Download or read book Allies in Battledress written by Jean Bouchery and published by Histoire et Collections. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume of the vast trilogy devoted to the Allied troops under the Anglo-Canadian command of the 21st Army Group (the Tommy during the Liberation, 2 vols., and the Canadian during the Liberation). The aim of this book is to discover the distinguishing features of these volunteers who donned British battledress: Belgians, Luxemburgers, Frenchmen, Dutchmen, Poles, Norwegians, Czechs and Danes and who were engaged from the Normandy beaches to well into the heart of the Reich. It is intended for all sorts of amateurs of history: collectors, model-makers, historians and reconstitution groups. Jean Bouchery is a specialist of 1944-1945 and as such he is one of the regular authors for the specialized press, especially Militaria Magazine and has taken part in a number of works published by Histoire and Collections.

Download or read book Bolt Action Campaign Battle of the Bulge written by Warlord Games and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ardennes, 1944. Driven back by the Allies since D-Day, Germany launches a surprise offensive on the Western Front. This assault against the unprepared Allied lines is the opening move in one of the largest battles of World War II. This new Campaign Book for Bolt Action allows players to take command of both armies in this desperate battle, fighting it as they believe it should have been fought. New, linked scenarios, rules, troop types and Theatre Selectors provide plenty of options for novice and veteran players alike.

Download or read book Air Battle for Burma written by Bryn Evans and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a long series of crushing defeats by the apparently unstoppable Japanese air and ground forces, the eventual fight back and victory in Burma was achieved as a result of the exercise of unprecedented combined services cooperation and operations. Crucial to this was the AlliesÕ supremacy in the air coupled with their ground/air support strategy. Using veteransÕ firsthand accounts, Air Battle For Burma reveals the decisive nature of Allied air power in inflicting the first major defeat on the Japanese Army in the Second World War. Newly equipped Spitfire fighter squadrons made the crucial difference at the turning point battles of the Admin Box, Imphal and Kohima in 1944. Air superiority allowed Allied air forces to deploy and supply Allied ground troops on the front line and raids deep into enemy territory with relative impunity; revolutionary tactics never before attempted on such a scale. By covering both the strategic and tactical angles, through these previously unpublished personal accounts, this fine book is a fitting and overdue tribute to Allied air forcesÕ contribution to victory in Burma.

Download or read book Allied Forces in Northwest Europe 1944 45 written by Andy Singleton and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is aimed at assisting those new or unfamiliar with historical figure modelling and wargaming by providing them with a range of simple tips and techniques to assist them in putting together good looking collections using methods that won’t take an age. Covered in this book are an introduction to the majority of tools and materials commonly found in modelling, before moving on to cover clear, concise guides for painting British, American and Canadian forces, along with notes on the uniforms of the Free forces from occupied nations. The guides cover all the common variations of uniform used during the period, including British and Canadian Battledress, Airborne forces uniforms, and the American M43 uniform, as well as when these uniforms were worn and introduced. Camouflage uniforms are also covered, and are broken down into how to apply the various patterns simply and with easy-to-repeat methods. Illustrated with hundreds of photos, each stage of the guides has a combination of text description, photograph and list of both paint and brush size used to make the steps as easy to follow as possible.

Download or read book Allies Contacts Enemies and Rivals written by John Griffiths and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allies, Contacts, Enemies and Rivals continues Spica Publishing's fine tradition of producing high-quality supplementary material for the Traveller RPG, presenting over 60 fully detailed NPCs to help and hinder your players, a PsiTac team, individual Patrons, complete Free Trader, Scout/Courier, and Mercenary Cruiser starship crews and a marine striker platoon! Also included are 48 quick NPC statblocks to use as 'redshirts' in combat situations. Requires the Traveller core rulebook, available from Mongoose Publishing.

Download or read book World War II Allied Nursing Services written by Martin Brayley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The skill and care of the women of the Allied military nursing services was remembered gratefully by hundreds of thousands of wounded servicemen. The small peacetime services increased rapidly by enrolling reservists and volunteers; the great majority of the nurses who cared for Allied casualties were 'civilians in uniform', who worked tirelessly under difficult conditions and in tented hospitals close to the front lines in real danger; many nurses paid for their devotion with their lives. This first-ever fully illustrated study of the US, British, Commonwealth, and other nursing organisations includes many unpublished photographs and 24 meticulously illustrated colour figures.

Download or read book The Battle for Rome written by Robert Katz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark work draws on newly released documents and firsthand accounts to tell the dramatic story of Rome's dark days during the German occupation. 8-pages of photos. 2 maps.

