Helion & Company, 2019. — 321 p. During the 17th century, Europe experienced only four years of general peace: 1610 and 1680-82. This scenario of almost continuous strife provided the terrain for the rise of the standing professional armies. The states were eager to avoid a repetition of the chaos and destruction that had plagued Europe during the Thirty Years’ War, and...
Illustrator: Steve Noon. — Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 96 p. Much has been written of the titanic clashes between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army at Stalingrad, but this volume tells the other, equally important half of the story of Fall Blau (Case Blue). Learning from their experiences during the sweeping advances of Operation Barbarossa a year before, Wehrmacht commanders knew...
Illustrator: Graham Turner. — Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 96 p. 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 Marshal von Manstein were confident that they could inflict another crushing defeat on...
Illustrator: Seán Ó’Brógáin. — Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 96 p. A disputed succession to the Austrian throne led to general war between the leading powers of Europe in 1740, with France, Spain and Prussia on one side, and Britain, Habsburg Austria and the Dutch Republic on the other. While fighting occurred across the globe, the bloodiest battles were fought on the European...
Illustrator: Giuseppe Rava. — Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 96 p. From 1931, China and Japan had been embroiled in a number of small-scale conflicts that had seen vast swathes of territory being occupied by the Japanese. On 7 July 1937, the Japanese engineered the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which led to the fall of Beijing and Tianjin and the start of a de facto state of war between...
Illustrator: Steve Noon. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 96 p. In the summer of 1942, the Wehrmacht invaded the Caucasus in order to overrun critical oil production facilities at Maikop, Grozny and Baku. However, the Red Army stopped the Germans short of their objectives and then launched a devastating winter counteroffensive that encircled them at Stalingrad. Consequently, Hitler...
Illustrator: Jim Laurier.— Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 96 p. The battle of the Java Sea, fought in February 1942, was the first major surface engagement of the Pacific War and one of the few naval battles of the entire war fought to a decisive victory. It was the culminating point of the Japanese drive to occupy the Netherlands East Indies (NEI) and, to defend the territory, the...
Illustrator: Dorothy Hwee. — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 96 p. The final months of Allied naval bombardments on the Home Islands during World War II have, for whatever reason, frequently been overlooked by historians. Yet the Allies' final naval campaign against Japan involved the largest and arguably most successful wartime naval fleet ever assembled, and was the climax to the...
Illustrator: Johnny Shumate. — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 97 p. When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, the tiny US Army did not even have a standing division. A huge national army worthy of the Western Front was quickly enlisted, trained, and then transported to France to fight against the Germans. In September 1918, the American Expeditionary Force,...
Illustrator: Graham Turner — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 96 p. The Falklands Conflict was remarkable for many reasons: it was a hard fought, bloody and short conflict between a leading NATO power and one of the most capable armed forces in South America; it demonstrated the capabilities of a range of cutting-edge technologies including nuclear-powered attack submarines, Exocet...
Illustrator: Shumate Johnny — Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 96 p. The Japanese invasion of Burma in January 1942 marked the beginning of the single longest campaign of World War II. In the Burmese jungles, the battle-hardened, highly trained and lightly equipped Imperial Japanese Army quickly proved itself a vastly superior fighting force in clashes against the British, Indian and...
Illustrator: Johnny Shumate. — Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 80 p. In 1967-68, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) was on the front line of the defence of South Vietnam's Quang Tri province, which was at the very heart of the Vietnam conflict. Facing them were the soldiers of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), men whose organization and equipment made them a very different opponent...
Illustrator: Adam Hook. — Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 80 p. When Hitler's forces poured into France and the Low Countries in 1940, the uneasy peace of the ‘Phoney War' was shattered, and Europe was ripped apart by another Blitzkrieg. Forming the backbone of the German advance were the well-equipped Schützen (Rifles), motorized infantry who embodied the essence of the fluid, swift...
Illustrator: Adam Hook. — Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 80 p. In April 1941, as Churchill strove to counter the German threat to the Balkans, New Zealand troops were hastily committed to combat in the wake of the German invasion of Greece where they would face off against the German Kradschützen - motorcycle troops. Examining three major encounters in detail with the help of maps...
