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Eerste Wereldoorlog, Militaire geschiedenis, Oorlogsgeschiedenis, Vlaamse geschiedenis

Robert Cowley – The Killing Season

Robert Cowley The Killing Season review, recensie en informatie boek over de eerste slag bij Ieper in 1914 tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Op 9 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Osprey Publishin het boek van Robert Cowley, de schrijver autoriteit op het gebied van Amerikaanse en Europese militaire geschiedenis. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Robert Cowley The Killing Season review en recensie

  • “A masterful and heartbreaking book … If you want to know how modern warfare began, The Killing Season is for you.” (Geoffrey C. Ward, co-author of The Civil War, The War, and The Vietnam War)
  • “The Killing Season crackles with excitement. With a novelist’s eye for drama and a historian’s mastery of detail, Cowley delivers a powerfully immersive experience for the reader, viscerally conveying the sheer folly of a conflict that decimated Europe. . . . A deeply moving book that brings back one of the most important autumns of the twentieth century.” (Ted Widmer, author of Lincoln on the Verge)

Robert Cowley The Killing Season

The Killing Season

A New History of Autumn 1914

  • Auteur: Robert Cowley (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: oorlogsgeschiedenis, Eerste Wereldoorlog
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Osprey Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 9 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 480 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 30,00 / £ 21,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over de slag bij Ieper in 1914

An in-depth, authoritative account of the autumn of 1914 on the Western Front and the First Battle of Ypres, a true turning point in modern warfare.

The final months of 1914 were the bloodiest interval in a famously bloody war, a killing season. They ended with the First Battle of Ypres, a struggle in West Flanders, Belgium, the importance of which has been too long over-looked – until now.

Robert Cowley’s account of this crucial period describes how German armies in France were poised to sweep north to capture the Channel ports and knock England out of the war – and were only held back by a brilliant improvisation from a cobbled-together handful of desperate British, French and Belgium troops.

In a re-examination of events that have too long seemed set in stone, Cowley combines a wide array of source materials with sharp portrayals both of military leaders and the men they lead. We follow Albert of Belgium, the world’s last warrior king; French General Ferdinand Foch, a former professor of military science; and Hendrik Geeraert, an alcoholic barge keeper, who pulled off Albert’s literal last-ditch effort. Many other memorable characters emerge, including Sir John French along with both a young Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill.

The vast brawl of four armies in Flanders was a turning point that irrevocably changed the nature of modern warfare. In this visceral account, based on 30 years of research and picking up where Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August left off, Cowley details the crucial decisions that determined the outcome of the Great War – which may have been decided by a single, extraordinary afternoon.

Robert Cowley is an authority on American and European military history, whose writing spans the American Civil War to World War II. He has held several senior positions in book and magazine publishing and is the founding editor of the award-winning MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. As part of his research he drove and walked the entire length of the Western Front. He lives in Newport, Rhode Island.

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Britse geschiedenis, Verenigd Koninkrijk

Ben Barry – The Rise and Fall of the British Army 1975-2025

Ben Barry The Rise and Fall of the British Army 1975-2025 review, recensie en informatie boek over de recente geschiedenis van het Britse leger. Op 9 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Osprey Publishing het boek van Ben Barry, de ex-militair en senior fellow voor oorlogvoering op land bij het International Institute for Strategic Studie. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Ben Barry The Rise and Fall of the British Army 1975-2025 review en recensie

  • “Ben Barry combines the intimate knowledge of the insider with the objectivity of the strategic commentator.” (Sir Hew Strachan)
  • “This is quite simply a superb discussion of the British Army’s engagement with thinking and doctrine over recent decades.” (Brian Holden Reid, Emeritus Professor of American History and Military Institutions, Department of War Studies, King’s College London)

Ben Barry The Rise and Fall of the British Army 1975-2025

The Rise and Fall of the British Army

1975-2025

  • Auteur: Ben Barry (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: militaire geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Osprey Publisking
  • Verschijnt: 9 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 496 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 30,00 / £ 21,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst boek van Ben Barry over het Britse leger 1975-2025

A new study of a critical period in the history of the British Army.

