Osprey Publishing imprint: 2000 books
by Pier Paolo Battistelli
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Although he is mostly remembered for his part in the campaign in Italy from 1943 to 1945, Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring was also chief of staff of the Luftwaffe in 1936–37, playing a crucial role in the shaping of the service for the coming war. As commander of Luftflotte 1 in Poland and...
Operation Barbarossa 1941 (1)
Army Group South
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Operation Barbarossa, Germany's surprise assault on the Soviet Union in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than the complete destruction of Communist Russia. This book focuses on Field Marshal von Rundstedt and Army Group South, tasked with the capture of the Ukraine and Crimea. Von Rundstedt's 46 divisions...
Battle of the Bulge 1944 (2)
Bastogne
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
The Ardennes offensive in December 1944, known to history as the "Battle of the Bulge†?, was the decisive campaign of the war in North-West Europe. When the attack in the north by 6th Panzer Army failed, Hitler switched the focus of the offensive to General Manteuffel's 5th Panzer Army farther...
Battle of the Bulge 1944 (1)
St Vith and the Northern Shoulder
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
The Battle of the Bulge was the largest and most costly battle fought by the US Army in World War II. The Ardennes fighting was Hitler's last gamble on the Western Front, crippling the Wehrmacht for the remainder of the war. In the first of two volumes on the Ardennes campaign Steven Zaloga details...
Tannenberg 1410
Disaster for the Teutonic Knights
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland invaded the Order's territory with a powerful...
No Greater Ally
The Untold Story of Poland’s Forces in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
There is a chapter of World War II history that remains largely untold; the monumental struggles of an entire nation have been forgotten, and even intentionally obscured. Giving a full overview of Poland's participation in World War II. Following their valiant but doomed defence of Poland in 1939,...
Where the Iron Crosses Grow
The Crimea 1941–44
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
The Crimea has been the scene of conflict throughout its history. First occupied by the Russians in the 18th century it was the scene of the Crimean War, and was drawn into the Russian Civil War, as well as World War II. Today it remains a much disputed region with the Crimea at the center of ongoing...
Red Christmas
The Tatsinskaya Airfield Raid 1942
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
By December 1942, the Soviets had surrounded the German 6th Army in Stalingrad, cutting off all lines of supply except through the air. Seeking to sever this last German lifeline, Soviet Command decided to launch a raid with the entire 24th Tank Corps to seize the airfield at Tatsinskaya, the primary...
Finnish Soldier vs Soviet Soldier
Winter War 1939–40
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The Winter War was supposed to be a quick and easy conflict; instead it proved to be a bitter war that destroyed the international reputation of the Soviet Red Army. The diminutive Finnish force was desperately outnumbered by almost half a million Russian troops, but rather than sweeping across their...
Kursk 1943
The Northern Front
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
In the summer of 1943, recoiling from defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler conducted a limited objective offensive to eliminate the Soviet Kursk salient. Operating a classic pincer attack of the kind that succeeded during the 1942 Kharkov campaign he hoped that the resulting heavy losses inflicted on the...
Behind Soviet Lines
Hitler’s Brandenburgers capture the Maikop Oilfields 1942
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
In the summer of 1942, following the invasion of Russia the previous year, Hitler's 'Brandenburger' commando units undertook a daring operation deep inside Soviet-held territory. Disguised as members of Stalin's NKVD, the secret police dreaded by most Soviet citizens and soldiers, the Brandenburgers...
Operation Barbarossa 1941 (2)
Army Group North
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Of the German Army Groups that attacked Soviet Russia, Von Leeb's Army Group North, tasked with seizing the Baltic States and Leningrad, was the smallest and weakest. General Kuznetzov's Northwestern Front, however, was in an even weaker state. Despite brave counterattacks and defense by the Soviet...
The Second World War (6)
Northwest Europe 1944–1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
This book examines the seminal Northwest Europe campaign of the Second World War. This hard-fought campaign conducted by the Western Allies against the Germans during 1944-45 represented, for the former, the decisive theatre of the entire Second World War. From the desperate and risk-laden D-Day landings...
by Mark Lardas
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Before the American Civil War most Native Americans or Indians lived in an area of the South known as the Five Civilized Nations. At the war's outbreak many of these Indians enlisted in the Confederate and Union armies, and were organized into regiments of mounted riflemen. They were motivated to...