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AIRCRAFT OF THE ACES: The Legendary Spitfire Mk I/II 1939-41
Osprey 1999 Softcover Used: Like New Softcover
Without a doubt the Spitfire was the most famous fighter type ever to serve in the Royal Air Force, and the most famous action in which it took part was the Battle of Britain. This book describes the operational career of the Mark I and Mark II versions of the fighter in the period before, during and immediately after that epic action. Virtually from the moment it entered service, the Spitfire underwent a continual programme of modification as Supermarine engineers worked to improve the airframe and Rolls-Royce produced new and more powerful versions of the Merlin engine. However, although Spitfire Mk Is and IIs served only briefly in the frontline with the RAF, their pilots were responsible for achieving impressive scores against the Luftwaffe during 1940/41. This book details the RAF's first aces of World War 2 who helped stem the German tide during Britain's struggle for survival in the bitter years between 1939 and 1941. Early-mark Spitfires were notorious for their light armament, overheating engines and short range, but during the dogfights over Dunkirk and south-east England, then the first tentative sweeps across France, many pilots achieved scores of note. The exploits of names like Malan, Tuck and Bader are covered, as are some of the perhaps less celebrated aces like Australian Des Sheen and leading Spitfire NCO ace George Unwin. Text by Dr. Alfred Price with illustrations by Keith Fretwell.
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AIRCRAFT OF THE ACES: Spitfires Over the Mediterranean & North Africa
Osprey 2000 Softcover New Softcover
The Spitfire Mk V bore the brunt of RAF fighter operations during the difficult period between the end of the Battle of Britain and mid-1943, when the Allied air forces were finally able to assert full technical and numerical superiority over their enemies. The hardest fights involving Mk Vs were those staged over Malta. To get even a small batch of these fighters to the island was a major undertaking in itself. Once there, the fighters, and their pilots, were thrust into a life-and-death struggle against larger enemy forces. For several months it was touch-and-go whether the island would be bombed or starved into submission, but in the end the defenders prevailed. With Malta's needs met, Spitfire Vs could be sent to more-distant battle fronts. As the first Spitfire variant to see extensive service outside of Britain, the Mk V fought the Axis alliance over the deserts of North Africa, the waters of the Mediterranean and the vast expanses of the Indian Ocean off the northern coast of Australia. Initially produced in haste to combat the arrival of new German fighters (the Bf 109F and the Fw 190) on the Channel front, the Mk V had been created simply by pairing a Mk I or II fuselage with the new Merlin 45 engine - so successfully that some 6479 airframes were eventually built. Although often outclassed (particularly on the Channel front by the Fw 190) by later generation fighters, the Mk V nevertheless proved to be a worthy opponent when flown by pilots of the calibre of Malan, Tuck, Johnson, Beurling, Caldwell and Duke, who all enjoyed success with it thanks to its agility and increased armament.
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AIRCRAFT OF THE ACES: Hurricanes to the Fore - The First Aces
Osprey 1999 Softcover New Softcover
The limited endurance enjoyed by single-seat fighters on both sides at the start of World War 2 meant that Fighter Command and the Jagdwaffe rarely met during the eight months of the 'Phoney War'. Although pleased to have had the chance to engage German bombers on their own terms in the final months of 1939, most RAF fighter pilots realised that the true test of their mettle would only come when they finally encountered their German counterparts, and their preferred weapon of war - the Bf 109E. The Hawker Hurricane was the RAF's first monoplane fighter, and it dragged the air force into a position where it could defend Britain in its 'hour of need'. Prior to the Battle of Britain, a number of squadrons equipped with the fighter had seen action firstly in the 'Phoney War', and then during the disastrous campaign in France. Pilots like 'Cobber' Kain had achieved impressive scores in the face of overwhelming Luftwaffe forces, and although the RAF lost no less than 386 Hurricanes during the Blitzkrieg, it gave many pilots valuable experience. Hawker fighters outnumbered Spitfires during the Battle of Britain by three to one, and downed far more aircraft.
