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  • ACCIDENTAL UKRAINIANS
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    ACCIDENTAL UKRAINIANS
    JOHN GORDON SENNETT / NATASHA SENNETT
    Accidental Ukrainians: Part Two - Missile Mania is the ongoing account of two US citizens who were on the ground in Kyiv and Chernivtsi from February 2023 through February 2024. It details the ongoing missile attacks, some of their volunteer efforts to assist the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF), and personal details about their lives. Accidental Ukrainians: Missile Mania enables y...

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  • US AIR POWER 1945-1990
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    US AIR POWER 1945-1990
    DAVID BAKER
    In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the air forces of the United States faced unprecedented challenges. Demobilization had stripped the armed forces of millions of personnel, while the rapid transition from a wartime economy strained the aviation industry at the same time as the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) was re-established as the independent US Air Force (USAF)...

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  • COLD WAR BERLIN: AN ISLAND CITY
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    COLD WAR BERLIN: AN ISLAND CITY
    ANDREW LONG
    Cold War Berlin – An Island City Volume 4: US Forces in Berlin – Preparing For War 1945–1994 examines how the troops of the US Army’s Berlin Brigade prepared for war: the units that made up the brigade; how it trained; how it was equipped; how it planned to defend the city; and also looks at the Special Forces units that served alongside it. At the end of the Second World War, ...

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  • J-20 MIGHTY DRAGON
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    J-20 MIGHTY DRAGON
    ABRAHAM ABRAMS
    The J-20 fifth generation stealth fighter program has epitomised China’s rise from a laggard in combat aviation into a potential world leader. J-20 Mighty Dragon: Asia’s First Stealth Fighter in the Era of China’s Military Rise details the J-20’s technologies, capabilities, production timeline, design priorities, roles, evolution, and the formations and locations where it has b...

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  • WAR IN UKRAINE
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    WAR IN UKRAINE
    TOM COOPER / ADRIEN FONTANELLAZ / MILOS SIPOS
    On 24 February 2022, the Russian Federation launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine. Coming after years of tensions following Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and thinly veiled direct armed support for separatists fighting in Donbass and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, observers gave Ukraine’s military little chance of surviving the initial Russian onslaught. Yet the Russian forc...

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  • CHURCHILL'S SPANIARDS
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    CHURCHILL'S SPANIARDS
    SÉAN F SCULLION
    Unveils the untold story of over a thousand Spanish Republicans who joined the British Army to continue their fight against fascism during WWII. Very little, if anything at all, has been told about the service of over one thousand Spanish Republicans who volunteered to join the British Army during the Second World War. Churchill’s Spaniards remedies this and tells their story, ...

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  • THE HEROES WE NEEDED
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    THE HEROES WE NEEDED
    TREVOR B MCINTYRE
    "McIntyre recounts the stories of many airmen who did not return, which are undeniably touching, as are the photographs he includes. Because of their size, the B-29s were able to drop the atomic bombs that ended the war. But it is the human stories that resonate the most... A heartfelt account of the men who flew the combat airplane known as the Superfortress." — Kirkus Reviews...

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  • ACCIDENTAL UKRAINIANS
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    ACCIDENTAL UKRAINIANS
    JOHN GORDON SENNETT / NATASHA SENNETT
    Accidental Ukrainians is a description of living through the Russo-Ukrainian War by US citizens living in Kyiv as non-combatants from the Battle of Kyiv (February 2022) through the first year of the full-scale invasion (February 2023). Featuring personal accounts of events on the ground and other background on Ukraine. Accidental Ukrainians enables you to witness the Russo-Ukra...

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  • NUMBER 788
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    NUMBER 788
    MAX LAUKER
    How a reluctant soldier and ranger, excelling in reconnaissance, intelligence, and covert operations, details his journey post-Cold War training to the War on Terror. I am a soldier and a ranger – a specialist in reconnaissance, intelligence, and covert operations. I never wanted to be a soldier, but I found that I excelled at it. I have fired my weapons in anger, infiltrated t...

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  • NOVELTY AND CHANGE
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    NOVELTY AND CHANGE
    CHARLES SINGLETON
    The 2023 Century of the Soldier Conference discusses ‘Novelty and Change’ through diverse papers on overlooked research impacted by the pandemic. The 2023 Century of the Soldier Conference was held at the University of Worcester on the banks of the River Severn in the historic city of Worcester. The theme of the conference was ‘Novelty and Change’ and had a range of papers cove...

