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Canadians on the Somme, 1916 The Neglected Campaign

Stewart William F.

ISBN: HB: 9781911512950, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 77 black&white pictures, 6 diags, 32 maps, 12 tables

Ordered lines of heavily laden soldiers with rifles at "high port" trudging through mud against uncut barbed wire under heavy machine gun fire is the enduring view of the Somme 1916. What makes Canada's Somme campaign so difficult to characterise was...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Japanese Battleships 1905-1942

Skwiot Miroslaw

ISBN: HB: 9788365437280, Casemate, Kagero, July 2017
392 pp., 29.7x21.1 cm, 100 illus.

Not for sale in Poland! This book of "The Japanese Battleships" is devoted to a technical description of the vessels built between 1911 (Kong?) and 1942 (Musashi) and their upgrades. But before we commence we must go back to the Washington Conferen...

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Biography & Memoires

Malinovskii Hero of the Soviet Union

Sokolov Boris, Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9781910777831, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2017
450 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, maps

The prolific writer Boris Sokolov – author of biographies of Georgii Zhukov and others – returns with a new book on Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovskii (1898-1967): a Marshal of the Soviet Union and former Defence Minister, who like so many of those who m...

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Aviation

SMI Library, No. 12 P-51/F-6 Mustangs with USAAF - in the MTO

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788365437112, Casemate, Kagero, July 2017
88 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 133 illus.

Not for sale in Europe! North American P-51 Mustang, famed for its service in the US Army Air Force as a long-rage escort fighter over western Europe, was no less successful in the other three major combat areas of World War Two: the Mediterranean,...

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Africa

Seychelles Since 1770 History of a Slave and Post-Slavery Society

Scarr Deryck

ISBN: PB: 9781849048415, Hurst Publishers, July 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! A comprehensive history of the Seychelles, this volume traces its periods of colonisation by France and Britain, the immobile years of the twentieth century, the granting of independence in 1976, and the social changes precipit...

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Military

Fighter Aces Knights of the Skies

Sadler John, Serdiville Rosie

ISBN: PB: 9781612004822, Casemate, June 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Just over a decade after the first powered aeroplane flight, fearless pioneers were flying over the battlefields of France in flimsy biplanes. As more military aircraft took to the skies, they were equipped with weapons and their pilots began to deve...

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Short History

Tommies The British Army in the Trenches

Sadler John, Serdiville Rosie

ISBN: PB: 9781612004846, Casemate, June 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

British soldiers have been known as Tommies for centuries, but the name is particularly associated with the British soldier in World War I. In 1914, a small professional force of British soldiers crossed the Channel to aid the French. It soon became...

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America

"The Bloody Fifth": The 5th Texas Infantry Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia Volume 2: Gettysburg to Appomattox

Schmutz John

ISBN: HB: 9781611213348, Casemate, Savas Beatie, June 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 maps, 10 illus.

The second installment in a sweeping history of the 5th Texas Infantry – "The Bloody Fifth" – one of only three Texas regiments to fight with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The 5th Texas established an exceptional combat record in an army...

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Political Science

Military

Taliban Reader War, Islam and Politics in their Own Words

Strick van Linschoten Alex, Kuehn Felix

ISBN: PB: 9781849048095, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Who are the Taliban? Are they a militant movement? Are they religious scholars? The fact that these and other questions are still raised is testimony to the way the movement has been studied, often at arm's length and with scan...

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Europe

Hitler at Home

Stratigakos Despina

ISBN: PB: 9780300222920, Yale University Press, May 2017
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 colour illus., 71 black&white illus.

Adolf Hitler's makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he undertook during the mid-1930s. This provocative book exposes the dictator's preoccupation with his private persona, which was shaped by t...

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