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Parliament and its Buildings
Written by Richard Tames
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $12.95
The clock tower of the Houses of Parliament is known the world over, but is only part of a sprawling neo-Gothic complex built to house the British legislative system. Parliament has been several hundred years in the making and has changed from a mobile assembly gathered only at the king's behest... Read more >
Written by Richard Tames
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $12.95
The clock tower of the Houses of Parliament is known the world over, but is only part of a sprawling neo-Gothic complex built to house the British legislative system. Parliament has been several hundred years in the making and has changed from a mobile assembly gathered only at the king's behest... Read more >
Polish Aces of World War 2
Written by Robert Gretzyngier
Illustrated by Robert Gretzyngier
Format: eBook, 100 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Pilots of the Polish Air Force saw action from the first day of World War 2 until the final victory in Europe. Flying hopelessly outmoded P.11 fighters in defence of their country in September 1939, a handful of aviators inflicted serious losses on the Luftwaffe before being overwhelmed. The survivors escaped... Read more >
Written by Robert Gretzyngier
Illustrated by Robert Gretzyngier
Format: eBook, 100 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Pilots of the Polish Air Force saw action from the first day of World War 2 until the final victory in Europe. Flying hopelessly outmoded P.11 fighters in defence of their country in September 1939, a handful of aviators inflicted serious losses on the Luftwaffe before being overwhelmed. The survivors escaped... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Portuguese Army of the Napoleonic Wars (2)
Written by Rene Chartrand
Illustrated by Bill Younghusband
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $13.95
Osprey are confident in boasting that this remarkable three-part study will transform the research material available to the English-speaking student of the Peninsular War (1808-1814). Most know that Wellington's Portuguese troops were praised as the 'fighting cocks' of his army; fewer appreciate that they represented between half and one-third of his... Read more >
Written by Rene Chartrand
Illustrated by Bill Younghusband
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $13.95
Osprey are confident in boasting that this remarkable three-part study will transform the research material available to the English-speaking student of the Peninsular War (1808-1814). Most know that Wellington's Portuguese troops were praised as the 'fighting cocks' of his army; fewer appreciate that they represented between half and one-third of his... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Remagen 1945
Endgame Against the Third Reich
Written by Steven Zaloga
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Following the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes, the Allies began steps for the final assault into Germany. The long-delayed US Army thrust over the Roer River, Operation Lumberjack, finally took place in February, placing the US Army along the Rhine. The Rhine represented the last major geographical barrier to... Read more >
Endgame Against the Third Reich
Written by Steven Zaloga
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Following the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes, the Allies began steps for the final assault into Germany. The long-delayed US Army thrust over the Roer River, Operation Lumberjack, finally took place in February, placing the US Army along the Rhine. The Rhine represented the last major geographical barrier to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Second Manassas 1862
Robert E Lee's Greatest Victory
Written by John Langellier
Illustrated by Mike Adams
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Osprey's examination of the culminating battle of the American Civil War (1861-1865). “There never was such a campaign, not even by Napoleon" wrote Confederate General Pender of the Second Manassas campaign in which the gray-bearded Virginian, Robert E Lee, came as close as he ever would to exterminating his Northern enemies... Read more >
Robert E Lee's Greatest Victory
Written by John Langellier
Illustrated by Mike Adams
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Osprey's examination of the culminating battle of the American Civil War (1861-1865). “There never was such a campaign, not even by Napoleon" wrote Confederate General Pender of the Second Manassas campaign in which the gray-bearded Virginian, Robert E Lee, came as close as he ever would to exterminating his Northern enemies... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Siegfried Line 1944-45
Battles on the German Frontier
Written by Steven Zaloga
Illustrated by Steve Noon
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
The Siegfried Line campaign was one of the most frustrating and bloody series of battles fought by the US Army in Northwest Europe during World War II (1939-1945).
In order to break through the German-Belgian border north of the Ardennes and eventually reach the Rhine, the First and Ninth divisions of the... Read more >
Battles on the German Frontier
Written by Steven Zaloga
Illustrated by Steve Noon
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
The Siegfried Line campaign was one of the most frustrating and bloody series of battles fought by the US Army in Northwest Europe during World War II (1939-1945).
