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Okay, on this page, you're going to find books about Uniforms and insignia of some of the "other" Allies, like France and Poland. Right now a lot are Osprey Books as they were there, easy to find and I find Osprey books to be a great primer for any subject!
We have more books on the way, so don't dispair, LOTS more books! Just give us time to get things going and laid-in! ;-)
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The Polish Army 1939-45 (Men-at-Arms 117)--Author: Steven Zaloga, Illustrator: Richard Hook. 48 pages; ISBN: 0850454174. Poland was the first of the Allied nations to succumb to German aggression in the Second World War, but by the most tortuous of routes her army managed to remain in the field through all five years of bloody fighting. In fact by the war's end the Polish Army was the fourth largest contingent of the Allied coalition after the armed forces of the Soviet Union, the United States and Great Britain. Polish soldiers fought in nearly every major campaign in the European theatre, and their tale is a complicated and tragic one. The heroic efforts of the Polish Army were often rendered meaningless by political events far outside their control. Fate was very cruel indeed to the Polish nation during those years, and especially cruel to her soldiers. This richly detailed text by Steven Zaloga relates the story of the Polish Army during the Second World War, from the first wave of Stukas in 1939 to its eventual conclusion. Numerous contemporary photographs accompany the text, and this volume also contains eight full page colour plates by Richard Hook. |
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The French Army 1939-45, Vol. 1 (Men-at-Arms 315)--Author: Ian Sumner, Illustrator: Mike Chappell. 48 pages; ISBN: 1855326663. The French Army of 1939 was considered by contemporaries to be the strongest army in the world at that time. In fact, as the events of the next ten months soon revealed, the Army was riddled with fatal weaknesses. Many of these stemmed from the attitudes prevailing in the French High Command at the end of the First World War. Under Marshal Pétain (a general renowned for his care with men's lives) they were determined that the nation should never again endure such a bloodbath. They had also to evolve a strategy that took account of a predicted shortage of manpower, the so-called 'empty classes'. This was the result of a fall in the birth rate, itself the inevitable consequence of the high level of casualties during the First World War. Each of the classes called up in the years between 1935 and 1939 was some 140,000 men under strength. The French therefore adopted a defensive policy. Noting both the general success of the forts around Verdun and the efficacy of the deep dug-outs constructed by the Germans on the Western Front, the High Command evolved a plan based on the construction of a permanently fortified line along the Franco-German frontier--a line subsequently named after the Minster of War, André Maginot. This worthy addition to the Men-at-Arms series is the first of two volumes examining the French Army of the Second World War. |
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The French Army 1939-45, Vol. 2 (Men-at-Arms 318)--Author: Ian Sumner, Illustrator: Mike Chappell. 48 pages; ISBN: 1855327074. When Charles de Gaulle launched his celebrated appeal via the BBC on 18 June 1940, he was quite unknown to most French people. This brilliant theorist of armoured warfare--whose 1935 book Vers l'armée métier was said to have been read by Guderian--had initially been given the command of the 4e Division Cuirassée, then forming. On 6 June, by now a temporary général de brigade, he became Under-Secretary of State for War in the government of Paul Reynaud, who placed great faith in him. During those dramatic days of June, the government he joined was split between those who advocated resistance to the last, with Algiers as a temporary capital (the line supported by Reynaud and de Gaulle), and the military commanders Pétain and Weygand, who favoured an armstice, with the government remaining in France. By 16 June, with Reynaud in the minority and driven from power, the political and legal battle was lost. It was then that de Gaulle, with the decisive support of Churchill, came to the conclusion that, whatever happened, France could not stand to one side in the struggle. And so, Free France was born. In this companion volume to MAA 315: The French Army 1939-45 (I) The Army of 1939-40 and Vichy France, Ian Sumner and François Vauvillier examine the history, uniforms and insignia of the Free French, Fighting French and the Army of Liberation. |
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French Foreign Legion 1914-45 (Men-at-Arms 325)--Author: Martin Windrow, Illustrator: Mike Chappell. 48 pages; ISBN: 1855327619. In this worthy addition to the Men-at-Arms series, Martin Windrow examines the history and uniforms of the French Foreign Legion from the start of the First World War to the end of the Second World War. The author's knowledgeable text covers such topics as a comprehensive battle history of the Legion on the Western Front 1914-1918, the colonial campaigns in Morocco, Syria and Indochina, the Battle of France and campaign in Tunisia. This volume is splendidly illustrated throughout, containing a wealth of contemporary photographs and eight full page colour plates by Mike Chappell. |
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