Featured battle : off Winchelsea

Part of The Hundred Years war

Date : 29 August 1350

Edward lll accompanied by the Prince of Wales [ Black Prince] led a fleet of ships [number?] to intercept a Spainish fleet of forty sail. In a classic, of that period, 'board and capture' battle the English took twenty five of the Spanish ships as prizes. At least four of the English ships were sunk, including the King's own ship. He and the Black Prince survived by boarding and taking a Spanish ship. An important English victory.

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 A huge amount of detail of the 6th Army’s equipment and people is shown in a set of rare, many previously unpublished, photographs.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