22Jun
Osprey Campaign Series New Releases
During the past few months, Osprey Publishing has been very busy releasing new books for the historian, gamer and modeler. Below are a few of the new book releases in the Campaigns Series of books with short a description of each book title.
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Campaigns 217 – The Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274 and 1281
This is book number 217 in Osprey’s Campaign Series. This book details the two attempts by Khubilai Khan, the Mongol Emperor of China, to invade Japan in 1274 and 1281. These two dates represent unique events in the history of both countries. It pitted the samurai of Japan against the fierce warriors of the steppes who had conquered half the known world.
Paperback, $19.95 US / $22.95 CAN
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Campaigns 218 – Maginot Line 1940
This is book number 217 in Osprey’s Campaign Series.
Constructed throughout the 1930’s, The Maginot Line was supposed to form the ultimate defense against a German invasion of France. However, different sections of the line were built at different times and the strength of various sections varied widely. During their Blitzkrieg invasion, the Germans were able to identify these weak points and focus their attacks against them.
This book uses new maps and period photographs to tell the story of the five German operations launched against the Maginot Line. While the Germans were able to smash through the lightly defended section of the line along the Meuse River, the line held at other key points. Ultimately the Maginot Line proved a failure, but the stiff resistance put up by some of the fortresses confirms the fighting ability of the French Army during the invasion.
Paperback, $19.95 US / $22.95 CAN
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Campaigns 219 – Dunkirk 1940
This is book number 219 in Osprey’s Campaign Series.
During the Battle of Dunkirk in 1940, German forces successfully cut off several units of British, French and Canadian troops from supporting forces and supplies. Nearly 350,000 Allied troops were left stranded on the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, in France, amounting to what Winston Churchill called “the whole root, core, and brain of the British Army.” Between May 26 and June 4, 1940, in what was named Operation Dynamo, a total of 338,226 soldiers were rescued by hastily assembled boats, British destroyers and other large ships and taken directly back to England.
This book relates the operational perspective of this operation by showing the various overlapping and interconnected struggles – land force vs. land force, air forces vs. air forces, air forces vs. naval forces, all in a race against time – and their operational impacts on one another in one coherent, coordinated volume.
Paperback, $19.95 US / $22.95 CAN
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Campaigns 223 – Operation Nordwind 1945
This is book number 219 in Osprey’s Campaign Series.
Operation Nordwind is one of the lesser known campaigns of World War II yet one of the more intriguing. Largely overshadowed by the Battle of the Bulge further north, Nordwind was the last great operation by the Waffen-SS Panzer divisions in the west, and the last time the Wehrmacht was on the offensive in the West. The campaign also highlights the difficulties of inter-Allied cooperation between the Americans and the French. This campaign has been extensively treated in German and French accounts, but is not well covered in English.
Paperback, $19.95 US / $22.95 CAN |
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Campaigns 221 – The First Battle of the Marne 1914
This is book number 221 in Osprey’s Campaign Series.
The Battle of the Marne was one of the decisive encounters of World War I, saving France from a catastrophic defeat that would have certainly knocked her out of the war. The German failure to defeat the French committed her to a war on two fronts, which would lead to trench warfare and the war of attrition that the General Staff had hoped to avoid. While the battle was not a decisive defeat, it was an Allied Strategic Victory. Attempts by each side to outflank the other led to the formation of a continuous front from the North Sea to Switzerland.
Paperback, $19.95 US / $22.95 CAN
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