The last half century has seen society, technology, the character of conflict and the British Army itself all change greatly. From a low point in the 1970s, the Army’s war fighting capability increased in the 1980s in the face of a prospective war with the Soviet Union. This capability was then tested on operations from Kuwait in 1991 through to Afghanistan in 2001 and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

There followed two decades of descent from this high plateau of military achievement. Mistakes made in Iraq and Afghanistan led to a decline in support for military deployments. Cuts to defence funding and botched equipment procurements also meant the British Army of 2021 was only half the size of that of 1970, and with much key fighting equipment either obsolete or approaching obsolescence.

Ben Barry served in the Army from 1975 to 2010, often in key staff appointments, and has worked closely with the Army in the following decade. This new study draws not only on his personal experience, but also on a very wide range of written sources complemented by interviews to provide a new interpretation of this period that challenges the existing narratives.

Ben Barry was commissioned into the Light Infantry and later commanded its second battalion. He is now Senior Fellow for Land Warfare in the International Institute for Strategic Studies and a visiting professor at the Department of War Studies, Kings College London. He is the author of Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq (Osprey), which was shortlisted for The Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History 2021, the British Army Book of the Year 2021, a finalist for the 2020 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award and awarded First Runner Up in the Templer Medal Book Prize 2021.

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Oorlogsgeschiedenis, Papoea-Nieuw-Guinea, Tweede Wereldoorlog

Mark Stille & John Rogers – New Guinea 1942-43

Mark Stille & John Rogers New Guinea 1942-43 review, recensie en informatie boek over het stoppen van de laatste Japanse opmars in Nieuw-Guinea. Op 25 september 2025 verschijnt bij Osprey Publishing het boek over de strijd om in 1942 en 1943 op Nieuw-Guinea tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Mark Stille & John Rogers New Guinea 1942-43 review

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie en review van New Guinea 1942-43, Halting the last Japanese advance, geschreven door Mark Stille en John Rogers, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Mark Stille & John Rogers New Guinea 1942-43

New Guinea 1942-43

Halting the last Japanese advance

  • Auteurs: Mark Stille, John Rogers (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: oorlogsgeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Osprey Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 25 september 2025
  • Omvang: 96 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 16,99 / £ 13,59
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over strijd in de lucht om Nieuw-Guinea in 1942-43

Lavishly illustrated, this book studies the role of airpower in the New Guinea battles of 1942–43, as the Allies checked and halted Japan’s last significant offensives.

Mark Stille and John Rogers offer a new history of a previously neglected part of the South Pacific air war – the battles over New Guinea and the waters around it. The first of two books on the subject, drawing on Japanese, American and Australian sources, it details operations from February 1942 until April 1943, which saw the Allies stop the last Japanese efforts to expand their faltering empire.

Allied air operations focused on denying the Japanese the use of the sea to send reinforcements to New Guinea, during the battles for Buna and Gona, the unsuccessful and little-known Japanese invasion at Milne Bay, and the Battle of the Bismarck Sea in which a major Japanese effort to move troops to New Guinea was crushed by air power. While the Japanese had over-extended and lost operational focus, the Allies were successful in interdicting sea movement of Japanese forces to New Guinea. However, immature tactics meant air power was largely ineffective supporting their ground campaign.

Packed with photos, superb original battlescenes, 3D diagrams and maps, this book explains the roles of Japanese and Allied air power in the crucial battle of New Guinea.

John Rogers is a retired Captain, US Navy, who saw operational service in the Mediterranean and Southwest Asia. He is also a retired senior intelligence analyst with the US Department of Defense, focused primarily on East Asia. He has a BA (International Affairs), George Washington University; MA (National Security Studies), Georgetown University (DC); MBA (Finance), Marymount University. He lives near Washington, DC.

Mark Stille is the author of numerous Osprey titles focusing on naval history in the Pacific. He recently concluded a nearly 40-year career in the intelligence community, including tours on the faculty of the Naval War College, on the Joint Staff and on US Navy ships. He received his BA in History from the University of Maryland and also holds an MA from the Naval War College.

