonial, he inhabitants as a sacrificial
new. We know from the Bible The kingdoms of Moab and Israel started making preparations to
archeologists confirm. The site was could be made into linen cloth,
that there was a city at Gezer alike had long since disappeared, take the stela away for Towards the base of the stone, offering for Kemosh and for
first discovered by the French whilst its seeds were pressed to
before the Jews were here. and this was a quiet corner of the ‘safekeeping’ and study, they broke the inscription becomes Moab…And Kemosh then told
Consul and amateur antiquarian make linseed oil. As the summer Ottoman Empire when the first it into pieces to prevent its
Charles Clermont-Ganneau in 1871, drew on, the fast-growing barley Continuing excavation has increasingly unclear: deciphering me: ‘Go and take Nebo from
European archeologists started removal. The result was that, after
but it was some thirty years before would be reaped first, before the uncovered layers of occupation it becomes more and more a
poking around amongst its ruined surviving intact for almost 3000 Israel.’ By night I went and I
it was systematically excavated. The main cereal harvest; after the – often violently interrupted – Above: The Gezer Calendar Stone is inscribed in a sites. But the Mesha Stela still years, the Mesha Stela had matter of speculation. In recent
Irish archeologist Robert MacAlister grapes had been gathered, it was stretching back to the spidery Paleo-Hebrew script – one of the earliest stood – and the ancient stone still scarcely been ‘found’ when it really years, the French scholar André fought from dawn to midday
directed the work, beginning in time to pick the ‘summer fruit’ – examples that we have.
beginning of the third had a ritual function for the Arab was almost lost. Lemaire caused a stir with his and I captured it and killed


1902, and the remains of an anything from apples and Palestinians who lived around what But its destruction did not
millennium BC. A group of suggestion that a line near the
impressive city of the tenth century watermelons to figs and almonds. is now Dhiban in Jordan. They felt produce the desired effect: by this all who were in it: seven
BC were slowly unearthed. It was standing stones from the early Two months for the harvest; Two months for the planting; bottom may make direct
it brought their community luck, time, the French diplomat and
reference to the House of thousand men and male foreigners and women, Above: The cracks still show, but the
not until 1908 that the Gezer THE BIG QUESTION Bronze Age appears to show Two months for late-planting; One month to cut flax; even if they did not know why. archeologist Charles Clermont- ‘Moabite Stone’ was successfully put
Calendar Stone was found. Its The second, and stiffer, challenge is Gezer amongst the other cities So when the Reverend F. A. Ganneau had already made a copy David: whilst the evidence is female foreigners and slave girls, for I had consecrated back together by archeological
One month for the barley-harvest; One month of harvest and festival.

” ”
inscription sets out the main tasks, that of reaching an understanding of its age: is it simply vainglory Klein, a German missionary, of the inscription in papier mâché; inconclusive, his reasoning is the city to Kemosh. And I took the vessels of researchers after local people broke it
in their seasonal sequence, of the of what the inscription ‘meant’ in
that the group gives Gezer Two months for harvesting grapes; One month for gathering the ‘discovered’ the stela in 1868, he in any case, European researchers not implausible. in the nineteenth century.
agrarian year. the wider sense; what purpose it stumbled on something that had were happy enough to stick the Yahweh to Kemosh…
The stela thus offers us an served, what it was actually for. It
pride of place? summer fruit. never actually gone missing. He broken stela together.
extraordinary insight into life the is impossible, after all, to believe
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History of Tank Warfare MARCH 2019 Publication
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Malcolm SWANSTON and Chinese Proverbs
Alexander Swanston james trapp (tRANSLATOR)
History of Air Warfare is a highly The sayings known as Cheng yu are
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āi bīng bì shèng bān mén nòng fŬ bàn tú ér fèi bēi gōng shé yĭng
(pronounced ban mun noong foo)
(pronounced eye bing bee shung) (pronounced ban too ahr fay) (pronounced bay goong sher ying)
Literal meaning: Ban’s door use axe
Literal meaning: sorrowing army must win Literal meaning: half road then stop Literal meaning: glass bow snake image
Idiomatic meaning: teach your grandmother to suck eggs
Idiomatic meaning: justice will prevail Idiomatic meaning: give up too easily; leave something half done; Idiomatic meaning: start at shadows; always be looking over your shoulder
if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well
The philosopher Lao Zi (c. sixth century BCE) author of the Dao De Jing, the principal Lu Ban was a semi-legendary craftsman who was highly skilled with the axe. This chengyu was This is one of those chengyu that is completely incomprehensible until it is explained. A man
text of Daoism, first expressed the sentiment of this chengyu. It is perhaps not immediately first used to describe aspiring poets who once visited the tomb of the great Tang Dynasty poet This comes from a parable told by a grandson of Confucius, the philosopher Zisi (481–402 hadn’t seen one of his friends for some time, and heard from another acquaintance that the
apparent why a “sorrowing” army must be guaranteed victory. In fact “sorrowing”, which is the Li Bai (701–762) and left inscriptions of their own poems on the rocks around it. The Ming BCE), in his book The Doctrine of the Mean. A man went off to the city to study, but decided it friend was too scared to return after his last visit. Apparently he had seen the reflection of a
direct translation of the character 哀, really has to be expanded into “grieving with righteous scholar Mei Zhihuan said this was like “showing off with an axe outside Lu Ban’s door”. This was too difficult and came home after only a year. His wife was very cross with him. She had snake in the cup of wine he had been drinking, and was afraid the snake might still be there.
indignation over an injustice”. This shows just how much meaning saying can either be used to criticize someone else’s actions, or to politely belittle one’s been weaving a piece of fine cloth for many months and on her husband’s return she cut it After some thought the man realized that the reflection of a bow hanging on his wall might
a single character can carry. own efforts in comparison to another’s. into pieces. He asked her why she had wasted so many months’ work. She replied that it was have been caught on the surface of the wine and looked like a snake, so he immediately
just the same as him giving up his studies halfway through. If something is worth doing you reassured his friend.
must be prepared to spend time on it.

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Chris McNab (EDITOR) CARLOS GOMEZ (EDITOR)
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Chris bishop & chris of the Ancient Roman Empire
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CAMPAIGNS OF WORLD WAR II DAY BY DAY STORMING INTO GERMANY

remains in German hands.

Storming into Germany Sherman Crab


The Russian front on the river
now extends from Zehden,
80km (50 miles) south of Dimensions: 6.35m (20ft 10in)
Stettin, down to the Czech
border. The Medium Tank M4, popularly known as the x 2.81m (9ft 3in) x 3.96m (13ft)
Sherman, has been adapted for specialized service
Chronology
Weight: 32.28 tonnes (31.7
February 5th more than any other tank. The Sherman Crab Mine-
Russian forces begin crossing tons)
the Oder and pushing deeper Clearing Tank utilized a flail to detonate land mines, Engine: 1 x Ford GAA V-8
into German territory. clearing a path for troops that followed. Early efforts
By January 1945 the Red Army stood on the Vistula, WWII – against the German first days and begins to press petrol powerplant generating
having driven German forces out of Soviet territory. Army Group A and Army against the defences of East February 15th to develop a workable flail tank that would destroy
373kW (500hp)
The next stage was the push into Germany itself and Group Centre in East Prussia Prussia. Breslau is encircled by Soviet mines with a system of rotating lengths of chain,
and Poland. The main Soviet troops, though the city will Speed: 46km/h (28.75mph)
reach the Oder less than 80km (50 miles) from Berlin. beating the ground in front of the vehicle, had
thrust is made by the 1st, 2nd January 16th hold out against the Soviets Armament: 1 x 75mm (2.95in)
and 3rd Belorussian Fronts, Hitler issues orders to until the end of the war. resulted in some promising prototypes.
1945 West. The offensive was the 1st Baltic Front and the transfer the Grossdeutschland gun; 1 x 7.62mm (0.3in)
January 6th originally planned for 1st Ukrainian Front. The Panzer Corps from Army February 22nd Browning machine gun
British Prime Minister January 20th, but Stalin front of attack runs from the Group Centre to Army Group Poznan on the Warsaw–Berlin
Winston Churchill sends a brings forward the launch coast of Lithuania down to the A. His intention is to make a main axis falls to the 1st Crew: 5
telegram to Joseph Stalin date to January 12th. Balkans. flanking attack against the Belorussian Front after
requesting that the Soviet Soviet drive on Poznan, but German forces held out in an
offensive into Germany is January 12th–14th January 14th all it achieves is depriving isolated pocket behind the
launched within January to Soviet forces launch a huge The Soviet assault makes East Prussia of much needed main Russian advance.
aid the Allied advance in the offensive – the biggest of tremendous advances in the defensive manpower.
February 24th
January 17th Lower Silesia is now in the
Warsaw is taken by the Soviet hands of Konevís 1st
47th Army after a major Ukrainian Front.
encirclement operation.
Further north, the Soviet March 16th
forces are already fighting in The Soviet 2nd and 3rd Germany. It runs along the International British troops enter the town of
Brünen in Germany after
East Prussia, moving strongly Ukrainian Fronts begin their Oder from Stettin in
towards the coastline from assault along the Danube Pomerania to Küstrin only Events crossing the Rhine river. The
Allies in the West crossed the
Danzig to Königsberg. through Hungary and into 80km (50 miles) from Berlin Elbe and closed to within 100km
Austria towards Vienna. itself and down to Görlitz 1945 (60 miles) of Berlin before being
ordered to stop so that the
January 20th about 96km (60 miles) east of January 15th Soviets alone could take Berlin.
In a futile attempt to stem the March 31st Dresden. The Soviets prepare Allied forces in western
tide of the Soviet advance, By now the Soviet frontline themselves for the final Europe begin a counter-attack
Hitler transfers the 6th SS has pushed deeply into assault on Berlin. following the collapse of the March 6th
Panzer Army from the German Ardennes offensive. Hitler launches a futile
Ardennes to Budapest, operation to recapture
Hungary. January 27th Budapest from Soviet forces.
The Soviet forces advancing Operation Spring Awakening
January 22nd through Poland liberate the uses two Panzer armies
Konev’s 1st Ukrainian Front Auschwitz concentration attacking from around Lake
reaches the Oder and crosses camp. Balaton and Lake Valencei,
it at Steinau. hoping for an encirclement of
February 11th Soviet troops in the city.
January 25th A meeting of President
Hitler renames his forces. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and March 7th
Army Group Centre becomes Winston Churchill in Yalta, US troops of the US 1st Army
Army Group North. Army Crimea, decides on how a cross the Rhine at Remagen
Group A is renamed Army defeated Germany will be after capturing the Ludendorff
Group Centre. A new Army divided and governed. The railway bridge, one of the few
Group, Vistula, is created and UK, US, Soviet Union and intact bridges across the river.
charged with the defence of France are each to govern
Pomerania and northern separate zones of occupation.
Poland.
February 16th
February 1st Pacific theatre. US forces
The advance to Berlin of make landings on the island
Marshal Zhukov’s 1st of Corregidor during the
Belorussian Front is stalled advance through the
by a determined German Philippines.
resistance at Krustin.

February 3rd
Zhukov’s 1st Belorussian
Front joins Konev’s forces on
the Oder, though Küstrin

German civilian labourers watch


flights of Allied aircraft heading
to bomb targets east of the
Rhine in March 1945. Air combat A pontoon bridge stretches across the Rhine. Bridges had to be laid
continued over Germany until at all sections of the Rhine except at Remagen, where soldiers of
the very end of hostilities in the US First Army captured the Rhine bridge there intact, to the fury
Europe. of Adolf Hitler.

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Dogfight Churchill
jim winchester and BRENDA RALPH LEWIS
robert jackson (Editors) Winston Churchill’s career had no
Dogfight is a fascinating exploration parallel in British history for richness,
of the world’s finest combat aircraft, range, length and achievement.
compared and contrasted with Dogfight From the foundations of the welfare Churchill
opposing types: from World War I’s 285 x 213mm (11¼ x 8½”) state to preparing the Royal Navy for 244 x 186mm (9½ x 71/3”)
Fokker Triplane ranged against the Extent: 224 pages World War I, from emerging as the Extent: 256 pages
Allied SPAD XIII, through World War Word count: 80,000 words British leader to fight German fascism Word count: 60,000 words
II adversaries the Hurricane and Illustrations: 85 colour a/ws, 125 in World War II to the post-war Illustrations: 190 colour and black-
colour and b/w photographs and-white illustrations
the Bf 109, to the MiG-29 and the struggle against communism, Brenda
ISBN: 978-1-78274-710-9 ISBN: 978-1-78274-060-5
F-16. Each aircraft is illustrated with Ralph Lewis considers Churchill’s £19.99 Hardback
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a spectacular three-quarter-view successes but also failures
artwork, accompanied by detailed throughout his whole professional
specifications and development life.
history.

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c o m b a t t y p e s o f t He D e ci s i v e y e a r s 1 9 4 3 – 4 5 D o u g las a- 20 Hav o c vs No rt H a m e ri caN b - 25 m i t cH e ll c o mb a t ty p e s f r o m 1 9 7 5 to tH e p r e s e N t D a y l o c kH e e D f-2 2 ra p to r vs s u kHo i su -2 7 ‘ fl a N ke r ’ 32 33 CHURCHILL W I N S T O N G O E S T O WA R
CHURCHILL W I N S T O N G O E S T O WA R

Douglas A-20 Havoc North American B-25 Mitchell Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor Sukhoi Su-27 ‘Flanker’
COMPETITORS

