Illustrator: Graham Turner. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 96 p. Field Marshal Montgomery's plan to get Second British Army behind the fortifications of the German Siegfried Line in 1944 led to the hugely ambitions Operation Market-Garden. Part of this plan called for a rapid advance from Belgium through Holland up to and across the lower Rhine by the British XXX Corps along a...
Illustrator: Dorothy Hwee. — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 96 p. It is often forgotten that during World War II, the Japanese managed to successfully invade and conquer a precious part of American home soil - the first time this had happened since 1815. Capturing the Aleutian Islands, located in Alaska territory, was seen by the Japanese as vital in order to shore up their...
Illustrator: Steve Noon. — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 96 p. 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 Army sector, cutting off its spearheads, and finally reach Avranches on the coast....
Illustrator: Giuseppe Rava — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 96 p. King Philip's War was the result of over 50 years' tension between the native inhabitants of New England and its colonial settlers as the two parties competed for land and resources. A coalition of Native American tribes fought against a force of over 1,000 men raised by the New England Confederation of Plymouth,...
Illustrator: Edouard A Groult. — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 96 p. The German battleship Scharnhorst had a reputation for being a lucky ship. Early in the war she fought off a British battlecruiser and sunk a carrier, before carrying out two successful forays into the Atlantic. In the spring of 1943, the Scharnhorst was redeployed to Norway. There, working in concert with other...
Illustrator: Steve Noon. — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 80 p. At the turn of the 20th century, the region of Manchuria sat atop a potentially catastrophic political fault line; the ancient strength of China was crumbling, leaving opportunities for both Russia and Japan to claw out new territories from the edges of that dying empire. Russian pride would contend with Japanese ambition...
Illustrator: Johnny Shumate. — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 80 p. During the 16th century, Japan underwent a military revolution, characterized by the deployment of large armies, the introduction of firearms and an eventual shift towards fighting on foot. This study encapsulates these great changes through an exploration of the experience on the ground at three key battles,...
Illustrator: Jim Laurier, Gareth Hector. — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 80 p. The F-105D Thunderchief was originally designed as a low-altitude nuclear strike aircraft, but the outbreak of the Vietnam War led to it being used instead as the USAF's primary conventional striker against the exceptionally well-defended targets in North Vietnam and Laos. F-105 crews conducted...
Illustrator: Paul Wright. — Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 48 p. While not as famous as their larger and faster sister ships such as the Essex- and Yorktown-class carriers, escort carriers made an enormous contribution towards Allied victory both in the Pacific and Atlantic theatres. Rather than relying on size or speed, it was their sheer numbers that made them so effective. Indeed,...
Illustrator: Peter Bull. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 48 p. The tiny new state of the United Provinces of the Netherlands won its independence from the mighty Spanish empire by fighting and winning the Eighty Years' War, from 1568 and 1648. In this long conflict, warfare on water played a much bigger role in determining the ultimate victor. On the high seas the fleet carved out a...
Illustrator: Julian Baker, Johnny Shumate. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 48 p. In 1908 the most incredible naval arms race in history began. Flush with cash from rubber and coffee, Brazil decided to order three of the latest, greatest category of warship available - the dreadnought battleship. One Brazilian dreadnought by itself could defeat the combined gunnery of every other...
Illustrator: Paul Wright. — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 48 p. From Spain to Russia, and from Ottoman Turkey to Bismarck's Prussia, this book explores 15 years that transformed European naval warfare. When the Gloire slid down the Toulon slipway in 1859, it changed sea power forever. With this ship, the world's first oceangoing ironclad, France had a warship that could sink any...
Desperta Ferro Ediciones. — 68 p. En el año 331 a. C. Alejandro Magno visitaba el oráculo de Siwa (Egipto), donde le fue dado a conocer su origen divino y no humano, como hijo de Zeus y no de Filipo de Macedonia. Por entonces había conquistado Anatolia, el Levante y Egipto, unos logros incomparablemente superiores a los que había alcanzado ningún ejército griego con...
