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Asia @ War: Paradise Afire: The Sri Lankan War Volume 4 - 1995-2002

In April 1995, the LTTE resumed the war by launching a surprise attack against the Sri Lankan Navy at Trincomalee, thus opening the third phase – the so-called Eelam War III – of the decades-long Sri...

Asia @ War: Paradise Afire: The Sri Lankan War: Volume 1 - 1971-1987

When released into independence from Great Britain in 1948, the stunningly beautiful island of Ceylon, renamed Sri Lanka in 1972, was expected to become a sort of ‘South Asian Singapore.' However,...

Asia @ War: Paradise Afire: The Sri Lankan War: Volume 2 - 1987-1990

Upon achieving independence from Great Britain in 1948, the stunningly beautiful island of Ceylon, re-named Sri Lanka in 1972, was expected to become a sort of ‘South Asian Singapore’. However,...

Asia @ War: Paradise Afire: The Sri Lankan War: Volume 3 - 1990-1994

In June 1990, a mere three months after the Indian Peace Keeping Force withdrawal from Sri Lanka, the war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan government resumed and...

Asia @ War: Red Shirt/Yellow Shirt Protest and Insurrection in Thailand 2005-2014

A detailed account of the political crises of 2005–2014, the protest groups and the security response to these events, culminating in the seizure of power in 2014 by General Prayuth Chan O-Cha in a...

Asia @ War: Rooks in Afghanistan: Volume 1: Sukhoi Su-25 in the Afghanistan War, 1981-1985

Rooks in Afghanistan tells the story of the aircraft and crews of units of the Soviet Air Force equipped with the Sukhoi Su-25 attack aircraft. Between 1978 and 1989, a total of 582 single-seat...

Asia @ War: Soviet Military Aviation in Central Asia 1917-41

A detailed exploration of the inter-war use of air power in Soviet Central Asia, drawing from Russian-language sources and photographic archives. The utilization of air power by the Communist regime...

Asia @ War: Target Saigon 1973-75 : Volume 1 - The Pretence of Peace

After 27 years of conflict it seemed that peace would finally settle on the Indochina peninsula on 27 January 1973 with the signing of a peace accord in Paris. The North Vietnamese had previously...

Asia @ War: Target Saigon 1973-75 Volume 2 - The Fall of South Vietnam: The Beginning of the End, January 1974 – March 1975

Drawing on a wide range of Vietnamese-language sources, the author presents a detailed account of the continuing efforts of North Vietnam to invade the South, enlivened by a large number of...

Asia @ War: Target Saigon 1973-75 Volume 3 - Disaster at Da Nang 1975

The third volume of the Target Saigon mini-series describes the opening stages of the final communist offensive against South Vietnam. The decision of President Nguyen Van Thieu to evacuate the...

Asia @ War: Terror and Response: The India-Pakistan Proxy War 2008-2019

In February 2019, the Indian Air Force struck at targets in Pakistan in retaliation for a terrorist attack on a convoy of the Indian Central Reserve Police Force in Kashmir. The next day, Pakistan...

Asia @ War: The Erawan War: Volume 3: The Royal Lao Armed Forces 1961-1974

Best known by their French acronym for Forces Armées du Royaume – FAR – the Royal Lao Armed Forces were the official defense force of the Kingdom of Laos – what is now the Lao People’s Democratic...

Asia @ War: The Sino-Soviet Border War of 1969 : Volume 1 - First Clash at Damansky Island

The victory of the communists in the Chinese civil war resulted in the formation of a new socialist state in Asia – the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The Soviet leadership was the first to...

Asia @ War: The Sino-Soviet Border War of 1969 : Volume 2 - Confrontation at Lake Zhalanashkol, August 1969

The communist victory in the Chinese civil war resulted in the formation of a new socialist state – the People’s Republic of China. The Soviets were the first to recognize the PRC, and subsequently...

Asia @ War: The Soviet War in Afghanistan 1979-1989

Richly illustrated with original photographs – many never published before in the West – and the @War series signature color artworks showing the men, vehicles and aircraft involved in this conflict...

Asia @ War: When Brothers Fight Chinese Eyewitness Accounts of the Sino-Soviet Border Battles, 1969

Europe @ War: EJÉRCITO DEL AIRE Y DEL ESPACIO The Spanish Air Force from 1939 to the present day

This book includes, for the first time and in great detail,the current types of aircraft in service in the Ejército delAire (EdA), the Spanish Air Force, with a brief history of theirincorporation...

Europe @ War: A SWORD FOR PEACE AND LIBERTY VOLUME 1 Force de frappe - The French Nuclear Strike Force and the First Cold War 1945-1990

This book reconstructs the solid continuity of the nuclear strategy of the Republic of France, one of five permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations. Over the last 60 years...

