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The Algerian War 1954-62
Written by Martin Windrow
Illustrated by Mike Chappell
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
It is hard to convey the public impact of France's war to maintain her colonial grip on Algeria; yet in the late 1950s this ugly conflict dominated Europe's media to almost the same extent as would Vietnam ten years later. It brought France to the very verge of military coup d'etat... Read more >
Written by Martin Windrow
Illustrated by Mike Chappell
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
It is hard to convey the public impact of France's war to maintain her colonial grip on Algeria; yet in the late 1950s this ugly conflict dominated Europe's media to almost the same extent as would Vietnam ten years later. It brought France to the very verge of military coup d'etat... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Brewster F2A Buffalo Aces of World War 2
Written by Kari Stenman
Illustrated by Chris Davey
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
Entering service with the US Navy as a carrier-borne fighter, the Brewster F2A, later named Buffalo by the British and simply the Brewster by the Finns, saw relatively little service with its own nation. Indeed, it was to see action on just one occasion in US colors: the engagement off Midway... Read more >
Written by Kari Stenman
Illustrated by Chris Davey
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
Entering service with the US Navy as a carrier-borne fighter, the Brewster F2A, later named Buffalo by the British and simply the Brewster by the Finns, saw relatively little service with its own nation. Indeed, it was to see action on just one occasion in US colors: the engagement off Midway... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The British Army 1939-45 (1)
North-West Europe
Written by Martin Brayley
Illustrated by Mike Chappell
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
The Second World War was Britain's last as a world power. For a year it saw Britain standing alone against the fascist dictatorships; winning it cost the sacrifice of the entire national wealth. This first book of three describes the uniforms developed for European service. It traces the appearance of the... Read more >
North-West Europe
Written by Martin Brayley
Illustrated by Mike Chappell
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
The Second World War was Britain's last as a world power. For a year it saw Britain standing alone against the fascist dictatorships; winning it cost the sacrifice of the entire national wealth. This first book of three describes the uniforms developed for European service. It traces the appearance of the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The British Army 1939-45 (3)
The Far East
Written by Martin Brayley
Illustrated by Mike Chappell
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
The lightning Japanese offensives in the Far East in 1941/42 inflicted a series of costly defeats on the ill-prepared and badly supported British Commonwealth forces in Malaya and Burma. The 'forgotten' 14th Army on the India-Burma border slowly built up its strength and its tactical expertise; and Wingate's 'Chindits' proved that... Read more >
The Far East
Written by Martin Brayley
Illustrated by Mike Chappell
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
The lightning Japanese offensives in the Far East in 1941/42 inflicted a series of costly defeats on the ill-prepared and badly supported British Commonwealth forces in Malaya and Burma. The 'forgotten' 14th Army on the India-Burma border slowly built up its strength and its tactical expertise; and Wingate's 'Chindits' proved that... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
British Territorial Units 1914-18
Written by Ray Westlake
Illustrated by Mike Chappell
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
In his Army Reforms of 1906/07 the Secretary of State for War, Richard Burdon Haldane, provided for an expeditionary force - the Regular Army supplemented by the old Militia - and a new organisation intended for home defence, the Territorial Force. This new 'Citizen's Army' was formed by the transfer of... Read more >
Written by Ray Westlake
Illustrated by Mike Chappell
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
In his Army Reforms of 1906/07 the Secretary of State for War, Richard Burdon Haldane, provided for an expeditionary force - the Regular Army supplemented by the old Militia - and a new organisation intended for home defence, the Territorial Force. This new 'Citizen's Army' was formed by the transfer of... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Chicago School of Architecture
Building the Modern City, 1880-1910
Written by Rolf Achilles
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
The perfect introduction to a style of architecture that has transformed the look of the modern age in America and the rest of the world, this book reveals Chicago's architecture as constantly pushing boundaries over a century and a half through design innovation and a wholly new and creative use of... Read more >
Building the Modern City, 1880-1910
Written by Rolf Achilles
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
The perfect introduction to a style of architecture that has transformed the look of the modern age in America and the rest of the world, this book reveals Chicago's architecture as constantly pushing boundaries over a century and a half through design innovation and a wholly new and creative use of... Read more >
The French Indochina War 1946-54
Written by Martin Windrow
Illustrated by Mike Chappell
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
The states of Indochina had been French colonies or protectorates since the 19th century. However, in March 1945 the Japanese interned all French troops and officials, and turned over all civil government to local authorities. The power vacuum caused by the Japanese surrender allowed the Viet Minh, a strong revolutionary organisation... Read more >
