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Cover for Michal Paradowski · Against the Deluge: Polish and Lithuanian Armies During the War Against Sweden 1655-1660 - Century of the Soldier (Taschenbuch) (2022)

Against the Deluge: Polish and L... (2022)

Michal Paradowski

Cover for Dmitry Leonidovich Chugainov · Charles XII's Karoliners: Volume 1: The Swedish Infantry & Artillery of the Great Northern War 1700-1721 - Century of the Soldier Series Special (Taschenbuch) (2022)

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Dmitry Leonidovich Chugainov

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Michael Fredholm Von Essen

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Michael Fredholm Von Essen

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Rohan Saravanamuttu

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Cover for Stephen Rookes · France's War in Indochina: Volume 1 - The Tiger Versus the Elephant, 1946-1949 - Asia@War (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Sanjay Badri-Maharaj

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Cover for Ken Conboy · The Erawan War: Volume 3 - Royal Lao Armed Forces, 1961-1974 - Asia@War (Taschenbuch) (2022)

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Michal A Piegzik

Cover for Kevin Wright · Danger Zone: Us Clandestine Reconnaissance Operations Along the West Berlin Air Corridors, 1945-1990 - Europe@war (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Tom Cooper · June 1967 Arab-Israeli War: Volume 2 - The Southern Front - Middle East@War (Taschenbuch) (2025)

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Cover for David Nicolle · Air Power and Arab World 1909-1955: Volume 7 - Arab Air Forces in Crisis, April 1941 - Middle East@War (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Tom Cooper · Lebanese Civil War: Volume 3 - Moving to War, 4-7 June 1982 - Middle East@War (Taschenbuch) (2022)

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Cover for Grant Newell · Airborne to Arnhem. Volume 1: Personal Reminiscences of the Battle of Arnhem, Operation Market, 17-26 September 1944 (Gebundenes Buch) (2023)

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Cover for Ralph J Whitehead · Other Side of the Wire, Volume 2: The Battle of the Somme with the German XIV Reserve Corps, 1 July 1916 (Taschenbuch) [Reprint edition] (2022)

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Cover for Wolfgang Schneider - OBE · Tigers In Combat: Volume 3: (Taschenbuch) (2022)

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Cover for Ken Wharton · An Agony Continued: The British Army in Northern Ireland 1980-83 (Taschenbuch) [Reprint edition] (2022)

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Cover for Jim Smithson · Taste of Success: The First Battle of the Scarpe April 9-14 1917 - the Opening Phase of the Battle of Arras (Taschenbuch) [Reprint edition] (2023)

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Cover for Richard Harrison · Operation Bagration, 23 June-29 August 1944: The Rout Of The German Forces In Belorussia (Taschenbuch) [Reprint edition] (2022)

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Richard Harrison

Cover for Ken Wharton · Another Bloody Chapter in an Endless Civil War: Volume 1 - Northern Ireland and the Troubles 1984-87 (Taschenbuch) [Reprint edition] (2022)

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Cover for Peter Hodgkinson · Battle of the Selle: Fourth Army Operations on the Western Front in the Hundred Days, 9-24 October 1918 (Gebundenes Buch) [Reprint edition] (2023)

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Peter Hodgkinson

Cover for Alan Jeffreys · Indian Army in the First World War: New Perspectives (Taschenbuch) [Reprint edition] (2022)

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Cover for Peter Stanley · Terriers in India: British Territorials 1914-19 (Taschenbuch) [Reprint edition] (2022)

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Cover for Ian Mitchell · Battle of the Peaks and Long Stop Hill: Tunisia, April-May 1943 (Taschenbuch) [Reprint edition] (2022)

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Cover for David R Orr · Ulster Will Fight: Volume 1 - Home Rule and the Ulster Volunteer Force 1886-1922 (Taschenbuch) [Reprint edition] (2022)

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Cover for David Truesdale · Ulster Will Fight: Volume 2 - The 36th (Ulster) Division in Training and at War 1914-1918 (Taschenbuch) [Reprint edition] (2022)

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David Truesdale

Cover for Tom Cooper · Moscow's Game of Poker (Revised Edition): Russian Military Intervention in Syria, 2015-2017 - Middle East@War (Taschenbuch) [2 Revised edition] (2022)

