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Modelling the F/A-18 Hornet

by Geoff Coughlin

The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is probably the world’s most advanced air superiority fighter/attack aircraft and is often seen thrilling air-show crowds around the world. It is currently in service with...


Modelling the F-4 Phantom II

by Geoff Coughlin

The 'Phabulous' Phantom first took to the air on 27 May 1958 and has been in service around the world for many decades. The United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Iran, Israel,...


The Falklands 1982: Ground operations in the South Atlantic

by Gregory Barnes & Graham Turner

On the night of 1-2 April 1982, the Argentinian Junta led by Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri made its move against the Falkland Islands. On 3 April British Prime Minister Mrs. Margaret Thatcher faced an appalled and...


Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II

by David Rohde

'Powerful...definitive...Rohde tells the Srebrenica story with all the shades of gray the truth demanded."

-The Washington Post

In 1996, at the height of the Bosnian wars, a correspondent for The Christian Science...


Stalin's Man in Canada: Fred Rose and Soviet Espionage

by David Levy

First book about key Soviet spy and Canadian communist. Fred Rose was deeply involved in atomic espionage.


The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the "People's Historian"

by Timothy McCarthy & Noam Chomsky

When the historian Howard Zinn died in early 2010, millions mourned the loss of one of our foremost intellectual and political guides: a historian, activist, and truth-teller who, in the words of the New York...


More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York’s Year of Anarchy

by Thai Jones

In the year that saw the start of World War I, the United States was itself on the verge of revolution: industrial depression in the east, striking coal miners in Colorado, and increasingly tense relations with...


Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World

by Jay Nordlinger

In this book, Jay Nordlinger gives a history of what the subtitle calls “the most famous and controversial prize in the world.” The Nobel Peace Prize, like the other Nobel prizes, began in 1901. So we have...


The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire

by Taner Akçam

Introducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted...


Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

by Jonathan Glover

This important book confronts the brutal history of the twentieth century to unravel the psychological mystery of why so many atrocities occurred--the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Gulag, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda,...


Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

by Sally Bedell Smith

“An excellent, all-embracing new biography.”—The New York Times

 

From the moment of her ascension to the throne at age twenty-five, Queen Elizabeth II has been the object of unparalleled admiration and...


Panic in the Loop: Chicago's Banking Crisis of 1932

by Raymond Vickers

Relying on a broad array of records used together for the first time, Panic in the Loop reveals widespread fraud and insider abuse by bankers—and the complicity of corrupt politicians—that caused the Chicago...


Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939-1945

by M.B.B. Biskupski

During World War II, Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nation's morale. They often portrayed the combatants in very simple terms: Americans and their...


Logavina Street

by Barbara Demick

Logavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson. For four centuries, it existed as a quiet residential area in a charming city long known for its ethnic and religious tolerance....


Modelling the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A, F and G

by Geoff Coughlin

The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 is regarded as one of the best fighters of World War II. Designed by Kurt Tank, it first saw combat in the summer of 1941 and went on to be produced in several variants. It remains a hugely...


Darby's Rangers 1942-45

by Mir Bahmanyar & Michael Welply

This title follows one recruit through commando, raiding and amphibious training in Scotland, and into action. It shows how the Rangers differed from the standard infantryman in both their combat mission and...


Modelling the M3/M5 Stuart Light Tank

by Steven Zaloga

The M3 and M5 Stuart were the most significant light tanks of the US Army, as well as many other allied armies, during World War II. They have proved to be popular modelling subjects ever since, largely due...


Modelling the US Army M4 (76mm) Sherman Medium Tank

by Steven Zaloga

The Sherman tank was the principal US and Allied tank of World War II - more Shermans were built than all German tanks combined. Not only were large numbers of Shermans manufactured, but a large number of variants...


US Marine Corps Raider 1942-43

by Ed Gilbert

Osprey's study of the US Marine Raiders (an 'elite within an elite') during World War II (1939-1945). The US Marine Raiders were modeled on the British Commandos and, in the 2nd Battalion, also on Communist...


Native American Code Talker in World War II

by Ed Gilbert & Raffaele Ruggeri

Osprey's examination of the Native Americans' participation in World War II (1939-1945). Ed Gilbert uses personal interviews with veterans to tell their fascinating story. Beginning with the first operational...