The Polish Army 1939-45
Written by Steven Zaloga
Illustrated by Richard Hook
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
Poland was the first of the Allied nations to succumb to German aggression in the Second World War, but by the most tortuous of routes her army managed to remain in the field through all five years of bloody fighting. Polish soldiers fought in nearly every major campaign in the European...
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Conflict in the Balkans 1991-2000
Written by Tim Ripley
Illustrated by Mark Rolfe
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
Osprey's examination of aircraft action in the Balkan region during the Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001) as well as during the conflicts that followed up until 2001. Exposing the true scale and significance of the deployment of air power in the Balkans, this book details the activities of NATO and UN aircraft as well...
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Kharkov 1942
The Wehrmacht strikes back
Written by Robert Forczyk
Illustrated by Howard Gerrard
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $21.95
After failing to finish off the German Army in the 1941/42 Winter Counteroffensive and aware that Hitler was planning a new summer offensive in mid-1942, Stalin directed the Red Army to conduct a powerful blow in one sector of the Eastern Front in order to disrupt German plans. The sector chosen...
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Kharkov 1942
The Wehrmacht strikes back
Written by Robert Forczyk
Illustrated by Howard Gerrard
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.95
After failing to finish off the German Army in the 1941/42 Winter Counteroffensive and aware that Hitler was planning a new summer offensive in mid-1942, Stalin directed the Red Army to conduct a powerful blow in one sector of the Eastern Front in order to disrupt German plans. The sector chosen...
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Tanks of Hitler's Eastern Allies 1941-45
Written by Steven Zaloga
Illustrated by Henry Morshead
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $13.95
The titanic armor battles of the Russian Front are widely known, but the role of Germany's eastern allies is not as well known. Two of these countries, Romania and Hungary, manufactured their own tanks as well as purchasing tanks from Germany. These ranged from older, obsolete types such as the PzKpfw...
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Tanks of Hitler's Eastern Allies 1941-45
Written by Steven Zaloga
Illustrated by Henry Morshead
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $17.95
The titanic armor battles of the Russian Front are widely known, but the role of Germany's eastern allies is not as well known. Two of these countries, Romania and Hungary, manufactured their own tanks as well as purchasing tanks from Germany. These ranged from older, obsolete types such as the PzKpfw...
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Pe-2 Guards Units of World War 2
Written by Dmitriy Khazanov
Illustrated by Andrey Yurgenson
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Petlyakov’s Pe-2 was the most numerous Soviet twin-engined bomber of World War 2, the aircraft being used as a dive-bomber, ground attack platform and dedicated reconnaissance type. The first examples entered service in August 1940, and by the time production came to end in late 1945, no fewer than 10,547 examples...
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The Yugoslav Wars (2)
Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia 1992-2001
Written by Nigel Thomas and K. Mikulan
Illustrated by Darko Pavlovic
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $14.95
Osprey's examination of Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia's involvement in the Yugoslav Wars (1991-1995), as well as their involvement in the conflicts of the years that followed. Following the death of the Yugoslavian strongman President Tito in 1980, the several semi-autonomous republics and provinces that he had welded into a nation in 1945 moved...
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Vera Gran-The Accused
Written by Agata Tuszynska
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $28.95
The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring 1941–summer 1942) . . . and her piano accompanist: W³adys³aw Szpilman, made famous by Roman...
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Vera Gran-The Accused
Written by Agata Tuszynska
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $14.99
The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring 1941–summer 1942) . . . and her piano accompanist: W³adys³aw Szpilman, made famous by Roman...
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An Armenian Sketchbook
Written by Vasily Grossman
Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler
Introduction by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $14.95
An NYRB Classics Original
Few writers had to confront as many of the last century’s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman, who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine.
An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different Grossman, notable for his...
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An Armenian Sketchbook
Written by Vasily Grossman
Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler
Introduction by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $14.95
An NYRB Classics Original
Few writers had to confront as many of the last century’s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman, who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine.