Europe @ War: Battle for Grozny: Volume 1 - Prelude and the Way to the City, 1994

Based on numerous little known publications and veteran accounts from both sides, extensive pictorial and video footage, and focuses upon the reconstruction of events that happened prior to and...

Europe @ War: Carnation Revolution Volume 2: Coup in Portugal, April 1974

A detailed account of the intertwining political and military events of March and April 1974 in and around Lisbon. In March 1974, a climate of conspiracy reigned in Portugal. Premier Marcello...

Europe @ War: CHASING THE SOFT UNDERBELLY Turkey and the Second World War

Chasing the Soft Underbelly examines the role of Turkey during the Second World War. While it was non-belligerent until February 1945, there were many attempts to push it into the conflict. Studies...

Europe @ War: Cold War Berlin: An Island City Volume 3: US Forces in Berlin - Keeping the Peace, 1945-1994

At the end of the Second World War, the victorious Allies split Germany into three zones of occupation, and Berlin into four sectors, one each for the British, Americans, French and Soviets. It did...

Europe @ War: Cold War Berlin: An Island City: Volume 1: The Birth of the Cold War, the Communist Take-Over and the Berlin Airlift, 1945-1949

At the end of the Second World War, the city of Berlin was located 100 miles (160 km) inside the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany. The Western Allies insisted on keeping part of the city for...

Europe @ War: Cominform Crisis: Soviet-Yugoslav Stand-Off, 1948-1954

Cominform Crisis describes the first armed conflict within the Communist world after the Second World War. This occurred between Tito’s Yugoslavia and the states led by the Soviet Union, in the...

Europe @ War: Defending Rodinu: Volume 2 - Development and Operational History of the Soviet Air Defence Force, 1961-1991

In the 1950s, the Soviets had managed to grow a major Air Defence Force (PVO) capable of covering the entire airspace of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The PVO was able to field...

Europe @ War: FROM JULIETTS TO YASENS Development and Operational History of Soviet Nuclear-Powered Cruise-Missile Submarines 1958-2022

 the aftermath of the Second World War, the Soviet Union embarked upon the rebuilding of its naval forces for a new era of naval warfare; one dominated by Western nuclear-armed aircraft carriers that...

Europe @ War: Hot Skies of the Cold War: The Bulgarian Air Force in the 1950s

After the end of the Second World War, Bulgaria fell in total dependency upon the Soviet Union as a direct result of the 1944 Yalta agreement on the 'spheres of influence' division of Europe. The...

Europe @ War: Operation Deliberate Force Air War over Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995

During the early 1990s, a series of savage wars was fought in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Jugoslavia (SFRJ). The third of the conflicts in question, the war in Bosnia, was in its third...

Europe @ War: Ripped Apart: Volume 1 — The Cyprus Crisis 1963-64

An even-handed and richly illustrated account of the military history of Cyprus between independence from Britain and the events of 1964.The Cyprus Problem also known as the Cyprus dispute, Cyprus...

Europe @ War: Tailships: The Hunt for Soviet Submarines in the Mediterranean, 1970-1973

"Both from the analytic description of the scientific background to that of the author’s firsthand human experience, to the historical development of the technology, to the political and strategic...

Europe @ War: The Bosnian Serb Army at War 1992-95

The book describes the Bosnian Serb Army in the Bosnian War 1992–1995. It provides a detailed account on organization, personnel, equipment and combat activities during the years of war. It covers...

Europe @ War: The Modern British Army The Path to Future Soldier, 2010s and Beyond

The Modern British Army: The Path to Future Soldier, 2010s and Beyond details the Army’s efforts to match ongoing reductions in strength with the organisation and equipment to meet the country’s...

Europe @ War: The Yugoslav Air Force in the Battles for Slovenia Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina 1991-1992 Volume 2 - JRViPVO in the Yugoslav War, 1991-1992

Following a brief war in Slovenia, and months of skirmishes and minor fighting in Croatia, during the autumn of 1991 the crisis in Yugoslavia culminated in an all-out war. The task of the Yugoslav...

Europe @ War: The Yugoslav Air Force in the Battles for Slovenia Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina 1991-1992: Volume 1 - JRViPVO in Yugoslav War, 1991-1992

During the late 1980s, the former Socialist Federal Republic of Jugoslavia (SFRJ) – a country dominating the Balkans – experienced a period of major crisis. Led by the Communist Party, the nation’s...

Europe @ War: Tsar Bomba Live Testing of Soviet Nuclear Bombs, 1949-1962

On 30 October 1961, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR/Soviet Union) conducted a live test of the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created. Codenamed ‘Ivan’, and known in the West as the...