Illustrator: Jim Laurier. — Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 80 p. As the Pacific War approached a crescendo, the clashes between swarming US Navy carrier aircraft, and the gigantic Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) Yamato-class battleships became symbolic of the fortunes of the two nations. They also served as a metaphor for the profound changes in naval technology and doctrine that the war...
Illustrator: Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 80 p. By 1944, the evolution of armoured doctrine had produced very different outcomes in Britain and Germany. Offering a good balance of speed, protection and firepower, the British Cromwell tank was much faster than its German opponent, but the Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer had a high-velocity main gun and...
Illustrator: Spedaliere Donato — Osprey Publishing, 2022 — 64 p. A fortified complex covering 70 acres at the heart of Moscow, behind walls up to 18m high and watched over by 20 towers, the Kremlin houses everything from Russia's seat of political power to glittering churches. This is a fortress that has evolved over time, from the original wooden guard tower built in the 11th...
Illustrator: Henry Morshead. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 48 p. The first Italian armoured cars were used in the war in Libya in 1911-12 against the Ottoman Empire. With few tanks being developed, the Italians relied instead on the development of more mobile armoured cars like the Ansaldo Lancia 1 Z, during World War I, but post-war the army, focusing on the Alpine battlegrounds...
Illustrator: Henry Morshead. — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 48 p. French experience with armour in Indo-China dated back to 1919, when it sent FT-17s to the colony, followed by a variety of armoured cars. After World War II, French troops were equipped with a motley collection of American and cast-off British equipment until the outbreak of war in Korea saw an increase in military...
Illustrator: Paul Wright. — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 48 p. During the American War of Independence (1775-83), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque, as a way of combating Britain's overwhelming naval and mercantile superiority. At first, it was only fishermen and the skippers of small merchant ships who turned to privateering, with mixed results. Eventually though,...
Illustrator: Paul Wright. Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 48 p. In the late 19th and early 20th century, a combination of coastal defence for the homeland and fleet defence for the East Indies became the established naval strategy for the Royal Dutch Navy and set the template for the world wars. Battleships were too expensive to build and maintain, so after World War I, there was...
Illustrator: Paul Wright. — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 48 p. The Italian Royal Navy (Regia Marine or RM) began the Second World War with one of the largest fleets in the world. Included in this was a total of 59 fleet destroyers, and others were added during the war. These were a diverse collection of ships dating back to the First World War, large destroyers built to counter...
Illustrator: Rodríguez Felipe — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 48 p. The crossing of the river Rhine marked the beginning of the end of the Third Reich, but the Wehrmacht would fight ferociously on its home soil until the fall of Berlin. The Battle of Germany saw the most advanced tanks of the Allies pitted against the remnants of the once-formidable Panzerwaffe, now exhausted and...
Illustrator: Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland. — Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 80 p. Since the mid-1960s the Heckler & Koch MP5 has become the most widely used submachine gun in the world, especially among counterterrorist and special-operations units. Lightweight and offering a blistering rate of fire of up to 900 rounds per minute, the MP5 quickly earned a reputation for accuracy....
Illustrator: Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland. — Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 80 p. The Barrett M82A1 and its derivatives are among the most successful sniping rifles ever manufactured. Now entering its fourth decade of service, the short-recoil, semi-automatic system is capable of firing a devastating .50-caliber round with lethal accuracy over distances of more than 2km. Unconfirmed...
Illustrator: Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland. — Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 80 p. The Mosin-Nagant is the world's longest-surviving and most widely distributed military rifle, having armed the forces of Russia and many other countries for more than five decades. It has seen action from World War I to the present day, but is most famous for its role during World War II when it proved...
Illustrator: Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland. — Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 80 p. In an effort to provide the US infantryman with more firepower to cover the range gap between the hand grenade and the light mortar, the 40mm M79 grenade launcher - a shoulder-fired, single-shot weapon - entered service with US forces in 1961. Reliable, easy to use, and lethally effective, the M79 soon...
