Osprey Publishing. — 48 p. The Seven Years' War in Germany was characterised by an increasing use of 'light' troops in conjunction with regular infantry and cavalry as part of an ongoing evolution in military tactics. This book draws attention to these tactical developments and also provides an analysis of the allied army that fought alongside Frederick the Great in Germany....
Colour plates by Michael Youens. — Osprey Publishing Ltd., 1973. — 48 p. — ISBN: 0-85045-148-5. Initially British officials were reluctant to accept the offers of loyal subjects to form fighting units but eventually the potential of a Provincial corps was realized. Yet they never received the whole-hearted support of the British regular army and this was a factor in their...
Osprey Publishing, 1972. — 48 p. — ISBN 9780-85045-084-5. In 1921, Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Gerald Peake formed the Arab Legion as a police force in the former British protectorate of Transjordan. The Legion's main roles were to keep order among Transjordian tribes and safeguard the villagers from Bedouins. In subsequent years, under the leadership of Glubb Pasha, the Arab...
A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of armies, units and famous warriors from ancient times to modern conflicts. A huge number of color drawings of military uniforms, banners, insignia, etc. Men-at-Arms issue #003 is dedicated to the Scottish Infantry Regiment Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of armies, units and famous warriors from ancient times to modern conflicts. A huge number of color drawings of military uniforms, banners, insignia, etc. Men-at-Arms issue No. 004 is dedicated to the German troops of 1870 - 1888.
A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of armies, units and famous warriors from ancient times to modern conflicts. A huge number of color drawings of military uniforms, banners, insignia, etc. Men-at-Arms issue #005 is dedicated to the Austro-Hungarian troops of the Napoleonic Wars.
A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of armies, units and famous warriors from ancient times to modern conflicts. A huge number of color drawings of military uniforms, banners, insignia, etc. Men-at-Arms issue No. 006 is dedicated to the Austro-Hungarian troops of the Seven Years' War (1756 - 1763)).
A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of armies, units and famous warriors from ancient times to modern conflicts. A huge number of color drawings of military uniforms, banners, insignia, etc. Men-at-Arms issue #007 is dedicated to the Brunswick Black Corps.
A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of armies, units and famous warriors from ancient times to modern conflicts. A huge number of color drawings of military uniforms, banners, insignia, etc. Men-at-Arms issue #008 is dedicated to the Scottish Infantry Battalion Black Watch.
A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of armies, units and famous warriors from ancient times to modern conflicts. A huge number of color drawings of military uniforms, banners, insignia, etc. Men-at-Arms issue #009 is dedicated to the Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher 1813 - 1815.
A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of armies, units and famous warriors from ancient times to modern conflicts. A huge number of color drawings of military uniforms, banners, insignia, etc. Men-at-Arms issue #010 is dedicated to the East Kent Infantry Regiment Buffs.
A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of armies, units and famous warriors from ancient times to modern conflicts. A huge number of color drawings of military uniforms, banners, insignia, etc. Men-at-Arms issue No. 011 is dedicated to the chasseurs of Napoleon's Imperial Guard.
A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of armies, units and famous warriors from ancient times to modern conflicts. A huge number of color drawings of military uniforms, banners, insignia, etc. Men-at-Arms issue #012 is dedicated to the Irish Regiment Connaught Rangers.
A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of armies, units and famous warriors from ancient times to modern conflicts. A huge number of color drawings of military uniforms, banners, insignia, etc. Men-at-Arms issue No. 013 is dedicated to the Cossacks of Russia and Ukraine.
A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of armies, units and famous warriors from ancient times to modern conflicts. A huge number of color drawings of military uniforms, banners, insignia, etc. Men-at-Arms issue #014 is dedicated to the English Revolution of the 17th century.
A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of armies, units and famous warriors from ancient times to modern conflicts. A huge number of color drawings of military uniforms, banners, insignia, etc. Men-at-Arms issue #015 is dedicated to the grenadiers of Napoleon's Imperial Guard.
A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of armies, units and famous warriors from ancient times to modern conflicts. A huge number of color drawings of military uniforms, banners, insignia, etc. Men-at-Arms issue #016 is dedicated to the Prussian army of Frederick II the Great.
A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of armies, units and famous warriors from ancient times to modern conflicts. A huge number of color drawings of military uniforms, banners, insignia, etc. Men-at-Arms issue #017 is dedicated to the French Foreign Legion.
A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of armies, units and famous warriors from ancient times to modern conflicts. A huge number of color drawings of military uniforms, banners, insignia, etc. Men-at-Arms #014 is dedicated to George Washington's Army.
This book examines the uniforms and equipment, history and organisation of the Iron Brigade during the American Civil War. The major battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg are all covered. Uniforms are shown in full colour artwork.
In 1941 the Allied forces in the Pacific were devastatingly unprepared for the onslaught of the Japanese Army, which by this time had been fighting for ten years on the Manchurian front. The Allies paid dearly for their lack of planning and found themselves defeated time and time again as the seasoned Japanese forces swept through the Pacific colonies. This book examines the...
Princess Anne’s Regiment · First Battle Honours · The West Indies · The New World · The Queen’s Own, 96th of Foot · New Zealand · The Crimea · The Indian Mutiny · Afghanistan · South Africa · The Great War · The Western Front · The Vineyard · ‘A Bloody Slogging Match’ · The Twenty Years’ Armistice · The Second World War · Singapore · The Chindits · Kohima to Mandalay · Italy ·...
Members of the Lutwaffe served as infantry, artillery, tank crews and service troops in all the major theatres of World War II. Shortages of fuel and aircraft meant that Luftwaffe personnel were made available for other tasks and this volume looks at some of the Field Divisions that saw action in the war. The elite paratroopers of the Airborne units did see extensive service...
The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748 did not end the hostility between the French and British in North America. The French began by inciting the native tribes but it was only in 1756 that war was officially declared. The newly appointed French general was the Marquis de Montcalm-Gozon de Saint-Veran.A brilliant and much loved officer, montcalm was hampered by the bitter...
For the first three years of the Second World War the German Army's armoured formations dominated the world's battlefields. During this period the Panzerwaffe swept away all that was before them, achieving victories over numerically superior and sometimes better equipped opponents. This remarkable book by Martin Windrow deals with one of the German Army's most effective and...
The Royal Regiment of Artillery originated in 1716, when two companies of artillery were formed to ensure that a regular force of gunners was readily available. The Regiment expanded rapidly in the 18th century and, since then, has seen service in campaigns worldwide, from the Boer and Crimean wars of the 19th century, to World Wars I and II. Today the Regiment forms a powerful...
For almost three centuries the Royal Scots Greys have had the proud distinction of being Scoland’s only regular cavalry regiment, famed for their distinguished service record from Marlborough’s wars to World War II. Indeed, the Greys at Waterloo form one of the most memorable features of military history. With their cry of ‘Scotland forever!’ they charged upon the French ranks...
This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the Russian Army that fought in the Crimean War. Field army, infantry, artillery and cavalry are all covered, together with details of High Command and summaries of key battles. Uniforms are shown in full illustrated detail.
Osprey Publishing, 1979, 48 p.This book recounts the development of a standing Russian army from the END of the 16th century to the million strong force that resisted Napoleon. The Russians were heavily defeated at the battle of Austerliz but in the Armistice period that followed the Russians regrouped and several improvements were made. In1812 when Napoleon invaded this new...
In the years between the Russian Revolution of 1917 and World War II, the Soviet Army underwent dramatic changes in conscription, organization and effectiveness. The Russian Army in World War I had been lacking in leadership and drive, but was transformed by the Soviets into a force to be reckoned with, as evidenced by its crucial victory at Stalingrad. Enhanced by colour...
Look!’ There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians!’ With these words General Bee ensured the reputation of Thomas Jackson and his troops who were fighting alongside him at the battle of the the First Bull Run. This reputation was enhanced during Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley campaign and other operations where the Stonewall Brigade’s actions gained...
This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the United States Marine Corps, from 1775, through their service in World Wars 1 and 2, through to Korea and Vietnam. Uniforms are shown in full illustrated detail.
The US cavalry has distinguished itself in battle since the American Revolution of the 1770s. Since then, the cavalry has seen action in the American Civil War and in frequent battles with Native American tribes on the western frontier, and more recently in World War II and the Korean War. This book details the history of the cavalry from its formation to the late 1960s, while...
In the early 1920s, a tiny group was formed within the SA to serve as Hitler's personal bodyguard. Originally labelled the 'Stosstruppe Adolf Hitler', they later became known as the SS – Schutz Staffeln, or 'protection squads'. From these humble beginnings, the SS rose to a nominal strength of 38 divisions of over 800,000 men by 1945, representing a sizeable portion of...
At the beginning of the Napoleonic period the British Army's record left something to be desired. During the Peninsular War, however, Wellington led and trained an army that never knew a major defeat on the field. Even Wellington himself described his army as 'able to go anywhere or do anything'. This book examines the formidable British Army which played an integral part in...
Typically the United States is said to have declared war on Great Britain in 1812 because of the Royal Navy's impressment of American seamen and the British desire to create an Indian buffer state. An Englishman William Cobbett, described the real cause of the conflict: 'There seemed to be wanting just such a war as this to complete the separation of England from America; and...
Osprey Publishing, 1975 - 48 p. On June 27, 1862, with the American Civil War already a year old, General Robert E. Lee assumed personal command of troops engaged in driving the Federal Army of the Potomac out of Richmond – troops which would henceforth be known as The Army of Northern Virginia. Philip Katcher explores in absorbing detail all aspects of the army, including...
Osprey Publishing, 1975 - 48 p. For General George B. McClellan, the dejected Union troops who poured into Washington fresh from defeat at Bull Run on Monday, July 22, 1861, were to provide the raw material which he would train, equip, organize and ultimately transform from a mere mob into an effective fighting force. In October 1861, the Army of the Potomac officially came...
For sheer guts, the Redcoats' behaviour at Bunker Hill, Saratoga and other bloody encounters has rarely been surpassed. The Americans won, but only just, and then thanks to foreign intervention and a small number of dedicated and valiant patriots who were continually let down by their own people. Robin May's splendid work looks at the British Army that fought in the American...
The British Army's involvement in the Crimean War of 1854-56 is often remembered only for the ill-advised 'charge of the Light Brigade' during the battle of Sevastopol as memorialized in Tennyson's poem. Nevertheless, the British Army, together with the French and Turkish armies, posed a formidable threat to Russia's expansionist ambitions. This book examines the uniforms of...
The Gurkhas have a long and distinguished service record. This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the Gurkha rifles. It traces the 19th origins of the now famous Gurkha regiments and also covers their service history during the Great Mutiny and the 3rd Afghan War. During the two World Wars the Gurhah rifles performed countless tours of duty and...
The King's German Legion was the largest and most respected of the foreign corps which fought as integrated elements of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. The light and heavy cavalry, light and line infantry, and horse and foot artillery of the KGL made major contributions to Wellington's victories during the Peninsular War, and several units covered themselves with...
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850452554. On October 14th, 1808, Napoleon persuaded Herzog Peter Friedrich Ludwig of Oldenburg to join the Confederation of the Rhine by the Treaty of Erfurt – the military contingent to be maintained by the duchy was set at an infantry battalion of 800 men in six companies. Similarly, Friedrich August, Herzog of Nassau, was charged,...
Austria's defeat at the battle of Hohenlinden, on 3 December 1800, created a power vacuum in the area now known as Germany, and Napoleon lost little time in transforming this zone into a pro-French 'cordon sanitaire', creating as he did so the Duchy of Berg, which he later united with Kleve. Like Kleve-Berg, Westfalia was also ruled entirely according to French law, and both...
In 1795 the kingdom of Poland fell prey to her stronger neighbours, Russia, Prussia and Austria. Following the death of the king of Poland in 1798, his kingdom was divided among these three neighbouring powers. France became increasingly involved, and protested at Poland's treatment, offering refuge for Polish exiles. On 11 October 1796 the Polish Legion was formed in the...
Osprey Publishing, 1984. — 47 p. — ISBN: 0-85045-528-6. Although the common Roman fighting men themselves have left no account, much literature has survived from antiquity. The wealth of archaeological finds, plus the study of surviving Roman scultpure has allowed hisorians to learn much about the nature of the Roman army which conquered an astonishing expanse of territory....
Osprey Publishing, 1975. — 40 p. This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the South Wales Borderers, from Marlborough's Wars through to World War 2. The regiment's service in the Napoleonic wars, the Zulu War and in India are all covered. Uniforms are shown in full illustrated detail.
Osprey Publishing, 1974. — 48 p. The British victory at Quebec in 1759 was a landmark in the history of North America. In this 'year of miracles', according to Horace Walpole, one could 'never afford to miss a single copy of a newspaper for fear of missing a British victory somewhere'. Of all the pivotal figures in the Seven Years' War, a cast which included George Washington,...
Osprey Publishing, 1971. — 40 p. The Coldstream Guards is the oldest serving regular regiment in the British Army. First called "Monck's Regiment of Foot," the regiment was formed by Oliver Cromwell in 1650, and was later renamed the "Coldstream Guards" after the Scottish village where Monck assembled his troops before marching into London. In the years following the English...
Osprey Publishing, 1975. — 40 p. Almost continual warfare raged in Europe during the period 1300-1500. These wars were the furnaces in which many of the modern European nations were forged. Parallel with this emergence of the nations came the development of national armies to protect the newly-won borders and independence, yet throughout this period the old feudal method of...
Osprey Publishing, 1975. — 40 p. The book describes the Spanish army of the Napoleonic Wars. Describes the transformation of the army, as well as uniforms, structure, weapons etc.
Osprey Publishing, 1975. — 40 p. The book describes the Royal Green Jackets. Describes the transformation of the army, as well as uniforms, structure, weapons etc.
Osprey Publishing, 1976. — 40 p. The book describes the German army of the WW2 in the African Company. Describes the transformation of the army, as well as uniforms, structure, weapons etc.
Osprey Publishing, 1975. — 40 p. The book describes the Artillery of the Napoleonic Wars. Describes the transformation of the army, as well as uniforms, structure, weapons etc.
Osprey Publishing, 1976. — 40 p. The book describes the Dragoons and lancers of the Napoleonic Wars. Describes the transformation of the army, as well as uniforms, structure, weapons etc.
Osprey Publishing, 1989. — 51 p. — ISBN: 0850452538. The story of the regulars and volunteers who fought in the Mexican-American War, detailing the infantry, cavalry, artillery and staff of both the American and Mexican armies.
London: Osprey Publisher, 1994. — 39 p. By the end of the nineteenth century the fame of the Zulu was world-wide, and their army was one of the few non-European military organizations to have become the subject of serious historical study. Their very name is still synonymous with bravery, discipline and military skill. This excellent addition to Osprey's Men-at-Arms series...
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850452589. The Landsknechts were German mercenaries who served during the reigns of Maximilian I and Charles V in the sixteenth century. Having signed up, these Landsknechts were read a very detailed code of conduct, organized into companies, paid one month in advance, and sent into battle! Their major weapon was the pike, which could...
Osprey Publishing, 1999. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850452546. In the Sudan in 1881 an obscure son of a carpenter pronounced himself the ‘Mahdi’ or ‘Guided One of the Prophet’, the long-expected Messiah of the Islamic faith. His influence was so strong that Egypt (co-ruled by Britain and France) was plunged into war. Robert Wilkinson-Latham provides an absorbing account of the Sudan...
Osprey Publishing, 1976. — 48 p. This book details the Scandinavian armies involved in the Napoleonic Wars, beginning with the siege of Copenhagen in 1807, to the fall of Denmark and the invasion of Norway in 1813. The text is accompanied by colour plates detailing the uniforms and equipment of the Scandinavian armies.
Osprey Publishing, 1977. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850452511. Beginning with a chronology of Portugal's part in the Peninsular War, this book examines the uniforms, equipment and organization of the Portuguese army's various units.
Osprey Publishing, 1977. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850452570. This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the armies that fought in the Boer War. Both sides are covered, and the campaigns summarised.
Osprey Publishing, 1977. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850450497. The wars between whites and Indians, the most famous of which were fought on the great Western plains between 1860 and 1890, were among the most tragic of all conflicts ever fought. To the victor went no less than the complete domination of the continent, to the loser total extinction. Accustomed only to small scale...
Osprey Publishing, 1977. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850450969. Owing to the heavy casualties suffered by the carabiniers in the 1809 campaign, the Emperor decreed that they should be armoured to the same advantage as the cuirassiers. In this way the two corps drew together in being the only troops of the Grande Armeé who were armoured, while at the same time they diverged in breaking...
Osprey Publishing, 1977. — 47 p. — ISBN: 0850452481. This book explores the changes in the uniforms of the Royal Navy from the 18th Century to 1970. It includes details from the dress regulations as laid down in the first official illustrated text on the topic, which dated from 1825, up through the present day, and addresses all variations for climate, rank, and equipment...
