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Raid - The launch titles!

For those of you have been waiting with bated breath and also for those of you who sent in such great suggestions I can now confirm the first six Raid titles.

Alex de Quesada explains his interest in The Bay of Pigs

In January we will publish Elite 166 Bay of Pigs. Having had a sneak preview I think it is going to be a fantastic addition to the series and I asked Alex de Quesada, the author, to give our blog readers some insight into his motivation for researching the topic. Here are his thoughts...

The next 450 Men-at-Arms titles?

Here at Osprey HQ we have just had John, our US Sales and Marketing Director, over for a week. This generally means a chance for us not only to have a catch-up but also an opportunity to brainstorm future titles and plan our publishing programme for the next couple of years. As you know Osprey is 40 years young this year and this August we published our 450th Men-at-Arms title. In honour of these two milestones I thought I would ask you, our readers, to join in our brainstorming session and help us decide what Men-at-Arms titles you would like to see published.

Dambuster flies again

Squadron Leader Tony Iveson, who flew with the ‘Dambusters’ 617 Squadron made an emotional return to the skies last week as part of a campaign drive to raise funds for a national monument in central London to pay respects to Bomber Command. Together with Flight Lieutenant Mike Leckey, he took the controls of PA 474 ‘City of Lincoln’ Lancaster. Incredibly the Squadron Leader flew more than 20 missions over enemy territory with 617 Squadron and had previously fought in the Battle of Britain as a Spitfire pilot for 616 Squadron.

Warrior US Army Long Range Patrol Scout in Vietnam

This month sees the publication of our volume on the LRP Scout in Vietnam - a great book put together by Gordon Rottman, himself an LRP vet, and the artist Adam Hook. Unfortunately when the book printed one of the artwork plates has appeared as a mirror image of itself.

T-62 at the Tank Museum

In August next year we’ll be publishing a book on the T-62 Main Battle Tank by Steve Zaloga (New Vanguard 158). In the meantime, if Cold War tanks are your thing you can help sponsor your very own T-62!

Osprey is planning a new series! Get ready for Raid!

For those of you who haven't already herad the news on the Osprey grapevine, we are planning another new series. This one is going to be called Raid and will cover all of the classic wartime raids from Pointe-du-Hoc to Entebbe to the SAS storming the Iranian Embassy...

Visit to Vimy Ridge Memorial

A visit to the Vimy Ridge Memorial on the Somme as well as to a small private memorial over-looking some of the major battlefields.

Delville Wood visit

A visit to Delville Wood on the Western Front where the 1st South African Infantry Brigade were involved in some of the heaviest fighting on the Somme.

Unsung Heroines

As some of you might already know I am a bit of a Battle of Britain nut, so I was recently intrigued to hear that the surviving female members of the Air Transport Auxiliary are expected to be honoured with a special badge to commemorate their service.

MERTS in Afghanistan

Not sure how many of our UK readers managed to catch this brilliant report on Channel 4 news a couple of months ago, so I thought I would share it with everyone. A television crew was allowed to accompany a British medical emergency response team (MERT for short) as it picked up the wounded from the battlefield...

British Uniform Stamps

For all you uniform buffs who also perhaps have a secondary hobby as stamp collectors, you may be interested to know that one of Osprey’s artists, Graham Turner, has recently produced a series of stamps showing the evolution of British Army uniforms for the Royal Mail...

Hell Land (Helmand Province Exhibition)

The National Army Museum here in London recently launched a new exhibition about 3 Para’s deployment as part of 16 Air Assault to Helmand Province, or as they fondly called it “Hell Land”. The exhibit has actually been nominated for The Art Fund Prize...

Courage under fire: Recent British military decorations

181 members of the British Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defence have recently been honoured for courage and professionalism while on active service. There had been a lot of expectation that ...

General Dan Shamron, organiser of the Entebbe Raid, dies 26 February 2008

Lt. Gen. Dan Shamron, a former Chief of Staff for the Israeli Defence Forces, died yesterday. The 13th Chief of Staff, he was a highly decorated soldier, having received ...

Military – the new buzz word from documentaries to gyms…

At the moment military history seems to be creating a bit of a buzz particularly in the States where Ken Burns’ new documentary series on World War II has just launched. I was a huge fan of his Civil War documentary ...

Greatest War Speeches... or not

I’m currently working on a book on the battle between Russian and Japanese battleships during the war of 1904–05 for our new Duel series. In it, the author Robert Forczyk highlights ...

The Ice Girls

Some of you might have caught a news story a couple of weeks ago telling the incredible story of Glacier Gal; nearly 65 years ago this P-38 was one of eight planes to ditch in the dangerous environs of ...

Calling all doccie fans...

Well if Mike is a bit nutty about old buildings I am definitely a bit of a history documentaries obsessive. But that’s not to say that I spend my life in a darkened room watching History Channel re-runs. I am quite picky about...

Who wins in the battles of the machines?

Some of you may have heard about our new series Duel, which is coming in September. It looks at the machines of war pitted against each other; in particular the classic confrontations like the Spitfire vs the Bf 109. Each book looks at the design and development of the particular weapons, the crews that operated them and how they performed in real combat situations...