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Cover for Tom Cooper · The Iran-Iraq War: The Greatest Land War of the Late Twentieth Century - Middle East@War Series Special (Taschenbuch) (2022)

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Cover for Trevor B. McIntyre · The Heroes We Needed: The B-29ers Who Ended World War II and My Fight to Save the Forgotten Stories of the Greatest Generation (Gebundenes Buch) (2024)

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Trevor B. McIntyre

Cover for Grenville Bird · The Destruction of the Imperial Army Volume 2: The Battles Around Metz 1870 - From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Quintin Barry · Black Week: The British Army and Defeat in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1900 - From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 (Gebundenes Buch) (2024)

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Cover for Alexander Querengasser · The Bavarian War of Succession, 1778-79: Prussian Military Power in Decline - From Reason to Revolution (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Alexander Querengasser

Cover for Alexander Querengasser · Kesselsdorf 1745: Decision in the Fight for Silesia - From Reason to Revolution (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Alexander Querengasser

Cover for John Marsden · The Tagus Campaign of 1809: An Alliance in Jeopardy - From Reason to Revolution (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Alistair Nichols · A Fine Corps and Will Serve Faithfully: The Swiss Regiment de Roll in the British Army 1794-1816 - From Reason to Revolution (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Alistair Nichols

Cover for Anthony Bruce · Anson: Royal Navy Commander and Statesman, 1697-1762 - From Reason to Revolution (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky · 1806-1807 - Tsar Alexander's Second War with Napoleon: The Russian Official History - From Reason to Revolution (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Padraig Lenihan · Raw Generals and Green Soldiers: Catholic Armies in Ireland 1641-43 - Century of the Soldier (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Padraig Lenihan

Cover for Andrew Abram · Dragoons and Dragoon Operations in the British Civil Wars, 1638-1653 - Century of the Soldier (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Derek Lester · John Hampden and the Battle of Chalgrove: The Political and Military Life of Hampden and His Legacy - Century of the Soldier (Taschenbuch) (2023)

John Hampden and the Battle of C... (2023)

Cover for Stephen M Carter · Science of Arms: The Art of War in the Century of the Soldier, 1672 to 1699, Volume 2: The Cavalry, Artillery & Conduct of War - Century of the Soldier (Taschenbuch) (2024)

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Stephen M Carter

Cover for Paul Sutton · The City Horse: London's Militia Cavalry During the English Civil War, 1642-1660 - Century of the Soldier (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Warwick Louth · Monmouth's First Rebellion: The Later Covenanter Risings, 1660-1685 - Century of the Soldier (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Jonathan Davies · The Tudor Arte of Warre. Volume 2: The conduct of war in the reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1603. Diplomacy, Strategy, Campaigns and Battles - From Retinue to Regiment (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Jonathan Davies

Cover for Douglas Miller · The German Peasants' War 1524-26 - From Retinue to Regiment (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Garry David Wills · Throwing Thunderbolts: A Wargamer's Guide to the War of the First Coalition, 1792-7 - Helion Wargames (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Garry David Wills

Cover for Javier Garcia de Gabiola · The Rif War Volume 2: From Xauen to the Alhucemas Landing, and Beyond, 1922-1927 - Africa@War (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Javier Garcia de Gabiola

Cover for Janos Besenyo · Minurso United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara: Peace Operation Stalled in the Desert, 1991-2021 - Africa@War (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Dean Wilson · Red Shirt / Yellow Shirt: Protests and Insurrection in Thailand, 2000-2015 - Asia@War (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Tom Cooper · Ripped Apart. Volume 1: Cyprus Crisis, 1963-1944 - Europe@War (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Philippe Wodka-Gallien · A Sword for Peace and Liberty Volume 1: Force de Frappe - The French Nuclear Strike Force and the First Cold War 1945-1990 - Europe@war (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Philippe Wodka-Gallien

Cover for Efim Sandler · Battle for Grozny, Volume 1: Prelude and the First Assault on the Capital of Chechnya, 1994-1995 - Europe@war (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for David Francois · El Salvador Volume Volume 2: Conflagration, 1983-1990 - Latin America@War (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Antonio Luis Sapienza Fracchia · Azules Y Colorados: Armed Confrontations in the Argentine Armed Forces, 1962-1963 - Latin America@War (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Antonio Luis Sapienza Fracchia