Osprey Publishing, 1977. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850452503. Originally Churchill’s second choice as a commander, Montgomery was to make the 8th Army his own. Indeed, his first task as the new commander-elect of was to restore the morale of the army. The desert army quickly assumed the character of their forthright and cocksure commander, and the troops confidently expected victory....
Osprey Publishing, 1977. — 48 p. — ISBN: 0850452597. On the 24 April 1855, Colonel Carmichael Smyth held a parade of the ninety skirmishers of the 3rd Light Cavalry of the Bengal Army at Meerut, some 30 miles from Delhi. The disastrous events that followed sparked an almost wholesale mutiny of the Honourable East India Company's Bengal Native Army. Had the ensuing uprising...
Osprey Publishing, 1977. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850452694. The chasseurs, being the indigenous French light horse, can perhaps therefore be equated best with the infantry demi-brigades of this period, a half-trained, unprofessional, make-shift collection, making up with zeal what they lacked in experience, a qualification which in no way diminished the importance of their role within...
Osprey Publishing, 1977. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850452716. The stories of the many battles fought between the Greeks and the Persians are here splendidly brought to life by Jack Cassin-Scott, who details the tactics, organisation and uniforms of the armies of both sides.
Osprey Publishing, 1978. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850455227. At the time of the Second World War, the United States Army took an unusual approach, for the period, towards the design of its uniforms. Rather than attempt to find an all-purpose outfit, such as the British battledress, it attempted to design special-purpose dress for every possible duty, from combat in cold climates to...
Osprey Publishing, 1977. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850452732. The uniform of the British Army underwent many changes between 1965 and 1980. This book catalogues these changes and outlines in detail the many regimental distinctions which exist throughout this old and prestigious army. Among the formations examined are the Household Division, the Royal Armoured Corps, the Scottish...
Osprey Publishing, 1977. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0840452759. For over a hundred years British and Indian troops were engaged on the North-West Frontier of India policing the tribes, mounting expeditions, and guarding against the ever-present threat from Russia. This book details not only the three Afghan wars but also the issues surrounding Chitral, Malakand and Tirah.
Osprey Publishing, 1978. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850452848. General Sir David Fraser tells the story of this famous regiment; their beginnings, customs, battles and traditions from their formation as 'The Royal Regiment of Guards' in 1656 down to our own times. It is a remarkable story that includes Marlborough's campaigns in the struggle against France, the battle of Waterloo, the...
Osprey Publishing, 1978. — 48 p. — ISBN: 0850452821. Viewed largely as a confrontation between democracy and fascism, the resulting civil war proved to be of enormous international significance. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy intervened to assist General Franco, while the Soviet Union came to the aid of the Republican forces. This book explains the background to the war and...
Osprey Publishing, 1978. — 47 p. — ISBN: 0850451256. In the early crusades men of all ranks from all over Europe took the cross and went to fight Islam as volunteers. Some went out of religious fervour, others to escape the plagues and famine which were rife at the time, still others in search of land or a fortune in loot. Fighting alongside all of these were the armies raised...
Osprey Publishing, 1978. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850452465. Napoleon's Hussars made their first real impact in 1806 with their astonishing pursuit of the Prussians over 1,160km from the river Saale to the Oder in twenty-five days. They then capped this feat on arrival when, by dint of audacious demonstrations by the 500 men of the combined 5th and 7th Hussars, the 6,000-strong...
Oxford, New York: Osprey Publishing, 1990. - 41 p. In the summer of 1804, the eagle was chosen as the symbol of the French Army by Napoleon himself. The Emperor's sculptor, Chaudet, made the original model, and from this were cast bronze copies in the workshop of Thomire, which would be proudly borne into battle by many a French regiment. This fascinating work by Terence Wise...
Oxford, New York: Osprey Publishing, 1991. - 48 p. From the Liebfahne and Ordinärfahne of Austria, to the eagle and wreath of Russia, the flags of the Napoleonic Wars comprised a range of designs and colors. The second in a series of three volumes focusing on flags of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815), this book examines the patterns, colors and guidons of Austria, Britain,...
Osprey Publishing, 1978. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850451264. This fascinating book by Michael Barthorp provides an outline of the campaigns and examines in greater detail the armies which marched and fought amid the desert sands and relics of earlier civilisations.
Osprey Publishing, 1978. — 39 p. — ISBN: 085045283X. This fascinating book by Donald Fosten and Robert Marrion explores in great detail the organisation, tactics, weapons, uniforms, equipment and origins of this army that fought in World War I from its start in 1914 to their ultimate defeat in 1918.
Osprey Publishing, 1978. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850452872. The Crimean War, and campaigns in India, had revealed serious administrative and command shortcomings. Cardwell's legislation was aimed at curing these faults and served as the foundation of a new-style army. His successors put into practice further improvements in tactics, training and command structure and by the outbreak...
Osprey Publishing, 1978. — 46 p. — ISBN: 0850451760. This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the US Army from 1890 to 1920. The Spanish-American War, China, Mexico and World War I are all covered.
Osprey Publishing, 1978. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850452880. This title examines some of the most colourful and fanciful uniforms in military history, those of Napoleon's Guard Cavalry.
Osprey Publishing, 1978. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850452996. This book examines the command and staff system of Wellington's army, and the background, character and war records of his commanding officers.
Osprey Publishing, 1979. — 40 p. — ISBN: 0-85045-301-1. If there is one thing we can be sure of concerning the Saxons, Vikings and Normans who inhabited the medieval world, it is that they were a good deal more advanced than some writings would have us believe. This fascinating book by Terence Wise explores the history, organization, clothing, equipment and weapons of Saxon,...
Osprey Publishing, 1979. — 49 p. — ISBN: 085045302X. In 1543 three Portuguese merchants entered a turbulent Japan, bringing with them the first firearms the Japanese had ever seen: simple matchlock muskets called arquebuses. They proved a decisive addition to the Japanese armoury, as for centuries the samurai had fought only with bow, sword and spear. In 1575, one of the...
Osprey Publishing, 1979. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850453054. Napoleon's method of command was such that he expected his marshals to obey, not initiate; and he slowly set out to ensure that his senior officers became merely blind agents who executed his orders without hesitation, discussion or personal opinion.
Osprey Publishing, 1979. — 48 p. — ISBN: 0850453034. The Republican French were active in the export of revolution, and in 1796-1800 Napoleon saw that the inhabitants of northern Italy were ripe for conversion to the cause. French victories in 1798 and 1800 secured his hold on the area, and he at once began reorganising the many small states which then made up the territory of...
Osprey Publishing, 1979. — 40 p. — ISBN: 0-85045-306-2. The Byzantines had a remarkably sophisticated approach to politics and military strategy. Unlike most of their contemporaries, they learnt very early in their history that winning a battle did not necessarily win a war, and they frequently bought off their enemies with treaties and bribes rather than squander men and...
Osprey Publishing, 1993. — 51 p. — ISBN: 0850453097. In the battles of Jena and Auerstädt, where the Prussians were crushed by Napoleon, the Saxons excelled beyond comparison. Amidst the defeat and confusion, they withdrew in full control, with regular pace and band playing, stopping to engage whenever the enemy grew too close. Recognising the martial value of such troops,...
Osprey Publishing, 1979. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850453089. This book provides an overview of the component cavalry regiments in the years between the Great Mutiny of 1857 and the outbreak of World War I.
Osprey Publishing, 1979. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850453070. The Indian Army underwent significant changes in command, organization and composition from the time of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-59, to the outbreak of World War I. Prior to the Mutiny, the government of British India was exercised by the East India Company, who divided the country into three Presidencies, each with its own...
Osprey Publishing, 1979. — 46 p. The year AD 122 was the first time a Roman Emperor had set foot in the Province of Britannia since the invasion in AD43. No doubt he had read many reports concerning the damage caused by marauding tribesmen crossing from what is now Scotland into the Province. Hadrian, therefore, decided - in the words of his biographer - 'to build a wall to...
Osprey Publishing, 1979. — 48 p. — ISBN: 0850453348. During the 14th and 15th centuries military tactics in Europe underwent a period of sustained transformation of which the outcome was the rejuvenation of the footsoldier as the major tactical unit. One nation alone stands principally responsible for this development - the Swiss Confederation. For centuries the mounted knights...
Osprey Publishing, 1979. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850453356. In the year 1900, an unprecedented co-operation occurred between the eight major military powers of the world. For more than a year military and naval personnel from Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States fought together against a common enemy. That enemy was a society...
Osprey Publishing, 1979. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850453364. This books shows how at the beginning of the Seven Years' War, Austria seized the lead by introducing new light field pieces - the 3pdr., 6pdr., and 12pdr. guns - and some excellent light howitzers.
Osprey Publishing, 1980. — 51 p. — ISBN: 0850453461. This book chronicles Marlborough's campaigns in the War of the Spanish Succession, detailing the tactics, troops and uniforms of his army.
Osprey Publishing, 1980. — 51 p. — ISBN: 085045347X. In a desperate attempt to stop the trafficking of British goods, Napoleon absorbed Holland, parts of Westfalia, the Duchy of Oldenburg and the Hanseatic towns of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck into Metropolitan France in 1810. The armies raised from these areas fought as allies of the French or as part of France itself from 1795...
Osprey Publishing, 1980. — 48 p. — ISBN: 0850453488. Coats of arms were at first used only by kings and princes, then by their great nobles, but by the mid-13th century arms were being used extensively by the lesser nobility, knights and those who later came to be styled gentlemen. In some countries the use of arms spread even to merchants, townspeople and the peasantry.
Osprey Publishing, 1980. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850453496. By World War II women were playing a major auxiliary role in all branches of the armed forces. From the daring female fighter pilots of besieged Russia to the heroic American nurses on the front line, this book looks at the vital jobs that women undertook at a time of national crisis.
Osprey Publishing, 1980. — 51 p. — ISBN: 0850453577. This title documents both the Conquistadores themselves, and their formidable enemies in the New World - the Aztecs, Incas and Maya.
Osprey Publishing, 1980. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850453585. In the early years of the English Civil War, a French traveller in England remarked that the Irish 'are better soldiers abroad than at home'. Between 1585 and 1818, over half a million Irish were lured from their homeland by promises of glory, money and honour in a constant emigration romantically styled 'The Flight of the...
Osprey Publishing, 1980. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850453593. This book provides an absorbing account of the organisation, campaigns and uniforms of Germany's Spanish volunteers who fought from 1941-45.
Osprey Publishing, 1980. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850453607. The uniforms and insignia of the US forces, including the army, Special Forces, air force, navy and marine corps, are dealt with in detail, together with those of the ARVN, the Allied Forces (such as the Royal Thai Army and Korean troops), and also the Communist NLF (Viet Cong) and NVA forces.
Osprey Publishing, 1980. — 47 p. — ISBN: 0850453720. No armies in history have ever won so many battles or conquered so much territory. No army has ever provoked such justifiable terror and loathing in its victims, or slaughtered so many of its vanquished.
Osprey Publishing, 2004. — 47 p. — 0850453739. In 1805, Bavaria allied itself with France and Bavarian troops served with Napoleon during the 1809 campaign against Austria, and participated in the Russian campaign of 1812, before eventually abandoning the Emperor's cause in 1813 prior to the battle of Leipzig. They then engaged Napoleon's troops in combat at the battle of Hanua...
Osprey Publishing, 1980. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850453747. The period covered by this book begins with the British infantryman entering the Peninsular War wearing the lethal knapsack equipment of the day, and ends with the introduction of the first equipment set made entirely of woven cotton webbing
Osprey Publishing, 2000. — 48 p. — ISBN: 1855328399. The conflict in South Africa from 1899 to 1902 gave the British military establishment reason to effect swift reforms in the period which followed the end of the hostilities. The humiliating defeats suffered at the hands of a comparatively small number of Boer citizen-soldiers in the opening months of the war showed up...
Osprey Publishing, 1981. — 48 p. — (Men-at-Arms 109). — ISBN: 9780850453843. This text by Terence Wise explores some of the fascinating peoples who comprised the ancient armies of the Middle East: the Sumerians, who were the first to introduce the use of bronze into warfare, and were centuries ahead of the Egyptians in the use of the wheel – The Akkadians, whose citizen army...
Osprey Publishing, 1981. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850453852. The Restoration of 1660 is often quoted as the birth date of our modern British Army. While this may be true as far as continuity of unit identity is concerned, the evidence of history shows that the creation of an efficient military machine, and its proving on the battlefield, predates the Restoration by 15 years. It was on...
Osprey Publishing, 1981. — 51 p. — ISBN: 0850453933. A combination of dynastic disputes, feudal quibbles, trade disagreements and historical antagonism resulted in the opening of the Hundred Years War in 1337. The first major English land victory in this conflict was the Battle of Crécy. This pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, against the English under...
Osprey Publishing, 1981. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850453879. This book offers a history of British battledress up to 1961, detailing its evolution in design, materials, sizes and applied insignia.
Osprey Publishing, 1981. — 48 p. Henry V became King of England in 1413. He was one of the great warrior kings of the country, cast in the same mould as Edward I and Edward III. He was just, pious, athletic, chivalrous, acquisitive, ruthless and eager to gain honour on the field of battle. Henry hoped that a successful campaign against the nation's traditional enemy would draw...
Osprey Publishing, 1992. — 46 p. — ISBN: 085045395X. The infantry was Wellington's favoured tool, and he played a major role in raising its standards of excellence. He used it carefully, on ground which he selected to give it maximum advantage and protection; and he came to understand its capabilities and weaknesses exactly. In this worthy addition to Opsrey's Men-at-Arms...
Oxford, New York: Osprey Publishing, 1981. - 48 pp Terence Wise explores in depth the flags, colours and guidons of the Napoleonic wars and details colours, standards and guidons of Anhalt, Kleve-Burg, Brunswick, Denmark, Finland, Hanover, Hesse, the Netherlands, Mecklenburg, Nassau, Portugal, Reuss, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland & Westphalia in a text containing a plethora of...
Osprey Publishing, 1981. — 46 p. — ISBN: 0850453968. Since its birth at Kabrti in 1941, the Special Air Service has consistently captured the imagination of the military and public alike by the daring and unconventional nature of its operations. The nature of the tasks and the methods peculiar to the SAS have made it difficult to standardise items of equipment.
Osprey Publishing, 1982. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850454174. Polish soldiers fought in nearly every major campaign in the European theatre, and their tale is a complicated and tragic one.
Osprey Publishing, 1982. — 54 p. — ISBN: 0850454328. Between the first Jacobite rising in 1689 and the final collapse of the cause in 1746, the hopes of the House of Stuart were centred chiefly on Scotland. It is often wrongly assumed that the Jacobite rebellions were a contest between England and Scotland. In fact many Lowland Scots share the feelings of the English, and had...
Osprey Publishing, 1992. — 47 p. — ISBN: 0850454190. In 1803 Sir John Moore's policy was to produce quick-thinking, intelligent, mobile soldiers capable of attacking on their own initiative. Old-style drill manuals, which still governed the training of the mass of British infantry, were set aside; and discipline was maintained, at least to some extent, by appeals to pride in...
Osprey Publishing, 1982. — 51 p. — ISBN: 0850454204. This book provides a brief review of the careers of some of the most notable figures to achieve high command in the Allied forces, a list that includes General of the Army Omar Bradley, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, General George Patton and General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Osprey Publishing, 1982. — 51 p. — ISBN: 0850454301. The epic conflict between Rome and Carthage remains one of the most compelling stories of military history. The wars included such legendary events as the crossing of the Alps by Hannibal, and the Battle of Cannae.
Osprey Publishing, 1982 - 48 p. During the Napoleonic Wars the region of Hesse was divided between Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt. Under Napoleon's patronage, in 1806 Hessen-Darmstadt received all remaining imperial possessions within its borders and was elevated to a Grand Duchy. That same year, Hessen-Kassel, under Imperial Elector Wilhelm I, was dissolved and...
Osprey Publishing, 1982. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850454182. The Australians have had a brief military history, by world standards, but they have taken part in nine wars and, British troops apart, they have fought in more countries than the soldiers of any other nation. Friend and foe alike have assessed them as men-at-arms perhaps equalled but never surpassed.
Osprey Publishing, 1982. — 51 p. — ISBN: 0850454336. This fascinating study by Anthony Kemp outlines the careers and characters of a number of senior German commanders.
Osprey Publishing, 1982. — 48 p. — ISBN10: 0850454484 / ISBN13: 978-0850454482. During the Middle Ages, Islam was Christian Europe's only civilized and most troublesome neighbor. The Middle Ages saw almost continual strife between these two distinct cultures. By the time the Frankish Crusaders reached the Middle East at the end of the 11th century, Islam had already...