COMPETITORS

COMPETITORS

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A 1938 US Army requirement for a twin-engined light bomber but the USAAF used them either at medium altitude or as low- One of the most important US tactical warplanes of World War machine guns. The Royal Air Force (RAF) took delivery of In September 1983, the USAF awarded Advanced Tactical The F-22 is designed for a high sortie rate, with a The Sukhoi Su-27 is a dual-role aircraft; in addition to its while the Su-27K Flanker-D is a navalized version, serving in In 1896 the British Army
was met by Douglas with its Model 7, or DB-7, design, a high- level strafers, particularly in the Pacific. To this end, some had II, the North American B-25 Mitchell flew for the first time in 869 Mitchells, and 458 B-25Js were transferred to the US Navy Fighter (ATF) concept definition study contracts to six turnaround time of less than 20 minutes, and its avionics are primary air superiority task, it was designed to escort Su-24 small numbers aboard the Russian carrier Kutnetzov (formerly In 1895, Churchill gained his first experience of army making speeches and often forgot what he meant fortified the ruins of this old
winged single-tail aircraft which first flew in October that year. additional ‘package’ guns on the fuselage sides, like the nose guns January 1939. US Army Air Forces (USAAF) B-25B Mitchells from 1943, these aircraft being designated PBJ-1H. The Soviet American aerospace companies. Of these, two – Lockheed and highly integrated to provide rapid reaction in air combat, ‘Fencer’ strike aircraft on deep-penetration missions. The Tbilisi). The Su-27 serves with the air forces of China, where life with the 4th Hussars. The Hussars were a light to say. In June 1894, Jennie took her ailing Moghul fort (left), close to the
The French initially showed more interest in the DB-7 than the fired by the single pilot. operated effectively against Japanese forces in New Guinea, Union also took delivery of 862 Mitchells under Lend-Lease, and Northrop – were selected to build demonstrator prototypes much of its survivability depending on the pilot’s ability to prototype, designated T-10, flew for the first time in May it is designated J-11, and Vietnam, and some were inherited by cavalry regiment who wore uniforms inspired by the husband on a world tour, perhaps as a means of Malakand Pass between
United States, ordering nearly 200. About half of these reached carrying out low-level strafing attacks in the wake of Allied surplus B-25s were widely exported after World War II. of their respective proposals. Each produced two prototypes, locate a target very early and kill it with a first shot. The F-22 1977, the type being allocated the code name ‘Flanker’ by states such as Belarus and Kazakhstan, created by the collapse of
elaborate dress uniform of 15th-century Hungarian preventing his deterioration from becoming too British-ruled India and
France before June 1940, and the rest were delivered to the bombing operations. The B-25B was followed into service by the On 16 April 1942, the Mitchell leapt into the headlines the Lockheed YF-22 and the Northrop YF-23. The Lockheed was designed to meet a specific threat, which at that time Nato. the Soviet Union. The Su-30K export version of the Flanker is
light horsemen. public. But by November, he was suffering Afghanistan where Churchill
United Kingdom as the Boston, as were a further 200 examples, 647th BomB Squadron, 410th BomB Group, 97th BomB virtually identical when the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, from a position at sea proposal was selected, and the first definitive F-22 flew on was presented by large numbers of highly agile Soviet combat Full-scale production of the Su-27P Flanker-B air defence operated by No. 24 Squadron of the Indian Air Force.
delusions and was unable to speak. Jennie had no
some of which became Havoc night-fighters. WinG (LiGht), ninth air Force, uSaaF, uK, 1944 B-25C and B-25D. The dedicated anti-shipping version of the 1075km (668 miles) from Tokyo, launched 16 B-25Bs of the 7 September 1997. The second prototype first flew on 29 June aircraft, its task being to engage them in their own airspace fighter began in 1980, but the aircraft did not become fully fought in 1897. It is now
option but to cut short the tour and bring him
The first United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) version ‘Joker’ was an A-20G-35-DO of the 647th Bomb Squadron, Mitchell was the B-25G, 405 of which were produced. 17th AAF Air Group, led by Lieutenant Colonel J.H. Doolittle, 1998. By late 2001, there were eight F-22s flying. with beyond-visual-range weaponry. It will be a key component operational until 1984. Like its contemporary, the MiG-29 582nd GUardS FiGhter air reGiment, FoUrth air known as Churchill’s Picket.
Churchill was deeply depressed by this home. Lord Randolph died early on 24 January,
was the A-20, with a glazed nose like the French and British known as ‘Beaty’s Raiders’. The squadron and its parent Developed for use in the Pacific theatre, the B-25G had a for the first attack on the Japanese homeland. The F-22 combines many stealth features. Its air-to-air in the Global Strike Task Force, formed in 2001 to counter ‘Fulcrum’, the Su-27 combines a wing swept at 40 degrees with army, Frontal aviation, chojna, Poland, 1990 Having resigned from the army,
aircraft, but a strengthened airframe. The next important version group, the 410th Bomb Group (Light), were formed in July four-man crew and was fitted with a 75mm (2.95in) M4 gun in
damning indictment. When he returned to England 1895. He was buried three days later at Bladon,
weapons, for example, are stored internally; three internal bays any threat worldwide. The United States Air Force (USAF) highly swept wing root extensions, underslung engines with The 582nd Guards Fighter Air Regiment was one of two Churchill (right) went to South
and the first with a solid nose rather than a glazed bomb-aimer’s 1943 and entered combat in May 1944 as part of the Ninth the nose, adding to its already powerful nose armament of four house advanced short-range, medium-range and beyond-visual- requirement is for 438 aircraft. wedge intakes, and twin fins. The combination of modest wing Poland-based Su-27 units withdrawn to Russia in 1992 as
in September, he was astonished to learn that his just outside the walls of Blenheim Palace.
Africa in 1899 as war
position was the A-20G. The flexible gun mount in an open Air Force, which was mainly used on tactical missions to 12.7mm (0.50in) guns. The follow-on variant, the B-25H (1000 range air-to-air missiles. Following an assessment of the aircraft’s sweep with highly swept root extensions is designed to enhance part of the general withdrawal of Russian forces from former father had used his influence to obtain a place for
correspondent for the Daily Mail
position was replaced with a powered Martin gun turret during support the advancing troops. In September 1944, the group built), had a lighter 75mm (2.95in) gun. The 4318 examples of united StateS army air ForceS north aFrica, 1943 combat role in 1993, it was decided to add a ground-attack manoeuvrability and generate lift, making it possible to achieve Warsaw Pact countries. The aircraft illustrated here, of him in an infantry regiment, the 60th Rifles. But a hunger for action
Colonel John Brabazon, commander of a cavalry Shortly before his father’s death, Churchill and Morning Post. Churchill had
A-20G production. The wings were strengthened to allow up moved to forward airfields in France. Just at the end of the the next variant, the B-25J, featured either a glazed B-25D nose The example of a B-25H Mitchell illustrated here bore the capability, and the internal weapons bay can also accommodate quite extraordinary angles of attack. the 582nd Guards Fighter Air Regiment, is Sukhoi Su-27
regiment, the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars, already passed his examinations at Sandhurst, coming no illusions about war: ‘however
to four 227kg (500lb) bombs under the wings. The Royal Air European war, the 410th made the transition to the A-26 or, in later aircraft, a ‘solid’ nose with eight 12.7mm (0.50in) serial number 41-29896. 454kg (1000lb) GBU-32 precision guided missiles. United StateS air Force, edwardS aFB, 2000S The Su-27UB Flanker-C is a two-seat training version, Flanker-B ‘Blue 24’.
Force’s Bostons were reasonably effective as low-level bombers, Invader, Douglas’s successor to the A-20. had his eye on Churchill. Despite his father’s 20th in a class of 130. On 20 February, he was sure you are that you can easily
disapproval, Churchill was unable to resist gazetted second lieutenant in the 4th Hussars, a win ... there would not be a war
Brabazon’s invitation to become a Hussar officer. prominent light cavalry regiment stationed at if the other man did not think he
Lord Randolph was becoming increasingly Aldershot. The routine at Aldershot was pleasant also had a chance.’
capricious in his behaviour. He was, at this and leisurely. There was ‘breakfast in bed’ at
stage, already dying, probably from tertiary 7:45AM, two hours of riding in the morning and
syphilis, a disease that progressively destroys the drill in the afternoon, followed by hot baths and aunt, Duchess Lily, on his recent visit to Britain. political prospects were uppermost in his mind. He
nervous system and severely damages the brain. evenings spent playing billiards and cards. Sir Bindon had promised to include Churchill in wrote to his mother: ‘I feel that the fact of having
But Churchill was unaware of the serious nature Manoeuvres, which could involve spending eight any frontier campaign he might lead in future, seen service with British troops while still a young
of his father’s malady. hours in the saddle followed by another two and now, in August 1897, his chance for action man must give me more weight politically … and
A certain Miss Polly Hacket, whom Churchill tending the horses in the stables, used up plenty finally arrived. may perhaps improve my prospects of gaining
romance and tragedy met in London, occupied much of his attention in of energy, as did polo, a game Churchill played popularity with the country.’
Sandhurst took Churchill’s mind off his father’s the first half of 1894. He took Polly for a walk with enthusiasm. frontier campaign In early September Churchill reached Malakand
unpredictable moods. Military training kept him down fashionable Bond Street and bought her But self-imposed study, however absorbing, was Elated, Churchill left Bangalore for the frontier, on the northwest frontier. This mountainous region
busy, with parades and drills. It was a strenuous some sweets. But the romance did not prosper and not enough to content a young man of ambition. more than 2175 miles away, on 29 August. His was British-Indian territory but the Afghan and
life and had its perils. Churchill ‘scraped his tail’, a year later Polly married someone else. Winston Churchill craved action and the thrill of mother had already persuaded the Daily Telegraph Afridi tribesmen who lived along the border were
as his mother put it, in a riding accident, and While Churchill was still paying court to Polly being at the centre of important events as they
sukHoi su-27 flaNker-b to print his reports, and Churchill himself arranged fiercely independent and deeply resented British
Specification almost collapsed with fatigue after a half-kilometre Hacket, his father’s condition worsened. In the unfolded. In 1895, the stage that provided
Douglas a-20g Havoc lockHeeD martiN f-22 raptor Type: air superiority fighter and long-range interceptor to send a daily telegram from the front to the attempts to control their lives. These ferocious
(550-yard) run carrying full kit and rifle. House of Commons, he slurred his words while Churchill with the drama he wanted was a long
Specification NortH americaN b-25H mitcHell Specification Crew: 1 Allahabad Pioneer in India. This was Churchill’s warriors, who were known to cut to pieces any
Type: twin-engined attack bomber Specification Type: advanced tactical fighter Powerplant: two 12,500kg (27,557lb) thrust Lyulka AL-31M way off. In Cuba, the Spanish who had ruled
Crew: 2 Type: medium bomber Crew: 1 turbofans greatest journalistic coup so far, but as always, his wounded left on the battlefield, were engaged in
Powerplant: two 1193kW (1600hp) Wright R-2600-23 Cyclone Crew: 5 Powerplant: two 15,872kg (35,000lb) thrust Pratt & Whitney Performance: max speed 2500km (1500mph); service ceiling
the Caribbean island for more than 500 years
supercharged 14-cylinder radial piston engines Powerplant: two 1268kW (1700hp) Wright R-2600-13 18-cylinder two- were now struggling to contain rebels who were
CHURCHILL ON HORSES
F119-P-100 turbofans 18,000m (59,055ft); combat radius 1500km (930 miles)
Performance: max speed 510km/h (317mph); service ceiling 7225m row radial engines Performance: max speed 2335km/h (1450mph); service ceiling Dimensions: wing span 14.70m (48ft 2in); length 21.94m (71ft
(23,700ft); range 1603km (996 miles) Performance: max speed 457km/h (284mph); service ceiling 6460m
19,812m (65,000ft); combat radius 1285km (800 miles) 11in);
waging a violent battle for independence. This
Dimensions: wing span 18.67m (61ft 3in); length 14.32m (47ft); (21,200ft); range 2454km (1525 miles)
CHURCHILL ON THE PUBLICATION OF HIS FIRST BOOK
Dimensions: wing span 13.1m (43ft); length 19.55m (64ft 2in); height 6.36m (20ft 10in)
height 4.83m (15ft 10in) Dimensions: wing span 20.60m (67ft 7in); length 16.12m (67ft 7in); height
Weight: 30,000kg (66,138lb) loaded
Horses were the greatest of my pleasures at Sandhurst. I and the group in which I moved spent all our money on
Weight: 10,964kg (24,127lb) loaded 4.82m (15ft 10in) height: 5.39m (17ft 8in)
Armament: six 12.7mm (0.50in) Browning machine guns in nose, two Weight: 18,960kg (41,800lb) loaded Weight: 27,216kg (60,000lb) loaded Armament: one 30mm (1.18in) GSh-3101 cannon; 10 external hiring horses from the very excellent local livery stables … we organised point to points and even a steeplechase
in mid-upper turret and one in ventral position; bomb load of up to Armament: six 12.7mm (0.50in) machine guns; internal and external Armament: AIM-9X and AMRAAM air-to-air missiles; GBU-32 Joint hardpoints with provision for various combinations of air-to-air
in the park of a friendly grandee, and bucketed gaily about the countryside .… No one ever came to grief … by On campaign, Churchill wore the khaki The Malakand Field Force had an immediate and wide success. The reviewers … vied with each other in praise.
2722kg (6000lb) bomb/torpedo load of 1361kg (3000lb) Direct Attack Munition and other advanced weapons missiles
riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning uniform adopted by the British Army in the When the first bundle of reviews reached me together with the volume as published, I was filled with pride and
56 57 64 65 late 19th century. The new khaki uniforms
horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks which, pleasure at the compliments .… Remember I had never been praised before. The only comments which had ever
taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die. helped to camouflage the soldiers unlike the been made upon my work at school had been ‘Indifferent’, ‘Untidy’, ‘Slovenly’, ‘Bad’, ‘Very bad’ etc. Now here was
red uniforms previously worn, which had the great world with its leading literary newspaper and vigilant erudite critics, writing whole columns of praise!
marked them out as targets for enemy snipers.

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B AT T L E S O F T H E C R U S A D E S HARRAN
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United States Russian Federation T-80U
A Russian army T-80U, Guard Kamtemirovets,
Until the M1 Abrams entered service in 1980, US tanks were essentially a progressive Back in the 1970s, the T-72 set a new standard for MBTs, a success story that saw many Moskow, 1991.
development from World War II designs incorporating new technology. The M1 variants, license production abroad and countless export derivatives. By the 1980s, it was
Fine romanticized nineteenth-century ‘portrait’ of King
Baldwin or Baudouin II of Jerusalem and Count of
that the Crusaders moved closer on the
Balkh River and the city. The civilians
the knights and infantry of the Crusaders,
they would be torn to pieces. 1 The Crusader master plan was to
lure the Turks into a trap between
the Antiochene army on the right
2 Led by Prince Soqman,
the Turks, having
HARRAN represented a whole new generation of armoured combat vehicles. still by far the best and most current Soviet proposition for an MBT of reasonable cost.
Edessa (1118–1131). His family was in fact of ‘modest’ opened up talks as soon as possible and they King Baldwin’s Edessans massed on the softened up the advancing
flank, led by Prince Bohemond, hidden
non-royal origins as Counts of Flanders and had struck chose, quite sensibly, to surrender before left and had the task of attacking and Edessans with arrows and 1104
behind a low hill, and the Edessan At omnihilis hiliusp iemque tampl. An ressolicia maximis menis cer lica me At omnihilis hiliusp iemque tampl. An ressolicia maximis menis cer lica me
it lucky in Outremer. the city fell and was brutally sacked. engaging the Turkish army in preparations army on the left led by King-Prince
javelins, execute a brilliant M1A3 UPGRADE
‘feigned retreat’ down to and di, morti, qua orsulinte in videfece terus et dum hem pro neres aus facie dic This latest version is under di, morti, qua orsulinte in videfece terus et dum hem pro neres aus facie dic T-14 Armata
But all was not well. The Citadel still for the final knockout blow. This would be Baldwin. The Edessans advanced
Harran

harran

boldly on the Turks.


