Search Results: Titles starting with D from Viceroy Books

The Stationary Office, 2000. New book, 392 pages. Uncovered Editions are historic official papers which have not been previously available in popular form. There is a fashionable view that the decisive battle to finish the Second World War took place in a few days of hard fighting on the French Coast and some difficult encounters on the Dutch-German border. General Eisenhower's account of the invasion of Europe in 1944 presents the story of a far mmore arduous struggle against forces whose tenacity he admired and whose skill he feared. It is a tectical account of his understanding of enemy manoeuvres, and his attempts to counter their actions.. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

The Stationary Office, 2000. New book, 392 pages. Uncovered Editions are historic official papers which have not been previously available in popular form. There is a fashionable view that the decisive battle to finish the Second World War took place in a few days of hard fighting on the French Coast and some difficult encounters on the Dutch-German border. General Eisenhower's account of the invasion of Europe in 1944 presents the story of a far mmore arduous struggle against forces whose tenacity he admired and whose skill he feared. It is a tectical account of his understanding of enemy manoeuvres, and his attempts to counter their actions.. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

The Stationary Office, 2000. New book, 392 pages. Uncovered Editions are historic official papers which have not been previously available in popular form. There is a fashionable view that the decisive battle to finish the Second World War took place in a few days of hard fighting on the French Coast and some difficult encounters on the Dutch-German border. General Eisenhower's account of the invasion of Europe in 1944 presents the story of a far mmore arduous struggle against forces whose tenacity he admired and whose skill he feared. It is a tectical account of his understanding of enemy manoeuvres, and his attempts to counter their actions.. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: Arcturus Publishing Ltd, 2004. New book, some shelf wear to jacket. 144 pages, dozens of photos and maps. This book tells the story of Operation Overlord, the largest amd most meticulously planned seaborne invasion if the history of warfare. It details the action at Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha, and Utah beach sites, and the Airborne assaults, and contains an index of the Armies, Battles an Commanders.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London, United Kingdom: Arcturus Publishing Ltd, 2004. New book, some shelf wear to jacket. 144 pages, dozens of photos and maps. This book tells the story of Operation Overlord, the largest amd most meticulously planned seaborne invasion if the history of warfare. It details the action at Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha, and Utah beach sites, and the Airborne assaults, and contains an index of the Armies, Battles an Commanders.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Osprey Pub Co, 2005. New book, 64 pages, FOR037. German defenses along the Normandy beaches were part of the larger Atlantic Wall fortifications designed to defend Fortress Europe. When Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took command of the invasion front in late 1943, he began a program to enhance fortifications along the Normandy coast as he believed that any Allied assault had to be stopped on the invasion beaches themselves. His most important contribution to the defenses was an extensive program of improvised beach obstructions to complicate any landing attempt. This book analyses these fortifications and describes how the Allied forces overcame them on the morning of June 6, 1944.. Soft Cover. As New. Illus. by Johnson, Hugh. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2003. New book, 176 pages. Large format book, hundreds of photos. This book covers all the perspectives of the D-Day invasion, with new insights gained from the latest research. Beginning with the first tentative plans to invade Europe, the author traces the story of Operation Overlord though to the actual invasion and beyond. Containing many previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, and rare photos, some in colour, this book illuminates each stage of the daring campaign that became the turning point of the Second World War.. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Ventura Publications, 2012. New book, 72 pages. 38 colour illustrations, 112 Black and white photos plus line art illustrations. Book contents: D-Day Gun Spotters; Mobile Spitfire Squadron; Flying for two Air Forces; Fighters at Night; Tempest Squadron; Combating the V-2; From Tempest to Meteor; Reconnaissance Fighters; Anti-Shipping Beaufighters. "From D-Day to Berlin" is a revised and expanded reprint of Classic Warbirds No.5. Most of the new material is Luftwaffe 'broken eagle' photos from 1945 and an RAF Beaufighter story with previously unpublished photos from privates collections. Stories from mid 1944 until the post war occupation force are included. Where possible each chapter is based on interviews with individuals who were there. . Soft Cover. As New. Illus. by Laird, Malcolm. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Osprey Pub Co, 2012. New book, 80 pages, DUE42. The advent and deployment of the Royal Flying Corps' Airco DH 2 in 1916 effectively eliminated the 'scourge' of aerial dominance enjoyed by the Fokker Eindecker monoplanes. Spearheaded by No 24 Sqn and led by Victoria Cross recipient Lanoe Hawker, the ungainly yet nimble DH 2 - with its rotary engine 'pusher' configuration affording excellent visibility and eliminating the need for a synchronised machine gun - had wrested air superiority from the Germans by the spring and then maintained it through the Battle of the Somme that summer. However, by autumn German reorganisation had seen the birth of the Jagdstaffel and arrival of the new Albatros D II, a sleek inline-engined machine built for speed and twin-gun firepower. Thus, for the remainder of the year an epic struggle for aerial superiority raged above the horrors of the Somme battlefields, pitting the manoeuvrable yet under-gunned DH 2s - which were also plagued by sundry engine… Read More