Osprey Publishing, 1982. — 46 p. — ISBN: 0850454499. In April 1756 the Horse Guards agreed, with some reluctance, to the addition of a single 'light troop' to most cavalry regiments. From their formation these troops were fashionable and treated as having a special character, and they became so useful that by 1759 it was decided to form complete regiments of light cavalry
Osprey Publishing, 1982. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850454506. Surrounded by hostile nations, Israel has fought six victorious wars between 1948 and 1973. For a force which began as an irregular, impoverished and improvised group, this is a formidable record.
Osprey Publishing, 1982. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850454514. The modern wars of the Middle East began in 1947, when the Syrians, Egyptians, Jordanians and Lebanese were unofficially at war with the Jewish settlers of Palestine. On the 15 May, the day afer Israel was declared a sovreign state, the Arab invasion began. Between then and 1973 five wars occurred: those of 1948; the Sinai...
Osprey Publishing, 1982. — 47 p. — ISBN: 0850454735. These vigorous northern 'barbarians' were the destroyers of the Western Empire of Rome. It was they who delivered the coup de grâce to the dying colossus in the south, subsequently creating medieval Europe, the feudal system and chivalry.
Osprey Publishing, 1982. — 48 p. — ISBN: 0850454741. Wellington considered the British cavalry to be technically inferior to the French, although paradoxically he also said that one British squadron would be a match for two of the enemy. His main concern was that although the British cavalry lacked neither courage nor dash, they lacked discipline, in that they invariably failed...
Osprey Publishing, 1982. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850454751. Since the end of the First World War they had enjoyed an independence which most of them had not known for centuries, but this was now threatened by the growing power of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Instead of combining for self defence, they were bitterly divided. The Munich crisis showed how little reliance could be...
Osprey Publishing, 1982. — 50 p. — ISBN: 085045476X. In June 1948 Communist insurgent forces commenced a guerrilla war to end British rule in Malaya. During the ensuing 12 years of conflict there were 8750 reported 'contacts' between units of the Security Forces and the Communist enemy.
Osprey Publishing, 1982. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850454824. On the night of 1-2 April 1982, the Argentinian Junta led by Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri made its move against the Falkland Islands. On 3 April British Prime Minister Mrs. Margaret Thatcher faced an appalled and furious House of Commons to announce that Argentine armed forces had landed on British sovereign territory; had captured...
Osprey Publishing, 1982. — 51 p. — ISBN: 0850454921. In the early hours of the chilly late-autumn morning, April 2 1982, substantial forces of Argentine Marines, with heavy naval and air support, had invaded the Falkland islands, quickly and almost bloodlessly overwhelming a token garrison of Royal Marines. The following day Argentine forces also invaded the Falklands...
Osprey Publishing, 1982. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850454932. During the Falklands conflict, aircraft (both fixed and rotary-wing) were of crucial importance to both sides: in moving reinforcements quickly across the sea and over the islands, in attacking surface vessels, and in providing protection against attacks from both above and below the waves.
Osprey Publishing, 1983. — 47 p. — ISBN: 0850454778. Mercenaries were a common feature throughout most of Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries, and had been known far earlier. But nowhere did such a sophisticated system of hiring, payment and organisation of mercenaries develop as it did in Italy. The condottiere - whose name came from the condotta or contract between himself...
Osprey Publishing, 1983. — 48 p. Though the 'Scythian period' in the history of Eastern Europe lasted little more than 400 years, the impression these horsemen made upon the history of their times was such that a thousand years after they had ceased to exist as a sovereign people, their heartland and the territories which they dominated far beyond it continued to be known as...
Revised edition. — Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 48 p. This revised edition of Mike Chappell's original Men-at-Arms 138 represents nearly 20 years' new research. It covers the saddlery, horse furniture, and personal equipment of the British horsed cavalryman from the early stages of the Napoleonic Wars until the final disappearance of the mounted arm during World War II. Such...
Osprey Publishing, 1983. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850454794. This authoritative text examines in detail the historical development of British cavalry equipment 1800-1941.
Osprey Publishing, 1983. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850454808. A strong enemy force to one's rear disrupts supplies and communications and makes one more vulnerable to an attack from the front. It also has a major psychological impact. To an aggressor the value of airborne troops, used properly, far outweighs their numerical strength.
Osprey Publishing, 1983. — 46 p. — ISBN: 0850455113. During the last decades of the 13th century, the ambitious Osman Bey's tiny mountain state took eight frontier castles plus the Turkish town of Eskisehir. In 1299 Osman seized Yenisehir after working up the Kara Su valley. With this as its first real capital, the Ottoman state emerged into history poised above the fertile...
Osprey Publishing, 1983. — 50 p. — ISBN: 085045512X. Napoleon's line infantry was founded upon that of the Ancien Régime. A total re-organisation began on 1 January 1791 with the abolition of the old regimental titles, and over the next two years an increasing number of conscript and volunteer battalions were formed. Their quality varied from the proficiency of the early...
Osprey Publishing, 1983. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850455138. Partisan Warfare in German occupied territory between 1941 and 1945. During 1941 the Germans occupied first Greece and the former Yuogslavia, then enormous areas of European Russia. Once the front line troops had moved on the struggle continued as bands of resistance fighters waged war against the occupation forces until...
Osprey Publishing, 1983. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850455146. On 8 March 1965 some 3,500 US Marines, the first US combat troops to arrive in Vietnam, landed in Da Nang to defend the US air base there. On 8 June, following further reinforcements, General Westmoreland authorised his troops to begin 'offensive patrolling'.
Osprey Publishing, 1983. — 48 p. — ISBN: 0850455189. This text examines the functioning and organisation of the Burgundian armies from the beginning of his reign until the time of the last of the Valois Dukes.
Osprey Publishing, 1983. — 47 p. — ISBN: 0850455205. Much myth and fantasy surrounds the events of the Wars of the Roses: a bloody and prolonged dynastic struggle between the houses of York and Lancaster. Terence Wise's fascinating text lays bare the real story, and examines the armies, liveries and badges of the conflict.
Osprey Publishing, 1983. — 51 p. — ISBN: 0850455219. Although light infantry tactics formed one of the cornerstones of Napoleonic warfare, their employment was by no means restricted to Light regiments. Thus, from the early 1800s if not before, the distinction between Light and Line infantry was largely one of costume and tradition. One marked difference from the Line infantry,...
Osprey Publishing, 1983. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850455243. This title examines the Wehrmacht's foreign volunteers, taking a close look at their uniforms, organisation and distinctive insignia. Among those covered are the Legion Wallanie, LVF, Ostlegionen, Balkan volunteers, Hiwis, Kalmucks, Cossacks, Baltic, Russian and Ukranian volunteers.
Osprey Publishing, 1984. — 51 p. — ISBN: 0850455391. The Macedonians were veterans of battle, well equipped and eager for conquest. Add to this Alexander's supreme gifts as military commander and it is little wonder they achieved so much.
Osprey Publishing, 1984. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850455405. The Prussian light infantry branch was founded in the reign of Frederick the Great (1740-1786) and continued to develop from then onwards. It was the light troops of the Austrian army, the Croatian border soldiers, which so impressed Frederick in the Seven Years War that he considered it necessary to create an effective...
Osprey Publishing, 1984. — 51 p. — ISBN: 085045042X. Most historians agree that the Carolingian Age, from the 8th to 10th centuries AD, represented one of the most important turning points in European history. It can be said with some certainty that early Carolingian military success was built on good leadership, adequate administration, and troops whose morale was almost...
Osprey Publishing, 1984. — 46 p. — ISBN: 0850455427. On 28 September 1066 William of Normandy landed near Hastings and prepared to meet the Anglo-Saxon army of King Harold Godwinson. On 10 October 1066 the two armies met; and after six hours of fighting the Anglo-Saxon army was crushed and their king slain. The Normans set up castles to control the native population, and...
Osprey Publishing, 1984. — 46 p. — ISBN: 085045543X. At the beginning of this period, the battalions of the Prussian Line usually fought in a linear formation three ranks deep, overwhelming the enemy with fire before a well-timed bayonet attack. By the end, the preferred formation was eight to 12 ranks deep. The responsibility for conducting the fire-fight was now given to the...
Osprey Publishing, 1984. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850455340. From the Companions of Alexander to the Varangians of Byzantium, bodies of élite warriors, owing personal allegiance to their sovereign and obeying no others, have illuminated or stained the annals of military history. Napoleon's Imperial Guards probably represent the last true link in a chain spanning the ages.
Osprey Publishing, 1984. — 46 p. — ISBN: 0850455489. The Arthurian Age; the Celtic Twilight; the Dark Ages; the Birth of England; these are the powerfully romantic names often given to one of the most confused yet vital periods in British history. It is an era upon which rival Celtic and English nationalisms frequently fought. It was also a period of settlement, and of the sword.
Osprey Publishing, 1984. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850456045. The ancient warrior code which persisted in medieval Christian Europe dictated that a man's greatest virtues were physical strength, skill at arms, bravery, daring, loyalty to the chieftain and solidarity within the tribe. The primitive Church had been diametrically opposed to such ideals, however by the early 8th century the...
Osprey Publishing, 1984. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850455685. This book examines the Royal Marines' service and training from the Suez Crisis of 1956, through to their involvement in Northern Ireland and the Falklands in the 1980s.
Osprey Publishing, 1984. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850455685. Beginning in World War I, with the introduction of the steel helmet this book charts the development of protective equipment for soldiers and security forces.
Osprey Publishing, 1985. — 51 p. — ISBN: 0850456061. In 390 BC a Gallic army marched on Rome. A confident Roman army of about 15,000 men sent to bar the way was destroyed. Three days after the battle the Gauls entered Rome, much of which they burnt, and demanded a huge bounty of gold to leave the city.
Osprey Publishing, 1985. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850455830. This book provides a day-by-day account of the US invasion of Grenada, focusing on the units and forces deployed. Numerous contemporary photographs and colour plates detail the uniforms and equipment of the US, Cuban and Caribbean forces.
Osprey Publishing, 1985. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850455359. This title looks at Napoleon's Middle and Young Guard infantry. The seniority of Guard infantry was only established definitely in 1812 by the Guard's chief of personnel, Courtois. The title 'Young Guard' was assigned to the newly-raised regiments in 1809, but the term 'Middle Guard' came into use about 1811.
Osprey Publishing, 1985. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850455715. Although overshadowed by its French counterpart, the Tercio de Extrangeros, 'Regiment of Foreigners' has a rich and eventful history beginning with its formation in 1920. Under the command of LtCol Millán Astray and Comandante Francisco Franco, the Spanish Foreign Legion developed into a formidable force, led by Astray's...
Osprey Publishing, 1985. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850455758. Under a leader as renowned as Seydlitz, the Prussian cavalry achieved the nearest to a state of perfection that it was ever going to. So great was its reputation in the Seven Years' War that Napoleon made a special point of warning his men at the beginning of the 1806 campaign to beware of the Prussian cavalry.
Osprey Publishing, 1993. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850456088. The central plains of North America to the east of the Rocky Mountains were home to the Plains Indians; here the hunting grounds of the twelve "typical" tribes coincided with the grazing range of the largest of the buffalo herds. The adoption of a horse culture heralded the golden age of the Plains Indians – an age abruptly...
Osprey Publishing, 1985. — 48 p. — ISBN10: 0850456002; ISBN13: 9780850456004. Product Description: Throughout the 20th Century, Canadian armies participated in the world's major conflicts, from the Boer War at the dawn of the century (1899-1902), to the Korean War in the 1950s. As part of the British empire, Canada supported Britain in South Africa, and came to the aid of the...
Osprey Publishing, 1985. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850456029. This book offers a day-by-day account of the invasion and the subsequent siege of Beirut, an operation that resulted in both the PLO and Israel claiming victory.
Osprey Publishing, 1985. — 47 p. — ISBN: 0850456142. In the later 15th century, three houses rose above the others; the families of Wittelsbach, Luxemburg and the powerful Austrian Hapsburgs. The struggles of these and other houses, and of the knights and towns, were to be a feature of German history throughout the Middle Ages.
Osprey Publishing, 1985. — 47 p. — ISBN: 0850456142. In 1808, the Austrian government felt that with the outbreak of the Spanish war, Napoleon would have too much to do to be able to devote large forces to deal with them. On 25 February 1809 Friedrich Wilhelm of Brunswick entered into an agreement with the Austrians to raise a corps of infantry and cavalry to fight alongside...
Osprey Publishing, 1985. — 50 p. — ISBN: 085045638X. The occupation of Western Europe by the Wehrmacht brought about the birth of resistance movements in all the countries affected, as well as collaborationist movements directly opposed to the resistance. In effect, the war against Germany became a civil war within each country.
Osprey Publishing, 1986. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850456797. The South's fighting men served from the time of their enlistment until the end of the war, receiving poor rations, and even worse clothing - and this despite the fact that one of the first steps taken by the new army was to design a uniform and establish standards for accoutrements and weapons.
Osprey Publishing, 1986. — 51 p. — ISBN: 0850456827. Traditionally portrayed as a quiet, deeply religious and even humble man, Saladin was a typical product of his day and his culture. This title shows how the societies and military systems that he and his successors led from defeat to eventual triumph were far more sophisticated than is generally realised, and brings vividly...
Osprey Publishing, 1985. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850456835. This book details the history, organisation, equipment and uniforms of the Prussian cavalry which fought in the Napoleonic wars.
Osprey Publishing, 1986. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850456843. In 1823 Texas was opened to American settlement; over the next 12 years thousands took advantage of the opportunity. During this time the corrupt Santa Anna rose to power. A dishonest and ruthless politician, thief, compulsive gambler, opium addict and liar, he nevertheless gained a measure of popular support and set about...
Osprey Publishing, 1986. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850456851. At 4am on Sunday 25 June 1950 powerful North Korean forces invaded South Korea, advancing down the Uijongbu Corridor towards the Southern Capital of Seoul. South Korean troops resisted bravely, but were crushed by overwhelming Northern superiority. Later that day the United Nations Security Council condemned the aggression,...
Osprey Publishing, 1986. — 47 p. — ISBN: 0850456886. The Parthians were a warrior people. Though possessing no regular army they were superb horsemen and archers, and in time of war the nobility provided heavily armoured knights mounted on weight-carrying chargers. At Carrhae, it is believed that 20,000 Roman troops out of a force of about 36,000 died at the hands of the...
Osprey Publishing, 1986. — 47 p. — ISBN: 0850456899. This title examines in detail the organisation, uniforms, deployment and development of the Austrian infantry during the Napoleonic Wars, covering Line infantry, Light infantry, Grenz-Infanterie, Landwehr militia, and Frei-Corps units.
Osprey Publishing, 1986. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850456908. This detailed work is a comprehensive guide to the uniforms, accoutrements, insignia and weapons of the Union Troops who fought the American Civil War.
Osprey Publishing, 1986. — 48 p. — ISBN: 0850456916. This book examines Soviet forces in Afghanistan. The origins and conduct of the war and the operational organisation of Soviet forces are discussed. Afghan resistance and weaponry is also examined.
Osprey Publishing, 1987. — 49 p. — ISBN: 085045722X. Special sharpshooters were recruited for skirmishing duty; men whose wounds would have led to their discharge in the past now found themselves guarding important posts in the Veteran Reserve Corps; and large numbers of civilians found themselves in uniform as members of the Telegraph or Hospital Corps.
Osprey Publishing, 1986. — 47 p. — ISBN: 0850457017. This volume explores the organisation, tactics, history, arms and armour of Rome's Spanish enemies.
Osprey Publishing, 1986. — 48 p. — ISBN: 0850457261. The mounted troops of the Hapsburg Empire comprised one of the most powerful forces of the Napoleonic Wars. However, from the outset the cavalry's higher command was less capable than its infantry counterpart: appointments were influenced by nepotism and politics, which resulted in commands often being given to those who...
Osprey Publishing, 1986. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850457270. The British soldiers who marched off to war in 1914 wore only regimental insignia, yet by the time of the armistice in November 1918, insignia in the British Army had undergone a considerable change. Now visible was a bewildering display of coloured devices on uniforms, helmets, vehicles, guns, signboards and flags.
Osprey Publishing, 1986. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850457285. The Rhodesian War of 1965-80 is the battle for control of present day Zimbabwe. This book examines the successes and failures of the counter-insurgency campaign of Smith's security forces and the eventual bloody birth of a modern African nation.
Osprey Publishing Ltd, 1986. — 50 p. This beautifully illustrated book by Mike Chappell presents the widest range of badges used by the British Army during the First World War..
Men-at-Arms Series London, Osprey Publisher LTD, 1992. - 50 p. In 1795 the Russian army was as vast as the territory from which it was drawn. The College of War calculated that the regular army amounted to 541,741 men, plus 46,601 enrolled cossacks, and at least a further 100,000 irregular cavalry which could be mobilised in time of war. Inspired by the icons paraded by their...
