After the Battle – förlag

Gallipoli. Virtually unheard of prior to 1915, the very name of the Turkish peninsula bordering the Dardanelles - the narrow waterway linking the Mediterranean with the Black Sea - now conjures up visions of privation and hardship and death which even surpass the horrors of the trench warfare on the Western Front. The barren landscape was the backdrop to a horrific campaign between April 1915 and January 1916 in which upwards of 1000,000 men lost their lives. For the Allies it was a battle fought in vain for the invasion forces were withdrawn for no gain, but for the Turkish army it was a marvellous victory in what they refer to as their Canakkale War. Steve Newman has visited Gallipoli several times in his study of the campaign and he spent a strenuous 10 days on the peninsula in June 1999 to take the comparisons in a temperature of over 100 degrees. The book provides a link between past and present; from one century to the next; that the deeds of those whose bones lie buried "in a foreign field" shall not be forgotten.

Wing Commander Robert Stanford Tuck was one of the RAF's top-scoring aces until he was shot down and taken prisoner in January 1942, thus curtailing his probability of being the top-scorer. This work offers an exact facsimile edition of his flying log book covering his entire RAF career from October 1935, when he learned to fly on Avro Tutor biplanes, to his work as a test pilot with English Electric on Canberra jets in 1954. The bulk of the interest in this work, however, lies in the 1940 period and readers are given the opportunity to own their very own Battle of Britain pilot's log book. Each comes with a numbered certificate of authenticity denoting its place in the limited edition of 2500 copies.

The story of the attack on the Mohne and Eder dams in the Ruhr has been recounted many times before but not until now has it been told from the German side. The author has spent over a third of a century studying the raid and its consequences, collecting an archive of documents and photographs, and producing documentary films on the attack. His book "Wasserkrieg", published in Germany in 1992, has now been translated and adapted for this "After the Battle" edition in the "Through the Lens" series.