A guide to one of the world's most famous fighting vehicles, exploring its history, its strengths and weaknesses and its combat performance as it duelled against the best the Allies had to give. Drawing on a wealth of research and contemporary photographs, it reveals how this remarkable tank became an icon of military history.
As New; see description and scans. Washington, National Geographic Society, 2010 (publisher), Carlton Books Limited, 2010 (text and design copyright). First Edition of the very scarce Deluxe Edition of National Geographic's History An Interactive Journey. This is not the standard hardcover issue, but the fine grain synthetic leather-bound, lightly padded Deluxe Edition (see scans), with its own ISBN, that being 9781426206801, and including four pouches full of full-sized historical facsimiles. Quarto, brown fine grain synthetic leather lightly padded boards, silver imprinting on front cover and spine, gold satin page-marker ribbon, yellow endpapers; 184 pp. + those numerous pouched facsimiles. New; pristine and immaculate; removed from original packaging only for scanning and description. Small crimp from the tightness of the shrinkwrap (see bottom right of main scan) is presumably removable under weight. The scarcest edition of the luxuriantly illustrated and eminently readable and collectible world history presentation from Marcus Cowper. A collector piece, wall-to-wall. Please see scans. LG9
In the early 12th century AD, a large part of what we think of as France was not under the direct control of the French King who's authority stretched little further than Paris. This book describes the so-called 'Cathar castles', why they were positioned where they were, and how well those they withstood the realities of the Albigensian Crusade.