Kate
Osprey is planning a new series! Get ready for Raid!
September 27, 2008 12:00 AM
For those of you who haven't already heard 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.
It will be the perfect companion series to Campaign but will detail the smaller acts of military history that often defied the odds and were performed in extremely difficult circumstances with impossible logistics, limited intelligence and against overwhelming opposing forces. So these topics should make for some cracking stories and some really great artwork.
Over the coming months I will be bringing you sneak previews of these exciting new titles, so keep an eye out and don't forget to get in touch if you have any ideas. I will be happy to hear from prospective authors - or just let me know your top ten favourite raids that you would like covered in the series.
Email me here, or just leave a comment!
COMMENTS
I know it wasn't a raid in the sense you are meaning but the "Battle of Mirbat" needs an Osprey book,I guess you could say the attackers were on a raid eh?
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Interesting idea for a series
Here are some of my ideas for titles
Morgan's Raid (1863), other civil war calvary raids
Raid at Cabanatuan (1945)
Zeebrugge (1918)
Bruneval (1942)
Loften Islands Vaagso Raids (1940, 41)
The General Raid (1862)
The Dambusters could also make for an interesting stand alone title, as well as title looking at trench raiding in WW1, perhaps based around a specific incident.
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I have a firs suggestion. Ohter than Entebbe, another important subject related to israeli forces would be the operation "spring of youth" the killing of three Olp officials in Beirut in 1973 following the Munich massacre.
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Son Tay, Desert One, Naji brothers.
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hi everybody,
my suggestions:
hammelburg raid (1945), cabanatuan raid (1945), german raid at granville (1945), st jouin de bruneval (1942), kolwezi (1978), vaagso (1941). I think that d-day landings can provide many titles: sainte-mère-église, la fière bridge, la pointe du hoc, pegasus bridge,merville battery...
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Some other suggestion:
green island raid (by israeli "sayeret 13" in 1969), tobruk 1942 (a costly faliure but interesting anyway), op. Jaywick 1943 in Singapore (definitely the most daring raid in the pacific war), operation barras 2000 (SAS intervention in Sierra Leone), nyadzonya camp raid by Selous Scouts 1976.
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