Helion and Company, 2019. — 156 p. This is the first detailed study of the origins of the standing Saxon army. Created by elector John George III (r. 1680-1691), it quickly won its laurels in the battle of Vienna (1683) and later in campaigns against the Ottomans and the French. This book gives a broad analysis on this army, dealing with topics like finances and organisation,...
М.: Моделист-конструктор. — 36 c. "Морская коллекция" - приложение к журналу "Моделист-конструктор", издается с 1995 года. Специализированный журнал для любителей истории флота и судомоделистов. Это серия тематических выпусков о флотах и кораблях всего мира и всех времен. Это энциклопедические справочники о флотах разных стран в разные исторические периоды. Это подробные...
М.: Моделист-конструктор. — 36 c. "Морская коллекция" - приложение к журналу "Моделист-конструктор", издается с 1995 года. Специализированный журнал для любителей истории флота и судомоделистов. Это серия тематических выпусков о флотах и кораблях всего мира и всех времен. Это энциклопедические справочники о флотах разных стран в разные исторические периоды. Это подробные...
М.: Моделист-конструктор. — 36 c. "Морская коллекция" - приложение к журналу "Моделист-конструктор", издается с 1995 года. Специализированный журнал для любителей истории флота и судомоделистов. Это серия тематических выпусков о флотах и кораблях всего мира и всех времен. Это энциклопедические справочники о флотах разных стран в разные исторические периоды. Это подробные...
М.: Моделист-конструктор. — 36 c. "Морская коллекция" - приложение к журналу "Моделист-конструктор", издается с 1995 года. Специализированный журнал для любителей истории флота и судомоделистов. Это серия тематических выпусков о флотах и кораблях всего мира и всех времен. Это энциклопедические справочники о флотах разных стран в разные исторические периоды. Это подробные...
М.: Моделист-конструктор. — 36 c. "Морская коллекция" - приложение к журналу "Моделист-конструктор", издается с 1995 года. Специализированный журнал для любителей истории флота и судомоделистов. Это серия тематических выпусков о флотах и кораблях всего мира и всех времен. Это энциклопедические справочники о флотах разных стран в разные исторические периоды. Это подробные...
М.: Моделист-конструктор. — 36 c. "Морская коллекция" - приложение к журналу "Моделист-конструктор", издается с 1995 года. Специализированный журнал для любителей истории флота и судомоделистов. Это серия тематических выпусков о флотах и кораблях всего мира и всех времен. Это энциклопедические справочники о флотах разных стран в разные исторические периоды. Это подробные...
М.: Моделист-конструктор. — 36 c. "Морская коллекция" - приложение к журналу "Моделист-конструктор", издается с 1995 года. Специализированный журнал для любителей истории флота и судомоделистов. Это серия тематических выпусков о флотах и кораблях всего мира и всех времен. Это энциклопедические справочники о флотах разных стран в разные исторические периоды. Это подробные...
Киев: Юнивест Маркетинг, Возрождение. — 68 с. «Наука и техника» - журнал, содержащий разнообразную информацию от ведущих ученых и специалистов в отраслях военной, технической, исторической и научной тематики. Ракетная и космическая техника Медицина и фармакология Военная авиация Бронекаталог Авиакаталог Роботы и дроны История и археология
Karwansaray B.V. — 60 p. The Theban Hegemony was a brief ten year period in which the Boeotian city of Thebes dominated ancient Greece, invading the Peloponnese, and permanently turning Sparta from a Greek power into at best a local Peloponnesean power. This dramatic decade began with the Theban victory over the Spartans at Leuctra in 371 BC, and effectively ended with the...
Karwansaray B.V. — 60 p. Ancient Warfare is a unique publication focused exclusively on soldiers, battles, and tactics, all before 600 AD. Starting with ancient Egypt and Persia and continuing to the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Ancient Warfare examines the military history of cultures throughout Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia and Africa. Ancient Greece and Rome...
Helion and Company. 2024 — 151 p. — (Century of the Soldier 1618-1721 - №115) In the early seventeenth century the Principality of Transylvania was a new state, organised in the decades that followed the dissolution of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, towards the middle of the sixteenth century. The rulers of Transylvania were vassals of the Ottoman Empire but enjoyed a...