Illustrator: Graham Turner. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 96 p. In August 1940, the Luftwaffe began an operation to destroy or neutralize RAF Fighter Command, and enable Hitler to invade Britain that autumn. It was a new type of air warfare: the first ever offensive counter-air campaign against an integrated air defence system. Powerful, combat-proven and previously all-conquering,...
Illustrator: Graham Turner. — Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 96 p. In 1778 Great Britain launched a second invasion of the southern colonies as part of the "southern strategy” for victory in the American Revolutionary War. A force of 3,000 British soldiers, Hessians and Loyalists was dispatched from New York City to capture Savannah, capital of the State of Georgia. The city fell in...
Illustrator: Peter Dennis. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 96 p. Victory at Guadalcanal for the Allies in February 1943 left them a vital foothold in the Solomon Islands chain, and was the first step in an attempt to isolate and capture the key Japanese base of Rabaul on New Britain. In order to do this they had to advance up the island chain in a combined air, naval, and ground...
Illustrator: Peter Dennis — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 96 p. Velikiye Luki had been an important Russian fortress city since the 13th century and had become an important rail-hub by the 19th century. In August 1941, the Germans occupied the city of 30,000 during Operation Barbarossa and made it a bulwark on the boundary between Heeresgruppe Nord and Heeresgruppe Mitte. In the...
Illustrator: Adam Hook. — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 97 p. In the wake of Italy's rapid annexation of Albania in April 1940, Mussolini's decision to attack Greece in October that year is widely acknowledged as a fatal mistake, leading to a domestic crisis and to the collapse of Italy's reputation as a military power (re-emphasized by the Italian defeat in North Africa in...
Illustrator: Shumate Johnny — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 96 p. On 23 August 1939, a secret protocol was appended to the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact; as part of this, Finland was assigned to the Soviet sphere of influence. On 30 November that year, in an effort to protect against renewed German aggression in the East, the Soviet Union attacked Finland, beginning what...
Illustrator Johnny Shumate. — Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 64 p. — ISBN 9781472850973. A fascinating account of Russia's Five-Day War against Georgia in 2008, notable for its strategic mistakes which prompted President Putin to undertake major military reforms. After Georgia's independence from Russia in 1991, President Saakashvili invited NATO advisers to assist in military...
Illustrator: Ramiro Bujeiro. — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 48 р. Goebbels' 1941 propaganda campaign to present Germany's invasion of the USSR as a battle for European civilization against Asian barbarism convinced many men in occupied 'Germanic' European countries, such as Scandinavia and the Low Countries, to volunteer to fight on the Russian Front. One of the strongest...
Illustrator: Peter Dennis. — Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 64 p. The 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, was one of the most innovative and successful counter-insurgency units in modern history. Formed as a commando battalion in 1964 after the dissolution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the RLI was an all-white unit made up of South Africans and men from the UK,...
Illustrator: Peter Dennis, Alan Gilliland. — Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 80 p. When a soldier must face multiple opponents at close quarters, few weapons can match the effectiveness of the shotgun. From World War I to the War on Terror, the shotgun has been a devastating weapon in the hands of US troops. For urban combat, prisoner control and shipboard operations, it remains as...
Helion and Company. 2022 — 125 p. In 1526, the army of the Hungarian kingdom was soundly defeated by the army of the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, in the battle of Mohács. In the following decades the lands that were once part of the Hungarian Crown were divided. On the eastern half of the former Hungarian kingdom a new state was born, the Principality of...
Pen & Sword, 2017. — 256 p. In Decorated Roman Armour: From the Age of the Kings to the Death of Justinian the Great , Raffaele D’Amato and Andrey Evgenevich Negin provide a chronological and typological analysis of Roman army equipment, especially focusing on "the evolution of decorated armour throughout the history of ancient Rome". Raffaelle D’Amato has published extensively...
Desperta Ferro Ediciones. — 68 p. Pirro I, rey de Epiro entre los años 307 y 272 a. C. (intermitentemente), es recordado, entre otras cosas, por la expresión “victoria pírrica”, alusiva a aquella obtenida con mayor pérdida que el oponente. Pero su apasionante vida va mucho más allá. Llevado por la ambición y el deseo de emular a su pariente lejano, Alejandro Magno, una...
