Military institutions Books
Merrion Press Kildare Barracks: From the Royal Field Artillery
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£59.50
Helion & Company From Docks and Sand: Southport and Bootle’S
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£42.16
Casemate Publishers Armies of Bismarck's Wars: Prussia, 1860–1867
Book SynopsisOn July 3rd, 1866, a Prussian army overwhelmed and defeated an Austrian army near the fortress city of Königgrätz in a bloody battle that lasted all day. The foremost power in Germany and central Europe had been reduced to a second rate player. The event caused alarm in the rest of the Western world. How was a country like Prussia able to upset the balance of power in Europe, when only sixteen years earlier Austria’s treaty of Olmützit had put it in its place? Its performance as an Austrian ally had been less than stellar in the 2nd Schleswig War of 1864. Yet within five years a Prussian-led army would humble France and a Prussian King would be crowned Emperor of a united Germany. The history of the world would be changed forever.The story of this army is the subject of The Armies of Bismarck’s Wars, a new book by acclaimed military author and artist, Bruce Bassett-Powell. He chronicles its growth from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the reforms of the 1860s, as well as giving a full account of the wars against Denmark and Austria, showing how the confluence of the lives of Kaiser Wilhelm I, Helmuth von Molkte and Otto von Bismarck provided the ingredients that created such an irresistible force.This lavishly illustrated book describes the history and battles of the Prussian army, as well as lesser known details concerning its rise to prominence. The growth and influence of the General Staff is also examined, along with the recruitment and training of officers and men. The author fully describes the organisation of Prussia’s army and its fledgling navy, as well as the weapons with which they fought, in particular giving a detailed account of their dress and accoutrements, accompanied by 24 full-page colour illustrations of over 70 uniforms.
£49.50
Penguin Putnam Inc The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of
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£24.00
Editions Heimdal La Wiking Vol. 3
Book SynopsisThe Wiking Division was the only SS armoured division exclusively to fight on the Eastern Front. The division was partly composed of volunteers Flemish, Dutch and Scandinavian whose primary motivation, for many of them, was to fight against Bolshevism. They fought with an energy which never wavered even if the efforts and sacrifices were not always rewarded with victory. Counted among its ranks officers of unusual caliber as Felix Steiner, Herbert -Otto Gille , August Dieckmann and Hans Dorr Walter Schmidt to name a few. This book recounts their history in unparalleled details.Trade ReviewEven as a book taken by itself this one is amazing...while coupled with the two previous volumes it makes for what is I think the most detailed history of an individual unit that I can remember reading while the huge number of associated archive photos across all three books is equally stunning. * Military Model Scene *
£74.80
Editions Heimdal Les Troupes d'Assaut De l'Armée Allemande:
Book SynopsisAprès Landser, Ordre Noir et Deutsche Luftwaffe, voici un nouveau livre de la même collection sur les troupes de choc de la Première Guerre mondiale. Les premières unités d'assaut (Sturmtruppen) ont été formées au cours du printemps et de l'été de 1916, quand le Sturmbataillon Rohr a été organisé et après que le général Falkenhayn, chef de la Ligue de l'Ontario, a donné les ordres pour la création de détachements spéciaux. Ces détachements avaient pour mission de répandre une nouvelle tactique qui a transformé de manières décisive les méthodes de combats de l’armée allemande. Mais bien avant cela, un autre type de troupes avait été crée au sein de l’infanterie allemande au cours de l’hiver 1914-1915 : les troupes de choc (Stosstruppen), des groupes d’infanterie qui n’ont jamais été officiellement reconnus comme tels et n’ayant jamais appartenu à une unité permanente, mais qui sont restés actifs jusqu’à la fin de la guerre et qui ont contribué à l’amélioration de la capacité offensive de l’infanterie allemande. Ce livre est un récit de l’histoire des troupes d’assaut et il couvre leurs méthodes de combat. Il propose une description complète de leurs uniformes, de leur équipement, leurs armes, avec un grand nombre d’illustrations et de photographies d’époque rarement vues.
£49.40
Editions Heimdal The Imperial Guard of the First Empire. Volume 3:
Book Synopsis“The Guard charges” Napoleon gave special attention to this splendid unit – the Imperial Guard – and it became a sort of little army within the “Grande Armée”. This study of its organisation is here at its most erudite, like the one on the uniforms and equipment. Discover the uniforms, the equipment, and the weapons used by all those “Grognards”, who were launched into a battle as a last resort, at the decisive moment. Explaining how the Guard was organised into Old, Middle and Young Guards, in this volume, the illustrator-researcher André Jouineau shows the colonel-generals, the grenadiers, the chasseurs à pied, fusiliers, velites, flanqueurs, wards, workmen, sappers, doctors, magistrates and foot gunners; in the second volume he shows the centaurs of the Guard’s cavalry. This small practical, clear, concise, logical and visual tool is a real vade mecum, intended for imperial history buffs as well as figurine makers. The third volume – a compilation of two dossiers published in the fifth and sixth issues of the magazine ”Soldat” – is the new, improved, entirely revised and re-drawn larger version (more than fifty per cent more characters) than the previous work published several years ago now by the authors. In this volume : the last mounted units of the Guard, the follow-up units, the Horse Artillery, the Artillery trains and teams, the Health Service, the Guard HQ Staff but also the Emperor’s Household, the Emperor and the first uniforms of the Royal Guard.
£33.75
Andrea Press Heitai
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£61.75
NIAS Press Thai Military Power: A Culture of Strategic
Book SynopsisThailand remains important by virtue of its location at the centre of the Asia–Pacific region, an area playing a vital role in world affairs. And yet, although Thailand has a comparatively large population and has powerful military forces performing significant roles in state and society, the country itself is seen as having little military power; it is a minor player. Why is this? Using strategic culture as an analytical framework, this book produces a portrait of the Thai state as an accommodative actor. During the period of Western imperial dominance in Asia, Thailand `bent in the wind’ to preserve its independence by a limited trading of territory and sovereignty. This accommodative policy continues to the present day in different forms. A key feature is that military organisational culture reinforces a state ideology of royalist nationalism that in turn reinforces the national strategic culture. Significant here is internal political acceptance of not just militarydomination in civil–military relations but also of the Thai military’s limitations in state-on-state combat. The author finds such `underbalancing’ – not responding to threat, or responding to it inadequately – elsewhere in Southeast Asia, too, especially in Indonesia. Although ASEAN’s two largest economies, and despite the challenges presented by a rising China, neither country is acting to significantly build alliances or rapidly strengthen their military forces. Pointing as well to other Southeast Asian nations with weak civil control of their militaries, including Myanmar, the Philippines and Cambodia, the book sets out a case that the interplay of civil–military relations and military organisational culture retards the development of strong external defence postures.
£999.99
