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NORMANDY BEYOND THE BEACHES- RARE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM WARTIME ARCHIVES
This latest Images of War series book examines the development of the Allied campaign in Normandy in the weeks after the D-Day landings. After overcoming Rommel’s beach obstacles and ‘Atlantic Wall’ fortifications, a secure Allied lodgment of the five beaches developed along the Caen-Bayeux-Carentan axis with a period of consolidation while reinforcements and supplies were built up. …
GERMAN MOTORCYCLES AT WAR – 1939-1945 THE KRADSCHUTZEN TRUPPEN
Explores the crucial role of motorcycles in the Nazi war machine, enhancing mobility and tactical effectiveness during WWII. …
GOTHA TERROR – THE FORGOTTEN BLITZ 1917-1918
By the autumn of 1916, advances in Britain’s air defence capability had all but ended the Zeppelin menace, which had haunted the nation for almost two years. However, an emerging complacency regarding the aerial threat was immediately shattered by the introduction in 1917 of the Grosskampfflugzeug, better known as the Gotha bomber. …
THE RACE FOR THE ATOM BOMB
Describes how Soviet Russia’s leading spymasters in Moscow Center obtained information from British and American physicists to make an atomic bomb. …
THE A4 PACIFICS AFTER GRESLEY
In their book ‘Gresley’s Silver Link’ the authors analyzed the evolution of the A4s Gresley’s and their service up to Gresley’s death in 1941. This book takes this compelling story from the early years of the war up to their demise in the 1960s…
CITROEN DS FRENCH DESIGN CLASSIC – CAR CRAFT
Launched in 1955 yet looking like a sci-fi design proposal for a future then undreamed of, Flaminio Bertoni's ellipsoid sculpture with wheels that was the Citroën DS stunned the world. …
THE MERCEDES-BENZ MIDIBUS
This book covers an important aspect of British bus provision that has not been fully documented before. …
THE BLACKPOOL STRAMLINED TRAMS
In the early 1930s the tramcar in Blackpool was at a crossroads; the system needed investment in both new track and new trams whilst there was a serious threat that the ‘town' routes – as elsewhere in Britain as operators faced the same challenges – might have been converted to bus operation. The appointment of Walter Luff as the new general manager was, …
TANK GUN SYSTEMS : THE FIRST THIRTY YEARS, 1916-1945
Much has been written about the use of tanks in battle. Little, however, has appeared about the gunnery systems that are at their core. This book describes and examines the main gun systems of medium and heavy tanks from first use in 1916 in World War I to those fielded in numbers to the end of World War II in 1945…
THE LMS PRINCESS CORONATION PACIFICS 1937-1956
This book covers the design, construction, operation and performance of Sir William Stanier's masterpiece, the Princess Coronation pacific locomotives, better known as the Duchesses'. Included are pen portraits of the LMS engineers, …
JAGUAR E-TYPE BRITISH MOTORING MASTERPIECE (CAR CRAFT)
The third book in the new CarCraft series, Jaguar E-Type, frames the legend of what many call the world's most beautiful car design. Sir William Lyons and Malcolm Sayer carved automotive history …