During World War II, few groups within the Royal Navy fought a harder, more intense war than the men of Coastal Forces. Their job was to operate the Motor Torpedo Boats (MTBs), Motor Launches (MLs) and Motor Gun Boats (MGBs) that protected coastal convoys, attacked enemy ones, and performed a myriad of duties, which include the dropping of agents and commandos on a hostile shore, raids on enemy ports, and near-suicidal attacks on larger enemy warships. While the MTBs were the "bombers", delivering their payload of high explosive torpedoes, the crew of the MGBs used their machine guns and small-calibre guns to sink, burn or destroy their enemy counterparts. For that reason they saw their frail, sleek craft as the "Spitfire of the Seas".
Motor Gun Boats were similar to Motor Torpedo Boats, only their decks were crammed with as many guns as they could carry - and to man these weapons, they required a larger crew. During the early years of the war, they were used to counter the threat posed by German E-Boats in the English Channel, but by 1941 they were in use offensively, conducting sweeps along the enemy coast in search of prey. By 1942 British MGBs were seen in the Mediterranean, interdicting Axis supply routes to North Africa, and later supporting the Allied invasion forces as they landed in Sicily, Italy and the South of France.
The majority of these small wooden craft were built in Britain by the British Power Boat Company or Fairmile Marine. They came in a variety of shapes and sizes, but in late 1942 the Fairmile "D" MGB made its appearance - a boat which would come to dominate coastal operations during the last years of the war. Known as "Dog Boats" by their crew, they were fast, powerful and versatile. By the end of the war, over 200 of these small boats had been built and they represented the pinnacle of wartime British motor boat design.
This New Vanguard title tells the story of these fragile but deadly little warships.

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Alexander Werth - Russia at War, 1941-1945 (1999).jpg

In this widely acclaimed history of a country at war, Alexander Werth unfolds in startling human terms the story of the Russian people and their leaders in the Soviet conflict with the Nazis from the disasters of the Second World War to the beginnings of the Cold War. Himself an eyewitness to the shattering historical drama he vividly records, Werth offers an intensely detailed chronicle of the events that exceeded in savagery and hatred any other on Russian soil. >From the hardships of the citizenry to the sweep of massive military operations to the corridors of diplomacy, this modern classic captures every aspect of the grim but heroic Soviet-German war that turned Russia into the most powerful nation in the Old World.

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World War II2 - Waffen-Arsenal 27 - Werner Mller - 8,8 cm Flak 1976.jpg

Die 8,8-cm-FlaK war eine vorwiegend im Zweiten Weltkrieg gebaute und eingesetzte deutsche Flugabwehrkanone, die auch häufig gegen Bodenziele zum Einsatz kam.

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Militaria 166 - Robert Sawicki - GMC (2003).jpg

Historia rozwoju i zastosowania bojowego w okresie II wœ. "klasycznych" amerykańskich dwóipół tonowych samochodów ciężarowych z napędem 6x6. 98 fotografii, 19 stron kolorowych. The history of development and combat use during WW II of classic U.S. 6x6 2.5-ton truck. 98 photos, 19 colour pages. Polish text, English photo captions.

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Militaria 166 - Robert Sawicki - GMC (2003).pdf

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Squadron - Warships 13 - T. Garth Connelly - Vospe r MTBs in action (2000).jpg

