@ War Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

Based on numerous little known publications and veteran accounts from both sides, extensive pictorial and video footage, and focuses upon the reconstruction of events that happened prior to and during the New Year of 19941995.After a declaration of...

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

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

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

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

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

At the end of the Second World War, the victorious Allies split Germany into three zones of occupation, and Berlin into four sectors, one each for the British, Americans, French and Soviets. It did not take long for the wartime alliances to crumble into...

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

At the end of the Second World War, the city of Berlin was located 100 miles (160 km) inside the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany. The Western Allies insisted on keeping part of the city for themselves, and so it was divided into four sectors, mimicking...

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

Cominform Crisis describes the first armed conflict within the Communist world after the Second World War. This occurred between Tito’s Yugoslavia and the states led by the Soviet Union, in the period between 1948 and 1954. It starts with an explanation...

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

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

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

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

Europe at War: OPERATION ALLIED FORCE VOLUME 1 Air War over Serbia 1999

On 24 March 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) launched Operation Allied Force against Serbia. Lasting 78 days, this was an unusual conflict fought at several levels. The campaign was fought at the negotiation tables, in the media, and...

Europe at War: Operation Danube: Soviet and Warsaw Pact Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968

On 20 August 1968, hundreds of thousands of soldiers, dozens of thousands of tanks and armored vehicles, and hundreds of military aircraft of the Warsaw Pact armed forces invaded Czechoslovakia in an operation code-named Danube. It was the largest...

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

An even-handed and richly illustrated account of the military history of Cyprus between independence from Britain and the events of 1964.The Cyprus Problem also known as the Cyprus dispute, Cyprus issue, Cyprus question or Cyprus conflict is an ongoing...

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

"Both from the analytic description of the scientific background to that of the author’s firsthand human experience, to the historical development of the technology, to the political and strategic context of the time, this book contains a LOT – including...

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

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

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

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

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

Following a brief war in Slovenia, and months of skirmishes and minor fighting in Croatia, during the autumn of 1991 the crisis in Yugoslavia culminated in an all-out war. The task of the Yugoslav Air Force and Air Defense (JRV i PVO) was to support...

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

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

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

On 30 October 1961, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR/Soviet Union) conducted a live test of the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created. Codenamed ‘Ivan’, and known in the West as the ‘Tsar Bomba’, the RDS-202 hydrogen bomb was detonated...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The series of sharp clashes between Ecuador and Peru of 1981 left the dispute between the two countries unresolved as there was still no definitive delimitation of the border. During the following years, both parties had to deal with a series of internal...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Latin America at War: Flashes in the Dark Volume 1 USAF Covert Operations and Nuclear Intelligence in Argentina, 1946-1957

An in-depth study of secret USAF aerial missions in Argentina, revealing Cold War intelligence operations.Flashes in the Dark explores one of the least known aspects of Cold War military history: the secret aerial missions carried out in Argentina by the...

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

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

Latin America at War: For Now and Forever! The 1992 Coup d’etat Attempts in Venezuela Volume 2. Climax and Aftermath of the 1992 Coup Attempts

Rich in oil, Venezuela should, in theory, have been one of the wealthiest nations in Latin America — if not the world. Yet by the 1980s, the collapse in oil prices plunged the country into economic crisis. Widespread corruption, falling living standards,...

Latin America at War: Handbrake! : Dassault Super Étendard Fighter-Bombers in the Falklands/Malvinas War 1982

“This is quite the captivating read of the signature naval events of the war. It's technical enough to provide understanding of the interaction of modern weapon systems without being overwhelming. It's well written and provides situational awareness for...

Latin America at War: Nicaragua 1961-1990: Volume 2 - The Contra War

In 1979, the Sandinista government established itself in power in Managua, the capitol of Nicaragua. It found the country ruined by the long war against the Somosa dictatorship and natural disasters alike, and nearly half of the population either...

Latin America at War: Operation Sheepskin: British Military Intervention in Anguilla, 1969

In the early morning darkness of 19 March 1969, troops from Britain’s 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) and Royal Marines, clambered into the small landing craft and helicopters aboard HMS Minervaand HMS Rothesay. Their objective, under...