At the beginning of the First World War, Germany elected to mass most of its armies on what became the Western Front. The limited forces in the East, on the Russian frontier, were given an economy of ....

This Osprey Air Campaign series book begins with a summary of the struggling Allied campaign in Italy up through the fall of 1944. It became clear that the Germans Gothic Line might be broken only if ....

For Germany, fighting outnumbered for most of the war, the machine gun was a way to apply more firepower, in new and lethally effective ways, using less manpower. The standard fielded machine gun, the....

This book is a brief overview of U.S. and German tanks and tank destroyers at the time of the Bulge campaign, it compares them on the basis of equipment, characteristics and numbers. Well done, accura....

By late 1943, Germany's last operational battleship, the Scharnhorst, still menaced the Allied Arctic supply line to the Soviet Union. The British Admiralty laid a trap, hoping to lure the Scharn....

This is a nice overview of allied armored operations conducted during the D-Day landings. It’s a valuable resource for those already familiar with the D-Day campaign. It probably would not be all th....

In the second half of 1942, German forces had reached the outskirts of the Soviet industrial city of Stalingrad, as part of a larger offensive planned to take over the very important Soviet oil refine....

This glue is specific for gluing the transparent parts of a kit (an aircraft canopy, vehicle windshields & so on). The advantage with this glue is that it does not leave the stains of the most common ....

Author Gordon Rottman does a very good job of covering both the Panzerfaust (designed as a cheap single use anti-tank weapon, with a throwaway launcher tube) and the Panzerschreck (a German built weap....

This is a truly superb volume with excellent color images of German fighter aircraft, small photographs and dramatic or curious stories experienced by their pilots. The book works this way every 2 pa....

The Hotchkiss H35 was a French Cavalry Tank. This was a light and very small tank indeed. This model of FtoF is very nice. With an overall good level of detail and mouldings that are very sharp. Anoth....

The R35 was designed to be light, cheap to build, with good armor and with a short 37mm gun, but all this makes this tank to have a very low speed. Also, with a crew of 2, this tank is a very small on....

The Autoblindo series (AB 40/41/42) were the most important armored cars of the Italian Army in WW2. This Italeri Kit is a new moulding, the AB 41 version, and is very nicely done, highly detailed ext....

Excellent book. As its own title names: A Chronicle in Photographs, this publication was not edited to be a technical book but work as an image bank. The Volume 2 is a continuation of the first one, a....

It's as good as it gets right here. And Vol. 2 is just as good. Both are photo references with page after page, literally hundreds of (high quality B&W) photos focusing on all well-known Luftwaff....

Like its predecessor published in the 1990s, this book is a must-have for all Luftwaffe enthusiasts and modellers. The subject of Luftwaffe camouflage continues to fascinate as witness this second col....

The decade of the Sixties began a broad replacement effort by both the Soviet Union and United States, Britain, and France to replace WW2 generation medium and light tanks. Technologies were pushed mo....

This title completes the analysis of the extraordinary Mach 3 Lockheed planes by the “Air Vanguard” series, a great carry on from his previous book LOCKHEED A-12 The CIA's Blackbird and other....

Intended to meet the nation's need for a very fast, very high-flying reconnaissance aircraft that could avoid Soviet air defenses, CIA developed the highly secret A-12 project OXCART as the U-2&a....

This Italeri Opel Blitz is a re-box of an old kit (of some 40 years ago). The good things: This is a basic but nice kit, with a good overall level of detail in the mouldings, especially in the carg....