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Blackbeard's Last Fight - Pirate Hunting in North Carolina 1718
Written by Angus Konstam
Illustrated by Mark Stacey
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: June 20, 2013
Price: $18.95
In April 1713 the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end. During the conflict hundreds of privateers - licenced pirates - preyed on enemy shipping throughout the Caribbean. These privateers now found themselves out of a job, and many turned to piracy. One of theme was Edward Teach -... Read more >
Written by Angus Konstam
Illustrated by Mark Stacey
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: June 20, 2013
Price: $18.95
In April 1713 the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end. During the conflict hundreds of privateers - licenced pirates - preyed on enemy shipping throughout the Caribbean. These privateers now found themselves out of a job, and many turned to piracy. One of theme was Edward Teach -... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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A-10 Thunderbolt II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom 2002-07
Written by Gary Wetzel
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $22.95
In the early 1970s, the USAF, still fresh in the mire of the Vietnam War, began the search for a more effective aircraft to conduct the CAS mission. With aircraft losses climbing, the need for an aircraft that could withstand punishment as well as deliver it was unmistakable. Looking at past... Read more >
Written by Gary Wetzel
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $22.95
In the early 1970s, the USAF, still fresh in the mire of the Vietnam War, began the search for a more effective aircraft to conduct the CAS mission. With aircraft losses climbing, the need for an aircraft that could withstand punishment as well as deliver it was unmistakable. Looking at past... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
A-10 Thunderbolt II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom 2002-07
Written by Gary Wetzel
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
In the early 1970s, the USAF, still fresh in the mire of the Vietnam War, began the search for a more effective aircraft to conduct the CAS mission. With aircraft losses climbing, the need for an aircraft that could withstand punishment as well as deliver it was unmistakable. Looking at past... Read more >
Written by Gary Wetzel
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
In the early 1970s, the USAF, still fresh in the mire of the Vietnam War, began the search for a more effective aircraft to conduct the CAS mission. With aircraft losses climbing, the need for an aircraft that could withstand punishment as well as deliver it was unmistakable. Looking at past... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
American Civil War Armies (4)
State Troops
Written by Philip Katcher
Illustrated by Ronald Volstad
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
"The War between the States" is the term used for the American Civil War (1861-1865)throughout much of the South even today. Many on both sides – not just the South – felt that they were serving their states as much, if not more, than their central governments. Many of the states... Read more >
State Troops
Written by Philip Katcher
Illustrated by Ronald Volstad
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
"The War between the States" is the term used for the American Civil War (1861-1865)throughout much of the South even today. Many on both sides – not just the South – felt that they were serving their states as much, if not more, than their central governments. Many of the states... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Blackbeard's Last Fight - Pirate Hunting in North Carolina 1718
Written by Angus Konstam
Illustrated by Mark Stacey
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.95
In April 1713 the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end. During the conflict hundreds of privateers - licenced pirates - preyed on enemy shipping throughout the Caribbean. These privateers now found themselves out of a job, and many turned to piracy. One of theme was Edward Teach -... Read more >
Written by Angus Konstam
Illustrated by Mark Stacey
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.95
In April 1713 the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end. During the conflict hundreds of privateers - licenced pirates - preyed on enemy shipping throughout the Caribbean. These privateers now found themselves out of a job, and many turned to piracy. One of theme was Edward Teach -... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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 >
Also available as a
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 >
First Bull Run 1861
The South's first victory
Written by Alan Hankinson
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
At Bull Run, two inexperienced, ill-trained and poorly led armies clashed in the opening engagement of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Culminating in a stalwart defensive fight by Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson's Virginia Brigade, this is the story of the Confederacy's first victory. The author investigates the personalities of the principal commanders... Read more >
The South's first victory
Written by Alan Hankinson
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
At Bull Run, two inexperienced, ill-trained and poorly led armies clashed in the opening engagement of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Culminating in a stalwart defensive fight by Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson's Virginia Brigade, this is the story of the Confederacy's first victory. The author investigates the personalities of the principal commanders... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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.
