German Airborne Troops 1939–45

German Pionier 1939-45: Combat Engineer of the Wehrmacht (Osprey Warrior 146)
The German Army of World War II collectively referred to its various engineer units as Pioniere - what would be called combat engineers in the West. T...

The M1 Carbine (Osprey Weapon 13)
The M1 Carbine was produced in more numbers than any other US small arm in World War II (1939-1945). In 1938 the US Chief of Infantry requested that t...

Strike From the Sky: Israeli Airborne Troops
Israeli airborne troops are among the most feared and highly skilled of the world's elite fighting units. Masters of the surgical operation and the su...

Crete: The Airborne Invasion (Battleground Europe)
The invasion was launched to round off Hitler's Balkan Campaign against Crete in May 1941. The Island was important to Britain's control of the Easter...

German Soldiers of World War Two
This detailed and comprehensive study of World Two German units presents in a series of close-ups a panorama of an army that made the world tremble fr...