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The Gulf War 1991 (Essential Histories) Alastair Finlan
Osprey Publishing 2003-05-20 1841765740 / 9781841765747 Paperback Used: Very Good Paperback
The Gulf War of 1991 heralded a new type of warfare that was characterised by astonishing speed and high technology with remarkably low numbers of casualties amongst the coalition forces. Just under a million coalition personnel were deployed to the Gulf region to face a variety of threats from extreme temperatures to weapons of mass destruction (biological, chemical and suspected nuclear) and a formidable Iraqi occupation force. This book assesses the defensive Operation Desert Shield (the build up of coalition forces) and the offensive Operation Desert Storm (the liberation of Kuwait) as well as the key personalities on both sides.
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Modelling the Panzer IV in 1/72 scale (Osprey Modelling) Alex Clark
Osprey Publishing 2005-07-13 1841768243 / 9781841768243 Paperback New Paperback
Although not as glamorous as vehicles such as the Panther and Tiger, the Panzer IV formed an extremely important part of the German armoured forces during World War II. This title provides detailed 1/72-scale build articles on a Panzer IV Ausf. H in winter camouflage, a Jagdpanzer IV, a late-version Sturmpanzer IV, a final version Sturmgesch�tz IV, and a Flakpanzer IV Wirbelwind. Conversions, interior detailing, kit-bashing, adding aftermarket figures and parts, finishing and weathering, plus special scale techniques are all covered in detail. A gallery section also features Panzer IV Ausf. H, Panzer IV L/70 (V), and Panzer IV L/70 (A) variants.
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Aircraft of the Aces 57: Hurricane Aces 1941-45 Andrew Thomas; Illustrator-John Weal
Osprey Publishing 2003-11 1841766100 / 9781841766102 Paperback Used: Very Good Paperback
Light handling wear to cover, otherwise fine. Remainder Mark. -- The Hurricane saw widespread action with Allied forces, as the RAF's first monoplane fighter. This book describes its many feats throughout 1945. It served as a fighter-bomber on the Channel Front, where the American Eagles and Polish units were amongst the Fighter Command squadrons flying the Hurricane, and where some of its highest-scoring aces operated. The Sea Hurricane was the principal fighter deployed by the Fleet Air Arm in the Mediterranean, and Hurricane units continued to operate from bases in India and Ceylon until 1945, following their failure to defend Singapore and Malaya from the Japanese.
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Armored Units of the Russian Civil War: White and Allied (New Vanguard) David Bullock; Illustrator-Andrei Aksenov
Osprey Publishing 2003-12-17 1841765449 / 9781841765440 Paperback Used: Very Good Paperback
Light handling wear to cover, otherwise fine. Remainder Mark -- One of the most important conflicts of the 20th century, the Russian Civil War was the struggle that led to the formation of the Soviet Union. Following the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government on 7 November 1917, the All-Russian Congress of Soviets met and handed over power to the Soviet Council of People's Commissars. Immediately forces began to assemble in opposition to the Bolshevik regime, and these became known as the Whites. This title examines the armour that they had at their disposal throughout the course of the war. It was a varied collection including British and French vehicles and, perhaps most famously, the armoured trains that enabled the Whites to dominate much of Siberia.
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Swimming Shermans: Sherman DD amphibious tank of World War II (New Vanguard) David Fletcher; Illustrator-Tony Bryan
Osprey Publishing 2006-05-30 1841769835 / 9781841769837 Paperback Used: Very Good Paperback
Light handling wear to cover, otherwise fine. Remainder Mark -- The Sherman DD (Duplex Drive) tank was designed by the Allies specifically for the D-Day landings; enveloped in a waterproofed canvas screen, the tank was launched at sea from landing craft and then 'swam' slowly to shore, where the screens were deflated, allowing the tanks to operate as fighting vehicles. Exploring the development and modifications of the Sherman DD, this book discusses its many variants, including the prototype Valentine DD tank and its role as a training tank in Britain and limited operational use in Italy, and examines the successes and tragic failures on the beaches of Normandy and further into North-West Europe, including the challenge of crossing the River Rhine.
