Osprey Publishing imprint: 2000 books
Walker Bulldog vs T-54
Laos and Vietnam 1971–75
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
During the Vietnam War, both the United States and the Soviet Union supplied all manner of weapon systems to the opposing sides, including tanks and armoured vehicles. Two tanks in particular took momentary prominence in the later years of the conflict. On the South Vietnamese side, it was the US...
Greek Hoplite vs Persian Warrior
499–479 BC
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
The Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BCE) convulsed Greece, Asia Minor and the Near East for half a century. Through a series of bloody invasions and pitched battles, the mighty Persian Empire pitted itself against the smaller armies of the Greeks, strengthened through strategic alliances. This epic...
The FN MAG Machine Gun
M240, L7, and other variants
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
For six decades, the 7.62mm FN MAG has been a dominant general-purpose machine gun (GPMG) in worldwide arsenals. Three qualities have guaranteed this enduring status – reliability, ease of operation, and firepower. Several nations have license-produced the weapon as their standard GPMG, including...
Red SAM
The SA-2 Guideline Anti-Aircraft Missile
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The Russian SA-2, nicknamed "Red SAM,†? is history's dominant antiaircraft missile. In 1960 it famously downed Gary Powers' U-2 spyplane, and two years later it was one of the missiles deployed during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which almost sparked a nuclear showdown between America and the...
San Juan Hill 1898
America's Emergence as a World Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals with the clashes at Las Guasimas and El Caney, the...
Latin American Wars 1900–1941
"Banana Wars," Border Wars & Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
From the Mexican Revolution to the Zarumilla War, in the first 40 years of the 20th century the nations of Central and South America were frequently disturbed by border clashes, civil wars and revolution. Many of these conflicts became known as 'Banana Wars'. Some involved only lightly armed guerrillas,...
by Douglas V Meed
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The war with Mexico was the one of the most decisive conflicts in American history. After smashing Mexico's armies the young republic bestrode the North American continent like a colossus with one leg anchored on the Atlantic seaboard and the other on the Pacific. It was a bitter, hard fought war...
El Alamein
The Battle that Turned the Tide of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Before the Battle of El Alamein in 1942, the British had never won a major battle on land against the Germans; nor indeed had anyone else. Drawing on a remarkable array of first-hand accounts, this book reveals the personal experiences of those on the frontline and provides fascinating details of...
Challenge of Battle
The Real Story of the British Army in 1914
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Winston Churchill described the opening campaign of World War I as 'a drama never surpassed'. The titanic clash of Europe's armies in 1914 is one the great stories of 20th-century history, and one in which the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) played a notable part. Previous assessments of the BEF...
by Ken Ford
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
'The last great heave of war,' according to Churchill, took place with the crossing of the Rhine in 1945. No invading army had crossed this great river since Napoleon's in 1805 and the task fell to Field Marshal Montgomery's 21st Army Group. Opposing them were the forces of a failing fascist regime,...
D-Day 1944 (4)
Gold & Juno Beaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, was the greatest sea-borne military operation in history. At the heart of the invasion and key to its success were the landings of British 50th Division on Gold Beach and Canadian 3rd Division on Juno Beach. Not only did they provide the vital link...
by Bruce Gudmundsson
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Bruce Gudmundsson guides us expertly through the history of the British Expeditionary Force in 1916 as it struggled to become a modern army and turn the tide of the First World War. Examining the tactical innovatio0ns that accompanied this change and the conflicting strategies and tactics that it...
The Hindenburg Line 1918
Haig’s forgotten triumph
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
From 26 September until 8 October 1918, the Allied armies in France launched their largest ever combined offensive on the Western Front of World War I. The British, French, American and Belgian armies launched four attacks in rapid succession across a 250km front between the Argonne and Flanders....
Lincoln’s 90-Day Volunteers 1861
From Fort Sumter to First Bull Run
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
On April 15th 1861, the day after the fall of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 volunteers to enlist for three months' service to defend the Union. This 90-day period proved entirely unrealistic and was followed by further, and much more extensive, mobilizations. Despite...