United Kingdom: Phoenix Press, 2002. New book, 319 pages. The former politician and international authority on Mexican archaeology and society, Jacques Soustelle, presents a vivid account of the Aztecs, whose fierce, honourable, death-obsessed, profoundly religious people, from their savage days through their swift rise to a life of exquisite splendour in a city filled with 'thing unseen, nor ever even dreamed'. He shows them to have been a people we can understand and sympathise with, even in the darkest symbolism of their blood drenched worship; and he shows what the Aztecs might have become. His account pinpointes them in that moment of their history when they seemed to be on their way to even greater achievements - but the end of their civilisation was already nigh and advancing towards them from the Gulf of Mexico in the shape of Cortes who had landed on March 4th,1519.. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

United Kingdom: Phoenix Press, 2002. New book, 308 pages. On the evidence of their brilliantly evocative wall paintings, terracottas, bronzes and jewellery, the Etruscans appear to have had a tremendous zest for life with a fondness for dancing, horse-racing, every form of musical activity and sooth saying. The most remarkable inhabitants of early Italy, their kings held sway in Rome for more than a hundred and fifty years. But after the expulsion of the Tarquins at the end of the sixth century BC they began to lose ground to the Romans and their distinctive culture was gradually absorbed into the pan-Italic civilization that Rome established. Professor Heurgon, one of the world's leading authorities on the Etruscans, combines the fruit of moder archaeology with a frech analysis of the literary evidence to reconstruct the lives of the Etruscans.. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Cassell, 2002. New book, 314 pages. Operation Chastise - the Dambuster Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of May 16 1943, was the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. For the loss of 11 aircraft, the Mohne and Eder dams in Germany's industrial heartland were breached, and a famous if controversial victory won. This book is the most comprehensive account of this legendary mission, from the development of the Barnes Wallis 'bouncing bomb' to every moment of the raid itself, under the charismatic command of Guy Gibson, VC.. Mass Market Paperback. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.: Naval Inst Pr, 2000. New book, 206 pages. Considered one of the most heroic missions in the annals of naval aviation, the expedition included the overflight of some thirty thousand square miles of the High Arctic in open cockpit Loening Amphibian biplanes and a series of other events in which the explorers risked their lives in an unforgiving environment to add to the store of human knowledge. The authors dramatic account fully documents the expeditions important work in the ruggedly beautiful Arctic landscape and provides significant insight into the character of the most famous and controversial polar explorers - Richard Byrd.. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Trackpad Publishing, 2019. New book, 64 pages, 200 photos. This In the Field book looks at the Danish Leopard 2A5DK as it appeared in the desert sands of Helmand Province, Afghanistan, from 2007 until 2014. This book complements the two existing Trackpad books detailing the Danish Leopard 2 - Danish Leopards in Helmand - from the Crew’s Perspective, and Danish Leopard 2A5DK and QRF. We follow Leopard 2 and its support vehicles arriving in theatre, in training and operations in the desert, supporting and being supported by British and US forces, plus an extensive look at the beast as equipped for the desert and its mission.. Soft Cover. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Trackpad Publishing, 2015. New book, 100 pages. The fourth in our series of Model Foto Focus reference books includes colour full-view and walkaround captioned photos of a Leopard 1 that spent many years on peace-keeping duties with IFOR, KFOR and SFOR. From February 1976, Denmark started to receive their first Leopard 1A3DKs, and by 1978 all had been supplied. Towards the end of the 1980s, the Danish Army had to realise that an upgrade of the Leopards could no longer be postponed and a programme to upgrade to 1A5DK standard was started. Whereas the 1A3 version had lived a relatively unchanged life during its fifteen years, the 1A5 version was to have fifteen years with many changes. The main reason for this was a change in the operation for the Danish Army. In the lifetime of the 1A3 version, the task of the army was to participate in the defence of the country and NATO. In the lifetime of the 1A5DK version, the army had an increasing number of international assignments, largely peace-keeping… Read More

