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Field Marshal The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel

Butler Daniel Allen

ISBN: PB: 9781612005669, Casemate, February 2018
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, brilliant soldier, a devoted husband and proud father; intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical, and arrogant. In France in 1940, then for two years in North Africa, then finally...

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Middle East

First Jihad Khartoum, and the Dawn of Militant Islam

Butler Daniel Allen

ISBN: PB: 9781612005935, Casemate, February 2018
256 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, 16 pages of black&white illus.

The First Jihad tells the story of Muhammad Ahmad, a Muslim religious leader in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and the uprising he led against British and Egyptian forces in the late nineteenth century. In 1881, Ahmad declared himself the Mahdi – the "Expec...

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Polonica

Frantic 7 The American Effort to Aid the Warsaw Uprising and the Origins of the Cold War, 1944

Radzilowski John, Szczesniak Jerzy

ISBN: HB: 9781612005607, Casemate, February 2018
224 pp., 21x15 cm, 40 colour and black&white illus.

The Frantic operations were conceived in late 1943 as Soviet advances made Soviet airfields accessible to Allied long-range aircraft. American aircraft could hit targets in central Europe, refuel and rearm at Soviet bases, then fly back to bomb addit...

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Forgotten Battle of the Kursk Salient 7th Guards Army's Stand Against Army Detachment Kempf

Zamulin Valeriy, Britton Stuart

ISBN: HB: 9781911512578, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
760 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 45 photos, 8 maps, 13 tables

Using the Russian Ministry of Defense's archives and Western sources, the author has produced a companion work to his masterful study of II SS Panzer Corps' offensive and the culminating clash at Prokhorovka. He lays out the German and Soviet plans f...

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America

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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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Biography & Memoires

Flag The Story of Revd David Railton MC and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior

Richards Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781612004471, Casemate, November 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 pages of photos

Reverend David Railton MC served as a chaplain on the Western Front during World War I. Attached to three divisions between 1916 and 1918, Railton supported the soldiers in their worst moments, he buried the fallen, comforted the wounded, wrote to th...

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Falaise Gap Battles Normandy 1944

Marriott Leo, Forty Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781612005386, Casemate, Past & Present, October 2017
64 pp., 23.4x18.4 cm, 130 illus.

The denouement of the battle of Normandy, the fighting around Falaise and Chambois in August 1944 and the pursuit of the retreating German armies to the Seine provided the Allies with an immense victory. After ten weeks of hard attritional fighting,...

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Fashion

Fashion in Steel The Landsknecht Armour of Wilhelm von Rogendorf

Krause Stefan, Haag Sabine, Zajic Andreas

ISBN: HB: 9780300230864, Yale University Press, September 2017
128 pp., 27.3x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.

This sumptuously illustrated book celebrates a curious masterpiece of German Renaissance art – the Landsknecht armor of Wilhelm von Rogendorf (1523). Recently conserved to its original glory, this magnificent suit of armor, made for a trusted courtie...

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French Army of the Orient 1798-1801 Napoleon's beloved "Egyptians"

Martin Yves

ISBN: PB: 9781911512714, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
200 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 200 illus.

More than 200 years ago – under the inspiration and leadership of Bonaparte – a revolutionary French Army invaded Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire; this presence lasted beyond Bonaparte's own departure and subsequent rise to power as First Cons...

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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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