Helion & Company, 2019. — 250 p. The reign of Louis XIV of France had a great impact on the course of European and world military history. The years 1643 to 1715 were a defining epoch for western military, diplomatic and economic matters. Most of those years were marked by conflict between major European powers and the Sun King’s forces. This four volume series is the first...
Helion and Company, 2020. — 318 p. This fourth and final part of our study concentrates on the early 18th century War of Spanish Succession. It was the largest and most difficult conflict in Europe since the Thirty Years War and unsurpassed until the Napoleonic Wars. It started because of Bourbon France and Habsburg Austria’s conflicting candidates to the Spanish that soon...
Desperta Ferro Ediciones. — 68 p. Tras ser horriblemente mutilado, el emperador Focas fue decapitado, posiblemente por la misma mano de su sucesor, Heraclio. Por entonces, el Imperio romano de Oriente –o bizantino– vivía uno de los momentos más bajos de la historia. Su archienemigo, el Imperio persa, acababa de arrebatarle Siria, Mesopotamia, Armenia y Palestina, al tiempo que...
Desperta Ferro Ediciones. — 74 p. Con el presente número llega a su fin la trilogía que iniciamos, en abril de 2016, sobre la invasión francesa de Rusia. Tras la batalla de Borodinó llega la retirada de Moscú, que ocupa un lugar privilegiado en la epopeya napoleónica. Un Napoleón errático se verá sobrepasado por los acontecimientos y será testimonio de la sufrida lucha de sus...
Desperta Ferro Ediciones. — 68 p. Si los asedios fueron una rara avis en las Guerras Napoleónicas, aquellos en los que los defensores resistieron a ultranza, contra viento y marea, lo fueron aún más. Es por ello que los Sitios de Zaragoza, a los que la capital aragonesa fue sometida, entre junio de 1808 y febrero de 1809 por la Grande Armée de Napoleón, han pasado a la historia...
Helion and Company. 2023 — 427 p. — (Century of the Soldier 1618-1721) The book describes and analyses the two devastating wars fought between Sweden and Denmark-Norway during the reign of King Charles X Gustav of Sweden, an experienced former general of the Thirty Years’ War. The Dano-Swedish War of 1657–1658 was initiated by King Frederick III of Denmark-Norway, who saw an...
Karwansaray B.V., 2021. — 60 p. Medieval Warfare analyzes the world through the Middle Ages up to the early years of the Renaissance, beginning approximately 500 AD (the magazine generally leaves off in the 16th century). While famous topics like the Crusades and Vikings are covered frequently, Medieval Warfare also delves into more intricate and obscure topics like the Umayyad...
Karwansaray B.V., 2022. — 60 p. Medieval Warfare analyzes the world through the Middle Ages up to the early years of the Renaissance, beginning approximately 500 AD (the magazine generally leaves off in the 16th century). While famous topics like the Crusades and Vikings are covered frequently, Medieval Warfare also delves into more intricate and obscure topics like the Umayyad...
Illustrator: Adam Tooby. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 96 p. Operation Rolling Thunder was the campaign that was meant to keep South Vietnam secure, and dissuade the North from arming and supplying the Viet Cong. It pitted the world's strongest air forces against the MiGs and missiles of a small Soviet client state. But the US airmen who flew Rolling Thunder missions were crippled...
Illustrator: Graham Turner. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 96 p. In 1940, the strategically vital island of Malta was Britain's last toehold in the central Mediterranean, wreaking havoc among Axis shipping. Launching an air campaign to knock Malta out of the war, first Italy and then Germany sought to force a surrender or reduce the defences enough to allow an invasion. Drawing on...
Illustrator: Jim Laurier.— Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 96 p. The campaign for Guadalcanal, which stretched from August 1942 until February 1943, centered on Henderson Field. The airfield was captured by the US on 8 August and placed into operation by 20 August. As long as the airfield was kept operational and stocked with sufficient striking power, the Japanese could not run...