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World War I From Mobilisation to the Armistice

Yann Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9782815103565, Casemate, OREP, March 2017
32 pp., 24x17 cm

This short book is a chronological and non-exhaustive study of photographs, letters, stories, weapons, and uniforms of soldiers. This study gives the opportunity to access the very private lives of soldiers who participated in various operations on t...

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War On Two Fronts An Infantry Commander's War in Iraq and the Pentagon

Hughes Christopher P.

ISBN: PB: 9781612004310, Casemate, January 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 colour illus.

Shortly after the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the war in Iraq became the most confusing in U.S. history, the high command not knowing who to fight, who was attacking Coalition troops, and who among the different Iraqi groups were fighting each...

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Weapon of Choice Small Arms and the Culture of Military Innovation

Ford Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9781849046503, Hurst Publishers, January 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book examines Western military technological innovation through the lens of developments in small arms during the twentieth century. These weapons have existed for centuries, appear to have matured only incrementally and m...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Women in Uniform 1939-1945

ISBN: PB: 9782352504603, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, December 2016
84 pp., 24x20 cm, full colour throughout

Women's participation in the Second World War is often overlooked, yet thousands of them wore their uniform, working mainly as nurses, but offering also other services, such as managing the enrollment of men in military units. The movement started on...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

World War II Soviet Field Weapons and Equipment A Visual Reference Guide

Ward Keith

ISBN: PB: 9781909384996, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2016
160 pp., 29.7x21.1 cm, 300 colour illus.

This title is the second in a series that employs a simple and effective concept to illustrate and describe the multiplicity of equipment and weapons systems used on the ground during World War II. Whilst many books have described such weapons and wa...

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Africa

Who Killed Hammarskjold? The UN, The Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa

Williams Susan

ISBN: PB: 9781849048026, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold remains one of the biggest mysteries of the twentieth century. Shortly after midnight on 18 September 1961, an aircraft carrying Hammarskjold and his UN team crashed into dark...

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Military

War in the North Sea The Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy 1914-1918

Barry Quintin

ISBN: HB: 9781911096382, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
456 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 100 black&white illus., 15 maps

For years before the outbreak of the First World War, it was the expectation of most officers of the Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy that very shortly thereafter, a decisive fleet action would be fought. This had a major impact on the strateg...

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Biography & Memoires

Military

White Sniper Simo Hayha

Saarelainen Tapio

ISBN: HB: 9781612004297, Casemate, November 2016
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Simo Hنyhن (1905-2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought between Russia and Finland in 1939-1940 he had 542 confirmed kills with iron sights, a record that still stands today. He has been a role model for snipers al...

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War in the East A Military History of the Russo-Turkish War 1877-78

Barry Quintin

ISBN: PB: 9781911096696, ISBN: HB: 9781907677113, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 266 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 25 maps

When Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire in April 1877, it was the fifth time during the nineteenth century that hostilities had broken out between the two empires. On this occasion the other Great Powers had done all they could to prevent it,...

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Biography & Memoires

We Are All Flourishing The Letters and Diary of Captain Walter JJ Coats MC 1914-1919

Chojecki Jan, LoCicero Michael Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9781911096399, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 photos

"There have been moments during the last week or so when I had grave doubts as to whether I should see tomorrow". Compiled from the almost daily letters home and a diary written in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, We are all Flourishin...

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