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British Battlecruisers 1939-45 by Angus Konstam; Tony Bryan (Illustrator, Translator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
When war broke out in 1939, only three true battlecruisers remained in the Royal Navy including HMS ‘Hood’, the world's largest and fastest capital ship for much of her life, which would be destroyed in action against the German battleship ‘Bismarck’. Out of the remaining two battlecruisers (‘Repulse’ a ...Show more
British Destroyers 1939–45Wartime-built classes by Angus Konstam
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
As the possibility of war loomed in the 1930s, the British Admiralty looked to update their fleet of destroyers to compete with the new ships being built by Germany and Japan, resulting in the commissioning of the powerful Tribal-class. These were followed by the designing of the first of several slight ...Show more
British Gunboats of Victoria's Empire by Angus Konstam; Paul Wright (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
A beautifully illustrated history of the iconic ocean-going gunboats of British 'gunboat diplomacy', the hundreds of little warships that for 50 years demonstrated the power of the Royal Navy worldwide, and which maintained and enforced the rule of the British Empire at its peak.In recent years the phra ...Show more
British Ironclads 1860-75 - HMS Warrior and the Royal Navy's 'Black Battlefleet' by Angus Konstam; Paul Wright (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
In November 1859, the French warship La Gloire was launched. She was the world's first seagoing ironclad - a warship built from wood, but whose hull was clad in a protective layer of iron plate. Britain, not to be outdone, launched her own ironclad the following year - HMS Warrior - which, when she ente ...Show more
Churchill Infantry Tank 1941-51 by Bryan Perrett; Peter Sarson (Illustrator); Mike Chappell (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
The Churchill was undoubtedly one of the most successful British tanks of the Second World War. Although it suffered from being underarmed, a defect common to most British armoured vehicles of the period, it was nevertheless loved by its crews: its cross-country ability was unrivalled and it was less in ...Show more
Early US Armor by Zaloga Steven J.
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
The first American armoured cars began to emerge around the turn of the century, seeing their first military use in 1916 during the Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa. When the United States entered World War I, the American Expeditionary Forces used some armoured cars in France, and American armo ...Show more
Foreign Panthers - The Panzer V in British, Soviet, French and Other Service 1943-58 by Thomas Seignon; M. P. Robinson; Henry Morshead (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
A study of the little-known career of Germany's Panther, perhaps the greatest tank of World War II, in foreign hands both during and after the war.The Panther was arguably the most successful medium tank design of World War II, demonstrated by the number of Germany's enemies that used them after, and ev ...Show more
German Field Artillery of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga; Felipe Rodriguez (Illustrator)
Category: Military History | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
An illustrated study of the big guns of Hitler's army - the Wehrmacht's field artillery, its capabilities and its role in German fighting units of World War II. Often overshadowed in military history by the tanks and aircraft of Blitzkrieg, Germany's artillery was key to its methods of waging war throug ...Show more
German Tanks in Normandy 1946 by Steven J. Zaloga
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
German Tanks In Normandy 1944, The Panzer, Sturmgeschütz and Panzerjäger forces that faced the D-Day invasion. The German tank forces in Normandy in June-August 1944 had the advantage of fighting on the defensive side, as well as fielding some of the most powerful tanks used by any army in the war. Yet ...Show more
German and Italian Aircraft Carriers of World War II by Ryan K. Noppen; Douglas C. Dildy; Paul Wright (Illustrator)
Category: History | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
The history of Nazi Germany's attempt to build a modern aircraft carrier, and the other aviation ships that Germany and Italy designed or operated. The quest for a modern aircraft carrier was the ultimate symbol of the Axis powers' challenge to Allied naval might, but fully-fledged carriers proved e ...Show more
Greek and Roman Siege Machinery 399 BC - AD 363 by NV78
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
This volume covers such great events as the Siege of Syracuse and the Roman siege of Masada. It traces the development of siege-towers and battering-rams from the Carthaginian invasion of Sicily in the late 5th century to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyers 1919-45 (2) - Asashio to Tachibana Classes by Mark Stille; Paul Wright (Illustrator)
Category: Military SPECIALS | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
During the Pacific War, at Java Sea, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, throughout the Solomons, Marianas, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa campaigns, destroyers were the backbone of every fleet. Arguably the most successful component of the Imperial Japanese Fleet was its destroyer force. These ships wer ...Show more