Osprey Men at Arms is a 120-book series with 120 released primary works first released in 1972 with contributions by Peter Young, Robin May, Terence Wise, Stephen Turnbull, Michael Simkins, Douglas Miller, Michael Barthorp, Christopher Rothero, Steven J. Zaloga, David Nicolle, Peter Wilcox, Nicholas Michael, Nicholas Sekunda, Jason Hook, Samuel M. Katz, Lee E. Russell, Christopher Gravett, Nigel Thomas, Peter Abbott, Rafael Treviño Martinez, Richard Brzezinski, Paul Cornish, René Chartrand, Kenneth J. Conboy, Chris Peers, Carlos Jurado, Michael G. Johnson, Philip J. Haythornthwaite, John Pohl, Ian Heath, Stuart Reid, John Tincey, Keith Durham, Simon Northwood, Angus Konstam, Paul Knight, Martin Windrow, Martin Brayley, Christopher F. Webber, Nik Cornish, Viacheslav Shpakovsky, M. Mielczarek, Graham Sumner, Mark R. Henry, Mike Chappell, Gordon Williamson, David Lindholm, Terry Crowdy, Ronald Pawly, David Hollins, Elizabeth Von Aderkas, Osprey Publishing, Samuel Rocca, Witold Sarnecki, Raffaele D'Amato, Cesar Campiani Maximiano, Robert Fleming, Philip Jowett, Stephen M. Cullen, Mikhail Zhirohov, Gabriele Esposito, and Raffaele D’Amato.