Illustrator: Dennis Peter — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 48 р. An important aspect of the Russian Civil War were the several Allied expeditions immediately following World War I in support of the disunited Russian 'White' armies resisting the Bolshevik Revolution. Although they ended in failure, these ventures were long resented, and were the origin of the 70-year-long Soviet...
Illustrator: Giuseppe Rava — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 48 р. The Italian Renaissance marked a period of political and military turmoil. Many regional wars were fought between the states ruled by Milan, Venice, Genoa, Florence, the Papacy, Siena and Naples. For more than 50 years starting in 1494, major foreign powers also exploited these divisions to invade Italy; both France...
Illustrator: Giuseppe Rava. — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 48 р. In the early 1900s, the decaying Ottoman Turkish Empire had lost some of its Balkan territories, but still nominally ruled all of North Africa between British Egypt in the east and French Algeria in the west. Libya had fertile coastal territory, and was the last North African (almost, the last African) region not...
Illustrator: Andrey Evgenevich Negin — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 64 p. In the twilight of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th-6th centuries, the elite of the field armies was the heavy armoured cavalry - the cataphracts, clad in lamellar, scale, mail and padded fabric armour. After the fall of the West, the Greek-speaking Eastern or Byzantine Empire survived for nearly a...
Illustrator: Giuseppe Rava — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 48 р. Formed in 1689, the 'Grand Alliance' or League of Augsburg was a military coalition of the Holy Roman Empire, the Dutch Republic, Britain, Spain and the Duchy of Savoy, to resist Louis XIV's rich, powerful and expansionist France. The first stage of the nine year conflict that followed also coincided with the...
Illustrator: Adam Hook. — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 48 р. The Numidian light cavalry were among the best-known horsemen in the ancient world: riding without saddles or bridle, carrying only hide shields for defense and clutching a handful of light javelins, they were renowned for their darting attacks, swift retreats, and skirmishing prowess. Yet, as much as they were...
Illustrator: Felipe Rodríguez. — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 48 p. Since the Gulf War, the Abrams tank has undergone a transformation, while fighting in conflicts across the world. Its M1A1 and M1A2 variants have seen great improvements made to this iconic tank, including in fire-control, armour protection, and thermal imaging technology. Involvement in the conflicts in Iraq and...
Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 64 p. From the creation of the first volunteer paratroop unit shortly after the birth of Israel and of the Israeli Defense Force, this arm of service has been recognized as elite. They have also been the first choice for daring special missions, and it is mainly from their ranks that Israel's Special Forces units have been recruited. A unique aspect...
Illustrator: Raffaele Ruggeri. — Osprey Publishing , 2019. — 48 р. The appearance of Roman soldiers in the 3rd century AD has long been a matter of debate and uncertainty, largely thanks to the collapse of central control and perpetual civil war between the assassination of Severus Alexander in 235 and the accession of the great Diocletian in 284. During those years no fewer...
Illustrator: Peter Dennis. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 48 p. Over the last 30 years, the ‘technical' or armed pick-up truck has become arguably the most ubiquitous military land vehicle of modern warfare. Harking back to the armed Jeeps and Chevrolet trucks of the SAS and Long Range Desert Group in North Africa in World War II, the world's first insurgent technicals were those of...
Illustrator: Seán Ó’Brógáin. — Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 64 p. From the civil wars of the Late Republic to Constantine's bloody reunification of the Empire, elite corps of guardsmen were at the heart of every Roman army. Whether as bodyguards or as shock troops in battle, the fighting skills of praetorians, speculatores, singulares and protectores determined the course of Roman...
Illustrator: Adam Hook. — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 96 p. With the German defeat at Kursk, the Soviet Stavka (high command) ordered the Western and Kalinin Fronts to launch Operation Suvorov in order to liberate the city of Smolensk. The Germans had held this city for two years and Heeresgruppe Mitte's (Army Group Centre) 4. Armee had heavily fortified the region. The Soviet...
Illustrator: Steve Noon. — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 96 p. The First Anglo-Sikh War broke out due to escalating tensions between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company in the Punjab region of India in the mid-nineteenth century. Political machinations were at the heart of the conflict, with Sikh rulers fearing the growing power of their own army, while several...
