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Featured battle : Molins del Rey
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 21 December 1808
The Spaniards tried to hold the defensive line of the river Llobregat but, outnumbered by more than two to one, they were outflanked and rolled up from both wings.
Featured image :
German WW2 Vehicles - Motorcycle/sidecar combo & VW-166 Schwimmwagen
A pair of vehicles maintained by the 21st Panzer Division re-enactment group. The first is a representation of a KS750 Zundapp Motorbike and side car mounting an MG 34 light machine gun in the sidecar. Zundapp produced around 18,000 of these agile, powerful and effective machines during the war for the Wehrmacht. In practice, this example is probably a modified Cossack Ural M67. The second is the VolksWagen model 166 Schwimmwagen amphibious vehicle. It was based on the Kubelwagen and could reach 80km/h on-road but could also float and make its way through the water by means of a propeller unit lowered from the rear. Both are painted in North Africa colours.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
Cromwell's War Machine. The New Model Army 1645-1660
Keith Roberts
Cromwell's War Machine describes the tactics and organization of the armies of the English Civil war within a context. That context was the Eurpoean military scene varied experience of which was brought into this country by Officers and men who had fought as mercenaries in the various European wars. The reader gains an understanding not only of what but more fundamentally why things were as they were. Only one chapter is given over to the campaigns of the New Model army, which is the sole subject of many other works. The prose is lucid and flowing and the extensive footnotes [nearly five hundred] do not impinge upon the text.
Highly recommended.
Pen & Sword Military, 2005
Reviewed : 2013-01-22 00:00:00
