Osprey Publishing imprint: 2000 books
The Forgotten Dead
The true story of Exercise Tiger, the disastrous rehearsal for D-Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
27 April 1944. Exercise Tiger. German E-boats intercept rehearsals for the D-Day landings... On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretch of the Devon coast became the scene of desperate horror. Tales began to leak out of night-time explosions and seaborne activity. This was practice for Exercise...
by Nick van der Bijl
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
The announcement of the imminent withdrawal of the British Royal Navy's ice patrol ship HMS Endurance in early 1982 prompted the Argentinian Junta in Buenos Aires to plan a military grab of the Falklands-a siege they assumed would succeed with little resistance. Such an adventure was attractive as...
The White Rose of Stalingrad
The Real-Life Adventure of Lidiya Vladimirovna Litvyak, the Highest Scoring Female Air Ace of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Of all the major air forces that were engaged in the war, only the Red Air Force had units comprised specifically of women. Initially the Red Air Force maintained an all-male policy among its combat pilots. However, as the apparently invincible German juggernaut sliced through Soviet defenses, the...
MacArthur’s Air Force
American Airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941–51
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2019
General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the twentieth century, but his leadership of the second largest air force in the USAAF is often overlooked. When World War II ended, the three numbered air forces (the Fifth, Thirteenth and Seventh) under his command...
The Thames 1813
The War of 1812 on the Northwest Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The battle of the Thames was the culmination of a bloody campaign that saw American forces clash with the British and their Native American allies on multiple occasions. In a battle that included the future US president William Henry Harrison, American naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry and the legendary...
Point Pleasant 1774
Prelude to the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
The only major conflict of Lord Dunmore's War, the battle of Point Pleasant was fought between Virginian militia and American Indians from the Shawnee and Mingo tribes. Following increased tensions and a series of incidents between the American settlers and the natives, Dunmore, the last colonial...
Peckuwe 1780
The Revolutionary War on the Ohio River Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
As the Revolutionary War raged on fields near the Atlantic, Native Americans and British rangers fought American settlers on the Ohio River frontier in warfare of unsurpassed ferocity. When their attacks threatened to drive the Americans from their settlements in Kentucky, Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton...
by Gordon Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
This, the first of two volumes on Germany's World War II U-boats, traces their development from the early U-boats of the Kaiser's Navy, the prohibition on Germany having U-boats following the Armistice in 1918 and the subsequent Treaty of Versailles, the secret development of U-boats using a 'cover-firm'...
The Chesapeake Campaigns 1813–15
Middle ground of the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
The War of 1812 was never the most popular of conflicts on both sides of the Atlantic. Bogged down by their involvement in the Napoleonic conflict in Europe, the British largely relied on the power of the Royal Navy in the early years of the war. Part of this naval strategy was to blockade the American...
by The Tank Museum
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Invented during World War I to break the grim deadlock of the Western Front trenches, tanks have gone on to revolutionise warfare. From the lightning Blitzkrieg assaults of World War II to the great battles in the Middle Eastern desert and the largest ever tank battles on the Eastern Front, tanks...
by David Bullock
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
The Czech Legion was not just a single military unit, but a volunteer army that fielded up to 100,000 troops on the Allied side on all three main fronts of the war. Since only the defeat of Austro-Hungary and Germany offered any hope for Czech national independence, they were amongst the most motivated...
by Marco Mattioli
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Italy's most successful wartime bomber, the S.79 saw combat with the Regia Aeronautica in France, Yugoslavia, Greece, North Africa, East Africa and in the Mediterranean. Initially developed as a transport, the aircraft evolved into a dedicated medium bomber during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. The...
by Leroy Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Developed to replace the Model 1892 Krag-Jørgensen rifle, the Model 1903 Springfield was a five-shot bolt-action rifle that introduced the .30-06 cartridge – the standard US round until the introduction of the 7.62mm NATO cartridge – and gave the US infantryman a durable, magazine-fed weapon...
by Leroy Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
During the Cold War, the G3 was one of the world's pre-eminent battle rifles. Developed in France and Spain after 1945, the rifle was produced by the German arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch. Adopted by more than 40 countries and produced on licence by many more, it was widely employed during colonial...