Illustrator: Adam Hook. — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 96 p. Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March. In the autumn of 1934, the Chinese Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek routed the Chinese Communists and some 80,000 men, women and children left their homes to walk with Mao Zedong into the unknown. Mao's force had to endure starvation, harsh...
Illustrator: Hook Adam — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 80 p. The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), waged between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies, involved some of the most important developments in ancient warfare. A life-and-death struggle between the two most powerful Greek city-states in the wake of their combined successes against the Persian invasion of Xerxes in...
Illustrator: Stephen Walsh — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 48 р. During the Japanese occupation of large parts of Asia and the Pacific in 1941-45, Japan raised significant numbers of troops to fight alongside them, as well as militias to guard their conquests. The total number of these soldiers is estimated at no fewer than 600,000 men. These ranged from the regular troops of...
М.: Моделист-конструктор. — 36 c. "Морская коллекция" - приложение к журналу "Моделист-конструктор", издается с 1995 года. Специализированный журнал для любителей истории флота и судомоделистов. Это серия тематических выпусков о флотах и кораблях всего мира и всех времен. Это энциклопедические справочники о флотах разных стран в разные исторические периоды. Это подробные...
Helion Company, 2020. — 193 p. By Defeating My Enemies is a military biography of Charles XII of Sweden, the first written in English in over 50 years. It challenges several traditions created by historians of both the old and new schools of Carolean historiography and through a chronological review provides a balanced account of the king’s life. Ample space is dedicated to...
Illustrator: Draghici Catalin. — Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 48 р. Formidable warriors, able to field tens of thousands of infantry and cavalry and led by a military aristocracy, the Dacians and Getae presented a real threat to Rome's north-eastern frontier. They inflicted several defeats on Rome, crossing the Danube to invade the province of Moesia, and later stubbornly...
Illustrator: Paul Wright. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 48 p. The Italian Royal Navy (Regia Marina) operated one of largest cruiser forces of World War II. As a signatory to the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, the Regia Marina immediately attempted to reinforce its treaty-limited battleship force by building seven large 10,000-ton heavy cruisers. Italian light cruisers also possessed...
Illustrator: Paul Wright. — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 48 p. On September 1, 1910, France became the last great naval power to lay down a dreadnought battleship, the Courbet. The ensuing Courbet and Bretagne-class dreadnoughts had a relatively quiet World War I, spending most of it at anchor off the entrance to the Adriatic, keeping watch over the Austro-Hungarian fleet. The...
Illustrator: Alan Gilliland, Johnny Shumate. — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 80 p. The Soviet Union had developed a significant sniping force by 1939, but the extraordinary skill and cunning displayed by Finnish snipers during the Winter War forced the Soviets to innovate. On the other side, German sniping suffered from a lack of standardization of weapons and a lack of marksmen...
М.: Марджани. — 160 с. Инициатива создания журнала «Батыр» принадлежит известному отечественному оружиеведу и культурологу, родоначальнику отечественного реконструирования оружейных комплексов ушедших эпох академику Российской академии киноискусств и Академии художеств Республики Казахстан к.и. М.В. Горелику, который и возглавил редакционную коллегию журнала. В нее также вошли...
Illustrator: Seán Ó’Brógáin. — Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 96 p. In AD 312, the Roman world was divided between four emperors. The most ambitious was Constantine, who sought to eliminate his rivals and reunite the Empire. His first target was Maxentius, who held Rome, the symbolic heart of the Empire. Inspired by a dream sent by the Christian God, at the Milvian Bridge region just...
Illustrator: Steve Noon — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 96 p. For the Romans, Britannia lay beyond the comfortable confines of the Mediterranean world around which classical civilisation had flourished. Britannia was felt to be at the outermost edge of the world itself, lending the island an air of dangerous mystique. To the soldiers crossing the Oceanus Britannicus in the late...
Illustrator: Graham Turner. — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 96 p. In 1709, after eight years of war, France was on her knees. There was not enough money left in the treasury to pay, equip or feed the army and a bad harvest led to starvation throughout the kingdom. Circumstances had worsened to the point that King Louis XIV was forced to offer to end the War of Spanish Succession...
