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Kursk 1943 The Greatest Battle of the Second World War

Toeppel Roman

ISBN: HB: 9781912390038, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2018
184 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, 8 colour maps, 1 table

The Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 was one of the greatest battles in military history involving more than 3 million soldiers, 10,000 tanks and 8,000 aircraft. While many books have been written on this allegedly most decisive battle of the Se...

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Odessa 1941-44 Defense, Occupation, Resistance and Liberation

Ovcharenko Nikolai

ISBN: HB: 9781912390144, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2018
196 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 16 black&white photos, maps

After a brief overview of the origins and development of the city of Odessa on the Black Sea Coast, author Nikolai Ovcharenko turns to its citizens' ordeal during the Second World War. In the process, he describes the heroism of the city's defenders...

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Silent Landscape at Gallipoli The Battlefields of the Dardanelles, One Hundred Years On

Doughty Simon

ISBN: HB: 9781911512738, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2018
176 pp., 245x318 cm, 120 colour photographs and maps

In our first book, we explored the impact of the fighting on the landscape of the Western Front – showing how the physical effects of war have left indelible traces; in this book, we follow the same theme, but from a different perspective. The Gallip...

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Most Secret War R. V. Jones and the Genesis of British Scientific Intelligence 1939-45

Goodchild James

ISBN: HB: 9781911512554, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 23 illus., 13 diagrams, 3 tables

The history of scientific intelligence – its birth, its importance during the Second World War and its unique wartime qualities – has relied almost entirely on the memories of its pioneer, R.V. Jones. Through scrutiny of Jones' post-war literature (e...

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Danish Volunteers of the Waffen-SS Freikorps Danmark 1941-43

Bjerregaard Jens Pank

ISBN: HB: 9781911512707, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
320 pp., 30.5x22.2 cm, 550 black&white photos

The book Danish Volunteers of the Waffen-SS tells the story of Freikorps Danmark in pictures from 1941-1943. Freikorps Danmark was established as a Danish corps which had to fight communism and, from its beginning, it was controlled from Denmark and...

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Defending Island Britain in the Second World War Documentary Sources

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512592, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 illus.

Historically, one could argue that island nations were presented with a degree of comfort in being surrounded by water (especially so before the invention of flight and submarines); however, technological advances in the early part of the 20th centur...

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Victory or Death The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, December 25, 1776 - January 3, 1777

Maloy Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781611213812, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 200 images, 10 maps

December 1776: Just six months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, George Washington and the new American Army sit on the verge of utter destruction by the banks of the Delaware River. The despondent and demoralized group of men had...

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In a Single Blow The Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Beginning of the American Revolution

Greenwalt Phillip

ISBN: PB: 9781611213799, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images, 6 maps

"I have now nothing to trouble your Lordship with, but an affair that happened on the 19th instant..." General Thomas Gage penned the above line to his superiors in London, casually summing up the shots fired at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 17...

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From Docks and Sand Southport and Bootle's Battalion, The 7Th King's Liverpool Regiment, in the First World War

Gregson Adrian

ISBN: HB: 9781911512165, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

This book is a study of the importance and significance of community identity to a fighting unit in the First World War. In this case the unit in question is primarily 7th King's Regiment and more widely the 55th West Lancashire Division, 1914-18....

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Russian Army in the Great Northern War 1700-21 Uniforms, Organization, Materiel, Training and Combat Experience

Megorsky Boris

ISBN: PB: 9781911512882, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
196 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 8 colour illus., 30 black&white illus., maps

The book describes the armed forces of Peter the Great in its entirety, and covers in depth old Russian troops and irregulars, as well as Peter's new standing army (guards, infantry, dragoons, elite units and artillery) and his brand-new force(the na...

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