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Featured battle : Dirschau
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 23 February 1807
Lefebvre's X Corps had been given the task of clearing the country around Danzig before laying siege to the city. His Polish and Baden troops had their baptism of fire when they attacked this Prussian strongpoint. About 270 Prussians got away to join the Danzig garrison.
Featured image :
Rimington's Tigers. Scouts at rest!
An image from Underwood and Underwood entitled "Remington Scouts enjoying lunch in a Boer home wrecked by Kaffirs, Yaasfontein, S.A." and gives a good impression of this renouned and somewhat irregular unit of Irregulars. It would be interesting to speculate precisely who it really was who ransacked the house in which they are taking their lunch. The scouts, known as 'Tigers' because of their distinctive wild cat fur around their hats, had a reputation for laying waste to Boer villages through which they passed. Please note, Clash of Steel
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
British Aircraft Carriers
David Hobbs
A wealth of knowledge presented in a most readable form for everyone from the novice to the initiated. Encyclopedic in scope it may be dipped into at any point but I found in reading cover to cover the fascinating story went from airships to future carriers. All aspects, design, development and service are dealt with. There are very many photographs, lots from the author's own collection, plus drawings and plans. An unusual but welcome feature are the fold out copies of Admiralty drawings which are in the middle of the book.
At £45 this is not a cheap book, but a Rolls Royce is not a cheap car, and this is a Rolls Royce of a book.
Seaforth Publishing. Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2013
Reviewed : 2015-04-29 19:28:26