Illustrator: Ó’Brógáin Seán — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 96 p. The battle of Leuctra, fought in early July in 371 BC was one of the most important battles ever to be fought in the ancient world. Not only did it see the destruction of the Spartan dominance of Greece, it also introduced several tactical innovations which are still studied and emulated to this day. Sparta's...
Illustrator: Hook Adam — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 96 p. The Wehrmacht's last Blitzkrieg campaign was indeed a lightning war, since German forces were required to seize both Yugoslavia and Greece before redeploying immediately to the East ready to attack the Soviet Union in a matter of weeks. Although the plans for the conquest of Yugoslavia were developed in haste, the...
Illustrator: Giuseppe Rava — Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 80 p. Ravaged by civil war and pressure from the Huns to the east, in late summer AD 376 the Gothic tribe of the Theruingi - up to 200,000 people under their leader Fritigern - gathered on the northern bank of the River Danube and asked the Eastern Roman emperor, Valens, for asylum within the empire. After agreeing to...
Illustrator: Andrea Salimbeti, Florent Vincent — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 48 р. Preceding and simultaneously with the conquest of England by Duke William, other ambitious and aggressive Norman noblemen (notably the Drengot, De Hauteville and Guiscard families) found it prudent to leave Normandy. At first taking mercenary employment with Lombard rulers then fighting the...
Illustrator: Ruggeri Raffaele. — Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 48 р. — ISBN13 9781472850492. — ISBN10 1472850491. In this book, eminent Roman historian, Dr Raffaele D'Amato, looks at the notoriously under-represented history of the Roman armies during the middle 3rd Century whose records have been obscured by the chaotic civil wars of that period between usurpers to the Imperial...
Illustrator: Rava Giuseppe. — Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 48 р. After the Meiji restoration of the Japanese imperial regime in 1868–77, modernization along Western lines of Japan's industry, communications and land and naval forces advanced with remarkable speed and, by the 1890s, the rejuvenated nation was ready to flex its muscles overseas. The obvious opponent was the huge...
Illustrator: Rava Giuseppe. — Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 48 р. During the so called 'long 19th century', between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the difficulties faced by the Ottoman Turkish Empire were a recurrent factor in international geopolitics. Against a background of Russian–Ottoman rivalry, France and Britain supported...
Illustrator: Henry Morshead, Johnny Shumate. — Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 48 p. The M113 is the most widely used and versatile armoured vehicle in the world. Fielded in 1960 as a simple 'battlefield taxi', over 80,000 M113s would see service with 50 nations around the world and 55 years later, many thousands are still in use. In addition to its original role of transporting troops...
Illustrator: Felipe Rodríguez. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 48 p. In the wake of the T-72 tank's poor performance in the 1991 Gulf War, the Kremlin instructed the Russian tank industry to drop the discredited T-72 designation in favour of the T-90 Vladimir. The T-90 was in fact a further evolution of the T-72 family, but the name change represented an important break in...
Illustrator: Peter Dennis. — Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 64 p. New archaeological material and research underpins this extensive, detailed and beautifully illustrated account of the famous Mamluk Askars who are credited with finally defeating and expelling the Crusaders, halting the Mongol invasion of the Islamic Middle East, and facing down Tamerlane. Probably the ultimate...
М.: АСТ; Полигон, 1997. — 930 с. — (Харперская энциклопедия военной истории). Впервые в России выходит издание, в котором дана целостная картина мировой истории войн, развития вооруженных сил и военного дела с 3500 года до Р.Х. по 1997 год. Читатель найдет в `Харперской энциклопедии военной истории Р. Эрнеста и Тревора Н. Дюпюи описание сражений мировой истории, анализ военных...
Karwansaray B.V. — 100 p. Originally conceived as a reward for Ancient History Magazine Kickstarter backers, the 2016 special edition of Ancient Warfare is a compilation of covers, battle scenes and unit reconstructions from the first fifty issues of the magazine. Compiled and edited by Josho Brouwers, with contributions from the rest of the Ancient Warfare staff, this 100-page...
