A highly illustrated study of the battle of Nieuwpoort in 1600, one of the key engagements of the Eighty Years War. It will appeal to all enthusiasts of 16th and 17th century warfare and the development of military strategy generally....Daugiau...
A highly illustrated study of one of the most dramatic yet overlooked episodes on the Eastern Front in World War II, the siege of Velikye Luki by Soviet forces in 1942--43. A highly illustrated study of one of the most dramatic y...Daugiau...
A highly illustrated study of the battle of Nieuwpoort in 1600, one of the key engagements of the Eighty Years War. It will appeal to all enthusiasts of 16th and 17th century warfare and the development of military strategy generally....Daugiau...
A highly illustrated study of the medieval Italian battle of Castagnaro, the famous English condottiere captain Sir John Hawkwoods greatest victory.The battle of Castagnaro, fought on 11 March 1387 between the Veronese and the Padua...Daugiau...
Following the successful landings in Normandy on D-Day and consolidation during Operation Cobra, the Wehrmacht was ordered to begin a counter-offensive named Operation Lüttich. The plan was to send a large Panzer force across the First US...Daugiau...
A highly illustrated account of the battle of Strasbourg in AD 357, a decisive victory for the Romans under their Caesar Julian against the Alemanni and their leader Chnodomar.Civil war in the Western Roman Empire between AD 350--53...Daugiau...
Using specially commissioned artwork, this is the engrossing story of the victory at Kulikovo in 1380 that heralded the birth of Russian statehood.The 13th-century Mongol conquest of the Rus--the principalities of Russia--was devastating a...Daugiau...
Smolensk 1943 focuses on a major offensive that is virtually unknown in the West. With the German defeat at Kursk, the Soviet Stavka (high command) ordered the Western and Kalinin Fronts to launch Operation Suvorov in order to...Daugiau...
A highly illustrated study of the naval campaign of the Russo-Japanese War of 190405, focusing on the decisive battle of Tsushima. Japan was closed to the world until 1854 and its technology then was literally medieval. Great Brita...Daugiau...
A highly illustrated account of one of the major battles of Italys 13th century wars between the Guelphs and Ghibellines, immortalized in the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, who was one of the combattants....Daugiau...
Field Marshal Montgomerys plan to get Second British Army behind the fortifications of the German Siegfried Line in 1944 led to the hugely ambitious Operation Market-Garden. Part of this plan called for a rapid advance from Belgium through Hollan...Daugiau...
The battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 is one of the most important battles in English history. King Henry IV faced his erstwhile ally Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland in a bloody contest on a field outside the Shropshire town of Shrewsbury where two...Daugiau...
A highly illustrated study of the pivotal campaign that saw the Allied armies led by Field Marshal Haig break through the German Hindenburg Line in 1918, publishing in its centenary year. From September 26 until October 6, 1918, the Allied...Daugiau...
In 132 AD, Simeon Bar Kosiba, a rebel leader who assumed the messianic name Simon Bar Kokhba (son of a star), led the people of Judaea and Galilee in open rebellion, aiming to oust the occupying Romans and establish their own independent Jewish...Daugiau...
A highly illustrated study of the attritional fighting in the bocage country for the vital crossroads of St Lō, for any enthusiast of land warfare in World War II....Daugiau...
A detailed study of one of the most important pre-Revolutionary battles France fought in the 18th century. A major encounter in the Austrian War of Succession, the battle of Fontenoy established France as the dominant land-power on the European co...Daugiau...
Mauled at Stalingrad, the German army looked to regain the initiative on the Eastern Front with a huge offensive launched near the city of Kursk, 280 miles south-west of Moscow. Armed with the new Panther tank, Hitler and Field Marshall von Manste...Daugiau...
Following Hannibals crushing victory at the battle of the Trebbia, the reeling Roman Republic sent a new army under the over-confident consul Gaius Flaminius to destroy the Carthaginian invaders--unbeknownst to him they were ready and waiting. Th...Daugiau...
Ospreys trilogy on Operation Market-Garden continues with this fascinating and detailed account of the doomed British airborne assault on the bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem. With Germany being pushed back across Europe, the Alli...Daugiau...
For the British Empire it was a military disaster, but for Imperial Japan the conquest of Malaya was one of the pivotal campaigns of World War II. Giving birth to the myth of the Imperial Japanese Armys invincibility, the victory left both Burma...Daugiau...
The Battle of Zama saw two great generals face off, as Hannibal led his Carthaginians against Romes Scipio. This clash appeals to those interested in ancient history or the military greats. The battle of Zama, fought across North A...Daugiau...
