Robert Forczyk

Walther Model

This volume details the military career and accomplishments of Walther Model, the youngest Generalfeldmarschall in the Wehrmacht in World War II and H...

The Caucasus 1942–43

Kleist’s race for oil

Much has been written of the titanic clashes between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army at Stalingrad. This volume tells the other, equally important half...

Where the Iron Crosses Grow

The Crimea 1941–44

The Crimean Peninsula was the setting for the destruction of a number of armies in World War II, both Soviet and German. When the Soviets fortified Se...

Kharkov 1942

The Wehrmacht strikes back

A highly illustrated account of the 1942 battle of Kharkov, one of the Red Army's largest defeats in World War II. After failing to finish off the Ger...

Case Red

The Collapse of France

Even after the legendary evacuation from Dunkirk in June 1940 there were still large British formations fighting the Germans alongside their French al...

Smolensk 1943

The Red Army's Relentless Advance

With the German defeat at Kursk, the Soviet Stavka (high command) ordered the Western and Kalinin Fronts to launch Operation Suvorov in order to liber...

Case White

The Invasion of Poland 1939

The German invasion of Poland on 1 September, 1939, designated as Fall Weiss (Case White), was the event that sparked the outbreak of World War II in ...

Demyansk 1942–43

The frozen fortress

A highly illustrated account of the battle for the Demyansk Pocket on the Eastern Front in World War II. The fighting around the town of Demyansk was ...

Kursk 1943

The Southern Front

Mauled at Stalingrad, the German army looked to regain the initiative on the Eastern Front with a huge offensive launched near the city of Kursk, 280 ...

Kursk 1943

The Northern Front

The Kursk campaign was the major German offensive of 1943 and the last strategic offensive the Germans were to launch on the Eastern Front in World Wa...

Moscow 1941

Hitler’s first defeat

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 suf...

Desert Armour

Tank Warfare in North Africa: Beda Fomm to Operation Crusader, 1940–41

Robert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from the earliest Anglo-Italian engagements in 1940 to the British victory o...

Stalingrad 1942–43 (2)

The Fight for the City

The second in a three-part series examining the Stalingrad campaign, one of the most decisive military operations in World War II, that set the stage ...

Leningrad 1941–44

The epic siege

Osprey's Campaign title for Hitler's protracted siege of Leningrad, which resulted in one of the most brutal campaigns on the Eastern Front during Wor...

We March Against England

Operation Sea Lion, 1940–41

We March Against England tells the thrilling tale of Operation Sea Lion, Hitler's plan to invade Britain and end its involvement in World War II. In M...

German Commerce Raider vs British Cruiser

The Atlantic & The Pacific 1941

During World War II, the Kriegsmarine armed a number of merchant vessels with concealed guns and torpedo tubes for surprise attacks against Allied shi...

Warsaw 1944

Poland’s bid for freedom

Osprey's study of the involvement of Poland's Home Army in World War II (1939-1945). Poland had apparently lain dormant under the Nazi heel for nearly...

Stalingrad 1942–43 (1)

The German Advance to the Volga

After failing to defeat the Soviet Union with Operation Barbarossa in 1941, Adolf Hitler planned a new campaign for the summer of 1942 that was intend...

Sevastopol 1942

Von Manstein’s triumph

In late July 1941, Hitler ordered Army Group South to seize the Crimea as part of its operations to secure the Ukraine and the Donets Basin, in order ...

Erich von Manstein

Erich von Manstein was one of the most successful German commanders of World War II. His military mind proved outstanding in many a conflict but perha...

The Dnepr 1943

Hitler's eastern rampart crumbles

Against the wishes of Hitler, German forces under Erich von Manstein were forced to retreat following the failure of the Kursk offensive of July 1943....

Port Arthur 1904–05

The First Modern Siege

A gripping, illustrated narrative of the longest and most brutal land battle of the 1904–05 Russo-Japanese War. Growing rivalry between Imperial Rus...

The Kuban 1943

The Wehrmacht's last stand in the Caucasus

In the summer of 1942, the Wehrmacht invaded the Caucasus in order to overrun critical oil production facilities at Maikop, Grozny and Baku. However, ...

Nez Perce 1877

The last fight

A history of the campaign that saw the US Army's pursuit and final capture of the Nez Perce Indians under Chief Joseph. With the wars between the US a...

Panther vs T-34

Ukraine 1943

Robert A. Forczyk provides a riveting and intense description of the design and development of these two deadly opponents, the Panther and the T-34, a...

Velikiye Luki 1942–43

The Doomed Fortress

Velikiye Luki had been an important Russian fortress city since the 13th century and had become an important rail-hub by the 19th century. In August 1...

Panzerjäger vs KV-1

Eastern Front 1941–43

On the Soviet side, based upon lessons from the Spanish Civil War, the Red Army decided to develop a heavy “breakthrough” tank to smash enemy infa...

Panzerjäger vs KV-1

Eastern Front 1941–43

On the Soviet side, based upon lessons from the Spanish Civil War, the Red Army decided to develop a heavy “breakthrough” tank to smash enemy infa...

Stalingrad 1942–43 (3)

Catastrophe: the Death of 6th Army

The final part in a three-book series on the Battle of Stalingrad, examining the Soviet encirclement, German relief efforts, and the final surrender o...

Toulon 1793

Napoleon’s first great victory

In August 1793 of the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802), Republican France teetered on the brink of collapse. On every front her enemies' armies s...

Russian Battleship vs Japanese Battleship

Yellow Sea 1904–05

The first major clash between a European and Asian state in the modern era signalled the beginning of Japan's rise as a major power on the world stage...

Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1941-1942

Schwerpunkt

The German panzer armies that swept into the Soviet Union in 1941 were an undefeated force that had honed their skill in combined arms warfare to a fi...

Bf 110 vs Lancaster

1942–45

The RAF introduced the Avro Lancaster in 1942 and used it to spearhead this aerial offensive. In response, the Luftwaffe created an elite nightfighter...

Bf 110 vs Lancaster

1942–45

The RAF introduced the Avro Lancaster in 1942 and used it to spearhead this aerial offensive. In response, the Luftwaffe created an elite nightfighter...

Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1943–1945

Red Steamroller

The author of Case White offers an extensive history of German and Soviet armored warfare toward the end of World War II. By 1943, after the catastrop...

Desert Armour

Tank Warfare in North Africa: Gazala to Tunisia, 1942–43

Robert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from Rommel's Gazala offensive in 1942 through to the end of war in the dese...

Georgy Zhukov

Zhukov was the dominant figure in the Red Army during World War II even though his actual job title varied from day to day. Serving as a senior Genera...

German Infantryman vs Russian Infantryman

1914–15

The Eastern Front of World War I is sometimes overshadowed by the fighting in the West. But the clashes between Imperial Germany and Tsarist Russia in...

Russian Battleship Vs Japanese Battleship

Yellow Sea 1904–05

The first major clash between a European and Asian state in the modern era signalled the beginning of Japan's rise as a major power on the world stage...

Leningrad, 1941-44

The Epic Siege

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