Osprey Publishing, 1987. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850457386. This fascinating work examines the Apaches, their social structure, religion and warcraft, and outlines the Apache wars and conflicts with the American, including the dramatic story of Crook and Geronimo.
Osprey Publishing, 1987. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850457394. By the New Year of 1940 the War Office had agreed in principle to (a) the enhancement of officers' badges of rank with cloth in the colour of the arm-of-service; (b) strips of cloth in the same colours to be worn at the top of the sleeves by all ranks; and (c) the wearing of regimental flashes on Battledress.
Osprey Publishing, 1988. — 47 p. — ISBN: 0850457440. The 17th century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was almost as varied as modern America. Alongside Slavs lived Lithuanians and other Balts, Germans, Tatars, Armenian merchants, Jewish traders, and even a remarkably large populations of Scots. This variety of cultures had a strong influence on the Polish army. Along with the...
London, Osprey Publisher LTD, 1992. - 48 p. During the Napoleonic era, Russia possessed a vast force of cavalry, forming a greater percentage than that of most European armies. This stemmed partly from their service against the Turks, who had huge numbers of troops, and partly from the fact that much Russian terrain was suitable for the manoeuvre of large bodies of cavalry....
Osprey Publishing, 1987. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850457475. Many on both sides - not just the South - felt that they were serving their states as much, if not more, than their central governments. Many of the states agreed; the state governments raising their own units, commissioning their officers, and supplying their men. Indeed, many of the units that fought the Civil War were...
Osprey Publishing, 1987. — 47 p. — ISBN: 085045798X. Military affairs occupied a very significant place during Henry VIII's reign, with English armies seeing action against two main enemies: the French and the Scots, of which France was undoubtedly viewed as the principal foe. Henry nursed grandiose ambitions to be acclaimed as the arbiter of European politics, and whilst...
Osprey Publishing, 1987. — 47 p. — ISBN: 0850457995. Irregular, semi-regular and reserve formations comprised a substantial part of the armed forces at the disposal of the Prussian Army throughout the Napoleonic Wars, particularly during the campaigns of the Wars of Liberation, 1813-15. The scale of the uprising of 1813 required the mobilization of all available forces and the...
Osprey Publishing, 1987. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850457939. This volume detailing the British Army on campaign from 1815-1902, centres on the campaigns in the eventful period from 1816-53: the regiments which took part; the tactics employed; and the changing nature of uniforms and equipment.
Osprey Publishing, 1988. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850458005. This book examines the post-1973 development of the armies of Egypt, Jordan and Syria, as well as the Palestinian guerrilla and terrorist groups.
Osprey Publishing, 1988. — 48 p. — ISBN: 0850458331. The Kingdom of Hungary was a vast realm, at least the size of France, that endured throughout the Middle Ages whilst the Byzantine Empire was even more extensive and enduring. The Serbians won themselves a brief but extensive local empire in the 14th century; while the Bulgarians established an effective and cultured state....
Osprey Publishing, 1987. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850458277. In 1854 the British Army was committed to its first major war against a European power since 1815. The expeditionary force, or 'Army of the East', was despatched to Turkey nominally to support the Ottoman Empire in its war with Russia.
Osprey Publishing, 1988. — 49 p. — ISBN: 085045834X. In 1870, after completing a 1000-mile trek across Canada, Lt. W.F. Butler, an officer of the British Army, recommended the establishment of a 'well-equipped force from 100 to 150 men, one-third to be mounted' for the purpose of policing the North West; three years later, the North West Mounted Police was established.
Osprey Publishing, 1988. — 49 p. — ISBN: 085045834X. From the Indian Mutiny of 1857-59, to campaigns in the North-West Frontier, Canada, New Zealand and the Transvaal, the British Army fought to protect its Empire and thwart the expansion of encroaching nations.
Osprey Publishing, 1988. — 49 p. — ISBN: 0850458412. Napoleon's 'specialist' troops - artillery, engineers and supporting services - were indispensable elements without which no army could have operated, and frequently assumed greater significance than the line regiments.
Osprey Publishing, 1988. — 48 p. — ISBN: 0850458404. The story of the Christian conquest of the Iberian peninsula which gave rise to the legend of El Cid, is here examined, the history, tactics, arms and armour of the period.
Osprey Publishing, 1988. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1988. — 48 p. Portugal was both the first and the last of the great European colonial powers. For 500 years Portugal had colonies in Africa. In 1960, as liberation movements swept across colonial Africa, the Portuguese flag still flew over vast expanses of territory across the continent. The spread of decolonization and the establishment of independent states...
Osprey Publishing, 1990. — 48 p. Louis XIV's army was in many ways the first modern army. After assuming power in 1661, Louis abolished the post of Colonel Général of Infantry so he could exercise direct control over the armed forces in his realm. The king demanded order, discipline and absolute loyalty from his army, and he introduced a military draft in 1688 - the first step...
Osprey Publishing, 1988. — 48 p. — ISBN: 0850458625. The specialist troops of Wellington's army played a crucial role in the success of the British Army. Though often understaffed and ineptly managed, the artillery, engineers, transport and commissariat, and medical services contributed to Wellington's ultimate victory in 1815. The Royal Artillery and Corps of Royal Engineers...
Osprey Publishing, 1988. — 48 p. — ISBN: 0850458420. Whether referred to as web gear, TE-21, TA50, LBE or LCE, the American soldier's individual combat equipment was seldom praised – except by its developers. Nevertheless, it has always been, and will continue to be an essential part of the fighting man's burden. With the aid of plenty of contemporary photographs, diagrams, and...
Osprey Publishing, 1988. — 48 p. — ISBN: 0850458879. Of all the armies of the German States, that of Hanover remains of greatest interest to the British reader due to the close links between the crowns of the two states. Throughout the Napoleonic era Britain and Hanover had the same head of state, George III. Symbolic of their close relationship, the Hanoverian Army wore...
Osprey Publishing, 1988. — 48 p. — ISBN: 0850458536. Uniformed volunteer units were raised by individuals, usually from an area's social élite who had enough spare money and time to spend on such enthusiasms. They voted on their unit designation, their officers and non-commissioned officers, their unit rules, and their uniform. Many future leaders learned their skills in these...
Osprey Publishing, 1989. — 48 p. — ISBN: 9780850458510. The Great War of 1914-18 is often seen as one major battleground – the Western Front – with numerous 'side-shows'. The other battle zones were not side-shows to those involved, however, although the local inhabitants often fought for motives which remained a closed book to their European allies or foes. David Nicolle...
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 48 p. This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the troops that fought in Cambodia in the 1970s. US and Cambodian forces are all covered, including Special Operations, and the course of the war is summarised. Uniforms are shown in full illustrated detail.
Osprey Publishing, 1989. — 51 p. — ISBN: 0850458994. The story of Venice is, to some extent, separate from that of the rest of Europe. The same could be said of the city's military history and organisation. Early in the 9th century the Venetians defeated Pepin the Frank's attempts to overawe them, and they remained, at least in theory, subject to Byzantium. Gradually, however,...
Osprey Publishing, 1989. — 48 p. — ISBN: 0850459001. When the French Revolution broke out in 1789, France possessed numerous colonies spread over three continents. To defend and keep the peace in these territories, a small army of colonial troops, distinct from the metropolitan line regiments or marines, had existed since the days of Louis XIV. This book examines the history...
Osprey Publishing, 1989. — 48 p. — ISBN: 085045901X. When Queen Victoria acceded to the British throne in 1837, British troops had recently concluded a war in southern Africa against the Xhosa people, and the seeds were already sown for a clash with the Boers. When she died in January 1901 Britain was fighting the Boers in one of the longest and costliest of the imperial...
Osprey Publishing, 1989. — 48 p. — ISBN: 9780850459029. The military policeman must be one of the least appreciated yet most indispensable military figures in modern history. In the mobile warfare of the 20th century no army could keep its vital supply routes open without the military policeman. This book documents the organisation, uniforms and insignia of the many and varied...
Osprey Publishing, 1989. — 48 p. — ISBN: 0850459362. The development of US Army infantry equipment has been a story of trial and error, of adopting new designs to meet new problems. It was not until 1910 that a whole system of equipment, including everything from the waist belts to the canteens to the cartridge-carriers to the haversack, was officially adopted.
Osprey Publishing, 1989. — 48 p. The British Army in Queen Victoria's reign fought a series of regional campaigns against various African groups with complex military traditions well-suited to their environment. In many instances, the outcome of the ensuing fighting was by no means one-sided. This book focuses on the large-scale wars in northern Africa in which British regular...
Osprey Publishing, 1989. — 48 p. The German invasion in 1941 led to a series of staggering defeats for the Russians. In the first five months of fighting, the Soviets lost about four million men, amounting to 80 per cent of the total strength of the ground forces at the time of the outbreak of the war. Yet the Red Army managed to hold on. The Soviets had been steadily growing...
Osprey Publishing, 1989. — 48 p. As World War II drew to a close, the Imperial Japanese military seized control of Laos, a French protectorate, and encouraged nationalist movements to forestall the revival of French power in the region. Despite these efforts the French re-entered Indochina and methodically retook the protectorate. By 1957, the government of Laos and the core of...
Osprey Publishing, 1990. — 48 p. By the 15th century BC the valley of Hwang Ho was dominated by a palace-based military caste which owed its supremacy to a monopoly of bronze-working techniques among a still mainly Stone Age population. To the Shang Dynasty, war was a means of legitimising the power of their new aristocracy. This fascinating volume by C. J. Peers covers the...
Osprey Publishing, 1990. — 48 p. By the time Queen Victoria came to the throne, India – some 1,600,000 square miles, ranging from soaring mountains to deserts and jungle swamps, populated by 400,000,000 people with a kaleidoscope of different cultures and religions – was firmly in the grip of a handful of British East India Company administrators, either ruling directly or...
Osprey Publishing, 1990. — 48 p. In 1919 Adolf Hitler joined the tiny German Workers' Party (DAP) in Munich, becoming its leader the following year and adding 'National Socialist' to its title. Thus the NSDAP, popularly known as the Nazi Party, was born. All political parties had strong-arm squads to protect their meetings from disruption by rivals, and the NSDAP was no...
Osprey Publishing, 1990. — 48 p. Once predicted to be 'the Middle East of the Year 2000', Central America and the Caribbean have long been a powder keg of revolutionary activity and guerilla warfare. The United States, with important strategic and economic interests in the region, has traditionally opted for a military solution toward the political upheaval, developing a range...
Osprey Publishing, 1990. — 48 p. Tamerlane or Timur-i-Lenk ('Timur the Lame') is one of the most extraordinary conquerors in history. In the late 14th century his armies seized huge territories from the borders of Mongolia to Palestine and Anatolia. His passage was marked by massacres that outdid even those of the Mongols for sheer savagery. Timur's career was unequalled since...
Osprey Publishing, 1990. — 48 p. The specialist troops of the Austrian forces helped to secure Austria's reputation as the most formidable of Napoleon's continental enemies. Due largely to the efforts of Prince Liechtenstein, by the late 18th century the Austrian artillery had been the finest in Europe, and was held up as an example to the world. This text examines the famed...
Osprey Publishing, 1990. — 48 p. Due to the spread of British strategic and commercial interests during the Victorian period, the British military was called upon to serve in theatres across the world. Some of the fighting was severe; it took nearly 30 years of intermittent warfare to suppress Maori opposition to settler expansion in New Zealand. In other areas it amounted to...
Osprey Publishing, 1990. — 48 p. During the middle years of the Second World War the Royal Air Force constituted the only section of the British armed forces in Europe which was routinely on the offensive. Its aircraft and operations have been voluminously dealt with by historians; but its uniform and flying clothing have received only moderate attention. In this fine addition...
Osprey Publishing, 1990. — 48 p. Typically the United States is said to have declared war on Great Britain in 1812 because of the Royal Navy's impressment of American seamen and the British desire to create an Indian buffer state. An Englishman William Cobbett, described the real cause of the conflict: 'There seemed to be wanting just such a war as this to complete the...
Osprey Publishing, 1990. — 48 p. Napoleon has often been considered to misunderstand the navy. Being an artillery officer, he was given to precise calculations and never quite accepted that the wind was more important to ships than his orders. However, thanks to the Emperor's pragmatic measures during 1800-1801, the French navy emerged from chaos for the first time in over a...
Osprey Publishing, 1990. — 48 p. The Woodland cultural areas of the eastern half of America has been the most important in shaping its history. This volume details the history, culture and conflicts of the 'Woodland' Indians, a name assigned to all the tribes living east of the Mississippi River between the Gulf of Mexico and James Bay, including the Siouans, Iroquians, and...
Osprey Publishing Ltd, 1990. — 50 p. — (Men-at-Arms 229). Language: English. Hermann Göring raised the Luftwaffe Field Divisions [LwFD] during 1942, when Nazi Germany was still making spectacular gains but was first feeling the pinch of its losses on the Eastern Front. The Reichsmarschall decided to raise his own divisions for ground service under the command of Luftwaffe officers.
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1992. — 48 p. — ISBN: 1-85532-224-2. Although the Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman Empire and faced similar military problems, its solutions were very different. In North Africa, for example, Rome's large army concentrated on securing main roads and urban centres. Byzantium's smaller army built more fortifications and took a defensive stance....
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing Ltd, 1992. — ISBN: 1-85532-227-7 This fascinating book examines the history, organization and equipment of the Argentine forces that battled for control of this remote British outpost.
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1992. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1992. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1992. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1992. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1992. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1992. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1992. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1992. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1992. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1993. — 48 p. — ISBN10: 1855323443 / ISBN13: 978-1855323445. Babur, the founder of the Mughul dynasty, was of Turco-Mongol origin - he was descended from Timur-i-Lenk [Tamerlane] on his father's side and Genghiz Khan on his mother's. His first raid into India in 1516 was followed by several others, and by the time of his death in 1530 Babur's troops had...
London: Osprey Publishing, 1993. — 51 p. By the time of his death in 1725 Peter the Great had placed Russia among the foremost European powers, and had created a military system that has infuenced the European balance of power until the present day. In this companion volume to Men-at-Arms 260, Peter the Great's Army 1: Infantry, Angus Konstam discusses Tsar Peter's cavalry,...
Osprey Publishing, 1993. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1993. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1993. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1993. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1993. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1993. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1993. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1993. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1993. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1993. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1993. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1993. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1994. — 48 p. On 24 April 1877 Tsar Alexander II declared war on the Ottoman Empire. The Sultan had a battle-hardened army ready for war. For the Tsar, this was to be the first major conflict since the abolition of serfdom and the creation of a German-style military reserve system. Ian Drury details the campaigns fought in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, and...
Osprey Publishing, 1995. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Illustrator: Angus McBride — Osprey Publishing, 1995. — 48 p. From the 13th century until early in the 17th century the Border Marches of England and Scotland were torn by a vicious and almost continuous cycle of raid, reprisal and blood feud. The Border Reiver was a professional cattle thief, a guerilla soldier skilled at raiding, tracking and ambush and a well organised...
Osprey Publishing, 1995. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1995. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1995. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1995. — 48 p. The early Romans were only one of a number of peoples that inhabited Iron Age central Italy. From the 8th to the 3rd century BC, the Romans undertook territorial expansion, and conflict with neighbouring tribes and cultures resulted in open war, most notably with the Samnites. Alliances sprang were created too but the rise of Rome was...
Osprey Publishing, 1995. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1995. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1995. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1995. — 45 p. — ISBN: 1-85532-347-8. The Byzantine Empire's disastrous defeat by the Seljuk Turks at Manzikert in 1071 effectively marked the end of what is often described as the 'middle' period of Byzantine history. Thereafter, surrounded on all sides by younger, more vigorous nations, the once all-powerful Empire slipped into a steady decline which,...
Osprey Publishing, 1995. — 48 p. The southeastern people were the descendants of ancient prehistoric Indian cultures, and were probably on the decline when first known to Europeans. Despite being poorly reported in popular histories, they have been well described by several early European traders and by a number of well-known American ethnologists who collected details of...
Osprey Publishing, 1995. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1995. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1995. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1995. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1995. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1995. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1995. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1995. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
London: Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. This first of two volumes covers the Russian infantry, with its companion, Men-at-Arms 298, focusing on the cavalry. During the long and costly conflict known as the Great Northern War [1700-1721], Peter the Great and his newly formed Russian army, which was modelled on western European lines, defeated their Swedish counterparts, who...
London: Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. This second volume by Angus Konstam on the Russian Army of the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) concentrates on the cavalry, both the regular troops and irregular forces, considering their composition, nature and effectiveness. It also outlines the state of the Russian train of artillery, which was seen as the premier branch of the army and...
