The military career of Jochen
Peiper, one of the most decorated Waffen SS officers, told
through the main battles and campaigns involving the units
under his command, particularly the armored Kampfgruppen of
the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. Includes accounts of the
fighting at Kharkov between February and March 1943, the
battles for the salient of Kursk, the intervention in Italy,
the campaigns on the Ukrainian front between autumn and
winter of 1943-44, battles in Normandy and the Ardennes, and
the last actions on the Hungarian front and in Austria. All
are accompanied by maps, documents and images from military
archives and private collections.
New in illustrated board - Large
format, 112pp, numerous b/w photos, 4 colour plates
The T-14 ‘Armata’ Main Battle Tank made its public debut
in May 2015, at a time of renewed tensions between Russia
and the United States and its NATO allies. The appearance of
the T-14 was for Western observers as much a revelation as
the IS-3 heavy tank that made a shock appearance in the
Victory Parade in Berlin in September 1945. After years of
making do with updating Soviet era tanks, the Armata is the
first genuinely new post-Soviet Russian design. The T-14 is
technically sophisticated and the first with a fully
automated turret entirely devoid of crew as one of many new
design features. However, the tank is expensive to build and
maintain compared to the T-90 and T-72B3 MBTs and requires
significant crew training compared with other tank types.
New in card cover - Landscape format, 81pp, c150 colour
photos
Canfora Publishing, Sweden, 2018 ISBN
9789198477511
OSPREY RAID 45: KILLING
BIN LADEN - OPERATION NEPTUNE SPEAR
by PeterPanzeri. Illustrated by Johnny Shumate
On May 2, 2011 a ten-year manhunt
drew to a deadly end as the men of the US Naval Special
Warfare Development Group (SEAL Team Six) closed in on their
prey, Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 World
Trade Center attack. Flown from Afghanistan by Army Special
Operations Command's 160th Special Operations Aviation
Regiment, two US MH-X helicopters flew towards the compound
where they believed Bin Laden to be. Forty minutes later one
helicopter had crashed and five enemy were dead, including
Bin Laden. In this book the story of the raid is told using
specially commissioned full-colour artwork, photographs, and
maps. The operation, codenamed Neptune Spear, is expertly
analyzed and the events are told in a concise and clear
account of its build-up, execution, and aftermath.
New
in card cover - A4 format, 80pp, numerous colour
illustrations, plans, maps & b/w photos
OSPREY ESSENTIAL HISTORIES 78:
RUSSIA'S WAR IN CHECHNYA 1994-2009
by Mark Galeotti
This fully illustrated book traces
the progress of the wars in Chechnya, from the initial
Russian advance through to urban battles such as Grozny, and
the prolonged guerrilla warfare in the mountainous regions.
It assesses how the wars have torn apart the fabric of
Chechen society and their impact on Russia itself. Featuring
full-colour maps and drawing upon a wide range of sources,
this succinct account explains the origins, history and
consequences of Russia's wars in Chechnya.
New
in card cover - 96pp, numerous colour illustrations, maps
The MIL
design bureau, led by Mikhail Leonteyevich Mil, was one of
the leading soviet aviation plants. Mil concentrated on
armed the rotorcraft and clearly showed that helicopters can
play an important role in front line units. The Mi-1
helicopter became the first mass produced soviet helicopter
with vide variety of special variants both for civil and
military applications. The Mi-28 is the latest derivation of
Soviet armed helicopters. The volume is packed with detail,
colour photographs and will be an invaluable aidto
modellers.
New in card cover - A4 format, 80pp, c220 colour photos
