The siege of Leningrad was the longest ever endured by a modern city, and the deadliest siege in recorded history. It lasted for nearly 900 days, from late August 1941 to late January 1944, bringing unparalleled hardship to the population. Out of over thr...
The German Panzerwaffe ripped up the rulebooks of war that had been laid down by the grinding slaughter of the trenches of World War I. Attrition and overwhelming odds blunted the opportunities for advances, but with increasingly powerful weaponry, the P...
Paperback book by Massimiliano Afiero in Casemate Illustrated series at 128 Pages, 7 x 10 in, photographs, maps and artwork.
A dramatic retelling 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, authored by Don HOLLWAY; 386 pages with 8 pages of colour plates.
'WW2 Vehicles Through the Lens' is a new series of photographic albums presenting military and civilian vehicles used by the military during World War Two. Each book will have six-eight parts, each dealing with a different subject featuring mostly previou...
The Soviet War in Afghanistan 1979–1989 is richly illustrated with original photographs – many never published before in the West – and the @War series signature colour artworks showing the men, vehicles and aircraft involved in this conflict. This book i...
FV4030/4 Challenger 1 is a British MBT used by the British Army from 1983 to 2001.This book provides the reader with the full and unvarnished story of the origins, development, decades of service, and combat history of the Challenger 1 Tank. The text is i...
Robert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from Rommel's Gazala offensive in 1942 through to the end of war in the desert in Tunisia in 1943. 384 pages, illustrated throughout with 200 photos and artworks, as well as 10 full...
From the critically acclaimed author of Dünkirchen 1940, this is a groundbreaking history of the epic three-day battle for Hill 107 that changed the course of the war in the Mediterranean. 368 pages, with 8 pages of photographs, plus maps in the text.
An award-winning US Marine Corps armor historian's account of the role of US and Japanese tanks on Iwo Jima. 48 pages, all inclusive, with tables, colour plates and profiles, first person accounts, and new photographs of this lynchpin battle in the Pacifi...
This review will cover two titles in the Pen & Sword "Images of war" series, 1 'Rommel's ghost division, Victory in the west, and 2 ' Rommel's ghost division, dash to the Channel - 1940', because the two are to all intents and purposes one book such are t...
WW2 Vehicles Through the Lens is a new series of photographic albums presenting military and civilian vehicles used by the military during World War Two. Each book will have six-eight parts, each dealing with a different subject featuring mostly previousl...
In Panzer-Rgt./Abt.18 on the battlefield, Tom Cockle looks at this German unit and their vehicles. Many types of vehicles will appear in this book but the key role was played by the Tauchpanzers. The hardcover, landscape formatted book’s brief introductio...
This illustrated study investigates the Indo-Islamic fighting men of South Asia from the 7th century AD to the Mughal conquest of the 16th century. Men-at-arms series #552. 48 pages, 8 colour artwork plates; black & white photographs and illustrations, wr...
In this book, the two sides' objectives, weapons and equipment and fighting styles are assessed and compared in the context of three featured battles: Carnuntum (170), where a Roman legion was vanquished and Italy invaded; the 'Battle on the Ice' (172), w...
