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Portuguese Commandos Feared Insurgent Hunters, 1961-1974

Cann John P.

ISBN: PB: 9781911096320, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
104 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 90 black&white illus., 10 colour photos, 10 tables, 15 maps

During the 13-year insurgency (1961-74) in Portuguese Africa, more than 800,000 men and women served in the Portuguese armed forces. Of this number, about 9,000 served as commandos (or about 1 percent). Yet their combat losses ? 357 dead, 28 missing...

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Battles Before Case Studies of Australian Army Leadership after the Vietnam War

Connery David

ISBN: PB: 9781925520194, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
136 pp., 24.7x17.5 cm, 50 colour illus.

Much of Australia's military history literature focuses on battles and the way generals plan and prosecute an action or campaign. But what do generals do when they are not fighting battles? "The Battles Before" examines the role of senior leaders in...

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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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Hear their Footsteps King Edward VII School, Sheffield, and the Old Edwardians in the Great War 1914-18

Cornwell John

ISBN: PB: 9781911096269, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
76 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 44 photos

The book recounts the story of an elite Yorkshire day school – and its "Old Boys" who joined the forces – in the First World War. The school was founded by Sheffield City Council in 1905, who finessed an amalgamation of two much older institutions as...

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Aviation

Military

Under Their Own Flag A History of 47 Squadron 1916-1946

Clark Owen

ISBN: HB: 9780993212994, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, March 2016
160 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 108 ilus.

To mark the centenary of the formation of one of the Royal Air Force's longest serving squadrons Fighting High Publishing presents Owen Clark's "Under Their Own Flag", which details the remarkable story of No. 47 Squadron from its birth in 1916 throu...

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Jewish Studies

Military

Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929

Cohen Hillel

ISBN: PB: 9781611688115, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In late summer 1929, a countrywide outbreak of Arab-Jewish-British violence transformed the political landscape of Palestine forever. In contrast with those who point to the wars of 1948 and 1967, historian Hillel Cohen marks these bloody events as y...

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Military

Three Republics One Navy A Naval History of France 1870-1999

Clayton Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9781911096740, ISBN: HB: 9781909982994, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In the 1870s, to supplement their early steam engines, French warships were still rigged for sail. In the 1970s the Marine Nationale's ships at sea included aircraft carriers operating supersonic jets, and intercontinental ballistic missile submarine...

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Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864

Chick Sean Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781612347127, Casemate, Potomac Books, June 2015
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 illus.

The Battle of Petersburg was the culmination of the Virginia Overland Campaign, which pitted the Army of the Potomac, led by Ulysses S. Grant and George Gordon Meade, against Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. In spite of having outmaneuvered...

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Open Wounds Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide

Cheterian Vicken

ISBN: HB: 9781849044585, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The assassination in Istanbul in 2007 of the author Hrant Dink, a high-profile advocate of Turkish – Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate in Turkey on the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenians. Many Turks subsequently...

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Africa

Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath

Cole Peter, McQuinn Brian

ISBN: HB: 9781849043090, Hurst Publishers, January 2015
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book offers a novel, incisive and wide-ranging account of Libya's '17 February Revolution' by tracing how critical towns, communities and political groups helped to shape its course. Each community, whether geographical (e...

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