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The M16 was first introduced in 1958 and was revolutionary for its time as it was made of lightweight materials including special aluminum and plastic...
The border between East and West Germany was closed on 26 May 1953. On 13 August 1961 crude fences and walls were erected around West Berlin: the Berl...
In 1965, soon after the first US combat troops had arrived in Vietnam, it was realized that in some areas the Viet Cong had developed vast tunnel comp...
Loss and Reconquest
Gordon Rottman details the bitter 26-day struggle for this key Pacific island during World War II. The island of Guam was the first Allied territory l...
Commonly mistaken for the locally raised Viet Cong, the NVA was an entirely different force, conducting large-scale operations in a conventional war. ...
1957โ73
Vietnam was the US Special Forces' most complex and controversial mission, one that began in 1957 and ended in 1973. Camp strike forces, mobile strike...
Vietnam was the US Special Forces most complex and controversial mission, one that began in 1957 and ended in 1973. Camp strike forces, mobile strike ...
The last battle
A concise, thoroughly illustrated guide into the island battle that would end World War II By the spring of 1945 the Allies were sweeping all before t...
An illustrated guide to everything that Vietnam-era American GIs and their allies carried into battle. Will appeal to historians, modelers, collectors...
Essential Firepower Facts
Offering a step by step guide through interesting gun facts and statistics, Gordon Rottman presents The Book of Gun Trivia. Covering a range of subjec...
Sailor, Airman, and Soldier Slang of World War II
Building on the success of FUBAR: Soldier Slang of World War II, Gordon Rottman returns to the world of World War II slang to cover the armies, air fo...
Osprey's new Weapon series provides a highly-detailed yet affordable overview of the development, use, and impact of small arms throughout history - f...
The last great amphibious assault
Inch'on was probably the most significant campaign in the Korean theater, as well as being the last major amphibious assault of division-size conducte...
Osprey's study of the evolving US, Viet Cong and NVA tactics at battalion level and below throughout the Vietnam War (1955-1975). Beginning with a des...
The field equipment of the German Army in World War II was closely related to that used throughout World War I and earlier, yet it was of relatively l...
Osprey's study of reconnaisance tactics of World War II (1939-1945). Combat reconnaissance, the practice of sending small groups of soldiers ahead of ...
The battlefield interaction between infantry and tanks was central to combat on most fronts in World War II. The first 'Blitzkrieg' campaigns saw the ...
There exists among the world's armies a proliferation of special forces groups. Today's smaller armies, especially those of developing nations, demand...
From June 1941, the Soviets were forced to undertake large-scale defensive operations in the face of the overwhelming German blitzkrieg assault, opera...
Soldier Slang of World War II
An entertaining book detailing the military slang of World War II. The soldier slang of World War II was as colourful as it was evocative. It could be...
Osprey's study of the ground forces of the Cold War (1946-1991). While much has been published on the armed forces of the USSR during the 1980s, surpr...
The Vietnamese knew the Long-Range Patrol Scouts as โthe men with green faces,โ a reference to the camouflage paint that they used. Operating in p...
Ranger the very word conjures up visions of small, highly trained units executing lightning-fast raids on an unexpecting enemy. It is also synonymous ...
Evolved from the colonial units created by the French, this book discusses the original reorganization of these forces into the first national army. C...
Discover what equipment a GI carried with him during World War II: what he had strapped around his body, what it contained, and what those items were ...
United States, United Nations, and Communist Ground, Naval, and Air Forces, 1950-1953
Using historical files kept by each of the armed services and nations involved in the Korean War, Rottman provides information on unit backgrounds, or...
A Geo-Military Study
Covering all Pacific islands involved in World War II military operations, this book is a detailed, single source of information on virtually every ge...
Allowing the user to inflict damage on his opponent within throwing range without leaving cover, the portable, lethally efficient hand grenade is a ub...
When conscription was eliminated in the early 1970s, the US Army found itself with a very different kind of soldier. While the personality of the Army...
Everything you want to know, donโt want to know, and donโt know you need to know
A complete guide to weapons history, facts, myths and trivia, covering everything you wanted to know, didn't want to know and you don't know you need ...
On the major European and Russian fronts throughout World War II, the challenge of crossing rivers under fire was absolutely central to any advance. T...
Sword of the Empire
This book examines in detail the Japanese Infantryman who was, despite comparisons with the notorious German Waffen SS, an enigma to Westerners. Bruta...
Pacific Theater
The Marine Corps began World War II with less than 66,000 officers and men. Yet despite suffering 10 per cent of the overall American casualties, the ...
Osprey's examination of technological advances in communications during World War II (1939-1945). Perhaps the biggest difference in the fighting betwe...
Piercing the Japanese Empire
An in-depth examination of the United States' invasion of two Pacific islands, featuring a variety of illustrations throughout. The 1944 invasion of S...
The eight-wheeled (8x8) Stryker combat light armored vehicle was adopted by the US Army in 2002 to provide a comparatively rapidly deployable continge...