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Greek and Roman Siege Machinery 399 BC-AD 363 (New Vanguard) Duncan Campbell; Illustrator-Brian Delf
Osprey Publishing 2003-06-20 1841766054 / 9781841766058 Paperback Used: Very Good Paperback
Light handling wear to cover, otherwise fine. Remainder Mark -- Siege machinery first appeared in the West during the Carthaginian invasion of Sicily in the late-5th century BC, in the form of siege towers and battering rams. After a 50-year hiatus these weapons of war re-appeared in the Macedonian armies of Philip II and Alexander the Great, a period that saw the height of their development in the Ancient World. The experience of warfare with both the Carthaginians during the later-3rd century BC, and Philip V of Macedon during the early-2nd century BC, finally prompted the introduction of the siege tower and the battering ram to the Roman arsenal. This title traces the development and use of these weapons across the whole of this period.
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Okinawa 1945: The Last Battle (Campaign) Gordon Rottman; Illustrator-Howard Gerrard
Osprey Publishing 2002-03-25 1855326078 / 9781855326071 Paperback Used: Very Good Paperback
Very light handling wear to cover. Remainder Mark -- By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before them in the Pacific War against Japan, and a series of victories had reclaimed many of the islands and territories seized by the Imperial Japanese forces in the early months of the war. The dark days of humiliating defeat were far behind the unstoppable Allied juggernaut - victory was now assured. The question was where the last battle would be fought. That place was the island of Okinawa. This book details the struggle for the island as US Marines and Army units battled determined Japanese defenders in the last battle of World War II.
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Inch'on 1950: The last great amphibious assault (Campaign) Gordon Rottman; Illustrator-Peter Dennis
Osprey Publishing 2006-04-25 1841769614 / 9781841769615 Paperback Used: Very Good Paperback
Light handling wear to cover, otherwise fine. Remainder Mark --Inch'on was probably the most significant campaign in the Korean theater, as well as being the last major amphibious assault of division-size conducted in the history of warfare. The odds were stacked against the US troops, with virtually no time for training and many of the divisions unprepared for the conflict. The success of the Inch'on campaign is a testament to the sheer initiative of the officers and NCOs conducted it. This book details the strategy and tactics that led to the operation's success, as well as narrating the experience of the battle in fascinating detail.
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Wolf Pack: The Story of the U-Boat in World War II (General Military) Gordon Williamson
Osprey Publishing 2005-02-05 1841768723 / 9781841768724 Hardcover Used: Very Good Hardcover
Light handling wear to dust jacket, otherwise fine. Remainder Mark -- Germany's World War II U-Boat fleet represented the elite of their naval personnel. In terms of technology, training, tactics and combat successes, the U-Boat Waffe was far superior to that of any other combatant nation. In this comprehensive book, the wartime development of the U-Boat is traced along with the experiences of typical U-Boat crewmen, from recruitment to combat. The author examines the operational tactics of the U-Boat fleet, as well as describing the massive bunkers that housed them. 'Wolf Pack' contains material taken from Fortress 3: 'U-Boat Bases and Bunkers 1941-45', Warrior 36: 'Grey Wolf: U-Boat Crewman of World War II' and New Vanguards 51 and 55: 'Kriegsmarine U-Boat 1939-45 (1) and (2)', with the addition of a new section on wartime tactics.
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World War II German Police Units (Men-at-Arms) Gordon Williamson; Illustrator-Gerry Embleton
Osprey Publishing 2006-09-26 1846030684 / 9781846030680 Paperback Used: Like New Paperback
Near Fine w/Remainder Mark. -- The wartime Police were headed by Himmler as chief of the SS; and throughout the occupied nations the regional SS commanders were specifically termed 'Higher SS and Police Leaders'. Hitler's police was not a single service, but a vast machinery which included many special categories ranging from conventional criminal detectives, and municipal and rural police to combat battalions sent to Russia, and from border and customs police to special railway and waterway departments, fire brigades and emergency engineer squads, and even a colonial service for North Africa. The author explains the origins, the complex organization and the particular duties of the many different police branches that formed such a critical part of the Nazi apparatus and ensured that control was maintained inside Hitler's Fortress Europe. His painstaking research has unearthed fascinating new information about the German police services and their many different uniforms and insignia, which are recreated in the meticulously detailed color artwork.
