Wednesday, 4 May 2022

Week-end à Zuydcoote (1964) - Bande annonce d'époque

 French film set in 1940. 

Set during the Battle of Dunkirk, the film follows Julien Maillat, a French soldier who tries to join the British Army on the Royal Navy's boat flotilla to England. No matter how hard he tries to make it, he and his French partners are hard pressed to get away as the fight is getting harder and the Germans closer and closer.

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Rare Color Photographs of World War II Taken by Hitler’s Personal Photographer

 

See them here

Battle! Charles Grant

These old school wargames rules for ww2 were published in book form in 1970. Copies of this book fetch high prices but fret not. They are available  in magazine form free to download here

Polish Ursus Wz. 29 Armoured Car, September 1939

 

 I have, inspired by the First to Fight 1/72 range, been looking at Polish 1939 images. First to Fight is a very comprehensive collection of an interesting selection of afvs and artillery.



Polish Light Tank 7TP

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From the book Tanks and other AFVs of the Blitzkrieg era BT White

Battlegroup Blitzkrieg

 

 I asked the people at a facebook group dedicated to WW2 for the best rules for Poland 1939 and they recommended this supplement. Review here


TKS Polish tankette

 

 As blog readers may know I like tankettes. They are a 30s thing. 

List of Polish armoured fighting vehicles

The TK (also known as the TK-3) tankette was a Polish design produced from 1931 based on the chassis of the British Carden Loyd tankette, with an improved hull and more powerful engine, and armour up to 8 mm thick (10 mm on the TKS). TKS wiki

Britains 9732, PAK 38 German field gun

 Bought for me by my daughter from Cheddar carboot sale. The 5 cm Pak 38 was developed in 1938 and approved for mass production in 1939, wit...