Gravelotte-St-Privat 1870
End of the Second Empire
Written by Philipp Elliot-Wright
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
Gravelotte-St-Privat was probably the hardest fought of all the battles of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). Attacked by superior Prussian forces from both the First and Second armies, Marshal Bazaine's French Army of the Rhine inflicted heavy casualties on the advancing Prussian's before finally being forced to retreat into the fortress city... Read more >
End of the Second Empire
Written by Philipp Elliot-Wright
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
Gravelotte-St-Privat was probably the hardest fought of all the battles of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). Attacked by superior Prussian forces from both the First and Second armies, Marshal Bazaine's French Army of the Rhine inflicted heavy casualties on the advancing Prussian's before finally being forced to retreat into the fortress city... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Gypsies of Britain
Written by Janet Keet-Black
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $12.95
This title tells the story of the Romany Gypsies in Britain. Where they came from, how they arrived. It explores their travelling way of life and their traditional occupations, including harvesting, making baskets, dealing in horses, fortune telling and rat catching to royalty. Their impact on traditional museum dancing. It reveals... Read more >
Written by Janet Keet-Black
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $12.95
This title tells the story of the Romany Gypsies in Britain. Where they came from, how they arrived. It explores their travelling way of life and their traditional occupations, including harvesting, making baskets, dealing in horses, fortune telling and rat catching to royalty. Their impact on traditional museum dancing. It reveals... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Gypsies of Britain
Written by Janet Keet-Black
Format: eBook, 56 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $7.95
This title tells the story of the Romany Gypsies in Britain. Where they came from, how they arrived. It explores their travelling way of life and their traditional occupations, including harvesting, making baskets, dealing in horses, fortune telling and rat catching to royalty. Their impact on traditional museum dancing. It reveals... Read more >
Written by Janet Keet-Black
Format: eBook, 56 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $7.95
This title tells the story of the Romany Gypsies in Britain. Where they came from, how they arrived. It explores their travelling way of life and their traditional occupations, including harvesting, making baskets, dealing in horses, fortune telling and rat catching to royalty. Their impact on traditional museum dancing. It reveals... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Nelson's Officers and Midshipmen
Written by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Illustrated by Steve Noon
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $14.95
Immortalized in literature through such characters as C. S. Forester's 'Horatio Hornblower' and Patrick O'Brian's 'Jack Aubrey', the officers and midshipmen of the Royal Navy during the Revolutionary (1792-1802) and Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) ran the ships that defended Great Britain against the threat of French invasion. This period saw the Royal... Read more >
Written by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Illustrated by Steve Noon
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $14.95
Immortalized in literature through such characters as C. S. Forester's 'Horatio Hornblower' and Patrick O'Brian's 'Jack Aubrey', the officers and midshipmen of the Royal Navy during the Revolutionary (1792-1802) and Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) ran the ships that defended Great Britain against the threat of French invasion. This period saw the Royal... 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 >
Also available as an
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Tombstone - Wyatt Earp, the O.K. Corral, and the Vendetta Ride 1881-82
Written by Sean McLachlan
Illustrated by Mark Stacey
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
The Gunfight at the OK Corral on 26 October 1881 is one of the most enduring stories of the Old West. It led to a series of violent incidents that culminated in the Vendetta Ride, in which Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and several other gunslingers went after their rivals the Cowboys.
Like... Read more >
Written by Sean McLachlan
Illustrated by Mark Stacey
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
The Gunfight at the OK Corral on 26 October 1881 is one of the most enduring stories of the Old West. It led to a series of violent incidents that culminated in the Vendetta Ride, in which Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and several other gunslingers went after their rivals the Cowboys.
Like... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Tombstone - Wyatt Earp, the O.K. Corral, and the Vendetta Ride 1881-82
Written by Sean McLachlan
Illustrated by Mark Stacey
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.95
The Gunfight at the OK Corral on 26 October 1881 is one of the most enduring stories of the Old West. It led to a series of violent incidents that culminated in the Vendetta Ride, in which Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and several other gunslingers went after their rivals the Cowboys.
Like... Read more >
Written by Sean McLachlan
Illustrated by Mark Stacey
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.95
The Gunfight at the OK Corral on 26 October 1881 is one of the most enduring stories of the Old West. It led to a series of violent incidents that culminated in the Vendetta Ride, in which Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and several other gunslingers went after their rivals the Cowboys.
Like... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
