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Featured battle : Pressburg and Engerau
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 01 June 1809 - 04 June 1809
Napoleon sent his troops to seize the bridge across the Danube. Although the Austrians were weak from previous engagements, many units little more than half strength, they fought with determination and denied the crossing from the French.
Featured image :
The 'V' Bombers - Avro Vulcan B.2 - underside
A photograph of the 'belly of the beast'. The underside of the Vulcan clearly shows the bomb-bay doors between the two pairs of engines which would have parted to release it's nuclear payload, had diplomacy failed in the Cold War.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
The Irish Guards in the Great War
Rudyard Kipling
Not a lot of military history books could be better than the war diaries and personal correspondence of the First battalion of the Irish Guards written up by Rudyard Kipling with style. Although narrowly focused on this relatively small group of men it is essentially about every soldiers war. This is because it gets down to the minutiae of single men, section and platoon actions. The sweep of strategy and the grand plans are for other places. The text is well supported with illustrations and maps.
I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone seeking a full understanding of the Great war.
Spellmount Ltd., 1997
Reviewed : 2017-02-24 12:28:11
