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Jack and Hopit, Comrades in Arms An Officer of the 9th Lancers in the Great War and his War Horse

Merton Serena

ISBN: PB: 9781911512806, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
120 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 125 black&white photos and maps

A chance discovery of the existence of the gravestone carved with the battle honours of Hopit – the Tipperary-foaled hunter – led the author to research the Great War relationship of Hopit and 19-year-old Second Lieutenant John (Jack) Forrester Colvi...

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Tanks The History of the Royal Tank Regiment, 1976-2017

Messenger Charles

ISBN: HB: 9781912174003, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 colour & black&white photos, 10 maps

The Royal Tank Regiment celebrates its centenary this year (2017). This, the fourth volume of the Regiment's history, begins in the midst of the Cold War, with the four RTR regiments mainly based in Germany. They experienced NATO's rearmament in the...

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Short History

Vikings Raiders from the Sea

Hjardar Kim

ISBN: PB: 9781612005195, Casemate, September 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

From the 9th to the 11th century, Viking ships landed on almost every shore in the Western world. Viking ravages united the Spanish kingdoms and stopped Charlemagne and the Franks' advance in Europe. Wherever Viking ships roamed, enormous suffering f...

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Naval Advising and Assistance History, Challenges, and Analysis

Stoker Donald

ISBN: HB: 9781911512820, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 photos

This original edited volume is the only book on naval advising. Drawing upon the work of scholars and practitioners from all over the world, it takes a comparative and global approach to examining the history, theory and evolution of naval advising a...

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Miracle at the Litza Hitler's first Defeat on the Eastern Front

Jacobsen Alf R., Stewart Frank

ISBN: HB: 9781612005065, Casemate, September 2017
160 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 34 illus.

In the early summer of 1941 German mountain soldiers under the command of General Eduard Dietl set out in northern Norway up through Finland to the Russian border. Operation Silberfuchs was underway. The northernmost section of the Eastern Front woul...

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Fortress Salopia Exploring Shropshire's Military History from the Prehistoric Period to the Twentieth Century: 2016 Conference Proceedings

Jenkins Tim

ISBN: HB: 9781911512691, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
148 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 28 photos, 6 maps, 3 line drawings/plans, 1 archaeological survey plan

"Fortress Salopia" is the culmination of contributions from heritage and historic professionals, practising archaeologists and academic historians that explores the unique military past of the county of Shropshire from the prehistoric period to the 2...

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On Gladsmuir Shall the Battle Be! The Battle of Prestonpans 1745

Johnston Arran

ISBN: HB: 9781911512837, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus., 13 maps

In the summer of 1745, a charismatic (but inexperienced) young Prince sailed to Scotland – determined to wrest the crowns of Great Britain from the head of George II. In a few short weeks, he raised an army large enough to challenge the government's...

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New Way of Fighting: Professionalism in the English Civil War Proceedings of the 2016 Helion and Company "Century of the Soldier" Conference

Jones Serena

ISBN: HB: 9781911512615, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
172 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 illus. and maps

War quickens the pace of military and technological change, and the increasing pace and scope of European warfare during the 16th and 17th centuries prepared the ground for the professional military forces we are familiar with today. The speakers at...

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Biography & Memoires

Teenage Resistance Fighter With the Maquisards in Occupied France

Verneret Hubert

ISBN: HB: 9781612005508, Casemate, September 2017
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

September 5, 1944 "The Americans are approaching; we follow their progress impatiently on the radio, by intercepting messages reserved for the commandos. They cannot be beaten now. But it is up to us to do the impossible to speed up the progression o...

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7 Leadership Lessons of D-Day Lessons from the Longest Day - June 6, 1944

Antal John

ISBN: HB: 9781612005294, Casemate, September 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 35 illus.

The odds were against the Allies on June 6, 1944. The task ahead of the paratroopers who jumped over Normandy and the soldiers who waded ashore onto the beaches, all under fire, was colossal. In such circumstances good leadership can be the defining...

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