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Battle for the Island Kingdom
England's Destiny 1000-1066
- Osprey, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-5893-1
EAN 9781472858931
A rich history of the years leading up to 1066 when Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans vied for the English crown. A tale of loyalty, treason and military might. In a saga reminiscent of Game of Thrones and The Last Kingdom, Battle for the Island Kingdom reveals the life-and-death struggle for power which changed the course ...
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- Osprey, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-4650-1
EAN 9781472846501
The Last Viking reads like the sagas on which it is based. It's Beowulf on steroids, laced with purple prose...This book is great fun. - Gerard DeGroot, The TimesHarald Sigurdsson burst into history as a teenaged youth in a Viking battle from which he escaped with little more than his life and a thirst for ...
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Crecy
Battle of Five Kings
- Osprey, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-4705-8
EAN 9781472847058
'Like Crecy itself, this book is a triumph and the tale it tells gives an old story new life.'BERNARD CORNWELL, bestselling author of The Last Kingdom seriesA groundbreaking new study of the battle of Crecy, in which the outnumbered English under King Edward III won a decisive victory over the French and changed the course ...
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At the Gates of Rome
The Fall of the Eternal City, AD 410
- Osprey, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-4998-4
EAN 9781472849984
A dramatic retelling of the story of the final years of the Western Roman Empire and the downfall of Rome itself from the perspective of the Roman general Stilicho and Alaric, king of the Visigoths. It took little more than a single generation for the centuries-old Roman Empire to fall. In those critical decades, while ...
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The Bronze Lie
Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy
- Osprey, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-4375-3
EAN 9781472843753
The last stand at Thermopylae made the Spartans legends in their own time, famous for their toughness, stoicism and martial prowess - but was this reputation earned? Covering Sparta's full classical history, The Bronze Lie examines the myth of Spartan warrior supremacy. This book paints a very different picture of Spartan warfare - punctuated by ...
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- Osprey, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 50,70 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-3982-4
EAN 9781472839824
As the course of World War II turned against the Third Reich after Stalingrad some of the most inventive and radical proposals, and designs, were put forward by armaments manufacturers, scientists and technicians, aircrew and even private individuals to the Reichsluftministerium (German Air Ministry) for consideration. Some proposals were destined never to leave the drawing ...
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- Osprey, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 22,55 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-4112-4
EAN 9781472841124
From the time of Ancient Sumeria, the heavy infantry phalanx dominated the battlefield. Armed with spears or pikes, standing shoulder to shoulder with shields interlocking, the men of the phalanx presented an impenetrable wall of wood and metal to the enemy. Until, that is, the Roman legion emerged to challenge them as masters of infantry ...
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- Osprey, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-2954-2
EAN 9781472829542
The success of the Allied codebreakers at Bletchley Park was one of the iconic intelligence achievements of World War II, immortalised in films such as The Imitation Game and Enigma. But cracking Enigma was only half of the story. Across the Channel, German intelligence agencies were hard at work breaking British and Allied codes.Now updated ...
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- Osprey, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-2842-2
EAN 9781472828422
From the time of Ancient Sumeria, the heavy infantry phalanx dominated the battlefield. Armed with spears or pikes, standing shoulder-to-shoulder and with overlapping shields, they presented an impenetrable wall of wood and metal to the enemy until the Roman legion eclipsed the phalanx as the masters of infantry battle. Covering the period in which the ...
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Pirates
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
Captain Charles Johnson's General History of Pirates was one of the best-selling books of 1724, when it was first published. It provides a sweeping account of what has come to be called the Golden Age of Piracy. It went through four editions in two years, and without doubt owed a substantial part of its success ...
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- Osprey, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,24 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-150-2
EAN 9781846031502
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- Osprey, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-2166-9
EAN 9781472821669
As the Allies stormed across Normandy in late summer 1944, another strategically vital yet unsung campaign was being fought across the mountainous terrain of northern Italy. A vast international army of 12 different nationalities had to break through the Gothic Line, a rugged barrier of German defensive positions that stretched from the Adriatic coast to ...
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- Osprey, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-1485-2
EAN 9781472814852
In May 1940 Nazi Germany was master of continental Europe, the only European power still standing was Great Britain - and the all-conquering German armed forces stood poised to cross the Channel. Following the destruction of the RAF fighter forces, the sweeping of the Channel of mines, and the wearing down of the Royal Naval ...
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War over the Steppes
The Air Campaigns on the Eastern Front 1941-45
- Osprey, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 30,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-1562-0
EAN 9781472815620
The air war over the Steppes was more than a brutal clash in which might alone triumphed. It was a conflict that saw tactical and technological innovation as the Soviet air force faced off against Herman Göring's Luftwaffe. As Germany and the Soviet Union battled for victory on the Eastern Front they had to overcome ...
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The Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the First Marine Division following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century it is considered by the United States Marine Corps to be 'the Corps' Finest Hour.' Based ...
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The Special Interrogation Group (SIG) was the most exceptional of Special Forces. Created to raid behind enemy lines posing as German troops, the SIG was largely made up of German Jews who were all too aware of the dangers they faced - capture meant either death or deportation to a concentration camp. In 1942, Operation ...
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At its height the Roman Empire stretched across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, maintained by an army of modest size but great diversity. In popular culture these soldiers are often portrayed in a generic fashion,but continuing research indicates significant variations in Roman armour and equipment not only between different legions and the provincially-raised ...
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As the final month of fighting in Europe in 1945 dawned the Allies embarked upon a series of mopping up operations, destroying the last centres of German resistance as the essentially defeated Wehrmacht fought on in increasingly desperate conditions, driven on by the explicit no surrender order issued by Hitler.Yet at the same time, the ...
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Written by an expert on modern Special Forces units and the operations they undertake, this book explains the evolution of the Rangers' missions in Panama, the first Gulf War, Somalia and the post 9/11 invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. It reveals the training and organizational changes that the unit has undergone and investigates in particular ...
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