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Engelse geschiedenis, Engelse historicus, Oorlog

Dickon Whitewood – Stoke Field 1487

Dickon Whitewood Stoke Field 1487 review, recensie en informatie boek over de laatste slag van de War of the Roses in Engeland. Op 28 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Osprey Publishing het boek van de Britse historicus Dickon Whitewood over de laatste slag tijdens de Rozenoorlogen. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Dickon Whitewood Stoke Field 1487 review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Stoke Field 1487, The Last Battle of the Wars of the Roses, geschreven door Dickon Whitewood, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Dickon Whitewood Stoke Field 1487

Stoke Field 1487

The Last Battle of the Wars of the Roses

  • Auteur: Dickon Whitewood (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse oorlogsgeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Osprey Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 28 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 98 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: £ 16,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de laatste War of the Roses

An in-depth look at a critical battle of the Wars of the Roses, which decisively ended the Yorkist cause and ensured the Tudor dominance that followed.

The Battle of Stoke is popularly considered to be the last battle of the Wars of the Roses. Less than two years previously, King Henry VII had been crowned on the battlefield following his victory over Richard III at Bosworth. Henry soon took steps to secure his crown, and made certain to keep control of any potential rivals. Despite these efforts, a plot soon emerged against his rule, which culminated in the crowning of a rival king in Ireland. Launching an invasion of England, the rebels had a number of early successes but failed to secure widespread support for their cause. Moving south, they met the hastily assembled but more numerous army of Henry VII outside the village of East Stoke, four miles south of Newark.

With stunning artwork and detailed maps, this expertly written title offers in-depth coverage of the battle that secured the new Tudor dynasty’s hold on the throne. It is one of the least well documented conflicts of the period, but remains highly interesting and significant, not only as the final decisive action in the bloody Wars of the Roses, but also due to the nature of the soldiers present on the battlefield. This book explores the role these various factions played and how that contributed to the final victory.

Dickon Whitewood has long held a passion for medieval history and the practice of warfare and has an MA in Medieval & Renaissance Studies from University College London. He is currently employed as a Research Assistant on the Norwich Castle: Gateway to Medieval England project and has previously worked at the British Museum, English Heritage and the Museum of the Order of St John.

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Oorlog, Tweede Wereldoorlog

William E. Hiestand – M18 Hellcat vs Panther

William E. Hiestand M18 Hellcat vs Panther review, recensie en informatie boek over de slag bij Arracourt in september 1944. Op 28 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Osprey Publishing het boek de bloedige strijd tussen de M18-tankjager van het Amerikaanse leger en de geduchte Panther-tank van Duitsland bij Arracourt in september 1944. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

William E. Hiestand M18 Hellcat vs Panther review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van het boek M18 Hellcat vs Panther, geschreven door de Amerikaanse militaire historicus William E. Hiestand, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

William E. Hiestand M18 Hellcat vs Panther

M18 Hellcat vs Panther

Arracourt 1944

  • Auteur: William E. Hiestand (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: oorlogsgeschiedenis, tankslag
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Osprey Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 28 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 80 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 15,99 / £ 12,79
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de tankslag bij Arracourt in september 1944

This fully illustrated study examines the bloody battle between the US Army’s M18 tank destroyer and Germany’s formidable Panther tank at Arracourt in September 1944.

In response to Germany’s Blitzkrieg victories of 1939–41, the US Army created a dedicated tank-destroyer force intended to encircle and destroy the massed attacking armored divisions. Fast, relatively well-armed, but weakly armored, the M18 was designed from the start as a tank destroyer, unlike the M10 and M36. By September 1944, the German Army’s armored divisions fielded the Panther tank alongside the PzKpfw IV. In this book, William Hiestand notes that the Panther’s combination of long-range firepower, impressive armour, and good mobility won it a fearsome reputation, but shows how the M18 proved to be a very able opponent when the two types clashed on a foggy September morning during the battle of Arracourt.

