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Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... 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MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). 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Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... 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Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... 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Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... 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Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). 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Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... 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This assault, Operation Weserübung, represents the first joint air-land-and-sea campaign in the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM 230 - Nile 1798: Nelson’s first great victory Osprey's examination of one of the great sea battles of the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802). On the night of August 1, 1798, a British fleet under the command of Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson met a French fleet under the command of Admiral... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM 284 - Guadalcanal 1942–43: America's first victory on the road to Tokyo The Guadalcanal campaign began with an amphibious assault in August 1942 - the US's first attempt to take the fight to the Japanese. It quickly escalated into a desperate attritional battle on land, air and sea, and by the time the Japanese had evacuated... 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Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... 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Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). 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Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... 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Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
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Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... 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Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). 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MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... 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Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
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The climax of more than twenty years of war, it was indeed a close-run affair, matching two of the world's... MSRP: Now: $21.95 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM018 - Guadalcanal 1942: The Marines Strike Back Osprey's examination of the first American amphibious assault of World War II (1939-1945). On what was a virtually unheard of Pacific island, the United States shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility, as the US Marines and Army halted the apparently... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM030 - Midway 1942 In 1993 Osprey Publishing released the 30th volume in its now legendary Campaign series, entitled, Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific. Now, 17 years later, Osprey brings readers up-to-date with the latest scholarship on this important Pacific War... 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Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... 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The climax of more than twenty years of war, it was indeed a close-run affair, matching two of the world's... MSRP: Now: $21.95 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM018 - Guadalcanal 1942: The Marines Strike Back Osprey's examination of the first American amphibious assault of World War II (1939-1945). On what was a virtually unheard of Pacific island, the United States shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility, as the US Marines and Army halted the apparently... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM030 - Midway 1942 In 1993 Osprey Publishing released the 30th volume in its now legendary Campaign series, entitled, Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific. Now, 17 years later, Osprey brings readers up-to-date with the latest scholarship on this important Pacific War... 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Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... 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Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
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MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... 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Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
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Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... 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Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... 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Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... 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Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... 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It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). 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Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
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MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM009 - Agincourt 1415 Osprey's Campaign title for one of the most important campaigns of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453). Agincourt is one of the most evocative names in English military history. Henry V's forces were tired, hungry, and faced a French army three to six... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM014 - Zulu War 1879: Twilight of a warrior nation Osprey's Campaign title for the Zulu War (1879). In the late 1870s the British Imperial administration in the Cape colony in southern Africa began to view the Zulu kingdom as a challenge to their authority.To contain this perceived threat, they... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM015 - Waterloo 1815: The Birth of Modern Europe Osprey's study of the most famous battle of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Waterloo holds a special place among the great battles of history. The climax of more than twenty years of war, it was indeed a close-run affair, matching two of the world's... MSRP: Now: $21.95 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM018 - Guadalcanal 1942: The Marines Strike Back Osprey's examination of the first American amphibious assault of World War II (1939-1945). On what was a virtually unheard of Pacific island, the United States shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility, as the US Marines and Army halted the apparently... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM030 - Midway 1942 In 1993 Osprey Publishing released the 30th volume in its now legendary Campaign series, entitled, Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific. Now, 17 years later, Osprey brings readers up-to-date with the latest scholarship on this important Pacific War... 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Yet, even at this pinnacle of Imperial pomp and majesty, the British... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM041 - Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned like rats in a hole' Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line. The British stand deserves to go down in history as one of the most heroic actions of all time. The... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM042 - Bagration 1944 Osprey's overview of the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II (1939-1945). On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM048 - Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... 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Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). 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MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). 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MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... 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Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
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Agincourt is one of the most evocative names in English military history. Henry V's forces were tired, hungry, and faced a French army three to six... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM014 - Zulu War 1879: Twilight of a warrior nation Osprey's Campaign title for the Zulu War (1879). In the late 1870s the British Imperial administration in the Cape colony in southern Africa began to view the Zulu kingdom as a challenge to their authority.To contain this perceived threat, they... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM015 - Waterloo 1815: The Birth of Modern Europe Osprey's study of the most famous battle of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Waterloo holds a special place among the great battles of history. The climax of more than twenty years of war, it was indeed a close-run affair, matching two of the world's... MSRP: Now: $21.95 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM018 - Guadalcanal 1942: The Marines Strike Back Osprey's examination of the first American amphibious assault of World War II (1939-1945). On what was a virtually unheard of Pacific island, the United States shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility, as the US Marines and Army halted the apparently... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM030 - Midway 1942 In 1993 Osprey Publishing released the 30th volume in its now legendary Campaign series, entitled, Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific. Now, 17 years later, Osprey brings readers up-to-date with the latest scholarship on this important Pacific War... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM036 - Cannae 216 BC Osprey's study of the Battle of Canae (216 BC), which is regarded as one of the greatest battles of military history. Hannibal's stratagem has become a model of the perfectly fought battle and is studied in detail at military academies around the world... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM037 - Boston 1775: The shot heard around the world The British assault on Breed's Hill and the burning of Charlestown were the first major battles of the American Revolution; after the events at Boston there was no turning back. This detailed text by Brendan Morrissey explores the opposing commanders and... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM038 -Colenso 1899: The Boer War in Natal In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the throne for more than 50 glittering years, and her domain touched upon every continent. Yet, even at this pinnacle of Imperial pomp and majesty, the British... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM041 - Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned like rats in a hole' Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line. The British stand deserves to go down in history as one of the most heroic actions of all time. The... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM042 - Bagration 1944 Osprey's overview of the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II (1939-1945). On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM048 - Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... 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Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM084 - Adrianople AD 378 Osprey's examination of the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), fought between Goth rebels, led by Fritigern, and the Roman army, led by Emperor Valens. 'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM097 - Bussaco 1810 Wellington Defeats Napoleon's Marshals By 1810, Napoleon reigned supreme over most of continental Europe. But the Iberian Peninsula remained unsubdued, particularly Portugal, which continued to resist. Napoleon ordered Marshal Masséna to crush this resistance with the Army of Portugal... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM104 - D-Day 1944 (2) On their western flank, the Allied landings on D-Day combined a parachute drop by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with an amphibious assault on "Utah” Beach by the US 4th Infantry Division. The landings came ashore in the wrong place but met weaker... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM105 - D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... 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Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
