Potez 639 AB2

The Potez 639 AB2 was a two-seat attack bomber ordered as part of an order for ten evaluation aircraft in the Potez 63 family.

Potez 637 A3

The Potez 637 A3 was a three-seat reconnaissance aircraft that served in small numbers with the Armée de l'Air during the Battle of France, but that was already being phased out in favour of the Potez 63.11.

Potez 636 C3

The Potez 636 C3 was a three-seat fighter designed to be licence-built in Czechoslovakia.

Potez 634

The Potez 634 was an alternative designation given to ten two-seat training aircraft ordered in the first production contract for the Potez 631 fighter.

Potez 633 B2

The Potez 633 B2 was a light bomber version of the Potez 63 twin engined design. Although it was initially ordered in large numbers for the Armée de l'Air, these orders were soon cancelled and only these aircraft ordered for export were built.

Roughshod through Dixie, Grierson's Raid 1863, Mark Lardas.

Roughshod through Dixie, Grierson's Raid 1863, Mark Lardas.

One of the most effective cavalry raids of the American Civil War, Greirson led his small force from north to south across the Confederacy, attracting attention away from Grant's early moves around Vicksburg. This excellent entry in the Raid series traces Greirson's progress day by day, as well as examining the reasons behind his success and other's failures.

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The Fortifications of Verdun, 1874-1917, Clayton Donnell.

The Fortifications of Verdun, 1874-1917, Clayton Donnell.

A study of the fortifications of Verdun, from the first modern works after the Franco-Prussian War to the brutal siege of 1916 and on to the modern preservation of the battlefield. Has some interesting material on the way in which fortifications developed in response to the appearance of high explosive shells fired from rifled artillery as well as on the appearance of the forts during the First World War and the siege itself.

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Potez 632

The Potez 632 was the designation given to a single Potez 633 light bomber ordered by Switzerland.

Potez 631

The Potez 631 was the main French night fighter during the Battle of France, but a lack of any useable system for intercepting German raiders meant that it saw little combat at night.

Potez 630

The Potez 630 was a twin-engined fighter powered by troublesome Hispano-Suiza engines and that was produced in small numbers to make up for slow production of the more reliable Gnome-Rhone powered Potez 631.