The Motor Torpedo Boats (MTBs) employed by the British Royal Navy during World War II - along with the US Navy's Patrol Torpedo (PT) Boats - can trace their roots to the 1876 torpedo boat HMS LIGHTNING. The British firm Thornycroft produced this 84-foot (25.6 m) long steam-powered craft to carry the newly designed and patented Whitehead torpedo.
Invented in England in 1866 by Robert Whitehead, this torpedo was 14 feet (4.3 m) in length and weighed 400 pounds (181.4 kg). The torpedo's warhead weighed less than 20 pounds (9.1 kg). A compressed air motor propelled the torpedo to a top speed of seven knots (12.97 kmh). The effective range of the Whitehead torpedo was approximately 1000 yards (914.4 m). LIGHTNING could reach a maximum speed of 18 knots (33.4 kmh); however, its endurance of three hours at high speed restricted this boat to coastal operations.
The British International Trophy for motorboats spurred Thornycroft to develop the racing boat MIRANDA IV in 1910. This 40 foot (12.2 m) long single step hydroplane reached a maximum speed of 40 knots (74.1 kmh) - an unheard-of speed for early 20th Century watercraft. MIRANDA IV served as the basis for Thornycroft's later Coastal Motor Boats (CMBs) built for the Royal Navy during World War I. The CMBs were 55 feet (16.8 m) long and armed with two 18 inch (45.7 cm) torpedoes mounted in stern troughs. The boat's crew launched their torpedoes off the stern while the boat raced towards its target. After the weapons were released, the boat was turned sharply out of the torpedoes' path.
The Royal Navy also discovered that CMBs could perform anti-submarine and minelaying duties, although the boats were not designed for these tasks. These lightly armed 'speedboats' of World War I evolved into the British MTBs of World War II.

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Squadron - Warships 13 - T. Garth Connelly - Vospe r MTBs in action (2000).pdf

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Anatomy of the Ship - John Lambert - The Fairmile ''D'' Motor Torpedo Boat (1985).jpg

The name Fairmile is justly famous for the company's various Coastal Force motor launches and other types used by the Royal and Commonwealth navies (as well as those nations with navies in exile) during the Second World War. The Fairmile 'B' was built in very large numbers, both in the UK and abroad, and later 'D's are well known for being the most heavily armed craft for their size of that period - but how did that vast organisation come into being? This is a small part of that story and the process that brought the 'D' into existence.
During the First World War the success of German submarine attacks in British coastal waters led to demands for large numbers of anti-submarine motor launches. These were not available from British sources, and the need was met by the production of some 580 motor launches, by the Electric Boat Company of Bayonne, New Jersey, USA, for shipment to the United Kingdom. Their design was based upon that of a type of motor cruiser popular in the US. Early units were 75ft overall, but later deliveries were 80ft in length. Powered by two 6-cylinder petrol engines, and displacing about 42 tons, they were armed with a single 3pdr gun, on occasion a Lewis light machine gun, and depth charges.
Whilst they did provide some measure of defence, in truth, they were not very well suited to the conditions that prevailed along British coasts, being found wet in any seaway, and consequently of limited operational value. However, it proved that there was a requirement in time of war for large numbers of motor launches for patrol and anti-submarine duties.

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Anatomy of the Ship - John Lambert - The Fairmile ''D'' Motor Torpedo Boat (1985).pdf

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Mike Hughes - The Hebrides at War (1998).jpg

A collection of photographs of the key west coast bases in Scotland during World War 2. The Hebrides were an important but little known theatre of the war and the photographs are accompanied by first-hand accounts of U-boat attacks, convoy attacks and the preparation for D-Day, from both military and civilian sources.

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Geoffrey Jukes - The Second World War, Vol. 5, The Eastern Front 1941-1945 (2003).jpg

In 1940, fresh from the success in France, Hitler turned his attention to the East. In this volume, Geoffrey Jukes explains what led to Hitler's decision to invade the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) and offers an account of the campaign that followed. The Germans expected to conquer Russia in only four months, but at Stalingrad and then at Kursk the Russians held their ground. At a human cost of 27 million Russian lives, Hitler was forced into a humiliating retreat, while the Soviet Union emerged from the war as a global superpower.

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Russell Hart - The Second World War, Vol. 6, North west Europe, 1944-1945 (2003).jpg

This book examines the seminal Northwest Europe campaign of World War II. This hard-fought campaign, conducted by the Allies against the Germans during 1944-45, represented the decisive theater of the entire Second World War for the Allied forces. From the desperate and risk-laden D-Day landings on 6 June 1944 to the rapid charge through western and central Germany in the last weeks of the war, American, British, Canadian, and French military forces took on and defeated the German military--a victory that ensured the scourge of Nazism was expunged from the face of Europe.