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. In medieval Germany violence was accepted far more than in other kingdoms. Kings were recognised as guardians of order, but this had its limitations. Lords expected to use force to secure their rights or win an argument when peaceful methods were not sufficient. Christopher Gravett does a fine job of examining the organisation and campaigns of...
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Illustrations by Graham Turner — Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. This book details the English army that Henry V led back into France in 1417 to conquer Normandy and again take the war to the French. In 1422 Henry died, and was succeeded by the nine-month-old Henry VI: by 1429 English fortunes were in decline, but more than 20 years of warfare would pass before the English...
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. A series of books on the history, organization, appearance and equipment of famous warriors past and present, as well as other aspects of military history.
Osprey Publishing, 1996. — 48 p. The 8th century heralded the start of a golden age in the history of the Islamic world. At this time, the Sunni Muslim 'Abbãsid Caliphate, with its capital at Baghdad, ruled virtually the entire Islamic world. Islamic military power peaked in the 9th century, but by the end of this golden age in the 11th century, the 'Abbãsid Caliphs had little...
Osprey Publishing, 1998. — 47 p. — ISBN: 9781855327634. In this first of three volumes, examines the organisation and uniforms of the Spanish Army of the Napoleonic Wars.
Osprey Publishing, 1998. — 49 p. — ISBN: 1855327899. In March 1945 the Japanese interned all French troops and officials, and turned over all civil government to local authorities. The power vacuum caused by the Japanese surrender allowed the Viet Minh, a strong revolutionary organisation, to be established throughout Vietnam. When the French returned to the north, incidents...
Osprey Publishing, 1999. — 48 p. — ISBN: 1855328013. This book examines the Line infantry, Grenz infantry (Border troops) and Jägers (riflemen) that formed the Austrian infantry.
Osprey Publishing, 1999. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1855327627. Despite the fact that it was events on the North-West Frontier which perennially awed and captivated Victorian audiences, British India's North-East Frontier saw at least as much military activity. Even the heroid 11-day defence of the isolated outpost of Kohima against overwhelming odds - fewer than 200 British-officered...
Osprey Publishing, 1999. — 49 p. — ISBN: 1855327619. A comprehensive battle history of the Legion on the Western Front 1914-18, the colonial campaigns in Morocco, Syria and Indochina, the Battle of France and campaign in Tunisia.
Osprey Publishing, 1999. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781855327955. Operation Barbarossa, the attack on the Soviet Union, commenced on 22 June 1941. This title examines the history of the conflict, and the organisation, uniforms and insignia of the German Army on the Eastern Front from 1941-43.
Osprey Publishing, 1999. — 51 p. — ISBN: 9781855328525. This book describes the organization of this formidable force from 1917-18 and details their uniforms, insignia and decorations, weapons and equipment.
Osprey Publishing, 1999. — 50 p. — ISBN: 978185532766X. This text examines the organisation, uniforms and insignia of the Émigré troops in British service from 1793 to 1802.
Osprey Publishing, 1999. — 49 p. — ISBN: 9781855328006. The Imperial and Royal Army was representative of the Empire, its composition and gorgeously complex uniforms echoing the historical traditions of both German-speaking Middle Europe and the East-facing Hungarian borderlands. This detailed analysis of its cavalry arm - Kurassiers, Dragoons, Chevauxlegers, Hussars and Uhlans.
Osprey Publishing, 1999. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781855327962. In this fourth title of their sequence author and artist describe and illustrate the developments in unit organization, uniforms and equipment during 1943-45, including information on European and Eastern volunteer units; text and illustrations are supported by detailed tables.
Osprey Publishing, 1999. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781855327651. The second of three volumes, this book examines the history, uniforms and equipment of the Spanish Army who, with the help of guerrillas and 'armed peasantry', stood up to Napoleon's Grand Army against all odds.
Osprey Publishing, 1999. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781855328488. By the time of the Mongol invasions of the 12th century the small enclaves of the old pagan Rus', tolerated by the Khazar Khans for their commercial usefulness, had evolved into a Christian nation. Its story is told here in fascinating detail, and illustrated with striking colour reconstructions of the warriors themselves.
Osprey Publishing, 1999. — 47 p. — ISBN: 9781855327641. This volume - covering the final years of the Peninsular War and the long trek over the Pyrenees into France - concludes the author's remarkable in-depth study of the army that fought alongside Wellington's redcoats throughout the Peninsular War.
Osprey Publishing, 2000. — 51 p. — ISBN: 9781855328593. The author describes often for the first time in an English language publication the part played by their successors during the crucial years of the Napoleonic Wars. He covers not only relatively well-recorded units, such as Roll's, Meuron's and Watteville's Swiss corps, but also the unjustly neglected Italians, Corsicans...
Osprey Publishing, 2000. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781855327979. This book covers the high command, the developments in unit organisation, the campaigns and the uniforms and equipment of the German Army in the last two years of the war in North-West Europe and Italy.
Osprey Publishing, 2000. — 51 p. — ISBN: 9781855327104. This book details how the French began a recovery, partly triggered by the young visionary Joan of Arc, that would end with them as the major European military power.
Osprey Publishing, 2000. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781855329966. The Legion represented about 20% of Wellington's fighting strength and distinguished itself in all the major actions, including their famous charge at Garcia Hernandez during the Salamanca campaign.
Osprey Publishing, 2000. — 48 p. — ISBN: 9781855329972. This title is the completion of a two-part study of the King's German Legion - the largest and most respected of the foreign corps which fought as integrated elements of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars.
Osprey Publishing, 2000. — 50 p. — ISBN: 978185532864X. In this, the first of a three-part study, covers the European theatre including Russia from 1940 to Italy's armistice with the Allies in 1943.
Osprey Publishing, 2000. — 51 p. — ISBN: 9781841760013. This first in a two-part study describes and illustrates, in unprecedented detail, the uniforms of the RFC and RNAS in 1914-18-20.
Osprey Publishing, 2000. — 51 p. — ISBN: 9781855329959. This first of three titles describes the organisation, uniforms and equipment of the US Army in the CBI and the Central and South-West Pacific from 1941 to 1945.
Osprey Publishing, 2000. — 46 p. — ISBN: 9781855327672. Most know that Wellington's Portuguese troops were praised as the 'fighting cocks' of his army; fewer appreciate that they represented between half and one-third of his entire forces.
Osprey Publishing, 2000. — 50 p. The horse culture of the tribes of the High Plains of North America lasted only some 170 years; yet in that time the sub-tribes of the Teton or Western Sioux people imprinted a vivid image on the world’s imagination by their fearless but doomed fight to protect their hunting grounds from the inevitable spread of the white man. This text outlines...
Osprey Publishing, 2000. — 52 p. — ISBN: 978184176051X. The War of 1812 was the true making of the regular regiments and corps of the US Army. Three years' fighting against Britain saw the White House burned down, but also the bloody repulse of the redcoats, then the best infantry in the world, on a number of battlefields.
Osprey Publishing, 2000. — 51 p. — ISBN: 9781855329816. This second volume covers the light infantry, cavalry, specialist corps and several supporting military and civilian departments.
Osprey Publishing, 2000. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781841760858. It was the Mediterranean theatre which saw the blooding of the US Army against the German Wehrmacht, in North Africa in winter 1943/44. After this rough education the US forces pressed on to Sicily, the South of France and the Italian mainland. Here, faced by difficult terrain , they and their British Commonwealth allies...
Osprey Publishing, 2001. — 47 p. — ISBN: 9781855329646. The Arab and Berber conquest was followed by the establishment of a richly distinct culture in Andalusia, where for a while Muslim and Christian co-operated as often as they fought. The rise and fall of successive Islamic dynasties brought new invaders, fragmentation and disunity; and the growing Christian kingdoms to the...
Osprey Publishing, 2001. — 51 p. — ISBN: 9781855328658. In this second book of a three-part study covers the organisation, uniforms and insignia of the Italian troops committed to both the North African campaign, and the often neglected East African fighting of 1940-41, including the colourful colonial units.
Osprey Publishing, 2001. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781841760865. This title describes both combat and service uniforms worn in the ETO, from the assault troops on the D-Day beaches to bemedalled veterans celebrating VE-Day; other subjects covered include artillery, tanks, anti-tank weapons, the engineers, the replacement system; and the insignia of the divisions committed to this front.
Osprey Publishing, 2001. — 51 p. — ISBN: 9781841760021. This second in a two-part study covers RAF, WRAF and RAFNS uniforms from the unification of the service in April 1918; and the whole span of flying clothing during the Great War.
Osprey Publishing, 2001. — 48 p. — ISBN: 9781841760870. Study of a dramatic and confused period in American military history - the years of St Clair's disaster, 'Mad Anthony' Wayne's victory at Fallen Timbers, and Harrison's at Tippecanoe
Osprey Publishing, 2001. — 49 p. — ISBN: 9781855328666. Immediately after the Allied invasion of Italy in September 1943, Mussolini was deposed and the new Italian government switched sides. The German occupying forces swiftly freed Il Duce and ruthlessly disarmed the Italian Army; and from then until the end of the war in April 1945 Italian troops fought on both sides with the...
Osprey Publishing, 2001. — 49 p. — ISBN: 9781855328666. This first book of three describes the uniforms developed for European service. It traces the appearance of the 'Tommy' from pre-war mobilization, through the years of defeat and endurance, to D-Day and the long fighting advance to Northern Germany. The book also includes a campaign summary, infantry organization tables,...
Osprey Publishing, 2001. — 49 p. — ISBN: 9781841761583. The organisation, uniforms, and battle record of the Belgian units are explained here in detail.
Osprey Publishing, 2001. — 51 p. — ISBN: 978184176194X. This book offers a concise account of these complex campaigns, the organisation, orders of battle, and the uniforms and insignia of the armies involved: Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman, Serbian, Montenegrin, Albanian, British, French, Italian, Russian, Bulgarian, Greek and Rumanian.
Osprey Publishing, 2001. — 52 p. — ISBN: 9781841760536. The contribution of women to the Allied war effort in 1939-45 was massive. Apart from their many vital roles 'on the home front', about a million Soviet, 500,000 British and 200,000 American women, and tens of thousands from other Allied nations, served in uniform with the armed forces. This book gives a concise...
Osprey Publishing, 2001. — 52 p. — ISBN: 9781841761575. This third volume covers the artillery, militia, Ordenanza, volunteers, troops in the off-shore colonies, navy, and decorations.
Osprey Publishing, 2001. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781841763020. Canadians fought with tragic courage at Hong Kong and Dieppe; with growing strength and confidence in Sicily, Italy and Normandy; and finally provided an entire Army for the liberation of NW Europe.
Osprey Publishing, 2001. — 51 p. — ISBN: 9781841763292. Skilled horsemen, masters of light infantry fighting in broken terrain, and renowned for their ferocity, the Thracians were feared by even the greatest of their contemporaries, who were eager to employ them as mercenaries. After surviving invasions by the Persians, Greeks, Macedonians and Celts, the Thracians were finally...
Osprey Publishing, 2001. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781841763233. The Army and Waffen-SS cavalry proved their worth on the Russian Front, supported by other Axis cavalry contingents - Romanian, Hungarian, Italian, and locally recruited. In this book an experienced horseman describes that last generation of horse-soldiers in a text supported by tables, photographs, and meticulous colour...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 49 p. — ISBN: 9781841763535. This first of two titles covers the organisation, equipment, uniforms and character of Japanese ground forces in the Chinese and early Pacific campaigns.
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781841761930. The Baltic nations - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - enjoyed a brief independence between the World Wars before being annexed by the USSR in 1940. The grim experience of Soviet occupation made it inevitable that after the German invasion of Russia in 1941 they would fight beside the Wehrmacht as allies against the Red Army...
London: Osprey Publishing, 2001. — 49 p. Often overshadowed by the drama of its catastrophic collapse in the November 1917 Revolution, the Imperial Russian Army's record in 1914-16 included some notable victories. Its human qualities of patriotism and endurance were remarkable, and in 1916 the 'Brusilov Offensive' on the South-Western Front outdistanced anything that was being...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781841763527. While the Wehrmacht displayed fewer unit insignia than the Allies, a glance at a German soldier's tunic could reveal much more about his actual combat experience. In this book an experienced researcher explains and illustrates the Battle and Assault Badges of the Army, Waffen-SS and Luftwaffe ground troops; the sleeve...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 51 p. — ISBN: 9781841763241. This first of a fascinating three-part study includes a general introduction and chronology, and chapters on Crown troops in North America; and begins a colony-by-colony review of militias and provincial units.
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 47 p. After disastrous defeats at the hands of the Mongols in the 13th century, the Russian principalities became vassals of the Khans of the Golden Horde for more than 200 years; and at the same time the western princes faced the German crusaders of the Teutonic Order. Remarkably, Russia responded with a new surge of military vigour. Eventually,...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 51 p. — ISBN: 9781841762371. The scope of Britain's wartime Middle East Command stretched far beyond the Libyan desert where the 8th Army's most famous battles were fought - from Gibraltar and Tunisia in the west, to Iraq and Persia in the east, and from Greece south to the Gulf of Aden. In 1940-43 this was the only arena where the British Army could...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781841763543. In this second book the author describes the deployments, organisation, uniforms and equipment of the Army - including the dreaded Kempei-tai military police - the naval infantry, paratroopers, special raiding units, and foreign auxiliaries during the long and savage war in Burma and the Pacific.
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781841761850. The great majority of the nurses who cared for Allied casualties were 'civilians in uniform', who worked tirelessly under difficult conditions and - in tented hospitals close to the front lines - in real danger; many nurses paid for their devotion with their lives.
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 46 p. — ISBN: 9781841763934. In this book the history, organisation, uniforms and battle record of the Dutch units of this army are explained.
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 49 p. — ISBN: 1410901181. This second of a fascinating three-part study covers the militias and provincial troops raised in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, New York and New Jersey.
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 47 p. — ISBN: 184176485X. The Sarmatians - one of the many nomadic groups to emerge from the great Eurasian Steppe - crossed the Don in about the 3rd century BC to displace their western neighbours, the Scythians, in the lands north of the Black Sea. Later they burst into Asia Minor and Rome's Danube provinces, becoming famous for the prowess of their...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 48 p. — ISBN: 9781841764870. The armour and weapons of Rome's legionaries and auxiliaries have been the subject of intense research and speculation, and much has been published - but almost nothing on the actual clothing of Imperial soldiers. In this first part of a rigorous study of the literary, sculptural, pictorial and archaeological evidence, a...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1841762388. The 'forgotten' 14th Army on the India-Burma border slowly built up its strength and its tactical expertise; and Wingate's 'Chindits' proved that units supplied from the air could operate deep behind enemy lines. In 1944 General Slim's troops decisively smashed Japan's last offensive at Imphal and Kohima; and over the next...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 46 p. — ISBN: 1841763225. This fragmented, cosmopolitan region, increasingly rich from international trade, saw the rise of independent cities able to fund armies of urban militia, sometimes defying the traditional feudal aristocracy. Against this background regional powers - the Normans, the Papacy, the German Emperors, the Angevins and Aragonese -...
Osprey publishing, 2001. — 49 p. - (Osprey Men-at-Arms). English language, Uniforms, insignia, orders and medals, history and organization of aviation of the 3rd Reich. Many rare photographs of historical figures and German aviation aces.
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 48 p. — ISBN: 1841764883. Recruited from the leading social classes, uniformed and equipped at their own expense, and accompanied by servants to take care of such unpleasant chores as stable duty, these men were promised commissions as officers after a year's service in the ranks. The story of their organisation, uniforms and service is researched...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1841764892. One of the least-published campaigns of the Great War was that fought in East Africa by forces of colonial troops - British Empire, Belgian, Portuguese and German. Short of resources, many European, African and Indian soldiers recorded epics of endurance as they hunted the outnumbered but brilliantly led German colonial...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 50 p. In World War II a number of German Army units and divisions were classed as élites, and were distinguished by special insignia of various kinds. For some this status was simply a matter of lineage - e.g. the Infantry Regiment 'List', which traced its identity to the Bavarian unit with which Hitler had served in World War I. Some, like the...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841763446. This concise study, covers the staff; the reforms in tactical employment of all-arms brigades; the artillery and other technical troops; and regimental colours and standards.
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1841764027. This book details the record, and illustrates the uniforms and equipment, of the two cavalry and three infantry units boasting formal Irish identity: the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards, 18th Hussars, 27th (Enniskillen), 87th (Prince of Wales's Own Irish), and 88th (Connaught Rangers) Regiments of Foot.
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841764833. This book of a fascinating three-part study covers the militias and provincial troops raised in the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Georgia, Nova Scotia, Hudson's Bay and Quebec Province; and also Rangers, and colors and standards.