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  • LAST WAR OF THE SUPERFORTRESSES
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    LAST WAR OF THE SUPERFORTRESSES
    LEONID KRYLOV / YURIY TEPSURKAEV
    In Last War of the Superfortresses the authors provide a detailed history of the confrontation between Soviet fighters and the United States Far East Air Force’s B-29 ‘Superfortress’ bombers during the Korean War of 1950–1953, drawing on Military documents in the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation in Podolsk as well as published Western sources...

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  • IRAN IRAQ NAVAL WAR
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    IRAN IRAQ NAVAL WAR
    TOM COOPER / E.R. HOOTON / FARZIN NADIMI / MILOS SIPOS
    Draws upon unique access to Iranian naval archives and examines in detail the naval war between 1981 and early 1984 Well away from the major battlefields on the ground in the Iran-Iraq War, and hidden from the gaze of the curious public, the navies and air forces of the two belligerents contested the waters of the Persian (or Arabian) Gulf. This naval aspect of the war still re...

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  • A SAVAGE AND ROMANTIC WAR
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    A SAVAGE AND ROMANTIC WAR
    CONRAD CAINS
    In the quarter-century after the fall of Napoleon, there were several wars in Europe, and this Spanish civil war was the lengthiest, and most varied. It was the first of a set of conflicts that split the nation and would continue to do so for a century and more. A Savage and Romantic War gives the wargamer all the information needed to play games set in Spain in these tumultuou...

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  • OPERATIVO INDEPENDENCIA
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    OPERATIVO INDEPENDENCIA
    ANTONIO LUIS SAPIENZA FRACCHIA
    “This book does a great job of making sense of what initially seems like a confusion of political groups. The major events of the time help to weave the story of a nation trying to find the best way to govern itself during the period of 1955 until 1974. Very much worth picking up.” - ModelingMadness.Com Operativo Independencia Volume 1 covers the lengthy background of Operation...

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  • IN A RAGING INFERNO
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    IN A RAGING INFERNO
    HANS HOLZTRÄGER
    In a Raging Inferno is the first English-language book ever to recount the story of the Hitler Youth and its combat role at the end of World War II. During the desperate final months of the Third Reich boys (and girls) as young as ten were thrown into action against the advancing British, American and Soviet armies, frequently fighting with a fanatical and suicidal fury. The au...

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  • HITLER'S LAST LEVY
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    HITLER'S LAST LEVY
    HANS KISSEL
    A companion volume to our very successful In a Raging Inferno - Combat Units of the Hitler Youth, Hans Kissel's study offers a highly detailed account of the German Volkssturm, or Home Guard. Formed from men unfit for military service, the young, and the old, this ad-hoc formation saw extensive combat during the desperate defense of the Reich, 1944–45. The author describes the ...

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  • SOVIET MILITARY AVIATION IN CENTRAL ASIA 1917-41
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    SOVIET MILITARY AVIATION IN CENTRAL ASIA 1917-41
    VLADIMIR KOTELNIKOV
    The utilization of air power by the Communist regime in Russia during the revolutionary period and civil war to control its territories in Central Asia is an intriguing aspect of military history often overlooked in Western narratives. The region, which bordered Iran, Afghanistan, and China, and included the ancient cities of Samarkand and Bukhara, held strategic significance f...

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  • FAR FROM SUITABLE?
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    FAR FROM SUITABLE?
    NICHOLAS RIDLEY
    Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, until in recent decades eclipsed by the Somme, stood as the representative image of First World War frightfulness and fruitless endeavor. Post-war memory of its myriad horrors arose from the dissemination of traumatic personal experience; the tradition of futility largely from the 1930s condemnation by military historian B...

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  • DECADES OF REBELLION
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    DECADES OF REBELLION
    SANTIAGO FLORES / M REYNA GARZA
    "This book covers the events mentioned above in considerable detail... little has been published on the subject and this book provides a look into how turbulent the 20s were for Mexico." - ModelingMadness.Com In the decades before Mexico joined the Allies in the Second World War, Mexican military aviation saw a rapid growth and intense involvement in rebellions, internal strife...

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  • THE SOVIET WAR IN AFGHANISTAN 1979-1989
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    THE SOVIET WAR IN AFGHANISTAN 1979-1989
    ILYA MILYUKOV
    In December 1979 the USSR’s 40th Army crossed the border into Afghanistan. Special forces troops – the infamous GRU Spetsnaz – and KGB agents had already entered the country and in a fierce gun battle assassinated Afghanistan’s President Hafizullah Amin in Tajbeg Palace so that he could be replaced by rival Babrak Karmal. The official explanation provided to officers, non-commi...

