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Vivid Courage Victoria Crosses: Antecedent and Allied Regiments of the Staffordshire Regiment

Hope Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781911096375, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2016
232 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 75 black&white photos, 1 map, 1 regimental tree & 3 registers

In the history of the Victoria Cross, this is the first book exclusively written about the recipients of this prestigious award who were members of this famous regiment. This is the fifth book written by the author – and like his previous works, cont...

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John Bell Hood The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General

Hood Stephen M.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213300, Casemate, Savas Beatie, May 2016
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 images, 3 maps

John Bell Hood was one of the Confederacy's most enigmatic generals. He died at 48 after a brief illness in August of 1879, leaving behind the first draft of his memoirs Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate S...

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Rollback The Red Army's Winter Offensive along the Southwestern Strategic Direction, 1942-43

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9781910777176, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2016
412 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 8 maps

"Rollback: The Red Army's Winter Offensive along the Southwestern Strategic Direction, 1942-43" covers the period from mid-December 1942 to mid-February 1943, one of the most critical periods of the war on the Eastern Front. It was here that followin...

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Balochistan, the British and the Great Game The Struggle for the Bolan Pass, Gateway to India

Heathcote T. A.

ISBN: HB: 9781849044790, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Great Game for Central Asia led to British involvement in Balochistan, a sparsely-populated area in Pakistan, mostly desert and mountain, and containing the Bolan Pass, the southern counterpart of the more famous Khyber. It...

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Fighting 30th Division They Called Them "Roosevelt's SS"

Hilborn David, King Martin, Collins Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781612003016, Casemate, August 2015
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In World War I the 30th Infantry Division earned more Medals of Honor than any other American division. In World War II it spent more consecutive days in combat than almost any other outfit. Recruited mainly from the Carolinas and George and Tennesse...

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Aviation

Into the Dark A Bomber Command Story of Combat and Survival, Discovery and Remembrance

Hughes Janet, Wilson Reginald

ISBN: HB: 9780992620769, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, May 2015
208 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

On 20 January 1944 Bomber Command Navigator Reginald Wilson's Halifax, LW337, comes into the sights of an ace Luftwaffe night fighter pilot, and is blown from the darkness above the German capital Berlin. Reg, yet to celebrate his twenty-first birthd...

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Shanghai 1937 Stalingrad on the Yangtze

Harmsen Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781612003092, ISBN: HB: 9781612001678, Casemate, April 2015
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 48 black&white illus.

This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers, while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and, often, victi...

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Padre, Prisoner and Penpusher The World War One experiences of the Reverend Benjamin O'Rorke

Howson Peter

ISBN: HB: 9781910294703, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2015
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 map, 12 black&white illus.

Few army chaplains had as varied a career during the First World War as the Reverend Benjamin O'Rorke. A regular army chaplain who had seen service in the Boer War he was mobilised with 54 other chaplains at the start of hostilities. He went to Franc...

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Battle of Moscow 1941-1942 The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counter Offensive Along the Moscow Strategic Direction

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9781910294642, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2015
528 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 55 maps

"The Battle of Moscow, 1941-1942: The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counteroffensive Along the Moscow Strategic Direction" is a detailed examination of one of the major turning points of World War II, as seen from the Soviet side. The Battle of...

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War Bonds Love Stories from the Greatest Generation

Hval Cindy

ISBN: HB: 9781612002903, Casemate, March 2015
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, photos throughout

35 personal stories each starting with a WW2-era song title and ending with a personal "Love Lesson" from the couple.Beautiful stories of love and passion that took place amidst all the confusion and destruction of the Second World War.Over 120 black...

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