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Wings Over Sinai The Egyptian Air Force During the Sinai War, 1956

Nicolle David, Ali Gabr Gabr, Cooper Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781911096610, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 120 black&white illus. 3 colour illus., 15 colour profiles

Sixty years since the tripartite aggression of France, Great Britain and Israel against Egypt, this is the first account about Egyptian military operations during the Suez War of 1956 (or "Suez Crisis", as it is known in the West). Based on research...

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Army of James II, 1685-1688 The Birth of the British Army

Ede-Borrett Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781911512363, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 60 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.

Between James' accession in February 1685 and flight in December 1688 the British Armies increased four fold (the English, Scots and Irish Armies were still separate institutions and were to remain so until the early 18th Century, in the case of the...

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Churchill's Secret War with Lenin British and Commonwealth Military Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918-20

Wright Damien

ISBN: HB: 9781911512103, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
504 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 8 maps, 8 colour illus., 198 black&white illus.

After three years of great loss and suffering on the Eastern Front, Imperial Russia was in crisis and on the verge of revolution. In November 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks (later known as "Soviets") seized power, signed a peace treaty with the Central Pow...

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Reminiscences 1808-1815 Under Wellington The Peninsular and Waterloo Memoirs of William Hay

Bamford Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781911512325, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
164 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, maps, 3 black&white illus.

William Hay had a varied and exciting military career during the later years of the Napoleonic Wars, which took him to the Peninsula, to Waterloo, and, after 1815, to Canada. Graduating from the Royal Military College at Marlow, of which he begins hi...

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Biography & Memoires

Four Flags, the Odyssey of a Professional Soldier Part 2: Rhodesian Security Forces 1979-80, South African Defence Force 1981-83

Barr Colonel David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512493, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Dave Barr knew from 12 years old he wanted to be a Marine. Following a series of menial jobs – including working at a shoe shiner in a barber's shop and in service stations – at 17 he joined the Marines before shipping out to Vietnam. This was his dr...

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Magyar Warriors Volume 2: The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces, 1919-1945

Bernad Denes, Kliment Charles K.

ISBN: HB: 9781910777923, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
432 pp., 24.6x17.8 cm

The Hungarian armed forces (known as the Honvedseg) were built up from the 1920s, their expansion gaining momentum once Hungary became free of the strict post-First World War Trianon treaty limitations in August 1938. Politically, Hungary was looking...

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Europe

Britain's Civilian Armies in World War II The Fight on the Home Front

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781911096313, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
232 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus., 20 tables

Whilst the men and women of national service age were called to arms in the various Services, a parallel process was being undertaken involving the civilian population. This initiative relied in the main on volunteers accepting challenges and committ...

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Budapest Operation (29 October 1944 - 13 February 1945) An Operational-Strategic Study

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9781911512424, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
336 pp., 24.4x17 cm, 2 maps

"The Budapest Operation (29 October 1944-13 February 1945): An Operational-Strategic Study" examines in detail the Red Army's operations on the approaches to Budapest and the city's ultimate capture following a long siege. The first part of the stu...

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Confronting Case Blue Briansk Front's Attempt to Derail the German Drive to the Caucasus, July 1942

Sdvizhkov Igor'

ISBN: HB: 9781911096436, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
384 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 10 maps, 3 colour photos, 6 black&white photos

The author, Igor' Sdvizhkov, takes a close look at the attempt by the Briansk Front's Operational Group Chibisov to collapse the northern shoulder of the German drive to the Caucasus – north-west of Voronezh – in July 1942. Using both previously clas...

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Gator on the Rise Kamov's Hokum Attack Helicopter Story 1977-2015

Mladenov Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9781911096450, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
144 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 150 colour photos, 110 black&white photos

The Kamov Ka-50 (NATO codename Hokum) was developed as a new-generation heavily-armoured attack helicopter – originally conceived as a one-to-one replacement of the Mi-24 Hind. The programme was launched at the Moscow-based Kamov Experimental Design...

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