Military forces and sectors

An introduction to the US Cavalry units equipped with light armor and their role in the European Theater during World War II.

Essentially a development of the Avro Lancaster via the later Lincoln, the Avro Shackleton was the RAF’s first line of defence in the maritime role from 1951 for twenty years, thereafter continuing to serve as an airborne early warning aircraft for another twenty, until 1991.

From the moment colonists at Popham launched the first ship constructed in the New World in 1608, Maine has been a shipbuilding powerhouse.

This all-new work chronicles the experiences of Paul French who, upon leaving the British Army's 21 SAS (V), sought adventure and excitement in C Squadron of the Rhodesian SAS.

Ideal for enthusiasts of WWII naval aviation, this illustrated volume covers the unequal clash between the United States and Imperial Japanese navies that destroyed the IJN's ability to conduct further carrier operations.

This book explores whether the new capabilities made possible by precision-strike technologies are reshaping approaches to international intervention.

On 22 June 1941 Germany attacked the Soviet Union and her Panzer divisions were to play a major role in this titanic struggle.

A biography of the British American who captained a blockade runner for the Confederacy during the Civil War.

The development of the pistol helped bring the age of the armored knight to an end, provided the elite with a status symbol of dangerous glamour, and inspired both artisans and industrialists to reach new heights of invention.

In the first of a two-volume study, the author presents an extremely detailed record of the Organisation, doctrine and equipment of US Army infantry divisions during the latter part of World War II.

Takeo Yoshikawa (1912-1993) was an ensign in the Imperial Japanese Navy and a naval intelligence officer assigned the task of spying on the U.

Waged across an inhospitable terrain which varied from open African savannah to broken mountain country and arid semi-desert, the Anglo-Boer wars of 1880 81 and 1899 1902 pitted the British Army and its allies against the Boers' commandos.

This seventh volume of Naval Miscellany contains documents which range in date from the late thirteenth century to the Korean War.

The two decades before World War II were some of the most unsettled in modern history.

Priestley's England is the first full-length academic study of J B Priestley - novelist, playwright, screen-writer, journalist and broadcaster, political activist, public intellectual and popular entertainer, one of the makers of twentieth-century Britain, and one of its sharpest critics.

An illustrated account of the combats in the closing months of World War II between one of America's premier fighter aeroplanes and the product of Japan's effort to introduce fighters that could match American qualitative superiority.

An illustrated study of how coalition armor in Iraq in 2003 06 handled a unique multi-threat environment, from enemy armor to IEDs.

At the outset of World War II, Scapa Flow was supposed to be the safe home base of the British Navy nothing could penetrate the defences of this bastion.

Following on from the stunning success of the novel Matterhorn as well as Osprey's own Tonight We Die as Men, this book follows the trials and tribulations of a group of Vietnam draftees from basic training to the rice paddies of Vietnam.

This book undertakes a unique, coherent and comprehensive consideration of the depiction of naval warfare in the cinema.

In 1941, Beryl Baxter, a dressmaker from Grimsby, signed up to do her bit in the Battle of Britain.

Noted aviation historian Robin Higham examines the evolution of the Arme de lAir and RAF during the interwar period.

Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.

Admiral Raoul Castex is France's most important modern naval strategist.

In early August 1974, despite incredible risks and after six years of secret preparations, the CIA attempted to salvage the sunken Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 from the depths of the North Pacific Ocean.

The commanders who led the opposing armies of the American War of Independence came from remarkably different backgrounds.

A unique perspective of the global history of U-boats during the entirety of the Second World War by Lawrence Paterson, one of the world's leading U-boat experts.

Friedrich Beck was the single most important figure in the transformation of the inept Habsburg military into the modern military state that would wage World War I.

The fate of the USS Flier is one of the most astonishing stories of the Second World War.

The growth in size, lethality, and technology of the German Luftwaffe was of concern to some defense planners in the United States before American entry into the war.

Here is an outstanding personal memoir penned by a German infantry officer recalling his experiences during the initial days and weeks of the war in the West, July-September 1914.

In this entertaining history of the Yangtze Patrol, Tolley gives a lively presentation of the Chinese political situation over the past century and describes the bombing of the Panay, the siege of Shanghai, the battle of Wanhsien, and the Nanking incident.

From riverine operations in the American Civil War and China in the 1860s to the major fleet engagements of the World Wars, plus more recent naval actions in the Falklands/Malvenas War and Gulf War, Lindberg and Todd methodically show how geography has shaped the strategy, tactics, and tools of naval warfare.

Harnessing the Sky is one of the last untold stories in 100 years of naval aviation.

A detailed and comprehensive examination of the Barbarossa campaign of June to December 1941.

';I am home, safe and sound, and reviewing all these memories as if in a dream.

The mounted troops of the Hapsburg Empire comprised one of the most powerful forces of the Napoleonic Wars.

This new book examines the development of Soviet thinking on the operational employment of their Air Force from 1918 to 1945, using Soviet theoretical writings and contemporary analyses of combat actions.

The true story of Deng Adut - Sudanese child soldier, refugee, man of hopeDeng Adut's family were farmers in South Sudan when a brutal civil war altered his life forever.

A look at the head-to-head match-up between two important Eastern Front fighters.

Brought to life by the personal accounts of six Navy pilots and one British POW, this is the history of the U.

This illustrated study pits the Kaiser's troops against their British opponents during the climactic year of 1918 on the Western Front.

This is an up-to-date history of the US Army Air Force's pioneering but costly raids on Germany's Messerschmitt and ball-bearing factories in World War II.

A clear and concise book that charts the development of the US Armoured Divisions from a green, untested force into a battle-hardened war-winning army.

At the start of the American Civil War, neither side had warships on the Mississippi River, which was a vital strategic artery.

This revised edition of Mike Chappell's original Men-at-Arms 138 represents nearly 20 years' new research.

This book does for naval anti-aircraft defense what Friedman's Naval Firepower did for surface gunnery - it makes a highly complex but historically crucial subject accessible to the layman.

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"e;The reader anxious or merely curious to know what it was like to flee under the threat of being shot or capture will experience it all here.

The combat history of the F-105 Thunderchief units during the Vietnam War, detailing the strengths and weaknesses of the aircraft, and the difficulties it faced during many months of dangerous combat.