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Featured battle : Engen and Stockach
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 03 May 1800
The advance of the Army of the Rhine through southern Germany/Switzerland towards Austria was met by the Austrians in almost equal strength [8 to 7 in favour of the French]. The battle resulted in a significant defeat for the Austrians under Baron von Kray.
Featured image :
HMS Warrior from the bow.

HMS Warrior, the largest, fastest, most powerful warship afloat when she was built in 1860.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
The Shetland 'Bus'
Stephen Wynn
The regular small boat journeys between Norway and the Shetland Islands during the German occupation of Norway in WW2 is a fascinating and often forgotten aspect of the war in northern Europe. This book goes some way to addressing this. An interesting and slightly unexpected book, I was expecting a narrative of the journeys etc, but this book is more useful and of a slightly wider scope than that. It begins with chapters giving overviews of the Shetland Islands during the war and the creation of the Shetland 'Bus' service. These were semi-regular small-boat journeys between the islands and Norway, carrying refugees one way, and agents, weapons and equipment the other, initially using Norwegian fishing vessels, later using specially purposed boats. The book also gives useful overviews of occupied Norway and the Special Operations Executive (the clandestine organisation created to carry out acts of intelligence gathering and sabotage on mainland Europe). What then follows are detailed gazetteer-like entries of the Norwegian Agents who took part in operations, Allied military operations, and finally the boats and crews of the Shetland Bus service itself. A book that is both an interesting read and a valuable reference work for anyone studying 1940's Norway and it's close relation to the Shetlands.
Pen & Sword Military, 2021
Reviewed : 2022-06-05 15:38:16