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Featured battle : La Trepa
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 06 March 1809
The Light Cavalry of Soult's II Corps attacked a Spanish force made up of elements of seven different infantry regiments. Over half the Spaniards were killed or captured.
Featured image :
British Light anti-armour weapons
A display of 2 light anti-armour weapons used by the British Army in the 1970's and 80's. The larger of the two is the Carl-Gustav 84mm recoilless rifle shown sitting on it's bipod mount. Also shown are examples of it's armour-piercing rounds. In the foreground, there's a 66mm Light Anti-Tank Weapon or LAW used by the British up until the late 1980's and known in the US as the M72 LAW. It was a one-shot weapon made of fibre-glass and would be extended, telescope-style, fired from the shoulder then discarded. It is shown here in it's closed mode. Displayed by the Forces80 re-enactment group.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
D-Day, Arnhem and The Rhine.
Robert F. Ashby Ed. Jonathan Walker
A superb memoir of one man’s war. Robert Ashby was a glider pilot who survived landings at D-Day, Arnhem and the Rhine crossing. Jonathan Walker has done the job of editing so that he does not interfere with the original memoirs but adds sufficient notes, in italics, to provide both context and a little additional information. To highlight any part of the book would be to do a disservice to the whole. The text is supported by a set of very special, many personal, photographs.
For anyone with even a passing interest in the Second World war this is a must read. We cannot recommend it too highly.
Pen & Sword Military, 2022
Reviewed : 2022-08-26 14:26:50