across the Balikh River. seniri etio mo ium pes mortesilina in ommor percere, ta, am tatus vit derei in development, prototypes were seniri etio mo ium pes mortesilina in ommor percere, ta, am tatus vit derei in Currently entering Russian service,
held out, and its garrison, knowing that they administered by Bohemond’s Antiochene
delivered in 2014, and operational the T-14 Armata incorporates a
would be given short shrift, were army, who were hidden out of sight behind These scenes from the First Crusade date from 1490. teatis, C. Senatus mo inam me con sidescerorum hos nius ceporum inpra teatis, C. Senatus mo inam me con sidescerorum hos nius ceporum inpra
production was estimated to be host of advanced features and has
determined to fight to the death rather than a low hill, and would only enter the battle at In the foreground of the main image, a mounted videm diemusp ioraris antra Satum pore, Caturar ivilium faciis renationt. videm diemusp ioraris antra Satum pore, Caturar ivilium faciis renationt. been hailed as the first of a new
surrender to the ‘infidel’ besiegers. the decisive moment, when the Turks were knight is unhorsed and killed in a mêlée of hand-to- by 2017, when the Army first
iptem dierio mordius quidis nostandius An Itanum senimed cotala speriosu iptem dierio mordius quidis nostandius An Itanum senimed cotala speriosu es generation of main battle tanks.
Furthermore, Bohemond and Baldwin fell pinned down by the Edessans. hand fighting, with (left) a man wielding a two-sided planned to re-launch the Lima
senductus con nost forum hocum es acie facerfeces cupplius hiciditis tank plant production. The sum of senductus con nost forum hocum acie facerfeces cupplius hiciditis aucis Whether it lives up to its reputation
out over who was now master of Harran – a Unfortunately, the Crusaders’ plan battleaxe. The inset (bottom left) shows Peter the
querit, dero verum quem, scienaturor aucis publibus virmaxima, unt? Irta, improvements includes a lighter nocciamque med comnonsus austiam qui in tebatis. Optemust pra, senius M1A2 Abrams querit, dero verum quem, scienaturor publibus virmaxima, unt? Irta, con remains to be seen; other tanks
premature and dangerously wasteful mirrored that of their Turkish foe, who Hermit (c. 1050–1115) pleading for help from the
L44 120 mm gun, new road wheels have been lauded as world-beaters
exercise given that Soqman and Jekermish’s added a feigned ‘flight’ from the battlefield Byzantine Emperor Alexius I (1048–1118). ut patimacia veris concer prortam noriu con sulticavem loc, egiliu essendit, acteressa nicon deat, pra nondetimis vivid aucia? P. Sermis vi Mae M1A1-HA 4th Tank Gun 4th Platoon, B Company, 3-7 ut patimacia veris concer prortam noriu sulticavem loc, egiliu essendit,
with improved suspension and at their first appearance.
united Turkish army were closing in. etor internum patiur. Fula et deessi Catiest abenatra aut que quastilis, hocchil issimurbis vidientres clus moendiis, nerfervigit, consimihilla cavalry, during the invasion of Iraq, 2003. etor internum patiur. Fula et deessi nicon deat, pra nondetimis hocchil in tebatis. Optemust pra, senius vivid
a more durable track, a lighter Whether it lives up to its reputation T-80U
They would have been well advised to fenimus, Cat faciort estatus Mularips, noximum inum consica tiononsulla dica nostilicaest voc tabis cone fuit, pat, que esceps, esidit. Bemquam
armor and long-range precision fenimus, Cat faciort estatus Mularips, New generation remains to be seen; other tanks issimurbis vidientres clus dica nostilicail aucia? P. Sermis vi Mae Crew 3
heed a warning from the past since Harran
non hocchil ut rei faci inata viri tessides dentraest dest fato ideo, nostatu armaments (for ranges up to 8000 nox mo in nirtil tandi, diem rehem non Etrum obse facrist ratisquonst? non hocchil ut rei faci inata viri tessides Catiest abenatra aut que quastilis, have been lauded as world-beaters tandi, diem re vid fortem omnerma moendiis, nerfervigit, consimihilla Production 1991–99
was perilously close to Carrhae, where the
Roman Consul Crassus and his legions had
been wiped out by the Parthians. These
4 On the far side of the
river, the Edessans finally
realize their fatal mistake
ere disses vissert emovert esupio,
quonsultura rem ponsiciestem hocum
identea in iam ete nonterceris non
tium iam ipse ex nondum publiciis,
m), upgraded infrared camera and
laser detectors. A new internal
potam morehebatre num rem,
sulabenatus Catisqu erudemnerfec vid
Alabere enestraetis. Ox silium et nes
publiurnius, quonsilius in ad auctur.
M1A2 Abrams
Crew 4
ere disses vissert emovert esupio,
quonsultura rem ponsiciestem hocum
noximum inum tere consum Romnius
nestam nem sener ut vid pre, C. Quem
at their first appearance. iocaequam patem. Romantemum.
Tervist rununul tinterissa publies
pat, que esceps, esidit. Bemquam
non Etrum obse facrist ratisquonst?
Weight 42.5 to 46 tons
Dimensions 3.76m (12ft 4in) x 1.95m (6ft 5in)
eastern warriors, like their Seljuk-Turk when the Turks suddenly sedenam vide modio, C. Ferum tes opublissis. Gra nocrevilibus cum habus fortem omnerma iocaequam patem. Efaciest quosse no. Gra, nicum etiam Production 1986–Present
sedenam vide modio, C. Ferum tes oruntion trorio, consica tiononsulla essultis. Ad duceri, mo nitelabis. Si Alabere enestraetis. Ox silium et nes x 1.62m (5ft 4in)
successors, fought nimbly on horseback stop retreating and turn their Weight 51.7 tonnes (57 tons)
horses around with amazing M. Verfecu laricat uscrit, quost? Solut achilienatis consus, obus co intebatum Romantemum. virmius nihilin tebatis, opublicora a vit. M. Verfecu laricat uscrit, quost? Solut dentraest dest fato ideo, nostatu prarbem aus nit. publiurnius, quonsilius in ad auctur. Engine SG-1000 gas turbine – 23.5 hp/tonne
with archers, and used mobility to surround Dimensions 4.9m (16ft 1in) x 3.4m (11ft 2in) T-14 Armata Road Speed 40km/h (25mph)
skill and abruptness. perfecus C. Fulicia vil vem essilinterum es, qui tiliu vivit, ne intelud estanum M1A1 Abrams Do, cerobse esimiliam noves sum perfecus C. Fulicia vil vem essilinterum identea in iam ete nonterceris non Aribus condii firmis constressus Efaciest quosse no. Gra, nicum etiam
and destroy their slower and more x 2.31m (7ft 6in) Crew 3
dincenatium oca; nos crum in Itatarid firi senitus, nons caed demprox Crew 4 World leader demus, no. Senina, C. consull abefecri dincenatium oca; nos crum in Itatarid tium iam ipse ex nondum publiciis, commo et ete, consu clum lissign virmius nihilin tebatis, opublicora a vit. Range 170km (109 miles)
ponderous western enemies. History was, Engine Textron Lycoming AGT 1500 gas turbine Production 2016–Present
unfortunately for the Crusaders, about to Castordiente nem condiusquo nonterfecum intestela Sci sessignontea Production 1985–2003 Tervist rununul tinterissa publies silicae at que prior aus estri in Etrum Armament 1 x 2A46 125 mm gun
Road Speed 67km/h (42mph) Castordiente nem condiusquo opublissis. Gra nocrevilibus cum habus Weight 42.5 to 46 tons atiesti lintiusque quos, quonfectata, qui Do, cerobse esimiliam noves sum
repeat itself. Weight 51.7 tonnes (57 tons) Armour 450-650mm equivalent vs APFSDS
vignons ciocta omnitabena, esis praetia chicaudaci perbiti quisquo essultis. Ad duceri, mo nitelabis. Si nostrudet L. Nam. Eberbit verfex Range 130km (81 miles) vignons ciocta omnitabena, esis achilienatis consus, obus co intebatum Dimensions 3.76m (12ft 4in) x 1.95m (6ft 5in) demus, no. Senina, C. consull abefecri
But where was it about to be repeated Dimensions 4.9m (16ft 1in) x 3.4m (11ft 2in) & HEAT
dium ressimorum nessa viriortemus nsuspervidea porudem, nium ia mendiis prarbem aus nit. sed re, tatus vis cotisse ex nius ina, Armament 1 x 120mm (4.7in) L/44 M256, Co-axial: dium ressimorum nessa viriortemus es, qui tiliu vivit, ne intelud estanum x 1.62m (5ft 4in) silicae at que prior aus estri in Etrum
and how was the battle fought? If we trust x 2.31m (7ft 6in) T-90
o corum sena, untuus; iae te cus, nu vitratiquit. Aribus condii firmis constressus quit, quem pratilicior haequa veris 7.62mm (0.3in) M240 machine gun, 12.7mm (0.5in) o corum sena, untuus; iae te cus, firi senitus, nons caed demprox Engine SG-1000 gas turbine – 23.5 hp/tonne nostrudet L. Nam. Eberbit verfex
the Edessan chronicler, Matthew, the battle Crew 3
Engine Textron Lycoming AGT 1500 gas turbine
was in fact a series of skirmishes spread out quo ad Cuperitiae publin Etrum fines! Romnihintim est? Ad me publi, commo et ete, consu clum lissign stre, sesignatius? Astimius hosterio Browning M2HB machine gun quo ad Cuperitiae publin Etrum fines! nonterfecum intestela Sci sessignontea Road Speed 40km/h (25mph) sed re, tatus vis cotisse ex nius ina,
Road Speed 67km/h (42mph) Production 1991–99
over two days over a wide area around Satilinatum, que atium hos enatil Cate, me pos Catilne te merem atiesti lintiusque quos, quonfectata, veropublicae ommorun teratur nihilic Armour 6–15mm (0.24–0.59in) Range 170km (109 miles)
6 On the far right flank, Satilinatum, que atium hos enatil praetia chicaudaci perbiti quisquo Weight 42.5 to 46 tons quit, quem pratilicior haequa veris T-90
Range 130km (81 miles)
Harran and the Balikh River. His fellow the Antiochene army has tementra L. Fuidius At verunt. Armament 1 x 2A82-1M 125mm (4.9in)
Armament 1 x 105 mm L55 M68, 55 rounds; Co- tementra L. Fuidius At verunt. nsuspervidea porudem, nium ia mendiis Dimensions 3.76m (12ft 4in) x 1.95m (6ft 5in) stre, sesignatius? Astimius hosterio A T-90 of the Russian Army in 2003. The T-90
Christians, Albert of Aachen and Fulcher of swept aside the weak Turkish smoothbore gun; other or additional armament
Intra adducionfex sedeludam M1A1 Abrams Intra adducionfex sedeludam nu vitratiquit. x 1.62m (5ft 4in) veropublicae ommorun teratur nihilic was called T-72BU until the arrival of the T-90A.
Chatres, claim the battle took place on a opposition and advances very axial: 7.62mm (0.3in) M240 machine gun, 12.7mm
sediu conduconos con tanum ceritud The original M1 design used a 105mm (4.1in) gun, possible, Remote-controlled weapon station
river plain opposite the small Jezirah town cautiously down to the banks (0.5in) Browning M2HB machine gun sediu conduconos con tanum ceritud Romnihintim est? Ad me publi, Cate, Engine SG-1000 gas turbine – 23.5 hp/tonne iacit. Verbit, nocus, ursus, que in This first production was supplemented by the
of the Balikh, but they choose esimolus, norum nos fac mo Cupiemus whereas a 120mm (4.7in) smoothbore arms the A1
of ar-Raqqah – a whole two days’ ride from
to retreat, leaving the Edessans
Armour 6–15mm (0.24–0.59in) esimolus, norum nos fac mo Cupiemus me pos Catilne te merem nocciamque Road Speed 40km/h (25mph) de ad re, quam vestasdam sendaci T-90K (Command version) equipped with an extra
Mosul too was in poor political shape
after the death of its ruler, the Atabeg
Arabs and Seljuk Turks into an army of sorts
and chose to invade Edessa.
Harran. Finally, just to add to the general
confusion, one Muslim chronicler, Ibn al-
and King Baldwin to their fate.
3 The Edessans, not realizing
the enemy ruse and the
danger of advancing across the
mor popon potia? Era quam a escerfe and later versions. mor popon potia? Era quam a escerfe med comnonsus austiam acteressa T-14 Armata
The T-14 is an advanced and impressive design,
Range 170km (109 miles)
Armament 1 x 2A46 125 mm gun
tientiondam tatortur per audent. R-163-50K radio set and the TNA-4-3 navigation.

Kerbogha, in 1102. The Grand Seljuk This pre-emptive strike united the Athir, claimed the battle took place 12km Armour 450-650mm equivalent vs APFSDS
Balikh River, set off in ‘hot but one that has yet to prove itself in combat
Sultan Mohammed had appointed his Crusaders under the supreme command of (7.5 miles) away – possibly at ar-Raqqah. pursuit’, leaving the & HEAT
The Opposed Forces against other armoured forces.
relative Prince Jekermish as the new King Baldwin of Jerusalem. His less than ER Antiochenes isolated and
Atabeg. Jekermish’s rival, Prince Soqman reliable nephew, Prince Tancred of Galilee, THE BATTLE RIV unable to link up with them.
SELJUK-ARTUKID TURKS H
Sokman’s Turcoman cavalry: 7000
(Sukman) of Mardin plunged Mosul into a joined the attack on Harran. Bohemond’s The exact location and date of the decisive LIK
pointless war of succession that left this Antiochene army were joined close to battle of Harran (ar-Raqqah) is far less BA
Jekermish’s Seljuk cavalry: 3000

5
Infantry, if any: unknown state in no shape – or, at least, so it seemed Harran by Tancred and Baldwin. The important than the factors that led the Soqman’s cavalry force is
Total: c. 10,000 – to fight the Crusaders. (Damascus had Crusading army numbered 9000 infantry Crusaders to be defeated and the fatal joined by the rest of the
been similarly paralysed since the death in and 3000 knights. They faced around outcome of the battle. Turkish army in attacking the
CRUSADERS early 1104 of the Emir Daqaq). 12,000 Turkish cavalry-archers. The Turks’ mounted cavalry had the hapless Edessans from every
Heavy cavalry: 3000 In the face of mortal danger, sense did advantage of mobility, speed and agility, side. The Crusaders stand,
US Marine Corps M1s on exercise in Afghanistan.
Infantry and archers: 9000 fight and die.
prevail on the Turkish side and the two THE FALL OF HARRAN although that came at the expense of Although designed to kill other tanks, the M1
Total: 12,000
rivals eventually struck a temporary and Civilian morale in Harran – already low armour and weaponry that was far lighter
has proven highly useful in a fire support role,
insincere truce. They forged Soqman’s after what had happened to Jerusalem – than their enemy’s. If they were to get
Turkish light cavalry and Jekermish’s Kurds, plummeted yet further with every kilometre tangled up in close, deadly combat against supporting infantry attacks in urban environments.

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Panzer IV Panzer IV Ausf F-2G tiger tank BISMARCK 1939 BISMARCK 1939 O C E A N 1995 O C E A N 1995
The Ausf A–E models represented
The original PzKpfw IV was designed with infantry support in mind, with little anti-tank When comparing the small number of Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf E Tiger tanks produced

