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White Water Red Hot Lead On Board U.S. Navy Swift Boats in Vietnam

Daly Dan

ISBN: HB: 9781612004785, Casemate, March 2017
336 pp., 23.6x15.9 cm

During the Vietnam war 3500 officers and men served in the Swift Boat program in a fleet of 130 boats with no armor plating. The boats patrolled the coast and rivers of South Vietnam, with the average age of the crew being twenty-four. Their days con...

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Instruments of Battle The Fighting Drummers and Buglers of the British Army from the Late 17th Century to the Present Day

Tanner James

ISBN: HB: 9781612003696, Casemate, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Instruments of Battle" examines in detail the development and role of the British Army's fighting drummers and buglers, from the time of the foundation of the army up to the present day. While their principal weapon of war was the drum and bugle (an...

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Army of James II, 1685-1688 The Birth of the British Army

Ede-Borrett Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781911512363, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 60 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.

Between James' accession in February 1685 and flight in December 1688 the British Armies increased four fold (the English, Scots and Irish Armies were still separate institutions and were to remain so until the early 18th Century, in the case of the...

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Bailout Over Normandy A Flyboy's Adventures with the French Resistance and Other Escapades in Occupied France

Fahrenwald Ted

ISBN: PB: 9781612004747, ISBN: HB: 9781612001579, Casemate, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The remarkable memoir of a U.S. fighter pilot, who after his escapades of shooting down German aircraft in France began an even greater adventure after being shot down himself. Ted Fahrenwald was a 22-year-old daredevil pilot in the famed 352nd Fight...

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First (US) Infantry Division Allied units of World War Two

Lavit Stephane, Charbonnier Philippe

ISBN: PB: 9782352504641, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, March 2017
100 pp., 25x21 cm

The 1st Infantry Division was established in 1917 to participate in the fighting in France and faced the major German offensives of 1918. During the Second World War, it effected its first assault landing in North Africa in 1942. Then followed the in...

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Churchill's Secret War with Lenin British and Commonwealth Military Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918-20

Wright Damien

ISBN: HB: 9781911512103, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
504 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 8 maps, 8 colour illus., 198 black&white illus.

After three years of great loss and suffering on the Eastern Front, Imperial Russia was in crisis and on the verge of revolution. In November 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks (later known as "Soviets") seized power, signed a peace treaty with the Central Pow...

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Normandy Battlefields Bocage and Breakout: From the Beaches to the Falaise Gap

Forty Simon

ISBN: HB: 9781612004198, Casemate, March 2017
192 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 350 colour illus.

The Normandy Battlefields: D-Day & the Bridgehead ended as the Allies fought to expand their D-Day foothold. In Bocage and Breakout, Leo Marriott and Simon Forty take the story forward as the success of the invasion continued into the Cotentin, with...

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World War I From Mobilisation to the Armistice

Yann Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9782815103565, Casemate, OREP, March 2017
32 pp., 24x17 cm

This short book is a chronological and non-exhaustive study of photographs, letters, stories, weapons, and uniforms of soldiers. This study gives the opportunity to access the very private lives of soldiers who participated in various operations on t...

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Reminiscences 1808-1815 Under Wellington The Peninsular and Waterloo Memoirs of William Hay

Bamford Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781911512325, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
164 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, maps, 3 black&white illus.

William Hay had a varied and exciting military career during the later years of the Napoleonic Wars, which took him to the Peninsula, to Waterloo, and, after 1815, to Canada. Graduating from the Royal Military College at Marlow, of which he begins hi...

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Biography & Memoires

Four Flags, the Odyssey of a Professional Soldier Part 2: Rhodesian Security Forces 1979-80, South African Defence Force 1981-83

Barr Colonel David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512493, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Dave Barr knew from 12 years old he wanted to be a Marine. Following a series of menial jobs – including working at a shoe shiner in a barber's shop and in service stations – at 17 he joined the Marines before shipping out to Vietnam. This was his dr...

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