Aeronaut Books, 2014. — 208 p. This book describes and illustrates the development of L.F.G. Roland aircraft in WWI with text, 390 photos (9 in color), 50 color profiles, production quantities and serial numbers of aircraft and aircraft dimensions and performance specifications. In addition, 8 Roland aircraft types are illustrated in 1/48 scale drawings. The book has 206...
Karwansaray B.V. — 60 p. Medieval Warfare анализирует мир от Средневековья до первых лет Возрождения, начиная примерно с 500 г. н.э. (журнал обычно прекращается в 16 веке). В то время как известные темы, такие как крестовые походы и викинги, освещаются часто, Medieval Warfare также углубляется в более сложные и малоизвестные темы, такие как халифат Омейядов против Византийской...
Karwansaray B.V. — 60 p. Medieval Warfare анализирует мир от Средневековья до первых лет Возрождения, начиная примерно с 500 г. н.э. (журнал обычно прекращается в 16 веке). В то время как известные темы, такие как крестовые походы и викинги, освещаются часто, Medieval Warfare также углубляется в более сложные и малоизвестные темы, такие как халифат Омейядов против Византийской...
Karwansaray B.V., 2017. — 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: Jim Laurier.— Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 96 p. In 1943, the USAAF and RAF launched the Combined Bomber Offensive, designed to systematically destroy the industries that the German war machine relied on. At the top of the hit list were aircraft factories and plants making ball-bearings - a component thought to be a critical vulnerability. Schweinfurt in southern...
Illustrator: Harry Dempsey. — Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 96 p. Although the Russian Imperial Army Air Service consisted of no more than four BAGs (Boevaya Aviatsionniy Gruppa - battle aviation groups), each controlling three or four smaller AOIs (Aviatsionniy Otryad Istrebitelei - fighter aviation detachments) equipped with a variety of aircraft types, its fighter pilots...
Illustrator: Peter Dennis. — Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 96 p. The Arab Revolt of 1916-18 was one of the most dramatic events of World War I. It resulted in the birth of the modern Middle East and also created one of the most enduring myths of the war: the story of Lawrence of Arabia. This book examines the revolt, describing and analyzing the background and events of the uprising....
Illustrator: Peter Dennis. — Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 96 p. Defeated and occupied in 1939, Poland had suffered under the Nazi heel for nealy five years. Undaunted, however, the Poles formed an underground army, the Armia Krajowa (Home Army), and waited for a moment of German weakness. That moment seemed to have arrived in July 1944 as the Soviet armies began to advance into...
Illustrator: Graham Turner. — Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 96 p. Despite the great English victories at Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt, the French eventually triumphed in the Hundred Years War. This book examines the last campaign of the war, covering the great battles at Formigny in 1450 and Castillon in 1453, both of which hold an interesting place in military history. The battle...
Illustrator: Graham Turner. — Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 96 p. Charlemagne's conquest of the Saxons was the hardest fought and most protracted of his wars; it involved 18 campaigns spread across 33 years, a great deal of lower-level fighting and the harshest final peace settlement that Charlemagne ever imposed upon a defeated foe. Rapidly taking on the character of a religious...
Illustrator: Gerry Embleton. — Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 96 p. Waterloo is one of the defining campaigns of European history. The name conjures up images of the terrible scale and grandeur of the Napoleonic Wars and the incredible combined effort that finally ended Napoleon's aspirations of power in Europe. Drawn from unpublished first-hand accounts, and using detailed...
Illustrator: Giuseppe Rava. — Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 96 p. The loss of the Philippines in 1942 was the worst defeat in American military history. General Douglas MacArthur, the 'Lion of Luzon', was evacuated by order of the President just before the fall, but he vowed to return, and in August 1944 he kept his word when he led what, at the time, was the largest amphibious...
