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Hitler's Blitzkrieg Enemies 1940 - Denmark, Norway, Netherlands and Belgium by Nigel Thomas; Johnny Shumate (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
The armies of Scandinavia and the Low Countries bore the first crushing impact of Hitler's mighty Blitzkrieg war machine in Western Europe, in campaigns that astonished and terrified the world. The German Wehrmacht was millions strong, equipped with the latest guns, tanks and aircraft, and had the pric ...Show more
Japanese Armies 1868-1878 - The Boshin War and Satsuma Rebellion by Gabriele Esposito; Giuseppe Rava (Illustrator)
Category: History | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
This title explains and illustrates the 19th-century transition of Japanese armies from traditional Samurai equipment and tactics to those of the Western world, and the armed clashes between the two cultures. The restoration of the Meiji Imperial dynasty in 1868, after 250 years of the Tokugawa Shoguna ...Show more
Lincoln's 90-day Volunteers, 1861: From Fort Sumter to First Bull Run by Ron Field
Category: Cap Link Damages SPECIALS | Series: Men-at-arms
On April 15th 1861, the day after the fall of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 volunteers to enlist for three months' service to defend the Union. This 90-day period proved entirely unrealistic and was followed by further, and much more extensive, mobilizations. Despite th ...Show more
Modern African Wars (2) - Angola and Mocambique, 1961-74 by Peter Abbott; M. R. Rodrigues; Ronald B. Volstad
Category: Military | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
Portugal was both the first and the last of the great European colonial powers. For 500 years Portugal had colonies in Africa. In 1960, as liberation movements swept across colonial Africa, the Portuguese flag still flew over vast expanses of territory across the continent. The spread of decolonization ...Show more
Modern African Wars: Rhodesia 1965-80 by P. Abbott
Category: Military | Series: Men-at-arms
This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the troops that served in the African Wars of the 20th century. The course of the war is summarised, and security forces are also covered. Uniforms are shown in full illustrated detail.
Modern African Wars: The Congo 1960-2002: Vol. 4 by Peter Abbott
Category: Cap Link Damages SPECIALS | Series: Men-at-arms
In the 1970s, during the ruinous 30-year dictatorship of General Mobutu, periodic rebellions required the hasty insertion once again of Belgian and French paratroops to save European lives. From the mid-1990s the country split again, becoming the battleground for the largest African war in history, as a ...Show more
Panzer Divisions by Hook
Category: Military | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
For the first three years of the Second World War the German Army's armoured formations dominated the world's battlefields. During this period the Panzerwaffe swept away all that was before them, achieving victories over numerically superior and sometimes better equipped opponents. This remarkable book ...Show more
Renaissance Armies in Italy 1450-1550 by Gabriele Esposito; Giuseppe Rava (Illustrator)
Category: Biography | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
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 ...Show more
STONEWALL BRIGADE by John Selby; Michael Roffe (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Men-at-Arms Ser.
'Look ' There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians ' With these words General Bee ensured the reputation of Thomas Jackson and his troops who were fighting alongside him at the battle of the the First Bull Run. This reputation was enhanced during Jackson's Shenandoah Valley ...Show more
The Algerian War 1954-62 by Martin Windrow; Mike Chappell (Illustrator)
Category: History | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
It is hard to convey the public impact of France's war to maintain her colonial grip on Algeria; yet in the late 1950s this ugly conflict dominated Europe's media to almost the same extent as would Vietnam ten years later. It brought France to the very verge of military coup d'etat; it destroyed thousan ...Show more
The Australian Army at War 1976-2016 by Leigh Neville; Peter Dennis (Illustrator)
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
An illustrated study of the radical evolution of the Australian Army's capabilities, and its combat operations, that has taken place since the end of the Vietnam War.The Australian Army at War 1976-2016, written by an Australian author who has written extensively about modern warfare, traces the develop ...Show more