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 49 p. — ISBN: 1841765074. In the 1520s, a brief but savage war broke out in Germany when various insurgent groups rose to overthrow the power structure. This book details the armies, tactics, costume, weapons, personalities and events of this savage war.
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1841764061. This élite unit was steadily enlarged into a brigade, then an armoured division, and finally into a two-division corps, fighting with distinction in Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, and on the Russian Front.
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841764863. This concise account of America's first world class army, its organization, uniforms, weapons and character.
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1841763989. This concise study describes and illustrates the Italian Army's campaigns, organisation, uniforms, weapons and equipment - including the famous 'death companies' and Arditi assault troops.
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 49 p. — ISBN: 1841764849. Concise study of their organisation, uniforms, weapons, and campaign service covers a far wider range of units than ever previously published.
Osprey Publishing, 2003 — 48 p. — ISBN: 1-84176508-2 The legendary Dutch 'Red' Lancers - the 2nd Light Horse Lancers of Napoleon's Imperial Guard - were formed in 1810 after the emperor annexed Holland and its army to France. The former hussars of the Dutch Royal Guard got a handsome new uniform, a new weapon, and a hard-driving new colonel in Baron Edouard Colbert. His lancers...
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 48 p. — ISBN: 9781841765594. The armour and weapons of the Roman army have long been the subject of intense research and speculation. While much has been published on their arms and armour, however, the actual clothing of Imperial soldiers has largely been overlooked. In this second part of a rigorous study of the literary, sculptural, pictorial and...
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1841763993. This book explains and illustrates the uniform, equipment and organization of the British Army up to the end of the battle of the Somme.
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1841765945. The first half of the story of this complex multi-national organization at war is described here in a concise but detailed text, supported by data tables and an insignia chart.
Osprey Publishing, 2003. 50 p. ISBN: 1841764078. The demands of a prolonged war did see German women in a range of uniforms as auxiliaries with the Army, Navy, Air Force and SS, particularly in the signals and air defence services. This unique book explains and illustrates these organisations and their uniforms and insignia, as well as Red Cross nurses, and auxiliaries of the...
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1841765655. In August 1914 the mobilization of Imperial Germany's 800,000-strong army ushered in the first great war of the modern age - a war which still stands as the greatest slaughter of soldiers in history. That German Army is also the best example of a particular period of military thought, when virtually the whole manpower of the...
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1841764906. The Five (later Six) Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy were central to the story of the white colonization of the American Northeast. The European fur trade transformed their world, and the struggles between English and French colonists forced the tribes to take sides. Sir William Johnson's efforts in the Mohawk Valley...
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1841765058. This book explains the special nature of Scandinavian armies, shaped by the relative weakness of kings and aristocrats, and the contrasts between the separate nations of the North.
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 49 p. — ISBN: 1841765952. This second volume describes this complex organisation from the accession of Emperor Karl I in November 1916, through the victory of Caporetto and failure of the Piave offensive, to the final Armistice.
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841765937. Taking arms initially to fight for the restoration of the liberal Mexican constitution of 1824, the volunteers were eventually fighting for outright Texan independence. This book describes and illustrates the group of men who, despite the diversity of their origins, equipment, weaponry and dress, were united in a common cause...
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1841765066. This second of two books covers the period which saw both expansion in the Baltic, and long wars born of the attempt to bring Scandinavia under a single monarchy - the Union of Kalmar.
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1841765066. The regiments of the Light Division were self-consciously an élite, trained to fight with initiative and independence on the exposed edges of the marching army. This book explains their evolution and tactics, details the campaigns in which they fought and illustrates the uniforms and equipment of the Light Infantry regiments:...
Osprey Publishing, 2003. 50 p. ISBN: 1841765891. This first of four Men-at-Arms titles details the organisation, uniforms and insignia of the Waffen-SS.
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841764000. In 1917 and 1918, the vastly expanded British Expeditionary Force became the most effective of all the combatant armies in France, its improved weapons and tactics forged in the furnaces of the Somme and the Ypres Salient. Shaken but resilient under Germany's last desperate offensive in spring 1918, it swept forward to final...
Osprey Publishing, 2004. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841766607. This book describes the stages of the rebirth that produced an army capable of beating off half the monarchies of Europe, thus laying the foundations for Napoleon's unique victories ten years later.
Osprey Publishing, 2004. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841765907. The divisions covered in this second of four titles include the first mountain and cavalry units, and two of the remarkable new Panzer divisions raised in the great 1943 expansion.
Osprey Publishing, 2005. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841767093. The two privileged regiments of Carabiniers survived the French Revolution with their elite status intact. They covered themselves with glory at Austerlitz, Friedland, Ratisbonne and Wagram - where their bloody losses shocked Napoleon into ordering them new helmets and cuirasses. Re-formed after near annihilation in Russia in...
Osprey Publishing, 2005. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841764019. This last of our series of three titles describes these far-flung campaigns, in Italy, the Balkans, the Middle East, several parts of Africa, Russia, China, and even the North-West Frontier of India.
Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2004. — 48 p. Colour plates by Ramiro Bujeiro. ISBN: 1-84176-566-10. The years 1915 – 1917 saw the Imperial German Army forced to adapt to the new realities of static trench warfare. Prewar uniforms and equipment had to be modified, for both utility and economy; on battlefields ruled by machine guns and artillery the steel helmet reappeared, as well as...
Osprey Publishing, 2004. — 48 p. The battle which took place on the Little Bighorn river on June 25, 1876 has passed into legend as "Custer's Last Stand”. This remarkable book is a unique analysis of the oral and pictorial evidence for the appearance of nearly 30 named Sioux and Cheyenne warriors who were present that day, and for their parts in the battle. The fruit of many...
Osprey Publishing, 2004. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841766658. For two decades the largely peasant Hussite armies successfully defied a series of international 'crusades'; they owed many of their victories to the charismatic general Jan Zizka, and his novel tactical methods based on the use of 'war wagons'.
Osprey Publishing, 2004. — 51 p. — ISBN: 184176700X. South-east Europe is one of the most neglected fronts of the Napoleonic Wars; yet on the coast of the Adriatic Sea - broadly, former Western Yugoslavia and the Ionian Islands - France struggled to hold a vital strategic outpost dominating Austrian and Russian access to the Mediterranean.
Osprey Publishing, 2005. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841767786. The prowess of the lion-hunting Masai deterred all foreign penetration for most of the 19th century; the Ngoni, driven north by the Zulu, revolutionized warfare in the region; the HeHe put up fierce resistance to German colonisers; the Ruga-Ruga produced two formidable warlords and adorned themselves with bloody trophies; the...
Unofficial (?) Ukrainian translation. — From the original: Osprey Publishing, 2004. — 48 p. The book was written by the American historian P. Abbott and the Ukrainian historian E. Pinak, as part of the American series “Men-at-Arms” (a series dedicated to uniforms, equipment and organization of the army and military uniforms of various peoples of the world) speaks about the...
Osprey Publishing, 2004. — 51 p. There can be no region in Europe whose history has been more tortured than Ukraine. During the 20th century Austria, Poland, Russia, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Romania vied for power over parts of this vast and fragmented area; and its divided peoples rose time and again in vain attempts to win their independence. For the first time in...
Osprey Publishing, 2005. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1841767018. Austria's Balkan frontier - the disputed borderland between Europe and the Ottoman Turks - was defended in the 18th century by a unique organization of hardy communities who were granted farmland in return for armed service. These Grenzers, masters of guerrilla warfare, were later incorporated into Austria's regular forces,...
Osprey Publishing, 2004. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841767085. The Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria was the first 20th century conflict fought between the regular armies of major powers, employing the most modern means - machine guns, trench warfare, minefields and telephone communications; and the battle of Mukden in March 1905 was the largest clash of armies in world history up to that...
Osprey Publishing, 2004. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841765914. The mid-war divisions covered in this third title represent that range, from some of the most effective German and Western European volunteer formations - e.g. the 12. SS-Pz Div 'Hitlerjugend', and the Scandinavians and Dutchmen of the 11. 'Nordland' and 23. 'Nederland' divisions - to the Bosnian Muslims of the anti-partisan...
Osprey Publishing, 2004. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841767549. This, the first of two titles, lists and illustrates the units of Prussia and her North German Confederation, the powerhouse of a formidable military machine.
Osprey Publishing, 2004. — 49 p. — ISBN: 1841767420. Ireland's freedom to seek examples and equipment worldwide has created an interesting progression of uniforms, illustrated in this study of Ireland's forces over 80 years.
Osprey Publishing, 2005. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1841767417. This fascinating text describes the ways of life, in peace and war, of the coastal and inland peoples of this region.
Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2004. — 51 p. Colour plates by Ramiro Bujeiro. ISBN: 1-84176-567-8. This third volume of a mini-series covering the German forces in World War I examines the troops that fought during the climax of the war on all fronts: the last great battles of attrition in the West (Arras, Messines, 3 rd Ypres and Cambrai, 1917) and the collapse of Russia in the East....
Osprey Publishing, 2004. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1841765921. In 1944-45 the Waffen-SS formed many nominal 'divisions' from a motley range of sources, whose battlefield value was as varied as their backgrounds. The best were built around existing Western European volunteer regiments; some, raised from Central Europeans and Russians, were strong in numbers but weak in morale; some were...
Osprey Publishing, 2005. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841767778. Unifying the feudal rulers under his authority, the conquering Maharaja Ranjit Singh pursued campaigns of expansion for nearly 40 years, creating for the purpose a new regular army on the Western model. His death in 1839 found the frontiers of Sikh and British power in confrontation; in the 1840s the inevitable trial of...
Osprey Publishing, 2005. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841767550. This book lists and illustrates the organization and varied uniforms of all these allied contingents, most of which fought well when it came to the test of battle.
Osprey Publishing, 2005. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841768499. The common image of the Confederate Army during the Civil War (1861-1865) is dominated by a limited number of early photographs of soldiers wearing the gray and butternut associated with the CS regulations and quartermaster issues. This sequence of books examines a much wider field: the original uniforms of the state militia...
Osprey Publishing, 2005. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841769045. By the time that the Sino-Japanese War became absorbed into the wider conflict at the end of 1941, Chinese armies had already suffered huge casualties and half the country had been lost. By fighting on with Allied support, China tied down a million Japanese troops. After Japan's defeat in 1945, China was immediately plunged...
Osprey Publishing, 2005. — 48 p. — ISBN: 9781841768434. This book is the concluding part of a rigorous study of theliterary, sculptural, pictorial and archaeological evidence for Roman military clothing, covering the last days of the Western Empire, and the much longer record of the Eastern, in the 5th to 7th centuries. The evidence from this enormously colourful period - when...
Osprey Publishing, 2005. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841768502. The common image of the Confederate Army during the Civil War (1861-1865) is dominated by a limited number of early photographs of officers and men wearing the gray and butternut associated with the CS regulations and quartermaster issues. This sequence of books examines a much wider field: the original uniforms of the state...
Osprey, 1994. 51 p. The Army of Ivan the Terrible. The 17th century. New threats, new horizons. 17th-century military organization. Fortification. Russia's frontiers.
Osprey Publishing, 2006. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841769371. This book offers a detailed introduction to the tribes of the New England region - the first native American peoples affected by contact with the French and English colonists.
Osprey Publishing, 2006. — 51 p. — ISBN: 184176955X. The most exotic of all the troops of Napoleon's Imperial Guard were undoubtedly the Mamelukes - the bodyguard of Oriental cavalry which followed him home after the Egyptian expedition of 1798-1801, and remained with his Mounted Chasseurs regiment throughout the First Empire.
Osprey Publishing, 2006. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1846030315. The common image of the Confederate Army during the Civil War (1861-1865) is dominated by a limited number of early photographs of officers and men wearing the gray and butternut associated with the CS regulations and quartermaster issues. This sequence of books examines a much wider field: the original uniforms of the state...
Osprey Publishing, 2006. — 51 p. — ISBN: 184603048X. This 'secret war' saw the perfection of SAS jungle tactics and audacious secret missions deep inside enemy territory, including the award to a Gurkha soldier of the British Army's only 'living VC' for 40 years.
Osprey Publishing, 2006. — 49 p. — ISBN: 1846031007. The Imperial Japanese Navy's Special Landing Force units enjoyed a reputation out of proportion to their small size. Often wrongly termed "Imperial Marines”, they were in fact sailors led by Naval officers, and traced their origins directly to landing parties from warships.
Osprey Publishing, 2006. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841769568. Driven out of Germany after his defeat at Leipzig in 1813, Napoleon seemed to face disaster. Some 345,000 Allied troops were converging on France from the east; and Napoleon had only about 80,000 men. Most of his veterans had been killed in Russia and Germany, and he was short of cavalry to counter the swarms of Cossacks. For...
Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2006. — ISBN10: 1-84603-068-4. The wartime Police were headed by Himmler as chief of the SS; and throughout the occupied nations the regional SS commanders were specifically termed 'Higher SS and Police Leaders'. Hitler's police was not a single service, but a vast machinery which included many special categories ranging from conventional criminal...
Osprey Publishing, 2006. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1846030323. Despite modern perceptions of the overwhelming image of Confederate soldiers dressed in their classic battledress gray, the Southern states of the Confederacy fielded many units of volunteer troops wearing a remarkably wide variety of uniforms, often reflecting foreign influences. In a spirit of independence many states also...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841769882. This book describes and illustrates the armour, weapons, fortifications and ships of one of the least-known phases of the Medieval Crusades - the expeditions by Scandinavian Catholics against the pagan peoples to the east of the Baltic Sea, and their subsequent clashes with the Eastern Orthodox Russian princes of Novgorod and...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1846031243. This book details the uniforms and weapons of the American, Spanish, Cuban and Filipino forces involved in the United States Army's first overseas war.
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1841769059. This narrative presents an illustrated history of these critical but overlooked soldiers of the Indian Wars, culminating in the eventual "closing" of the American Frontier in 1890 and the final conquest of the indigenous inhabitants of North America.
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1846031861. This book describes the organization, lists the units and illustrates the uniforms and equipment of the four Canadian divisions which earned an elite reputation on the Western Front in 1915-18.
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1846032561. This book draws on original regimental records to give by far the most detailed account ever published in English of the organization and personalities of the most renowned of the foreign units that served in the Emperor's armies.
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1846031877. The common image of the Confederate Army during the Civil War (1861-1865) is dominated by a limited number of early photographs of troops wearing the grey and butternut of the CS regulations and quartermaster issues. By contrast, this book examines the variety of uniforms worn by the Tennessee and North Carolina militia and...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1846032233. This book traces and explains the identity and appearance of the individual regiments throughout Queen Victoria's reign, illustrating a wide variety of their home service uniforms with engravings, paintings, photographs, and full colour plates specially researched and prepared for this tribute to a unique military tradition.
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1846032066. Herod was Rome's most important and powerful ally at the end of the Republic. Comprised of both Judaean and mercenary soldiers with troops from the Germanic tribes to Parthians to Romans. As a result of this varied composition it showed both strong Hellenistic influence in its armour and cavalry and Roman influence in its use...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1846032578. A concise history of the hand-picked elite cavalry guard that served as Napoleon's close personal escort and were committed to the most dangerous areas of combat on the battlefield.
Osprey Publishing Limited, 2008. — 48 p. The history of Poland is a fascinating study of a people struggling to achieve nationhood in the face of internal and external enemies. Poland became a unified Christian state in AD 966 and by the 12th century a knightly class had emerged - a force that was integral to the defense of Poland against increasingly frequent foreign...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1846031885. Despite the overwhelming image of Confederate soldiers dressed in their drab butternut and gray, the Southern states which formed the Confederacy in 1861 fielded many units of volunteer troops wearing a remarkably wide variety of uniforms, often reflecting foreign influences. In a spirit of independence many states issued...
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1846032363. The Czech Legion was not just a single military unit, but a volunteer army that fielded up to 100,000 troops on the Allied side on all three main fronts of the war.
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1846033261. This book provides a brief overview of the history of the units on each side of the conflict and a comprehensive survey of all Irish-American units in both Union and Confederate armies, from brigade down to company size.
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1846033247. Deployed in Ukraine at the beginning of the war, the Hungarian Army was involved in a number of brutal encounters with the Red Army, including stubborn resistance in Transylvania in the summer of 1944, and the brave defense of Budapest in the face of overwhelming odds.
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1846033148. This book examines in much more depth than previously the units and the uniforms of a still-controversial army: the many thousands of American colonists who chose to fight for King George during the Revolution.
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 51 p. — ISBN: 1846033179. This book provides a detailed re-evaluation of the vital contribution made by the Roman navy to Roman imperial power, covering the organisation of the fleets and the everyday life of the soldiers.
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1846034480. The plucky Belgian resistance proved successful in buying time for French and British troops to mobilize and report to the front, where the Belgians would then go on to fight, stubbornly defending the northern end of the Allied trench line for the rest of the war. Discover the story of this determined Army, from their...