Illustrator: Peter Dennis. — Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 96 p. The Guadalcanal campaign began with an amphibious assault in August 1942 - the US's first attempt to take the fight to the Japanese. It escalated into a desperate attritional battle on land, air, and sea, and by the time the Japanese had evacuated the last of their forces from the island in 1943, it was clear that the...
Illustrator: Graham Turner. — Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 96 p. With Germany being pushed back across Europe the Allied forces looked to press their advantage with Operation Market-Garden, a massive airborne assault that, if successful, could have shortened the war in the west considerably. The ground advance consisted of an armoured thrust by the British XXX Corps, while the US...
Illustrator: Peter Dennis. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 96 p. In March 1944, the Japanese Fifteenth Army launched an offensive into India from Burma. Named ‘U Go', its main objective was the capture of the town of Imphal, which provided the easiest route between India and Burma. Whoever controlled it, controlled access between the two countries. Facing off against the Japanese was...
Illustrator: Darren Tan. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 96 p. One of the prime objectives for the Allies following the D-Day landings was the capture of sufficient ports to supply their armies. The original Overlord plans assumed that ports along the Breton coast would be essential to expansion of the Normandy beach-head. This included the major ports at Brest and on Quiberon Bay....
Illustrator: Bujeiro Ramiro — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 96 p. When the Soviets rolled into Afghanistan in 1979, they believed if they took the cities, the country would follow. They were wrong. The Red Army found itself in a bloody stalemate in the Afghan mountains, in the strategically vital Panjshir Valley, where they faced the most able and charismatic of the rebel...
Illustrator: Noon Steve — Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 96 p. This first volume of three discusses the tactical decisions made on day one and the ensuing combat, while also including a brief summary of the grand strategy in the Eastern Theater of the war, the conduct of the Pennsylvania Campaign from June 6 to 30, 1863, and the plight of civilians caught up in the conflict. The...
Illustrator: Ó’Brógáin Seán — Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 96 p. Tannenberg is a major battle that deserves a fully illustrated treatment all of its own, and for the first time this book brings the epic Eastern Front clash to life in visual detail. No other book on this topic walks you through the action like this one, using detailed maps to provide unit locations and movements...
Illustrator: Noon Steve — Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 96 p. July 2, 1863 was the bloodiest and most complicated of the three days of the Battle of Gettysburg. On this day, the clash involved five divisions of Confederate infantry and their accompanying artillery battalions, as well as a cavalry skirmish at nearby Hunterstown. The bulk of the Union army engaged on the second day...
Illustrator: Laurier Jim — Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 96 p. In the wake of Japan's conquest of Burma in early 1942, plans were formed by the Imperial high command to capture Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka) to consolidate Japan's defensive perimeter and disrupt British shipping lanes to India, Australia, and the Middle East. The Imperial Japanese Army, however, could not release...
Illustrator: Jim Laurier. — Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 96 p. The all-metal Junkers Ju 52/3m enjoyed a solid - indeed, revered - reputation amongst its crews and the troops and paratroopers who used and depended on it. For more than ten years, it saw service as a successful military transport, with its distinctive, three-engined design and corrugated metal construction becoming...
Illustrator: Adam Hook. — Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 80 p. Robert Forczyk has a PhD in International Relations and National Security from the University of Maryland and a strong background in European and Asian military history. He retired as a lieutenant colonel from the US Army Reserves having served 18 years as an armour officer in the US 2nd and 4th infantry divisions and as...
Illustrator: Noon Steve — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 80 p. When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, New Guinea - the world's second-largest island - was administered partly by Australia and partly by the Dutch East Indies. The New Guinea campaign (January 1942-August 1945) saw Japanese forces invade the island, rapidly capturing the key port of Rabaul and...
Illustrator: Ian Palmer, Howard Gerrard. — Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 80 p. In 1916, in the seas near Jutland, two fleets of armoured dreadnoughts met in open battle. This book tells the story of the British and German battleships of these two great fleets - from their development as the first generation of fullyarmoured warships - to their combat experiences. The differing weapon...
