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Tigers in Combat, Volume III Operation, Training, Tactics
ISBN: HB: 9781910777978, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
520 pp., 30.5x21.8 cm, 1200 photos
"Tigers in Combat, Volume 3" closes the gap between the unit histories of volumes 1 and 2 and the technical descriptions in the Jentz and Spielberger books. For the first time, efforts are described in detail of what was taken to create units and wha...
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£69,00
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Italian Folgore Parachute Division North African Operations 1940-43
ISBN: HB: 9781911096245, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
192 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 100 black&white illus., 9 maps, 4 plates
The North African campaign was one of the hardest fought episodes of the Second World War, yet the vital part played by the Italian Army – and in particular, its Folgore Parachute Division on behalf of the Axis Alliance – is frequently overlooked. In...
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£29,00
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No Armour But Courage Colonel Sir George Lisle, 1615-1648
ISBN: HB: 9781911096474, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
408 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 photos, 11 illus.
Few army officers of King Charles I shone as bright as George Lisle during the English Civil Wars, yet have drawn so little attention from subsequent historians. Born in London in 1615, Lisle's father was a well-connected publisher and monopolist, an...
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£29,00
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Daring All Things The Autobiography of George Kendall (1881-1961)
ISBN: HB: 9781911096627, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
"Daring All Things" is a unique and extraordinary autobiography, which was published for the first time 55 years after its completion (shortly before The Rev George Kendall died suddenly in 1961, aged 79). The book is the life story of a man born int...
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£25,00
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From the Western Front to Salonika A French Soldier Writes Home (1914-1918)
ISBN: PB: 9781911096283, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 102 photos, drawings, maps
The book's editor, Catherine Labaume-Howard, found 300 of her grandfather's letters in an old potato sack when a family home was sold. The author of the letters, Pierre Suberviolle, was from Montauban in the South of France. He joined the army on 7 A...
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£19,00
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Battle of Montgomery, 1644 The English Civil War in the Welsh Borderlands
ISBN: PB: 9781911096238, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
120 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 8 maps, 8 black&white illus., 42 colour illus.
Reflecting on the Battle of Montgomery, Sir Thomas Myddelton – who had jointly commanded the victorious Parliamentarian Army – later described it as: "as great a victory as hath been gained in any part of the kingdom". Fought on 18 September 1644 in...
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£19,00
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War in the East A Military History of the Russo-Turkish War 1877-78
ISBN: PB: 9781911096696, ISBN: HB: 9781907677113, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 266 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 25 maps
When Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire in April 1877, it was the fifth time during the nineteenth century that hostilities had broken out between the two empires. On this occasion the other Great Powers had done all they could to prevent it,...
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£35,00
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£45,00
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We Are All Flourishing The Letters and Diary of Captain Walter JJ Coats MC 1914-1919
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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£25,00
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Hear their Footsteps King Edward VII School, Sheffield, and the Old Edwardians in the Great War 1914-18
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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£12,00
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New Approaches to the Military History of the English Civil War Proceedings of the First Helion And Company "Century of the Soldier" Conference, 2015
ISBN: HB: 9781911096443, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 colour illus., 3 diags, 2 maps, 5 statistical tables
In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the military history of the English Civil War and its associated conflicts in Ireland and Scotland. Historians are increasingly paying attention to the "actualities of war" (to use Sir Basil Lidde...
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£25,00
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