Illustrator: Alan Gilliland, Johnny Shumate. — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 80 p. During the Vietnam War, both the United States and the Soviet Union supplied all manner of weapon systems to the opposing sides, including tanks and armoured vehicles. Two tanks in particular took momentary prominence in the later years of the conflict. On the South Vietnamese side, it was the US M41...
Illustrator: Andrey Evgenevich Negin. — Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 64 p. The Late Roman Empire was a period of significant change in the designs of standards and in the costumes of standard-bearers. During the middle decades of the chaotic 3rd century, evidence confirms the continued use of the old legionary eagle and the signa of the old cohorts and centuries, alongside flags...
Illustrator: Ramiro Bujeiro. — Osprey Publishing , 2019. — 50 р Following the Nazi occupation of Norway in 1941, the Waffen-SS began recruiting volunteers to serve in their ranks. Initially formed into small volunteer units, these developed into large divisions by 1943, referred to as ‘Legions' in Nazi propaganda. Early volunteers were promised that they would not leave...
Illustrator: Paul Wright. — Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 48 p. Heavily armed and formidable, guided missile cruisers formed the core of the Soviet Navy during the Cold War. From the last class of conventional Sverdlov-class cruisers through to increasingly complex and formidable missile cruisers, these ships ensured that NATO took the Soviet naval threat seriously. Soviet Cold...
Illustrator: Julian Baker, Johnny Shumate. — Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 48 p. Four pipes and flush decks - these ships were a distinctively American destroyer design. Devised immediately prior to and during the United States' involvement in World War I they dominated the US Navy's destroyer forces all the way through to World War II. They were deployed on North Atlantic and...
Illustrator: Paul Wright, Felipe Rodríguez, Alan Gilliland. — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 48 p. The first true US battleships began with the experimental Maine and Texas, followed by the three-ship Indiana class, and the Iowa class, which incorporated lessons from the previous ships. These initial ships set the enduring US battleship standard of being heavily armed and armoured...
Illustrator: Steve Noon, Alan Gilliland. — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 80 p. During the Cold War, the G3 was one of the world's pre-eminent battle rifles. Developed in France and Spain after 1945, the rifle was produced by the German arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch. Adopted by more than 40 countries and produced on licence by many more, it was widely employed during colonial wars...
Illustrator: Adam Tooby. — Osprey Publishing, 2019 — 80 p. Half a century before the 'flying wing' B-2 stealth bomber entered service, John K. ‘Jack' Northrop was already developing prototypes of a large 'flying wing' strategic bomber, which would have been the most radical bombers of their age. World War II brought a need for very long-range bombers and Northrop received a...
М.: Марджани. — 160 с. «Батыр» – это первый сугубо научный журнал, посвященный специально евразийской военно-исторической проблематике. Журнал рассматривает традиционную военную культуру, развивавшуюся на территории от Центральной Европы до Восточной Азии, от Скандинавии и Сибири до Египта, Индостана и Малайского архипелага. Временной промежуток – от эпохи древности, когда военная...
М.: Моделист-конструктор. — 36 c. "Морская коллекция" - приложение к журналу "Моделист-конструктор", издается с 1995 года. Специализированный журнал для любителей истории флота и судомоделистов. Это серия тематических выпусков о флотах и кораблях всего мира и всех времен. Это энциклопедические справочники о флотах разных стран в разные исторические периоды. Это подробные...
Karwansaray B.V., 2012. — 60 p. Medieval Warfare analyzes the world through the Middle Ages up to the early years of the Renaissance, beginning approximately 500 AD (the magazine generally leaves off in the 16th century). While famous topics like the Crusades and Vikings are covered frequently, Medieval Warfare also delves into more intricate and obscure topics like the Umayyad...
Illustrator: Giuseppe Rava. — Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 96 p. Internationally renowned samurai expert Dr Stephen Turnbull delves into a pivotal era of Japanese history in this highly illustrated account of The Gempei War a conflict that defined the age and the ethos of the samurai. Never before had there been a large-scale clash between two rival samurai families, the Taira and...