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Featuring specially commissioned artwork and archive illustrations, this engrossing study describes the US Marine Corps' early operations and illustrates its evolving uniforms and personal equipment.The US Marine Corps' uniforms, personal equipment, insignia, and weaponry are all described and (...)

A new study of tank warfare used in the Soviet offensive of Operation Bagration, which destroyed Army Group Center.Operation Bagration, the 1944 summer campaign on the Russian Front, has been called Hitler's Greatest Defeat. The operation involved substantial tank and armored vehicles on both sides (...)

An illustrated overview of the Hundred Years War, the longest-running and the most significant conflict in western Europe in the later Middle Ages.There can be no doubt that military conflict between France and England dominated European history in the 14th and 15th centuries. The Hundred Years War (...)

This work provides an authoritative illustrated examination of the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, analyzing both grand strategy, and the tactical decisions of Day Two and the ensuing combat.July 2, 1863 was the bloodiest and most complicated of the three days of the Battle of Gettysburg. (...)

A fascinating exploration of how between February 1 and March 10, 1942, three small US task forces launched several unexpected raids across the Japanese defensive perimeter in the Central and South Pacific.After the devastating Japanese blows of December 1941, the Allies found themselves reeling (...)

Highly detailed and colourful, this account illustrates the struggle of Indonesian forces in their War of Independence against the Netherlands, following the surrender of occupying Japanese forces in 1945.Following on from MAA 521 Royal Netherlands East Indies Army 1936 42 and completing the (...)