Search Results: Authors starting with F from Viceroy Books

Osprey Pub Co, 2006. New book, 64 pages, FOR052. Gibraltar is not only an archetypal fortress, preserving in its dominating topography and walls, bastions and emplacements a rich testament to extended periods of human conflict, but it is also a unique record of the evolution of the sciences of fortification and associated defensive structures over a period of more than six centuries. Gibraltar has a complex and varied military history, lying as it does at the gateway to the Mediterranean and the meeting points of the continents of Europe and Africa. Its history, always shaped by its unique combination of strategic position and topography, begins in ancient times with successive occupations by Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Romans. It then passed through Arab, Castilian and Spanish hands, and has been a British possession since 1704. The Rock served as a base for Nelson's fleet in the Napoleonic Wars and, in World War II, for the Royal Navy's Task Force 'H' and as as a vital stopping… Read More

Wingleader, 2021. New book, 81 pages, 120 photos, 6 colour profiles. For quite a few years, Simon Parry and Mark Postlethwaite have been building up a huge library of original WWII aviation photos, partly as a hobby but mainly to help provide photos for the books that they publish. With over 30,000 now in the collection, they realised that they had more than enough to produce a series of photo books on individual aircraft types and sub-types. They set out to make the series as ideally suited to modellers and artists as possible, so large photos, using A4 landscape format, and minimal text except for extended captions. Effectively their aim is to produce a 21st Century version of the Profile Publications series of books from the 1960s, using the latest technology to reproduce their wartime photos to the highest standard possible. This series is unique in that it will be able to provide large format ORIGINAL photos up to full A4 landscape format width, which is at least 50% larger than any standard… Read More

Shire Books, 2010. New book, 64 pages. Discover what it was like to fly with an Royal Air Force heavy bomber crew on a typical night raid over Germany. Learn about the different kinds of specialist flying kit available; read about the varied arsenal of bombs, defensive armament and electronic aids that were carried, and how they were used. How did a squadron's choice of aircraft - Stirling, Halifax, Lancaster or Mosquito - affect one's chances of survival? What were the odds when a lone bomber crew battled it out with a marauding German night fighter aircraft, or with deadly flak and searchlights? And what would happen to an airman if his nerve cracked under the pressure? . Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Wingleader, 2021. New book, 81 pages, 120 photos, 6 colour profiles. For quite a few years, Simon Parry and Mark Postlethwaite have been building up a huge library of original WWII aviation photos, partly as a hobby but mainly to help provide photos for the books that they publish. With over 30,000 now in the collection, they realised that they had more than enough to produce a series of photo books on individual aircraft types and sub-types. They set out to make the series as ideally suited to modellers and artists as possible, so large photos, using A4 landscape format, and minimal text except for extended captions. Effectively their aim is to produce a 21st Century version of the Profile Publications series of books from the 1960s, using the latest technology to reproduce their wartime photos to the highest standard possible. This series is unique in that it will be able to provide large format ORIGINAL photos up to full A4 landscape format width, which is at least 50% larger than any standard… Read More

Wingleader, 2021. New book, 81 pages, 120 photos, 6 colour profiles. For quite a few years, Simon Parry and Mark Postlethwaite have been building up a huge library of original WWII aviation photos, partly as a hobby but mainly to help provide photos for the books that they publish. With over 30,000 now in the collection, they realised that they had more than enough to produce a series of photo books on individual aircraft types and sub-types. They set out to make the series as ideally suited to modellers and artists as possible, so large photos, using A4 landscape format, and minimal text except for extended captions. Effectively their aim is to produce a 21st Century version of the Profile Publications series of books from the 1960s, using the latest technology to reproduce their wartime photos to the highest standard possible. This series is unique in that it will be able to provide large format ORIGINAL photos up to full A4 landscape format width, which is at least 50% larger than any standard… Read More

Wingleader, 2021. New book, 81 pages, 120 photos, 6 colour profiles. For quite a few years, Simon Parry and Mark Postlethwaite have been building up a huge library of original WWII aviation photos, partly as a hobby but mainly to help provide photos for the books that they publish. With over 30,000 now in the collection, they realised that they had more than enough to produce a series of photo books on individual aircraft types and sub-types. They set out to make the series as ideally suited to modellers and artists as possible, so large photos, using A4 landscape format, and minimal text except for extended captions. Effectively their aim is to produce a 21st Century version of the Profile Publications series of books from the 1960s, using the latest technology to reproduce their wartime photos to the highest standard possible. This series is unique in that it will be able to provide large format ORIGINAL photos up to full A4 landscape format width, which is at least 50% larger than any standard… Read More

