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Campaign #194: Liberation of Paris 1944: Patton's Race for the Seine
by Steven J. Zaloga  Synopsis In July 1944, Operation "Cobra" broke the stalemate in Normandy and sent the Allies racing across France. The Allied commanders ignored Paris in their planning for this campaign, considering that the risk of intense street fighting and heavy casualties...
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Battle Orders #33: The US Army in the Vietnam War 1965-73
by Gordon L. Rottman Synopsis This book provides detailed information about how US Army units were organized and operated in America's longest war. Special forces veteran Gordon L Rottman examines the different types of infantry battalions and the units that supported them, their...
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Campaign #193: London 1914-17: The Zeppelin Menace
by Ian Castle Synopsis Ian Castle tells the story of Germany's air offensive against Britain, in which, from May 1915 until October 1917, zeppelins dropped thousands of tons of bombs on London. Initially the city was woefully unprotected but an integrated air defense system...
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Fortress #71: The Walls of Rome
by Nic Fields Publisher Comments Having defeated a Germanic invasion of northern Italy, the Emperor Aurelian surrounded Rome with a powerful circuit of walls. This great fortification is one of the best preserved of all city walls in the Roman Empire and remains a dramatic feature of...
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Men-At-Arms #089: Byzantine Armies: 886-1118
by Ian Heath Synopsis The Byzantines had a remarkably sophisticated approach to politics and military strategy. Unlike most of their contemporaries, they learnt very early in their history that winning a battle did not necessarily win a war, and they frequently bought off...
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Essential Histories #52: The Boer War 1899-1902
by Gregory Fremont-barnes Synopsis Victorious in its previous campaigns in Africa against native armies, Britain now confronted an altogether different foe. The Boers proved to be formidable opponents, masterfully compensating for inferior numbers with grim determination, resourcefulness...
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Campaign #191: Vienna 1683: Christian Europe Repels the Ottomans
by Simon Millar Synopsis The capture of the Hapsburg city of Vienna was a major strategic aspiration for the Islamic Ottoman Empire, desperate for the control that the city exercised over the Danube and the overland trade routes between southern and northern Europe. In July 1683...
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Campaign #192: New York 1776: The Continentals' First Battle
by David Smith Publisher Comments General Sir William Howe's NewYork campaign gave the British their best chance of destroying the Continental Army and George Washington's resistance to colonial power. Having initially assembled his forces on Staten Island, Howe succeeded in dividing the...
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Essential Histories #37: The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
by Frances Lannon Synopsis The Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 was of enormous international as well as national significance. In this volume, Lannon explains how this internal conflict saw the fight between democracy and communism played out on a small scale, only to be fought out...
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Richthofen's Circus
by Greg Vanwyngarden Synopsis Undoubtedly the most famous of any nation's aviation units in World War 1 was the legendary Jagdgeschwader Nr 1, or 'The Flying Circus' as its respectful foes labelled it. Germany's first true fighter wing, it would always be associated with its first...
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New Vanguard #140: Armored Trains
by Steven J. Zaloga Synopsis First seen during the American Civil War and later appearing in the Franco-Prussian War and the Anglo-Boer Wars, the armored train came to prominence on the Eastern Front during World War I. It was also deployed during the Russian Civil War and the...
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Fortress #69: The Berlin Wall and the Intra-German Border 1961-89
by Gordon L. Rottman Publisher Comments The Berlin Wall and the Inner-German Border (IGB) were built to halt the flow of refugees from East Germany to the West. From August 13, 1961, over 96 miles of crude fences and more sophisticated walls were erected around West Berlin. Border defenses ran...
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Men-At-Arms #050: Medieval European Armies
by Terence Wise Synopsis Almost continual warfare raged in Europe during the period 1300-1500. These wars were the furnaces in which many of the modern European nations were forged. Parallel with this emergence of the nations came the development of national armies to protect...
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New Vanguard #115: Landing Ship, Tank (LST) 1942-2002
by Gordon Rottman Synopsis The Landing Ship Tank (LST) is one of the most famous of the many World War II amphibious warfare ships. Capable of discharging its cargo directly on to shore and extracting itself, the LST provided the backbone of all Allied landings between 1943 and...
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Fortress #70: Strongholds of the Border Reivers: Fortifications of the Anglo-Scottish Border 1296-1603
by Keith Durham Synopsis In the year 1296, Edward I of England launched a series of vicious raids across the Anglo-Scottish Border in his attempt to annexe Scotland. The Scots retaliated and the two countries were plunged into 300 years of war in which the Borderland became the...
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Campaign #163: Leyte Gulf 1944: The World's Greatest Sea Battle
by Bernard Ireland Synopsis Leyte Gulf was a key victory for the United States: its scale dwarfed previous sea conflicts and its result created an opportunity for the US forces to invade the Philippines. Four different battles - Leyte, Samar, Cape Engano and the Surigao Strait...
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New Vanguard #57: The M10 and M36 Tank Destroyers 1942-52
by Steven J. Zaloga Synopsis This volume explores the M10 and M36 tank destroyers used between 1942 and 1952 by the Allied forces. They played a key role in the battles for Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, the crossing of the Rhine and the final defeat of Germany, and continued to...
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Campaign #190: Poitiers AD 732: Charles Martel Turns the Islamic Tide
by David Nicolle Synopsis In the early decades of the 8th century AD, Islamic forces were flooding into Europe through the Iberian peninsula, threatening Frankish and Burgundian territory and raiding it with ever-increasing ferocity. At the battle of Poitiers, also known as Tours,...
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Fortress #24: Fortifications of the Western Front 1914-18
by Paddy Griffith Synopsis Following the early battles of 1914 along the Marne and in the Ypres salient, World War I rapidly changed from a war of movement into one of attrition, with the opposing sides entrenching themselves in a line of fortified positions from the Flanders...
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Campaign #167: Moscow 1941: Hitler's First Defeat
by Robert Forczyk Synopsis In late September 1941 the war in the east was approaching a climax. Since the beginning of the German invasion on 22 June 1941, Soviet forces had suffered the staggering loss of over 2 million troops. Operation Typhoon began and in the first week of the...
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