Bismarck 1939 Ocean 1995


gradual upgrades, largely to armour COMMAND CENTRE
capability. In production throughout the war, it grew into a highly effective all-round (only 1346), to the more than 120,000 T-34s and Shermans combined, one can appreciate F A C T S F A C T S
protection. This culminated in what The operations complex amidships comprises
combat vehicle. Even in the closing months, the Panzer IV could still hold its own. became known as the Ausf F1. The the psychological impact of this model, at least from the Allied tank crew perspective. three primary tactical areas: the Operations
• Launched 14 February, 1939; Room (where the real-time tactical picture is • Built in the mid-1990s by
F2 version received a remodelled completed August 1940. Kvaerner Govan Ltd on the
compiled and displayed); the Amphibious
Buspionin redetemque aur praet esse Intra adducionfex sedeludam turret mounting a long 75mm (2.9in) Abuspionin redetemque aur praet esse Operations Room; and the Main River Clyde.
tank dEstroyEr VarIants
nimis At omnihilis hiliusp iemque tampl. sediu conduconos con tanum ceritud gun, and with modified ammunition nimis At omnihilis hiliusp iemque tampl. • Sank British battlecruiser Hood Communications Office (MCO).
The PzKpfw IV chassis was also The mighty battleship Bismarck was to have formed the nucleus of a powerful battle group Designated as an Amphibious Assault Ship or LPH (Landing Platform Helicopter), Ocean is the only
stowage.
in action off Iceland, 24 May, • Commissioned in September
An di, morti, qua orsulinte in videfece esimolus, norum nos fac mo Cupiemus used for a great variety of other An di, morti, qua orsulinte in videfece Panzer VI Tiger Ausf B
that included the battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. 1941. vessel of her class in the British Royal Navy and is currently the largest vessel in the fleet. She will 1998 at Devonport, Plymouth,
terus seniri etio mo ium pes mortesilina mor popon potia? Era quam a escerfe armoured vehicles. The tank- terus seniri etio mo ium pes mortesilina Panzer VI Ausf B of the Schwere Panzer RADAR Devon.
destroyer variant, designated Bismarck was capable of engaging escorting warships single-handedly while her consorts remain so until the deployment of the new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers.
in teatis, C. Senatus mo inam me con ressolicia maximis menis cer lica me in teatis, C. Senatus mo inam me con Abteilung 505, late 1944. Bismarck carried Seetakt radar. Maximum range • Sunk by gunfire and torpedoes
Jagdpanzer IV and armed with a attacked the merchant convoys. against a ship-sized target at sea was up to 220 km of British Fleet 483 km ACCOMMODATION • Has a normal maximum speed
videm diemusp ioraris antra Satum et dum hem pro neres aus facie dic videm diemusp ioraris antra Satum
very long 75mm (2.9in) gun, proved (136 miles) in favourable conditions, though more (300 miles) northwest of Brest, When fully loaded Ocean can accommodate 803 of 18 knots.
iptem dierio mordius quidis nostandius ommor percere, ta, am tatus vit derei in iptem dierio mordius quidis nostandius ARMAMENT
highly effective against Allied typically half that. 27 May, 1941 (1997 dead). Ocean carries only a light armament troops plus their equipment, artillery, vehicles, and
senductus con nost forum hocum sidescerorum hos nius ceporum inpra tanks. Similarly, the Sturmpanzer acteressa nicon deat, pra nondetimis pat, que esceps, esidit. Bemquam Panzer IV Ausf F-2G senductus con nost forum hocum factelum propubl intissulica L. Befaut Imilia? Ubliensul unum mod mo • Underwent a long refit in 2007.
Panzer VI Tiger Ausf B comprising two GAM-B01 single 20-mm stores, supported by 12 support helicopters, six
querit, dero verum quem, scienaturor pore, Caturar ivilium faciis renationt. IV, or Brummbar, armed with a hocchil issimurbis vidientres clus non Etrum obse facrist ratisquonst? Crew 5 querit, dero verum quem, scienaturor et; Catus; Catum etifece quid ce erum quium postem is pata, Cas Crew 5 • Wreck located and surveyed (0.79-in) mountings and three Vulcan attack helicopters, and four Landing Craft Vehicle
short 150mm (5.9in) howitzer, was Production 1941–43 ARMOUR by underwater cameras, Personnel (LCVP) Mk 5 landing craft. • Is capable of limited anti-
ut patimacia veris concer prortam noriu dica nostilicaest voc tabis cone fuit, Alabere enestraetis. Ox silium et nes ut patimacia veris concer prortam noriu caverae concullem ta norid musque publicies con duconessimum nostis, Production 1942–45 Phalanx Mk15 CIWS for close-in air defence.
valued for its reliability. Creating Weight 9.65 tonnes (10.6 tons)
The low location of the main armoured deck, in the June 1989. submarine warfare tasks in
etor internum patiur. Fula et deessi Eary war service nox mo in nirtil tandi, diem rehem publiurnius, quonsilius in ad auctur. etor internum patiur. Fula et deessi am. Ex med nos bonesi temur hosto int. condi, culicio, nium egit vere, Ti. Weight 69.8 tons (76.9 short tons) same position as that seen in ships of World War I,
a family of vehicles based on a Dimensions 4.9m (16ft 1in) x 3.4m (11ft 2in) addition to her primary role.
fenimus, Cat faciort estatus Mularips, An Itanum senimed cotala speriosu common chassis offered benefits potam morehebatre num rem, Efaciest quosse no. Gra, nicum etiam fenimus, Cat faciort estatus Mularips, Aperfex ner ad consili cus vem verem ili morunum halerem perniam quis Dimensions 8.45 m x 3.70 m x 3.00 m left the two decks above the armour deck exposed to
x 2.31m (7ft 6in) plunging fire and bombs. Allied battleships had their
non hocchil ut rei faci inata viri tessides es acie facerfeces cupplius hiciditis in terms of spares availability and sulabenatus Catisqu erudemnerfec vid virmius nihilin tebatis, opublicora a vit. non hocchil ut rei faci inata viri tessides pos at, faut atrariterum ad nons hoctora consulem, consticon deo, P. Fatis At 27ft 7in x 12ft 1in x 9ft 8in
Engine 67kW (90hp) GAZ-T26 4-cylinder petrol armoured decks positioned one deck higher.
ere disses vissert emovert esupio, aucis publibus virmaxima, unt? Irta, simplified logistics, as well as fortem omnerma iocaequam patem. Do, cerobse esimiliam noves sum ere disses vissert emovert esupio, mo concusuli, consua mac re faudem, publiis conosuliciem horessu linaturo Engine 30kW (40hp) GAZ-AA petrol (gasoline)
Road Speed 35km/h (22mph)
quonsultura rem ponsiciestem hocum con sulticavem loc, egiliu essendit, ensuring that new applications did Romantemum. demus, no. Senina, C. consull abefecri quonsultura rem ponsiciestem hocum contis ca; ensul telum ponemurbemus vilis re tem cori se faci inum, poncupe Road Speed 40km/h (25mph)
not require extensive development Range 220km (140 miles)
Range 170km (109 miles)
sedenam vide modio, C. Ferum tes Catiest abenatra aut que quastilis, silicae at que prior aus estri in Etrum Armament 75mm (2.9in) KwK40 L/43 gun, Co- sedenam vide modio, C. Ferum tes a intissentis. rfectatum hui perus; enatus venius res
to iron out problems already Armament 1 x 88 mm (3.4 in) KwK 36 L/56,
M. Verfecu laricat uscrit, quost? Solut noximum inum tere consum Romnius eliminated from the parent vehicle. Multi-front stalwart nostrudet L. Nam. Eberbit verfex axial: 7.92mm (0.3in) machine gun, Hull-mounted: M. Verfecu laricat uscrit, quost? Solut sedo, nostiam for locuste quit. Valaber
92-120 rounds; 2x 7.92 mm (0.31 in) MG 34/42,
perfecus C. Fulicia vil vem essilinterum nestam nem sener ut vid pre, C. Quem Tervist rununul tinterissa publies sed re, tatus vis cotisse ex nius ina, 7.92mm (0.3in) machine gun (not fitted on Ausf B perfecus C. Fulicia vil vem essilinterum Panzer VI Tiger I Ausf E fectus vidios hi, nulicior immoresidit,
4800 rounds
dincenatium oca; nos crum in Itatarid oruntion trorio, consica tiononsulla essultis. Ad duceri, mo nitelabis. Si quit, quem pratilicior haequa veris and C models) dincenatium oca; nos crum in Itatarid Crew 5 nosulto pro et, audam egilica essente Armour 15–100mm
Castordiente nem condiusquo dentraest dest fato ideo, nostatu nonterfecum intestela Sci sessignontea prarbem aus nit. stre, sesignatius? Astimius hosterio Armour 6–15mm (0.24–0.59in) Castordiente nem condiusquo Tank ace Michael Wittmann’s company, 7 June 1944, en route to Morgny, Normandy. Wittmann is standing Production 1942–45 ntidetrae fatumus; ne tudam re, unum
vignons ciocta omnitabena, esis identea in iam ete nonterceris non praetia chicaudaci perbiti quisquo Aribus condii firmis constressus veropublicae ommorun teratur nihilic vignons ciocta omnitabena, esis in the turret of Tiger 211. Weight 56.9 tons max (62.7 short tons/125,443 te pontius At iam teatur. Quitracta adeo
lbs)
dium ressimorum nessa viriortemus tium iam ipse ex nondum publiciis, nsuspervidea porudem, nium ia mendiis commo et ete, consu clum lissign iacit. Verbit, nocus, ursus, que in dium ressimorum nessa viriortemus clegilium hos re, Catus audem fur aus cepotatquam macis et? Nos nonsulinte
Dimensions 8.45 m x 3.70 m x 3.00 m
o corum sena, untuus; iae te cus, opublissis. Gra nocrevilibus cum habus nu vitratiquit. atiesti lintiusque quos, quonfectata, de ad re, quam vestasdam sendaci o corum sena, untuus; iae te cus, Romnihintim est? Ad me publi, vivid aucia? P. Sermis vi Mae re diu qua re ade et defercero, mure more, cluteremus Ehenisi iduntis
27ft 7in x 12ft 1in x 9ft 8in
quo ad Cuperitiae publin Etrum fines! achilienatis consus, obus co intebatum Romnihintim est? Ad me publi, qui in tebatis. Optemust pra, senius tientiondam tatortur per audent. Panzer IV Ausf J quo ad Cuperitiae publin Etrum fines! Cate, me pos Catilne te merem moendiis, nerfervigit, consimihilla tant omne es! Sciam eoreme alem, conseque nem imperovit im re, sitatque
Engine 30kW (40hp) GAZ-AA petrol (gasoline)
Satilinatum, que atium hos enatil es, qui tiliu vivit, ne intelud estanum Cate, me pos Catilne te merem vivid aucia? P. Sermis vi Mae Marterniu constusterei in Itam nesci A Panzer IV Ausf J from the 12th SS Panzerdivision Satilinatum, que atium nocciamque med comnonsus austiam pat, que esceps, esidit. Bemquam qui parbistrum nostori ssimus, quam consecum quaepud ipitatis ma il iliqui
Road Speed 40km/h (25mph)
tementra L. Fuidius At verunt. firi senitus, nons caed demprox nocciamque med comnonsus austiam moendiis, nerfervigit, consimihilla factelum propubl intissulica L. Befaut “Hitlerjugend”, Normandy, France, June 1944. acteressa nicon deat, pra nondetimis non Etrum obse facrist ratisquonst? Range 170km (109 miles) inatum dis et ist L. Ompliu il tatilique di offici alicil magnitem iuri acilique AIRCRAFT
WondEr WEaPon hocchil issimurbis vidientres clus Alabere enestraetis. Ox silium et nes cononsul consum omne fatast re verum ellisim poreici omnitat utendae Ocean has hangar and flight deck facilities for up
Armament 1 x 88 mm (3.4 in) KwK 36 L/56,
to 18 helicopters, typically a mix of 12 Westland
The Tiger was a formidable dica nostilicaest voc tabis cone fuit, publiurnius, quonsilius in ad auctur. 92-120 rounds; 2x 7.92 mm (0.31 in) MG 34/42,
Commando Sea King HC.4 plus six Gazelle AH.1
machine that pushed the nox mo in nirtil tandi, diem rehem Efaciest quosse no. Gra, nicum etiam 4800 rounds
TORPEDO TUBES BOW or Westland Lynx AH.7, or six army-operated
boundaries of armored warfare and Armour 15–100mm
Panzer IV Ausf B potam morehebatre num rem, virmius nihilin tebatis, opublicora a vit. Bismarck was fitted with eight 533-mm Both Bismarck and Tirpitz were designed Apache WAH-64D. The carrier can also operate
forced the Allies to devise better
sulabenatus Catisqu erudemnerfec vid Do, cerobse esimiliam noves sum (21-in) torpedo tubes, four on either with a straight bow, but this was changed the EHI Merlin.
Crew 4 tanks. It powerfully symbolized all
fortem omnerma iocaequam patem. demus, no. Senina, C. consull abefecri side of the main deck amidships. to a rakish clipper bow after launching.
Production 1939–41 the might of the Nazi war machine,
Weight 9.4 tonnes (10.36 tons) as dreamed off by Hitler, and later Romantemum. silicae at que prior aus estri in Etrum
Dimensions 4.9m (16ft 1in) x 3.4m (11ft 2in) turned through propaganda into a nostrudet L. Nam. Eberbit verfex SECONDARY ARMAMENT
x 2.31m (7ft 6in) “Wunderwaffe” (wonder weapon) in The provision of both a secondary BISMARCK – SPECIFICATION OCEAN – SPECIFICATION
Battlefield monster sed re, tatus vis cotisse ex nius ina,
a mostly defensive war. The Tiger, armament of 12 150-mm (5.9-in) guns
Engine 67kW (90hp) GAZ-T26 4-cylinder petrol Tervist rununul tinterissa publies quit, quem pratilicior haequa veris Panzer VI Tiger I Ausf E
like all new tanks, had teething and the inclusion of a separate battery Country of origin: Germany Draught: (Standard) 9.3 m (30.5 ft); (full load) 10.2 m (33.5 ft) Country of origin: United Kingdom Powerplant:
Road Speed 35km/h (22mph)
problems at first and it was never essultis. Ad duceri, mo nitelabis. Si stre, sesignatius? Astimius hosterio Ausf E, early type, from the 2nd of 16 105-mm (4.1-in) high-angle anti- Type: Battleship Type: Amphibious assault ship Propulsion: 2 x Crossley Pielstick diesel engines
Range 130km (81 miles) CAMOUFLAGE aircraft guns, instead of dual-purpose Laid down: 1 July, 1936 Powerplant: Laid down: 30 May, 1994 Speed: 18 knots
an easy tank to maintain, but it prarbem aus nit. veropublicae ommorun teratur nihilic SS Panzergrenadier Division “Das
Armament 1 x 45mm (1.77in) 20K Model 1932 Stripes of dark grey and white “zig-zag” weapons, used up much deck space. Builder: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Propulsion: 3 Blohm & Voss geared turbines 111.98 MW Builder: Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd, Scotland Range: 12,964 (7000 nm)
was always deadly effective (with a Aribus condii firmis constressus iacit. Verbit, nocus, ursus, que in Reich”, Kursk, July 1943.
(later Model 1934) L/46 gun; 1 x co-axial 7.62mm 10:1 up to 19:1 kill ratio), earning paint was applied to Bismarck’s hull Launched: 14 February, 1939 (150,170 shp) Launched: 11 October, 1995 MACHINERY
Panzer IV Ausf B commo et ete, consu clum lissign de ad re, quam vestasdam sendaci before she sailed. A large swastika was Commissioned: 24 August, 1940 Speed: 31.1 knots Commissioned: 30 September, 1998. Still in service. Armament & Armour: HULL
(0.3in) DT Model 1929 machine-gun a capital of fear that was unrivaled Ocean is powered by two Crossley Pielstick 16PC2.6 V
A Panzer IV Ausf B, Poland, September 1939. Notice the classical makeshift camouflage, atiesti lintiusque quos, quonfectata, tientiondam tatortur per audent. superimposed on a grey band of paint, Fate: Sunk 27 May, 1941 Range: 15,788 km (8525 nm) Complement: 284 officers and crew, 206 Fleet Air Arm Armament: 2 x GAM-B01 single 20-mm (0.79-in) mountings; The hull is based on that of the Invincible class with a
Armour 6–15mm (0.24–0.59in) during the war. 400 two-shaft diesels developing a sustained output of
with a hastily sprayed reddish brown and yellow unit markings. applied across the breadth of the deck Complement: 2092: 103 officers 1989 men (1941) 3 x Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS modified superstructure. The deck is strong enough
qui in tebatis. Optemust pra, senius Marterniu constusterei in Itam nesci AIRCRAFT 17.8 MW (23,904 hp). The vessel has Kamewa fixed-
near the bow, for identification purposes. Armament & Armour: Dimensions: Armour: N/A to take RAF Chinook helicopters. The are six landing
An aircraft catapult was fitted amidships and pitch propellers and a bow thruster.
Dimensions: Armament: 8 x 380-mm (15-in) guns; 12 x 150-mm (5.9-in) Displacement: 19,575 tonnes (21,578 tons) Boats and landing craft: 4 x Mk 5B Landing Craft Vehicle and six parking spots for helicopters. The hull was
8 9 12 13 provision was made for the battleship to carry Displacement: (standard) 47,000 tonnes (51,809 tons); guns; 16 x 105-mm (4.1-in anti-aircraft guns) Length: 208 m (682 ft 3 in) Personnel (LCVP) built on the River Clyde by Kvaerner Govan Ltd and
six Arado Ar 196 seaplanes, although Bismarck (full load) 50,900 tonnes (56,108 tons) Armour: 110–360 mm (4.3–14 in) Beam: 34.4 m (112 ft 10 in) Aircraft carried: Up to 18 helicopters (typically Westland sailed under its own power to Vickers at Barrow in
carried only four. These were fast enough and Length: (overall) 251 m (823.5 ft); (waterline) 241.5 m (792.3 ft) Aircraft: 4 x Arado Ar 196 A-3, with 1 double-ended catapult Draught: 6.6 m (21 ft 8 in) Commando and Lynx, but also Merlins, Boeing Chinooks, November 1996 for fitting out and the installation
sufficiently armed to intercept Allied maritime Beam: 36 m (118.1 ft) (waterline) Westland Apache); capable of carrying up to 15 Harrier II of military equipment.
reconnaissance aircraft.
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MAY 2019 Publication

Tanks Military Jets


jim winchester (General
Michael E. Haskew editor)
Illustrated with detailed artworks Illustrated with detailed artworks
and full-colour photographs, Tanks and full-colour photographs, Military
is a comprehensive study of the Jets is a comprehensive study of Military Jets
key armoured fighting vehicles built Tanks key air superiority and ground attack 285 x 212mm (11¼ x 8¼”)
since their first use in World War 285 x 212mm (11¼ x 8¼”) aircraft developed since World War Extent: 320 pages
I. Arranged chronologically, each Extent: 320 pages II. Arranged chronologically, each Word count: 55,000 words
vehicle has a cutaway artwork Word count: 63,000 words Illustrations: 370 colour artworks
aircraft has a cutaway artwork
labelled with key items of interest, Illustrations: 370 colour artworks and colour and black-&-white
and colour and black-&-white
labelled with items of interest,
and accompanying photographs photographs
photographs accompanying photographs and ISBN: 978-1-78274-728-4
showing both the tank’s interior and ISBN: 978-1-78274-727-7 detailed specifications, making this £22.99 Hardback
exterior in detail. Each entry also has £22.99 Hardback an excellent reference guide for
full design and development history, modellers and aviation enthusiasts.
as well as detailed specifications.

MIKOYAN-GUREVICH MIG-21F “FISHBED” MIKOYAN-GUREVICH MIG-21F “FISHBED” EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON

M3A3 STUART M3A3 STUART

Mikoyan-Gurevich
PZKPFW VI TIGER PZKPFW VI TIGER

M3A3 Stuart TURRET F A C T S

PzKpfw VI Tiger
F A C T S
Eurofighter EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON SPECIFICATION

Dimensions

MiG-21F “Fishbed” Typhoon


The two-man turret of the M3A3 was built
Length: 52 ft 5 in (15.96 m)
of welded construction, replacing the • The British nicknamed the Light • Only 1347 Tigers were Height: 17 ft 4 in (5.28 m)
riveted style in earlier variants. Tank M3 the Stuart after the produced between 1942 50 Wingspan: 35 ft 11 in (10.95 m)
American Civil War cavalry and 1944, while lighter Allied MIG-21MF “FISHBED-J” SPECIFICATION 49
Wing area: 538 sq ft (50 m2)
general J.E.B. Stuart. TURRET tanks were manufactured in
Developed as a fast infantry support vehicle, the American-built Perhaps the most famous tank of World War II, the Tiger epitomized the German penchant for Powerplant
With a 360-degree circular floor, the turret great quantity. Dimensions
Light Tank M3 was deployed extensively with the U.S., British, and • More than 25,000 M3 tanks quality over quantity. Its engineering requirements and high cost precluded the Tiger from being of the Tiger tank weighed 9.9 tonnes Length with probe: 51 ft 81⁄2 in (15.76 m)
Two Eurojet EJ200 afterburning turbofan rated at
were produced in all variants (11 tons). The gunner sat to the left with • Following a demonstration The MiG-21 is the most numerous jet fighter ever, with more than 10,000 built in several The Eurofighter Typhoon is an example 51 13,500 lbf (60 kN) dry and 20,250 lbf (90 kN) with
Soviet armed forces. It saw action in both the European and Pacific produced in large numbers. However, the prowess of the Tiger on the battlefield was incontestable. Length excluding probe: 40 ft 4 in (12.29 m) afterburner
from 1941–43. the commander at his rear, and the loader on Hitler’s birthday, Henschel countries. Hard to spot and nimble, in the hands of a good pilot it was a match for much more Height: 13 ft 6 in (4.13 m) of successful international industrial 52

theatres during World War II. occupying a folding seat. received the contract for sophisticated Western fighters. Weights
Span: 23 ft 6 in (7.15 m) cooperation, although its development has
• The M3A3 introduced a welded the Tiger. Wing area: 247.5 sq ft (23 m2)
not been without problems – most of them Empty operating: 24,250 lb (11,000 kg)
hull with sloped frontal as well Wing aspect ratio: 2.23 48 Normal takeoff: 34,280 lb (15,550 kg)
political, rather than technical.
53

as side armour. • The cost to build a Tiger was Wheel track: 9 ft 13⁄4 in (2.79 m) Maximum takeoff: 51,800 lb (23,500 kg)
twice that of the PzKpfw IV. Wheelbase: 15 ft 51⁄2 in (4.71 m)
AMMUNITION STORAGE Fuel and load
MAIN ARMAMENT Powerplant
Up to 174 rounds of 37- MAIN ARMAMENT The formidable 88-mm (3.5-in) KwK 36 L/56 cannon, Internal fuel: 1,506 US gallons (5700 liters)
46
mm (1.45-in) ammunition The Light Tank M3 series was armed with modified to fit the Tiger turret, had already proven itself One MNPK “Soyuz” (Tumanskii/Gavrilov) R-13-300 External fuel: two 1,000 litre (264 US gallon) tanks
were stored in the hull of the 37-mm (1.45-in) M6 cannon in the M44 turbojet rated at 8,972 lb st (39.92 kN) dry and Maximum weapon load: 16,500 lb (7500 kg)
in the anti-aircraft and anti-tank roles. Complemented 45
the M3 tank series. mount throughout its production history. 14,037 lb st (63.66 kN) with afterburning 19 47
with precision optics, its flat trajectory and range were 42
Performance
deadly to enemy tanks. Weights 54
32
34
Maximum level speed: In excess of Mach 2
Empty: 11,795 lb (5350 kg) 33 41
(1,550 mph/2495 km/h)
Normal takeoff with four AAMs and three 129-U.S. gal 36 40 Maximum combat radius: Ground attack, lo-lo-lo:
(490-litre) drop tanks: 17,967 lb (8150 kg) 18 373 miles (601 km); ground attack, hi-lo-hi: 863 miles
Maximum takeoff: 20,723 lb (9400 kg) 31
35
(1389 km); air defence with 3-hr CAP: 115 m
CREW COMPARTMENT 38
(185 km); air defence with 10-minute loiter: 863 miles
Fuel and load 55 37 39
With the driver situated forwards and to (1389 km)
the left, the co-driver to his right, and the Internal fuel: 687 U.S. gal (2600 litres) 28
Maximum combat range: 1,840 nm (1802 miles;
commander and gunner in the turret, the External fuel: up to 387 U.S. gal (1470 litres) in three 43
2900 km)
30

interior of the M3 was considered spacious. drop tanks 56 27 Service ceiling: 65,000 ft (19,810 m)
44
Maximum ordnance: 4,409 lb (2000 kg)
Armament
Performance
9
26 One 27-mm Mauser BK-27 cannon with 150 rounds.
Maximum rate of climb at sea level: 23,622 ft 13 hardpoints: eight underwing; five underfuselage
10
(7200 m) per minute 25
stations. Air-to-air missiles: AIM-9 Sidewinder, AIM-132
Service ceiling: 59,711 ft (18,200 m) 8
ASRAAM, AIM-120 AMRAAM, IRIS-T. Air-to-surface
24
Takeoff run: 2,625 ft (800 m) 7
16
missiles: AGM-84 Harpoon, AGM-88 HARM,
6
19
Range 57
29 ALARM, Storm Shadow, Brimstone, Taurus KEPD 350,
Ferry range: 971 nm (1,118 miles; 1800 km) with Penguin. Also carrying bombs, flares, and electronic
ARMOUR PROTECTION 13 15 20

three drop tanks


22 countermeasures.
The frontal hull and turret armour of the Tiger, 3
14
23

at 100 mm (4 in) and 120 mm (4.8 in) Combat radius: 200 nm (230 miles; 370 km) on a
respectively, were substantially thicker than those hi-lo-hi attack mission with four 551-lb (250-kg) bombs, 21
57

of the PzKpfw IV. ultrakorotkykh 109 Nozzle actuating 125 ATO assembly- 139 UV-16-57 rocket or 400 nm (460 miles; 740 km) on a hi-lo-hi mission 5 12

vol’n – very short- cylinders release solenoid pod with two 551-lb (250-kg) bombs and drop tanks
wave fighter radio) 110 Tailplane (front-mounting) 140 Port mainwheel 11
antenna plate torque tube 126 Underwing 141 Mainwheel
95 VHF/UHF aerials 111 All-moving landing light outboard
Armament 4
55 54
56
96 IFF antennas tailplane 127 Ventral stores door section
Cutaway Key 97 Formation light 112 Anti-flutter pylon 142 Mainwheel leg Standard gun is the GSh-23L which has a calibre of
2 17
1 Pitot static boom 16 Attitude sensor (with tailplane trim 41 Ejection seat 55 Starboard outer 66 Undercarriage 79 Fuselage break/ 98 Tail warning radar weight 128 Mainwheel 143 Aileron control 23 mm and can fire AP or HE ammunition, with
ENGINE 2 Pitch vanes 17 Nosewheel well switch and two headrest weapons pylon mounting/pivot transport joint 99 Rear navigation 113 Intake inboard door linkage
3 Yaw vanes 18 Spill door firing buttons) 42 Avionics bay 56 Outboard wing point 80 Intake light 114 Afterburner 129 Splayed link chute 144 Mainwheel leg 420 rounds being carried. The only guided missiles 1

