This month's book vote sees five Combat titles battling for your vote. Read the full descriptions and cast your vote by clicking on the link below. Plus, check out the results of last month's Air Campaign book vote. 

 

Celtiberian Warrior vs Roman Soldier: Iberia 181–133 BC

Prussian Soldier vs Austrian Soldier: The Silesian Wars 1740–45

Confederate Soldier vs Union Soldier: The Trans-Mississippi Theater 1861–65

Waffen-SS Soldier vs Soviet Rifleman: Kharkov 1943

Polish Soldier vs Fallschirmjäger: Italy and Normandy 1944

 

Celtiberian Warrior vs Roman Soldier: Iberia 181–133 BC

During the 2nd century BC the forces of the expanding Roman Empire were locked in a deadly campaign against the peoples that inhabited the Iberian peninsula. Determined to defy the Roman conquest of their homeland, the Celtiberians fought three major wars of resistance against the Roman Army – the First Celtiberian War (181–179 BC), the Second Celtiberian War (154–151 BC) and the Numantine War (143–133 BC).

 

Prussian Soldier vs Austrian Soldier: The Silesian Wars 1740–45

In the 1740s Prussian and Austrian troops clashed in an epic struggle for control of Silesia. The fighting ranged from the battle of Mollwitz (1741), where the Prussian infantry’s discipline and firepower managed to defeat the Austrian cavalry and then routed the Austrian infantry, to Chotusitz (1742), where the Prussian infantry’s superior capabilities prevailed, and Hohenfriedburg (1745), where the Prussian cavalry executed a well-timed charge and rolled up the Austrian infantry line.

 

Confederate Soldier vs Union Soldier: The Trans-Mississippi Theater 1861–65

While many of the best-known battles of the American Civil War were fought in the East, a critically important theater of operations was the vast area west of the Mississippi River that became known as the Trans-Mississippi. The small numbers of troops involved and the unique demands of the Trans-Mississippi theater meant that both sides’ infantry, cavalry, and artillery frequently operated in combined-arms brigades, in contrast to their comrades fighting in the East.

 

Waffen-SS Soldier vs Soviet Rifleman: Kharkov 1943

Having fallen to the Axis invaders in 1941 and been the target of a doomed Soviet counter-offensive in 1942, in early 1943 the strategically vital Ukrainian city of Kharkov was once more in the front line on the Eastern Front. In that year Kharkov was successively liberated and reconquered in a series of bitter battles between Nazi Germany’s elite Waffen-SS troops and the veteran Soviet soldiers who strove to push them back.

 

Polish Soldier vs Fallschirmjäger: Italy and Normandy 1944

In 1944 the Polish forces fighting alongside the Western Allies in Italy and Normandy clashed repeatedly with Nazi Germany’s vaunted airborne troops, the Fallschirmjäger. These two formidable adversaries came to grips in the climactic battle of the struggle for Monte Cassino that May, while in August Polish troops and Fallschirmjäger found themselves locked in combat in Normandy as the Allied noose around the Falaise Pocket tightened.

 

 

Last month, we asked what you would like to see published in our Air Campaign series. Thank you to everyone who voted and provided feedback. The results saw two books fighting to win, check out the full results below to find out more!