History Hit - Eben-Emael - The Underground Fortress That Should've Stopped Hitler

 New documentary. 

War historian James Rogers explores the massive fortress of Eben-Emael near Liege in Belgium. Covering 750,000 square metres, it was built in the 1930s and designed to stop the German advance into Western Europe. James investigates some of the massive remaining casemates that were packed with massive cannons and the latest in fortress technology. James will also find out about what happened when a group of just 78 German airborne troops landed on the fort in the first hours of Hitler's invasion of the West.

Polish 1939 by Jaroslaw Wrobel

TKS tankette with machine gun wz.25 the «stronghold of Polish armored formations». Jaroslaw Wrobel
 

Westerplatte 

May '40 Miniatures

 28mm Dutch troops - go here. A really useful range.

Belgium Vickers T-15

 Light tank. Wiki

Allied tanks 1940

 

Tank Chats #6 Vickers Light MKVI B | The Tank Museum

 Here. This tank appeals to me. I remember a picture of it in Purnell's in the 70s but I wasn't able to put one on the table not like now as there are plenty of resin models to choose from. Anyone have any favourite models? Early war miniatures do a nice one (see pic).

Early war miniatures

I just discovered Airfix did one in 1998

 which was originally by JB models.

Purnell's History of the Second World War

 I had these growing up. A part work from newsagents weekly. My Uncle Arthur worked for Purnell's as a proof reader and got us copies of these. We had all the volumes plus some duplicates.    When we wargamed it in the 70s these were invaluable. They had nice reconstructions but I haven't found any images online. If you have any get in touch.

A typical cover. Very good colour printing for the time 1966

This is what they looked like with their binders