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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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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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Short History

Greek Warriors Hoplites and Heroes

Willekes Carolyn

ISBN: PB: 9781612005157, Casemate, September 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Thermopylae, Marathon: though fought 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece, the names of these battles are more familiar to many than battles fought in the last half-century, but our concept of the men who fought in these battles may be more a product of...

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Lost Idol The Life and Death of a Young Officer: Esmond Elliot 1895-1917

Astor Johnnie, Alexandra Campbell

ISBN: HB: 9781912174027, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
248 pp., 24.5x18 cm, 100 illus. and maps

Esmond Elliot, younger son of the Earl of Minto, Viceroy of India, was killed while serving with the Scots Guards, aged 22, at the beginning of the Passchendaele Offensive. Compiled from his grieving mother's memorial of his life, together with his...

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What Did You Do In Great War, Grandfather? The Life and Times of an Edwardian Horse Artillery Officer

Barrington Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781912174034, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 90 photos and maps

Part history, part social documentary, part love story, this is a grandson's search for what his grandfather did in the Great War. Drawing on war diaries in the National Archives, unit records in the Royal Artillery museum, and a unique pictorial rec...

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Improbable War China, the United States and the Logic of Great Power Conflict

Coker Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781849048781, ISBN: HB: 9781849043960, Hurst Publishers, September 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Improbable War" explains why conflict between the USA and China cannot be ruled out. In 1914 war between the Great Powers was considered unlikely, yet it happened. We learn only from history, and popular though the First W...

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In Nelson's Wake The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars

Davey James

ISBN: PB: 9780300228830, ISBN: HB: 9780300200652, Yale University Press, August 2017
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 42 colour illus., maps

The Napoleonic Wars saw Britain immersed in a conflict of unprecedented scale and intensity. With France dominant on the European mainland, the fate of the British population rested first and foremost on the Royal Navy and the thousands of individual...

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Hitler's Soldiers The German Army in the Third Reich

Shepherd Ben H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300228809, ISBN: HB: 9780300179033, Yale University Press, August 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent s...

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Oder Front 1945, Volume 2 Documents, Reports and Personal Accounts

Hamilton Stephan A.

ISBN: PB: 9781912174201, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
578 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 300 documents, 38 colour maps and tables

"The Oder Front 1945, Volume 2" breaks new ground in its operational level detail of the German defense of the Oderfront between January-May 1945. Volume 2 pieces together the various orders, directives, and command guidance issued by the Fuhrer, OKW...

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