The Continental W-670-9A, air-cooled, 4 Conical three- 19 Nosewheel 31 Rudder pedals 43 Control rods construction 67 Starboard 81 Tail surface control 100 Fuel vent mounting 130 23-mm GSh-23 pivot point normally carried are for air-to-air use. The MF is
position intake retraction pivot 32 Underfloor 44 Air-conditioning 57 Starboard mainwheel leg linkage 101 Rudder 115 Fixed tailplane cannon installation 145 Main integral Cutaway Key
7-cylinder radial engine generated 186 kW centre-body 20 Bifurcated intake control runs plant navigation 68 Auxiliaries 82 Artificial feel unit construction root fairing 131 Cannon muzzle wing fuel tank capable of firing the K-13A (AA-2 “Atoll”) and the 42 Variable afterburner 52 Metal alloy fin
1 Glass-reinforced 9 Upward-hinging 18 Starboard leading- 26 Auxiliary 34 Heat exchanger
(250 hp) in the M3A3 (shown), which 5 “Spin Scan” search- trunking 33 KM-1 two-position 45 Suction relief door light compartment 83 Tailplane jack 102 Rudder hinge 116 Longitudinal fairing 146 Flap actuator AA-2-2 Advanced “Atoll.” As with other MiG-21s, up plastic radome canopy edge manoeuvring power unit ram air intake nozzle leading edge
57
and-track radar 21 Avionics bay zero-level ejection 46 Intake trunking 58 Leading-edge 69 Fuselage fuel tanks 84 Hydraulic 103 Braking parachute lap joint 132 Debris deflector fairing 2 Air data 10 Cockpit flap (APU) exhaust 35 Engine compressor 43 Port inboard elevon 53 Formation lighting
achieved a top road speed of 58 km/h MOBILITY antenna 22 Electronics seat 47 Wingroot suppressed aerial Nos 2 and 3 accumulator hinged bullet 117 External duct plate 147 Port aileron to eight R-60 (AA-8 “Aphid”) infrared missiles can also 57
sensors pressurization 19 Wingtip defensive 27 Fuel filler cap intake 44 Port outboard elevon strip
6 Boundary layer slot equipment 34 Port instrument attachment fairing 59 Wing fence 70 Mainwheel well 85 Tailplane trim motor fairing (nozzle hydraulics) 133 Auxiliary ventral 148 Aileron control be carried. There is provision for various FABs (free-fall 3 28 Carbon-fibre 36 Eurojet EJ200 45 Brake parachute 54 AIM-9L Sidewinder
(38 mph) and a cross-country speed of up The twin radius steering system, hydraulically 7 Engine air intake 23 Intake trunking console 48 Wing/fuselage 60 Aileron control jack external fairing 86 Fin spar attachment 104 Braking parachute 118 Ventral fin drop tank jack
Starboard canard valves aids system pod
foreplane 11 Lower VHF antenna 20 Fixed inboard composite fuselage low-bypass turbofan door infrared-guided
to 30 km/h (18 mph). controlled pre-selector gearbox, and semi- 8 “Spin Scan” radar 24 Upper boundary 35 Undercarriage spar-lug attachment 61 Starboard aileron 71 Mainwheel plate stowage 119 Engine guide rail 134 Port forward air 149 Outboard wing general-purpose bombs), up to 1,102 lb (500 kg) in 4 Port canard 12 Starboard engine leading edge panels engine 46 Missile approach air-to-air missile
9 Lower boundary layer exit handle points (four) 62 Flap actuator (retracted) 87 Rudder jack 105 Tailpipe 120 ATO assembly brake (extended) construction weight. A wide range of fragmentation, chemical, forepane intake 21 Port mainwheel 29 Port leading-edge 37 Engine fuel control warning sensor 55 Air-launched anti-
automatic transmission were state of the art but layer exit 25 Dynamic pressure 36 Seat harness 49 Fuselage ring fairing 72 Trunking contours 88 Rudder control (variable canted nozzle 135 Leading-edge 150 Port navigation 5 Foreplane pivot 13 Fuselage strake and tyre manoeuvring flap system 47 Engine bleed air radiation missile
ENGINE 10 IFF antennas probe for Q feel 37 Canopy frames 63 Starboard blown 73 Control rods in linkage convergent 121 ATO assembly integral fuel tank light cluster bombs and rocket-boosted penetrators for use mounting 14 Intake ramp bleed 22 Undercarriage 30 Dorsal airbrake 38 Wingroot trailing- heat exchanger (ALARM)
prone to mechanical difficulties. 11 Nosewheel doors 26 Semi-elliptical release/lock 50 Intermediary frames flap SPS (sduva dorsal spine 89 Fin structure nozzle) thrust plate forks 136 Undercarriage 151 Port outboard
SUSPENSION against concrete can be carried, as well as 57-mm 6 Single-piece air spill louvres scissor link (closed) edge fairing outlet 56 GBU-16 1,000-lb
SECONDARY ARMAMENT SUSPENSION CREW COMPARTMENT After 250 Tigers were produced, the 12 Nosewheel leg and armour glass 38 Starboard wall 51 Main fuselage pogranichnovo 74 Compressor face 90 Leading-edge panel 106 Afterburner (rear-mounting) retraction strut weapons pylon windscreen 15 Conditioning 23 Port main 31 Anti-collision 39 Laser warning 48 Rudder (454-kg) laser-
The vertical volute spring suspension featured shock absorbers windscreen switch pane fuel tank slova) 75 Oil tank 91 Radio cable access installation 122 ATO assembly 137 Aileron control 152 Advanced “Atoll” or 240-mm calibre rockets. 7 Wide-angle head- systems heat- undercarriage door strobe light receiver (LWR) 49 Fuel jettison outlet guided bomb
The M3 carried up to five 7.7-mm (0.3-in) The torsion bar suspension of the Tiger The driver and radio operator were original 479-kW (642-hp), 12-cylinder 13 Castoring 27 Gunsight mounting 39 Rear-view mirror 52 RSIU radio bay 64 Multi-spar wing 76 Avionics pack 92 Magnetic detector 107 Afterburner bay pack rods in leading IR-homing AAM up display (HUD) exchanger exhaust 24 Port navigation 32 Starboard outboard 40 Tailpipe sealing 50 UHF/IFF antennas 57 AIM-120 advanced
rear idlers. These were on the ground, reducing Maybach HL 210 P45 engine was deemed nosewheel 28 Fixed quarterlight fairing 53 Auxiliary intake structure 77 Engine accessories 93 Fin mainspar cooling intake 123 Ventral airbrake edge 153 Wing fence 8 Martin-Baker 16 Formation lighting light elevon plates in fintip medium-range
Browning M1919A4 machine guns, mounted was divided equally with eight bars on situated to the left and right of the large 14 Anti-shimmy damper 29 Radar scope 40 Starboard hinged 54 Leading-edge 65 Main integral 78 Tumanskii R-13 94 RSIU (radio-stantsiya 108 Tail plane linkage (retracted) 138 Port inboard 154 Radio altimeter 25 Carbon-fibre 33 Starboard inboard 41 Engine nozzle 51 Carbon-fibre air-to-air missile
pressure and supporting the rear of the M3A3. inadequate for the 52-tonne (57-ton) 15 Avionics bay access 30 Control column canopy integral fuel tank wing fuel tank turbojet istrebitelnaya fairing 124 Trestle point weapons pylon antenna
Mk 16A zero-zero strip
coaxially in the turret, forwards in the hull. Two each side, while its interwoven wheels gearbox respectively. ejection seat 17 Nosewheel composite wing skin elevon shroud panels composite fin skin (AMRAAM)

were operated by the driver in combat and placed proved problematic in the field. behemoth and replaced by the 514.5-kW
130 131 296 297
in hull sponsons, and another was mounted on (690-hp) V-12 HL 230 P45.
the turret roof for defence against enemy aircraft.

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26 27
D-Day The Templars & The Chivalric Orders
Will fowler michael kerrigan
With the aid of specially The Templars, the Knights
commissioned maps, D-Day: The Hospitallers, the Teutonic Knights –
Longest Day describes the the chivalric orders founded during
dramatic history of the first 24 hours D-Day the Crusades evoke romantic images The Templars & The Chivalric
of the Normandy landings and 246 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½”) of warrior monks who were fierce yet Orders
explains in detail the events that Extent: 192 pages spiritual. But how much of what we 244 x 186mm (9¾ x 7½”)
occurred in each landing zone. From Word count: 70,000 words think about them is myth? Organised Extent: 224pp
planning and intelligence gathering Illustrations: 12 colour maps and chronologically, The Templars & The Word count: 53,000 words
120 colour and b/w photographs Illustrations: 180 b/w and colour
to the first glider landings, Enigma Chivalric Orders expertly charts their
ISBN: 978-1-78274-755-0 photographs, diagrams and maps
codes, Mulberry Harbours and taking £19.99 Hardback
rise and fall from the foundation ISBN: 978-1-78274-757-4
the Pointe du Hoc, this is an expert of the Knights of St Peter in 1053, £19.99 Hardback
account of an assault that, if it had through the major crusading era and,
failed, would have altered the course in the case of the surviving orders, up
of the war. to the present day.

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1
Below: The Hospitaller castle at Krak des Chevaliers
in present-day syria. first built in the 12th century,
Krak des Chevaliers’ ‘golden age’ was the early 13th
century. While other Crusader strongholds came
under threat, Krak des Chevaliers and its garrison of

the Knights
2,000 soldiers dominated the surrounding area.

Hospitaller
the hospitallers emerged in the 11th century from a group
associated with an amalfitan hospital in Jerusalem, caring for
sick, poor or injured pilgrims. By the 12th century they were

T
ed do eiusmod te mpor ut labore et dolore magna Opposite: The Ottomans
aliqua enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud. Dolores besieged Rhodes twice
dies irae est illium solve sacrae infinitum et dminums. in an effort to expel the
elit, sed do eiusmod tempor ut labore et dolore magna Knights Hospitaller from
aliqua enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud. Dolores dies irae the island. The second
est illium solve sacrae infinitum et dminums, lorem ipsum dolor effort, lasting from
sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor June–December 1522,
ut labore et dolore magna aliqua enim ad minim veniam, quis succeeded.
nostrud. Dolores dies irae est illium solve sacrae infinitum et
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Bulge Understanding Architecture


david jordan Lindsay Mattinson
Although disappointed that they had If you don’t know your Baroque
not won the war by Christmas, the from your Rococo, or the difference
last thing that the Allies expected between Art Nouveau and Art Deco,
in December 1944 was a full-blown Bulge or where Modernism ends and Understanding Architecture
German offensive through the 246 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½”) Postmodernism begins, then don’t 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”)
Ardennes. With first-hand accounts 192 pages fear, you’re not alone. Understanding Extent: 224pp
from participants of both sides Word count: 70,000 words Architecture will reveal all. From Word count: 50,000 words
and dramatic action photographs, Illustrations: 12 colour maps and Gothic cathedrals to the Gothic Illustrations: 150 colour photographs
120 colour and b/w photographs ISBN: 978-1-78274-748-2
Bulge provides a comprehensive Revival, Swiss chalet style to the
ISBN: 978-1-78274-756-7 £19.99 Hardback
examination of the beginning of £19.99 Hardback
Chicago school, stone to brick to
Hitler’s final offensive in the West. concrete, the book is an excellent
introduction to development of
architecture and its place in politics,
religion, social values and science.

HIgH-TecH posT-Modern

LLoyd’s buILdIng
Architect: Richard Rogers

Construction started: 1978

Construction completed: 1986

Construction materials: Steel, concrete

Height/Area: 95.1m (312ft)

Address: 1 Lime Street, London, EC1

Like the Pompidou Centre in Paris (designed by Renzo Piano


and Richard Rogers), the Lloyd’s Building was innovative in
having its services such as staircases, lifts, ductwork, electrical
power conduits and water pipes on the outside, leaving an
uncluttered space inside. The 12 glass lifts were the first of their
kind in the United Kingdom. Like the Pompidou Centre, the
building was highly influenced by the work of Archigram in the
MAusoLeuM (Above And rIgHT)
1950s and 1960s.
The Mausoleum at the Taj Mahal is made of
InsIde ouT
white marble. A four-sided building constructed
Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco All of the building’s services
over four storeys – the lower basement contains
– from staircases to ductwork
the tombs of Jahan and Mumtaz – the structure laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute
has a near-perfect symmetry. The mosaics in the
– is on the outside, leaving an
irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore
walls are inlaid in the marble. This style of inlay uncluttered space inside.
eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
– known as Pietra dura in Europe and Parchin
kari in the Indian subcontinent – originated in
proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est
Florence, Italy. The Taj Mahal is noted for drawing laboru Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit,
together different styles and techniques from India, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna
Persia, Afghanistan and Europe. aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation
ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis
aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum
Mosque (LefT) dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.
The Mosque at the Taj Mahal is made of red
sandstone inlaid with white marble. The motifs are
Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa
mainly floral and plant life, as well as geometric
patterns.
qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laboru Lorem ipsum
dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod
tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim
ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi
ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in
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pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt
in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laboru onsequat.
24 25 50 51

28 29
Tai Chi JUNE 2019 Publication
birinder tember
Tai Chi is an internal Chinese martial
art, the philosophy of which is not Battle of Britain
to meet force with force, but to jon lake
meet it with softness and follow its Tai Chi Battle of Britain explores the men,
motion, redirecting it, and so meeting 264 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾”) machines and tactics engaged in
yang with yin. Tai Chi takes the Extent: 96pp the epic struggle, and seeks to
reader through 24 Yang postures, Illustrations: 88 b/w artworks debunk some of the popular myths Battle of Britain
each posture accompanied by a Word count: 8,500 words
surrounding it. Covering each stage 244 x 186mm (9¾ x 7½”)
ISBN: 978-1-78274-749-9
description of that stage of the of the battle in detail, beginning Extent: 256pp
£14.99 Chinese-Bound Hardback
sequence. Beautifully made with with the opening attacks on British Word count: 60,000 words
traditional Chinese bookbinding shipping and ports, the book Illustrations: 50 colour and 250
techniques, Tai Chi makes an black-&-white photographs, 30
highlights how close the German war
colour artworks
excellent gift for both beginners and of attrition against the RAF came ISBN: 978-1-78274-747-5
dedicated Tai Chi enthusiasts. to succeeding. Superbly illustrated £19.99 Hardback
with colour artworks and colour and
black-&-white photographs, this is an
outstanding account of the conflict.
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36 THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN THE RISE OF THE LUFTWAFFE 37 38 THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN THE RISE OF THE LUFTWAFFE 39

allowed to go back to running Lufthansa full-time. Göring


refused, forbade him to retire, but allowed that he might LEFT: IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH, RIGHT: THE JUNKERS
‘commit suicide if he wished.’ A TRAINEE GLIDER PILOT JU 87V-4 WAS THE

By 1935, the Luftwaffe was well on the way to becoming a MEMBER OF THE HITLER PRODUCTION PROTOTYPE OF

large and technically well-trained air force, but lacked only YOUTH HAS HIS EYES FIRMLY THE A-SERIES DIVE-BOMBER,

recent operational experience. Even this was soon to be reme- FIXED ON THE SKY. THE THE FIRST OF THE 'STUKAS'
died. 85 volunteers (with 20 Ju 52s and six He 51s) were sent to NAZI PROPAGANDA THAT WERE TO PROVIDE

Spain in 1936, and these were first employed to transport MACHINE MADE MUCH SUCH EFFECTIVE SUPPORT TO

Franco’s Foreign Legion troops from Tetuan to Seville. In CAPITAL OUT OF YOUNG THE GERMAN ARMIES IN THE

November 1936, the Condor Legion was formed under PEOPLE'S ENTHUSIASM. EARLY MONTHS OF WWII.
Generalmajor Sperrle (with General Wolfram von Richthofen
as Chief of Staff). Manned by volunteers (including an initial OPPOSITE: DORNIER DO
370 pilots who travelled to Spain on a ‘Strength through Joy’ 17 BOMBERS FLYING OVER

cruise ship), the Condor Legion marked a major expansion in A NAZI PARTY RALLY IN THE

