The books title is quite misleading. This is not simply a book of equipment. The book is broken down into chapters based on the formation of the British airborne forces in 1940 and each chapter looks at a major campaign where airborne forces were deployed. Each chapter has a large number of photos showing equipment […]
The Lost Samurai reveals the story that for almost a hundred years Japanese samurai were employed as mercenaries in the service of the kings of Siam, Cambodia, Burma, Spain and Portugal, as well as by the directors of the Dutch East India Company.The Japanese samurai were used in dramatic assault parties, as royal bodyguards, as […]
When this book arrived I must admit I did have little chuckle, describing the bicycle as the forgotten war machine. I honestly didn’t know there was an Army Cyclist Corps. Yet even as late as the 1970s bicycles were being used by infantry to move from battlefield to battlefield, in this example the Vietcong. The […]
This is a book about someone, I have no knowledge of. For me , the Crusades were about Richard the Lionheart and Saladin. Yet the book says Bohemond as one of the most remarkable soldiers of the Middle Ages, and led the first crusade. From the very first paragraph in this book, we hear that […]
