Publications

RAID015 - A Far-Flung Gamble

At the height of the Seven Years' War, Great Britain made an audacious strike at the heart of Spanish colonial power in the Caribbean. Gathering troops from bases in Britain and Canada and sailing...

RAID024 - The Last Boarding Party: The USMC and the SS Mayaguez 1975

On April 30, 1975, the final curtain of America's long involvement in the Vietnam War fell. North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon while thousands of South Vietnamese refugees attempted to flee on...

RAID033 - U-47 in Scapa Flow: The Sinking of HMS Royal Oak 1939

Even with Germany in the ascendency at the beginning of World War II, Scapa Flow was supposed to be the safe home base of the British Navy. Nothing and nobody could penetrate the defences of this...

RAID044 - Carlson's Marine Raiders: Makin Island 1942

After the Guadalcanal landings, Admiral Nimitz wanted to distract Japanese attention by launching an amphibious raid elswhere. Foreshadowing Bloody Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and countless other...

RAID047 - Behind Soviet Lines

Featuring specially drawn full-color artwork and expert analysis of the Maikop operation, this assessment of the dramatic raid that delivered intact Soviet oil-production facilities into Nazi hands...

RAID059 - Putin Takes Crimea 2014: Grey-zone warfare opens the Russia-Ukraine conflict

An authoritative analysis of how Putin's Russia conquered the Crimea in 2014 using 'grey zone' warfare techniques, blending operations by anonymous special forces with cyber, sabotage, and propaganda...

RAID060 - Son Tay 1970: The Operation Ivory Coast POW rescue mission

A superbly illustrated account of one of the key milestones in the development of modern US Special Operations Forces, the hugely complex POW rescue at Son Tay. On November 21, 1970, a meticulously...

RAID062 - Kyiv 2022: The battle for Ukraine's capital

The first authoritative, illustrated account of Russia's high-risk strike on Ukraine's capital, the centerpiece of its failed 2022 invasion plan. In 2022, Vladimir Putin was convinced he could seize...

RAID58 - CAPTURE OF U-505

U-505 was the first enemy warship the US Navy captured at sea since 1812. This is a new account of how Captain Gallery planned and executed the raid on his own initiative, and how his success almost...

Real to Replica No 9: The Vought A-7 Corsair - US & International Versions

Real to Replica Red No 10: Sepecat Jaguar (RAF, Armee de'Air & International Versions)

SEPECAT Jaguar RAF, ARMEE DE L'AIR & INTERNATIONAL. VERSIONS By Andy Evans

Real to Replica Red No 4: The Republic F-105 Thunderchief

Real to Replica Series - Red Series by Andy Evans of Phoenix Scale Publications. This exciting new series looks at the history of the aircraft, detailed scaled drawings, colour schemes and modelling...

Real Weathering Vol. 2

This is the second book in a series about weathering and designed with one main audience in mind – the military modeller. As we all know, there are many books concerned with weathering military...

Shipcraft 15 - Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships

The ShipCraft series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the...

Shipcraft 18 - Titanic and Her Sisters Olympic and Britannic

The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeler through a brief history of the...

ShipCraft 23 - Rodney and Nelson - Revised Edition

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the...

Solomons Air War Volume 2: Guadalcanal & Santa Cruz October 1942

"Well-written, easy to comprehend, and informative. It is an excellent source for the Pacific air war enthusiast." — Large Scale Planes This second volume of Solomons Air War chronicles aerial...

South Pacific Air War Volume 4 : Buna & Milne Bay, September 1942

Volume Four chronicles aerial warfare in the South Pacific in the critical period between 19 June and 8 September 1942. It can be read alone or as a continuation of the first three volumes that...

T-54/T-55 Modeling World's Most Iconic Tank - English

Tank Craft 33 -Scorpion and Scimitar British Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicles, 1970-2020

The British Scorpion and Scimitar are among the most successful armored reconnaissance vehicles ever built and, almost fifty years after the initial design was introduced, updated versions are still...

Tank Craft Series: Panther Medium Tank German Army and Waffen SS Eastern Front Summer, 1943

In July 1943 the German army launched what was to be its last major offensive on Soviet soil. Codenamed Operation Citadel, the attack had initially been scheduled to commence in May but was postponed...

Tank Craft Series: Panther Medium Tank IV. SS-Panzerkorps Eastern Front, 1944

12 pages of full color illustrations depicting over 20 different vehicles and their markings with histories of the Panzer regiments of the SS-Totenkopf and Wiking divisions during the battles of 1944...