Europe @ War: Wagner Group Volume 1 Private Military Company: Establishment, Profile and Operations 2013-2023

The Wagner Group is symbolic of Russia’s deployment of private military companies (PMCs) to exercise influence in Africa, the Middle East and Europe since the mid-2010s. Nominally an independent...

Europe @ War: Wagner Group Volume 2 Private Military Company: Establishment, Profile and Operations 2013-2023

The Wagner Group is symbolic of Russia’s deployment of private military companies (PMCs) to exercise influence in Africa, the Middle East and Europe since the mid-2010s. Nominally an independent...

Europe @ War: War in Ukraine Volume 6 Air War, February-December 2022

On 24 February 2022, the armed forces of the Russian Federation initiated an invasion of Ukraine. Thus began the biggest and longest air war fought in Europe since 1945, and a conflict that saw the...

Europe @ War: War in Ukraine Volume 7 Air War, January-December 2023

Volume 7 of War in Ukraine provides a detailed account of the air war as it developed during 2023, a period in which Russia made extensive use of Tu-95 and Tu-22 bombers and their missiles to bring...

Europe @ War: War in Ukraine: Volume 1: Armed Formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic, 2014-2022

"These volumes have provided greater clarity about the war, since the media’s reporting on the war has been, by necessity, lacking in important details. If one is interested in the background to the...

Europe @ War: War in Ukraine: Volume 3: Armed formations of the Luhansk People’s Republic 2014–2022

Presents a wealth of unique visual material including unit patches, photographs, and diagrams and maps that depict Luhansk Peoples Republic military forces.War in Ukraine, Volume 3 Armed formations...

Latin America @ War Book: Air Wars Between Ecuador and Peru : Volume 1 - The July 1941 War

Disputes between Ecuador and Peru are nearly 200 years old and revolve around the question of Ecuador’s territory extending beyond the Andes and into the Amazonian basin – or not.Based on diverse...

Latin America @ War: Aerial Operations in the Revolutions of 1922 and 1947 in Paraguay: The First Dogfights in South America

In the first half of the 20th Century, there were several revolutions in Paraguay, starting in 1904, then 1908, 1911-12, 1922-23, 1936 and finally 1947. In 1922, a huge internal crisis in the Liberal...

Latin America @ War: Air Wars between Ecuador and Peru: Volume 2 - Falso Paquisha! Aerial Operations over the Condor Mountain Range, 1981

Based on diverse interpretations of the Real Ceduls (Royal Proclamations) by the Spanish monarchs of earlier centuries, the almost 200-year-old border dispute between Ecuador and Peru became one of...

Latin America @ War: Air Wars Between Ecuador and Peru: Volume 3 - Aerial Operations over the Condor Mountain Range, 1995

The series of sharp clashes between Ecuador and Peru of 1981 left the dispute between the two countries unresolved as there was still no definitive delimitation of the border. During the following...

Latin America @ War: Araguaia War Counterinsurgency against the Communist Guerrillas of Brazil, 1964-1985

In 1964 a right-wing military coup seized power in Brazil. The Araguaia Guerrilla movement, formed by the Communist Party of Brazil in the late 1960s, launched an armed opposition to the US-backed...

Latin America @ War: Azules y Colorados: Armed Confrontations in the Argentine Armed Forces, 1962–63

Richly illustrated with authentic photography and custom-drawn color profiles and maps, this book is an indispensable source of reference about one of the crucial moments in Argentine history.Azules...

Latin America @ War: Brazilians at War: Brazilian Aviation in the Second World War

When the Second World War erupted, Latin America - despite being initially neutral - became part of it. Brazil, with its large provision of goods to the Allied Powers, was soon a victim of the Axis...

Latin America @ War: Che Guevara's Final Adventure The Guerilla in Bolivia, 1967

Che’s Final Adventure: The Guerrillia in Bolivia, 1967 is a detailed military history of the final campaign of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, as he commanded the Bolivian National Liberation Army in a doomed...

Latin America @ War: COIN Operations in Paraguay: Dirty Little Wars 1956-1980

From 1954 Paraguay was held in the grip of a Right-wing dictatorship under General Alfredo Stroessner. In the years that followed, a number of opposition groups resorted to armed struggle in order to...

Latin America @ War: Decades of Rebelion Vol 1 Mexican Military Aviation in th rebellions of the 1920s

In the decades before Mexico joined the Allies in the Second World War, Mexican military aviation saw a rapid growth and intense involvement in rebellions, internal strife, and in operations against...

Latin America @ War: For Now and Forever! The 1992 Coup d’état Attempts in Venezuela

Except for some small, but intense, military uprisings shortly after its beginning, what has been called “Venezuela’s 40 years of democracy” (1958-1998) was marked by a level of stability that most...