Bi-monthly from the world's leading publisher of illustrated military History books, the Osprey Military Journal makes essential reading for History enthusiasts everywhere. Fully illustrated throughout and packed with gripping narrative, the Journal offers challenging and intelligent insights into world History. A unique source of entertainment and reference for enthusiasts, historians and hobbyists all over the world. As a yearly subscriber, you will benefit from the cheapest rates available to anyone, so sign up now and get a year's supply of top class military History delivered to your home in 6 bimonthly installments! This offer only valid for European delivery addresses - see other subscription offers for other destinations.

Bi-monthly from the world's leading publisher of illustrated military history books, the Osprey Military Journal makes essential reading for history enthusiasts everywhere. Fully illustrated throughout and packed with gripping narrative, the Journal offers challenging and intelligent insights into world history. A unique source of entertainment and reference for enthusiasts, historians and hobbyists all over the world. As a yearly subscriber, you will benefit from the cheapest rates available to anyone, so sign up now and get a year's supply of top class military history delivered to your home in 6 bimonthly installments! This offer is not valid in the UK, BFPO, Europe or North America - see other subscription offers for these destinations.

Bi-monthly from the world's leading publisher of illustrated military History books, the Osprey Military Journal makes essential reading for History enthusiasts everywhere. Fully illustrated throughout and packed with gripping narrative, the Journal offers challenging and intelligent insights into world History. A unique source of entertainment and reference for enthusiasts, historians and hobbyists all over the world. As a subscriber you will benefit from the cheapest rates available to anyone, so sign up now and get a year's supply of top class military History delivered to your home in 6 bimonthly installments! This offer only valid for North American delivery addresses - see other subscription offers for other destinations.

Bi-monthly from the world's leading publisher of illustrated military History books, the Osprey Military Journal makes essential reading for History enthusiasts everywhere. Fully illustrated throughout and packed with gripping narrative, the Journal offers challenging and intelligent insights into world History. A unique source of entertainment and reference for enthusiasts, historians and hobbyists all over the world. As a yearly subscriber, you will benefit from the cheapest rates available to anyone, so sign up now and get a year's supply of top class military History delivered to your home in 6 bimonthly installments! This offer only valid for UK and BFPO delivery addresses - see other subscription offers for other destinations.

A few of the fortifications and fortified lines of the world wars are well known and have often been written about, illustrated and studied. But they tend to distract attention from the wide range of fixed defenses constructed across Europe on an enormous scale after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, during a period of insecurity and aggression. That is why this new, highly illustrated study, which covers the entire continent, is so valuable. The authors examine the major fortified positions and describe their strategic purpose, their design and construction, and the role they played in military planning and operations. The outstanding contribution of the major military architects of the time is a key theme. The work of Séré de Rivières, Brialmont and others had a major influence on the course of the First World War and on the fortifications built before and during the Second World War. Their approach is visible in the designs for the Maginot Line, the East and West walls of Germany, the Vallo Alpino in Italy, the Soviet Stalin and Molotov lines, the Mannerheim and Salpa lines of Finland, the Greek Metaxas Line, the Beneš Line of Czechoslovakia as well as the defenses built by the Dutch and Scandinavians. The breadth of the coverage, the degree of detail and the numerous illustrations make the book essential reading and reference for anyone who has a special interest in the world wars and the history of fortifications.

The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War—winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one of the greatest soldier-statesmen of all times. Andrew Roberts’s Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon’s thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation. At last we see him as he was: protean multitasker, decisive, surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine. Like Churchill, he understood the strategic importance of telling his own story, and his memoirs, dictated from exile on St. Helena, became the single bestselling book of the nineteenth century. An award-winning historian, Roberts traveled to fifty-three of Napoleon’s sixty battle sites, discovered crucial new documents in archives, and even made the long trip by boat to St. Helena. He is as acute in his understanding of politics as he is of military history. Here at last is a biography worthy of its subject: magisterial, insightful, beautifully written, by one of our foremost historians.