Illustrator: Paul Wright, Ian Palmer. — Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 80 p. The rival battlecruisers first clashed in January 1915 at Dogger Bank in the North Sea and although the battle was a British tactical victory with neither side losing any of its battlecruisers, the differences in the designs of the British and German ships were already apparent. The two sides responded very...
Illustrator: Alan Gilliland, Johnny Shumate. — Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 80 p. In the mid-1960s, the Soviet Union unveiled the BMP, the first true infantry fighting vehicle. A revolutionary design, the BMP marked a significant departure from the traditional armoured personnel carrier, with a lower silhouette and heavier armament than rival APCs. One of the most fearsome...
Illustrator: Jim Laurier, Gareth Hector. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 80 p. Ever since its introduction in the late 1950s, the B-52 Stratofortress has been the United States' primary heavy bomber and a powerful symbol of its immense military might. Its powerful electronic countermeasures equipment (ECM) was thought to make the B-52 immune to ground-to-air missile attack, but in...
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 64 p. In World War II Germany's doctrine of mobile warfare dominated the battlefield. By trial and error, the Germans were the first to correctly combine the strength in tanks and in mobile infantry and artillery. This integration of mobile units, equipment and tactics underpinned Germany's successes in the first half of the war. As the war dragged on,...
Illustrator: Hook Adam — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 64 p. The American Revolution presented a series of unique tactical challenges to its competing factions. For Britain, the Army would be forced to re-learn many of the lessons from the Seven Years' War. After the debacle of Concord and Bunker Hill, the British implemented a range of changes throughout the Army, including the...
Illustrator: Walsh Stephen — Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 64 p. Driven by the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the insecurities it provoked in Saddam Hussein's Iraqi dictatorship, the Iran-Iraq War would become the largest conventional conflict of the period. Curiously little-known considering its scale and longevity, the struggle between Iran and Iraq was primarily fought along...
Illustrator: Hook Adam. — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 64 p. From the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 until the Japanese surrender in August 1945, a multitude of military and civil-defence forces strove to support the Japanese war effort and latterly prepared to defend the Home Islands against invasion. During World War II, Japan was the world's most militarized...
Illustrator: Paul Wright. — Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 48 p. In 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) went to war with a marginal anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability. This was a lamentable state of affairs for a nation dependent upon imports to sustain its war economy. There were only a few purpose-built ASW escorts available at the start of the war and these were augmented...
Illustrator: Steve Noon. — Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 48 p. World War I was the Golden Age of the railway gun. Even though at the start of the conflict none of the armies possessed any railway artillery pieces and the very idea was comparatively new, more railway guns were used during this war than in any other conflict. Designed to break the stalemate of trench warfare, the first...
Illustrator: Paul Wright. — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 48 p. In 1941, as the Battle of the Atlantic raged and ship losses mounted, the British Admiralty desperately tried to find ways to defeat the U-Boat threat to Britain's maritime lifeline. Facing a shortage of traditional aircraft carriers and shore-based aircraft, the Royal Navy, as a stopgap measure, converted merchant ships...
Illustrator: Adam Tooby. — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 48 p. In this highly detailed book, naval historian Edward Hampshire reveals the fascinating history of the nuclear-powered attack submarines built and operated by the Soviet Union in the Cold War, including each class of these formidable craft as they developed throughout the Cold War period. The November class, which were...
Illustrator: Felipe Rodríguez. — Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 48 p. An illustrated study of the big guns of Hitler's army – the Wehrmacht's field artillery, its capabilities and its role in German fighting units of World War II. Often overshadowed in military history by the tanks and aircraft of Blitzkrieg, Germany's artillery was key to its methods of waging war throughout World...
Illustrator: Howard Gerrard, Donato Spedaliere, Alan Gilliland. — Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 64 p. The successful rescue of imprisoned Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from atop the Gran Sasso plateau was one of the most dramatic special forces operations in military history. Arrested by his own officers in July 1943, Mussolini had been whisked away to an isolated and heavily...
