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A Child Through Time (HB) by Steve Noon
Category: Education
History books often focus on adults, but what was the past like for children? From early civilisations through to the modern era, A Child Through Time is a highly original look at history for kids. Discover what life was like for Egyptian, Viking, Tudor and Cold War children, see the toys they played wi ...Show more
A Street Through Time by NOON STEVE
Category: Education
Revised and updated for a new generation! In a series of fourteen intriguing illustrations, the award-winning A Street Through Time tells the story of human history by exploring a street as it evolves from 10,000 BCE to the present day. Watch the landscape and daily lives of the street's inhabitants cha ...Show more
A Street Through Time: A 12,000 Year Journey Along the Same Street (HB) by Steve Noon
Category: Education
Discover how one street has changed throughout history in this update to the illustrated classic. Have you ever wondered what your street was like thousands of years ago? This illustrated history book for children takes you on a 12,000-year journey to find out the story of a single street. Think of th ...Show more
ANZAC Soldier vs Ottoman Soldier - Gallipoli and Palestine 1915-18 by Si Sheppard; Steve Noon (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Combat Ser.
In 1915-18, ANZAC and Ottoman soldiers clashed on numerous battlefields, from Gallipoli to Jerusalem. This illustrated study investigates the two sides' fighting men. The Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 pitched the Australian and New Zealand volunteers known as the ANZACs into a series of desperate battle ...Show more
Cherbourg 1944 - The First Allied Victory in Normandy by Steven J. Zaloga; Steve Noon (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
Steven Zaloga offers up a rigorous and absorbing study of the first major Allied operation in Normandy after the D-Day landings - the capture of Cherbourg. Blending expert analysis, specially commissioned artwork and illustrative maps, this book tells the story of the bitter struggle to capture this vit ...Show more
Kursk 1943 - The Northern Front by Robert Forczyk; Steve Noon (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
In the summer of 1943, recoiling from defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler conducted a limited objective offensive to eliminate the Soviet Kursk salient. Operating a classic pincer attack of the kind that succeeded during the 1942 Kharkov campaign he hoped that the resulting heavy losses inflicted on the Red Ar ...Show more
Operation Dragoon 1944 - France's Other D-Day by Steve Noon (Illustrator); Steven J. Zaloga; John White (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
Osprey's study of Operation Dragoon, the Allied landings in southern France on August 15, 1944, which was one of the most controversial operations of World War II (1939-1945), leading to deep divides between United States and British planners. The US objective was to threaten the rear of the German armi ...Show more
Ploesti 1943 - The Great Raid on Hitler's Caucasus Oil Refineries by Steven J. Zaloga; Steve Noon (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
A new study of one of the most famous, costly, and strategically vital air operations of World War II, the United States' great airstrike against Nazi Germany's oil refineries.Operation Tidal Wave was one of the boldest and most controversial air raids by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). At th ...Show more
Salerno 1943 - The Allies Invade Southern Italy by Angus Konstam; Steve Noon (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
In mid-September 1943, as the opening move of the Allied campaign to liberate the mainland of Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force landed on the beaches of the Gulf of Salerno, only a few dozen miles to the south of Naples. Italy had just surrendered, and the soldiers in the landing craft prayed that ...Show more
Soviet Submachine Guns of World War II - PPD-40, PPSh-41 and PPS by Chris McNab; Steve Noon (Illustrator); Alan Gilliland (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Weapon Ser.
The Russian PPD-40, PPSh-41, and PPS family of SMGs were a key part of Soviet infantry assault doctrine in World War II and beyond. Featuring expert analysis and an array of specially commissioned full-color artwork, this engaging study explains the history, use and development of Soviet wartime SMG ...Show more
The Caucasus 1942-43 - Kleist's Race for Oil by Robert Forczyk; Steve Noon (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
Much has been written of the titanic clashes between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army at Stalingrad, but this volume tells the other, equally important half of the story of Fall Blau (Case Blue). Learning from their experiences during the sweeping advances of Operation Barbarossa a year before, Wehrmacht ...Show more
The M1903 Springfield Rifle by Leroy Thompson; Steve Noon (Illustrator); Alan Gilliland (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Weapon Ser.