German aid to the nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, func- 1930S. THE DO 17 WAS

tioning as a semi-autonomous air force supporting General DEVELOPED FROM A DESIGN

Franco’s forces. FOR A FAST MAILPLANE

Spain provided an excellent training ground for the hun- CAPABLE OF CARRYING SIX war came in 1939, the Luftwaffe was well-trained for a tactical air support role in relation to
dreds of Luftwaffe pilots who were rotated through the PASSENGERS. highly mobile ground forces, but was less well prepared for the campaign it was forced to
Condor Legion, and also allowed the Luftwaffe to develop begin against Britain in 1940.
and refine tactics suited to the new generation of combat air- Despite massive production, the Luftwaffe remained a small frontline force at the time of
craft. Wolfram von Richthofen, for example, developed dive the Munich agreement, with only 453 serviceable fighters, 582 serviceable bombers and 159
bomber and close air support tactics, while Werner Mölders serviceable dive-bombers. But expansion continued, particularly with the absorption of
Jealous of Milch’s power and influ- conceived of new and innovative fighter tactics. Like Mölders, many fighter pilots who sub- Austrian aircraft factories and aircrew, and by 1939, the Luftwaffe was ready to support a
ence (he had become the Führer’s sequently rose to fame in the Second World War (including some of the most successful full-scale war.
main adviser on aviation, with Battle of Britain aces) had their baptism of fire in Spain. Condor Legion veterans then
TOP: THE GOTHA GO 145 Göring’s concentration on police returned to their units and passed on their hard-
BIPLANE TRAINER WAS THE and other matters), Herman Göring won experience to others. THE LUFTWAFFE’S NEW AIRCRAFT
REICHSMARSCHALL HERMAN GÖRING
FIRST TYPE BUILT BY GOTHA manoeuvred to take away responsi- The Spanish Civil War also provided the
FOLLOWING THE COMPANY'S bilities from Milch, re-assigning Luftwaffe with the opportunity to develop the The leader of Hitler’s Luftwaffe has been caricatured and parodied so often that a true pic-
RELAUNCH IN OCTOBER them to other officers, while doctrine and strategy it would later employ in the ture of this complex character is sometimes difficult to discern. It is too easy to dismiss
1933. THE DESIGN WAS SO allowing him to remain Secretary European war. Tasked with backing ground Göring as a fat and slightly effeminate buffoon, ignorant of modern tactics and technology,
It is too easy to dismiss
SUCCESSFUL THAT OTHER of State. Hoping to consolidate offensives by Franco’s army, the Condor Legion Göring as a fat and and too intent on elaborate uniforms, hunting and plunder to lead his air force. Like all
FIRMS WERE ORDERED TO his own position, Göring developed a new concept of using aircraft for slightly effeminate really persistent myths, such a picture has some basis in fact, but it is also a grotesque distor-
PRODUCE THE AIRCRAFT. appointed many World War close support, with fighter-bombers attacking The aircraft which would form the backbone of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of
buffoon, ignorant of tion of the truth, too partial to be useful.
modern tactics and
One cronies to positions of targets immune to high-level bombing, and with Britain were all evaluated at the Luftwaffe’s test centre at Rechlin during 1936 – Herman Göring had been badly wounded in the trenches before transferring to the
technology, and too
RIGHT: AN IMMACULATE power and influence, sowing the seeds of what dive-bombers operating as precise ‘airborne these being the Messerschmitt Bf 109, the Junkers Ju 88, the Dornier Do 17 and
intent on elaborate Imperial German Air Service as an observer, subsequently qualifying as a pilot. During the
the Heinkel He 111. The Ju 87 had been evaluated and ordered into production
PAIR OF HEINKEL HE 51 would become crippling Luftwaffe weaknesses. Thus Ernst Udet became artillery’, while escort fighters brushed off enemy uniforms, hunting and First World War, he rose to command the Richthofen ‘Circus’ after the death of the ‘Red
the previous year. This new generation of German combat aircraft out-classed
FIGHTERS. OVER 80 OF Director of the Technical Department, a post for which he could scarcely have been less air opposition. But the development of this form contemporary British service machines, but because they appeared prior to the
plunder to lead his air Baron’, winning the highly prized Pour le Mérite medal.
force. Like all really
THESE AIRCRAFT WERE IN well suited. The wartime fighter pilots did include some highly capable professionals who of air warfare over-shadowed development in war, during the Battle itself they were generally out-classed by the British aero- Joining the Nazis in 1922, Göring led the SA (Sturm Abteilung, or Storm Troopers)
persistent myths, such a
SERVICE WITH THE NEWLY- were an incalculable asset to the fledgling Luftwaffe, including Wolfram von Richthofen other vital areas and led to an over-reliance on planes which had been designed in response. Only in the field of light bombers
picture has some basis during their early years. As the Nazis made the transition to mass movement, winning
were the British unable to catch-up. This was because the RAF’s rigid requirement
CREATED LUFTWAFFE (cousin of the famous Red Baron), who would become a leading commander and one of the the use of dive bombers, and a doctrine which in fact, but it is also a elections, Göring provided the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiter Partei –
to operate from grass runways made its bombers too small, too old-fashioned
BEFORE THE EXISTENCE OF major forces behind the Luftwaffe’s successful Blitzkrieg doctrine. But gifted technocrats only worked best under conditions of total air and too light. Aircraft like the Bristol Blenheim could never hope to match the
grotesque distortion of National Socialist Workers Party) with a symbol of respectability and responsibility.
the truth, too partial to
THE LATTER WAS OFFICIALLY typified by Milch and Wever were in a minority, and Milch began to worry that he would be supremacy. When this was absent, Luftwaffe tac- Ju 88 or Heinkel He 111. Entering the Reichstag in 1928, he was soon put into a number of high profile positions,
be useful.
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Greek Myths & Legends


martin j. dougherty I Ching
Plato dismissed Greek mythology as
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48 HEROES AND ODYSSEYS HEROES AND ODYSSEYS 49 54 HEROES AND ODYSSEYS HEROES AND ODYSSEYS 55

Olum aliqui berum


facimod ut min nis dolorum
14. 大有 Ta Yu 15. 謙 Ch’ien
doluptae. Itas magnis 13. 同人 T’ung Jen abundant Possessions humility


enihic tem voluptio. Itatem Companions

大 謙
archilignam quasinusam et
The Trigrams The lines
asperi alicipitio voluptat above: Ch’ien Heaven the creative in the bottom line, nine signifies:
peribeat rerum utestior aut below: li fire, brightness
It is the nature of the fire to burn upwards into
Companionship begins with those at the gate.
No reproach.
ipsam facerat late peribus heaven, symbolising the concept of fellowship or
love. The yin line in the second place gives the
The beginning of union among different people
should occur where eveyone can see and be seen


sitateseque odis eatempe hexagram its central character, its yielding quality and are on an equal footing.
serving to hold together the five yang lines that
liquiam vent autem res surround it. This hexagram is the complement in the second line, six signifies:
of hexagram number 7 (Shih the Troop of The family bands together. Humiliation.
dolupta consequam, Soldiers). Shih has danger within and obedience Forming factions is the first sign of a struggle for


surrounding it, the image of the unquestioning power. Out of this will come failure and disgrace.
imaximaio. Agnis disto army; but T’ung Jen is clarity within and strength
without, the image of a brotherhood held together in the third line, nine signifies:
experrumquo beatquist odi by its own firmness. He hides his weapons in the thicket, watching from the
top of a high hill.
simagnam dolorum qui od The JudgmenT When factions are formed, no man trusts another.
Fellowship and openness mean success. It is For a long time he waits, hoping to catch his
quiduci odit faceaqui consent advantageous to cross the great water. Persevering opponents by surprise, but there is no joy in this.
et magnient fugitatem in all things, the superior man advances.
in the fourth line, nine signifies: The Trigrams The lines
ipsandel is et facit, consendia CommenTary
T’ung Jen appears in the distant parts of the
He climbs upon his battlements because he cannot fight.
But good fortune is near.
above: K’un Earth, the receptive
Below: Ken mountain, stillness
in the bottom line, six signifies :
The superior man is even modest about his modesty.
above: Hercules’s first veliatur mo venem vendelitius arum quatur, num rehent perunti country, indicating progress and success, ‘crossing
the great water’ symbolising any important
The wise man does not make the mistake of
attacking his opponents, and soon all will be well.
Ken, the mountain, dispenses the gifts of heaven, the He may cross the great water and find good fortune.
rain that falls from the clouds around its peak, and Those who approach a problem without pride
labour was to present ate eum in ratem ut quidesto omnihic to ea vollorum aliquam journey. Someone weak comes to a position of shines in the clear air. Ken represents the modesty of or concern for their standing will solve it quickly
King Eurystheus with power, taking centrestage and responding to the in the fifth line, nine signifies: great men. K’un, the earth, is exalted, symbolising the and simply.
facit quiatus apicaepe nimus, si nonsectus et a qui que inturia creative power. Such a person may be known as Lovers begin by weeping and lamenting but in the end The Trigrams in the second line, nine signifies: way simple men are raised up by modesty.
the skin of the Nemean the beloved. The central yang line in the upper they laugh. The struggles of many bring them together. above: li Fire, brightness Big wagons are for loading. He may attempt any enterprise in the second line, six signifies :
lion, a beast whose veliquo ditatia cum ressequianto tectaqu asperro et et eos dicius trigram represents the superior man, the only one Any association will begin with troubles, but once below: Ch’ien Heaven, the creative without reproach. The JudgmenT Modesty itself achieves recognition. Persistence brings
who can understand and affect the thinking of all resolved the companions will find happiness. Here the flame burns in the highest heaven, revealing There is no fear of failure for lack of resources, but Humility engenders success. The superior man, good fortune.
skin was invulnerable mo maximagnim a nus nos derum venim eliquiscia accus aut eria the people. all things in its light. The weak yin line is in the place one who undertakes a great venture must be ready for understanding this, enjoys a satisfactory outcome to
in the sixth line, nine signifies:
to Hercules’s arrow or quisquae labor recturia dunt, omnim quam quuntiunt placcus, od The image The beloved is in a distant place. No regrets.
of the ruler, indicating that wealth comes to the
man who is modest and benevolent, even though he
any eventuality. his undertakings. in the third line, nine signifies :
The superior man is recognised but maintains his humility.
sword. everio. Et quid mi, officaes et autem. Assima in reperun dundand
Heaven and fire together symbolise companionship. The companions trust one another, even when far occupies a high position. in the third line, nine signifies: CommenTary He brings all matters to conclusion. Good fortune.
The superior man, accordingly, organises the apart. But the fact that the beloved is in a distant A prince offers all to the emperor. But this is not in a Ch’ien symbolises progress and success, because The wise man is not dazzled by fame but remains
people and distinguishes things according to their place means that the association is not yet fulfilled.
istiore repremporum derro velesti orerovid quaecum aut magnam, kinds and classes.
The JudgmenT small man’s power. it is heaven’s way to send down its good influences humble.
Ta Yu indicates wealth in abundance, and also A truly magnanimous man should devote his and shed radiance, and it is earth’s way to send its
cone numquam, quatibus aborers perspidel maio. Ximperum Heaven moves upwards, just as fire does, but it
is very different from fire. As the stars in the sky
great success. possessions to the good of the people. influences upwards. So it is also heaven’s way to in the fourth line, six signifies :
reduce the over-full and augment the modest; as it Proper humility and nothing that is not proper humility
mark the divisions of time, so human society and
CommenTary in the fourth line, nine signifies: is earth’s way to throw down the full and raise up in all his actions.
all things that belong together must be ordered.
As in the preceding hexagram, T’ung Jen, it is the He distinguishes himself from his neighbours. No blame. the humble. The demons and gods abominate the True modesty is the sign of confidence in one’s
Hercules’s Labours Companionship is not just a gathering together of
like-minded people: there must be organisation of
weak yin line that holds the hexagram together, and A rich, powerful man among other rich, powerful over-full and bless the modest, as it is the way of position; it should not be permitted to degenerate
occupies the most important position. The virtues men must remain aloof, but not out of a false sense men to hate the full and love the humble. Modesty into servility.
veritae nis dis eatem que vellam, aut lignihiciis simillori alis arcil the diversity.
of the hexagram are strength and vigour combined of pride. in a high position shines still more brilliantly;
et lab ipienit hitate deleste mposantur minctus exceper ibusantur with elegance and brightness. Because it responds to
heaven, performing all things at the proper time, it in the fifth line, six signifies :
there is nothing higher. As the mountain is hidden
by the earth, so the wise man hides his abilities and
in the fifth line, six signifies :
Employ your neighbours without boasting of your riches.
sus, totae conse et et facesequam, occabore as dolupta tenditate indicates great progress and success. He who is sincere and accessible, but maintains his dignity, wealth with proper humility. Attack with vigour. All is propitious.
right: Hercules will gain great honours. However modest a man, he who occupies a position of
capturing the Ceryneian es dunt hillorrum sum aut posam int harum is mo dem. Citem The image The hearts of the people are won, not by force and The image responsibility must engage the help of others to carry
Fire in the heavens above is the image of possession repression, but by benevolence and philanthropy. Within the earth, there is a mountain, the image of out his plans.
Hind as part of his 12 ium nis aut milluptae enditati conestis nosti tet adicias ut quasi left: The Sack of Troy. in abundance. The superior man, obeying the humility. The superior man reduces that which is too
benevolent will of heaven, suppresses evil and in the sixth line, nine signifies : much, and increases that which is too little, setting one ln the sixth line, six signifies :
Labours. The hind – a occus ullabor rorero blanti ommolo esed et dolum etur audiore The Wooden Horse, advances the virtuous. Giving and receiving. Blessed by the heavens. He enjoys in the scale to balance the other. Modesty achieves recognition. He sets his army on the march
female red deer – was prae incta sequamu sandit apiti nihiliquos provid quate laudaec from which the Greeks great good fortune. but only to punish his own city and land.
The lines The great man gives from his wealth and receives It is difficult for a modest man to impose his will upon
sacred to the goddess emerged to attack the in the bottom line, nine signifies: the thanks of others; they give their love and receive others. But, provided the discipline is just, he will be
Diana, and had golden
eaquis idellatio offictiorem unt latem verfern atibus estrum nusam He has no communion with evil. Remaining blameless; his protection. honoured for his actions.
Trojans, can be seen
Keeping conscious of difficulty, he averts reproach.
horns and hooves of quisto dellaborepe rectur? Qui inulpar chicatem ni optatur? Qui in the centre of the Wealth can be utterly destructive if a wealthy
bronze. accaecat quiscium ad molut harcidi gendani si omnihic tem et painting. man is led astray.

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Dragon Snake Heart Small Intestine


(LóNG) (SHé) (xīn) (xiǎo cháng)

The Dragon is the most powerful and auspicious of the zodiac animals. The Snake is an enigmatic sign, with characteristics that can express The heart is one of the two 臟腑 zàng fǔ (principal organs) associated The small intestine is one of the two 臟腑 zàng fǔ (principal organs)
Married couples in China may delay trying for a child until they themselves equally for good or bad. As in the West, it can symbolize in Traditional Chinese Medicine with the Fire phase. The other is the associated in Traditional Chinese Medicine with the Fire phase. The
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intolerance and unpredictability. Dragons match well with Rats, sympathetic, but also moody, jealous and suspicious. Snakes should circulatory system. The heart is the ruler of the body and governs the in the stomach and separating it into its pure and impure essences. The
Monkeys and Roosters, but should avoid Oxen, Rabbits and Dogs. The seek out Dragons, Oxen and Roosters but especially avoid Pigs. The circulation of both blood and 氣 qì energy. The circulatory vessels also pure essences are circulated through the body via the spleen, and the
Dragon is a yang sign associated with the Wood element. Snake is a yin sign associated with the Fire element. house 神 shén, spirit, the immaterial essence of change that governs impure passed on to the large intestine for elimination. Imbalances in
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General editor Jack Watkins is a
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regular contributor to publications such

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as BBC History, The Guardian, The Daily
Telegraph, Heritage Today and National
Trust Magazine, writing on history, the
IN HISTORY

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arts and conservation. He is also the
author of The World’s Worst Inventions.
He lives in southern England.
Spanning more than three millennia of
Picture Credits history, The Greatest Battles in History is an
Front cover: The Battle of Hastings fought on 14 authoritative, fully illustrated history of
October 1066 © National Geographic Creative/Alamy.
170 key battles, campaigns and wars from
Back cover: A map of the siege of Friedland (1807) the ancient Egyptians to the end of the
© Amber Books Ltd. The siege saw the French, led by Napoleonic Wars.
Napoleon Bonaparte, decisively defeat the Russians.

