Osprey Military History Books : Campaign Series

Campaign Series

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Campaign books are concise 96 page, 248 x 184mm, paperbacks which examine the strategies, tactics and battle experiences of the opposing armies accompanied by colour artwork, photographs, maps and diagrams.

Ancient Warfare

7     Alexander 334-323 BC : Conquest of the Persian Empire
22    Qadesh 1300 BC : Clash of the Warrior Kings
31    Yarmuk 636 AD : The Muslim Conquest of Syria
36    Cannae 216 BC : Hannibal Smashes Rome's Army
84    Adrianople 378 AD : The Goths Crush Rome's Legions
108 Marathon 490 BC : The First Persian Invasion of Greece
174 Pharsalus 48 BC : Caesar and Pompey : Clash of the Titans

Medieval Warfare

9     Agincourt 1415 : Triumph Against the Odds
13    Hastings 1066 : The Fall of Saxon England (1992)
13    Hastings 1066 : The Fall of Saxon England (2000)
19    Hattin 1187 : Saladin's Greatest Victory
43    Fornovo 1495 : France's Bloody Fighting Retreat
44    Pavia 1525 : The Climax of the Italian Wars
46    Lake Peipus 1242 : Battle of the Ice
50    Malta 1565 : Last Battle of the Crusades
53    Granada 1492 : The Twilight of Moorish Spain
64    Nicopolis 1396 : The Last Crusade
66    Bosworth 1485 : Last Charge of the Plantagenets
69    Nagashino 1575 : Slaughter at the Barricades
71    Crecy 1346 : Triumph of the Longbow
78    Constantinople 1453 : The End of Byzantium
86    The Armada Campaign 1588 : The Great Enterprise against England
94    Orleans 1429 : France turns the Tide
98    Kalka River 1223 : Genghiz Khan's Mongols invade Russia
102 Bannockburn 1314 : Robert Bruce's Great Victory
114 Lepanto 1571 : The Greatest Naval Battle of the Renaissance
117 Stirling Bridge & Falkirk 1297-1298 : William Wallace's Rebellion
120 Towton 1461 : England's Bloodiest Battle
122 Tannenberg 1410 : Disaster for the Teutonic Knights
131 Tewkesbury 1471 : The Last Yorkist Victory
132 The First Crusade 1096-1099 : Conquest of the Holy Land
138 Poitiers 1356 : The Capture of a King
154 Acre 1291 : Bloody Sunset of the Crusader States
161 The Third Crusade 1191 : Richard the Lionheart, Saladin and the Struggle for Jerusalem
164 Otterburn 1388 : Bloody Border Conflict
168 Flodden 1513 : Scotland's Greatest Defeat

The Sixteen Hundreds

40 Sekigahara 1600 : The Final Struggle for Power
68 Lützen 1632 : Climax of the Thirty Years War
130 Kawanakajima 1553-1564 : Samurai Power Struggle
142 Dunbar 1650 : Cromwell's Most Famous Victory
160 Battle of the Boyne 1690 : The Irish Campaign for the English Crown
170 Osaka 1615 : The Last Battle of the Samurai

English Civil War 1642-1645

82 Edgehill 1642 : First Battle of the English Civil War
116 Newbury 1643 : The Tide Turns in The English Civil War
119 Marston Moor 1644 : The Beginning of the End
123 Auldearn 1645 : The Marquis of Montrose's Scottish Campaign
185 Naseby 1645 : The Fatal Defeat of the Royalist Army

The Seventeen Hundreds

12 Culloden 1746 : The Highland Clans' Last Charge
34 Poltava 1709 : Russia Comes of Age
106 Culloden Moor 1746 : The Death of the Jacobite Cause
141 Blenheim 1704 : The Duke of Marlborough's Masterpiece
172 Gibraltar 1779-1783 : The Great Siege

The Seven Years' War 1756-1763

35    Plassey 1757 : Clive of India's Finest Hour
76    Ticonderoga 1758 : Montcalm's Victory against All Odds
79    Louisbourg 1758 : Wolfe's First Siege
91    Kolin 1757 : Frederick the Great's First Defeat
113 Rossbach and Leuthen 1757 : Prussia's Eagle Resurgent
121 Quebec 1759 : The Battle that Won Canada
125 Zorndorf 1758 : Frederick Faces Holy Mother Russia
140 Monongahela 1754-1755 : Washington's defeat, Braddock's disaster

