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- Osprey, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78096-180-4
EAN 9781780961804
The battle of Talavera in 1809 was one of the major battles of the Peninsular War and Arthur Wellesley's first victory in Spain itself, following which he was created Viscount Wellington of Talavera and Wellington. Although Wellesely's forces were outnumbered, and a sizeable contingent of the Spanish ran away, he had chosen a superb defensive ...
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- Osprey, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78096-126-2
EAN 9781780961262
Not only did the Sicily operation represent a watershed in tactical development of combined arms tactics, it was also an important test for future Allied joint operations. Senior British commanders left the North African theater with a jaundiced and dismissive view of the combat capabilities of the inexperienced US Army after the debacle at Kasserine ...
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- Osprey, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84908-698-1
EAN 9781849086981
Fighting insurgents has always been one of the greatest challenges for regular armed forces during the 20th century. The war between the Germans and the French resistance, also called FFI (Forces Françaises d'Intérieur), during World War II has remained a near-forgotten chapter in the history of these Small Wars'. This is all the more astonishing ...
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- Osprey, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78096-093-7
EAN 9781780960937
The battle of El Alamein saw the shattering of Germany's hopes for victory in North Africa and from this point on the end was inevitable. In the six months that passed before the final surrender there was much hard fighting, as the defeated German and Italian armies sought to hold off the encroaching Eighth Army. ...
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- Osprey, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84908-674-5
EAN 9781849086745
Upon the outbreak of war, the British Royal Navy was deployed globally, whilst the Imperial German Navy was concentrated in two areas Home Waters and Tsingtao, the home port of the crack East Asia Cruiser Squadron which, under the command of Admiral von Spee contained some of Germany's most modern cruisers. As Spee made his ...
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- Osprey, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84908-696-7
EAN 9781849086967
The battle of Borodino was one of the greatest encounters in European history, and one of the largest and most sanguinary in the Napoleonic Wars. Following the breakdown of relations between Russia and France, Napoleon assembled a vast Grande Armée drawn from the many states within the French sphere of influence. They crossed the river ...
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- Osprey, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84908-605-9
EAN 9781849086059
Despite myth, the Japanese carrier force was not destroyed at Midway but survived to still prove a threat in the Pacific Theater. Nowhere was this clearer than in the battle of Santa Cruz of October 1942. The stalemate on the ground in the Guadalcanal campaign led to the major naval forces of both belligerents becoming ...
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- Osprey, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 21,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84908-591-5
EAN 9781849085915
General George Patton's most controversial campaign was the series of battles in autumn 1944 along the German frontier which centered on the fortified city of Metz. It took nearly four months, from September to December 1944, for Patton's Third Army to capture the Metz-Thionville fortified zone. In part, the problem was logistics.As was the case ...
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- Osprey, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84908-616-5
EAN 9781849086165
Despite the great English victories at Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt, the French eventually triumphed in the Hundred Years War. This book examines the last campaign of the war, covering the great battles at Formigny in 1450 and Castillon in 1453, both of which hold an interesting place in military history. The battle of Fornigny saw ...
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- Osprey, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,49 €
ISBN 978-1-84908-319-5
EAN 9781849083195
The Fourth Crusade was the first, and most famous of the diverted' Crusades, which saw the Crusade diverted from its original target, Ayyubi Egypt, to attack the Christian city of Zadar in modern Croatia instead, an attack that was little more than a mercenary action to repay the Venetians for their provision of a fleet ...
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- Osprey, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84908-385-0
EAN 9781849083850
Operation Pointblank was the code name for the United States Army Air Force's attempt to destroy German fighter capability through the use of daylight strategic bombing in advance of the D-Day landings. Launched in 1943, the operation immediately met with severe problems, most notably the horrible attrition experienced by the US bomber forces. However, with ...
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Walcheren 1944
Storming Hitler's Island Fortress
- Osprey, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84908-237-2
EAN 9781849082372
Although the Alllies captured Antwerp in September 1944, the port itself could not be opened due to the continued German presence on the island of Walcheren, which guarded the port entrance. In November, the Allies launched an assault on the island, using a number of Commando units. Supported by warships and assault vehicles, the Allies ...
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Kasserine Pass 1943
Rommel's Last Victory
- Osprey, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84176-914-1
EAN 9781841769141
The North African campaign of November 1942-May 1943 was a baptism of fire for the US Army. After relatively straightforward landings, the US II Corps advanced into Tunisia to support operations by the British 8th Army. Rommel, worried by the prospect of an attack, decided to exploit the inexperience of the US Army and strike ...
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- Osprey, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84176-623-2
EAN 9781841766232
The battle for Cassino was probably the most bitter struggle of the entire Italian campaign. The dominating peak of Montecassino crowned by its magnificent but doomed medieval monastery was the key to the entire Gustav Line, a formidable system of defences that stretched right across the Italian peninsula. This position completely dominated the Liri valley ...
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- Osprey, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84908-313-3
EAN 9781849083133
When the Romans occupied the southern half of Britain in AD 43, the Iceni tribe quickly allied themselves with the invaders. Having paid tribute to Rome, they continued to be ruled by their own kings. But 17 years later when Prasutagus, the king of the Iceni, died the Romans decided to incorporate his kingdom into ...
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- Osprey, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-580-7
EAN 9781846035807
On the night of 1 August 1798 a British fleet under the command of Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson met a French fleet under the command of Admiral François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers. By morning the British had won a near-complete victory: only two of the 13 French ships-of-the-line escaped and the rest were either captured or destroyed. It ...
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The Bismarck 1941
Hunting Germany's greatest Battleship
- Osprey, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84908-383-6
EAN 9781849083836
The break of the German battleship Bismarck into the North Atlantic in May 1941 was one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II. It began with a battle between the Bismarck and the British battleship Prince of Wales and the heavy cruiser Hood. The Hood was blown to pieces, while the battered Prince ...
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- Osprey, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84908-191-7
EAN 9781849081917
With the wars between the US and the Native Americans drawing to a close, one tribe in Eastern Oregon continued to resist. The Nez Perce, led by the Red Napoleon' Chief Joseph, refused to surrender and accept resettlement. Instead, Chief Joseph organized a band of 750 warriors and set off for the Canadian border, pursued ...
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- Osprey, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-581-4
EAN 9781846035814
Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!' supposedly yelled Augustus Caesar when he received the news of the disaster in the Teutoburg Forest. One of the greatest military disasters of the Roman Empire, Teutoburg Forest witnessed the near-total annihilation of three Roman legions at the hands of the German barbarians led by their Roman-educated chief ...
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Kohima 1944
The Battle that Saved India
- Osprey, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-939-3
EAN 9781846039393
In March 1944 the Japanese Army launched Operation U-Go, an attack on Assam in India intended to inspire a rising against British rule. A month earlier the Japanese had launched Operation Ha-Go, which was intended as a feint to draw British attention away from the Imphal area. But British forces employed new defensive techniques to ...
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