Download or read book Fighting the People s War written by Jonathan Fennell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.

Download or read book MILITARY UNIFORMS IN EUROPE 1900 2000 Volume Two written by R Spencer Kidd and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book (Volume Two) gives an historical overview of 51 countries whose armed forces served in Europe 1900-2000, together with uniform descriptions. Includes 204 full colour paintings of the regular armies, marines, airforce and para-military troops engaged in land exercises, operations and warfare in Europe, including non-European troops serving in Europe. Each entry is accompanied by a history and description of the uniforms illustrated. The author and illustrator Ron Kidd, has been interested in both police and military history, uniforms and insignia since he was a school boy in the 1950's. He has visited over 300 police and military museums world-wide, and has written and illustrated a number of magazine articles on both police and military history and uniforms. He is a member of both the Military Heraldry Society and the Military Historical Society.

Download or read book Woman in Battle Dress written by Antonio Ben’tez-Rojo and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2016 PEN Center USA Award for Translation In 1809, at the age of eighteen, Henriette Faber enrolled herself in medical school in Paris—and since medicine was a profession prohibited to women, she changed her name to Henri in order to matriculate. She would spend the next fifteen years practicing medicine and living as a man. Drafted to serve as a surgeon in Napoleon's army, Faber endured the horrors of the 1812 retreat across Russia. She later embarked to the Caribbean and set up a medical practice in a remote Cuban village, where she married Juana de León, an impoverished local. Three years into their marriage, de León turned Faber in to the authorities, demanding that the marriage be annulled. A sensational legal trial ensued, and Faber was stripped of her medical license, forced to dress as a woman, sentenced to prison, and ultimately sent into exile. She was last seen on a boat headed to New Orleans in 1827. In this, his last published work, Antonio Benítez Rojo takes the outline provided by historical events and weaves a richly detailed backdrop for Faber, who becomes a vivid and complex figure grappling with the strictures of her time. Woman in Battle Dress is a sweeping, ambitious epic, in which Henriette Faber tells the story of her life, a compelling, entertaining, and ultimately triumphant tale. Praise for Woman in Battle Dress "Woman in Battle Dress by Antonio Benítez-Rojo, which has been beautifully translated from the Spanish by Jessica Ernst Powell, is the extraordinary account of an extraordinary person. Benítez-Rojo blows great gusts of fascinating fictional wind onto the all but forgotten embers of the actual Henriette Faber, and this blazing tale of her adventures as a military surgeon and a husband and about a hundred other fascinating things is both something we want and need to hear."—Laird Hunt, author of Neverhome "A picaresque novel starring an adventurous heroine, who caroms from country to country around the expanding Napoleonic empire, hooking up with a dazzling array of men (and women) as she goes. A wild ride!"—Carmen Boullosa, author of Texas: The Great Theft "As detailed as any work of history and as action filled as any swashbuckler, Woman in Battle Dress is not only Antonio Benítez Rojo's last and most ambitious book, but also his masterpiece. In this graceful English translation of Henriette Faber's autobiography—more than fiction, less than fact—American readers will have access to one of the most engaging novels to come out of Latin America in recent years."—Gustavo Pérez-Firmat, Columbia University Antonio Benítez-Rojo (1931–2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist and short-story writer. He was widely regarded as the most significant Cuban author of his generation. His work has been translated into nine languages and collected in more than 50 anthologies. One of his most influential publications, La Isla que se Repite, was published in 1989 by Ediciones del Norte, and published in English as The Repeating Island by Duke University Press in 1997. Jessica Powell has translated numerous Latin American authors, including works by César Vallejo, Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Cardenal, Maria Moreno, Ana Lidia Vega Serova and Edmundo Paz Soldán. Her translation (with Suzanne Jill Levine) of Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo's novel Where There's Love, There's Hate, was published by Melville House in 2013. She is the recipient of a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship in support of her translation of Antonio Benítez Rojo's novel Woman in Battle Dress.

Download or read book Modelling and Painting World War I Allied Figures written by Mike Butler and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide will enable you to create your own realistic small-scale models from the period of The Great War, specifically those involving the forces, aviation and armoured cars of Great Britain, the Commonwealth, France and Belgium. It also touches on other Allied Nations, Russia and Italy. With over 325 high quality photographs, this book covers what soldiers looked like in WW1, with actual clothing and equipment examples for use as reference. There are 'step by step' projects of figures and busts from concept to completion using a wide range of scales, mediums and materials. Each project is explained with an 'Important Steps' and 'Key Points' guide, plus painting palette recommendation. 'How to' illustrations demonstrating techniques and highlighting details are included as well as 'How to' explanations of painting techniques to create realistic-looking skin, clothing and equipment textures like serge battledress and canvas webbing. Many tips are given on how to set up your projects to ensure you are ready to begin experimenting with your own approach. Use these tips to help grow your confidence in sculpting, converting and painting your WW1 projects.