The American War of Independence 1776-1783

37    Boston 1775 : The Shot Heard Around the World
47    Yorktown 1781 : The World Turned Upside Down
67    Saratoga 1777 : Turning Point of a Revolution
109 Guilford Courthouse 1781 : Lord Cornwallis's Ruinous Victory
128 Quebec 1775 : The American Invasion of Canada
135 Monmouth Courthouse 1778 : The Last Great Battle in the North

The Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815

2     Austerlitz 1805 : Battle of the Three Emperors (1990)
15    Waterloo 1815 : The Birth of Modern Europe
20    Jena 1806 : Napoleon Destroys Prussia
25    Leipzig 1813 : The Battle of the Nations
28    New Orleans 1815 : Andrew Jackson Crushes the British
33    Aspern & Wagram 1809 : Mighty Clash of Empires
48    Salamanca 1812 : Wellington Crushes Marmont
56    Eggmuhl 1809 : Storm Over Bavaria
59    Vittoria 1813 : Wellington Sweeps the French from Spain
65    Badajoz 1812 : Wellington's Bloodiest Siege
70    Marengo 1800 : Napoleon's Day of Fate
83    Corunna 1809 : Sir John Moore's Fighting Retreat
87    Lützen & Bautzen 1813 : The Turning Point
90    Vimeiro 1808 : Wellesley's first victory in the Peninsular
97    Bussaco 1810 : Wellington defeats Napoleon's Marshals
99    Fuentes de Onoro 1811 : Wellington's Liberation of Portugal
101 Austerlitz 1805 : The Fate of Empires (2002)
153 Toulon 1793 : Napoleon's First Great Victory
157 Trafalgar 1805 : Nelson's Crowning Victory
166 Assaye 1803 : Wellington's 'Bloodiest' Battle

The American Indian Wars 1775-1890

39 Little Big Horn 1876 : Custer's Last Stand

Queen Victoria's Wars 1837-1901

6     Balaclava 1854 : The Charge of the Light Brigade
14    Zulu War 1879 : Twilight of a Warrior Nation
23    Khartoum 1885 : General Gordon's Last Stand
27    Tel El-Kebir 1882 : Wolseley's Conquest of Egypt
29    Omdurman 1898 : Kitchener's Victory in the Sudan
38    Colenso 1899 : The Boer War in Natal
41    Rorke's Drift 1879 : 'Pinned Like Rats in a Hole'
45    Majuba 1881 : The Hill of Destiny
51    Inkerman 1854 : The Soldiers' Battle
85    Peking 1900 : The Boxer Rebellion
111 Isandlwana 1879 : The Great Zulu Victory

The Mexican American Wars 1846-1848

89 The Alamo 1836 : Santa Anna's Texas Campaign

The American Civil War 1860-1865

10    First Bull Run 1861 : The South's First Victory
17    Chickamauga 1863 : The River of Death
26    Vicksburg 1863 : Grant Clears the Mississippi
32    Antietam 1862 : The Civil War's Bloodiest Day
52    Gettysburg 1863 : High Tide of the Confederacy
54    Shiloh 1862 : The Death of Innocence
55    Chancellorsville 1863 : Jackson's Lightning Strike
63    Fredericksburg 1862 : 'Clear The Way'
95    Second Manassas 1862 : Robert E Lee's Greatest Victory
103 Hampton Roads 1862 : First Clash of the Ironclads
124 Fair Oaks 1862 : McClellan's Peninsula Campaign
133 Seven Days Battles 1862 : Lee's Defense of Richmond
179 Sherman's March to the Sea 1864 : Atlanta to Savannah

The Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871

21 Gravelotte-St-Privat 1870 : End of the Second Empire

The Spanish American War 1898

57 San Juan Hill 1898 : America's Emergence as a World Power

World War I 1914-1918

8     Gallipoli 1915 : Frontal Assault on Turkey
11    Kaiserschlacht 1918 : The Final German Offensive
49    Mons 1914 : The BEF's Tactical Triumph
58    First Ypres 1914 : The Graveyard of the Old Contemptibles
61    Megiddo 1918 : The Last Great Cavalry Victory
72    Jutland 1916 : Clash of the Dreadnoughts
93    Verdun 1916 : 'They Shall Not Pass'
151 Vimy Ridge 1917 : Byng's Canadians Triumph at Arras
169 Somme 1 July 1916 : Tragedy and Triumph
177 Château Thierry & Belleau Wood 1918 : America's Baptism of Fire on the Marne
180 Easter Rising 1916 : Birth of the Irish Republic

Between the World Wars

60 The Ebro 1938 : Death Knell of the Republic

World War II 1939-1945

1     Normandy 1944 : Allied Landings and Breakout
3     France 1940 : Blitzkrieg in the West
5     Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble in the West
16    Kursk 1943 : The Tide Turns in the East
18    Guadalcanal 1942 : The Marines Strike Back
24    Arnhem 1944 : Operation 'Market Garden'
30    Midway 1942 : Turning-Point in the Pacific
42    Bagration 1944 : The Destruction of Army Group Centre
62    Pearl Harbor 1941 : The Day of Infamy [60th Ed] (2001)
73    Operation Compass 1940 : Wavell's Whirlwind Offensive
74    Rhineland 1945 : The Last Killing Ground in the West
75    Lorraine 1944 : Patton vs Manteuffel
77    Tarawa 1943 : The Turning of the Tide
80    Tobruk 1941 : Rommel's Opening Move
81    Iwo Jima 1945 : The Marines raise the flag on Mount Suribachi
88    Operation Cobra 1944 : Breakout from Normandy
92    St Nazaire 1942 : The Great Commando Raid
96    Okinawa 1945 : The Last Battle
100 D-Day (1) 1944 : Omaha Beach
104 D-Day (2) 1944 : Utah Beach & the US Airborne Landings
105 D-Day (3) 1944 : Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings
107 Poland 1939 : The Birth of Blitzkrieg
110 Peleliu 1944 : The Forgotten Corner of Hell
112 D-Day (4) 1944 : Gold & Juno Beaches
115 St Vith and the Northern Shoulder (1) 1944 : Battle of the Bulge
127 Dieppe 1942 : Combined Operations Catastrophe
129 Operation Barbarossa (1) 1941 : Army Group South
134 Cassino 1944 : Breaking the Gustav Line
136 Meiktila 1945 : The Battle to Liberate Burma
137 Saipan & Tinian 1944 : Piercing the Japanese Empire
139 Guam 1941/1944 : Loss and Reconquest
143 Caen 1944 : Montgomery's Break-out Attempt
145 Battle of the Bulge 1944 (2) : Bastogne
146 The Marshall Islands 1944 : Operation Flintlock, the Capture of Kwajalein and Eniwetok
147 Crete 1941 : Germany's Lightning Airborne Assault
148 Operation Barbarossa 1941 (2) : Army Group North
149 Falaise 1944 : Death of an Army
152 Kasserine Pass 1943 : Rommel's Last Victory
155 Anzio 1944 : The Beleaguered Beachhead
156 The Doolittle Raid 1942 : America's First Strike Back at Japan
158 El Alamein 1942 : The Turning of the Tide
159 Berlin 1945 : End of the Thousand Year Reich
163 Leyte Gulf 1944 : The World's Greatest Sea Battle
165 Iraq 1941 : The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad
167 Moscow 1941 : Hitler's First Defeat
175 Remagen 1945 : Endgame against the Third Reich
178 The Rhine Crossings 1945
181 Siegfried Line 1944-1945 : Battles on the German Frontier
183 Denmark and Norway 1940 : Hitler's Boldest Operation
184 Stalingrad 1942

Arab-Israeli Wars 1948-1984

118 The Yom Kippur War (1) 1973 : The Golan Heights
126 The Yom Kippur War (2) 1973 : The Sinai

The Korean War 1950-1953

162 Inch'on 1950 : The Last Great Amphibious Assault

The Vietnam War 1962-1975

4 Tet Offensive 1968 : Turning Point in Vietnam
150 Khe Sanh 1967-1968 : Marines Battle for Vietnam's Vital Hilltop Base

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