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Bf 109 Aces of the Russian Front (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 37) John Weal; Illustrator-Iain Wyllie
Osprey Publishing 2001-05-25 1841760846 / 9781841760841 Paperback Used: Like New Paperback
Remainder Mark -- The highest scoring aces of any aerial conflict were the Luftwaffe pilots involved in the bloody combats on the Russian Front between 1941-45. The most common fighter used by these pilots was the venerable Bf 109, which was involved in action from June 1941, through May 1945. This volume includes all the high-scoring aces, and explains just how difficult a job the Jagdwaffe faced on the Russian Front, and how its experts achieved such overwhelming scores.
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Indian Castles 1206-1526: The Rise and Fall of the Delhi Sultanate (Fortress) Konstantin Nossov; Illustrator-Brian Delf
Osprey Publishing 2006-09-26 184603065X / 9781846030659 Paperback New Paperback
From the beginning of the 11th century onwards, the constant sate of war amongst the various Indian kingdoms left them open to outside attack, and Muslim Turkic tribesmen began to pour over the north-west border from modern-day Afghanistan. These raiders consolidated their successes and by 1206 a Muslim state, the Sultanate of Delhi, had been founded, which then extended its direct rule or influence over most of the subcontinent.A turbulent period followed. The Sultanate was in constant flux as five dynasties rose and fell: Mamluk or Slave (1206-90), Khalji (1290-1320), Tughluq (1320-1413), Sayyid (1414-51), and Lodi (1451-1526). 19 out of the 35 Sultans died at the hands of assassins and the Sultanate was torn by factional rivalries and court intrigues. As a consequence of this, the territory under its direct control expanded and shrank depending on the personality, fortunes and military success of each individual Sultan.This era is considered to be the defining age of Indian castle and fortification design. The instability and feudal division of the country throughout the greater part of the period led to the intense fortification of many of the provinces, as each small lord sought to bolster his position by constructing castles. It was also the period during which Indian castles started to show their defining features, elements of which would be modified in later years as the technology of siege warfare evolved. The combined influence of the Islamic and Hindu architectural tradition lends these fortifications a unique and exotic style.This book covers all the major sites of the period, including the fabled seven medieval cities on the site of present-day Delhi, as well asthe most prominent sieges.
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Hittite Fortifications c.1650-700 BC (Fortress) Konstantin Nossov; Illustrator-Brian Delf
Osprey Publishing 2008-02-26 1846032075 / 9781846032073 Paperback New Paperback
In the second half of the third millennium BC the Indo-European tribe known as the Hittites migrated and settled in Central Anatolia, at that time a land of small city-states whose rulers lived in fortresses. These fortifications enabled the Hittites to transform themselves into a Bronze Age super-power defeating the Egyptians at Kadesh in c.1274 BC. Konstantin Nossov examines the fortifications constructed by the Hittites in their efforts to sustain and then halt the decline of their once flourishing empire. Providing an in-depth anatomy of the fortresses, focusing on the major sites of the principal city Hattusha as well as sites at Alacah¿y¿k and Karatepe, with full-color reconstructions, this is an intriguing glimpse into the history of an empire which at its height rivalled the Egyptians and Assyrians. It concludes with an examination of these sites as they survive today, information that will appeal to both enthusiasts and tourists visiting the area.
