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Category Archives: Risks News
LandCraft 9, Bradley Fighting Vehicle, The US Army’s Combat-proven Fighting Vehicle, 1981-2021
The LandCraft and TankCraft series are aimed at modellers, but have proved very popular with military history enthusiasts, due to the excellent Introductory text. The M2 Bradley covered by this book was a Cold War design that has seen a great deal of service in the Balkans and Middle East, proving to be a high effective and versatile vehicle – Very Highly Recommended
Italian Battleships, Conte di Cavour and Duilio Classes,1911-1956
This a further collaboration of two authors who previously crafted a similar book on the Littorio Class battleships. The vessels are covered impressively by this book, the survivors of a class designed before WWI – Very Highly Recommended
Nelson’s Navy in 100 Objects
The ‘in 100 Objects’ series is proving very popular, providing a fascinating look at a subject through a cross section of objects that define it. This new book in the series reads well and contains a very interesting selection of images that are almost entirely provided in full colour through the body of the book – Very Highly Recommended
Wargames, Terrain & Buildings, WWI Trench Systems
The war games series has proved very popular with both war gamers and military history enthusiasts. The high photographic content provides considerable detail of the trenches and buildings constructed in WWI – Highly Recommended
Hitler’s War in Africa, 1941-1942, The Road To Cairo
The author provides an engaging narrative of the German involvement in North Africa and the motivations of Mussolini and Hitler. An occasion where Hitler again had to prop up Mussolini and attempt to sort out the mess the Italians had made – Very Highly Recommended
Lockheed Constellation, A History
The Lockheed Constellation was an elegant airliner that grew from pre-war work to design and develop a four engine airliner with pressurized cabin and trans Atlantic range. At a time of conversion of bomber designs, the Connie was a stylish civil airliner that was also to be employed in military roles – Very Highly Recommended
Images of War, Red Army Auxiliary Armoured Vehicles 1930-1945, Rare Photographs From Wartime Archives
Bureaucratic incompetence and Stalin’s purges combined in 1940 to leave the Red Army almost entirely without armoured auxiliary vehicles. A welcome addition to the highly popular Images Of War Series, covering Soviet efforts to provide an adequate range of armoured vehicles – Very Highly Recommended
Pendant Numbers of the Royal Navy, A Record of the Allocation of Pendant Numbers to Royal Navy Warships and Auxiliaries, Fifth Edition
The fifth edition of this standard reference work contains updated information. The authors have included significant new information on the British Pacific Fleet in WWII – Most Highly Recommended