Desperta Ferro Ediciones. — 68 p. El rey Pirro se creía, a la vez, un nuevo Aquiles y un nuevo Alejandro Magno, y ha llegado a nosotros como ejemplo de ambición desmesurada, una ambición que los éxitos no acababan de saciar jamás, suscitando, por el contrario, nuevas esperanzas. Si en el primer volumen que dedicamos a su persona (véase Desperta Ferro Antigua y Medieval n.º 43:...
Helion and Company. 2021 — 294 p. This three-volume series will describe and analyses the ‘Swedish Deluge’ (potop szwedski), the devastating 1655–1660 series of wars fought between Sweden, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Brandenburg-Prussia, Muscovite Russia, Transylvania, Cossack Ukraine, the Tatar Khanate of Crimea, and the Holy Roman Empire during the reign of Swedish...
Helion & Company, 2020. — 360 p. Conflicts between Christian powers and the Ottoman Empire displayed completely different characteristics compared to other contemporary wars fought in Europe, war without mercy being the norm. The tones adopted by Western literature to describe the Ottomans resemble the ones recently used against the communist bloc and the Soviet Union, and it...
Illustrator: Jim Laurier. — Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 96 p. The last months of World War II on the Eastern Front saw a ferocious fight between two very different air forces. Soviet Air Force (VVS) Commander-in-Chief Alexander Novikov assembled 7,500 aircraft in three powerful air armies to support the final assault on Berlin. The Luftwaffe employed some of its most advanced...
Illustrator: Graham Turner. — Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 96 p. This is a blistering account of the battle of Cowpens, a short, sharp conflict which marked a crucial turning point in the American Revolution. With Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton and the British troops in hot pursuit, Daniel Morgan, leading a small force of 700 Continentals and militia, chose the Cowpens as the...
Illustrator: Steve Noon. — Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 96 p. Against the wishes of Hitler, German forces under Erich von Manstein were forced to retreat following the failure of the Kursk offensive of July 1943. The weakened force only had one possible refuge, behind the wide Dnepr River. The race to the natural defensive line was on, with the Soviets launching one of their largest...
Illustrator: Steve Noon. — Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 96 p. As the final month of fighting in Europe in 1945 dawned the Allies embarked upon a series of mopping up operations, destroying the last centres of German resistance as the essentially defeated Wehrmacht fought on in increasingly desperate conditions, driven on by the explicit no surrender order issued by Hitler. Yet at...
Illustrator: Dennis Peter — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 96 p. In late 1953, the seventh year of France's war against the Viet Minh insurgency in its colony of Vietnam, the C-in-C, General Navarre, was encouraged to plant an ‘air-ground base' in the Thai Highlands at Dien Bien Phu, to distract General Giap's Vietnamese People's Army from both Annam and the French northern...
Illustrator: Johnny Shumate. — Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 80 p. Specially commissioned artwork and thrilling combat accounts transport the reader to the far-flung and inhospitable East African theatre of World War I, where the Schutztruppe faced off against the King's African Rifles. In an attempt to divert Allied forces from the Western Front, a small German colonial force under...
Illustrator: Steve Noon. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 80 p. The US Airborne force fielded some of the toughest, best-trained and most resourceful troops of World War II - all necessary qualities in a force that was lightly armed and which would in most operational circumstances be surrounded from the moment it landed on the battlefield. The German Wehrmacht grew to rely on a...
Illustrator: Johnny Shumate. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 80 p. Canadian and Waffen-SS troops of 12. SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend faced one another in a series of bloody battles following the D-Day landings of June 1944. The Canadian units fought in a number of distinguished regiments, while the Hitlerjugend Division were drawn from the ranks of the Hitler Youth organizations....