Download or read book The Day of Battle written by Rick Atkinson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy.

Download or read book Balaclava 1854 written by John Sweetman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balaclava 1854 examines in detail the crucial battle of Balaclava during The Crimean War. The port of Balaclava was crucial in maintaining the supply lines for the Allied siege of Sevastapol. The Russian attack in October 1854 therefore posed a major threat to the survival of the Allied cause. This book includes: the attack on the redoubts; the action of 'the thin red line' in which an assortment of about 700 British troops, some invalids, were abandoned by their Turkish allies; the subsequent charge of the Heavy Brigade; and the most famous part of the battle: the infamous charge of the Light Brigade.

Download or read book Summary of Cornelius Ryan s The Last Battle written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-02T22:59:00Z with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In the northern latitudes, the dawn came early. In Berlin, Germany’s most bombed city, the ruins stood out in stark, macabre splendor. The city was blackened by soot, pockmarked by thousands of craters, and laced by the twisted girders of ruined buildings. #2 The 314th American bombing raid on Berlin was over, and the city was in ruins. The statistics of destruction were staggering: three billion cubic feet of debris lay in the streets, enough rubble for a mountain more than a thousand feet high. #3 On March 21, 1945, Berliners went about their daily lives, despite the ongoing war. They rose early, and waited in line to get to work. #4 Berliners reacted to the dangers that threatened them in different ways. Some stubbornly disregarded the threat, hoping it would go away. Others courted it. Others reacted with anger or fear, and some prepared bravely to meet their fate head on.

Download or read book Uniforms of World War II written by Peter Darman and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See hundreds of iconic military uniforms, insignias, and badges worn by armies, navies, and air forces all over the world during the Second World War.

Download or read book Other Battle of the Bulge Operation Northwind written by Charles Whiting and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operation Northwind was the little-known second Battle of the Bulge, which cost the Americans and their French comrades-in-arms nearly as many casualties and almost detroyed the Alliance.It was planned by the Fuhrer himself, which hurled eight German divisions, three of them SS, against the thinly-held American line in the Alsace-Lorraine region. Although the US High Command was forewarned by 'Ultra' from Bletchley, the German pressure was just too much. The Americans were forced to retreat. For the first time during the campaign in the West, Eisenhower ordered his troops to give up ground paid for by so many lives and commanding that Stratbourg, which held a special place in both French and German hearts, should be evacuated. This sparked off a row which threatened to destroy the Franco-American Alliance and throw France into a dramatic revolution.Quick moving and action-packed, this book sees the events through the eyes of the soldiers who were 'at the sharp end', and fills a major gap in the history of World War II.

Download or read book The Battle of the Reichswald written by Tim Saunders and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During winter 1944/45 few German officers believed that the Allies would attack the wooded Reichswald Plug on the narrow neck of land between the rivers Rhine and Maas. Consequently, relying on the natural defenses of the forest, the vaunted Siegfried Line had been allowed to peter out. The 84th Infantry Division held field defenses that had been worked on all autumn, but the defenders were thinly spread, and most German soldiers now faced the certainty of defeat. Originally hoping to use the frozen winter ground for a speedy assault, days before Operation VERITABLE began a thaw set in and the Allies faced attacking in the worst possible ground conditions. On the morning of 8 February, after protracted bombardment, delays multiplied as vehicles became bogged in saturated fields and shell holes, and roads broke up under heavy armor. However, just enough assault engineer equipment reached the outer German defenses, where they found the enemy infantry largely stunned by the bombardment. It took all of the first day to break through the mud and defenses into the Reichswald, while to the north, Canadians and Scots struggled across equally sodden open country with the Rhine floods rising fast. Despite the conditions, overnight the Canadians took to the flood waters to seize what were now island villages and the Scots dashed to capture the vital Materborn, which overlooked Kleve. With heavy rain compounding difficulties, mud and flood waters made movement of men and supplies increasingly difficult. Despite this and the arrival of German reinforcements, the Allies fought their way forward, forcing the Reichswald Plug and opening the way into the Rhineland and the final phases of the war.