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Featured battle : Axenzi
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 13 November 1812
The Russian advanced guard did not have any cavalry at all. They were beaten by a Franco-German force which contained 16 squadrons of cavalry.
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North American F-86D Sabre
The evocative Sabre of the Korean War, this was one of the most famous fighters of the late 1940's and 1950's. This is an F86D, the all-weather interceptor variant with an elegant extended and re-designed nose housing an array of complex electronics and radar. The earlier versions were armed with 6 x .5 inch (50-cal) Browning machine guns in the nose but the 'D' variant which was the most numerous and was nick-named the 'Dogship' had no room for the guns, so was armed with Mighty Mouse 2.75 inch rockets and could carry 1,000lbs of bombs. This particular example, no. 6171 flew with both the US Air Force and later the Greek Air Force but has been resored in the livery of the USAF "Sabre Knights" aerobatic display team, with which it served in the 1960's
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
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 A huge amount of detail of the 6th Army’s equipment and people is shown in a set of rare, many previously unpublished, photographs.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
Reviewed : 2020-05-14 11:20:52
