Osprey Publishing imprint: 2000 books
Armies of the Volga Bulgars & Khanate of Kazan
9th–16th centuries
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013
The Bulgars were a Turkic people who established a state north of the Black Sea. In the late 500s and early 600s AD their state fragmented under pressure from the Khazars; one group moved south into what became Bulgaria, but the rest moved north during the 7th and 8th centuries to the basin of the...
The Boys of ’67
Charlie Company’s War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
In the spring of 1966, while the war in Vietnam was still popular, the US military decided to reactivate the 9th Infantry Division as part of the military build-up. Across the nation, farm boys from the Midwest, surfers from California and city-slickers from Cleveland opened their mail to find greetings...
The First World War
The war to end all wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Raging for over four years across the tortured landscapes of Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the First World War changed the face of warfare forever. Characterised by slow, costly advances and fierce attrition, the great battles of the Somme, Verdun and Ypres incurred human loss on a scale never...
Reich
World War II Through German Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
While Allied propaganda would have us believe that during World War II the German population were downtrodden workers, with no rights and under the power and influence of the all-controlling Gestapo, the truth is somewhat different. While the Allies saw Hitler as an evil to be removed from power,...
by Chris Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
The Boeing (McDonnell Douglas, formerly Hughes) AH-64A Apache is the US Army's primary attack helicopter, and the most advanced helicopter gunship flying today. The most expensive rotary-winged aircraft ever built when it was introduced in the early 1980s, it has since proved its worth on battlefields...
A Pocket History of the Civil War
Citizen Soldiers, Bloody Battles, and the Fight for America’s Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
Whether novice or buff, readers across the spectrum will find unique and entertaining bits of trivia, facts, and lore about key American Civil War battles and leaders in A Pocket History of the Civil War, a collection of the unusual from author Martin F.Graham. From the identification of key troop...
by Ron Field
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Beloved by his soldiers and respected by his enemies, Robert E. Lee is undoubtedly the most popular general in American history to fight on the losing side. This book takes an in-depth look at this southern gentleman as a strategist and a tactician, covering all of his most important victories and...
Shenandoah Valley 1862
Stonewall Jackson outmaneuvers the Union
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Major General "Stonewall†? Jackson became a legend for his actions in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, in 1862. Marching over 600 miles in 48 days, he, along with his army, won five major battles. His forces, never numbering more than 17,000 men, overcame a combined Union force of 50,000, demonstrating...
Sherman's March to the Sea 1864
Atlanta to Savannah
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Riding on the wave of his victory at Atlanta, Union General W. T. Sherman abandoned his supply lines in an attempt to push his forces into Confederate territory and take Savannah. During their 285-mile 'March to the Sea' the army lived off the land and destroyed all war-making capabilities of the...
Wilderness and Spotsylvania 1864
Grant versus Lee in the East
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In May 1864 the Union Army of the Potomac under General George Meade had been in a leisurely pursuit of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia for nearly a year after the defeat of the Rebels at Gettysburg. Confederate commander General Robert E. Lee still retained his awe-inspiring reputation...
Chancellorsville 1863
Jackson's Lightning Strike
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Following the debacle of the battle of Fredricksburg in December 1862, Burnside was replaced as commander of the Army of the Potomac by General Joseph Hooker. Having reorganised the army and improved morale, he planned an attack that would take his army to Richmond and end the war. Although faced...
by Mark Lardas
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Ulysses Grant was his country's greatest general since George Washington. Like Washington, Grant's battlefield performance was the only factor standing between the United States continuing as one, indivisible nation. Grant was the keystone of Union victory, a man whose removal would have resulted...
Chickamauga 1863
The river of death
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
By the Autumn of 1863 the Confederacy was in dire straits. In a colossal gamble, Confederate President Jefferson Davis stripped forces from all the major Confederate armies to reinforce the Army of Tennessee in a last ditch attempt to crush the Union. On 19th September the Confederates attacked the...
Nashville 1864
From the Tennessee to the Cumberland
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In September 1864, the Confederate army abandoned Atlanta and were on the verge of being driven out of the critical state of Tennessee. In an attempt to regain the initiative, John Bell Hood launched an attack on Union General Sherman's supply lines, before pushing north in an attempt to retake Tennessee's...