In order to break through the German-Belgian border north of the Ardennes and eventually reach the Rhine, the First and Ninth divisions of the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Lockheed SR-71 Operations in the Far East
Written by Paul Crickmore
Illustrated by Chris Davey
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Even before the first operational flight of the legendary Lockheed U-2 spy plane, aircraft design genius Kelly Johnson began work with his team at the company's "Skunk Works" plant on the type's replacement. The result was the SR-71. First deployed on March 9, 1968, this tri-sonic 'hotrod' flew its first operational... Read more >
Written by Paul Crickmore
Illustrated by Chris Davey
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Even before the first operational flight of the legendary Lockheed U-2 spy plane, aircraft design genius Kelly Johnson began work with his team at the company's "Skunk Works" plant on the type's replacement. The result was the SR-71. First deployed on March 9, 1968, this tri-sonic 'hotrod' flew its first operational... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Typhoon Wings of 2nd TAF 1943-45
Written by Chris Thomas
Illustrated by Chris Thomas
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
The Typhoon was the RAF's chosen heavyweight fighter-bomber to support the British and Canadian Armies during the invasion of northwest Europe in World War II (1939-1945). A specialist in the aircraft (his father flew them in WWII), author Chris Thomas has done much research on the Typhoon's operations with 2nd TAF... Read more >
Written by Chris Thomas
Illustrated by Chris Thomas
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
The Typhoon was the RAF's chosen heavyweight fighter-bomber to support the British and Canadian Armies during the invasion of northwest Europe in World War II (1939-1945). A specialist in the aircraft (his father flew them in WWII), author Chris Thomas has done much research on the Typhoon's operations with 2nd TAF... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
US Navy PBY Catalina Units of the Pacific War
Written by Louis Dorny
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Although designed in the mid-1930s and in squadron service several years prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, the PBY Catalina proved its soundness in combat throughout the four years that World War II raged across the Pacific. Deadly in its primary role as a submarine hunter, the PBY was the scourge... Read more >
Written by Louis Dorny
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Although designed in the mid-1930s and in squadron service several years prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, the PBY Catalina proved its soundness in combat throughout the four years that World War II raged across the Pacific. Deadly in its primary role as a submarine hunter, the PBY was the scourge... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Vauban Fortifications of France
Written by Paddy Griffith
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $13.95
Vauban was the foremost military engineer of France during the period of its centralisation and wars of expansion in the 17th and 18th centuries. His influence persisted long after Waterloo, and his name has become synonymous with the science of the construction, defence and attack of bastioned fortresses. Dunkirk, Toulon, Perpignan... Read more >
Written by Paddy Griffith
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $13.95
Vauban was the foremost military engineer of France during the period of its centralisation and wars of expansion in the 17th and 18th centuries. His influence persisted long after Waterloo, and his name has become synonymous with the science of the construction, defence and attack of bastioned fortresses. Dunkirk, Toulon, Perpignan... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Victorian and Edwardian Railway Travel
Written by David Turner
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $12.95
For the majority of the British public in the Victorian period the railways were the only way to travel. In 1880 the population of Britain and Ireland took 518 million railway journeys, and by the turn of the century this number had risen to just over 1.1 billion. Therefore, for anyone... Read more >
Written by David Turner
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $12.95
For the majority of the British public in the Victorian period the railways were the only way to travel. In 1880 the population of Britain and Ireland took 518 million railway journeys, and by the turn of the century this number had risen to just over 1.1 billion. Therefore, for anyone... Read more >
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World Report 2013
Events of 2012
Written by Human Rights Watch
Introduction by Kenneth Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed Rashid in The New York Review of Books
“An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to... Read more >
Events of 2012
Written by Human Rights Watch
Introduction by Kenneth Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed Rashid in The New York Review of Books
“An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
World Report 2013
Events of 2012
Written by Human Rights Watch
Introduction by Kenneth Roth
Format: eBook, 672 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed Rashid in The New York Review of Books
“An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to... Read more >
Events of 2012
Written by Human Rights Watch
Introduction by Kenneth Roth
Format: eBook, 672 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed Rashid in The New York Review of Books
“An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Across an Untried Sea
Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time
Written by Julia Markus
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2013
Price: $12.99
From the much acclaimed author of Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, a new book that retrieves the lives of Victorian women--writers, actresses, poets, journalists, sculptors, and social reformers--celebrated in their day but forgotten in ours.
Julia Markus focuses in particular on the American Charlotte Cushman, the... Read more >
Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time
Written by Julia Markus
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2013
Price: $12.99
From the much acclaimed author of Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, a new book that retrieves the lives of Victorian women--writers, actresses, poets, journalists, sculptors, and social reformers--celebrated in their day but forgotten in ours.
