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The Past & Present series reconstructs battles and operations by juxtaposing contemporary and modern photography.

Author: Steven Smith & Simon Forty.

Publisher: Casemate.

Paperback. 64pp. 18cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781612004235

Original Price: £9.99

The Past & Present series reconstructs battles and operations by juxtaposing contemporary and modern photography.

Author: Steven Smith.

Publisher: Casemate.

Paperback. 64pp. 18cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781612005362

Original Price: £9.99

With detailed diagrams and many photos illustrating the composition of the Allied armored divisions and tank regiments present at Normandy this volume explains the crucial part played by tanks in gaining a foothold in Normandy after the D-Day landings as well as the significance of many other types of armored vehicles.

Author: Yves Buffetaut

Publisher: Casemate.

Paperback. 128pp. 17cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781612006079

Weight: 421

Original Price: £19.99

The secret diary of Hitler's army adjutant.

Translated by Geoffrey Brooks.

Publisher: Frontline Books.

Paperback. 208pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9781473885691

Original Price: £12.99

Painting wargaming figures.

Author: Andy Singleton.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 128pp. 17cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526765604

Weight: 488

Original Price: £14.99

During the Second World War, RAF Biggin Hill was one of Fighter Command's premier stations. Throughout the Battle of Britain and beyond, it became a hotbed of talent and expertise, home to many of the Command's most notable and successful squadrons. Both on the ground and in the air, Biggin Hill had a formidable reputation and its prowess was very much built on a partnership between air and ground personnel, including squadron members, specialist engineers, armourers and other ground-crew. This fascinating new book from Jon Tan offers a rich account of the years 1941-1942, an incredibly varied and eventful period in Biggin's story.

Author: Jon E. C. Tan

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 250pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781473881693

Weight. 0.774Kg

Original Price: £25.00

On 10 May 1940 German Fallschirmjäger stormed the Dutch fort of Eben-Emael, south of Maastricht. The brilliantly executed operation was the first signal success by airborne troops in the Second World War and it made the military world sit up and take notice. Improved parachutes and the creation of gliders that could carry troops meant that assault forces could be dropped or landed behind enemy lines.

Author: Simon & Jonathan Forty

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN 9781399011143

Weight. 0.760Kg

Original Price: £25.00

Martin Bowman presents us here with an unparalleled account of events as they unfolded in the skies above Holland during Operation ‘Market-Garden’ in September 1944. ‘Market-Garden’ was a heroic failure conducted at great cost; combined losses - both airborne and ground forces - in killed, wounded and missing amounted to more than 17,000.

Author: Martin W. Bowman

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 336pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526746115

Weight: 0.736Kg

Original Price: £25.00

This superb Images of War book examines, using contemporary and modern images and maps, the course of the campaign and its implication for both the American troops and the civilian population of the battlezone.

Author: Dr Brooke S Blades

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 252pp. 19cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526743961

Weight: 726g

Original Price: £15.99

Bader, a graduate of the RAF College Cranwell and a professional, career officer, was a gifted sportsman and aerobatic pilot – but headstrong. After a crash that led to the amputation of both of his legs, the Second World War was this man of action’s salvation: passing a flying test, he returned to the RAF, first flying Spitfires with 19 Squadron at Duxford. In due course he was posted to 222 Squadron as a flight commander, seeing action over Dunkirk.

Author: Dilip Sarkar

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 272pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781399017152

Weight.804g

Original Price: £25.00

Day-by-day details of the operation that formed just one part of what is commonly referred to as the Battle of Normandy.

Author: Georges Bernage.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 288pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN 9781473857612

Original Price: £25.00

A novel from the Eastern front of 1941.

Author: Steve Marshall.

Publisher: Leandoer & Ekholm.

Paperback. 302pp. 15cm by 21cm.

ISBN 9789185657261

Original Price: £11.99