Tank Craft Series: Panzer III - German Army Light Tank Operation Barbarossa 1941

A complete guide of the German Army Light Tank, the Panzer III, using archive photos and extensively researched color illustrations. The Pzkpfw III tank was the mainstay of the Panzer divisions...

Tank Craft Series: Panzer III German Army Light Tank North Africa El Alamein to Tunis, 1941–1943

The Pzkpfw III tank was the mainstay of the Panzer divisions during the Blitzkrieg era and made up the bulk of the armored force sent to North Africa. Although less heavily armored than many of its...

Tank Craft Series: Panzer III, German Army Light Tank North Africa, Tripoli to El Alamein 1941–1942

The Pzkpfw Ill was the most effective tank available to the German army in North Africa during the battles of 1941. It outnumbered all the other types in service with the Afrikakorps at that time and...

Tank Craft Series: Panzer IV 1939-1945

The Panzer IV – Panzerkampfwagen IV – was one the foremost German fighting vehicles of the Second World War, and this volume in the TankCraft series is an ideal introduction to it. With detailed...

Tank Craft Series: Sherman Tank Canadian, New Zealand and South African Armies: Italy, 1943–1945

The Sherman tank served with most Allied armies during the Second World War and it is justly famous for the role it played in the Normandy landings and the subsequent drive into Germany. But the part...

Tank Craft Series: Tiger I and Tiger II Tanks German Army and Waffen-SS The Last Battles in the East, 1945

12 pages of full color illustrations depicting over 20 different vehicles and their markings, including the histories of the Panzer units that operated the Tiger I and Tiger II in the last months of...

Tank Craft Series: Tiger I and Tiger II Tanks. German Army and Waffen-SS, The Last Battles in the West, 1945

Tiger tanks were among the most-feared fighting vehicles of the Second World War and they gained almost legendary status, yet they never fulfilled their potential because they were not produced in...

Tanks & AFV in the Iron Sword War Through the Lens of a Company Commander

107 pages, full color

Technology at War: Air-to-Air Missiles Volume 2 Development and Combat Across 80 Years. First Generation and Early Experiences, 1944-1967

Explores the development, technology, and first combat use of early air-to-air missiles worldwide.This is the second of six volumes detailing the 80-year history of air-to-air missiles (AAM) as...

Technology at War: US Air Power, 1945-1990 Volume 1 US Fighters and Fighter-Bombers, 1945-1949

Since the 1940s, combat aircraft operated by the armed forces of the United States represented a military capability which no other nation proved capable of matching. The US-made military aircraft...

Technology at War: US Air Power, 1945-1990 Volume 2 US Bombers, 1945-1949

Since the 1940s, combat aircraft operated by the armed forces of the United States represented a military capability which no other nation proved capable of matching. The US-made military aircraft...

Technology at War: Whiskey-class Submarines Soviet Project 613 Submarines in Service with Foreign Navies, 1951-1990

The Whiskey-class (Soviet Project 613) submarines were the most numerous submarine produced after 1945. The type is best Known in the West for the 1981 ‘Whiskey on the Rocks’ incident when an example...

The 29th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division "Italienische Nr.1"

The 29th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division "Italienische Nr.1": And Italians in Other Units of the Waffen-SS : An Illustrated HistoryMassimiliano Afiero The Italian government signed an armistice with the...

The Iran Iraq Wars 1980-1988 Vol.4

The Luger P.08 Volume 1

The Luger P.08 Vol. 1 : The First World War and Weimar Years: Models 1900 to 1908, Markings, Variants, Ammunition, AccessoriesLuc Guillou Georges Machtelinckx The first of two volumes on the...

The Luger P.08 Volume 2

The Luger P.08, Vol. 2 : Third Reich and Post-WWII ModelsLuc Guillou Georges Machtelinckx The second of two volumes on the legendary P.08 Luger (Pistole Parabellum), this illustrated book presents...

The M113 and M113A1 armoured personnel carrier

Following on the hugely successful title on the M47, the latest title from Guideline Publications covers the M113 and M113A1 Armored Personnel Carrier. The M113 family includes more than 80,000...

The Making of Original D&D: 1970 - 1977

Here is the ultimate record of how Dungeons & Dragons came to be. The Making of Original D&D is an extraordinary collection of rare documents that shed light on D&D's origin story. Uncover materials...