An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different Grossman, notable for his...
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Pe-2 Guards Units of World War 2
Written by Dmitriy Khazanov
Illustrated by Andrey Yurgenson
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $22.95
Petlyakov's Pe-2 was the most numerous Soviet twin-engined bomber of World War 2, the aircraft being used as a dive-bomber, ground attack platform and dedicated reconnaissance type. The first examples entered service in August 1940, and by the time production came to end in late 1945, no fewer than 10,547 examples...
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Croatian Aces of World War 2
Written by Boris Ciglic
Illustrated by John Weal
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.95
Initially flying Italian-supplied Fiat G.50s, the Croat forces suffered heavy losses during 1942 whilst flying alongside JG 52 in the southern sector of the Russian front. Despite this, a significant number of kills fell to future aces such as Cvitan Galic and Mato Dubovak during this time, and when the units...
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Polish Armies of the Partitions 1771-94
Written by Vincent Rospond
Illustrated by Raffaele Ruggeri
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $17.95
The tragic national epic of Polish history - its repeated foreign occupations, and its heroic but doomed rebellions - began in these late 18th-century wars. Under Poland's Saxon monarchy, Russia and Prussia constantly meddled in the affairs of the Kingdom, both exerting pressure, and subverting Polish parties to work in their...
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Polish Armies of the Partitions 1771-94
Written by Vincent Rospond
Illustrated by Raffaele Ruggeri
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $17.95
The tragic national epic of Polish history began in these late 18th-century wars. Under Poland’s Saxon monarchy, Russia and Prussia constantly meddled in the affairs of the Kingdom. In 1768 a civil war broke out between pro-Russian ‘Commonwealth’ Poles and ‘Confederate’ patriots who opposed foreign intervention; Russia intervened directly, and the...
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The Taste of Ashes
The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
Written by Marci Shore
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $27.00
An inventive, wholly original look at the complex psyche of Eastern Europe in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the opening of the communist archives. In the tradition of Timothy Garton Ash’s
The File, Yale historian and prize-winning author Marci Shore draws upon intimate understanding to illuminate the afterlife of...
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The Taste of Ashes
The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
Written by Marci Shore
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $13.99
An inventive, wholly original look at the complex psyche of Eastern Europe in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the opening of the communist archives. In the tradition of Timothy Garton Ash’s
The File, Yale historian and prize-winning author Marci Shore draws upon intimate understanding to illuminate the afterlife of...
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Operation Barbarossa 1941 (3)
Army Group Center
Written by Robert Kirchubel
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $15.95
Osprey's third and final volume in the
Barbarossa trilogy, this title completes the account of the strategic intricacies of the German campaign against Russia. Detailing the final Nazi push for Moscow, Robert Kirchubel examines the causes behind the German failure, including the inability to re-supply troops or provide reserves, and the lack...
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Soviet Field Fortifications 1941-45
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Chris Taylor
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $13.95
From June 1941, the Soviets were forced to undertake large-scale defensive operations in the face of the overwhelming German blitzkrieg assault, operations which ran counter to their preference for highly mobile, offensive warfare. Lessons were quickly learned across a wide variety of terrain and climates, including the open steppes, dense forests...
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The Woman from Hamburg
and Other True Stories
Written by Hanna Krall
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $8.99
In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews afraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding place...
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Iron Curtain
The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
Written by Anne Applebaum
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $35.00
In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its...
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Iron Curtain
The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
Written by Anne Applebaum
Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $17.99
In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its...
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Iron Curtain
The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
Written by Anne Applebaum
Read by Cassandra Campbell
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $25.00
In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its...
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Warsaw Pact Ground Forces
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Ronald Volstad
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $14.95
Osprey's study of the ground forces of the Cold War (1946-1991). While much has been published on the armed forces of the USSR during the 1980s, surprisingly little is available on the forces supplied by the other member nations of the Warsaw Pact. Rivalling the size of the United States Army...
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