Renzo Baldini
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Family Ties
Spanning some forty years the lives of three families are held together by love, intrigue and marriage. Freddie Chivington and Toby Marsh are best friends. Toby's younger sister Olivia has always tagged along in their escapades but Freddie and Olivia are no longer children and their feelings for each other have grown into a deep love. Whilst assisting his best friend Freddie to gain favour with Olivia, Toby Marsh meets Philomena Granger, a colleague of Olivia's and so the Marsh family evolve. The Conte and Contessa Baldini, Vincent and Elizabeth, found happiness from auspicious beginnings but became the adoring parents of two sons and a daughter. After a lapse of over thirty years, the families are reunited by the marriage of Antonio Baldini and Lucy Chivington and so begin the ties which will bind them together forever.
Desert Armour
Author: Robert Forczyk
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 2023-10-12
Robert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from Rommel's Gazala offensive in 1942 through to the end of war in the desert in Tunisia in 1943. The war in the North African desert was pure mechanized warfare, and in many respects the most technologically advanced theatre of World War II. It was also the only theatre where for three years British and Commonwealth, and later US, troops were in constant contact with Axis forces. World War II best-selling author Robert Forczyk explores the second half of the history of the campaign, from the Gazala offensive in May 1942 that drove the British forces all the way back to the Egyptian frontier and led to the fall of Tobruk, through the pivotal battles of El Alamein, and the final Allied victory in Tunisia. He examines the armoured forces, equipment, doctrine, training, logistics and operations employed by both Allied and Axis forces throughout the period, focusing especially on the brigade and regimental level of operations. Fully illustrated throughout with photographs, profile artwork and maps, and featuring tactical-level vignettes and appendices analysing tank data, tank deliveries in-theatre and orders of battle, this book goes back to the sources to provide a new study of armoured warfare in the desert.
Crusader vs M13/40
Author: David Greentree
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 2024-08-15
This illustrated study assesses the British Crusader and the Italian M13/40, two medium tanks that played crucial roles in World War II's Desert War. Making its combat debut in North Africa during December 1940, Italy's M13/40 medium tank was armed with a 47mm main gun. Its British opposite number, the Crusader I, was armed with a 2-pdr (40mm) main gun; it entered the fighting in June 1941. While the M13/40 could fire armour-piercing rounds but also high-explosive ammunition against infantry and towed-gun targets, the Crusader could only fire armour-piercing ammunition. In this book, David Greentree charts the evolution of these two tanks as the Desert War raged on. While the Crusader III, making its debut at the Second Battle of El Alamein in October 1942, was armed with the much more effective 6-pdr (57mm), the M13/40 could not be upgunned or uparmoured; new types such as the US-built M3 Grant tipped the balance in favour of the British. Joined in the front line by the similar M14/41, the M13/40 soldiered on; as the M4 Sherman also entered British service, the Italian tanks were largely wiped out as the Axis forces retreated from Egypt. Featuring all-new full-colour artwork, archive photographs and expert analysis, this engaging study assess the origins, development and combat effectiveness of these two mainstays of the Desert War during 1941–42.