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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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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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Biography & Memoires

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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In the Shadow of Bois Hugo The 8th Lincolns at the Battle of Loos

Atter Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9781911512776, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
128 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 illus., maps

This is the first book dedicated to the subject of the 8th (Service) Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment during the First World War – and this particular Kitchener battalion has been a neglected topic of study; however, there is a rich mine of informati...

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