Julia Markus focuses in particular on the American Charlotte Cushman, the... Read more >
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Beyond Equality
Written by David Montgomery
Format: eBook, 508 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $24.99
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Written by David Montgomery
Format: eBook, 508 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $24.99
Read more >
The Network
Portrait Conversations
Written by Lincoln Schatz
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $39.95
As the nation grapples with some of the greatest developments and challenges to date, The Network presents a dynamic portrait of the people who help shape America's current technology, policy, and education. Drawing inspiration from Richard Avedon's 1976 photographic portfolio, The Family, The Network consists of generative video portraits of 100... Read more >
Portrait Conversations
Written by Lincoln Schatz
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $39.95
As the nation grapples with some of the greatest developments and challenges to date, The Network presents a dynamic portrait of the people who help shape America's current technology, policy, and education. Drawing inspiration from Richard Avedon's 1976 photographic portfolio, The Family, The Network consists of generative video portraits of 100... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
My Century
Written by Aleksander Wat
Translated by Richard Lourie
Introduction by Czeslaw Milosz
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 30, 2013
Price: $22.95
In My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, My Century describes the artistic, sexual, and political experimentation—in which Wat was a major participant—that followed... Read more >
Written by Aleksander Wat
Translated by Richard Lourie
Introduction by Czeslaw Milosz
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 30, 2013
Price: $22.95
In My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, My Century describes the artistic, sexual, and political experimentation—in which Wat was a major participant—that followed... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
'Twelve to One' V Fighter Command Aces of the Pacific
Written by Tony Holmes
Illustrated by Chris Davey
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.95
This volume details the experiences of 107 elite American aces in combat against the Japanese. The highest scoring US pilots of World War 2 fought against the Japanese Army Air Force and Imperial Japanese Navy over the jungles of New Guinea and the Philippines. Flying P-38s and P-47s, men such as... Read more >
Written by Tony Holmes
Illustrated by Chris Davey
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.95
This volume details the experiences of 107 elite American aces in combat against the Japanese. The highest scoring US pilots of World War 2 fought against the Japanese Army Air Force and Imperial Japanese Navy over the jungles of New Guinea and the Philippines. Flying P-38s and P-47s, men such as... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
23rd Fighter Group
Chennault's Sharks
Written by Carl Molesworth
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $16.95
Staffed with inexperienced USAAF pilots and led by a handful of seasoned veterans of the American Volunteer Group (AVG), the 23rd FG was formed in the field at Kunming, in China, on July 4, 1942 and flew combat missions that same day. The group's three squadrons - the 74th, 75th and... Read more >
Chennault's Sharks
Written by Carl Molesworth
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $16.95
Staffed with inexperienced USAAF pilots and led by a handful of seasoned veterans of the American Volunteer Group (AVG), the 23rd FG was formed in the field at Kunming, in China, on July 4, 1942 and flew combat missions that same day. The group's three squadrons - the 74th, 75th and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
American Volunteer Group 'Flying Tigers' Aces
Written by Terrill Clements
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.95
The American Volunteer Group, or 'Flying Tigers', have remained the most famous outfit to see action in World War II. Manned by volunteers flying American aircraft acquired from the British, the AVG fought bravely in the face of overwhelming odds in China and Burma prior to the US entry into World... Read more >
Written by Terrill Clements
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.95
The American Volunteer Group, or 'Flying Tigers', have remained the most famous outfit to see action in World War II. Manned by volunteers flying American aircraft acquired from the British, the AVG fought bravely in the face of overwhelming odds in China and Burma prior to the US entry into World... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide (Abridged Version)
Written by George Bradshaw
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.99
*This electronic edition is an abridged version of the original 1548pp book. All the original text is included, along with a wealth of carefully selected examples from the several hundred pages of timetables and advertisements.*
Following its bestselling edition of Bradshaw’s Handbook 1863, Old House brings you this fascinating guide... Read more >
Written by George Bradshaw
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.99
*This electronic edition is an abridged version of the original 1548pp book. All the original text is included, along with a wealth of carefully selected examples from the several hundred pages of timetables and advertisements.*
Following its bestselling edition of Bradshaw’s Handbook 1863, Old House brings you this fascinating guide... Read more >
Caen 1944
Montgomery's Break-Out Attempt
Written by Ken Ford
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.95
One of the key objectives of British forces on D-Day during World War II (1939-1945)was the capture of the strategically vital city of Caen. General Montgomery saw Caen as the key to Normandy and the springboard for the Allied breakout, but so did the Germans and the city did not fall... Read more >
Montgomery's Break-Out Attempt
Written by Ken Ford
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.95
One of the key objectives of British forces on D-Day during World War II (1939-1945)was the capture of the strategically vital city of Caen. General Montgomery saw Caen as the key to Normandy and the springboard for the Allied breakout, but so did the Germans and the city did not fall... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Guam 1941 & 1944
Loss and Reconquest
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Howard Gerrard
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.95
The island of Guam was the first Allied territory lost to the Japanese onslaught in 1941. On 10 December 5,000 Japanese troops landed on Guam, defended by less than 500 US and Guamanian troops, the outcome was beyond doubt. On 21 July 1944 America returned. In a risky operation, the two... Read more >
Loss and Reconquest
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Howard Gerrard
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.95
The island of Guam was the first Allied territory lost to the Japanese onslaught in 1941. On 10 December 5,000 Japanese troops landed on Guam, defended by less than 500 US and Guamanian troops, the outcome was beyond doubt. On 21 July 1944 America returned. In a risky operation, the two... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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... Read more >
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
P-40 Warhawk Aces of the MTO
Written by Carl Molesworth
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.95
Thrown into action following the Torch landings of late 1942, the ‘green’ American pilots flying the obsolescent P-40F suffered cruelly at the hands of seasoned German fighter pilots flying superior machines. Those that survived learnt quickly, and a handful of Warhawk pilots succeeded in making ace by the time the Axis... Read more >
Written by Carl Molesworth
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.95
Thrown into action following the Torch landings of late 1942, the ‘green’ American pilots flying the obsolescent P-40F suffered cruelly at the hands of seasoned German fighter pilots flying superior machines. Those that survived learnt quickly, and a handful of Warhawk pilots succeeded in making ace by the time the Axis... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