Written by Martin Windrow
Illustrated by Mike Chappell
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
The states of Indochina had been French colonies or protectorates since the 19th century. However, in March 1945 the Japanese interned all French troops and officials, and turned over all civil government to local authorities. The power vacuum caused by the Japanese surrender allowed the Viet Minh, a strong revolutionary organisation... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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... Read more >
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Royal Coronations
Written by Lucinda Gosling
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $12.95
In 1953, Britain celebrated the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, an event greeted at the time with widespread, nationwide enthusiasm. Sixty years on, the images and memories of the event still resonate, partly for their nostalgic appeal, but also as a reminder that while the monarchy of the modern age has... Read more >
Written by Lucinda Gosling
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $12.95
In 1953, Britain celebrated the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, an event greeted at the time with widespread, nationwide enthusiasm. Sixty years on, the images and memories of the event still resonate, partly for their nostalgic appeal, but also as a reminder that while the monarchy of the modern age has... Read more >
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eBook.
Royal Coronations
Written by Lucinda Gosling
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $7.95
In 1953, Britain celebrated the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, an event greeted at the time with widespread, nationwide enthusiasm. Sixty years on, the images and memories of the event still resonate, partly for their nostalgic appeal, but also as a reminder that while the monarchy of the modern age has... Read more >
Written by Lucinda Gosling
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $7.95
In 1953, Britain celebrated the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, an event greeted at the time with widespread, nationwide enthusiasm. Sixty years on, the images and memories of the event still resonate, partly for their nostalgic appeal, but also as a reminder that while the monarchy of the modern age has... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Salerno 1943
The Allies invade southern Italy
Written by Angus Konstam
Illustrated by Steve Noon
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $21.95
In mid-September 1943, as the opening move of the Allied campaign to liberate the mainland of Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force landed on the beaches of the Gulf of Salerno, only a few dozen miles to the south of Naples. Italy had just surrendered, and the soldiers in the landing craft... Read more >
The Allies invade southern Italy
Written by Angus Konstam
Illustrated by Steve Noon
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $21.95
In mid-September 1943, as the opening move of the Allied campaign to liberate the mainland of Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force landed on the beaches of the Gulf of Salerno, only a few dozen miles to the south of Naples. Italy had just surrendered, and the soldiers in the landing craft... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Salerno 1943
The Allies invade southern Italy
Written by Angus Konstam
Illustrated by Steve Noon
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
In mid-September 1943, as the opening move of the Allied campaign to liberate the mainland of Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force landed on the beaches of the Gulf of Salerno, only a few dozen miles to the south of Naples. Italy had just surrendered, and the soldiers in the landing craft... Read more >
The Allies invade southern Italy
Written by Angus Konstam
Illustrated by Steve Noon
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
In mid-September 1943, as the opening move of the Allied campaign to liberate the mainland of Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force landed on the beaches of the Gulf of Salerno, only a few dozen miles to the south of Naples. Italy had just surrendered, and the soldiers in the landing craft... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Spanish Civil War 1936-39
Written by Patrick Turnbull
Illustrated by Jeffrey Burn
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
By the spring of 1936 an armed clash was imminent between the forces of Spain's extreme Left and extreme Right. Viewed largely as a confrontation between democracy and fascism, the resulting civil war proved to be of enormous international significance. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy intervened to assist General Franco, while... Read more >
Written by Patrick Turnbull
Illustrated by Jeffrey Burn
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
By the spring of 1936 an armed clash was imminent between the forces of Spain's extreme Left and extreme Right. Viewed largely as a confrontation between democracy and fascism, the resulting civil war proved to be of enormous international significance. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy intervened to assist General Franco, while... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Full Body Burden
Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
Written by Kristen Iversen
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
Written by Kristen Iversen
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
Full Body Burden is Kristen Iversen's story of growing up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets—both family secrets and government secrets. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the...
