Editorial Osprey
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- Osprey, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78200-822-4
EAN 9781782008224
This is the story of one of the great battles which forged the reputation of the Duke of Marlborough as one of history's greatest captains. His tactical intuition on the field of Ramillies led to perhaps his finest battlefield performance and paved the way for a campaign that would see much of Flanders, including vital ...
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- Osprey, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 37,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-0104-3
EAN 9781472801043
Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, this lavishly illustrated volume looks at all the different aspects of the 100-day campaign which has become synonymous with the Napoleonic Wars and saw the eventual defeat of Napoleon's French forces. Ten articles by internationally renowned historians examine the battle from different angles, ...
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- Osprey, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78200-819-4
EAN 9781782008194
In the summer of 1943, recoiling from defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler conducted a limited objective offensive to eliminate the Soviet Kursk salient. Operating a classic pincer attack of the kind that succeeded during the 1942 Kharkov campaign he hoped that the resulting heavy losses inflicted on the Red Army would give the Wehrmacht time to ...
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Point Pleasant 1774
Prelude to the American Revolution
- Osprey, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-0509-6
EAN 9781472805096
The only major conflict of Lord Dunmore's War, the battle of Point Pleasant was fought between Virginian militia and American Indians from the Shawnee and Mingo tribes. Following increased tensions and a series of incidents between the American settlers and the natives, Dunmore, the last colonial governor of Virginia, and Colonel Andrew Lewis led two ...
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Operation Market Garden 1944
The American Airborne Missions
- Osprey, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78200-816-3
EAN 9781782008163
In the summer of 1944, plans began for a complex operation to seize a Rhine river bridge at Arnhem in the Netherlands. The American portion of the airborne mission was to employ two divisions of the US XVIII Airborne Corps to seize key terrain features that otherwise might delay the advance of British tanks towards ...
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The Conquest of Saxony AD 782 785
Charlemagne's defeat of Widukind of Westphalia
- Osprey, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5
EAN 9781782008255
Charlemagne's conquest of the Saxons was the hardest fought and most protracted of his wars; it involved 18 campaigns spread across 33 years, a great deal of lower-level fighting and the harshest final peace settlement that Charlemagne ever imposed upon a defeated foe. Rapidly taking on the character of a religious conquest from its outset, ...
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- Osprey, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78200-268-0
EAN 9781782002680
On 8th December 1941, as part of the simultaneous combined attack against Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) invaded the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia and the British colony of Hong Kong. After only 18 days of battle the defenders, a weak, undermanned brigade, were overwhelmed by a superior force of two battle-hardened IJA divisions. ...
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- Osprey, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78200-922-1
EAN 9781782009221
In 52 BC Caesar's continued strategy of annihilation had engendered a spirit of desperation, which detonated into a revolt of Gallic tribes under the leadership of the charismatic young Arvernian noble Vercingetorix. Major engagements were fought at Noviodunum, Avaricum, and Gergovia, with the last action being the most serious reverse that Caesar faced in the ...
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- Osprey, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-0147-0
EAN 9781472801470
In May 1864 the Union Army of the Potomac under General George Meade had been in a leisurely pursuit of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia for nearly a year after the defeat of the Rebels at Gettysburg. Confederate commander General Robert E. Lee still retained his awe-inspiring reputation for wrecking Union armies that got ...
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Trench
A History of Trench Warfare on the Western Front
- Osprey, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-0132-6
EAN 9781472801326
An authoritative history of the trenches, drawing on the renowned resources and photographic collection of the Imperial War Museums, providing unique insight into trench warfare on the Western Front. Sometimes I clamber up beside the sentries and look out. There's little to see, rough ground, the barbed wire entanglement about 15 yards away, the vague ...
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- Osprey, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78200-644-2
EAN 9781782006442
Never in the history of warfare has the clash between such great and apparently equal forces been decided so swiftly and conclusively as the German conquest of France and the Low Countries in May and June of 1940. Not deigning to spend itself against the extensive fortifications of France's Maginot Lines, Hitler's Wehrmacht planned to ...
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Bayonne and Toulouse 1813-14
Wellington invades France
- Osprey, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-0277-4
EAN 9781472802774
The news of Wellington's momentous victory at Vitoria on 21 June 1813 reached London in early July. Celebration spawned an expectation of a rapid conclusion to events in the Peninsula. His Majesty's Government gave authority for Wellington to invade France and made noises and plans for the redeployment of the Peninsular Army in support of ...
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Operation Neptune 1944
D-Day's Seaborn Armada
The story of Operation Neptune was, of course, more than just a tale of planning, building and logistics. It had action a-plenty and the emotive tales of bravery, ingenuity and determination by the crews of the ships involved brought credit to the naval traditions of the Allied nations. Battleships, cruisers and destroyers bombarded enemy positions; ...
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- Osprey, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78096-852-0
EAN 9781780968520
The War of 1812 was never the most popular of conflicts on both sides of the Atlantic. Bogged down by their involvement in the Napoleonic conflict in Europe, the British largely relied on the power of the Royal Navy in the early years of the war. Part of this naval strategy was to blockade the ...
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- Osprey, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78200-188-1
EAN 9781782001881
World War I changed the face of the 20th century. For four long years the major European powers, later joined by America, fought in a life or death struggle that would topple the crowned heads of Europe and redraw the map of the Continent. It was a conflict unparalleled in its scale, which in turn ...
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- Osprey, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78200-175-1
EAN 9781782001751
Military life has always been ruled by its own language, specific sets of terms and phrases that separate the serving man or woman from their civilian counterpart. There is the official version of ranks and acronyms, and the more unofficial, colloquial language of the barrack room and battlefield - both are covered in this humourous ...
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- Osprey, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78096-503-1
EAN 9781780965031
On 26 August 1071 a large Byzantine army under Emperor Romanus IV met the Saljuq Turk forces of Sultan Alp Arslan near the town of Manzikert. The battle ended in a decisive defeat for the Byzantine forces, with the Byzantine emperor captured and much of his fabled Varangian guard killed. This battle is seen as ...
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- Osprey, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 364 páginas
PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78200-280-2
EAN 9781782002802
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- Osprey, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84908-607-3
EAN 9781849086073
On 3 April 1982 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced that Argentine armed forces had landed on British sovereign territory; had captured the men of Royal Marine detachment NP8901; had run up the Argentine flag; and had declared the islands and their population to be Argentine. An immediate response was required and a task force ...
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