Fully illustrated with specially commissioned artwork and mapping alongside archive photographs, this lively study examines the origins, development, strengths, and limitations of the two AFVs as well as their crews’ training, doctrine, and combat effectiveness. It also provides a detailed account of the momentous battle between the US 704th Tank Destroyer Battalion and the German Panzer-Brigade 113 at Arracourt, where the two types clashed in a surprising encounter that challenges our preconceptions about armored warfare in World War II.

William E. Hiestand has worked for over 30 years as a US Department of Defense analyst, focusing on military issues and serving in a wide variety of analytic, leadership and representational roles. He holds an MA in History from Cornell University, and has a lifelong interest in military history with a particular focus on 20th-century armoured and mechanized operations and Soviet military history. He lives in Virginia near Washington DC.

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Oorlog, Romeinen

M.C. Bishop – Roman Cavalry Tactics

M.C. Bishop Roman Cavalry Tactics review, recensie en informatie boek over de Romeinse cavalerietactieken. Op 28 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Osprey Publishing het boek over de cavalerie van de Romeinen, geschreven door M.C. Bishop. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

M.C. Bishop Roman Cavalry Tactics review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Roman Cavalry Tactics , het boek geschreven door M.C. Bishop, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

M.C. Bishop Roman Cavalry Tactics

Roman Cavalry Tactics

  • Auteur: M.C. Bishop (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Romeinse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Osprey Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 28 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 64 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 14,99 / £ 11,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over cavalerietactieken van de Romeinen

A fully illustrated study of the Roman cavalry’s evolution, this fascinating book chronicles tactics and composition from the time of the Republic to the fall of the Dominate.

The cavalry ‘wings’ that probed ahead of the Roman Army played a key role in its campaigns of conquest, masking its marching flanks and seeking to encircle enemies in battle. However, the original small cavalry arm provided by the citizen nobility had proved inadequate before the end of the Republic, and Julius Caesar’s cavalry was largely made up of hired allies. During the Early Principate, the armies under Augustus continued in this vein, incorporating large numbers of non-citizen auxiliary cavalry units. The provinces came under increasing attack throughout and following the chaotic mid-3rd century, and Rome took lessons from its ‘barbarian’ enemies in how to improve its military mobility, adopting both new, heavily armoured shock cavalry and horse-archers, and vitally shaping the tactics employed during the Dominate.

In this engaging study, Roman Army expert M.C. Bishop charts how the cavalry grew to become the dominant force in Roman field armies by the twilight of the Western Empire. Eight newly commissioned artwork plates and a rich selection of artefact photographs and archaeological sources provide vivid detail and insight, helping to bring to the life the evolving tactics, clothing and weaponry of Rome’s cavalry from the 2nd century BC through to the 5th century AD.

M.C. Bishop is a writer, publisher and archaeologist. He  is an authority on all aspects of Ancient Rome at war, with particular emphasis on arms and armour of the era. He has written, co-written or edited dozens of books and articles on the subject, and leads tours of Hadrian’s Wall and other Roman sites.

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Europa, Geschiedenisboeken, Oorlog

Barney White-Spunner – Nations in Arms

Barney White-Spunner Nations in Arms review, recensie en informatie boek over vijf legers die Europa maakten. Op 14 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Osprey Publishing het boek van de Engelse militair historicus. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Barney White-Spunner Nations in Arms review en recensie

  • “Nations in Arms is a remarkable book, written by one of our very best military historians… It is a great read for historians that rings alarm bells for policy-makers.” (Michael Clarke, Visiting Professor of Defence Studies, King’s College London)
  • “General White-Spunner’s thoughtful, well-written, occasionally witty but above all profoundly wise book reminds us how focusing on specific periods of history can cast penetrating light on the nature both of warfare and the human condition. With our current uncertainties over Western security, it is also incredibly timely.” (Andrew Roberts)

Barney White-Spunner Nations in Arms

Nations in Arms

Five Armies That Made Europe

  • Auteur: Barney White-Spunner (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Europese oorlogsgeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Osprey Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 14 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 22,00 / £ 15,40
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over vijf legers die bepalend waren voor Europa

A critical study of five historical armies that offers solutions for how contemporary forces need to change to deal with modern threats.

