Bøker i Asia@War-serien

The book presents the Imperial Japanese Navy offensive in the Indian Ocean in March-April 1942 and the British attempt to stop the enemy's advance towards India.

Richly illustrated with original photographs - many never published before in the West - and the @War series signature color artworks showing the men, vehicles and aircraft involved in this conflict.In December 1979 the USSR's 40th Army crossed the border into Afghanistan. Special forces troops - the infamous GRU Spetsnaz - and KGB agents had already entered the country and in a fierce gun battle assassinated Afghanistan's President Hafizullah Amin in Tajbeg Palace so that he could be replaced by rival Babrak Karmal. The official explanation provided to officers, non-commissioned officers, and other ranks of the Soviet Armed Forces was that they were carrying out an 'international duty' in Afghanistan. What exactly that was, none of the participants knew. The reasoning of Brezhnev's Politburo was that their intervention would bring stability to a country slipping into anarchy as its government failed to deal with political conflict within its own ranks and widespread armed rebellion outside the major urban centers. Thus began the Soviet military intervention that was to last for nearly ten years.The Soviet War in Afghanistan 1979-1989 provides a detailed order of battle for the Soviet ground and air forces deployed to Afghanistan - officially referred to as 'The Limited Contingent of Soviet Forces in Afghanistan' - and a detailed account of every operation undertaken there by the Soviet Armed Forces from December 1979 until February 1989. The work provides details of all the involved units, their combat losses and estimates of Mujahidin losses. This work does not shy away from the commonplace atrocities committed against the Afghan population.The Soviet War in Afghanistan 1979-1989 is richly illustrated with original photographs - many never published before in the West - and the @War series signature color artworks showing the men, vehicles and aircraft involved in this conflict. This book is an indispensable source of reference for enthusiasts and professionals alike.

The final volume of Target Saigon examines the final campaigns of the conflict in Vietnam, in which the Communist forces engaged in a highly mechanized war of maneuver.

In 2005-2006, widespread public anger with Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra resulted in a crisis that formed the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD, so-called 'Yellow Shirts').

After the withdrawal of the USA and then the government and forces of the Kuomintang from the Mainland China, and the declaration of the People's Republic of China (PRC) led by Mao Tse Tung, it appeared that the times of the Civil Air Transport would find an end. However, immediately after, new wars erupted in Korea and in the French Indochina.

No combatant nation of the Second World War has been more forgotten than Thailand. Ignored by most histories of the war, the Southeast Asian kingdom conducted campaigns outside its borders and kept an army in the field until after the surrender of Japan, longer than other minor belligerents such as Belgium, Norway, and Greece.

This first volume of a three-part series on the First Indochina War centered on the period between 1946-1949. A time when tensions between east and west were on the rise, the Indochina War was a colonial conflict that laid the foundations for America's war in Vietnam.

For decades Pakistan has orchestrated a campaign of state-sponsored terrorism in India and elsewhere abroad. It bombed trains in Mumbai in 2006, conducted a series of outrageous attacks on the city in 2008, and has launched dozens of minor attacks on the Indian security services in Kahsmir and elsewhere.

Volume 1 of the Red Star versus Rising Sun mini-series examines the origins of the rapidly modernizing Imperial Japanese Army and its expansion, largely unfettered by civilian political constraints, into mainland Asia from the late 19th century up until 1938.

The Borneo Confrontation (known as Konfrontasi in Indonesia) was a violent conflict lasting from 1963 until 1966, that stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of the Federation of Malaysia and the British crown colonies of North Borneo and Sarawak.

The most complete and up-to-date work on all there is to know about the Korean People's Army Ground Forces today. Sixteen unique artworks and well over 150 images that have been collected over a decade's work complement painstaking analysis describing every detail of the North's 'Military First' endeavors.

A wide ranging study that chronicles the remarkable growth of the Pakistan Armoured Corps over 95 years, and embraces its evolution, culture, doctrine, equipment, operational performance, garrisons, personalities, etc.

This book details CIA-supported paramilitary operations in Laos during the height of the conflict in that kingdom, from late 1969 through the conclusion of agency participation in 1974.

As the Indian Air Force turns 90, it is in the throes of a major modernization and expansion drive. This book details the current state of the IAF and its modernization plans and prospects.

The first detailed account of the Indian military intervention in the Maldives in 1988, an operation prepared quickly and under immense pressure, but concluded successfully.

This second volume is a detailed and unbiased study of the military, historical, and political circumstances of the 1969 Sino-Soviet border war.

A detailed and richly illustrated operational history of the highly classified, joint-service special operations command of the United States during the Vietnam War.

A highly authoritative and richly illustrated account of the crucial conflict of the Indian Sub-continent, and the war during which Bangladesh was born as an independent state.

A detailed account, based heavily on Vietnamese sources, of the continuing efforts of North Vietnam to invade the South.

A detailed and richly illustrated, blow-by-blow account of the first major air-mobile operations up to that point, and the first major showdown between the US Army, the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War.

Using a wide range of sources, this volume provides an in-depth account of military operations between 1987 and 1990 of the Sri Lankan War.

Relying on extensive studies of the Sri Lankan War with the help of first-hand sources, official documentation and publications from all of involved parties, this volume provides an in-depth and particularly detailed account of military operations during the first 16 years of this war.

"Besty known in the USA as a former colony and exotic tourist attraction, the Republic of the Philippines has seen civil unrest, insurgencies and separatism movements since independence in 1946. ... While previous publications have discussed human rights issues, the Huk Revolt of the 1940s and 1950s, the military unrest in the 1980s, and the socio-political structure of various rebel movements in the Philippines, this is the first major work excvlusively covering the military history of the Philippines in the 70 years of independence. The insurgency of the Huks, and early Moro separatist rebels, the Moro and Marxist revolts against Marcos' dictatorship, and the counter-terrorism operations of recent times, are discussed in relation to the transformation of the military threat and the corresponding transformation of the AFP, from a conventional military, towards the deployment of elite forces and extra-judicial means to suppress a series of revolts which have threatened the integrity of the state."--Back cover.

On 30 March 1972 the South Vietnamese positions along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separated the North from South Vietnam were suddenly shelled by hundreds of heavy guns and multiple rocket launchers.