View in Store Author: Stuart Reid Illustrator: Gerry Embleton Publication Date: 20 Apr 2003 Number of Pages: 96 What a scene!’ wrote Horace Walpole. ‘An army in the night dragging itself up a precipice by stumps of trees to assault a town and attack an enemy strongly entrenched and double in numbers!’ In one short…
British Submarine vs Italian Torpedo Boat – Mediterrenean 1940-43 View in Store Author: David Greentree Illustrator: Ian Palmer, Peter Dennis Publication Date: 16 Jun 2016 As the war in North Africa escalated, Axis war efforts became increasingly dependent on supply lines across the Mediterranean. To try to cut off these lines of supply the British…
E-Boat vs MTB – The English Channel 1941-45 View in Store Author: Gordon Williamson Illustrator: Ian Palmer, Howard Gerrard Publication Date: 20 Jun 2011 Number of Pages: 80 During WWII, German E-Boats were so active in the English Channel that the narrow stretch of water became known as ‘E-Boat Alley’. To counter the threat of…
U-boats vs Destroyer Escorts – The Battle of the Atlantic View in Store Author: Gordon Williamson Publication Date: 3 Oct 2007 Number of Pages: 80 Winston Churchill claimed the ‘U-boat peril’ was the only thing that frightened him during World War II. The U-boat was developed from a small coastal vessel into a state-of-the-art killer,…
Erwin Rommel View in Store Author: Pier Paolo Battistelli Illustrator: Peter Dennis Publication Date: 10 Jul 2010 Number of Pages: 64 Nicknamed ‘The Desert Fox’ for his cunning command of the Afrika Korps, Erwin Rommel remains one of the most popular and studied of Germany’s World War II commanders. He got his first taste of…
Dunkirk 1940 View in Store Author: Doug Dildy Illustrator: Howard Gerrard Publication Date: 10 Mar 2010 Number of Pages: 96 The evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from Dunkirk is one of the most dramatic and famous episodes of the Second World War. Dunkirk 1940 assesses Operation Dynamo from start to finish, with reference…
France 1940 View in Store Author: Alan Shepperd Publication Date: 24 May 1990 Number of Pages: 96 The German victory of 1940 stunned the world. France, major European power and owner of the world’s largest armies had fallen in less than seven weeks to the might of the German Wehrmacht. The secret of the Wehrmacht’s…
Panzer III vs Somua S35 View in Store Author: Steven J. Zaloga Illustrator: Richard Chasemore Publication Date: 20 Nov 2014 Number of Pages: 80 The armour clashes in May 1940 were the biggest the world had yet seen, as the sweeping German advances of that period came to epitomize Blitzkrieg. The Wehrmacht’s Panzer III was…
Panzer IV vs Char B1 bis – France 1940 View in Store Author: Steven J. Zaloga Illustrator: Richard Chasemore Publication Date: 20 Jan 2011 Number of Pages: 80 The Battle of France in 1940 involved the first large-scale tank-against-tank battles in history. The massive clashes at Stonne, Hannant, and Gembloux involved hundreds of tanks on…
Mosquito Aces of World War 2 View in Store Author: Andrew Thomas Illustrator: Chris Davey Publication Date: 12 Oct 2005 Number of Pages: 96 The Mosquito developed into one of the most versatile aircraft of World War 2, entering service with Fighter Command in early 1942. The ‘Mossie’ was soon defending raids on Britain’s Cathedral…
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