Wingleader, 2021. New book, 81 pages, 120 photos, 6 colour profiles. For quite a few years, Simon Parry and Mark Postlethwaite have been building up a huge library of original WWII aviation photos, partly as a hobby but mainly to help provide photos for the books that they publish. With over 30,000 now in the collection, they realised that they had more than enough to produce a series of photo books on individual aircraft types and sub-types. They set out to make the series as ideally suited to modellers and artists as possible, so large photos, using A4 landscape format, and minimal text except for extended captions. Effectively their aim is to produce a 21st Century version of the Profile Publications series of books from the 1960s, using the latest technology to reproduce their wartime photos to the highest standard possible. This series is unique in that it will be able to provide large format ORIGINAL photos up to full A4 landscape format width, which is at least 50% larger than any standard… Read More

Wingleader, 2021. New book, 81 pages, 120 photos, 6 colour profiles. For quite a few years, Simon Parry and Mark Postlethwaite have been building up a huge library of original WWII aviation photos, partly as a hobby but mainly to help provide photos for the books that they publish. With over 30,000 now in the collection, they realised that they had more than enough to produce a series of photo books on individual aircraft types and sub-types. They set out to make the series as ideally suited to modellers and artists as possible, so large photos, using A4 landscape format, and minimal text except for extended captions. Effectively their aim is to produce a 21st Century version of the Profile Publications series of books from the 1960s, using the latest technology to reproduce their wartime photos to the highest standard possible. This series is unique in that it will be able to provide large format ORIGINAL photos up to full A4 landscape format width, which is at least 50% larger than any standard… Read More

United Kingdom: Abbeydale Press, 2003. New book, some shelf wear to cover, 240 pages. Large format book, dozens of glossy photos. This book tells the story of WW2, told through the narrative of first hand accounts of those who fought and lived through the dark hours of the 2,000 day conflict. Join, among many others, the soldiers who stormed through France in 1944, the sailors who braved the Arctic winter and U-boats to ship supplies to Russia, and the airmen who defied flak and fighters to fly bombing missions over Germany.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

United Kingdom: Abbeydale Press, 2003. New book, some shelf wear to cover, 240 pages. Large format book, dozens of glossy photos. This book tells the story of WW2, told through the narrative of first hand accounts of those who fought and lived through the dark hours of the 2,000 day conflict. Join, among many others, the soldiers who stormed through France in 1944, the sailors who braved the Arctic winter and U-boats to ship supplies to Russia, and the airmen who defied flak and fighters to fly bombing missions over Germany.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

United Kingdom: Abbeydale Press, 2003. New book, some shelf wear to cover, 240 pages. Large format book, dozens of glossy photos. This book looks at the story of the conflict away from the well known fronts and the set piece battles, concentrating instead on the hidden methods that so affected the course and purpose of WW2. It is the story of man at his most inhuman, evil and corrupt - of the racial obsession that drove the Nazis to genocide; of the brutal torture in Singapore's notorious Changi gaol; of the massacre in cold blood of Polish officers at Katyn, and many others.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