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MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM014 - Zulu War 1879: Twilight of a warrior nation Osprey's Campaign title for the Zulu War (1879). In the late 1870s the British Imperial administration in the Cape colony in southern Africa began to view the Zulu kingdom as a challenge to their authority.To contain this perceived threat, they... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM015 - Waterloo 1815: The Birth of Modern Europe Osprey's study of the most famous battle of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Waterloo holds a special place among the great battles of history. The climax of more than twenty years of war, it was indeed a close-run affair, matching two of the world's... MSRP: Now: $21.95 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM018 - Guadalcanal 1942: The Marines Strike Back Osprey's examination of the first American amphibious assault of World War II (1939-1945). On what was a virtually unheard of Pacific island, the United States shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility, as the US Marines and Army halted the apparently... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM030 - Midway 1942 In 1993 Osprey Publishing released the 30th volume in its now legendary Campaign series, entitled, Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific. Now, 17 years later, Osprey brings readers up-to-date with the latest scholarship on this important Pacific War... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM036 - Cannae 216 BC Osprey's study of the Battle of Canae (216 BC), which is regarded as one of the greatest battles of military history. Hannibal's stratagem has become a model of the perfectly fought battle and is studied in detail at military academies around the world... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM037 - Boston 1775: The shot heard around the world The British assault on Breed's Hill and the burning of Charlestown were the first major battles of the American Revolution; after the events at Boston there was no turning back. This detailed text by Brendan Morrissey explores the opposing commanders and... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM038 -Colenso 1899: The Boer War in Natal In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the throne for more than 50 glittering years, and her domain touched upon every continent. Yet, even at this pinnacle of Imperial pomp and majesty, the British... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM041 - Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned like rats in a hole' Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line. The British stand deserves to go down in history as one of the most heroic actions of all time. The... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM042 - Bagration 1944 Osprey's overview of the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II (1939-1945). On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM048 - Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM057 - San Juan Hill 1898 Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War (1898) was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM059 - Vittoria 1813: Wellington sweeps the french from Spain Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Vittoria during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... 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On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM084 - Adrianople AD 378 Osprey's examination of the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), fought between Goth rebels, led by Fritigern, and the Roman army, led by Emperor Valens. 'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... 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At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM107 - Poland 1939: The birth of Blitzkrieg Osprey's examination of the German invasion of Poland, which began World War II (1939-1945) in Europe, pitting the newly modernized army of Europe's great industrial power against the much smaller Polish army and introducing the world to a new style of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM111 - Isandlwana 1879: The great Zulu victory Osprey's study of the battle of Isandlwana, which was fought on 22 January 1879 and was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Zulu War (1879). A Zulu army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM117 - Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297–98 The death of the last of the Scottish royal house of Canmore in 1290 triggered a succession crisis. Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
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On the night of August 1, 1798, a British fleet under the command of Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson met a French fleet under the command of Admiral... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM 284 - Guadalcanal 1942–43: America's first victory on the road to Tokyo The Guadalcanal campaign began with an amphibious assault in August 1942 - the US's first attempt to take the fight to the Japanese. It quickly escalated into a desperate attritional battle on land, air and sea, and by the time the Japanese had evacuated... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM009 - Agincourt 1415 Osprey's Campaign title for one of the most important campaigns of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453). Agincourt is one of the most evocative names in English military history. Henry V's forces were tired, hungry, and faced a French army three to six... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM014 - Zulu War 1879: Twilight of a warrior nation Osprey's Campaign title for the Zulu War (1879). In the late 1870s the British Imperial administration in the Cape colony in southern Africa began to view the Zulu kingdom as a challenge to their authority.To contain this perceived threat, they... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM015 - Waterloo 1815: The Birth of Modern Europe Osprey's study of the most famous battle of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Waterloo holds a special place among the great battles of history. The climax of more than twenty years of war, it was indeed a close-run affair, matching two of the world's... MSRP: Now: $21.95 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM018 - Guadalcanal 1942: The Marines Strike Back Osprey's examination of the first American amphibious assault of World War II (1939-1945). On what was a virtually unheard of Pacific island, the United States shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility, as the US Marines and Army halted the apparently... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM030 - Midway 1942 In 1993 Osprey Publishing released the 30th volume in its now legendary Campaign series, entitled, Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific. Now, 17 years later, Osprey brings readers up-to-date with the latest scholarship on this important Pacific War... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM036 - Cannae 216 BC Osprey's study of the Battle of Canae (216 BC), which is regarded as one of the greatest battles of military history. Hannibal's stratagem has become a model of the perfectly fought battle and is studied in detail at military academies around the world... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM037 - Boston 1775: The shot heard around the world The British assault on Breed's Hill and the burning of Charlestown were the first major battles of the American Revolution; after the events at Boston there was no turning back. This detailed text by Brendan Morrissey explores the opposing commanders and... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM038 -Colenso 1899: The Boer War in Natal In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the throne for more than 50 glittering years, and her domain touched upon every continent. Yet, even at this pinnacle of Imperial pomp and majesty, the British... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM041 - Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned like rats in a hole' Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line. The British stand deserves to go down in history as one of the most heroic actions of all time. The... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM042 - Bagration 1944 Osprey's overview of the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II (1939-1945). On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM048 - Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM057 - San Juan Hill 1898 Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War (1898) was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM059 - Vittoria 1813: Wellington sweeps the french from Spain Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Vittoria during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM084 - Adrianople AD 378 Osprey's examination of the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), fought between Goth rebels, led by Fritigern, and the Roman army, led by Emperor Valens. 'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM097 - Bussaco 1810 Wellington Defeats Napoleon's Marshals By 1810, Napoleon reigned supreme over most of continental Europe. But the Iberian Peninsula remained unsubdued, particularly Portugal, which continued to resist. Napoleon ordered Marshal Masséna to crush this resistance with the Army of Portugal... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM104 - D-Day 1944 (2) On their western flank, the Allied landings on D-Day combined a parachute drop by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with an amphibious assault on "Utah” Beach by the US 4th Infantry Division. The landings came ashore in the wrong place but met weaker... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM105 - D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM107 - Poland 1939: The birth of Blitzkrieg Osprey's examination of the German invasion of Poland, which began World War II (1939-1945) in Europe, pitting the newly modernized army of Europe's great industrial power against the much smaller Polish army and introducing the world to a new style of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM111 - Isandlwana 1879: The great Zulu victory Osprey's study of the battle of Isandlwana, which was fought on 22 January 1879 and was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Zulu War (1879). A Zulu army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM117 - Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297–98 The death of the last of the Scottish royal house of Canmore in 1290 triggered a succession crisis. Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
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MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM 284 - Guadalcanal 1942–43: America's first victory on the road to Tokyo The Guadalcanal campaign began with an amphibious assault in August 1942 - the US's first attempt to take the fight to the Japanese. It quickly escalated into a desperate attritional battle on land, air and sea, and by the time the Japanese had evacuated... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM009 - Agincourt 1415 Osprey's Campaign title for one of the most important campaigns of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453). Agincourt is one of the most evocative names in English military history. Henry V's forces were tired, hungry, and faced a French army three to six... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM014 - Zulu War 1879: Twilight of a warrior nation Osprey's Campaign title for the Zulu War (1879). In the late 1870s the British Imperial administration in the Cape colony in southern Africa began to view the Zulu kingdom as a challenge to their authority.To contain this perceived threat, they... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM015 - Waterloo 1815: The Birth of Modern Europe Osprey's study of the most famous battle of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Waterloo holds a special place among the great battles of history. The climax of more than twenty years of war, it was indeed a close-run affair, matching two of the world's... MSRP: Now: $21.95 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM018 - Guadalcanal 1942: The Marines Strike Back Osprey's examination of the first American amphibious assault of World War II (1939-1945). On what was a virtually unheard of Pacific island, the United States shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility, as the US Marines and Army halted the apparently... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM030 - Midway 1942 In 1993 Osprey Publishing released the 30th volume in its now legendary Campaign series, entitled, Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific. Now, 17 years later, Osprey brings readers up-to-date with the latest scholarship on this important Pacific War... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM036 - Cannae 216 BC Osprey's study of the Battle of Canae (216 BC), which is regarded as one of the greatest battles of military history. Hannibal's stratagem has become a model of the perfectly fought battle and is studied in detail at military academies around the world... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM037 - Boston 1775: The shot heard around the world The British assault on Breed's Hill and the burning of Charlestown were the first major battles of the American Revolution; after the events at Boston there was no turning back. This detailed text by Brendan Morrissey explores the opposing commanders and... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM038 -Colenso 1899: The Boer War in Natal In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the throne for more than 50 glittering years, and her domain touched upon every continent. Yet, even at this pinnacle of Imperial pomp and majesty, the British... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM041 - Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned like rats in a hole' Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line. The British stand deserves to go down in history as one of the most heroic actions of all time. The... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM042 - Bagration 1944 Osprey's overview of the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II (1939-1945). On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM048 - Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... 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Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM084 - Adrianople AD 378 Osprey's examination of the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), fought between Goth rebels, led by Fritigern, and the Roman army, led by Emperor Valens. 'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM097 - Bussaco 1810 Wellington Defeats Napoleon's Marshals By 1810, Napoleon reigned supreme over most of continental Europe. But the Iberian Peninsula remained unsubdued, particularly Portugal, which continued to resist. Napoleon ordered Marshal Masséna to crush this resistance with the Army of Portugal... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM104 - D-Day 1944 (2) On their western flank, the Allied landings on D-Day combined a parachute drop by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with an amphibious assault on "Utah” Beach by the US 4th Infantry Division. The landings came ashore in the wrong place but met weaker... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM105 - D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM107 - Poland 1939: The birth of Blitzkrieg Osprey's examination of the German invasion of Poland, which began World War II (1939-1945) in Europe, pitting the newly modernized army of Europe's great industrial power against the much smaller Polish army and introducing the world to a new style of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM111 - Isandlwana 1879: The great Zulu victory Osprey's study of the battle of Isandlwana, which was fought on 22 January 1879 and was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Zulu War (1879). A Zulu army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM117 - Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297–98 The death of the last of the Scottish royal house of Canmore in 1290 triggered a succession crisis. Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Details Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM 183 - Denmark And Norway 1940 On 9 April 1940, German forces invaded Denmark, and then Norway, in an attempt to secure the vital mineral resources of Scandinavia for their war industry. This assault, Operation Weserübung, represents the first joint air-land-and-sea campaign in the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM 230 - Nile 1798: Nelson’s first great victory Osprey's examination of one of the great sea battles of the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802). On the night of August 1, 1798, a British fleet under the command of Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson met a French fleet under the command of Admiral... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM 284 - Guadalcanal 1942–43: America's first victory on the road to Tokyo The Guadalcanal campaign began with an amphibious assault in August 1942 - the US's first attempt to take the fight to the Japanese. It quickly escalated into a desperate attritional battle on land, air and sea, and by the time the Japanese had evacuated... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM009 - Agincourt 1415 Osprey's Campaign title for one of the most important campaigns of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453). Agincourt is one of the most evocative names in English military history. Henry V's forces were tired, hungry, and faced a French army three to six... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM014 - Zulu War 1879: Twilight of a warrior nation Osprey's Campaign title for the Zulu War (1879). In the late 1870s the British Imperial administration in the Cape colony in southern Africa began to view the Zulu kingdom as a challenge to their authority.To contain this perceived threat, they... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM015 - Waterloo 1815: The Birth of Modern Europe Osprey's study of the most famous battle of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Waterloo holds a special place among the great battles of history. The climax of more than twenty years of war, it was indeed a close-run affair, matching two of the world's... MSRP: Now: $21.95 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM018 - Guadalcanal 1942: The Marines Strike Back Osprey's examination of the first American amphibious assault of World War II (1939-1945). On what was a virtually unheard of Pacific island, the United States shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility, as the US Marines and Army halted the apparently... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM030 - Midway 1942 In 1993 Osprey Publishing released the 30th volume in its now legendary Campaign series, entitled, Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific. Now, 17 years later, Osprey brings readers up-to-date with the latest scholarship on this important Pacific War... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM036 - Cannae 216 BC Osprey's study of the Battle of Canae (216 BC), which is regarded as one of the greatest battles of military history. Hannibal's stratagem has become a model of the perfectly fought battle and is studied in detail at military academies around the world... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM037 - Boston 1775: The shot heard around the world The British assault on Breed's Hill and the burning of Charlestown were the first major battles of the American Revolution; after the events at Boston there was no turning back. This detailed text by Brendan Morrissey explores the opposing commanders and... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM038 -Colenso 1899: The Boer War in Natal In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the throne for more than 50 glittering years, and her domain touched upon every continent. Yet, even at this pinnacle of Imperial pomp and majesty, the British... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM041 - Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned like rats in a hole' Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line. The British stand deserves to go down in history as one of the most heroic actions of all time. The... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM042 - Bagration 1944 Osprey's overview of the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II (1939-1945). On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM048 - Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM057 - San Juan Hill 1898 Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War (1898) was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM059 - Vittoria 1813: Wellington sweeps the french from Spain Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Vittoria during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM084 - Adrianople AD 378 Osprey's examination of the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), fought between Goth rebels, led by Fritigern, and the Roman army, led by Emperor Valens. 'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM097 - Bussaco 1810 Wellington Defeats Napoleon's Marshals By 1810, Napoleon reigned supreme over most of continental Europe. But the Iberian Peninsula remained unsubdued, particularly Portugal, which continued to resist. Napoleon ordered Marshal Masséna to crush this resistance with the Army of Portugal... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM104 - D-Day 1944 (2) On their western flank, the Allied landings on D-Day combined a parachute drop by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with an amphibious assault on "Utah” Beach by the US 4th Infantry Division. The landings came ashore in the wrong place but met weaker... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM105 - D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM107 - Poland 1939: The birth of Blitzkrieg Osprey's examination of the German invasion of Poland, which began World War II (1939-1945) in Europe, pitting the newly modernized army of Europe's great industrial power against the much smaller Polish army and introducing the world to a new style of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM111 - Isandlwana 1879: The great Zulu victory Osprey's study of the battle of Isandlwana, which was fought on 22 January 1879 and was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Zulu War (1879). A Zulu army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM117 - Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297–98 The death of the last of the Scottish royal house of Canmore in 1290 triggered a succession crisis. Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM 183 - Denmark And Norway 1940 On 9 April 1940, German forces invaded Denmark, and then Norway, in an attempt to secure the vital mineral resources of Scandinavia for their war industry. This assault, Operation Weserübung, represents the first joint air-land-and-sea campaign in the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM 230 - Nile 1798: Nelson’s first great victory Osprey's examination of one of the great sea battles of the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802). On the night of August 1, 1798, a British fleet under the command of Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson met a French fleet under the command of Admiral... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM 284 - Guadalcanal 1942–43: America's first victory on the road to Tokyo The Guadalcanal campaign began with an amphibious assault in August 1942 - the US's first attempt to take the fight to the Japanese. It quickly escalated into a desperate attritional battle on land, air and sea, and by the time the Japanese had evacuated... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM009 - Agincourt 1415 Osprey's Campaign title for one of the most important campaigns of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453). Agincourt is one of the most evocative names in English military history. Henry V's forces were tired, hungry, and faced a French army three to six... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM014 - Zulu War 1879: Twilight of a warrior nation Osprey's Campaign title for the Zulu War (1879). In the late 1870s the British Imperial administration in the Cape colony in southern Africa began to view the Zulu kingdom as a challenge to their authority.To contain this perceived threat, they... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM015 - Waterloo 1815: The Birth of Modern Europe Osprey's study of the most famous battle of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Waterloo holds a special place among the great battles of history. The climax of more than twenty years of war, it was indeed a close-run affair, matching two of the world's... MSRP: Now: $21.95 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM018 - Guadalcanal 1942: The Marines Strike Back Osprey's examination of the first American amphibious assault of World War II (1939-1945). On what was a virtually unheard of Pacific island, the United States shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility, as the US Marines and Army halted the apparently... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM030 - Midway 1942 In 1993 Osprey Publishing released the 30th volume in its now legendary Campaign series, entitled, Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific. Now, 17 years later, Osprey brings readers up-to-date with the latest scholarship on this important Pacific War... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM036 - Cannae 216 BC Osprey's study of the Battle of Canae (216 BC), which is regarded as one of the greatest battles of military history. Hannibal's stratagem has become a model of the perfectly fought battle and is studied in detail at military academies around the world... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM037 - Boston 1775: The shot heard around the world The British assault on Breed's Hill and the burning of Charlestown were the first major battles of the American Revolution; after the events at Boston there was no turning back. This detailed text by Brendan Morrissey explores the opposing commanders and... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM038 -Colenso 1899: The Boer War in Natal In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the throne for more than 50 glittering years, and her domain touched upon every continent. Yet, even at this pinnacle of Imperial pomp and majesty, the British... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM041 - Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned like rats in a hole' Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line. The British stand deserves to go down in history as one of the most heroic actions of all time. The... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM042 - Bagration 1944 Osprey's overview of the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II (1939-1945). On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM048 - Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM057 - San Juan Hill 1898 Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War (1898) was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM059 - Vittoria 1813: Wellington sweeps the french from Spain Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Vittoria during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM084 - Adrianople AD 378 Osprey's examination of the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), fought between Goth rebels, led by Fritigern, and the Roman army, led by Emperor Valens. 'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM097 - Bussaco 1810 Wellington Defeats Napoleon's Marshals By 1810, Napoleon reigned supreme over most of continental Europe. But the Iberian Peninsula remained unsubdued, particularly Portugal, which continued to resist. 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Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM 230 - Nile 1798: Nelson’s first great victory Osprey's examination of one of the great sea battles of the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802). On the night of August 1, 1798, a British fleet under the command of Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson met a French fleet under the command of Admiral... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM 284 - Guadalcanal 1942–43: America's first victory on the road to Tokyo The Guadalcanal campaign began with an amphibious assault in August 1942 - the US's first attempt to take the fight to the Japanese. It quickly escalated into a desperate attritional battle on land, air and sea, and by the time the Japanese had evacuated... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM009 - Agincourt 1415 Osprey's Campaign title for one of the most important campaigns of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453). Agincourt is one of the most evocative names in English military history. Henry V's forces were tired, hungry, and faced a French army three to six... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM014 - Zulu War 1879: Twilight of a warrior nation Osprey's Campaign title for the Zulu War (1879). In the late 1870s the British Imperial administration in the Cape colony in southern Africa began to view the Zulu kingdom as a challenge to their authority.To contain this perceived threat, they... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM015 - Waterloo 1815: The Birth of Modern Europe Osprey's study of the most famous battle of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Waterloo holds a special place among the great battles of history. The climax of more than twenty years of war, it was indeed a close-run affair, matching two of the world's... MSRP: Now: $21.95 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM018 - Guadalcanal 1942: The Marines Strike Back Osprey's examination of the first American amphibious assault of World War II (1939-1945). On what was a virtually unheard of Pacific island, the United States shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility, as the US Marines and Army halted the apparently... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM030 - Midway 1942 In 1993 Osprey Publishing released the 30th volume in its now legendary Campaign series, entitled, Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific. Now, 17 years later, Osprey brings readers up-to-date with the latest scholarship on this important Pacific War... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM036 - Cannae 216 BC Osprey's study of the Battle of Canae (216 BC), which is regarded as one of the greatest battles of military history. Hannibal's stratagem has become a model of the perfectly fought battle and is studied in detail at military academies around the world... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM037 - Boston 1775: The shot heard around the world The British assault on Breed's Hill and the burning of Charlestown were the first major battles of the American Revolution; after the events at Boston there was no turning back. This detailed text by Brendan Morrissey explores the opposing commanders and... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM038 -Colenso 1899: The Boer War in Natal In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the throne for more than 50 glittering years, and her domain touched upon every continent. Yet, even at this pinnacle of Imperial pomp and majesty, the British... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM041 - Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned like rats in a hole' Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line. The British stand deserves to go down in history as one of the most heroic actions of all time. The... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM042 - Bagration 1944 Osprey's overview of the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II (1939-1945). On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM048 - Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM057 - San Juan Hill 1898 Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War (1898) was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM059 - Vittoria 1813: Wellington sweeps the french from Spain Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Vittoria during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM084 - Adrianople AD 378 Osprey's examination of the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), fought between Goth rebels, led by Fritigern, and the Roman army, led by Emperor Valens. 'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... 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MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM104 - D-Day 1944 (2) On their western flank, the Allied landings on D-Day combined a parachute drop by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with an amphibious assault on "Utah” Beach by the US 4th Infantry Division. The landings came ashore in the wrong place but met weaker... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM105 - D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM107 - Poland 1939: The birth of Blitzkrieg Osprey's examination of the German invasion of Poland, which began World War II (1939-1945) in Europe, pitting the newly modernized army of Europe's great industrial power against the much smaller Polish army and introducing the world to a new style of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM111 - Isandlwana 1879: The great Zulu victory Osprey's study of the battle of Isandlwana, which was fought on 22 January 1879 and was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Zulu War (1879). A Zulu army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM117 - Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297–98 The death of the last of the Scottish royal house of Canmore in 1290 triggered a succession crisis. Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM 284 - Guadalcanal 1942–43: America's first victory on the road to Tokyo The Guadalcanal campaign began with an amphibious assault in August 1942 - the US's first attempt to take the fight to the Japanese. It quickly escalated into a desperate attritional battle on land, air and sea, and by the time the Japanese had evacuated... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM009 - Agincourt 1415 Osprey's Campaign title for one of the most important campaigns of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453). Agincourt is one of the most evocative names in English military history. Henry V's forces were tired, hungry, and faced a French army three to six... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM014 - Zulu War 1879: Twilight of a warrior nation Osprey's Campaign title for the Zulu War (1879). In the late 1870s the British Imperial administration in the Cape colony in southern Africa began to view the Zulu kingdom as a challenge to their authority.To contain this perceived threat, they... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM015 - Waterloo 1815: The Birth of Modern Europe Osprey's study of the most famous battle of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Waterloo holds a special place among the great battles of history. The climax of more than twenty years of war, it was indeed a close-run affair, matching two of the world's... MSRP: Now: $21.95 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM018 - Guadalcanal 1942: The Marines Strike Back Osprey's examination of the first American amphibious assault of World War II (1939-1945). On what was a virtually unheard of Pacific island, the United States shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility, as the US Marines and Army halted the apparently... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM030 - Midway 1942 In 1993 Osprey Publishing released the 30th volume in its now legendary Campaign series, entitled, Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific. Now, 17 years later, Osprey brings readers up-to-date with the latest scholarship on this important Pacific War... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM036 - Cannae 216 BC Osprey's study of the Battle of Canae (216 BC), which is regarded as one of the greatest battles of military history. Hannibal's stratagem has become a model of the perfectly fought battle and is studied in detail at military academies around the world... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM037 - Boston 1775: The shot heard around the world The British assault on Breed's Hill and the burning of Charlestown were the first major battles of the American Revolution; after the events at Boston there was no turning back. This detailed text by Brendan Morrissey explores the opposing commanders and... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM038 -Colenso 1899: The Boer War in Natal In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the throne for more than 50 glittering years, and her domain touched upon every continent. Yet, even at this pinnacle of Imperial pomp and majesty, the British... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM041 - Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned like rats in a hole' Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line. The British stand deserves to go down in history as one of the most heroic actions of all time. The... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM042 - Bagration 1944 Osprey's overview of the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II (1939-1945). On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM048 - Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM057 - San Juan Hill 1898 Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War (1898) was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM059 - Vittoria 1813: Wellington sweeps the french from Spain Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Vittoria during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM084 - Adrianople AD 378 Osprey's examination of the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), fought between Goth rebels, led by Fritigern, and the Roman army, led by Emperor Valens. 'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM097 - Bussaco 1810 Wellington Defeats Napoleon's Marshals By 1810, Napoleon reigned supreme over most of continental Europe. But the Iberian Peninsula remained unsubdued, particularly Portugal, which continued to resist. Napoleon ordered Marshal Masséna to crush this resistance with the Army of Portugal... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM104 - D-Day 1944 (2) On their western flank, the Allied landings on D-Day combined a parachute drop by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with an amphibious assault on "Utah” Beach by the US 4th Infantry Division. The landings came ashore in the wrong place but met weaker... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM105 - D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM107 - Poland 1939: The birth of Blitzkrieg Osprey's examination of the German invasion of Poland, which began World War II (1939-1945) in Europe, pitting the newly modernized army of Europe's great industrial power against the much smaller Polish army and introducing the world to a new style of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM111 - Isandlwana 1879: The great Zulu victory Osprey's study of the battle of Isandlwana, which was fought on 22 January 1879 and was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Zulu War (1879). A Zulu army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM117 - Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297–98 The death of the last of the Scottish royal house of Canmore in 1290 triggered a succession crisis. Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM009 - Agincourt 1415 Osprey's Campaign title for one of the most important campaigns of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453). Agincourt is one of the most evocative names in English military history. Henry V's forces were tired, hungry, and faced a French army three to six... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM014 - Zulu War 1879: Twilight of a warrior nation Osprey's Campaign title for the Zulu War (1879). In the late 1870s the British Imperial administration in the Cape colony in southern Africa began to view the Zulu kingdom as a challenge to their authority.To contain this perceived threat, they... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM015 - Waterloo 1815: The Birth of Modern Europe Osprey's study of the most famous battle of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Waterloo holds a special place among the great battles of history. The climax of more than twenty years of war, it was indeed a close-run affair, matching two of the world's... MSRP: Now: $21.95 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM018 - Guadalcanal 1942: The Marines Strike Back Osprey's examination of the first American amphibious assault of World War II (1939-1945). On what was a virtually unheard of Pacific island, the United States shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility, as the US Marines and Army halted the apparently... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM030 - Midway 1942 In 1993 Osprey Publishing released the 30th volume in its now legendary Campaign series, entitled, Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific. Now, 17 years later, Osprey brings readers up-to-date with the latest scholarship on this important Pacific War... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM036 - Cannae 216 BC Osprey's study of the Battle of Canae (216 BC), which is regarded as one of the greatest battles of military history. Hannibal's stratagem has become a model of the perfectly fought battle and is studied in detail at military academies around the world... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM037 - Boston 1775: The shot heard around the world The British assault on Breed's Hill and the burning of Charlestown were the first major battles of the American Revolution; after the events at Boston there was no turning back. This detailed text by Brendan Morrissey explores the opposing commanders and... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM038 -Colenso 1899: The Boer War in Natal In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the throne for more than 50 glittering years, and her domain touched upon every continent. Yet, even at this pinnacle of Imperial pomp and majesty, the British... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM041 - Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned like rats in a hole' Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line. The British stand deserves to go down in history as one of the most heroic actions of all time. The... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM042 - Bagration 1944 Osprey's overview of the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II (1939-1945). On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM048 - Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM057 - San Juan Hill 1898 Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War (1898) was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM059 - Vittoria 1813: Wellington sweeps the french from Spain Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Vittoria during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM084 - Adrianople AD 378 Osprey's examination of the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), fought between Goth rebels, led by Fritigern, and the Roman army, led by Emperor Valens. 'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM097 - Bussaco 1810 Wellington Defeats Napoleon's Marshals By 1810, Napoleon reigned supreme over most of continental Europe. But the Iberian Peninsula remained unsubdued, particularly Portugal, which continued to resist. Napoleon ordered Marshal Masséna to crush this resistance with the Army of Portugal... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM104 - D-Day 1944 (2) On their western flank, the Allied landings on D-Day combined a parachute drop by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with an amphibious assault on "Utah” Beach by the US 4th Infantry Division. The landings came ashore in the wrong place but met weaker... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM105 - D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM107 - Poland 1939: The birth of Blitzkrieg Osprey's examination of the German invasion of Poland, which began World War II (1939-1945) in Europe, pitting the newly modernized army of Europe's great industrial power against the much smaller Polish army and introducing the world to a new style of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM111 - Isandlwana 1879: The great Zulu victory Osprey's study of the battle of Isandlwana, which was fought on 22 January 1879 and was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Zulu War (1879). A Zulu army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM117 - Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297–98 The death of the last of the Scottish royal house of Canmore in 1290 triggered a succession crisis. Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM014 - Zulu War 1879: Twilight of a warrior nation Osprey's Campaign title for the Zulu War (1879). In the late 1870s the British Imperial administration in the Cape colony in southern Africa began to view the Zulu kingdom as a challenge to their authority.To contain this perceived threat, they... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM015 - Waterloo 1815: The Birth of Modern Europe Osprey's study of the most famous battle of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Waterloo holds a special place among the great battles of history. The climax of more than twenty years of war, it was indeed a close-run affair, matching two of the world's... MSRP: Now: $21.95 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM018 - Guadalcanal 1942: The Marines Strike Back Osprey's examination of the first American amphibious assault of World War II (1939-1945). On what was a virtually unheard of Pacific island, the United States shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility, as the US Marines and Army halted the apparently... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM030 - Midway 1942 In 1993 Osprey Publishing released the 30th volume in its now legendary Campaign series, entitled, Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific. Now, 17 years later, Osprey brings readers up-to-date with the latest scholarship on this important Pacific War... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM036 - Cannae 216 BC Osprey's study of the Battle of Canae (216 BC), which is regarded as one of the greatest battles of military history. Hannibal's stratagem has become a model of the perfectly fought battle and is studied in detail at military academies around the world... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM037 - Boston 1775: The shot heard around the world The British assault on Breed's Hill and the burning of Charlestown were the first major battles of the American Revolution; after the events at Boston there was no turning back. This detailed text by Brendan Morrissey explores the opposing commanders and... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM038 -Colenso 1899: The Boer War in Natal In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the throne for more than 50 glittering years, and her domain touched upon every continent. Yet, even at this pinnacle of Imperial pomp and majesty, the British... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM041 - Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned like rats in a hole' Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line. The British stand deserves to go down in history as one of the most heroic actions of all time. The... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM042 - Bagration 1944 Osprey's overview of the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II (1939-1945). On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM048 - Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM057 - San Juan Hill 1898 Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War (1898) was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM059 - Vittoria 1813: Wellington sweeps the french from Spain Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Vittoria during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM084 - Adrianople AD 378 Osprey's examination of the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), fought between Goth rebels, led by Fritigern, and the Roman army, led by Emperor Valens. 'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... 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At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM107 - Poland 1939: The birth of Blitzkrieg Osprey's examination of the German invasion of Poland, which began World War II (1939-1945) in Europe, pitting the newly modernized army of Europe's great industrial power against the much smaller Polish army and introducing the world to a new style of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM111 - Isandlwana 1879: The great Zulu victory Osprey's study of the battle of Isandlwana, which was fought on 22 January 1879 and was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Zulu War (1879). A Zulu army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM117 - Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297–98 The death of the last of the Scottish royal house of Canmore in 1290 triggered a succession crisis. Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM015 - Waterloo 1815: The Birth of Modern Europe Osprey's study of the most famous battle of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Waterloo holds a special place among the great battles of history. The climax of more than twenty years of war, it was indeed a close-run affair, matching two of the world's... MSRP: Now: $21.95 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM018 - Guadalcanal 1942: The Marines Strike Back Osprey's examination of the first American amphibious assault of World War II (1939-1945). On what was a virtually unheard of Pacific island, the United States shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility, as the US Marines and Army halted the apparently... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM030 - Midway 1942 In 1993 Osprey Publishing released the 30th volume in its now legendary Campaign series, entitled, Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific. Now, 17 years later, Osprey brings readers up-to-date with the latest scholarship on this important Pacific War... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM036 - Cannae 216 BC Osprey's study of the Battle of Canae (216 BC), which is regarded as one of the greatest battles of military history. Hannibal's stratagem has become a model of the perfectly fought battle and is studied in detail at military academies around the world... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM037 - Boston 1775: The shot heard around the world The British assault on Breed's Hill and the burning of Charlestown were the first major battles of the American Revolution; after the events at Boston there was no turning back. This detailed text by Brendan Morrissey explores the opposing commanders and... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM038 -Colenso 1899: The Boer War in Natal In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the throne for more than 50 glittering years, and her domain touched upon every continent. Yet, even at this pinnacle of Imperial pomp and majesty, the British... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM041 - Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned like rats in a hole' Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line. The British stand deserves to go down in history as one of the most heroic actions of all time. The... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM042 - Bagration 1944 Osprey's overview of the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II (1939-1945). On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia... 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In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM057 - San Juan Hill 1898 Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War (1898) was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM059 - Vittoria 1813: Wellington sweeps the french from Spain Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Vittoria during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM084 - Adrianople AD 378 Osprey's examination of the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), fought between Goth rebels, led by Fritigern, and the Roman army, led by Emperor Valens. 'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM097 - Bussaco 1810 Wellington Defeats Napoleon's Marshals By 1810, Napoleon reigned supreme over most of continental Europe. But the Iberian Peninsula remained unsubdued, particularly Portugal, which continued to resist. Napoleon ordered Marshal Masséna to crush this resistance with the Army of Portugal... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM104 - D-Day 1944 (2) On their western flank, the Allied landings on D-Day combined a parachute drop by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with an amphibious assault on "Utah” Beach by the US 4th Infantry Division. The landings came ashore in the wrong place but met weaker... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM105 - D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... 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Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM018 - Guadalcanal 1942: The Marines Strike Back Osprey's examination of the first American amphibious assault of World War II (1939-1945). On what was a virtually unheard of Pacific island, the United States shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility, as the US Marines and Army halted the apparently... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM030 - Midway 1942 In 1993 Osprey Publishing released the 30th volume in its now legendary Campaign series, entitled, Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific. Now, 17 years later, Osprey brings readers up-to-date with the latest scholarship on this important Pacific War... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM036 - Cannae 216 BC Osprey's study of the Battle of Canae (216 BC), which is regarded as one of the greatest battles of military history. Hannibal's stratagem has become a model of the perfectly fought battle and is studied in detail at military academies around the world... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM037 - Boston 1775: The shot heard around the world The British assault on Breed's Hill and the burning of Charlestown were the first major battles of the American Revolution; after the events at Boston there was no turning back. This detailed text by Brendan Morrissey explores the opposing commanders and... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM038 -Colenso 1899: The Boer War in Natal In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the throne for more than 50 glittering years, and her domain touched upon every continent. Yet, even at this pinnacle of Imperial pomp and majesty, the British... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM041 - Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned like rats in a hole' Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line. The British stand deserves to go down in history as one of the most heroic actions of all time. The... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM042 - Bagration 1944 Osprey's overview of the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II (1939-1945). On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM048 - Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM057 - San Juan Hill 1898 Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War (1898) was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM059 - Vittoria 1813: Wellington sweeps the french from Spain Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Vittoria during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM084 - Adrianople AD 378 Osprey's examination of the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), fought between Goth rebels, led by Fritigern, and the Roman army, led by Emperor Valens. 'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM097 - Bussaco 1810 Wellington Defeats Napoleon's Marshals By 1810, Napoleon reigned supreme over most of continental Europe. But the Iberian Peninsula remained unsubdued, particularly Portugal, which continued to resist. Napoleon ordered Marshal Masséna to crush this resistance with the Army of Portugal... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM104 - D-Day 1944 (2) On their western flank, the Allied landings on D-Day combined a parachute drop by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with an amphibious assault on "Utah” Beach by the US 4th Infantry Division. The landings came ashore in the wrong place but met weaker... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM105 - D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM107 - Poland 1939: The birth of Blitzkrieg Osprey's examination of the German invasion of Poland, which began World War II (1939-1945) in Europe, pitting the newly modernized army of Europe's great industrial power against the much smaller Polish army and introducing the world to a new style of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM111 - Isandlwana 1879: The great Zulu victory Osprey's study of the battle of Isandlwana, which was fought on 22 January 1879 and was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Zulu War (1879). A Zulu army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM117 - Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297–98 The death of the last of the Scottish royal house of Canmore in 1290 triggered a succession crisis. Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM030 - Midway 1942 In 1993 Osprey Publishing released the 30th volume in its now legendary Campaign series, entitled, Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific. Now, 17 years later, Osprey brings readers up-to-date with the latest scholarship on this important Pacific War... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM036 - Cannae 216 BC Osprey's study of the Battle of Canae (216 BC), which is regarded as one of the greatest battles of military history. Hannibal's stratagem has become a model of the perfectly fought battle and is studied in detail at military academies around the world... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM037 - Boston 1775: The shot heard around the world The British assault on Breed's Hill and the burning of Charlestown were the first major battles of the American Revolution; after the events at Boston there was no turning back. This detailed text by Brendan Morrissey explores the opposing commanders and... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM038 -Colenso 1899: The Boer War in Natal In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the throne for more than 50 glittering years, and her domain touched upon every continent. Yet, even at this pinnacle of Imperial pomp and majesty, the British... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM041 - Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned like rats in a hole' Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line. The British stand deserves to go down in history as one of the most heroic actions of all time. The... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM042 - Bagration 1944 Osprey's overview of the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II (1939-1945). On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM048 - Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... 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Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM084 - Adrianople AD 378 Osprey's examination of the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), fought between Goth rebels, led by Fritigern, and the Roman army, led by Emperor Valens. 'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM097 - Bussaco 1810 Wellington Defeats Napoleon's Marshals By 1810, Napoleon reigned supreme over most of continental Europe. But the Iberian Peninsula remained unsubdued, particularly Portugal, which continued to resist. Napoleon ordered Marshal Masséna to crush this resistance with the Army of Portugal... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM104 - D-Day 1944 (2) On their western flank, the Allied landings on D-Day combined a parachute drop by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with an amphibious assault on "Utah” Beach by the US 4th Infantry Division. The landings came ashore in the wrong place but met weaker... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM105 - D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... 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Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM036 - Cannae 216 BC Osprey's study of the Battle of Canae (216 BC), which is regarded as one of the greatest battles of military history. Hannibal's stratagem has become a model of the perfectly fought battle and is studied in detail at military academies around the world... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM037 - Boston 1775: The shot heard around the world The British assault on Breed's Hill and the burning of Charlestown were the first major battles of the American Revolution; after the events at Boston there was no turning back. This detailed text by Brendan Morrissey explores the opposing commanders and... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM038 -Colenso 1899: The Boer War in Natal In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the throne for more than 50 glittering years, and her domain touched upon every continent. Yet, even at this pinnacle of Imperial pomp and majesty, the British... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM041 - Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned like rats in a hole' Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line. The British stand deserves to go down in history as one of the most heroic actions of all time. The... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM042 - Bagration 1944 Osprey's overview of the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II (1939-1945). On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM048 - Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM057 - San Juan Hill 1898 Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War (1898) was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM059 - Vittoria 1813: Wellington sweeps the french from Spain Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Vittoria during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM084 - Adrianople AD 378 Osprey's examination of the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), fought between Goth rebels, led by Fritigern, and the Roman army, led by Emperor Valens. 'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... 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Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM037 - Boston 1775: The shot heard around the world The British assault on Breed's Hill and the burning of Charlestown were the first major battles of the American Revolution; after the events at Boston there was no turning back. This detailed text by Brendan Morrissey explores the opposing commanders and... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM038 -Colenso 1899: The Boer War in Natal In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the throne for more than 50 glittering years, and her domain touched upon every continent. Yet, even at this pinnacle of Imperial pomp and majesty, the British... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM041 - Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned like rats in a hole' Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line. The British stand deserves to go down in history as one of the most heroic actions of all time. The... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM042 - Bagration 1944 Osprey's overview of the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II (1939-1945). On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM048 - Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM057 - San Juan Hill 1898 Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War (1898) was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM059 - Vittoria 1813: Wellington sweeps the french from Spain Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Vittoria during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... 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On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... 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At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM107 - Poland 1939: The birth of Blitzkrieg Osprey's examination of the German invasion of Poland, which began World War II (1939-1945) in Europe, pitting the newly modernized army of Europe's great industrial power against the much smaller Polish army and introducing the world to a new style of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM111 - Isandlwana 1879: The great Zulu victory Osprey's study of the battle of Isandlwana, which was fought on 22 January 1879 and was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Zulu War (1879). A Zulu army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM117 - Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297–98 The death of the last of the Scottish royal house of Canmore in 1290 triggered a succession crisis. Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. 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Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM038 -Colenso 1899: The Boer War in Natal In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the throne for more than 50 glittering years, and her domain touched upon every continent. Yet, even at this pinnacle of Imperial pomp and majesty, the British... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM041 - Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned like rats in a hole' Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line. The British stand deserves to go down in history as one of the most heroic actions of all time. The... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM042 - Bagration 1944 Osprey's overview of the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II (1939-1945). On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM048 - Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... 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Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... 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'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM097 - Bussaco 1810 Wellington Defeats Napoleon's Marshals By 1810, Napoleon reigned supreme over most of continental Europe. But the Iberian Peninsula remained unsubdued, particularly Portugal, which continued to resist. Napoleon ordered Marshal Masséna to crush this resistance with the Army of Portugal... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM104 - D-Day 1944 (2) On their western flank, the Allied landings on D-Day combined a parachute drop by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with an amphibious assault on "Utah” Beach by the US 4th Infantry Division. The landings came ashore in the wrong place but met weaker... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM105 - D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM107 - Poland 1939: The birth of Blitzkrieg Osprey's examination of the German invasion of Poland, which began World War II (1939-1945) in Europe, pitting the newly modernized army of Europe's great industrial power against the much smaller Polish army and introducing the world to a new style of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM111 - Isandlwana 1879: The great Zulu victory Osprey's study of the battle of Isandlwana, which was fought on 22 January 1879 and was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Zulu War (1879). A Zulu army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM117 - Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297–98 The death of the last of the Scottish royal house of Canmore in 1290 triggered a succession crisis. Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM041 - Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned like rats in a hole' Rorke's Drift sums up some of the best traditions of the British self-image: steadfastness against the odds, victory in adversity and the thin red line. The British stand deserves to go down in history as one of the most heroic actions of all time. The... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM042 - Bagration 1944 Osprey's overview of the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II (1939-1945). On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM048 - Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM057 - San Juan Hill 1898 Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War (1898) was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM059 - Vittoria 1813: Wellington sweeps the french from Spain Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Vittoria during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM084 - Adrianople AD 378 Osprey's examination of the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), fought between Goth rebels, led by Fritigern, and the Roman army, led by Emperor Valens. 'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... 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MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM104 - D-Day 1944 (2) On their western flank, the Allied landings on D-Day combined a parachute drop by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with an amphibious assault on "Utah” Beach by the US 4th Infantry Division. The landings came ashore in the wrong place but met weaker... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM105 - D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM107 - Poland 1939: The birth of Blitzkrieg Osprey's examination of the German invasion of Poland, which began World War II (1939-1945) in Europe, pitting the newly modernized army of Europe's great industrial power against the much smaller Polish army and introducing the world to a new style of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM111 - Isandlwana 1879: The great Zulu victory Osprey's study of the battle of Isandlwana, which was fought on 22 January 1879 and was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Zulu War (1879). A Zulu army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM117 - Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297–98 The death of the last of the Scottish royal house of Canmore in 1290 triggered a succession crisis. Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM042 - Bagration 1944 Osprey's overview of the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II (1939-1945). On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM048 - Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM057 - San Juan Hill 1898 Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War (1898) was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM059 - Vittoria 1813: Wellington sweeps the french from Spain Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Vittoria during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM084 - Adrianople AD 378 Osprey's examination of the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), fought between Goth rebels, led by Fritigern, and the Roman army, led by Emperor Valens. 'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM097 - Bussaco 1810 Wellington Defeats Napoleon's Marshals By 1810, Napoleon reigned supreme over most of continental Europe. But the Iberian Peninsula remained unsubdued, particularly Portugal, which continued to resist. Napoleon ordered Marshal Masséna to crush this resistance with the Army of Portugal... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM104 - D-Day 1944 (2) On their western flank, the Allied landings on D-Day combined a parachute drop by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with an amphibious assault on "Utah” Beach by the US 4th Infantry Division. The landings came ashore in the wrong place but met weaker... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM105 - D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM107 - Poland 1939: The birth of Blitzkrieg Osprey's examination of the German invasion of Poland, which began World War II (1939-1945) in Europe, pitting the newly modernized army of Europe's great industrial power against the much smaller Polish army and introducing the world to a new style of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM111 - Isandlwana 1879: The great Zulu victory Osprey's study of the battle of Isandlwana, which was fought on 22 January 1879 and was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Zulu War (1879). A Zulu army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM117 - Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297–98 The death of the last of the Scottish royal house of Canmore in 1290 triggered a succession crisis. Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM048 - Salamanca 1812: Wellington Crushes Marmont Osprey's study of Salamanca (1812), the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War (1808-1814). Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM057 - San Juan Hill 1898 Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War (1898) was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM059 - Vittoria 1813: Wellington sweeps the french from Spain Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Vittoria during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM084 - Adrianople AD 378 Osprey's examination of the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), fought between Goth rebels, led by Fritigern, and the Roman army, led by Emperor Valens. 'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM097 - Bussaco 1810 Wellington Defeats Napoleon's Marshals By 1810, Napoleon reigned supreme over most of continental Europe. But the Iberian Peninsula remained unsubdued, particularly Portugal, which continued to resist. Napoleon ordered Marshal Masséna to crush this resistance with the Army of Portugal... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM104 - D-Day 1944 (2) On their western flank, the Allied landings on D-Day combined a parachute drop by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with an amphibious assault on "Utah” Beach by the US 4th Infantry Division. The landings came ashore in the wrong place but met weaker... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM105 - D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM107 - Poland 1939: The birth of Blitzkrieg Osprey's examination of the German invasion of Poland, which began World War II (1939-1945) in Europe, pitting the newly modernized army of Europe's great industrial power against the much smaller Polish army and introducing the world to a new style of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM111 - Isandlwana 1879: The great Zulu victory Osprey's study of the battle of Isandlwana, which was fought on 22 January 1879 and was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Zulu War (1879). A Zulu army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM117 - Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297–98 The death of the last of the Scottish royal house of Canmore in 1290 triggered a succession crisis. Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM049 - Mons 1914: the BEF's Tactical Triumph When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF - 'that contemptible little army' - would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM057 - San Juan Hill 1898 Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War (1898) was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM059 - Vittoria 1813: Wellington sweeps the french from Spain Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Vittoria during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM084 - Adrianople AD 378 Osprey's examination of the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), fought between Goth rebels, led by Fritigern, and the Roman army, led by Emperor Valens. 'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM097 - Bussaco 1810 Wellington Defeats Napoleon's Marshals By 1810, Napoleon reigned supreme over most of continental Europe. But the Iberian Peninsula remained unsubdued, particularly Portugal, which continued to resist. Napoleon ordered Marshal Masséna to crush this resistance with the Army of Portugal... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM104 - D-Day 1944 (2) On their western flank, the Allied landings on D-Day combined a parachute drop by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with an amphibious assault on "Utah” Beach by the US 4th Infantry Division. The landings came ashore in the wrong place but met weaker... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM105 - D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM107 - Poland 1939: The birth of Blitzkrieg Osprey's examination of the German invasion of Poland, which began World War II (1939-1945) in Europe, pitting the newly modernized army of Europe's great industrial power against the much smaller Polish army and introducing the world to a new style of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM111 - Isandlwana 1879: The great Zulu victory Osprey's study of the battle of Isandlwana, which was fought on 22 January 1879 and was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Zulu War (1879). A Zulu army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM117 - Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297–98 The death of the last of the Scottish royal house of Canmore in 1290 triggered a succession crisis. Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM056 - Eggmühl 1809: Storm Over Bavaria Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Eggmuhl of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). In the Spring of 1809, the Austrian army, buoyant and full of new-found patriotic fervour, rolled across the frontier with Bavaria. The time had come to exact revenge... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM057 - San Juan Hill 1898 Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War (1898) was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM059 - Vittoria 1813: Wellington sweeps the french from Spain Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Vittoria during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... 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Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM057 - San Juan Hill 1898 Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War (1898) was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM059 - Vittoria 1813: Wellington sweeps the french from Spain Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Vittoria during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). 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MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... 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Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM059 - Vittoria 1813: Wellington sweeps the french from Spain Osprey's Campaign title for the Battle of Vittoria during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM062 - Pearl Harbor 1941 December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. 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'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM089 - The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna's Texas Campaign Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... 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Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... 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On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... 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Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM063 - Fredericksburg 1862: 'Clear The Way' Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... 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On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... 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At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM107 - Poland 1939: The birth of Blitzkrieg Osprey's examination of the German invasion of Poland, which began World War II (1939-1945) in Europe, pitting the newly modernized army of Europe's great industrial power against the much smaller Polish army and introducing the world to a new style of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM111 - Isandlwana 1879: The great Zulu victory Osprey's study of the battle of Isandlwana, which was fought on 22 January 1879 and was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Zulu War (1879). A Zulu army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the... 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In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM070 - Marengo 1800 Osprey's study of the campaign at Marengo in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Having returned from Egypt and seized power as First Consul, Napoleon led the Army of the Reserve against the Austrian Army besieging Genoa. After a period of... MSRP: Now: $26.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... 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The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM084 - Adrianople AD 378 Osprey's examination of the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), fought between Goth rebels, led by Fritigern, and the Roman army, led by Emperor Valens. 'Never, except in the battle of Cannae, had there been so destructive a slaughter recorded in our annals.'... 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MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM097 - Bussaco 1810 Wellington Defeats Napoleon's Marshals By 1810, Napoleon reigned supreme over most of continental Europe. But the Iberian Peninsula remained unsubdued, particularly Portugal, which continued to resist. Napoleon ordered Marshal Masséna to crush this resistance with the Army of Portugal... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM104 - D-Day 1944 (2) On their western flank, the Allied landings on D-Day combined a parachute drop by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with an amphibious assault on "Utah” Beach by the US 4th Infantry Division. The landings came ashore in the wrong place but met weaker... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM105 - D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... 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Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM071 - Crécy 1346 The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince', who... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... 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On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM090 - Vimeiro 1808: Wellesley’s first victory in the Peninsular Campaign Osprey's examination of the first of Sir Arthur Wellesley's string of victories in the Peninsular War (1807-1814). On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM097 - Bussaco 1810 Wellington Defeats Napoleon's Marshals By 1810, Napoleon reigned supreme over most of continental Europe. But the Iberian Peninsula remained unsubdued, particularly Portugal, which continued to resist. Napoleon ordered Marshal Masséna to crush this resistance with the Army of Portugal... 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Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM072 - Jutland 1916 The only major fleet engagement of World War I (1914-1918), the Battle of Jutland (1916) has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM080 -Tobruk 1941: Rommel's opening move Osprey's examination of one of the epic battles of the desert war of World War II (1939-1945). In March 1941, with Wavell's British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches... 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On 2 August 1808, a British army of 14,000 men began landing north of Lisbon under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM092 - St Nazaire 1942 The raid on the port of St Nazaire in March 1942 by a sea-borne task force from British Combined Operations remains one of the most daring actions of World War II. The port lies at the mouth of the River Loire and in 1942, as well as a U-Boat base,... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM096 - Okinawa 1945 The Last Battle By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM097 - Bussaco 1810 Wellington Defeats Napoleon's Marshals By 1810, Napoleon reigned supreme over most of continental Europe. But the Iberian Peninsula remained unsubdued, particularly Portugal, which continued to resist. Napoleon ordered Marshal Masséna to crush this resistance with the Army of Portugal... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM104 - D-Day 1944 (2) On their western flank, the Allied landings on D-Day combined a parachute drop by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with an amphibious assault on "Utah” Beach by the US 4th Infantry Division. The landings came ashore in the wrong place but met weaker... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM105 - D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM107 - Poland 1939: The birth of Blitzkrieg Osprey's examination of the German invasion of Poland, which began World War II (1939-1945) in Europe, pitting the newly modernized army of Europe's great industrial power against the much smaller Polish army and introducing the world to a new style of... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM111 - Isandlwana 1879: The great Zulu victory Osprey's study of the battle of Isandlwana, which was fought on 22 January 1879 and was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Zulu War (1879). A Zulu army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM117 - Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297–98 The death of the last of the Scottish royal house of Canmore in 1290 triggered a succession crisis. Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM074 - The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West Known as the last great 'stand-up fight' of the Second World War (1939-1945), the battle for the Rhineland was brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM076 - Ticonderoga 1758: Montcalm’s victory against all odds Osprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM077 - Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide Osprey's study of the conflict between Japan and the United States during World War II (1939-1945). 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Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM111 - Isandlwana 1879: The great Zulu victory Osprey's study of the battle of Isandlwana, which was fought on 22 January 1879 and was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Zulu War (1879). A Zulu army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM117 - Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297–98 The death of the last of the Scottish royal house of Canmore in 1290 triggered a succession crisis. Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM117 - Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297–98 The death of the last of the Scottish royal house of Canmore in 1290 triggered a succession crisis. Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM122 - Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next
Quick view Osprey Publishing CAM124 - Fair Oaks 1862 Following its humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, General George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1862, having rebuilt his forces, the "Little Napoleon" devised a plan to end the war in a single... MSRP: Now: $24.00 Add to Cart 1 2 3 Next