Featured battle : Kehl [2]

Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Date : 18 September 1796

The strength of the Austrian attack on the garrison was such that they managed to capture the bridgehead of Kehl. However the French rallied and counter attacked forcing the Austrians back. Losses on both sides were heavy; a testament to the determination of both attackers and defenders.

The Destruction of 6th Army at Stalingrad

Ian Baxter
Like other books in the Images of War series this book is packed full of superb photographs. A huge amount of detail of the 6th Army’s equipment and people is shown in a set of rare, many previously unpublished, photographs. The annotations are most informative and the supporting text, only ten of the hundred and fifty five pages, gives a brief overview of the campaign. What I found particularly interesting was the different slant on the causes of the defeat. In this book the strength and organization of the Soviet army is given more weight than the Russian winter. There is a distinct absence of the usual crop of photographs of grotesquely frozen German soldiers.
Anyone, even those with only a passing interest in World War Two, would enjoy this book and for re-enactors it could prove a gold mine. We highly recommend it.

Pen & Sword Military, 2020