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 52 p. Contrary to popular belief, the capture of India was not accomplished by the British Army, but by the private armies of the East India Company, which grew in size to become larger than that of any European sovereign state. This is the history of its army, examining the many conflicts they fought, their equipment and training, with its regiments...
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1846034602. Contrary to popular belief, the capture of India was not accomplished by the British Army, but by the private armies of the East India Company, which grew in size to become larger than that of any European sovereign state. This is the history of its army, examining the many conflicts they fought, their equipment and training,...
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 48 p. The Seminole of Florida were one of five so-called 'Civilized Tribes' who for many years lived in peace with the settlers. However, by 1815, frontier Americans had grown increasingly envious of their relative wealth and land, and resentful of their harbouring of former slaves. This book reveals the dramatic stories behind the ensuing Seminole...
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1846034930. This volume reveals the little-known story of the 90-year presence of American forces in China until the fall of Peking in 1941. Included is coverage of the first operations on the Pearl River in 1856 as well as US involvement in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900.
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1846034497. Mounted upon their huge black horses, the Mounted Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard were the senior heavy cavalry unit of the French army and were never defeated in battle.
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1846034473. This history of the Catholic armies of the Hapsburg Empire that fought in the Thirty Years War explores the role of infantry and artillery during the last major religious war in mainland Europe.
Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 49 p. — ISBN: 1849081818. Evolved from the colonial units created by the French, this book discusses the original reorganization of these forces into the first national army. Complete with a detailed history of the command structure and orders of battle.
Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 48 p. ISBN 978-1-84908-179-5. ebook ISBN: 978-1-84908-180-1. The Varangian Guards were Viking mercenaries who operated far beyond their native shores as an elite force within the Byzantine Armies. Descendants from a legendary line of warriors, the Varangian Guard was formed after a group of Viking mercenaries made a major contribution to the Byzantine...
Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1849083263. This volume covers the classic 'Beau Geste' period, of the French Foreign Legion when the corps was expanded during the most dynamic years of French imperial expansion. Legion battalions fought in the deserts and mountains of southern Algeria and Morocco, as well as in the jungles of North Vietnam, West Africa and Madagascar.
Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1849089973. This book charts this progression, illustrating and explaining the forces of the key Catholic armies, while exploring the organization, tactics, and colourful uniforms of the cavalry forces as they were expertly wielded by the great captains of the period including Tilly, Condé and Gustavus.
Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1849084024. This book will reveal each great warlord as well as the organization of their forces which acquired much and very varied weaponry from the west including the latest French air force bombers. They were also joined by Japanese, White Russian and some Western soldiers of fortune which adds even more colour to a fascinating and...
Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 52 p. — ISBN: 1849084000. This book is a detailed analysis of the Soviet Army at the outbreak of World War II, including the Red Army's campaigns against Japan on the Manchurian plains as well as in Finland.
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 49 p. — ISBN: 1849084833. In the English-speaking world, it is generally unknown that a volunteer Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) fought alongside the US Army in Italy from mid-1944 until the end of the war. This was in effect a light infantry division, consisting of three infantry regiments augmented with artillery and light armour. It was...
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 49 p. — ISBN: 1849084185. In 1912, the Balkan states formed an alliance in an effort to break free from the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Forming an army of some 645,000 troops from Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenego, they took on a force of 400,000 Turkish soldiers.
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 48 p. — ISBN10: 1849084599 ISBN13: 9781849084598. The Great Lakes were the main arena for the fur trade in colonial North America, which drew European explorers and trappers deep into the northern USA and Canada from the 17th century onwards. The desire to control the supply of this luxury item sparked wars between Britain and France, as well as...
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 49 p. — ISBN: 1849084208. In this second volume of a three-part series on the Soviet Armed Forces in World War II, turns his attention to the mid-war period. Focusing on the uniforms and organization of Soviet troops during the campaigns of the Caucasus, Stalingrad and Kursk, this book offers a detailed breakdown of all the armed forces which...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1849086346. This book presents a detailed analysis of the Soviet armed forces during the final days of the war, covering the soldiers that successfully turned the tide against the Nazi onslaught and pushed it back into Germany itself. This final part of the series documents the Red Army’s push through Germany to Berlin, which eventually...
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 49 p. — ISBN: 1849085410. A detailed glimpse into the weapons, equipment and uniforms worn by Roman Centurions from the Roman Kingdom right through to the height of the Republic.
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 49 p. — ISBN: 1849084574. Securing a foothold in Eritrea on the Red Sea coast, the Italians quickly became embroiled in a shooting war with the Ethiopians. The war proved a disaster for the Italians, who suffered three major defeats against the forces of Emperor Menelik's army, including a horrendous massacre at Adowa, the largest defeat of a colonial...
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 49 p. — ISBN: 1849085076. In 1798, the Irish rose up against the corrupt English government run out of Dublin. Joined by both Protestants and Catholics, the rebellion quickly spread across the country. This book tells the story of this harsh, but fascinating, period of Irish history and covers the organization and uniforms of the forces involved.
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 49 p. — ISBN: 1849085397. Famously, the NZEF was first committed at Gallipoli in 1915, but NZ cavalry regiments also helped defend Egypt and fought in Palestine with Allenby's famous Desert Mounted Corps. On the Western Front the Kiwis were called the 'Silent Division' for their fieldcraft and their uncomplaining professionalism.
Oxford — New York: Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2011. — 49 p. — (Men-at-Arms). — ISBN: 978-1-84908-416-1. This book sheds light on a vicious territorial war that waged in the jungles and swamps of the Gran Chaco. The Chaca War (1932 - 1935) - a war between Paraguay and Bolivia for the possession of part of the Gran Chaco region - was the largest of all the armed conflicts that broke...
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 48 p. — ISBN10: 1849085978; ISBN13: 9781849085977. A classic Men-at-Arms title detailing a major chapter in American military history. North American colonial history can broadly be divided into 'New France', 'New England' and 'New Spain. The latter covered a vast expanse of land from California to the whole of the south-west and south including...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1849086783. Napoleon, therefore, was not the first to make full use of the martial qualities of the Swiss and obtained Swiss agreement to expand the recruitment of regiments for service in the French Army. Napoleon would use Swiss troops on the battlefields of Italy and Spain, and in 1812 re-organize the four original regiments into a...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1849087148. Initial attempts to preserve the unity of Alexander's conquests gave way to a period of bloody and prolonged warfare. After Rome's decisive defeat of Carthage in 202 BC, Macedonia came under increasing pressure from the Romans. Three wars between the two powers culminated in the Roman victory at Pydna in 168 BC, which laid...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1849086325. The importance of the Australian contribution to the Allied war effort during World War I should never be underestimated. In particular, their epic endeavour at Gallipoli in 1915 was the nation's founding legend, and the ANZACs went on to distinguish themselves both on the Western Front and in General Allenby's great cavalry...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1849087957. This book, the second volume of a two-part study, reveals the appearance, weaponry, role and impact of these legendary soldiers during the five centuries that saw the Roman Empire reach its greatest geographical extent under Trajan and Hadrian, only to experience a long decline in the West in the face of sustained pressure...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1849088060. The Dragoons of the Imperial Guard were raised in 1806 by the same criteria as other Guard units - by selection of picked, literate veterans from Line regiments who had six to ten years of service, and citations for bravery in at least two campaigns. As a ceremonial regiment it enjoyed many privileges, but it also saw combat...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1849087933. A mixed infantry formation made up of about 3,000 men armed with pikes, swords and handguns, the innovative and influential tercio or 'Spanish square' was the basic combat unit of the armies of Spain throughout much of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 50 p. — ISBN10: 184908808X ISBN13: 978-1849088084. The 10th was the only US mountain division to be raised in World War II, and still has a high profile, being involved in operations from Iraq to Somalia and from Haiti to Afghanistan. It did not arrive in Europe until winter 1944/45, but then fought hard in the harsh mountainous terrain of Northern...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. - 50 p. ISBN10: 1849088462 ISBN13: 978-1849088466 Osprey Men-at-Arms 483 In August 1745 Charles Edward Stuart, the 'Young Pretender', landed in Scotland and sparked the Second Jacobite Rising. The Jacobite forces seized Perth, then Edinburgh, where they proclaimed the Young Pretender's father King James VIII; they trounced their Hanoverian opponents at...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1849088480. From humble beginnings, in the course of three centuries the Portuguese built the world's first truly global empire, stretching from modern Brazil to sub-Saharan Africa and from India to the East Indies (Indonesia). During this nearly 300-year period, the Portuguese fought alongside other Iberian forces against the Moors of...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1849088558. In 1768 a civil war broke out between pro-Russian 'Commonwealth' Poles and 'Confederate' patriots who opposed foreign intervention; Russia intervened directly, and the First Partition followed in 1772. Guerrilla resistance continued, and anti-Russian political moves were snuffed out by a second Russian invasion in 1792....
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 50 p. Initially thrown into the doomed campaign to halt the German blitzkrieg on Greece and Crete (1941), the division was rebuilt under the leadership of Major General Sir Bernard Freyberg, and became the elite corps within Montgomery's Eighth Army in the desert. After playing a vital role in the victory at El Alamein (1942) the ‘Kiwis' were the...
Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 49 p. — ISBN: 1780961118. Initially thrown into the doomed campaign to halt the German blitzkrieg on Greece and Crete (1941), the division was rebuilt under the leadership of MajGen Sir Bernard Freyberg, and became the elite corps within Montgomery's Eighth Army in the desert. After playing a vital role in the victory at El Alamein (1942) the ‘Kiwis'...
Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 48 p. Between 1845 and 1872, various groups of Maori were involved in a series of wars of resistance against British settlers. The Maori had a fierce and long-established warrior tradition and subduing them took a lengthy British Army commitment, only surpassed in the Victorian period by that on the North-West Frontier of India. Warfare had been...
Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1780961866. This history of contact, conflict, and coexistence with first the Spanish, then their Mexican settlers, and finally the Americans, gives a special flavor to the region. Despite nearly 500 years of white settlement and pressure, the traditional cultures of the peoples of the Southwest survive today more strongly than in any...
Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1780969183. On April 15th 1861, the day after the fall of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 volunteers to enlist for three months' service to defend the Union. This 90-day period proved entirely unrealistic and was followed by further, and much more extensive, mobilizations. Despite this, for the first few...
Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 50 p. — ISBN: 1780961644. Under the young Kaiser Wilhelm II, rivalry with the old colonial powers saw the protectorates, originally established by trading companies, transformed into crown colonies garrisoned by the newly raised Schutztruppe, with support from the Imperial Navy's Seebataillone. This book explains the organization and the operations in...
Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2013. - 48 p. From the 7th to the 8th centuries AD, a newly arrived nomadic people appeared in the Middle Volga region of what is now Russia from the south. The name of these Bulgar tribes was first recorded in Byzantine Greek sources. They came from the steppes immediately north of, and around, the Sea of Azov, and their material culture was closely...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781782000761. In the 1970s, during the ruinous 30-year dictatorship of General Mobutu, periodic rebellions required the hasty insertion once again of Belgian and French paratroops to save European lives. From the mid-1990s the country split again, becoming the battleground for the largest African war in history, as armies and rebel...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781782005964. The armies of Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium bore the first crushing impact of Hitler's mighty Blitzkrieg war machine in Western Europe, in a campaign that astonished and terrified the world.
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 51 p. — ISBN: 9781782007791. The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive federation of merchant guilds based in harbour towns along the North Sea and Baltic coasts of what are now Germany and her neighbours, which eventually dominated maritime trade in Northern Europe and spread its influence much further afield.
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 51 p. — ISBN: 9781782007821. The Spanish Civil War, 1936-39, was the curtain-raiser to World War II, and the major international event of the 1930s. It was the first great clash of 20th-century ideologies, between the rebel Nationalist army led by General Franco (right-wing, and aided by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy), and the Republican army of the...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 51 p. — (Osprey Men-at-Arms 496). — ISBN: 1782006176. Language: English. The Prussian Army of the Lower Rhine, led by Blücher in 1815, played a crucial part in the Allied victory at Waterloo, and was involved in intense fighting at Wavre and Ligny. Delving into original sources, including eyewitness accounts and regimental histories known only to...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781472801067. The Polish leader Marshal Pilsudski hurried to build an army around Polish World War I veterans, and in 1918 war broke out for Poland's independence, involving the the Poles, the Red and White Russian armies, at least two different Ukrainian forces, and Allied intervention troops. The armies that fought these campaigns...
Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781782007852. This title illustrates how diverse the Republican forces were, drawn from loyal elements of the Spanish army that rejected the appeal of the rebel generals, a wide range of volunteer regional units and political militias, and supported by volunteers from many other countries, including Great Britain, France and Germany, in...
Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 48 p. — ISBN: 9781472807250. The War of the Triple Alliance is the largest single conflict in the history of South America. Drawing Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay into conflict the war was characterized by extraordinarily high casualty rates, and was to shape the future of an entire continent - depopulating Paraguay and establishing Brazil as...
Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 49 p. — ISBN: 9781472804198. This book depicts the fighting men whose skill and tactical flexibility made Spain into a world power at the close of the Middle Ages, carving out empires from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean.
Osprey, 2015. — 49 p. — ISBN10: 1472806840. This is a comprehensive guide to the armies that fought a devastating and decisive conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean between the two World Wars of the 20th century. From the initial Greek invasion, designed to "liberate" the 100,000 ethnic Greeks that lived in Western Turkey and had done for centuries, to Mustapha Kemal Ataturk's...
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781472807281. This work provides a comprehensive, illustrated guide to the unit history and appearance of these men, who were at the cutting edge of the last great flourish of Byzantine naval power.
Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 50 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4728-0688-8. Given the merciless way in which the war on the Eastern Front of World War II was conducted, it is difficult to envisage anyone changing sides during the conflict. Yet after the German invasion of Russia in Operation Barbarossa, well over 400,000 former Soviet citizens went on to fight for Nazi Germany. These included...
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 52 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4728-1407-4. By the 1870s Chilean military superiority and expansionist policies exploded into full scale conflict. This book examines the troops, uniforms and equipment used by the Chilean, Peruvian and Bolivian forces and traces the events of the war from the early naval blockades, through major pitched battles, to the final...
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 52 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4728-1429-6. Beginning with a run through of the Chinese forces that combated the British and French during the two Opium Wars, this history goes on to trace the forces who were drawn into internal wars and rebellions in the 1850s and 60s, the open warfare in North Vietnam, the string of defeats suffered during the First...
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 51 p. — (Osprey Men-at-Arms 506). — ISBN: 978-1-4728-1537-8. Language: English. At its height the Roman Empire stretched across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, maintained by an army of modest size but great diversity. In popular culture these soldiers are often portrayed in a generic fashion, but continuing research indicates significant...
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 48 p. With decades of research to draw from Philip Jowett explores this extraordinary David-and-Goliath conflict, where the rag-tag Igbo tribal army of secessionist Biafra faced off against the Nigerian Federal forces. It was an African war that captured the attention of the western media, with individual commanders such as Biafran leader Colonel...
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 52 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4728-1768-6. Tens of thousands of Croatians volunteered for the German Wehrmacht, with Croatian-badged units created within the Army, Navy, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS and Police force. When Hitler turned his attention to Stalin's Soviet Union many of these men found themselves thrown into the fray, with Croatian soldiers serving at...
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 48 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4728-1770-9 Concluding his bestselling series on the French Foreign Legion, Martin Windrow explores the formation and development of the Legion during its 'first generation'. Raised in 1831, the Legion's formative years would see it fight continuous and savage campaigns in Algeria, aid the Spanish government in the Carlist War,...
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 48 p. — ISBN: 978-1-47281-911-6 The 80 Years' War (also known as the Dutch War of Independence) was the foundation of Dutch nationhood, and during the course of the conflict one of its main leaders - Maurice of Orange-Nassau - created an army and a tactical system that became a model throughout Europe. This study, the first of a two-part series,...
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 48 p. — ISBN: 978-1-47282-176-8 Between the reigns of Augustus and Septimius Severus, the Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire frequently saw brutal fighting, most notably during the conquest of Dacia by Trajan, the suppression of the Great Revolt in Judea and intermittent clashes with Rome's great rival Parthia. In these wars, Roman soldiers had to...
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 48 p. — ISBN: 978-1-47281-949-9 In the 1840s, post-Napoleonic Italy was 'a geographical expression' - not a country, but a patchwork of states, divided between the Austrian-occupied north, and a Spanish-descended Bourbon monarchy, who ruled the south from Naples. Two decades later, it was a nation united under a single king and government, thanks...
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 48 p. — ISBN: 978-1-47281-914-7 Throughout the 16th Century, the Spanish had an aura of invincibility. They controlled a vast colonial empire that stretched across the Americas and the Pacific, and held considerable territories in Europe, centring on the so-called ‘Spanish Road'. The Dutch War of Independence (also known as the 80 Years' War) was a...
