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Battalions at War The York & Lancaster Regiment in the First World War

Dillon John

ISBN: HB: 9781912174058, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
264 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white photos, 20 maps, 3 tables

The First World War is history; the last survivors of that conflict are now all dead. Three generations on, public perceptions of the war are formed from books, films and photographs. In the last two decades, revisionist historians have attempted to...

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Peter The Great Humbled The Russo-Ottoman War Of 1711

Dorrell Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9781911512318, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
88 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 3 maps, 18 black&white illus.

In 1711 Peter the Great, the Tsar of Russia, led a large army of veterans from Poltava and his other Great Northern War victories into the Balkans. He aimed to humble the Ottomans in the same way he had the Swedes a few years before. Victory would se...

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Biography & Memoires

Seeker After Truths The Life and Times of G. A. Studdert Kennedy ("Woodbine Willie") 1883-1929

Parker Linda

ISBN: HB: 9781912174041, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy became one of the most famous army chaplains of the First World War, earning the nickname "Woodbine Willie" because of his habit of giving out both cigarettes and bibles to the men at the front. During the war he also earned...

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Africa

Biafra's War 1967-1970 A Tribal Conflict in Nigeria That Left a Million Dead

Venter Al J.

ISBN: PB: 9781912174720, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 100 black&white and colour photos, 4 maps

Almost half a century has passed since the Nigerian Civil War ended. But memories die hard, because a million or more people perished in that internecine struggle, the majority women and children, who were starved to death. Biafra's war was modern A...

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That Field of Blood The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862

Vermilya Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781611213751, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images and maps

September 17, 1862 – one of the most consequential days in the history of the United States – was a moment in time when the future of the country could have veered in two starkly different directions. Confederates under General Robert E. Lee had em...

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Combat History of 21st Panzer Division 1943-45

Kortenhaus Werner

ISBN: PB: 9781912174140, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
520 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 80 black&white photos, 21 maps

For years, one of the most essential sources for study of the Normandy invasion was known only to a select few and nearly unobtainable even to those who knew of its existence. It has never before been translated. None of the major English language hi...

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America

Hundred Thousand Sons of St Louis The French Campaign in Spain April to October 1823

Weaver Ralph

ISBN: HB: 9781912174096, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
120 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 colour & 25 black&white illus., maps

This book sheds light on an almost unknown military campaign conducted by a French army, 100,000 men strong. The army was referred to by the French king as the 'Sons of St. Louis' and was pitted against parts of the regular Spanish army and a numerou...

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Marine Corps Way of War The Evolution of the U.S. Marine Corps from Attrition to Maneuver Warfare in the Post-Vietnam Era

Piscitelli Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9781611213607, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 images, 2 charts, 2 maps

The Marine Corps Way of War examines the evolving doctrine, weapons, and capability of the United States Marine Corps during the four decades since our last great conflict in Asia. As author Anthony Piscitelli demonstrates, the USMC has maintained it...

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Other Side of the Wire Volume 3: With the XIV Reserve Corps - The Period of Transition 2 July 1916 - August 1917

Whitehead Ralph

ISBN: HB: 9781911512479, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
656 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 maps, 160 black&white illus.

Volume 3 carries the story of the XIV Reserve Corps through the momentous Battle of the Somme and into 1917, a period of transition for the German Army. The old tactics and strategy of trench warfare would undergo great changes as the German Army was...

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Pouring with Rain - Troops Fed Up British Second Army and the Liberation Offensive in Flanders 1918

Williams Dennis

ISBN: HB: 9781911096559, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
288 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 60 maps

A lost story now told – of a forgotten British Army in a forgotten campaign achieving against the odds... During the final months of the war, the British Second Army fought a successful War of Liberation alongside French and Belgian forces in the Gro...

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