Book Review of
Images of War
Narvik & the Norwegian Campaign 1940
Rare Photographs From Wartime Archives
Author: Philip Jowett
Pen & Sword Military Series
ISBN: 9781526796547
By Ray Mehlberger
Copyright: 2022
MSRP: $34.95
ISBN: 9781526796547
By Ray Mehlberger
Copyright: 2022
MSRP: $34.95
THE BOOK:
Pen & Sword Books is based in the UK.
This book is of soft-cover of 235 pages (5 are blank) in 7 ½” x 9 ¾” page format.
The cover art black and white photos show, at the top, shows 6 British soldiers moving through rubble in a wrecked city.
Below are 5 smaller black and white photos are shown. Reading left to right, German soldiers marching down a city street, a wrecked U.S. ship, a sinking German ship and a rocky shoreline with a burning ship off-shore in the distance.
The back cover shows 3 more black and white wartime photos.
Reading left to right there is one of 5 German soldiers sitting together. 2 wear soft billed-field caps and goggles, 3 wear white hoods.
The book begins with a CONTENTS, DEDICATION and INTRODUCTION.
There are 335 black and white wartime photos, including the covers.
The book starts with a Map of Norway.
Next is a photo of 70 year old King Christian X of Denmark on horseback.
Pictures of British things include:
Soldiers, some aboard ship, merchant marines, a Royal Navy minesweeper, a Royal Navy “Swordfish” Class submarine, HMS Snapper, submarine HMS Sunfish, HMS Rodney Battleship, HMS Southampton light cruiser, crew of HMS Spearfish, RAF Whitworth Whitley Mk. IV & Handley Page Hamptons medium bombers, HMS Hunter H class destroyer, HMS Karus, a pom-pom anti-aircraft gunk, HMS Warspite Battleship, Winston Churchill inspecting troops, a Blackburn Skua Mk. II aircraft, a Gloster Gladiator aircraft, HMS Effingham heavy cruiser, HMS Afridi tribal-class destroyer, a 3.7in anti-aircraft gun crew, a Bofors anti-aircraft gun crew, HMS Curlew C-class anti-aircraft cruiser, HMS Ardent, HMS Acasta, HMS Glorious aircraft carrier, troopship SS Orama sinking, and HMS Renown battlecruiser.
For Germany there are black and white photos of:
German infantryman, supply ship Altmark, generals, a Junkers Ju-52/3M transport aircraft with troops beside it, a light tank being loaded onto a ship, merchant ships, cruiser Karlsruhe, a knocked-out Sd.Kfz. 221 scout car, a long column of German vehicles, a horse-drawn supply column, a motorcyclist, a Kriegsmarine destroyer, a K-class scouting cruiser, a torpedo boat, German cruisers Kolm, Konigsberg and the aged Bremse, Kriegsmarine Blucher heavy cruiser, a Pz.Kpfw. II Ausf. C, heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper, MG34 machine gun crew, Maxim M1908 heavy machine gun crew, destroyer Z-16 Friedrich, heavy cruiser Lutzow, un-identified Type 1934 destroyer, Z-22 destroyer, Neubaufahrzeug Nb Fz tank, Pz.Kpfw. I & II, horse drawn artillery, medium field gun, Ju-87 Stuka dive-bomber, experimental tank, Heinkel H111 crew, Me-100 aircraft, bombs, He-59 seaplane, Me-109E fighter, Do-215B bomber, Gebirgsjager in rubber raft, wrecked He-111 bomber, Gneisenau ship, Scharnhorst ship and a Flak 30 20mm anti-aircraft gun crewman.
Photos of Danish things:
Danish infantry-men, 75mm anti-aircraft gun and crew, artillery unit on horse-back, Fokker CV biplane, pilot, Fokker D.XIII and the HDMS Niels Juel coastal defence ship.
Photos of Norwegian things:
Infantry-men, King Haakon VII, Crown-prince Olaf, pilot, scratch-built armored car, 7.5cm L/35 M32 anti-aircraft gun crew, cavalry, ski troops, Gloster Gladiator aircraft, Fokker GVE biplane on skis, crew of a Colt Browning M29 heavy machine gun, a Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun crew, a German-made Heinkel 115 seaplane over a minesweeper, submarines, coastal defence ship Eidsvold, Colt Browning M29 machine gun and a 7.5cm M/01 field gun.
Photos of French things:
Infantry-men, Vauquelin class destroyer, Le Chevalier Paul destroyer, Malcolm cruiser, ski troops and a H39 tank.
Photos of Polish things:
Infantry-men and a submarine.
Photo of USA thing:
Lockheed Hudson A29 bombers and crews.
Aerial photo of the Port of Narvik.
There is a postcard inserted in the book to use to send to Casemate to get information about Pen & Sword books.
