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An impressive photographic archive.

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Miniaturas JM

There is much for modellers to savour, whether it's for a specific tank, aircraft or ship, but it is arguably diorama builders who will find the combat scenes most useful.

Airfix Model World, March 2021

...a wonderful selection of photos...

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The Historical Miniatures Gaming Society

There are lots of images in here to interest the historian, and equally of interest to modellers who will appreciate the detail of uniforms and equipment from the specific year of the war, and offers a good variety of potential diorama inspiration as well. Nicely done.

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Military Model Scene, Robin Buckland

You'll find images from all sides of the conflict, giving a good photographic history of the events in the book.

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ModelingMadness.com

The second volume of the Series and just as good as the first. The author uses good quality text with some excellent photos taken as it happened. In fact in some of the photos, the reality is a little bit more than close for comfort. The centre of the book carries a good selection of colourised pictures as well as coloured photos of the war in action, the main protagonists and equipment used. There is good indication of units in each action and an explanation of each of those units and their purpose is included.

Following the foreword and bibliography, the author has sensibly divided his book into ten major chapters in chronological order. A good sized index is situated at the rear of the book. Overall, I was very impressed with this volume. The author has not pulled any punches and told it how it was. This, for me is a definite selling point. I would recommend this book to any historian, model maker or military researcher. Although a stand alone volume, it works well with it's preceding book.

I will definitely give this an excellent five out of five.

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Army Rumour Service (ARRSE)

The book and the year that follows step by step with the excellent photos is a year of great events, after a 1940 known for the first months with the famous "Drole de Guerre" or Phoney War in which no one took the first step. In 1941 large operations in Africa, Greece, Crete, Malta and then perhaps one of the decisive steps towards Hitler's final defeat (but 4 years distant), that is Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia. In the background, air combat, naval battles, and the debut of the Commandos in Norway with the operations of the Lofoten Islands and Vaagso. Each chapter of the 10 of the book is extremely interesting with photos of the protagonists (often not even available in dedicated books) and the book ends with the meeting between the British and Soviet troops in Iran. There is no doubt that the next volume will also live up to its predecessors.

A special mention goes to the central part of the book which is edited by Jon Wilkinson, who takes care of the beautiful book covers of the Pen & Sword house, and who makes the most iconic photos of the period in color.

Another great book in a series that can't miss on the shelves of WWII fans!

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On The Old Barbed Wire

Now I really enjoyed this book, partly because it made a break from all the reading I do, it was a very good book packed with excellent photos from both sides of the war. In the middle of the book there is a number of pages where all the photos have been colourised, now I’m not sure if I prefer the photographs colourised or not but that is up to the reader. The book is obviously predominantly photograph heavy, but the book contains maps, charts and text to explain the photographs and the course of the war. While this might not be one for the historian, it’s still an excellent book that would happily sit on anyone’s bookshelf.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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