Tag: History

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New: Osprey – Ticonderoga 1758

View in Store Author: René Chartrand Illustrator: Patrice Courcelle Publication Date: 25 Oct 2000 Number of Pages: 96 On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby’s expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting party and in the fierce skirmish that followed Lord Howe, the…

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New: Osprey – Quebec 1759

View in Store Author: Stuart Reid Illustrator: Gerry Embleton Publication Date: 20 Apr 2003 Number of Pages: 96 What a scene!’ wrote Horace Walpole. ‘An army in the night dragging itself up a precipice by stumps of trees to assault a town and attack an enemy strongly entrenched and double in numbers!’ In one short…

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New: Osprey – Erwin Rommel

Erwin Rommel View in Store Author: Pier Paolo Battistelli Illustrator: Peter Dennis Publication Date: 10 Jul 2010 Number of Pages: 64 Nicknamed ‘The Desert Fox’ for his cunning command of the Afrika Korps, Erwin Rommel remains one of the most popular and studied of Germany’s World War II commanders. He got his first taste of…

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New: Osprey – France 1940

France 1940 View in Store Author: Alan Shepperd Publication Date: 24 May 1990 Number of Pages: 96 The German victory of 1940 stunned the world. France, major European power and owner of the world’s largest armies had fallen in less than seven weeks to the might of the German Wehrmacht. The secret of the Wehrmacht’s…

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New: Osprey – Dunkirk 1940

Dunkirk 1940 View in Store Author: Doug Dildy Illustrator: Howard Gerrard Publication Date: 10 Mar 2010 Number of Pages: 96 The evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from Dunkirk is one of the most dramatic and famous episodes of the Second World War. Dunkirk 1940 assesses Operation Dynamo from start to finish, with reference…

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