Cover for Antonio Luis Sapienza Fracchia · Revolucion Libertadora Volume 2: The 1955 Coup That Overthrew President Peron - Latin America@War (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Antonio Luis Sapienza Fracchia

Cover for Martin Smisek · Czechoslovak Arms Exports to the Middle East, Volume 4: Iran, Iraq, Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen 1948-1989 - Middle East@War (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Bill Norton · The Arab-Israeli War of Attrition, 1967-1973. Volume 1: Aftermath of the Six-Day War, Renewed Combat, West Bank Insurgency and Air Forces - Middle East@War (Taschenbuch) (2022)

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Cover for Gabr Ali Nicolle · Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955, Volume 9: The Arab Air Forces and a New World Order, 1946-1948 - Middle East@War (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Gabr Ali Nicolle

Cover for Neal Dando · The Tanks Are Coming Through Now: The Battles at Gazala, 27 May-18 June 1942 - Wolverhampton Military Studies (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Derek Clayton · To Do the Work of Men: An Operational History of the 21st Division in the Great War - Wolverhampton Military Studies (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Massimiliano Afiero · Birth and Fall of an Empire: The Italian Army in East Africa 1935-41 (Gebundenes Buch) (2024)

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Massimiliano Afiero

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Richard Farrimond

Cover for Paolo Morisi · Damned Hunchbacks: Italy's Forgotten Torpedo Bomber Units of the Second World War (1940-1943) (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Juan Arraez Cerda · The 'Blue Squadrons': The Spanish in the Luftwaffe, 1941-1944 (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Juan Arraez Cerda

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Cover for Salvo Fagone · The Eyes of Malta: The Crucial Role of Aerial Reconnaissance and Ultra Intelligence, 1940-1943 (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Eduardo Manuel Gil Martinez · Fallschirmjager in the Defense of the Oder 1945: Schwedt, Zehden, Eberswalde, Seelow, Berlin (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Eduardo Manuel Gil Martinez

Cover for Neal Dando · From Tobruk to Tunis: The Impact of Terrain on British Operations and Doctrine in North Africa 1940-1943 - Wolverhampton Military Studies (Taschenbuch) [Reprint edition] (2023)

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Cover for Kaloyan Matev · Red Wind Over the Balkans: The Soviet Offensive South of the Danube September-October 1944 (Taschenbuch) [Reprint edition] (2023)

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Cover for Valeriy Zamulin · The Forgotten Battle of the Kursk Salient: 7th Guards Army's Stand Against Army Detachment Kempf (Taschenbuch) [Reprint edition] (2023)

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Valeriy Zamulin

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Cover for Albert Grandolini · Target Saigon 1973-1975 Volume 4: The Final Collapse, April-May 1975 - Asia@War (Taschenbuch) (2022)

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Albert Grandolini

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Michael Fredholm von Essen

Cover for Duncan De Silva · Strike Up, Strike Sure: The Pipes and Drums of the London Scottish Regiment (Taschenbuch) (2022)

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Duncan De Silva

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Cover for Barrie S. Barnes · Stern Reckoning: XXX Corps: From Gold Beach to the Seine (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for John Dixon · The Fight for Life: The Medical Services in the Gallipoli Campaign, 1915-16 (Taschenbuch) (2024)

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Cover for Michael James Nugent · A Bad Day, I Fear: The Irish Divisions at the Battle of Langemarck, 16 August 1917 (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Daniele Guglielmi

Cover for Eric W Osborne · The Battle of Megiddo Palestine 1918: Combined Arms and the Last Great Cavalry Charge (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Cover for Robert Davidson · The Spioenkop Campaign: The Battles to Relieve Ladysmith, 17-27 January 1900 - From Musket to Maxim (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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Robert Davidson

Cover for Grenville Bird · The Destruction of the Imperial Army Volume 3: The Sedan Campaign 1870 - From Musket to Maxim (Taschenbuch) (2024)

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Cover for John P Langellier · More Work Than Glory: Buffalo Soldiers in the United States Army, 1865-1916 - From Musket to Maxim (Taschenbuch) (2023)

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