The most important task of any government remains the defence of its state and its citizens. Traditionally governments have used armed forces to do this. World events and comparative peace in Europe since 1989 have led most European governments to lose their focus on defence. However, recent events have proved that war is now as nasty, violent, destructive and prevalent as it has ever been, and governments need to fundamentally re-think their relationship with armies and soldiers.

History gives us several examples of states who have reconstructed their armies successfully, both on the field of battle but also in terms of how they relate to the state which it is their duty to protect. This book is about five armies who have adapted successfully: the 4th-century Roman army of Constantine the Great; the 15th-century Ottoman army of Sultan Mehmet II; Cromwell’s New Model Army of the English Civil War; the Prussian Army of the Napoleonic Wars; and the US Army of the Second World War.

Former senior military officer and renowned military historian Barney White-Spunner draws lessons from their experience to establish long-standing principles that are as relevant today as they were in the 4th century. It is a book about armies, their loyalties, their organisation and their souls.

Barney White-Spunner commanded British and allied troops on operations at every level from troop to division in Europe, Iraq, Afghanistan, in several African countries and in South Asia, was policy director in the Ministry of Defence during the 1997 defence review, commanded on operations within the US Army, restructured the British Army for Afghanistan in 2010 and commanded the British Field Army. As a military historian he has written Horse Guards (2006), the story of the British Household Cavalry; Of Living Valour (2015), the story of the soldiers who fought at Waterloo; Partition (2017), the story of Indian independence and the creation of Pakistan in 1947 which became an international bestseller and Berlin (2021), a biography of that fascinating city. He has also served as President of the Society for Army Historical Research.

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Malta, Oorlog, Tweede Wereldoorlog

Angus Konstam – Second Sirte 1942

Angus Konstam Second Sirte 1942 review, recensie en informatie boek over de wanhopige strijd om Malta te bevrijden. Op 17 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Osprey Publishing het boek van historicus Angus Konstam over de strijd om Malta tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in 1942. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Angus Konstam Second Sirte 1942 review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Second Sitre 1942, The Desperate Battle to Relieve Malta, het boek geschreven door Angus konstam, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Angus Konstam Second Sirte 1942

Second Sitre 1942

The Desperate Battle to Relieve Malta

  • Auteur: Angus Konstam (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: oorlogsgeschiedenis van Malta
  • Taal: Engelse
  • Uitgever: Osprey Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 17 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 96 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 16,99 / £ 13,59
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de strijd om Malta te bevrijden in 1942

The Second Battle of Sirte was a key naval clash in the Mediterranean, and a vital moment in the struggle for Malta’s survival.

Malta was the key to the hard-fought naval campaign being waged in the Mediterranean, a link in the vital Axis supply lines between Italy and North Africa. Struggling under a sustained Axis bombing campaign, Malta depended on convoys of supplies to survive. Axis air formations dominated the skies, making any attempt to relieve the island extremely hazardous.

In December 1941, a convoy from the east led to an inconclusive clash with the Italians at the First Battle of Sirte. In late March 1942, the situation escalated. The decisive clash came on the afternoon of 22 March, when British destroyers launched a series of torpedo attacks against Italian ships. At dawn, Axis aircraft appeared and a series of intense air attacks followed. Although three of the convoy’s four ships reached Malta, they were sunk days later. Still, it was enough to buy Malta the time it needed to remain in the fight.

This highly illustrated title by renowned naval historian Angus Konstam demonstrates the importance of radar, intelligence and airpower, and above all determination and grit in the face of a superior enemy.

Angus Konstam is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has written widely on naval history, with well over a hundred books in print. He is a former Royal Navy officer, maritime archaeologist and museum curator, who has worked in the Royal Armouries, Tower of London, and Mel Fisher Maritime Museum. Now a full-time author and historian, he lives in Orkney.

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