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Steve Morewood - The British Defense of Egypt, Con flict and Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranian (200 4).jpg

This book offers a comprehensive and challenging analysis of the British defense of Egypt, primarily against fascist Italy, in the critical lead-up period to the Second World War, culminating in the decisive defeat of the Italian military threat at Sidi Barrani in December 1940. The security of Egypt, a constant of British imperial strategy, is a curiously neglected dimension of the still burning appeasement debate. Yet it was a factor which demanded constant consideration by British policy-makers and figured in the crises of the period over Abyssinia, Czechoslovakia, Albania and Poland. By giving equal weight to the perspectives and assessments of the men on the spot, Steven Morewood adds to the originality of his interpretation by suggesting the old view should be reinstated: that Mussolini should and could have been stopped in his empire-building at the Abyssinian hurdle. Thereafter, as Nazi Germany tore the Versailles peace settlement to shreds, the drift to war accelerated as British resolve and credibility were brought into question. The fascist dictators in Rome and Berlin held no respect for weakness and Mussolini became the conduit through which Hitler could apply pressure to a sensitive British interest through reinforcing Libya at critical moments. The efforts to appease Mussolini are reprised through the prism of the Egyptian dimension. Because of Il Duce's grandiose ambitions to usurp the dominance of Britain and France of the Mediterranean such efforts were doomed to failure. Notwithstanding its manifest imperial over stretch, Britain remained determined to retain axiomatic parts of its empire, not least Egypt. Once Nazi Germany knocked out Britain's key ally the first and only Anglo-Italian war became inevitable. The author considers these developments and the Anglo-Egyptian relationship, wherein Britain was always the dominant partner. Symbolizing that dominance was its ambassador, Sir Miles Lampson, who was also an incessant campaigner to improve Egypt's defenses, provoking ire from the Chiefs of Staff.

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David Brown -The Road to Oran, Anglo-Franch Naval Relations, September 1939-July 1940 (2004).jpg

On 3 July 1940, soon after the collapse of the French front and France's request for an armistice, a reluctant Royal Navy commander opened fire on the French Navy squadron at Mers-el-Kebir. Some 1,300 French sailors lost their lives. The driving force behind this extraordinary event was the British government's determination that the French Fleet would never fall into the hands of the Axis powers. A combination of mistrust, dissembling, poor communications and outright enmity over the preceding month had catastrophic results, both for the individuals concerned and for the future of Franco-British naval relations.
The late David Brown's detailed account finally conveys an objective understanding of the course of events that led up to this tragedy. The book makes extensive use of primary sources such as correspondence, reports and signals traffic, from the British Cabinet to the admirals, the commanders-in-chief and the liaison officers.

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German Trucks & Cars in WWII vol.II - VW at War - Michael Sawodny - Kübelwagen, Schwimmwagen & Speci al Vehicles (1991).jpg

World War II2 - German Trucks Cars in WWII vol.II - VW at War - Mic...dny - Kbelwagen, Schwimmwagen Special Vehicles 1991.jpg

It is a translation of "VW kubelwagen und VW schwimwagen WA band 105" by Podzun-Pallas verlag.

Military History 055 - German Trucks & Cars in WW2 (Vol 2)
It has information and photo's on the floating kubelwagen, swim prototypes
Schwimmwagen 128 and 166 photo's and photo's of special versions.

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German Trucks & Cars in WWII vol.II - VW at War - Michael Sawodny - Kübelwagen, Schwimmwagen & Speci al Vehicles (1991).pdf

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David E Jane - British Military Transport World Wa r Two (1978).jpg

When dealing with military vehicles in service, it is quite natural to think immediately of tanks, armoured cars and other hardware' that form the fighting force of any army. It is these vehicles that attract the most glamour and hence the most interest, but if an army consisted of just fighting vehicles it would be useless as an offensive, or even defensive force, because lines of supply and communication must exist to provide the constant stream of ammunition, food and stores that will inevitably be required. This is where the transport side achieves its importance.
In this book I am dealing specifically with a survey of the transport vehicles of the British Army during the Second World War or - the cars, trucks and lorries that were used to transport men, machines and equipment from one place to another. Trucks used for specialist non-transport purposes, such as wireless, machinery workshop, mobile laboratory, etc. are not included as these are outside the terms of reference. The title may be taken quite literally, for we are not dealing just with British Army' transport, but also British' army transport - in other words, the vehicles of British manufacture that were used for this purpose. Vehicles of American and Commonwealth manufacture will form the subjects of future books in this series.

