Russell Phillips
Autor(a) de A Fleet in Being: Austro-Hungarian Warships of WWI
Obras por Russell Phillips
Combat Engineering Equipment of the Warsaw Pact (Weapons and Equipment of the Warsaw Pact) (Volume 2) (2017) 5 exemplares
Tanks and Combat Vehicles of the Warsaw Pact (Weapons and Equipment of the Warsaw Pact) (Volume 1) (2017) 3 exemplares
Artillery of the Warsaw Pact (Weapons and Equipment of the Warsaw Pact) (Volume 3) (2018) 3 exemplares
Szent István: Hungary's Battleship 2 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 20th Century
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- England
UK - Local de nascimento
- Rotherham, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Russell Phillips is an award-winning author of military technology and history. Born and brought up in a mining village in South Yorkshire, he has lived and worked in South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Cumbria and Staffordshire. His articles have been published in Miniature Wargames, Wargames Illustrated, and the Society of Twentieth Century Wargamers’ Journal. He has been interviewed for the American edition of The Voice of Russia. He currently lives in Stoke-on-Trent with his wife and two children.
Membros
Críticas
Prémios
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 12
- Membros
- 61
- Popularidade
- #274,234
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 23
When British forces landed on the island in 1942, the enemy they faced wasn't German, Japanese or even Italian, this time the opposing forces were French.
Concerned that Japan might use Madagascar as a strategic base to disrupt the supply line to India, Britain was keen to take control of the island. However, the Vichy forces were keen to defend the French colony and prevent it becoming part of the British Empire.
A Strange Campaign: The Battle for Madagascar gives a detailed account of this fascinating but little-known period of military history. Even at the time, the conflict was a controversial one, pitting two colonial empires against each other.
However, it was also ground-breaking as it was the first time Allied forces had staged a major amphibious...… (mais)