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Bronze Age War Chariots (New Vanguard) Nic Fields; Illustrator-Brian Delf
Osprey Publishing 2006-01-31 1841769444 / 9781841769448 Paperback Used: Very Good Paperback
Light handling wear to cover, otherwise fine w/Remainder Mark -- Chariots, the first mobile fighting vehicle, seem to have originated in Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC. The highly mobile two-wheeled war chariot, carrying a driver and an archer armed with a short composite bow, revolutionized military tactics after 1700 BC. This expensive weapon spread throughout the Middle East and is thought to have reached Egypt with the conquering Hyksos. It spread into Asia Minor, Greece, and was known in Northern Europe by 1500 BC. This book covers the evolution of the war chariot throughout the Bronze Age, detailing its design, development and combat history - in particular its fundamental involvement at the battle of Qadesh.
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Troy C. 1700-1250 BC (Fortress, 17) Nic Fields; Illustrator-Donato Spedaliere
Osprey Publishing 2004-01-22 1841767034 / 9781841767031 Paperback Used: Very Good Paperback
Light handling wear to cover, otherwise fine. Remainder Mark -- Hisarlik is a small place, a sandy stone strewn hillock cut up into gullies and hummocks. Yet its historical significance is immense, for this is the site of Troy�the legendary city whose story sprawls across cultures, time and geography. The tale of the siege of Troy is the greatest secular story ever told, and has captured the imagination of the Western World for some 3,000 years. Although there are many difficulties in using Greek myths, oral traditions and the Homeric epics to reconstruct the Trojan War, this title uses the latest archaeological evidence to reconstruct in detail the fortifications of Troy as well as making more general observations about the possible historical events behind the epics of Homer.
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Rome's Saxon Shore: Coastal Defences of Roman Britain AD 250-500 (Fortress) Nic Fields; Illustrator-Donato Spedaliere
Osprey Publishing 2006-12-26 1846030943 / 9781846030949 Paperback Used: Very Good Paperback
Very light handling wear, remainder mark. -- Although the exact dates of construction of the so-called Saxon Shore forts are uncertain, the development of the frontier system that ran form the Wash to the Solent on the south-east coast of Roman Britain was spread over at least a century and a half. Many of the new forts were notable for the superior strength of their defences, with thicker stone walls bristling with projecting curved bastions. These and other features were clearly designed to them more difficult to storm than old-style frontier forts with their classic playing-card shape and internal towers. Defense earlier in the Roman era had meant aggressive response in the open field or even offensive pre-emptive strikes into enemy territory. The new trend was to build stronger, the emphasis being on solid, more static defense, anticipating attack and absorbing it rather than going out to meet it. Most of the major harbours and estuaries of the east and south-east coasts of Britain were fortified in this manner. There was a similar series of military installations across the Channel in Gaul, extending along the northern coast as far as what is now Brittany.Whatever their precise tactical and strategic function, a continuing debate to which this book contributes, the construction of these stone forts represented a huge outlay of money, and commitment of manpower and materials. The Saxon Shore Forts are among the most impressive surviving monuments of Roman Britain. This book addresses a number ofthe fascinating questions they provoke - Who built these Forts? When and for what purposes? How were they built? How did they operate? Who garrisoned them, and for how long?
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No.10 (Inter-Allied) Commando 1942 - 45: Britain's Secret Commando (Elite) Nick Van Der Bijl; Illustrator-Robert Chapman
Osprey Publishing 2006-07-25 1841769991 / 9781841769998 Paperback New Paperback
The largest, but least-known of all Britain's elite wartime Commando raiding units, No.10 (Inter-Allied) was recruited from volunteers of many nations who had fled to Britain to carry on the fight after their own countries fell to the Nazis. Alongside Poles, Frenchmen, Dutchmen, Belgians, Norwegians and patriots from even further afield, the unit even included a small number of remarkably brave German and Austrian refugees from Nazism. These commandos took part in daring raids, intelligence missions and conventional infantry battles in North-West Europe and in the Mediterranean theatre. They earned many decorations and several battlefield commissions for gallantry and leadership; and after the war, some national contingents formed the nucleus of the new special forces of their liberated nations. This book examines these daring and secret units.
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