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Balloon-Busting Aces of World War 1
Written by Jon Guttman
Illustrated by Harry Dempsey
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
Tethered balloons reached their zenith as a means of providing a stationary observation platform above the battlefield during World War I. It took a special breed of daredevil to take on such odds deep in enemy lines in order to destroy a balloon, with Balloon specialists such as Willy Coppens, Pierre... Read more >
Written by Jon Guttman
Illustrated by Harry Dempsey
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
Tethered balloons reached their zenith as a means of providing a stationary observation platform above the battlefield during World War I. It took a special breed of daredevil to take on such odds deep in enemy lines in order to destroy a balloon, with Balloon specialists such as Willy Coppens, Pierre... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Channel Islands 1941-45
Hitler's impregnable fortress
Written by Charles Stephenson
Illustrated by Chris Taylor
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $13.95
Following the fall of France and the surrender of Paris on 14 June 1940, the British Government announced that the Channel Islands had no strategic importance and would not be defended. The Germans occupied the islands from the end of June onwards and remained in control until the end of the... Read more >
Hitler's impregnable fortress
Written by Charles Stephenson
Illustrated by Chris Taylor
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $13.95
Following the fall of France and the surrender of Paris on 14 June 1940, the British Government announced that the Channel Islands had no strategic importance and would not be defended. The Germans occupied the islands from the end of June onwards and remained in control until the end of the... Read more >
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... Read more >
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
D-Day Fortifications in Normandy
Written by Steven Zaloga
Illustrated by Hugh Johnson
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $13.95
German defenses along the Normandy beaches were part of the larger Atlantic Wall fortifications designed to defend Fortress Europe. When Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took command of the invasion front in late 1943, he began a program to enhance fortifications along the Normandy coast as he believed that any Allied assault... Read more >
Written by Steven Zaloga
Illustrated by Hugh Johnson
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $13.95
German defenses along the Normandy beaches were part of the larger Atlantic Wall fortifications designed to defend Fortress Europe. When Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took command of the invasion front in late 1943, he began a program to enhance fortifications along the Normandy coast as he believed that any Allied assault... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Fuhrer's Headquarters
Hitler's command bunkers 1939-45
Written by Neil Short
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $13.95
The 100th title in the Fortress series, this book describes and examines the Führerhauptquartiere - the 14 or so headquarters built for Hitler. Revealing their locations and how they were used to direct the Nazi war apparatus, this is a fascinating insight into a range of historical sites from Berghof to... Read more >
Hitler's command bunkers 1939-45
Written by Neil Short
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $13.95
The 100th title in the Fortress series, this book describes and examines the Führerhauptquartiere - the 14 or so headquarters built for Hitler. Revealing their locations and how they were used to direct the Nazi war apparatus, this is a fascinating insight into a range of historical sites from Berghof to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Mannerheim Line 1920-39
Finnish Fortifications of the Winter War
Written by Bair Irincheev
Illustrated by Brian Delf
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $13.95
In the wake of the bloody civil war that followed Finland's independence from Russia in 1917, the border between the two countries was established across the Karelian Isthmus, an area long fought over by Russia, Finland and Sweden in their attempts to dominate the northern tip of Europe. Neither the Soviets... Read more >
Finnish Fortifications of the Winter War
Written by Bair Irincheev
Illustrated by Brian Delf
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $13.95
In the wake of the bloody civil war that followed Finland's independence from Russia in 1917, the border between the two countries was established across the Karelian Isthmus, an area long fought over by Russia, Finland and Sweden in their attempts to dominate the northern tip of Europe. Neither the Soviets... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Naval Battles for Guadalcanal 1942
