F-86 Sabre vs MiG-15
Korea 1950-53
Written by Doug Dildy
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $18.95
As the routed North Korean People's Army (NKPA) withdrew into the mountainous reaches of their country and the People's Republic of China (PRC) funneled in its massive infantry formations in preparation for a momentous counter-offensive in the last months of 1950, both lacked adequate air power to challenge US and UN...
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F-86 Sabre vs MiG-15
Korea 1950-53
Written by Doug Dildy
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
As the routed North Korean People's Army (NKPA) withdrew into the mountainous reaches of their country and the People's Republic of China (PRC) funneled in its massive infantry formations in preparation for a momentous counter-offensive in the last months of 1950, both lacked adequate air power to challenge US and UN...
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F-86 Sabre Aces of the 4th Fighter Wing
Written by Warren Thompson
Illustrated by Mark Styling
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
The entry of the United State’s premier jet interceptor into the Korean War was triggered by the ever-increasing presence of the Soviet-built MiG-15 south of the Yalu River. The possibility of the USAF losing air supremacy over the Korean Peninsula was unacceptable. The 4th Fighter Wing got the call for combat...
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US Army Forces in the Korean War 1950-53
Written by Donald Boose
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
When North Korea attacked the South on June 25, 1950, United States forces in East Asia were under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, whose largest ground force was Eighth US Army. This army fought a tenacious defense of South Korea, counterattacked north to the Yalu River with the separate X...
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Unusual Footnotes to the Korean War
Written by Paul Edwards
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 20, 2013
Price: $9.95
The Korean War is often a footnote in modern history, not given much recognition or studied in detailed. Osprey Digital presents this new look at a number of unusual events that happened during the conflict. Beginning with a look at the war itself and the history of US and Korean conflict...
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Korean War Aces
Written by Robert Dorr
Illustrated by Chris Davey
Format: eBook, 100 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.95
The first virtually all-jet war, the conflict in Korea saw F-86 Sabres of the USAF take on MiG-15s of the North Korean and Chinese air forces. Although the Allied pilots were initially taken aback by the ability of the communist fighter in combat, sound training and skilful leadership soon enabled Sabre...
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B-29 Superfortress Units of the Korean War
Written by Robert Dorr
Illustrated by Mark Styling
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $15.95
This book is the story of a majestic bomber of the propeller era flying perilous combat missions against a sleek, nimble warplane of the jet age, the Soviet MiG-15. A very heavy bomber and a sky giant during World War II, at that time the B-29 was the most advanced combat...
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Soviet MiG-15 Aces of the Korean War
Written by Leonid Krylov
Illustrated by Yuriy Tepsurkaev
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $15.95
The Soviet Union began assisting the People's Republic of China in its establishment of a modern air force in 1950, when Soviet Air Force regiments were sent to train local pilots. China's involvement in the Korean War in late October 1950 inevitably drew Soviet pilots into the war. A total of...
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Inch'on 1950
The last great amphibious assault
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $15.95
Osprey's study of Inch'on, which was probably the most significant campaign in the Korean War (1950-1953), as well as the last major amphibious assault of division-size conducted in the history of warfare. The odds were stacked against the US troops, with virtually no time for training and many of the divisions unprepared...
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National Service
Written by Peter Doyle and Paul Evans
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $12.95
Overshadowed in the public eye by the events of the Second World War - and of the impacts of recent wars at the transition of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries - the period of National Service is sometimes portrayed as a long-running and monumental waste of time, a period...
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United States Marine Corps
Written by John Selby
Illustrated by Michael Roffe
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $13.95
This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organization of the United States Marine Corps, from 1775, through their service in World Wars I and II, through to Korea (1950-1953) and Vietnam (1955-1975). Uniforms are shown in full illustrated detail.
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T-34-85 vs M26 Pershing
Korea 1950
Written by Steven Zaloga
Illustrated by Richard Chasemore
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: December 20, 2011
Price: $15.95
A hotly-debated topic amongst tank buffs is of the relative merits of the Soviet and American tanks of World War II. Using recently revealed documents, Steven Zaloga sheds light on the crucial tank battles of the Korean War as the rival superpowers' finest tanks battled for supremacy. The Soviet-equipped North Korean...