This book will be of interest to modelers and military historians alike.
I sincerely wish to thank Casemate Publishers for this review sample.
Casemate is the N. American distributor of Pen & Sword books and all their titles can be viewed on their website at:
Pen & Sword Books is based in the UK.
This book is of soft-cover of 235 pages (5 are blank) in 7 ½” x 9 ¾” page format.
The cover art black and white photos show, at the top, shows 6 British soldiers moving through rubble in a wrecked city.
Below are 5 smaller black and white photos are shown. Reading left to right, German soldiers marching down a city street, a wrecked U.S. ship, a sinking German ship and a rocky shoreline with a burning ship off-shore in the distance.
The back cover shows 3 more black and white wartime photos.
Reading left to right there is one of 5 German soldiers sitting together. 2 wear soft billed-field caps and goggles, 3 wear white hoods.
The book begins with a CONTENTS, DEDICATION and INTRODUCTION.
There are 335 black and white wartime photos, including the covers.
The book starts with a Map of Norway.
Next is a photo of 70 year old King Christian X of Denmark on horseback.
Pictures of British things include:
Soldiers, some aboard ship, merchant marines, a Royal Navy minesweeper, a Royal Navy “Swordfish” Class submarine, HMS Snapper, submarine HMS Sunfish, HMS Rodney Battleship, HMS Southampton light cruiser, crew of HMS Spearfish, RAF Whitworth Whitley Mk. IV & Handley Page Hamptons medium bombers, HMS Hunter H class destroyer, HMS Karus, a pom-pom anti-aircraft gunk, HMS Warspite Battleship, Winston Churchill inspecting troops, a Blackburn Skua Mk. II aircraft, a Gloster Gladiator aircraft, HMS Effingham heavy cruiser, HMS Afridi tribal-class destroyer, a 3.7in anti-aircraft gun crew, a Bofors anti-aircraft gun crew, HMS Curlew C-class anti-aircraft cruiser, HMS Ardent, HMS Acasta, HMS Glorious aircraft carrier, troopship SS Orama sinking, and HMS Renown battlecruiser.
For Germany there are black and white photos of:
German infantryman, supply ship Altmark, generals, a Junkers Ju-52/3M transport aircraft with troops beside it, a light tank being loaded onto a ship, merchant ships, cruiser Karlsruhe, a knocked-out Sd.Kfz. 221 scout car, a long column of German vehicles, a horse-drawn supply column, a motorcyclist, a Kriegsmarine destroyer, a K-class scouting cruiser, a torpedo boat, German cruisers Kolm, Konigsberg and the aged Bremse, Kriegsmarine Blucher heavy cruiser, a Pz.Kpfw. II Ausf. C, heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper, MG34 machine gun crew, Maxim M1908 heavy machine gun crew, destroyer Z-16 Friedrich, heavy cruiser Lutzow, un-identified Type 1934 destroyer, Z-22 destroyer, Neubaufahrzeug Nb Fz tank, Pz.Kpfw. I & II, horse drawn artillery, medium field gun, Ju-87 Stuka dive-bomber, experimental tank, Heinkel H111 crew, Me-100 aircraft, bombs, He-59 seaplane, Me-109E fighter, Do-215B bomber, Gebirgsjager in rubber raft, wrecked He-111 bomber, Gneisenau ship, Scharnhorst ship and a Flak 30 20mm anti-aircraft gun crewman.
Photos of Danish things:
Danish infantry-men, 75mm anti-aircraft gun and crew, artillery unit on horse-back, Fokker CV biplane, pilot, Fokker D.XIII and the HDMS Niels Juel coastal defence ship.
Photos of Norwegian things:
Infantry-men, King Haakon VII, Crown-prince Olaf, pilot, scratch-built armored car, 7.5cm L/35 M32 anti-aircraft gun crew, cavalry, ski troops, Gloster Gladiator aircraft, Fokker GVE biplane on skis, crew of a Colt Browning M29 heavy machine gun, a Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun crew, a German-made Heinkel 115 seaplane over a minesweeper, submarines, coastal defence ship Eidsvold, Colt Browning M29 machine gun and a 7.5cm M/01 field gun.
Photos of French things:
Infantry-men, Vauquelin class destroyer, Le Chevalier Paul destroyer, Malcolm cruiser, ski troops and a H39 tank.
Photos of Polish things:
Infantry-men and a submarine.
Photo of USA thing:
Lockheed Hudson A29 bombers and crews.
Aerial photo of the Port of Narvik.
There is a postcard inserted in the book to use to send to Casemate to get information about Pen & Sword books.
This book will be of interest to modelers and military historians alike.
I sincerely wish to thank Casemate Publishers for this review sample.
Casemate is the N. American distributor of Pen & Sword books and all their titles can be viewed on their website at:
Highly recommended.