Land Forces & Warfare

This is the second volume, but the last to be published of a trilogy - the other volumes being Smashing the Atlantic Wall and The Battle of the B...

The successes of the German Blitzkrieg in 193941 were as surprising as they were swift. Allied decision-makers wanted to discover the secret to Ger...

This is the third volume of the vast trilogy devoted to the Allied troops under the Anglo-Canadian command of the 21st Army Group. The aim of thi...

This book is a rare first-hand account by a ruthlessly efficient German sniper of life and death during the bitter conflict that followed the Nazi ...

Following on from the stunning success of the novel Matterhorn as well as Ospreys own Tonight We Die as Men, this book follows the trials and tribu...

In April 1941, as Churchill strove to counter the German threat to the Balkans, New Zealand troops were hastily committed to combat in the wake of ...

'All I could do was prod the earth with my bayonet and shine the light to see if I could find anything. It doesn't matter how small the tunnel is y...

They were frequently not just on the front line, but right at the sharp end of the action. They were the legendary sappers, the army engineers, who...

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was one of the most innovative British creations of the Second World War. Its mission was to export resistan...

An eye-opening account of Australian combat history, untold . . . until now. 'thoroughly researched and compelling . . . a chilling account' - SUND...

Galloglass, from the Gaelic galloglaigh for 'foreign warriors', were mercenaries from the Western Isles of Scotland who fought in the retinues of I...

This authentic account is a tribute to the courage and resolve with which soldiers and their loved ones confront uncertainty, fear, hardship and th...

Packed with beautiful Osprey artwork, this volume offers a complete history of the Roman Army. The image of the Roman legionary is as familiar tod...

Parachute Doctor is the story of Captain David Tibbs RAMC MC who as a member of 225 (Parachute) Field Ambulance and the 13th Parachute Battalion se...

At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well traine...

Winston Churchill authorised the creation of a new wartime secret service, the Special Operations Executive(SOE), with the order And now set Europe...

Illustrated with detailed artworks of American, British, Canadian, Australian, French, Polish and other Western Allied nations tanks and their mark...

Warlords are individuals who control small territories within weak states, using a combination of force and patronage. In this book, Kimberly Marte...

This highly illustrated title traces the development of mercenary soldiering from individuals and small units in the African wars of the 1960s90s t...

''General Leclerc'' was the nom de guerre adopted by the Gaullist officer Philippe de Hautcloque, to protect his family in occupied France. He beca...

During its two year history, the cavalry of the Army of the Cumberland fought the Confederates in some of the most important actions of the Civil W...

The U.S. Army evolved into a truly modern fighting force during World War I. When the U.S. entered the war in 1917, the infantry was its primary...

Norway was one of the nations producing the highest number of volunteers for the German war machine during WWII. Most of them ended up in the mecha...

The exploits of the 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment have long been overshadowed by those of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion. Yet the a...