Trackpad Publishing, 2016. New book, 152 pages, 278 photos and diagrams. Danish Leopard 2A5 Main Battle Tanks were deployed to Afghanistan from 2007 to 2014 as part of Denmark's contribution to the NATO ISAF mission. The purpose of this book is to tell the story of the Danish tankers who manned these vehicles. Their tales will be told, as the soldiers told them to me. This, you will get insight into some very personal stories about the experiences of the crew members, while they were 'at work' in Afghanistan. The Leopard 2 tanks were deployed in Afghanistan as a direct fire unit which could support the Danish infantry units. This book is about the men who operated these machines in their own words, crews extensively interviewed to gain an insight into the life of a tanker in an alien operational theatre thousands of miles from home.. Soft Cover. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Trackpad Publishing, 2017. New book, 134 pages. Our latest Model Foto Focus book is a bumper 134 pages (nearly 500 photos) giving the reader a thorough exploration of the exterior of Denmark's main battle tank. Written by Danish modeller and Leopard fan, Bobber Moller, and featuring in-theatre photos from Afghanistan taken by Carl Schulze, this is the most thorough look at this important tank in print. With the end of the Cold War and a change in Danish foreign policy to participate more in international coalitions, the Danish Defence went through a major reconstruction in the 1990s which led to major cut-backs in the Cold War structure of Danish military. In 1993, it was decided to form a new deployment 4,500 man brigade called the Danish International Brigade. The German Leopard 2 was chosen to be the main tank of the new brigade. The Leopard 2 was chosen over the US-made M1A1, and it was immediately decided that the Leopards would be 2A5DK standard. The Danish modification requirements included… Read More

Trackpad Publishing, 2019. New book, 64 pages, 200 photos. This In the Field book looks at the Danish Leopard 2A5DK as it appeared in the desert sands of Helmand Province, Afghanistan, from 2007 until 2014. This book complements the two existing Trackpad books detailing the Danish Leopard 2 - Danish Leopards in Helmand - from the Crew’s Perspective, and Danish Leopard 2A5DK and QRF. We follow Leopard 2 and its support vehicles arriving in theatre, in training and operations in the desert, supporting and being supported by British and US forces, plus an extensive look at the beast as equipped for the desert and its mission.. Soft Cover. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Trackpad Publishing, 2017. New book, 134 pages. Our latest Model Foto Focus book is a bumper 134 pages (nearly 500 photos) giving the reader a thorough exploration of the exterior of Denmark's main battle tank. Written by Danish modeller and Leopard fan, Bobber Moller, and featuring in-theatre photos from Afghanistan taken by Carl Schulze, this is the most thorough look at this important tank in print. With the end of the Cold War and a change in Danish foreign policy to participate more in international coalitions, the Danish Defence went through a major reconstruction in the 1990s which led to major cut-backs in the Cold War structure of Danish military. In 1993, it was decided to form a new deployment 4,500 man brigade called the Danish International Brigade. The German Leopard 2 was chosen to be the main tank of the new brigade. The Leopard 2 was chosen over the US-made M1A1, and it was immediately decided that the Leopards would be 2A5DK standard. The Danish modification requirements included… Read More

Trackpad Publishing, 2019. New book, 64 pages, 200 photos. This In the Field book looks at the Danish Leopard 2A5DK as it appeared in the desert sands of Helmand Province, Afghanistan, from 2007 until 2014. This book complements the two existing Trackpad books detailing the Danish Leopard 2 - Danish Leopards in Helmand - from the Crew’s Perspective, and Danish Leopard 2A5DK and QRF. We follow Leopard 2 and its support vehicles arriving in theatre, in training and operations in the desert, supporting and being supported by British and US forces, plus an extensive look at the beast as equipped for the desert and its mission.. Soft Cover. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.