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  • THE BEAGLE CONFLICT
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    THE BEAGLE CONFLICT
    ANTONIO LUIS SAPIENZA FRACCHIA
    Illustrated with over 150 original photographs of the personalities, aircraft, ships and ground forces from Argentina and Chile during the conflict. The Beagle Channel lies at the southernmost tip of South America and sovereignty over a number of islands there was hotly disputed between Argentina and Chile for much of the twentieth century. Navigation rights to this channel con...

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  • RAYS OF THE RISING SUN
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    RAYS OF THE RISING SUN
    JOHN BERGER / PHILIP JOWETT
    When the Japanese Empire went to war with the Allies in December 1941, it had already been fighting in China for 10 years. During that time it had conquered huge areas of China, and subjugated millions of people. The Japanese needed to control the Chinese population in these occupied territories, and for this reason they set up governments from amongst the leaders of the Chines...

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  • AIR POWER AND THE ARAB WORLD, 1909-1955
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    AIR POWER AND THE ARAB WORLD, 1909-1955
    DAVID NICOLLE / GABR ALI GABR
    This entry in the MiddleEast@War series is illustrated with abundant photographs from previously unused, or very rarely used, private and official sources. Air Power and the Arab World, 1909–1955 Volume 10 continues the story of the men and machines of the first half-century of military aviation in the Arab world. It tells the story of the first two weeks of the first of the Ar...

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  • CARNATION REVOLUTION
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    CARNATION REVOLUTION
    JOSÉ AUGUSTO MATOS / ZELIA OLIVEIRA
    In March 1974, a climate of conspiracy reigned in Portugal. Premier Marcello Caetano, insisted on the continuation of the Portuguese presence in Africa and the wars being waged against the liberation movements in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea. Costa Gomes and Spínola, Portugal’s two most senior generals, did not share this view. Spínola, with Costa Gomes's permission, had publi...

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  • THE JUNE 1967 ARAB-ISRAELI SIX-DAY WAR
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    THE JUNE 1967 ARAB-ISRAELI SIX-DAY WAR
    TOM COOPER / EFIM SANDLER
    In June 1967 Israel, which seemed on the verge of being annihilated by its Arab neighbors, took six days to redraw the Middle Eastern strategic map in one of the most dramatic reversals of fortune in modern times. The success was over a decade in the making following the Suez Crisis, with the Israeli forces being radically changed to create an army and air force upon which the ...

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  • BUSHIDAN
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    BUSHIDAN
    PAULI KIDD
    The later Sengoku period is the era of warfare depicted in classical Japanese movies such as The Seven Samurai, Ran, and Kagemusha – a colourful period that has a very distinct difference in the arms, equipment, tactics and culture from that seen in Europe at the time. It is a period that sees the dominance of firearms in warfare, and the evolution of increasingly complex small...

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  • OPERATION SHEEPSKIN
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    OPERATION SHEEPSKIN
    MATTHEW J. LORD
    In the early morning darkness of 19 March 1969, troops from Britain’s 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) and Royal Marines, clambered into the small landing craft and helicopters aboard HMS Minervaand HMS Rothesay. Their objective, under ‘Operation Sheepskin’, was to invade the small Caribbean island of Anguilla through both an amphibious and airborne assault. The...

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  • CHARLES XII'S KAROLINERS
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    CHARLES XII'S KAROLINERS
    SERGEY SHAMENKOV
    This book is a continuation of the special series devoted to the Swedish Army from the time of Charles XII. It examines in detail the uniforms and equipment of the Swedish cavalry during the Great North War. Based on iconographic and written sources, the development, changes, and differences in the uniforms and equipment of officers, non-commissioned officers, troopers and musi...

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  • TAILSHIPS
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    TAILSHIPS
    JOHN RODGAARD
    Obsolete, except for the experimental anti-submarine warfare sensor they carried, the USS Hammerberg, DE-1015, the USS Courtney, DE-1021 and the USS Lester, DE-1022 went to the Mediterranean to demonstrate the potential of a technology that relied on a passive towed array detection system; what the Navy officially designated as the Interim Towed Array Surveillance System (ITASS...

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  • INTO THE ENDLESS MIST
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    INTO THE ENDLESS MIST
    MICHAL A. PIEGZIK
    At the beginning of June 1942, in the wake of the enormous Japanese struggle to bring a conclusive victory in the Pacific War, the Imperial Japanese Navy commenced Operation AL (AL Sakusen). Among the objectives of this bold plan was the 2nd Kidō Butai’s carrier-borne strike on the American military base at Dutch Harbor and seizing part of the Aleutian Archipelago in the North ...

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