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Featured battle : Miajadas
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 21 March 1809
Although this was a small cavalry engagement it was a rare but morale boosting Spanish success. A well laid trap drew the French cavalry [part of the advanced screen of Victor's I Corps] on against a single exposed squadron while seven more squadrons were concealed either side of the road.
Featured image :
Boer 'Long Tom' shell.
A 94 pound shell from one of the Boer 'Long Tom' Creusot artillery pieces fired into the town of Ladysmith during it's seige. It presumably failed to explode. Also shown are a couple of rounds of Boer ammunition. The Manchesters Regiment were besieged in Ladysmith during the 2nd Anglo-Boer war.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
The Eighth Army in North Africa
Simon Forty
This series of Images of War is intended to be all about the pictures and this book is a very good example of that genre. There are photographs taken on both sides of the conflict showing the men and their equipment. Almost every type of armoured vehicle used in the desert campaign is shown some in pristine others in a well battered state. There is sufficient text to give the photographs a context but most usefully the bulk of the writing is as captions to the photographs. A few maps and schematic drawings fill out the story. Particularly informative in an easily understood way are the comparisons between Axis and Allied guns in both range and penetration on pgs. 36 & 37. The further reading list guides the interested reader to fuller explanations of the to and fro of the North African campaign. One tiny criticism is that on page 87 the captions for the two men have switched left to right.
We thoroughly enjoyed looking at this book and recommend it to you.
Pen & Sword Military, 2019
Reviewed : 2019-05-01 13:10:46