Illustrator: Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland. — Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 80 p. This book tells the story of Task Force Ranger - a unit of US Rangers and Special Forces - and their attempt to capture the lieutenants of the Somali warlord Muhamed Farrah Aideed, during the 1993 United Nations' humanitarian relief mission. What started as a simple snatch-and-grab mission quickly...
Illustrator: Mark Stacey, Alan Gilliland, Johnny Shumate. — Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 80 p. Although somewhat overshadowed by Wellington's main campaign in the north, the Alcantara raid was an outstanding success. The primary objective of alarming and distracting the French forces in Spain was achieved. Furthermore, the raiders also succeeded in preventing a French incursion into...
Illustrator: Angus McBride. — Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 64 p. The period 31 BC-AD 43 saw the greatest expansion of the Roman Empire. In 31 BC Octavian defeated Antony at the battle of Actium and remodelled the semi-professional Roman army into a permanent force of 28 legions. Octavian became the first emperor (Augustus) and under his leadership the legions conquered northern...
Illustrator: Graham Turner. — Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 64 p. Great Britain had introduced the tank to the world during World War I, and maintained its lead in armoured warfare with the ‘Experimental Mechanised Force' during the late 1920s, watched with interest by German advocates of Blitzkrieg. Despite these successes, the Experimental Mechanised Force was disbanded in the...
Illustrator: Peter Dennis. Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 80 p. The Lee-Enfield is one of the 20th century's most recognisable and longest-serving military rifles. It was adopted by the British Army in 1895 and only replaced by the L1A1 SLR in 1957. It saw combat from the Boer War onwards, and thousands are still in use today; it is estimated that 17 million have been produced....
Illustrator: Steve Noon, Alan Gilliland. — Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 80 p. 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 so renowned...
Illustrator: Steve Noon. — Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 80 p. Of all the infantry small arms developed during World War II, one that generated the most interest was the German ‘assault rifle', the StG 44 Sturmgewehr. This innovative weapon inspired the Soviet AK-47 in 7.62x39mm calibre. In the West, the NATO countries looked hard at new weapons to upgrade their own infantry arsenals...
Illustrator: Peter Dennis. — Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 80 p. Adopted in 1938 and remaining in British service until 1991, the popular and reliable Bren was an iconic light machine gun, and arguably the most recognizable Commonwealth weapon of World War ll. Gas-operated and magazine-fed, it was based on a Czech design and was issued in large numbers during and after World War ll,...
Illustrator: Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland. — Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 80 p. World War I's defining weapon for many, Germany's MG 08 machine gun won a formidable reputation on battlefields from Tannenberg to the Somme. Although it was a lethally effective weapon when used from static positions, the MG 08 was far too heavy to perform a mobile role on the battlefield. As the...
Helion and Company, 2024. — 198 p.— (Retinue to Regiment №25). In November 1500, Ferdinand of Spain and Louis XII of France signed the secret Treaty of Granada. This agreement enabled Spain and France to easily conquer and divide the Kingdom of Naples in the years 1501 and 1502. The treaty divided Naples between the two nations, however disputes arose over the division and the...
BS Firma Wydawniczo-Handlowa, 2012. — 29 s. Publikacja zawiera plany modelarskie tytułowego okrętu (plan generalny, nadbudówki, detale wyposażenia i uzbrojenia) , fotografie i kolorowe schematy malowania, wszystko czego modelarz potrzebuje żeby zbudować model redukcyjny lub RC od podstaw albo dokonać waloryzacji zestawu plastikowego
Helion and Company, 2022. — 179 p. The Battle of Rocroi (19 May 1643) is famous for the French victory over the Spanish Tercios. The Duc d’Enghien, only 21 years old, defeated a Spanish army commanded by Francisco de Melo. The victory has traditionally been attributed to the military genius of the young Duke, to the superiority of the French cavalry and to the decline of...