Illustrator: Peter Dennis. — Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 80 p. For four hundred years the Byzantine Empire's naval forces vied with the warships of the Islamic world for mastery of the Mediterranean. At the heart of this confrontation were the fighting vessels of the two powers, the Byzantine dromon and the Arabic shalandi, both oared warships. In those four centuries of warfare...
Illustrator: Jim Laurier, Gareth Hector. — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 80 p. Arguably two of the finest piston-engined fighters ever built, the Tempest V and Fw 190D-9 raised the bar in terms of aircraft design and operational capability during World War II. The long-nosed ‘Dora 9', designed by Kurt Tank, first appeared in the skies over the Western and Eastern Fronts in the late...
Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 64 p. The United States Marine Corps came into its own in the Pacific Islands campaign against Japan in World War II. From Guadalcanal to Okinawa, US Marines formed the tip of the spear as Allied forces sought to push the Japanese back to their Home Islands. This fascinating study tracks the deployments of the various Marine divisions throughout the war...
Illustrator: Alan Gilliland— Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 64 p. During the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong were frequently unable to hold their own in stand-up fights against US and allied forces who were superior in strength, firepower, mobility, and logistics. They relied instead on traditional guerrilla warfare tactics including small-scale hit- and-run attacks, ambushes, terrorist...
Illustrator: Trexler Jeff — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 48 р. During the American Revolution (1775-83), German auxiliary troops provided a vital element of the British war effort. Some 30,000 German troops served in North America, continuing a long-established relationship between Britain and various German principalities. These troops were widely referred to as mercenaries,...
Illustrator: Paul Wright. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 48 p. In November 1859, the French warship La Gloire was launched. She was the world's first seagoing ironclad - a warship built from wood, but whose hull was clad in a protective layer of iron plate. Britain, not to be outdone, launched her own ironclad the following year - HMS Warrior - which, when she entered service,...
Illustrator: Adam Tooby.— Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 48 p. Faced with an increasingly formidable anti-ship cruise missile threat from the Soviet Union in the early days of the Cold War, and with the recent memory of the kamikaze threat from World War II, the USN placed a great priority on developing air defence cruise missiles and getting them to sea to protect the fleet. The...
Illustrator: Adam Hook. — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 48 p. Elite forces need elite vehicles. As Vladimir Putin has devoted effort and funds into modernising Russia's armed forces and turning them into an instrument geared not just for defending the Motherland but also projecting power beyond its borders, Russia has seen a growing emphasis on special and specialist forces....
Illustrator: Alan Gilliland, Johnny Shumate. — Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 80 p. The Browning "50-cal” has become the longest serving weapon in the US inventory. The "fifty” has been employed in every imaginable role for a machine gun. It is considered such an effective and reliable weapon that few countries ever attempted to develop an equivalent weapon. Even the Japanese created...
Illustrators: Peter Dennis, Alan Gilliland. — Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 80 p. First used in combat during the Punitive Expedition into Mexico and then extensively during the world wars, the Colt Government Model (1911) pistol remained the standard issue handgun in the US armed forces for nearly 80 years and has continued in service with some units to this day. In fact, the...
Illustrator: Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland. — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 80 p. The conduct of combat operations in open order during the 18th and 19th centuries required an improved firearm with more accuracy than the standard-issue smoothbore infantry musket. Consequently, the appearance of a new type of regular light infantry soldier and an innovative military firearm, the...
М.: Марджани. — 160 с. «Батыр» – это первый сугубо научный журнал, посвященный специально евразийской военно-исторической проблематике. Журнал рассматривает традиционную военную культуру, развивавшуюся на территории от Центральной Европы до Восточной Азии, от Скандинавии и Сибири до Египта, Индостана и Малайского архипелага. Временной промежуток – от эпохи древности, когда...
М.: АСТ; Полигон, 1997. — 998 с. — (Харперская энциклопедия военной истории). Впервые в России выходит издание, в котором дана целостная картина мировой истории войн, развития вооруженных сил и военного дела с 3500 года до Р.Х. по 1997 год. Читатель найдет в "Харперской энциклопедии военной истории" Р.Эрнеста и Тревора Н.Дюпюи описание сражений мировой истории, анализ военных...