Clash for supremacy in the Pacific
Written by Mark Stille
Illustrated by Howard Gerrard
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $21.95
The battle for Guadalcanal that lasted from August 1942 to February 1943 was the first major American counteroffensive against the Japanese in the Pacific, it also marks the high point of Japanese expansion and can justly be claimed as one of the major turning points of the Pacific War. While the... Read more >
Clash for supremacy in the Pacific
Written by Mark Stille
Illustrated by Howard Gerrard
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $21.95
The battle for Guadalcanal that lasted from August 1942 to February 1943 was the first major American counteroffensive against the Japanese in the Pacific, it also marks the high point of Japanese expansion and can justly be claimed as one of the major turning points of the Pacific War. While the... Read more >
The naval battles for Guadalcanal 1942
Clash for supremacy in the Pacific
Written by Mark Stille
Illustrated by Howard Gerrard
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
The battle for Guadalcanal that lasted from August 1942 to February 1943 was the first major American counteroffensive against the Japanese in the Pacific, it also marks the high point of Japanese expansion and can justly be claimed as one of the major turning points of the Pacific War. While the... Read more >
Clash for supremacy in the Pacific
Written by Mark Stille
Illustrated by Howard Gerrard
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
The battle for Guadalcanal that lasted from August 1942 to February 1943 was the first major American counteroffensive against the Japanese in the Pacific, it also marks the high point of Japanese expansion and can justly be claimed as one of the major turning points of the Pacific War. While the... Read more >
The Stalin and Molotov Lines
Soviet Western Defences 1928-41
Written by Neil Short
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $13.95
During the Russian Civil War, the Red Army created a series of fortified areas, or ukreplinnyje rajony (UR), which were to be used not only for defence but were also to act as staging points for offensive operations. Following the end of the war these defences were extended, creating a front... Read more >
Soviet Western Defences 1928-41
Written by Neil Short
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $13.95
During the Russian Civil War, the Red Army created a series of fortified areas, or ukreplinnyje rajony (UR), which were to be used not only for defence but were also to act as staging points for offensive operations. Following the end of the war these defences were extended, creating a front... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Sticklers, Sideburns and Bikinis
The Military Origins of Everyday Words and Phrases
Written by Graeme Donald
Format: eBook, 280 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $9.95
Did you know they started 'hearing through the grapevine' during the American Civil War? It was a reference to the telegraph lines used for communicating with the army. These looked like twisted grapevines. And why does the phrase now suggest unreliable information? Because the lines were used by enemy troops to... Read more >
The Military Origins of Everyday Words and Phrases
Written by Graeme Donald
Format: eBook, 280 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $9.95
Did you know they started 'hearing through the grapevine' during the American Civil War? It was a reference to the telegraph lines used for communicating with the army. These looked like twisted grapevines. And why does the phrase now suggest unreliable information? Because the lines were used by enemy troops to... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Cuban Connection
Nixon, Castro, and the Mob
Written by William Weyand Turner
Format: Hardcover, 290 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $25.00
A former FBI agent and investigative journalist examines the fateful meeting between Castro and Nixon and the murky connections that existed between official Washington, the CIA, and organized crime in Cuba. His vivid narrative provides insider information that many in power never wanted the public to know. In April 1959, Fidel... Read more >
Nixon, Castro, and the Mob
Written by William Weyand Turner
Format: Hardcover, 290 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $25.00
A former FBI agent and investigative journalist examines the fateful meeting between Castro and Nixon and the murky connections that existed between official Washington, the CIA, and organized crime in Cuba. His vivid narrative provides insider information that many in power never wanted the public to know. In April 1959, Fidel... Read more >
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eBook.