United Kingdom: Abbeydale Press, 2003. New book, some shelf wear to cover, 240 pages. Large format book, dozens of glossy photos. This book looks at the story of the conflict away from the well known fronts and the set piece battles, concentrating instead on the hidden methods that so affected the course and purpose of WW2. It is the story of man at his most inhuman, evil and corrupt - of the racial obsession that drove the Nazis to genocide; of the brutal torture in Singapore's notorious Changi gaol; of the massacre in cold blood of Polish officers at Katyn, and many others.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Osprey Pub Co, 2019. New book, 64 pages, OWG24. Men of Bronze is a wargame that allows you to play out Classical Greek hoplite battles on the tabletop. Players are Strategoi (generals) leading phalanxes of bronze-clad warriors in pursuit of fame, glory, and the honor of their city-states. To win such prizes, however, you must prove your mettle, display your valor, and bring the other Strategoi to their knees! Designed to recreate small battles or larger skirmishes with 50-80 figures per side, each army will have its own unique mix of rules, advantages, backgrounds, and abilities. Strategoi must understand and appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of their forces in order to win glory on the battlefield. Of course, there's no telling what tricks a rival Strategos might have up their tunic sleeves…. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Osprey Pub Co, 2019. New book, 64 pages, OWG24. Men of Bronze is a wargame that allows you to play out Classical Greek hoplite battles on the tabletop. Players are Strategoi (generals) leading phalanxes of bronze-clad warriors in pursuit of fame, glory, and the honor of their city-states. To win such prizes, however, you must prove your mettle, display your valor, and bring the other Strategoi to their knees! Designed to recreate small battles or larger skirmishes with 50-80 figures per side, each army will have its own unique mix of rules, advantages, backgrounds, and abilities. Strategoi must understand and appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of their forces in order to win glory on the battlefield. Of course, there's no telling what tricks a rival Strategos might have up their tunic sleeves…. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Osprey Pub Co, 2005. New book, 64 pages, ELI110. The Sassanians ruled the last great imperial Empire of Persia before the Arab conquests of the 7th century. Rome’s only equal in the classical world, the Sassanian Empire had an enormous impact on the development of architecture, mythology, arts, music, military tactics and technology. Within the Sassanian military, the cavalry was the most influential element, and Sassanian cavalry tactics were adopted by the Romans, Arabs, and Turks. Their cavalry systems of weaponry, battle tactics, Tamgas, Medallions, court customs, and costumes influenced Romano-Byzantine and medieval European culture, and this book allows the reader to see how a little-studied eastern power affected the development of cavalry traditions in the western world. Contents: Origins of the Savaran - Weapons of the Savaran - Costumes, insignia, and coats of arms - Support and auxiliary troops - Savaran development, deployment, and tactics - The Savaran in battle - Select bibliography… Read More

Pen & Sword, 2009. New book, 495 pages. The Great Boer War (1899 - 1902) - more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War - was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It was fought in the barren vastness of the South African veldt, and it produced in almost equal measure extraordinary feats of personal heroism, unbelievable examples of folly and stupidity, and many incidents of humour and tragedy. Byron Farwell traces the war's origins, the slow mounting of the British efforts to overthrow the Afrikaners, the bungling and bickering of the British command, the remarkable series of bloody battles that almost consistently ended in victory for the Boers over the much more numerous British forces, political developments in London and Pretoria, the sieges of Ladysmith, Mafeking and Kimberley, the concentration camps into which Boer families were… Read More

Osprey Pub Co, 1993. New book, 96 pages, CAM023. Early in 1881 unrest in the Sudan began to crystallise around Mohammed Ibn Ahmed el-Sayyid Abdullah. Proclaiming himself the long-expected Madhi, the Guided One of the Prophet, he preached that the Sudan was to be purged of its Egyptian oppressors. Drawn in by the Egyptian failure to deal with the situation, the British sent General Gordon to organise an evacuation. On reaching Khartoum however, General Gordon believed, incorrectly, that the Madhi could be reasoned with. Instead of negotiating, the Madhi besieged the town for 317 days. This title looks in particular, although not exclusively, at the battles fought by the British columns sent to relieve Khartoum.. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

The National Trust, 1991. Used book, 64 pages. Slight rubbing wear, otherwise in good condition. Winston Churchill moved with his family to Chartwell in 1924. Except during the war, it was to be home for forty years. These pages attempt to relate the man to the place. Biographical only in a limited sense, they trace Churchill's relationship with a house and its contents, and with a garden. The events of his career are seen obliquely, as they emerge from Chartwell or reflect upon it.. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Peko Publishing, 2019. New book, 112 pages. German Self-Propelled Guns on the Battlefield (Vol.19) is the nineteenth in PeKo's 'on the Battlefield' photo-monograph series. German made self-propelled guns such as the Hummel, Wespe, Sturmtiger, Bison I and many more are covered in this landscape, hardbacked book. Both the introduction and captions are bilingual (English / Hungarian).. Pictorial Cover. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Peko Publishing, 2017. New book, 112 pages, 105 photos. In Panzerjäger on the Battlefield, Jon Feenstra looks at the German tank-hunters in the 15th book in the ‘on the Battlefield’ series. Large landscape photos, unseen content from private collections all wrapped up in hardcover.. Pictorial Cover. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall.