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

In April 1995, the LTTE resumed the war by launching a surprise attack against the Sri Lankan Navy at Trincomalee, thus opening the third phase – the so-called Eelam War III – of the decades-long Sri Lankan civil war. From 1995 to 2002, both sides...

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

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

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

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

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

In June 1990, a mere three months after the Indian Peace Keeping Force withdrawal from Sri Lanka, the war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan government resumed and was to continue unabated until another cease-fire in...

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

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

Asia at War: Red Star Versus Rising Sun - Volume 2: The Nomonhan Incident 1939

During the first half of the 20th century, the Empire of Japan fought a series of undeclared wars in the Far East against Tsarist Russia and the successor Soviet Union. The first of these, fought in 1904-1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The third volume of the Target Saigon mini-series describes the opening stages of the final communist offensive against South Vietnam. The decision of President Nguyen Van Thieu to evacuate the Central Highlands was part of a wider scheme that envisaged...

Asia at War: Target Saigon 1973-75 Volume 4 - The Final Collapse, April-May 1975

After two protracted years of fighting that wearied down the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the North Vietnamese decided to launch their final campaign in January 1975. The president of South Vietnam, Nguyen Van Thieu, decided upon a wide range...

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

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

Asia at War: The Darkest Hour - Volume 1: The Japanese Offensive in the Indian Ocean 1942 - The Opening Moves

"Michal Piegzik has produced a very good analysis of the Japanese thrust westwards into the Indian Ocean." —The Northern Mariner The Darkest Hour presents the Imperial Japanese Navy offensive in the Indian Ocean area in March–April 1942, the main goal of...

Asia at War: The Easter Offensive: Vietnam 1972 : Volume 1 - Invasion Across the DMZ

On 30 March 1972 the South Vietnamese positions along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separated the North from South Vietnam were suddenly shelled by hundreds of heavy guns and multiple rocket launchers. Caught in a series of outposts of what was the...

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

Best known by their French acronym for Forces Armées du Royaume – FAR – the Royal Lao Armed Forces were the official defense force of the Kingdom of Laos – what is now the Lao People’s Democratic Republic – from 1949 until 1975. Founded in 1947, when...

Asia at War: The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Volume 2 - Showdown in the North-West

Helions picture-packed volume sports dozens of rare photos. Seventeen color vehicle plates, three aircraft profiles, unit heraldry, and uniform art survey the conflicts modeling possibilities. CybermodelerIn 1947, India and Pakistan were partitioned by...

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

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

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

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

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

Richly illustrated with original photographs – many never published before in the West – and the atWar series signature color artworks showing the men, vehicles and aircraft involved in this conflict. In December 1979 the USSR’s 40th Army crossed the...

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

AVG003 - Sopwith Camel

A British icon of World War I aerial combat, just as the Supermarine Spitfire is for World War II, the Sopwith Camel might more aptly be compared to the equally iconic (if one is Japanese) Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero. A superb dogfighter in the hands of pilots...

AVG005 - Albatros D.I–D.II

In 1916 German aerial domination had been lost to the French and British fighters. German fighter pilots requested an aircraft that was more powerful and more heavily armed, and the Albatros design bureau set to work on what was to become an iconic...

Aviation in Scale Orange Series #1 - Modelling the RAF in World War II

Battlecraft - Operation Market Garden: A Bridge Too Far

Every General’s aim is to end a war by Christmas, and Montgomery, perhaps, saw his opportunity in a bold strike across the southern portion of the Netherlands close to the borders of an embattled Reich. Still heady from earlier victories in the Normandy...

Battlecraft - Stalingrad: Death of an Army

The very name Stalingrad has become synonymous with military folly and political arrogance. Its capture by the Wehrmacht was a crushing defeat, both militarily and politically, for the Red Army. The 6th Army was a highly experienced key element of Army...

BLACK & WHITE TECHNIQUE

AMMO by MIG Publications for modeler's Item: BLACK & WHITE TECHNIQUE (English) 100 pages guide.  This book is in English language. Jose Luis Lopez has created his own style aptly named the Black & White technique and the results have quickly...

Black Series Aviation Icons: The English Electric Canberra Volume 1 (Bomber & Trainer Versions B.1 to TT.18

BTO032 - Panzer Divisions: The Blitzkrieg Years 1939–40

At the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Germany's armoured forces - the Panzerwaffe - were still in their infancy. The restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles meant that German tank production lagged behind its enemies. Initial armour...

CAM001 - Normandy 1944

Osprey's Campaign title for the Normandy campaign of World War II (1939-1945). D-Day, 6 June 1944, saw the largest amphibious landing operation in history. From ports and harbours on the southern coast of England, an armada of troopships and landing...

CAM004 - Tet Offensive 1968: Turning point in Vietnam

Osprey's study of the 1968 Tet Offensive, which was the decisive battle for Vietnam (1955-1975). Masterminded by the brilliant North Vietnamese General, Vo Nguyen Giap, it was intended to trigger a general uprising in South Vietnam. However, the bloody...

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...

CAM020 - Jena 1806

Forewarned of Prussia's intention to declare war on France, Napoleon decided to strike first with a bold advance from Wurzburg into Saxony. On 14 October the double battle was fought: Napoleon with 96,000 men and 120 guns engaged and heavily defeated...

CAM027 - Tel El-Kebir 1882: Wolseley's Conquest of Egypt

Osprey's Campaign title for the battle of Tel El-Kebir of 1882. In 1881, the Egyptian army mutinied against the Khedive of Egypt and forced him to appoint Said Ahmed Arabi as Minister of War. In March 1882, Arabi was made a Pasha and from this time on...

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...

CAM039 - Little Big Horn 1876: Custer's Last Stand

Osprey's examination of one of the most controversial battles of the American Indian Wars (1775-1918). The death of George Armstrong Custer, and over half of his 7th Cavalry Regiment in the valley of the Little Big Horn on 25 July 1876, has become the...

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...

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...

CAM047 - Yorktown 1781: The World turned upside down

Osprey's Campaign title for the Siege of Yorktown (1781), which was part of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). By 1781 Britain's struggle to contain the rebels in her American colonies had reached an inglorious stalemate. Six years on from the...

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...