July 2025 Artwork Reveal
Today we're showing three pieces of artwork from our July 2025 series books! Let us know in the comments which books you'd like to see featured in our August 2025 Artwork Reveal!
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Today we're showing three pieces of artwork from our July 2025 series books! Let us know in the comments which books you'd like to see featured in our August 2025 Artwork Reveal!
Of all European countries to be invaded by the Axis during World War II, Greece was to resist the longest (except for the UK, which, save for the Channel Islands, was never invaded). Between October 1940 (Italy’s invasion of Greece) and May 1941 (Germany’s capture of the island of Crete, following a costly airborne operation), the small Kingdom of Greece fought and, against all odds, prevailed against superior forces, at the cost of the lives of tens of thousands of its citizens.
To mark 250 years since the start of the American Revolution, historian John R. Maass talks about the decisive battles of history.
That year had another significance, one deeply rooted in the inner mentality of the European consciousness. For it had been in 1453 that the Ottoman Turks had at last conquered Constantinople, the city of cities, thereby extinguishing the Byzantine Empire.
We are very sorry to announce the passing of Martin Windrow, long time series editor of Osprey’s Men-at-Arms and Elite series.
Many sources cite Mukden as the largest pitched-land battle in history in its day – if that is the case, why is this battle not more widely known, or been more widely discussed and studied?
This month's book vote sees five Elite titles battling for your support. Read the full descriptions and have your say by visiting the Book Vote page. Plus, check out the results of last month's Combat Aircraft vote.
English shipbuilder Sir John Thornycroft, credited as a pioneer in the torpedo-boat industry, initially created the Miranda series of mahogany fast boats culminating in the Miranda IV, launched in 1910. This boat could reach speeds of up to 35 knots with a single 120hp petrol engine.
The first armed action by the Kriegsmarine was its intervention in the Spanish Civil War (17 July 1936–1 Apr 1939), in support of the Nationalist Gen Francisco Franco’s forces against those of the Spanish Republic. In Nov 1936 the German Navy sent a first 13-man advisory group; the subsequent North Sea Group (Gruppe Nordsee), with 34 instructors, remained with the Nationalist Navy until Mar 1939.
After emerging in its initial form from the Glenn L. Martin plant in Baltimore, Maryland, in late 1940, the B‑26 Marauder twin-engined medium bomber attracted some unfair criticism and in some quarters labored under a bad name.
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