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Featured battle : Wiasma
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 03 November 1812
At this point in Napoleon's retreat the rearguard was provided by I Corps under Davout. The Russians attempted to divide this rearguard from the remainder of the army. Eugène realised what was happening and sent forces back to help. It is worthy of note that because of the depleted state of regiments and squadrons troops from seven other corps were required to fight a way through to Wiasma.
Featured image :
A German Marder III Tank-Hunter
This Marder III Ausf-H is run by the 21st Panzer Division re-enactment group ans is depicted in the desert colours of the Afrika Korps of 1943. It was armed with a 75mm PaK 40/3 anti-tank gun and a Czech 7.92 MG37 machine-gun in the front hull. The variant was different from other Marders as the engine was mounted aft with the fighting compartment further forward but in common with others of it's type, the open top and rear meant the crew was vulnerable to artillery and in urban warfare. It's armour was quite thin but it could destroy most light or medium tanks it was pitted against.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
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 A huge amount of detail of the 6th Army’s equipment and people is shown in a set of rare, many previously unpublished, photographs.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
Reviewed : 2020-05-14 11:20:52