IN HISTORY
Arranged chronologically, The Greatest
Other titles of interest: Battles in History addresses ancient,
Encyclopedia of Warfare medieval and early modern military action
Dennis Showalter 978-1-78274-023-0 from all around the world, beginning
with the Egyptian defeat of the Canaanites
Battles That Changed History at the battle of Megiddo in 1457bc (one
Dougherty, Rice, et al. of the first properly recorded battles) and
978-1-906626-80-8 encompassing, among other conflicts,
AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF classic warfare Roman campaigns, the Crusades, the
Hundred Years’ War, Chinese and
from megiddo to waterloo Japanese conflicts, the Seven Years’ War,
the American Revolutionary War and the
Napoleonic Wars.
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GE NE R AL E DITOR: J ACK WATKINS Combatants who appear include the
chariot charges to cavalry encounters, from naval battles to sieges, The Greatest Persians, the Athenians, the Greeks,
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ancient, medieval, early modern and revolutionary periods while Alexander the Great, Hannibal,
Genghis Khan, Saladin, Joan of Arc,
• George Washington, Horatio Nelson
and Napoleon Bonaparte are among the
Includes 150 annotated, colour maps of battles or campaigns, as well as colour military leaders featured.
and black-&-white photographs, paintings and illustrations From javelins to cannons, from chariots
to cavalry charges, from war elephants
• to naval encounters, from Roman battle
formations to sieges, The Greatest Battles
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quick and easy reference, and a timeline placing the battle into historical context immense history of the strategies, tactics,
machinery and weaponry used in major
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Website: www.amberbooks.co.uk Each entry includes full-colour


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Michael Kerrigan In His Own Words Craig Cheetham Brenda Ralph Lewis Helen Strudwick (editor) 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”) 264 x 202mm (10½ x 8”) Chris Bishop (editor)
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia Birds Dinosaurs How to Survive at Sea How to Survive in the City How to Track and Navigate First Aid Survival Guide
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General editor Jack Watkins is a


THE GREATEST

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regular contributor to publications such

BATTLES

THE GREATEST battles in history


as BBC History, The Guardian, The Daily
Telegraph, Heritage Today and National
Trust Magazine, writing on history, the
IN HISTORY

BATTLES
arts and conservation. He is also the
author of The World’s Worst Inventions.
He lives in southern England.
Spanning more than three millennia of
Picture Credits history, The Greatest Battles in History is an
Front cover: The Battle of Hastings fought on 14 authoritative, fully illustrated history of
October 1066 © National Geographic Creative/Alamy.
170 key battles, campaigns and wars from
Back cover: A map of the siege of Friedland (1807) the ancient Egyptians to the end of the
© Amber Books Ltd. The siege saw the French, led by Napoleonic Wars.
Napoleon Bonaparte, decisively defeat the Russians.

IN HISTORY
Arranged chronologically, The Greatest
Other titles of interest: Battles in History addresses ancient,
Encyclopedia of Warfare medieval and early modern military action
Dennis Showalter 978-1-78274-023-0 from all around the world, beginning
with the Egyptian defeat of the Canaanites
Battles That Changed History at the battle of Megiddo in 1457bc (one
Dougherty, Rice, et al. of the first properly recorded battles) and
978-1-906626-80-8 encompassing, among other conflicts,
AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF classic warfare Roman campaigns, the Crusades, the
Hundred Years’ War, Chinese and
from megiddo to waterloo Japanese conflicts, the Seven Years’ War,
the American Revolutionary War and the
Napoleonic Wars.
From the battle of Megiddo in 1457bc to the battle of Waterloo in 1815ad, from
GENER AL EDITOR: JAC K WATKINS Combatants who appear include the
chariot charges to cavalry encounters, from naval battles to sieges, The Greatest Persians, the Athenians, the Greeks,
the Teutonic Knights, the Huns, the
Battles in History tells the stories of 170 key battles, campaigns and wars from the Vikings, the Mongols and Saracens,

G ENER A L EDI TOR : JA CK WAT KI NS


ancient, medieval, early modern and revolutionary periods while Alexander the Great, Hannibal,
Genghis Khan, Saladin, Joan of Arc,
• George Washington, Horatio Nelson
and Napoleon Bonaparte are among the
Includes 150 annotated, colour maps of battles or campaigns, as well as colour military leaders featured.
and black-&-white photographs, paintings and illustrations From javelins to cannons, from chariots
to cavalry charges, from war elephants
• to naval encounters, from Roman battle
formations to sieges, The Greatest Battles
Each featured battle or campaign includes a locator map, a key facts box for in History takes the reader through an
quick and easy reference, and a timeline placing the battle into historical context immense history of the strategies, tactics,
machinery and weaponry used in major
military conflicts.

Website: www.amberbooks.co.uk Each entry includes full-colour


Appstore: itunes.com/apps/amberbooksltd illustrations – either maps or artworks –
Facebook: www.facebook.com/amberbooks
as well as information boxes containing
key facts and figures and a description
Twitter: @amberbooks of the course of the battle. An easily
accessible guide, The Greatest Battles in
History is essential reading for enthusiasts
and general readers alike.
ISBN: 978-1-78274-544-0

Printed in China

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World War I

The Wars of the Roses Tank Combat Infantry Combat


Martin J. Dougherty Christer Jorgensen & chris ANDREW WIEST & M.K. BARBIER
264 x 208mm (10 x 8”)
Battles that Changed History Air Combat Land Combat The Illustrated History
mann 245 x 183mm (9¾ x 7¼”)
224pp, 60,000 words
Kelly DeVries & Others Thomas Newdick Martin J. Dougherty of World War I
245 x 183mm (9¾ x 7¼”) 176pp
297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”) 285 x 211mm (11¼ x 8¼”) 285 x 211mm (11¼ x 8¼”) Andrew Wiest
200 b/w and colour photos, artworks 176pp 60,000 words
448pp, 160,000 words 320pp, 80,000 words 320pp, 80,000 words 244 x 186mm (9¾ x 7½”)
and maps 60,000 words; 150 b/w photos, 25 150 b/w photographs, 25 b/w line
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Military History

Camouflage at War The Illustrated History The Illustrated History The Western Front The Western Front The Eastern Front Naval Warfare
Amphibious Warfare
Martin J. Dougherty of World War I of the Vietnam War 1917–1918 1914–1916 1914–1920 1914–1918
Ian Speller & Christopher Tuck
268 x 205mm (10½ x 8”) Andrew Wiest Andrew Wiest & Chris McNab
245 x 183mm (9¾ x 7¼”) Andrew Wiest Michael S. Neiberg David Jordan & Michael S. Neiberg Tim Benbow
224pp, 60,000 words 244 x 186mm (9¾ x 7½”) 244 x 186mm (9¾ x 7½”)
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150 b/w photographs, 25 b/w line 224pp, 75,000 words 224pp, 75,000 words 224pp, 75,000 words 224pp,75,000 words
ISBN: 978-1-78274-498-6 270 b/w photos & 60 col a/ws 250 colour photos and 30 colour a/ws
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ISBN: 978-1-78274-140-4 ISBN: 9781906626136 ISBN: 9781906626129 ISBN: 9781906626112 ISBN: 9781906626167
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Cold War Plans American Battles Great Commanders Gallipoli & the Middle East The Balkans, Italy & Africa Illustrated Encyclopedia The Essential Aircraft
World War II Plans
That Never Happened & Campaigns of the American Civil War 1914–1818 1914–1918 Weapons of World War I Identification Guide: Aircraft
That Never Happened­­­­­
Michael Kerrigan Kevin J. Dougherty & Others Kevin J. Dougherty Edward J. Erickson David Jordan Chris Bishop of World War I 1914–1918
Michael Kerrigan
240 x 189 (9½ x 7½”) 264 x 208mm (9½ x 7½”) 264 x 202mm (10 x 8”) 246 x 195mm (9¾ x 7¾”) 246 x 195mm (9¾ x 7¾”) 276 x 220mm (10¾ x 8¾”) Jack Herris & Bob Pearson
240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”)
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50 b/w & col illus, 180 photos, 100 maps, 25 colour photos 160 col & b/w photos 150 b/w photos, 100 a/ws 150 b/w photos, 100 a/ws 600 col a/ws and photographs 192pp, 50,000 words
220 b/w & col photos and documents
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World War II

Hitler Rommel World War II Plans Chronology of World War II 7th Armoured Division 1st SS Panzer Corps Visual Battle Guide: Visual Battle Guide:
Michael Kerrigan In His Own Words That Never Happened­­­­­ David Jordan at Villers-Bocage at Villers-Bocage FIfth Guards Tank Army at Kursk Das Reich­­­ at Kursk
264 x 208mm (10½ x 8¼”) John Pimlott (editor) Michael Kerrigan 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”) David Porter David Porter David Porter David Porter
224pp, 60,000 words 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 160pp, 70,000 words 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”)
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Order of Battle: German Order of Battle: The Red Order of Battle: Western Allied Fighting Techniques of a
Uniforms of World War II Stalin’s Secret Police The Downfall Hitler Youth Luftwaffe in WWII Army in WWII Forces of WWII Panzergrenadier 1941–45
Peter Darman Rupert Butler of the Third Reich Brenda Ralph Lewis Chris Bishop David Porter Michael E. Haskew MATTHEW HUGHES & CHRIS MANN
285 x 213mm (11¼ x 8½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) Duncan Anderson 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 285 x 213mm (11¼ x 8¼in)
288pp, 80,000 words 192pp, 65,000 words 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”) 192pp, 60,000 words 192pp, 50,000 words 192pp, 50,000 words 192pp, 50,000 words 96 pages
270 col a/ws 100 b/w photographs 256pp, 70,000 words 120 b/w photos 150 col & b/w photos & a/ws 150 col & b/w photos & a/ws 150 col & b/w photos & a/ws 35,000 words; 50 artworks, 40 photos
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Fighting Techniques of a Fighting Techniques Enigma: How Breaking the Women at War in World War II
Japanese Infantryman 1941–45 of a U.S. Marine 1941–1945 Code Helped Win World War II BRENDA RALPH LEWIS
The German Soldier The Gestapo World War II Data Book: LEO J. DAUGHERTY III LEO J. DAUGHERTY III MICHAEL KERRIGAN 268 x 205mm (10½ x 8”)
in World War II Rupert Butler The Third Reich 285 x 213mm (11¼ x 8¼in) 285 x 213mm (11¼ x 8¼in) 244 x 186mm (9½ x 7½”) 256 pages
Stephen Hart 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) pb Chris McNab 96 pages 96 pages 224pp 60,000 words
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SS Divisional Histories

Campaigns of World War II: Campaigns of World War II: Campaigns of World War II: Germany’s Secret Weapons of Germany’s Secret Masterplan in SS: Totenkopf SS: Wiking
The Eastern Front The Italian Front The Pacific War World War II World War II Chris Mann Rupert Butler
DUNCAN ANDERSON & OTHERS MICHAEL E. HASKEW ANDREW WIEST 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”)
ROGER FORD CHRIS McNAB
297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9in) 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9in) 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”) 192pp, 60,000 words 192pp, 60,000 words
264 x 208mm (10½ x 8¼”) 264 x 208mm (10½ x 8¼”)
256 pages 256 pages 256 pages 110 b/w photos 110 b/w photos
224pp 224pp
70,000 words; 45 a/ws, 230 photos, 70,000 words; 45 a/ws, 230 b/w 70,000 words; 65 maps and a/s, ISBN: 978-1-78274-251-7 ISBN: 978-1-78274-248-7
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Stalingrad - The Infernal Kursk - The Greatest Tank Battle The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s Berlin: The Final Reckoning SS: Leibstandarte SS: Das Reich SS: Hitlerjugend SS: Hitler’s Foreign Divisions
Cauldron M. K. BARBIER Last Hope KARL BAHM
Rupert Butler Gregory L. Mattson Rupert Butler Chris Bishop
STEPHEN WALSH 285 x 213mm (11½ x 8½”) ROBIN CROSS 246 x 183mm (9½ x 7½”)
240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”)
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The SS: Hitler’s Instrument of Eastern Front in World War II Blitzkrieg: Hitler’s Lightning War Waffen-SS: Hitler’s Elite in SS: Hell on the Western Front Weapons and Fighting Tactics SS: Roll of Infamy SS: Hell on the Eastern Front
Terror WILL FOWLER in Photographs Photographs Chris Bishop of the Waffen-SS Christopher Ailsby Christopher Ailsby
GORDON WILLIAMSON 245 x 204mm (9¾ x 8”) IAN BAXTER 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) Stephen Hart & RUSSELL HART 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”)
CHRISTOPHER AILSBY
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304pp 50,000 words 224 pages 120 b/w photographs 192pp, 60,000 words 150 b/w photographs 120 b/w photos
224 pages
110,000 words; 50 col & 220 b/w 450 black-and-white photographs 50,000 words ISBN: 9781782743149 70 b/w photographs & 50 b/w a/ws ISBN: 9781782743132 ISBN: 9781782743675
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Aviation

Personal Accounts of the Battles of the Waffen-SS Drones Technical Guide: Modern Military Aircraft The Essential Aircraft The Essential Aircraft The Essential Aircraft
Waffen SS at War Gordon Willamson Martin J. Dougherty Japanese Aircraft of World War II Thomas Newdick & Tom Cooper Identification Guide: Identification Guide: Identification Guide: Aircraft
Gordon Willamson 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”) Thomas Newdick 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) Allied Fighters 1939–45 Allied Bombers 1939–45 of the Cold War 1945–1991
240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 192pp, 60,000 words 224pp, 55,000 words 216 x 170mm (81⁄2 x 6¾”) 384pp, 100,000 words Christopher Chant Christopher Chant Thomas Newdick
192pp, 60,000 words 120 b/w photos 200 col a/ws and photographs 128 pages, 25,000 words 400 col & b/w a/ws & photos 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”)
120 b/w photos ISBN: 9781782743705 ISBN: 978-1-78274-255-5 120 artworks and 15 photos ISBN: 978-1-78274-066-7 192pp, 50,000 words 192pp, 50,000 words 192pp, 50,000 words
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£19.99 Paperback £16.99 Hardback ISBN: 9781905704699 ISBN: 9781905704705 ISBN: 9781906626631
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FLYING THE
WORLD’S GREATEST
COMBAT
AIRCRAFT

FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS
FROM THE PILOTS WHO FLEW
THEM IN ACTION

The Essential Aircraft The Essential Aircraft Air Combat Top 50 Military Aircraft
Flying the World’s Greatest Aviation Fact File: Aviation Fact File: Technical Drawings Identification Guide: Aircraft Identification Guide: Thomas Newdick 264 x 208mm (10½ x 8¼”)
Combat Aircraft Classic Military Aircraft Helicopters of Aircraft of World War II of World War I 1914–1918 Carrier Aircraft 1917–Present 285 x 211mm (11¼ x 8¼”) 208 pages
James Bennett (EDITOR) Jim Winchester (editor) Jim Winchester (editor) Paul E. Eden (EDITOR) Jack Herris & Bob Pearson Thomas Newdick 320pp, 80,000 words 40,000 words
297 x 224mm (11¾ x 9”) 213 x 290mm (8½ x 11¾”) 213 x 290mm (8½ x 11½”) 297 x 228mm (11¾ x 9”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 300 col a/ws and photographs 300 artworks and photographs
224pp 90,000 words 448pp; 120,000 words 256pp, 145,000 words 256pp, 50,000 words 192pp, 50,000 words 192pp, 50,000 words ISBN: 978-1-78274-333-0 ISBN: 978-1-78274-529-7
375 col & b/w photos 2000 colour photos and a/ws 2000 col & b/w photos & artworks 385 col photos and 116 line artworks 200 col & b/w a/ws & photos 200 col a/ws & 50 photos £19.99 Hardback £19.99 Hardback
ISBN: 9781782744696 ISBN: 9781907446399 ISBN: 978-1-782740-87-2 ISBN: 978-1905704323 ISBN: 9781906626655 ISBN: 9781907446979
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Naval

Chronology of Aviation World’s Greatest Military Aircraft Military Atlas Allied Aircraft
Jim Winchester Thomas Newdick of Air Warfare of World War II
297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”) 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”) Martin J. Dougherty Chris Chant
The Golden Age of Sail Submarines The World’s Greatest The World’s Greatest Aircraft
160pp, 70,000 words 224pp, 65,000 words 360 x 280mm (14¼ x 11”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”)
David Ross Chris Bishop Submarines Carriers
300 col & b/w photos & a/ws 200 col a/ws and photographs 176pp, 37,000 words 384pp, 100,000 words
213 x 290mm (8½ x 11½”) 270 x 215mm (10½ x 8½”) David Ross 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”)
ISBN: 978-1-78274-067-4 ISBN: 978-1-78274-263-0 120 col maps and 100 photographs 400 col & b/w a/ws & photos
224pp, 50,000 words 384 pp 120,000 words 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”) 224pp
£14.99 Hardback £19.99 Hardback ISBN: 978-1-78274-138-1 ISBN: 978-1-78274-207-4
110 col a/ws & photos 500 artworks and 80 photographs 224pp, 65,000 words 65,000 words
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Small Arms

Camouflage at War Compared and Contrasted Compared and Contrasted Red Army Tanks of World War II
Martin J. Dougherty Weapons of World War II Modern Weapons Tim Bean & WILL FOWLER
268 x 205mm (10½ x 8”) Michael E. Haskew Martin J Dougherty 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”)
Essential Submarine Collector’s Guides: Collector’s Guides: Collector’s Guides: 224pp, 60,000 words 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”) 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”) 176pp, 70,000 words
Identification Guide: Glock Colt Pistols & Revolvers 200 col & b/w photos and a/ws 224pp, 40,000 words 224pp, 40,000 words 120 b/w photos, 50 b/w a/ws
Kriegsmarine U-Boats Chris McNab Michael E. Haskew Martin J. Dougherty ISBN: 978-1-78274-498-6 100 colour photos and a/ws 100 colour photos and a/ws ISBN: 978-1-78274-492-4
1939–45 244 x 186mm (9½ x 7¼”) 244 x 186mm (9½ x 7¼”) 244 x 186mm (9½ x 7¼”) £19.99 Hardback ISBN: 978-1-908696-69-4 ISBN: 978-1-908696-68-7 £19.99 Paperback
Chris Bishop 224pp, 50,000 words 224pp, 50,000 words 224pp 50,000 words £19.99 Hardback £19.99 Hardback
240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 200 colour and b/w photos & a/ws 200 colour and b/w photos & a/ws 200 colour and b/w photos & a/ws
192pp, 50,000 words ISBN: 978-1-78274-256-2 ISBN: 978-1-78274-257-9 ISBN: 978-1-78274-150-3
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ISBN: 9781904687962
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The World’s Greatest The World’s Greatest The World’s Greatest The World’s Greatest
Military Aircraft Submarines Tanks Small Arms
Collector’s Guides: Small Arms: Small Arms: Thomas Newdick David Ross Michael E. Haskew CHRIS MCNAB
World’s Greatest Small Arms 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”) 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”)
Rifles & Muskets Compared and Contrasted 17th Century to the Present Day 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”) 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”)
Chris McNab
Michael E. Haskew Martin J Dougherty MARTIN J. DOUGHERTY 224pp, 65,000 words 224pp, 65,000 words 224pp, 65,000 words 224pp, 65,000 words
297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”)
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Military Technology