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Mark Harrison - The Economics of World War II, Six Great Powers in International Comparison (1998).jpg

This book, the result of an international collaborative project, provides a new quantitative view of the wartime economic experiences of six great powers: the UK, the United States, Germany, Italy, Japan and the USSR. A chapter is devoted to each country, while the introductory chapter presents a comparative overview. It aims to provide a text of statistical reference for those interested in international and comparative economic history, the history of World War II, the history of economic policy, and comparative economic systems.

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Thomas D. Schoonover - Hitler's Man in Havana, Hei nz Luning and Nazi Espionage in Latin America (200 8).jpg

When Heinz Lüning posed as a Jewish refugee to spy for Hitler's Abwehr espionage agency, he thought he had discovered the perfect solution to his most pressing problem: how to avoid being drafted into Hitler's army. Lüning was unsympathetic to Fascist ideology, but the Nazis' tight control over exit visas gave him no chance to escape Germany. He could enter Hitler's army either as a soldier... or a spy. In 1941, he entered the Abwehr academy for spy training and was given the code name "Lumann." Soon after, Lüning began the service in Cuba that led to his ultimate fate of being the only German spy executed in Latin America during World War II. Lüning was not the only spy operating in Cuba at the time. Various Allied spies labored in Havana; the FBI controlled eighteen Special Intelligence Service operatives, and the British counterintelligence section subchief Graham Greene supervised Secret Intelligence Service agents; and Ernest Hemingway's private agents supplied inflated and inaccurate information about submarines and spies to the U.S. ambassador, Spruille Braden. Lüning stumbled into this milieu of heightened suspicion and intrigue. Poorly trained and awkward at his work, he gathered little information worth reporting, was unable to build a working radio and improperly mixed the formulas for his secret inks. Lüning eventually was discovered by British postal censors and unwittingly provided the inspiration for Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana. In chronicling Lüning's unlikely trajectory from a troubled life in Germany to a Caribbean firing squad, Thomas D. Schoonover makes brilliant use of untapped documentary sources to reveal the workings of the famed Abwehr and the technical and social aspects of Lüning's spycraft. Using archival sources from three continents, Schoonover offers a narrative rich in atmospheric details to reveal the political upheavals of the time, not only tracking Lüning's activities but also explaining the broader trends in the region and in local counterespionage. Schoonover argues that ambitious Cuban and U.S. officials turned Lüning's capture into a grand victory. For at least five months after Lüning's arrest, U.S. and Cuban leaders -- J. Edgar Hoover, Fulgencio Batista, Nelson Rockefeller, General Manuel Benítez, Ambassador Spruille Braden, and others -- treated Lüning as a dangerous, key figure for a Nazi espionage network in the Gulf-Caribbean. They reworked his image from low-level bumbler to master spy, using his capture for their own political gain. In the sixty years since Lüning's execution, very little has been written about Nazi espionage in Latin America, partly due to the reticence of the U.S. government. Revealing these new historical sources for the first time, Schoonover tells a gripping story of Lüning's life and capture, suggesting that Lüning was everyone's man in Havana but his own.

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Concord - Warrior 6524 - Gordon Rottmann - The Fa ll of Monte Cassino (2007).jpg

Perhaps one of the best known battles in the Italian campaign was the Battle of Monte Cassino. There was actually a series of four battles, the first starting on 17 January 1944, and the last on 18 May. Monte Cassino was a key to the German defensive Winter Line south of Rome, also known as the Gustav Line. Concord Publications is proud to release a new volume in its Warrior series that is fully devoted to this pivotal battle.

The Battle of Monte Cassino involved almost the full spectrum of Allied nations - USA, France, New Zealand, India, Great Britain, and Poland - fighting against their battle-hardened German nemesis. However, the author has selected the final battle as the main focus for this title. While the book's introduction begins with a concise summary of the individual battles, it quickly moves on to a deeper examination of II Polish Corps, which played a principal role in the final bloody capture of the town of Monte Cassino and its famous monastery. The Poles suffered a staggering total of almost 4000 casualties, and it is said that the red poppies that cover Monte Cassino's slopes in spring owe their color to the blood spilt by these Polish soldiers!

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