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The Korean War
A History
Written by Bruce Cumings
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2011
Price: $16.00
A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED
For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from...
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North Korea/South Korea
U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis
Written by John Feffer
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
The Korean peninsula, divided for more than fifty years, is stuck in a time warp. Millions of troops face one another along the Demilitarized Zone separating communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea. In the early 1990s and again in 2002-2003, the United States and its allies have gone to the...
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Rangers in Korea
Written by Robert W. Black
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 29, 2010
Price: $7.99
A generation before Vietnam, the war for Korea raged. It was as rough and dirty a war as has ever been fought—a war small in history, but very large to the men who waged it. . . .
In the Korean War, one group above all others distinguished itself, a small elite...
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The Korean War
A History
Written by Bruce Cumings
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $11.99
A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED.
For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from...
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The Four Deuces
A Korean War Story
Written by C.S. Crawford
Format: eBook, 296 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $13.99
These memoirs are not an attempt to answer, solve, or resolve the problems arising from or about the three-year-long Korean War or the much longer stalemate that followed. This story was written to let you know how one very young, very scared marine saw his very first war and how he...
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Soviet MiG-15 Aces of the Korean War
Written by Leonid Krylov
Illustrated by Yuriy Tepsurkaev
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $22.95
The Soviet Union began assisting the People's Republic of China in its establishment of a modern air force in 1950, when Soviet Air Force regiments were sent to train local pilots. China's involvement in the Korean War in late October 1950 inevitably drew Soviet pilots into the war. A total of...
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The Battle for Pusan
A Memoir
Written by Addison Terry
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $6.99
“A great read [that] has frozen the events in print that molded great men who stood alone on the mainland of Asia against the first Asian Communist Army to engage the West.”
–From the Foreword by Brig. Gen. Robert L. Scott, Jr., USAF (Ret.), author of God Is My Co-Pilot
The rapid-fire success...
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F-86 Sabre Aces of the 4th Fighter Wing
Written by Warren Thompson
Illustrated by Mark Styling
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $22.95
The entry of the United State’s premier jet interceptor into the Korean War was triggered by the ever-increasing presence of the Soviet-built MiG-15 south of the Yalu River. The possibility of the USAF losing air supremacy over the Korean Peninsula was unacceptable. The 4th Fighter Wing got the call for combat...
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eBook.
The Battle for Pusan
A Memoir
Written by Addison Terry
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 25, 2006
Price: $6.99
“A great read [that] has frozen the events in print that molded great men who stood alone on the mainland of Asia against the first Asian Communist Army to engage the West.”
–From the Foreword by Brig. Gen. Robert L. Scott, Jr., USAF (Ret.), author of God Is My Co-Pilot
The rapid-fire success...
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eBook.
Inch'on 1950
The last great amphibious assault
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: April 25, 2006
Price: $19.95
Osprey's study of Inch'on, which was probably the most significant campaign in the Korean War (1950-1953), as well as the last major amphibious assault of division-size conducted in the history of warfare. The odds were stacked against the US troops, with virtually no time for training and many of the divisions unprepared...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
US Army Forces in the Korean War 1950-53
Written by Donald Boose
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $25.95
When North Korea attacked the South on June 25, 1950, United States forces in East Asia were under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, whose largest ground force was Eighth US Army. This army fought a tenacious defense of South Korea, counterattacked north to the Yalu River with the separate X...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
B-29 Superfortress Units of the Korean War
Written by Robert Dorr
Illustrated by Mark Styling
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: December 17, 2003
Price: $22.95
This book is the story of a majestic bomber of the propeller era flying perilous combat missions against a sleek, nimble warplane of the jet age, the Soviet MiG-15. A very heavy bomber and a sky giant during World War II, at that time the B-29 was the most advanced combat...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
North Korea/South Korea
U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis
Written by John Feffer
Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2003
Price: $9.95
The Korean peninsula, divided for more than fifty years, is stuck in a time warp. Millions of troops face one another along the Demilitarized Zone separating communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea. In the early 1990s and again in 2002-2003, the United States and its allies have gone to the...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.