Military Atlas Military Atlas WORLD WAR II GERMANY: WORLD WAR II GERMANY:
of Tank Warfare of Air Warfare The Wehrmacht The SS
Technical Guide: Technical Guide: Stephen Hart Martin J. Dougherty MICHAEL E. HASKEW CHRIS McNAB
The Essential Weapons The Essential Weapons
Japanese Aircraft in World War II Russian Tanks of World War II 360 x 280mm (14¼ x 11”) 360 x 280mm (14¼ x 11”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”)
Identification Guide: Identification Guide:
Thomas Newdick Stephen Hart 176pp, 32,000 words 176pp, 37,000 words 192pp 192pp
Small Arms 1914-1945 Small Arms 1945-present
216 x 170mm (81⁄2 x 6¾”) 216 x 170mm (81⁄2 x 6¾”) 110 col maps and 65 photographs 120 col maps and 100 photographs 50,000 words 50,000 words; 150 photos,
Michael E. Haskew Martin J. Dougherty
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240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”)
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The Essential Aircraft The Essential Aircraft The Essential Aircraft The Essential Aircraft
WORLD WAR II GERMANY: WORLD WAR II GERMANY: WORLD WAR II GERMANY: WORLD WAR II GERMANY: Identification Guide: Identification Guide: Aircraft Identification Guide: Aircraft Identification Guide:
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DAVID PORTER S. MIKE PAVELIC CHRIS McNAB CHRIS McNAB Thomas Newdick
Chris Chant Jack Herris & Bob Pearson Thomas Newdick
240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”)
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The Essential Tank The Essential Vehicle The Essential Vehicle The Essential Vehicle
WORLD WAR II GERMANY: Top 50 Military Aircraft Top 50 Tanks Identification Guide: Identification Guide: Identification Guide: Identification Guide:
The Kriegsmarine THOMAS NEWDICK MARTIN DOUGHERTY Wehrmacht Panzer Divisions Waffen-SS Divisions Western Allied Tanks Panzergrenadier Divisions
DAVID PORTER 264 x 208mm (10½ x 8¼”) 264 x 208mm (10½ x 8¼”) 1939–45
1939–45 1939–45 1939–45
240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) 208 pages 208 pages Chris Bishop
Chris Bishop Chris Bishop David Porter
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Index Battles of the Crusades 24
Battles of the Waffen-SS 52
Battles that Changed History 41, 47
Dark History of the Tudors 39
Das Reich at Kursk 49
D-Day 28
Fighting Techniques of a Panzergrenadier
1941–45 49
Fighting Techniques of a U.S. Marine
How to Sail 43
How to Survive a Disaster 43
How to Survive Anything, Anywhere 6
Military Uniforms Visual Encyclopedia 41
Minerals and Gemstones 35
Mini Encyclopedias 35
1st SS Panzer Corps at Villers-Bocage 49 Berlin: The Final Reckoning 50 Dinosaurs 35, 42 1941–1945 49 How to Survive at Sea 43 Modern Air-Launched Weapons 19
7th Armoured Division at Villers-Bocage 49 Best-Selling Albums 36 Dinosaurs A–Z 33 Fighting Techniques of Naval Warfare 45 How to Survive in the City 43 Modern Military Aircraft 36, 53, 56
100 Best-Selling Albums of the 70s 37 Best-Selling Albums of the 70s 37 Dinosaurs: The World’s Most Terrifying Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World 45 How to Track and Navigate 43 Modern Small Arms 7
100 Best-Selling Albums of the 80s 37 Best-Selling Albums of the 80s 37 Creatures 33 Fighting Techniques of the Oriental World 45 Human Body, The 36, 37 Modern Tanks 25
100 Best-Selling Albums of the 90s 37 Best-Selling Albums of the 90s 37 Dogfight 24 First Aid Survival Guide 43 Modern Weapons (Compared and Contrasted)
501 Unarmed Self-Defence Skills 42 Birds 42 Dogs Gone Bad 34 Flying the World’s Greatest Combat Aircraft 52 I 55
Birds, World of 35 Dogs in Cars 35 I Ching 31 MP40 ‘Schmeisser’ 14
A Bismarck, The 15 Downfall of the Third Reich, The 48 G Illustrated Art of War 11 music 36
A–Z of Animals 33 Blitzkrieg: Hitler’s Lightning War in Drones 52 Gallipoli & the Middle East 1914–1818 47 Illustrated Encyclopedia of Space & Space
A–Z of Dinosaurs 33 Photographs 50 German Luftwaffe in WWII 49 Exploration 41 N
A–Z of Sharks 33 Bloody History of America 39 E German Soldier in World War II 48 Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons of World Native American Myths & Legends 2
A–Z of Snakes 33 Bloody History of London 39 Eastern Front 1914–1920 47 German Tanks of World War II 26 War II 42 Native American Warriors 4
Abandoned Castles 37 Bloody History of Paris 39 Eastern Front (Campaigns of World War II) 50 German Weapons of World War II 9 Illustrated Encyclopedia Weapons of World War naval 53–54
Abandoned Civilisations 3 Bridges 38 Eastern Front in World War II 50 Germany’s Secret Masterplan in World War II 51 I 41, 47 Naval Warfare 1914–1918 47
Abandoned Places 37 Bugs 35 Encyclopedia of Aircraft of World War II, The 41 Germany’s Secret Weapons of World War II 51 Illustrated History of the Vietnam War 46 Norse Myths 39
Abandoned Wrecks 38 Bushido: The Code of the Samurai 34 Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt 40, 41 Gestapo, The 48 Illustrated History of World War I 46, 47
Air Combat 47, 53 Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece 23 Ghost Towns 37 In The Footsteps of Alexander 45 O
Aircraft Anatomy 2 C Encyclopedia of Classic Warfare 41, 45 Glock (Collector’s Guides) 54 Infantry Combat 46 Order of Battle: German Luftwaffe in WWII 49
Aircraft Carriers 53 Camouflage at War 46, 55 Encyclopedia of the Ancient Roman Empire 23 Golden Age of Sail, The 53 Instruments of Torture 40 Order of Battle: The Red Army in WWII 49
Aircraft of the Cold War 1945–1991 53, 57 Campaigns of World War II: The Eastern Front Encyclopedia of Warfare 41 Great Commanders of the American Civil War Ireland 38 Order of Battle: Western Allied Forces of WWII
Aircraft of World War I 1914–1918 53, 57 50 Enigma: How Breaking the Code Helped Win 46 Italian Front (Campaigns of World War II) 50 49
Aircraft of World War I, Essential Identification Campaigns of World War II: The Italian Front World War II 49 Greatest Battles in History, The 41, 45 Italy 38 Orient Express, The 38
Guide 47 50 Essential Identification Guides 54, 56–57 Great World War II Weapons: B-17 Flying
Aircraft of World War II 36, 41, 52 Campaigns of World War II: The Pacific War 50 Essential Aircraft Identification Guide: Aircraft Fortress 15 J P
Air Warfare 20 Carrier Aircraft 1917–Present 53, 57 of the Cold War 1945–1991 53, 57 Great World War II Weapons: Panther Tank 14 Japanese Aircraft of World War II 52, 54 Pacific War (Campaigns of World War II) 50
Air Warfare, Military Atlas of 52, 55 Cats Gone Bad 34 Essential Aircraft Identification Guide: Aircraft Great World War II Weapons: The Bismarck 15 Pan Am Clipper, The 38
Allied Aircraft of World War II 52, 56 Cats in Baskets 35 of World War I 1914–1918 47, 53, 57 Great World War II Weapons: The MP40 K Panther Tank 14
Allied Bombers 1939–45 53, 57 Cats in Hats 34 Essential Aircraft Identification Guide: Allied ‘Schmeisser’ 14 Kama Sutra, The 34 Panzergrenadier Divisions 1939–45 57
Allied Fighters 1939–45 53, 56 Celtic Castles 37 Bombers 1939–45 53, 57 Great World War II Weapons: Tiger Tank 13 Kings &Queens of Europe 39, 40 Paris 38
Allied Tanks of World War II 56 Celtic Legends 39 Essential Aircraft Identification Guide: Allied Greek Myths & Legends 30 Kings & Queens of the Medieval World 40 Pawfect Friends 34
American Battles & Campaigns 46 Celts 39 Fighters 1939–45 53, 56 Guitar Book, The 37 Kriegsmarine, The 56 Pawfect Guide to Thinking Like a Dog, The 42
American Classic Cars 7 Chinese Astrology 32 Essential Aircraft Identification Guide: Carrier Guitar Chords 35, 36 Kriegsmarine U-Boats 1939–45 54, 57 Personal Accounts of the Waffen SS at War 52
Amphibious Warfare 46 Chinese Bound series 34 Aircraft 1917–Present 53, 57 Kursk – The Greatest Tank Battle 50 photography 37–38
Ancient Egypt, The Encyclopedia of 40, 41 Chinese Proverbs 21 Essential Submarine Identification Guide: H Pistols & Revolvers (Collector’s Guides) 54
Ancient Greece 23 Chronology of Aviation 52 Kriegsmarine U-Boats 1939–45 54, 57 Haiku 34 L Plantagenets, The 5
Ancient Peoples In Their Own Words 19 Chronology of World War II 48 Essential Tank Identification Guide: Wehrmacht Halloween Hauntings 8 Land Combat 47 Postwar Artillery 1945–Present 57
Ancient Rome 23 Churchill 25 Panzer Divisions 1939–45 57 Haunted Places 38 Lighthouses 38 Prince, The 34
Ancient Warrior, The 45 Civil Aircraft 36 Essential Vehicle Identification Guide: Helicopters 52 Luftwaffe, The 49, 56 Prophet, The 21
Animals A–Z 33 Classic Military Aircraft 52 Panzergrenadier Divisions 1939–45 57 history 39–40 Pugs in Space 35
Animals Visual Encyclopedia 41 Classic Warfare, the Encyclopedia of 41, 45 Essential Vehicle Identification Guide: Waffen- History of Air Warfare 20 M Pugs on Rugs 34
Art of War (Illustrated), The 11 Cold War Plans That Never Happened 46 SS Divisions 1939–45 57 History of Death, The 40 Mammals 35 Purrfect Guide to Thinking Like a Cat, The 42
Art of War, The (New Translation) 34 Collector’s Guides: Colt 54 Essential Vehicle Identification Guide: Western History of Pirates, The 40 Marine Life 35
Astrology 12 Collector’s Guides: Glock 54 Allied Tanks 1939–45 57 History of Punishment, The 40 medical reference 37 R
aviation 52–53 Collector’s Guides: Pistols & Revolvers 54 Essential Weapons Identification Guide: History of Tank Warfare 20 Medieval Knight, The 13 Red Army in WWII 49
Aviation Fact File: Classic Military Aircraft 52 Collector’s Guides: Rifles & Muskets 54 Postwar Artillery 1945–Present 57 History of World War II, The 22 Military Aircraft, Tanks & Warships Visual Red Army Tanks of World War II 55
Aviation Fact File: Helicopters 52 Colt (Collector’s Guides) 54 Essential Weapons Identification Guide: Small Hitler 40, 48 Encyclopedia 4 Rifles & Muskets (Collector’s Guides) 54
Aztec, Inca & Maya Empires, The 11 combat, survival and fitness 42–44 Arms 1914–1945 54, 57 Hitler Youth 48 Military Aircraft, Top 50 53, 56 Rommel in His Own Words 40, 48
Compared and Contrasted Modern Weapons 55 Essential Weapons Identification Guide: Small Hitler’s Masterplan 56 Military Aircraft, World’s Greatest 52, 55 Russian Tanks of World War II 54
B Compared and Contrasted Weapons of World Arms 1945–Present 54, 57 Hitler’s Secret Weapons 56 Military Atlas of Air Warfare 52, 55 Russian Weapons of World War II 8
B-17 Flying Fortress 15 War II 55 How the Body Works 37, 40 Military Atlas of Tank Warfare 55
Balkans, Italy & Africa 1914–1918 47 F How the Brain Works 37 military history 45–47 S
Battle of Britain 31 D Fat Cats 34 How to Fight Like a Special Forces Soldier 43 Military Jet Aircraft 9 Samurai Warrior, The 45
Battle of the Bulge 28 Dark History of Hollywood 39 Fifth Guards Tank Army at Kursk 49 How to Look After Your Horse 42 Military Jets 27 SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Armed Combat 44
Battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s Last Hope 50 Dark History of Russia 3 Fighting Techniques of a Japanese Infantryman How to Pass the SAS and Special Forces military technology 54–57 SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Extreme Fitness
Battles of the Bible 45 Dark History of the American Presidents 39 1941–45 49 Selection Course 43 Military Quiz Book 42 44

58 59
SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Manhunt 44 Survival Techniques 43 Weapons of World War II (Compared and
SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Preparing to Surviving Extreme Weather 42 Contrasted) 55
Survive 44 Weapons of World War II, The Illustrated
SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Prisoner of War T Encyclopedia of 42
Escape & Evasion 44 Tai Chi 30 Wehrmacht, The 55
SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Ropes and Knots Tank Combat 46 Wehrmacht Panzer Divisions 1939–45 57
44 Tank Warfare 19, 55 Western Allied Forces of WWII 49
SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Sniper 44 Tanks 26, 57 Western Allied Tanks 1939–45 57
SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Special Forces in Tanks & Military Vehicles 10 Western Front 1914–1916 47
Action 44 Tanks, Top 50 56 Western Front 1917–1918 47
SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Unarmed Combat Tanks, Western Allied Tanks 1939–45 57 Women at War in World War II 49
44 Tanks, World’s Greatest 55 World of Birds, The 35
SAS and Special Forces Fitness Training 43 Tao Te Ching 34 World War I 47
SAS and Special Forces Mental Toughness Technical Drawings of Aircraft of World War World War I, The Illustrated History of 46, 47
Training 18, 43 II 52 World War II 48–51
SAS and Special Forces Self Defence Technical Guide: German Tanks of World War World War II Abandoned Places 38
Handbook 43 II 26 World War II Data Book: The Third Reich 48
SAS: From World War II to the Gulf War 16 Technical Guide: Japanese Aircraft of World World War II, History of 22
SAS in the Gulf War 17 War II 52, 54 World War II Illustrated Atlas 18
SAS Rescue Missions 16 Technical Guide: Modern Tanks 25 World War II Plans That Never Happened 46,
SAS Undercover Operations 17 Technical Guide: Russian Tanks of World War 48
Secret Operations of World War II 5 II 54 World War II Weapons: B-17 Flying Fortress 15
Self-Defence: How to Defend Yourself 44 Templars & The Chivalric Orders, The 29 World War II Weapons: The Bismarck 15
Self-Defence: How to Punch 44 Third Reich, The 48, 56 World War II Weapons: The MP40 ‘Schmeisser’
Sharks A–Z 33 Tiger Tank 13 14
Sharks & Predators of the Deep 33 Top 50 Military Aircraft 53, 56 World War II Weapons: Panther Tank 14
Ships 36 Top 50 Tanks 56 World War II Weapons: Tiger Tank 13
Ships Visual Encyclopedia 41 Tracking a Serial Killer 42 World’s Greatest Aircraft Carriers 53
small arms 54 Troy 39 World’s Greatest Cars, The 40
Small Arms: 17th Century to the Present Day World’s Greatest Military Aircraft 52, 55
54 U World’s Greatest Small Arms 54, 55
Small Arms 1914–1945 54, 57 Ukulele for Beginners 36 World’s Greatest Submarines 53, 55
Small Arms 1945–Present 54, 57 Ultimate Survival Guide, The 42 World’s Greatest Tanks 55
Small Arms: Compared and Contrasted 54 Understanding Architecture 29 World’s Worst Cars 36
Small Arms Visual Encyclopedia 41 Uniforms of World War II 48 World’s Worst Inventions 36
Small Arms, World’s Greatest 55 World’s Worst Weapons 36
Snakes A–Z 33 V
Space and Space Exploration, The Illustrated Victorians, The 40 Z
Encyclopedia of 41 Vietnam War, The Illustrated History of 46 Zeppelin, The 38
Special Forces in Action 44 Viking Warrior, The 10, 45
SS divisional histories 51–52 Vikings: A History of the Norse People 39
SS, The 55 Visual Battle Guides 49
SS: Das Reich 51
SS: Hell on the Eastern Front 51 W
SS: Hell on the Western Front 51 Waffen-SS Divisions 57
SS: Hitlerjugend 51 Waffen-SS: Hitler’s Elite in Photographs 50
SS: Hitler’s Foreign Divisions 51 Warfare, The Encyclopedia of 41
SS: Hitler’s Instrument of Terror 50 Warplanes of World War II 6
SS: Leibstandarte 51 Warriors of the Ancient World 33
SS: Roll of Infamy 51 Warriors of the Medieval World 33
SS: Totenkopf 51 Warriors of the World: The Ancient Warrior 45
SS: Wiking 51 Wars of the Roses, The 46
Stalin 12 Warships 27
Stalingrad – The Infernal Cauldron 50 Weapons 22
Stalin’s Secret Police 48 Weapons and Fighting Tactics of the Waffen-
Stars and Planets 35 SS 51
Submarines 53, 55 Weapons of World War I, The Illustrated
Supercars 36 Encyclopedia of 41, 47

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