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Big Reveal 2025: Dogfight

The solitary Dogfight title for 2025 is Spitfire I – Phoney War and Battle of France. The most famous British fighter of them all, the Spitfire was blooded in the early skirmishes against lone German bombers probing Britain’s coastal defences during the eight-month-long Phoney War. Units used well-rehearsed battle formations to make short work of any aircraft encountered, but crucially they had not encountered any short-range German Bf 109 or Bf 110 fighters.

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Big Reveal 2025: Combat

All four of the Combat titles scheduled for 2025 publication are strong subjects that I’ve planned to cover for some time, but I think the one that intrigues me most is Robbie MacNiven’s take on the crucial battles between Hessian and Continental troops in the closing months of 1776, scheduled for November publication.

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Adam Hook on creating artwork for Osprey

I was extremely fortunate to grow up knowing many Osprey illustrators who were friends of my father Richard Hook, who worked from his studio at our home and was of course my main influence and taught me everything. Ron Embleton, Gerry Embleton and Angus McBride along with Martin Windrow were all wonderful company for a young man. I always hoped, but didn't really believe, that one day I could do what they did.

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Big Reveal 2025: Duel (Aviation)

Aviation enthusiasts of the highly popular Duel series are in for a treat in 2025 as there are five titles to look forward to during the course of the year. There are of course some cracking aircraft-versus-aircraft volumes in the list, with B-26 Marauders duelling with Me 262s over Germany in the final months of World War 2 in Europe, Superfortresses being engaged by Japanese nightfighters over the Home Islands in 1944–45, and P-51 Mustangs defending the mighty Boeing bombers from enemy fighters during very long range missions.

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The Battle of Gettysburg: Day Three

In September 1883, more than 20 years after the Battle of Gettysburg, veterans from three Pennsylvania regiments—the 28th Pennsylvania, the 147th Pennsylvania, and Independent Battery E—journeyed to Gettysburg to mark the locations their units had occupied on July 3, 1863. According to newspaper reports, the veterans experienced little trouble rediscovering the ground.

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Big Reveal 2025: Fleet

Fleet’s second full year of publication includes six new titles, primarily looking at World War II sea power, but also concluding Angus Konstam’s two-part examination of the major battle fleets of World War I, and including Corbin Williamson’s look at US naval power in Korea. I’m particularly pleased to see Larry Paterson’s two new Kriegsmarine books on the list, and his North Sea Command will bring deserved attention to a relatively little-studied area of the naval war.

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