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 48 p. — ISBN: 978-1-47281-917-8 In October 1940 an Italian army some 200,000 strong invaded Greece across its largely undefended border with Albania. Although supported by Great Britain, at first by sea and in the air and later by landing British and ANZAC troops from North Africa, Greece bore the main brunt of the six-month war. Outclassed in...
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 52 p. — ISBN: 978-1-47282-523-0 The First Carlist War broke out after the death of King Ferdinand VII, the king restored at the end of the Peninsular War thanks to Wellington's victory. The crown was claimed by both his daughter Isabella, backed by the Liberal party and his brother Don Carlos, at the head of northern ultra-conservatives centred in the...
Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 48 p. — ISBN: 9781472827753 After the Fall of France in 1940, a new puppet state was set up in the south. Officially known as the French State, it is better known as Vichy France. This collaborationist Vichy regime's armed forces were more active and usually more numerous than German troops in the task of hunting down and crushing the maquis - the...
Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 48 p. France's colonial wars in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia were very largely fought by an organization completely separate from both the home-defence Metropolitan Army and the Armée d'Afrique in Algeria. The Naval Troops (Troupes de la Marine) were volunteers, and earned a reputation for greater toughness and hardiness than the conscripted...
Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 95 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4728-2-544-5 Due to its partitions and dissolution in the late eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers enlisted in distinct units in the armies of many countries - primarily those of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires, but also that of the German Reich and the French Republic. All these forces were...
Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 48 p. From the Mexican Revolution to the Zarumilla War, in the first 40 years of the 20th century the nations of Central and South America were frequently disturbed by border clashes, civil wars and revolution. Many of these conflicts became known as 'Banana Wars'. Some involved only lightly armed guerrillas, but others saw armies operating artillery...
Osprey Publishing , 2018. — 50 p. In the 1840s, Italy was a patchwork of states. The North was ruled by the Austrian Empire, the South by the Spanish-descended monarchy of the Two Sicilies. Over the next two decades, after wars led by Savoy/Piedmont and volunteers such as Garibaldi, an independent Kingdom of Italy emerged. These conflicts saw foreign interventions and shifting...
Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 48 p. — ISBN: 9781472833754 Until 1945, Indonesia was a Dutch colony known as the Netherlands East Indies. In 1930, the area had over 60 million inhabitants and was a major exporter to Japan, providing some 13 per cent of its oil needs - second only after the United States. Following Germany's occupation of the Netherlands in May 1940, Japan decided...
Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 48 p. The Khazars were one of the most important Turkic peoples in European history, dominating vast areas of southeastern Europe and the western reaches of the Central Asian steppes from the 4th to the 11th centuries AD. They were also unique in that their aristocratic and military elites converted to Judaism, creating what would be territorially the...
Osprey Publishing , 2019. — 48 p. The great powers of medieval Europe fought continuously in the Italian peninsula between the 12th and 14th centuries as they sought to expand their territory. Invading armies from Germany - the Holy Roman Empire - saw the creation of the defensive Lombard League of northern Italian city-states. These struggles resulted in conflicts between...
Illustrator: Ramiro Bujeiro. — Osprey Publishing , 2019. — 50 p. Following the Nazi occupation of Norway in 1941, the Waffen-SS began recruiting volunteers to serve in their ranks. Initially formed into small volunteer units, these developed into large divisions by 1943, referred to as ‘Legions' in Nazi propaganda. Early volunteers were promised that they would not leave...
Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 48 p. The first "bushrangers" or frontier outlaws were escaped or time-expired convicts, who took to the wilderness - "the bush" - in New South Wales and on the island of Tasmania. Initially, the only Crown forces available were redcoats from the small, scattered garrisons, but by 1825 the problem of outlawry led to the formation of the first Mounted...
Osprey Publishing , 2019. — 48 p. The Australian Army at War 1976-2016 , written by an Australian author who has written extensively about modern warfare, traces the development of the Army's organization, combat uniforms, load-bearing equipment, small arms and major weapon systems using specially commissioned artwork and photographs. Since the end of their involvement in the...
Illustrator: Raffaele Ruggeri. — Osprey Publishing , 2019. — 48 p. The appearance of Roman soldiers in the 3rd century AD has long been a matter of debate and uncertainty, largely thanks to the collapse of central control and perpetual civil war between the assassination of Severus Alexander in 235 and the accession of the great Diocletian in 284. During those years no fewer...
Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 48 p. Pyrrhus was one of the most tireless and famous warriors of the Hellenistic Age that followed the dispersal of Alexander the Great's brief empire. After inheriting the throne as a boy, and a period of exile, he began a career of alliances and expansion, in particular against the region's rising power: Rome. Gathering both Greek and Italian...
Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 48 p. Pyrrhus was one of the most tireless and famous warriors of the Hellenistic Age that followed the dispersal of Alexander the Great's brief empire. After inheriting the throne as a boy, and a period of exile, he began a career of alliances and expansion, in particular against the region's rising power: Rome. Gathering both Greek and Italian...
Illustrations by Giuseppe Rava — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 48 p. The Great Northern War was a long series of campaigns in which Russia, linked with several other countries in temporary alliances, confronted and eventually replaced Sweden as the predominant power in Northern Europe. While contemporary with the Duke of Marlborough's pivotal campaigns against France, the Great...
Illustrations by Giuseppe Rava — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 48 p. The restoration of the Meiji Imperial dynasty in 1868, after 250 years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, decisively opened Japan to the outside world and the monarchy embraced modernization, including the creation of a new Westernized army. However, this modernization process was resisted by the traditional Samurai...
Illustrator: Ramiro Bujeiro. — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 48 p. 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: Stephen Walsh — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 48 p. During the Japanese occupation of large parts of Asia and the Pacific in 1941-45, Japan raised significant numbers of troops to fight alongside them, as well as militias to guard their conquests. The total number of these soldiers is estimated at no fewer than 600,000 men. These ranged from the regular troops of...
Illustrator: Stephen Walsh — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 48 p. During the Japanese occupation of large parts of Asia and the Pacific in 1941-45, Japan raised significant numbers of troops to fight alongside them, as well as militias to guard their conquests. The total number of these soldiers is estimated at no fewer than 600,000 men. These ranged from the regular troops of...
Illustrator: Andrea Salimbeti, Florent Vincent — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 48 p. Preceding and simultaneously with the conquest of England by Duke William, other ambitious and aggressive Norman noblemen (notably the Drengot, De Hauteville and Guiscard families) found it prudent to leave Normandy. At first taking mercenary employment with Lombard rulers then fighting the...
Illustrator: Andrea Salimbeti, Florent Vincent — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 48 p. Preceding and simultaneously with the conquest of England by Duke William, other ambitious and aggressive Norman noblemen (notably the Drengot, De Hauteville and Guiscard families) found it prudent to leave Normandy. At first taking mercenary employment with Lombard rulers then fighting the...
Illustrator: Giuseppe Rava. — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 48 p. In the early 1900s, the decaying Ottoman Turkish Empire had lost some of its Balkan territories, but still nominally ruled all of North Africa between British Egypt in the east and French Algeria in the west. Libya had fertile coastal territory, and was the last North African (almost, the last African) region not...
Illustrator: Trexler Jeff — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 48 p. 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: Giuseppe Rava — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 48 p. The Italian Renaissance marked a period of political and military turmoil. Many regional wars were fought between the states ruled by Milan, Venice, Genoa, Florence, the Papacy, Siena and Naples. For more than 50 years starting in 1494, major foreign powers also exploited these divisions to invade Italy; both France...
Illustrator: Adam Hook. — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 48 p. The Numidian light cavalry were among the best-known horsemen in the ancient world: riding without saddles or bridle, carrying only hide shields for defense and clutching a handful of light javelins, they were renowned for their darting attacks, swift retreats, and skirmishing prowess. Yet, as much as they were...
Illustrator: Christa Hook. — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 48 p. The cantinières who accompanied Napoleon's armies to war have an iconic status in the history of the Grande Armée. Sutler-women and laundresses were officially sanctioned members of the regiment performing a vital support role. In a period when the supply and pay services were haphazard, their canteen wagons and...
Illustrator: Christa Hook. — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 48 p. The cantinières who accompanied Napoleon's armies to war have an iconic status in the history of the Grande Armée. Sutler-women and laundresses were officially sanctioned members of the regiment performing a vital support role. In a period when the supply and pay services were haphazard, their canteen wagons and...
Illustrator: Ramiro Bujeiro. — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 48 p. From the German occupation of Belgium in May 1940, Flemish recruits from northern Belgium - considered by the Nazis to be 'Germanic' - were accepted individually into Waffen-SS units. From Hitler's invasion of the USSR in June 1941, additional recruits from the French-speaking south (Wallonia) were drafted. Both...
Illustrator: Ramiro Bujeiro. — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 48 p. From the German occupation of Belgium in May 1940, Flemish recruits from northern Belgium - considered by the Nazis to be 'Germanic' - were accepted individually into Waffen-SS units. From Hitler's invasion of the USSR in June 1941, additional recruits from the French-speaking south (Wallonia) were drafted. Both...
Illustrator: Dennis Peter — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 48 p. An important aspect of the Russian Civil War were the several Allied expeditions immediately following World War I in support of the disunited Russian 'White' armies resisting the Bolshevik Revolution. Although they ended in failure, these ventures were long resented, and were the origin of the 70-year-long Soviet...
Illustrator: Dennis Peter — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 48 p. An important aspect of the Russian Civil War were the several Allied expeditions immediately following World War I in support of the disunited Russian 'White' armies resisting the Bolshevik Revolution. Although they ended in failure, these ventures were long resented, and were the origin of the 70-year-long Soviet...
Illustrator: Giuseppe Rava — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 48 p. Formed in 1689, the 'Grand Alliance' or League of Augsburg was a military coalition of the Holy Roman Empire, the Dutch Republic, Britain, Spain and the Duchy of Savoy, to resist Louis XIV's rich, powerful and expansionist France. The first stage of the nine year conflict that followed also coincided with the...
Illustrator: Shumate Johnny — Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 48 p. In March 1941, an anti-German coup in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia prompted Hitler to order an invasion using allied Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Romanian forces. Operation Marita was an invasion of Yugoslavia and simultaneously Greece. At the same time, the constituent region of Croatia broke away from Yugoslavia...
Illustrator: Giuseppe Rava. — Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 48 p. A complete illustrated study of the varied range of Italian colonial units who served in East and North Africa. Italy only unified as a nation in 1870 and was late, and therefore impatient, in the 'scramble' for Africa. An initial foothold in Eritrea/Somalia, north-east Africa, led to a disastrous defeat in Ethiopia...
Illustrator: Rava Giuseppe. — Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 48 p. A complete illustrated study of the varied range of Italian colonial units who served in East and North Africa. Italy only unified as a nation in 1870 and was late, and therefore impatient, in the 'scramble' for Africa. An initial foothold in Eritrea/Somalia, north-east Africa, led to a disastrous defeat in Ethiopia...
Illustrator: Graham Turner. — Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 48 p. This fully illustrated study explores the armies of the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain states within what are now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal during the period AD 500-1500, as well as Afghanistan until the early 13th century AD. Following the emergence of a distinct ‘medieval Indian' civilization in...
Illustrator: Stephen Walsh. — Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 48 p. This study explores the organization, history and uniforms of the Soviet Red Army during the 20 years between its victory in the Civil War and the invasion of the USSR by Germany in 1941. The two decades following the Bolshevik victory over the 'Whites' in the Russian Civil War saw widespread and fundamental...
Illustrator: Stephen Walsh. — Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 48 p. This study explores the organization, history and uniforms of the Soviet Red Army during the 20 years between its victory in the Civil War and the invasion of the USSR by Germany in 1941. The two decades following the Bolshevik victory over the 'Whites' in the Russian Civil War saw widespread and fundamental...
Illustrator: Stephen Walsh. — Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 48 p. This study explores the organization, history and uniforms of the Soviet Red Army during the 20 years between its victory in the Civil War and the invasion of the USSR by Germany in 1941. The two decades following the Bolshevik victory over the 'Whites' in the Russian Civil War saw widespread and fundamental...
Illustrator: Ruggeri Raffaele. — Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 48 p. — ISBN13 9781472850492. — ISBN10 1472850491. In this book, eminent Roman historian, Dr Raffaele D'Amato, looks at the notoriously under-represented history of the Roman armies during the middle 3rd Century whose records have been obscured by the chaotic civil wars of that period between usurpers to the Imperial...
Illustrator: Rava Giuseppe. — Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 48 p. After the Meiji restoration of the Japanese imperial regime in 1868–77, modernization along Western lines of Japan's industry, communications and land and naval forces advanced with remarkable speed and, by the 1890s, the rejuvenated nation was ready to flex its muscles overseas. The obvious opponent was the huge...
Illustrator: Draghici Catalin. — Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 48 p. Formidable warriors, able to field tens of thousands of infantry and cavalry and led by a military aristocracy, the Dacians and Getae presented a real threat to Rome's north-eastern frontier. They inflicted several defeats on Rome, crossing the Danube to invade the province of Moesia, and later stubbornly...
Illustrator: Draghici Catalin. — Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 48 p. Formidable warriors, able to field tens of thousands of infantry and cavalry and led by a military aristocracy, the Dacians and Getae presented a real threat to Rome's north-eastern frontier. They inflicted several defeats on Rome, crossing the Danube to invade the province of Moesia, and later stubbornly...
Illustrator: Hook Adam. — Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 51 p. Following on from MAA 521 Royal Netherlands East Indies Army 1936–42 and completing the coverage of the post-World War II wars of decolonization, The Dutch–Indonesian War 1945–49 describes the Japanese surrender in September 1945 which left a power vacuum in the colonial Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). Using vivid colour...
Illustrator: Rava Giuseppe. — Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 48 p. During the so called 'long 19th century', between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the difficulties faced by the Ottoman Turkish Empire were a recurrent factor in international geopolitics. Against a background of Russian–Ottoman rivalry, France and Britain supported...
Illustrator: Giuseppe Rava. — Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 48 p. This book describes and illustrates the armies of the embattled Ottoman Turkish Empire involved in 19th-century wars during the Empire's long spiral of decline. During the so called 'long 19th century', between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the difficulties faced by...
Illustrator: Graham Turner. — Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 48 p. From 1206, much of what is now India as well as parts of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal were ruled by a succession of Islamic dynasties that had their origins in the Ghurid forces that conquered parts of northern India in the 12th century. Although it was never complete, the Islamic domination of this huge region...
Illustrator: Marco Capparoni. — Osprey Publishing, 2024. — 48 p. This fully illustrated study investigates the uniforms and equipment of the US regular troops and volunteers from the territories fighting for the Union during the American Civil War. During the American Civil War, the United States Army, pitted against the forces of the fledgling Confederacy, fought to defend and...
Illustrator: Johnny Shumate . — Osprey Publishing, 2024. — 48 p. Featuring rare photos, detailed colour illustrations and insignia tables, this study explores the contribution made by Czech and Slovak troops fighting alongside Allied forces during World War II. Following the Anglo-French failure at the Munich Conference in March 1938 to prevent a Nazi take-over of...
Illustrator: Johnny Shumate . — Osprey Publishing, 2024. — 48 p. Featuring rare photos, detailed colour illustrations and insignia tables, this study explores the contribution made by Czech and Slovak troops fighting alongside Allied forces during World War II. Following the Anglo-French failure at the Munich Conference in March 1938 to prevent a Nazi take-over of...
Osprey Publishing, 2024. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781472863003. It is little known that, in late 1941, French volunteer units were among Wehrmacht troops defending Germany in the first bitter winter on the Eastern Front, and also among the last fighting for Berlin in April 1945. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, some 13,000 Frenchmen enlisted in the 'Légion des...
Osprey Publishing, 2024. — 50 p. It is little known that, in late 1941, French volunteer units were among Wehrmacht troops defending Germany in the first bitter winter on the Eastern Front, and also among the last fighting for Berlin in April 1945. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, some 13,000 Frenchmen enlisted in the 'Légion des volontaires français contre...
Illustrator: Raffaele Ruggeri. — Osprey Publishing, 2024. — 48 p. A fully illustrated account of the large-scale reformation of the Roman Army from the reign of Diocletian to the fall of the Western Empire in AD 476. After the 50-year chaos of the mid-3rd century AD, Emperor Diocletian (r. AD 284 – 305) and his successor, Constantine I (r. AD 306 – 37), the first Christian...
Osprey Publishing, 2024. — 51 p. — ISBN: 9781472861016. The armed forces of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, aka North Korea) celebrate two birthdays. February 8, 1948, was the date the Korean People’s Army (KPA) was founded, while April 25, 1932, is the date associated with the establishment of Kim Il-sung’s guerrilla group in Antu, northeast China, which...
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