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Battle of the Selle Fourth Army Operations on the Western Front in the Hundred Days, 9-24 October 1918

Hodgkinson Peter

ISBN: HB: 9781911512639, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white photos, 13 maps

This book considers a relatively unknown series of actions of the victorious Hundred Days of 1918: the operations at the River Selle. Between 9-24 October, the British Fourth Army drove elements of two German armies back from the Hindenburg support l...

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Richmond Shall Not Be Given Up The Seven Days' Battles, June 25 - July 1, 1862

Crenshaw Doug

ISBN: PB: 9781611213553, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images and maps

In the spring of 1862, the largest army ever assembled on the North American continent landed in Virginia, on the peninsula between the James and York Rivers, and proceeded to march toward Richmond. Between that army and the capital of the Confederat...

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Africa

Mobile Warfare for Africa On the Successful Conduct of Wars in Africa and Beyond - Lessons Learned from the South African Border War

DeVries Roland, Burger Camille, Steenkamp Willem

ISBN: PB: 9781912174089, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
528 pp., 24.6x17 cm, 330 photos, 40 maps

Presenting a remarkable amount of experience drawing primarily from South Africa's Border War in the form of case studies, supported fully by an extensive number of photographs and specially commissioned maps, this study has applications for historia...

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Biography & Memoires

Gabriel Rains and the Confederate Torpedo Bureau

Waters Davis W.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213508, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
168 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 31 images, 2 maps

"Ironclads are said to master the world, but torpedoes master the ironclads". Gabriel J. Rains was a Confederate Brigadier General who was more than a military officer – he was a scientist. His Civil War appointment gave him an opportunity to develop...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Lend-Lease and Soviet Aviation in the Second World War

Kotelnikov Vladimir

ISBN: HB: 9781911512264, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
656 pp., 24.4x17 cm, 100 colour aircraft, 650 colour and black&white illus.

Seventy years have passed since the Second World War yet the books and articles still keep coming in a never-ending stream discussing the question of what role the deliveries of arms and materials by Soviet allies played in the victory of the Red Arm...

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Chickamauga Campaign - Glory or the Grave The Breakthrough, the Union Collapse, and the Defense of Horseshoe Ridge, September 20, 1863

Powell David A.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213836, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
744 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 37 maps, 40 images

Now in paperback, "Glory or the Grave: The Breakthrough, the Union Collapse, and the Defense of Horseshoe Ridge, September 20, 1863" is the second volume in The Chickamauga Campaign, David Powell's magnificent three-volume study of this overlooked an...

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Chickamauga Campaign Barren Victory: The Retreat into Chattanooga, the Confederate Pursuit, and the Aftermath of the Battle, September 21 to October 20, 1863

Powell David A.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213843, ISBN: HB: 9781611213287, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 15 images, 5 maps

Barren Victory is the third and concluding volume of the magisterial Chickamauga Campaign Trilogy, a comprehensive examination more than a decade in the making of one of the most important and complex military operations of the Civil War. The first...

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America

Under the Crescent Moon The Eleventh Corps in the American Civil War, 1862-1864. From the Defenses of Washington to Chancellorsville

Pula James S.

ISBN: HB: 9781611213379, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 maps, 40 illus.

The Eleventh Corps served in the Army of the Potomac for just twelve months (September 1862 – August 1863), but during that time played a pivotal role in the critical battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, hastened westward to reinforce a Union...

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"Rabble of Gentility" The Royalist Northern Horse, 1644-45

Barratt John

ISBN: PB: 9781911512981, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
120 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 30 black&white illus., maps

General George Monck once described the Royalist horse as "a rabble of gentility". Modern research has largely dispelled this image of the King's cavalry. However the description seems at first sight appropriate to the body of cavalry known as the "N...

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First to Fight The U.S. Marines in World War I

Gilbert Oscar E., Cansiere Romain

ISBN: HB: 9781612005089, Casemate, December 2017
288 pp., 21x15 cm, 30 illus.

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!" The words of Captain Lloyd Williams at Belleau Wood in June 1918 entered United States Marine Corps legend, and the Marine Brigade's actions there – along with the censor's failure to take out the name of the Brigad...

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