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Aviation

Baptism of Fire The First Combat Experiences of the Royal Hungarian Air Force and Slovak Air Force, March 1939

Stenge Csaba B.

ISBN: PB: 9781906033934, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2011
136 pp., 24.8x18.4 cm, 150 black&white photos, 8 colour aircraft profiles, 1 map

This story is a short but devastating episode from the turbulent history of Central Europe in the 20th Century, one that is hardly known outside the countries concerned. This short conflict was hushed up even in the German media in 1939, because the...

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Military

After Stalingrad The Red Army's Winter Offensive 1942-1943

Glantz David M.

ISBN: PB: 9781907677052, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2011
536 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 photos, 117 maps, 6 tables

In the wake of the Red Army's signal victory at Stalingrad, the Soviet High Command expanded its counteroffensive into a full-fledged winter offensive which nearly collapsed German defences in southern Russia. History has recorded the many dramatic t...

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Dictionaries

Russian

Russian World War 2 Dictionary A Russian-English Glossary of Special Terms, Expressions, and Soldiers' Slang

Kobylyanskiy Isaak, Britton Stuart

ISBN: PB: 9781907677335, ISBN: HB: 9781909384064, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2011
48 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known as the Eastern Front of World War II, continues to attract a number of military historians from different countries around the world. The frontline veterans' reminiscences occup...

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Military

Polonica

Military Government in Exile The Polish Government in Exile 1939-1945, a study of discontent

McGilvray Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781906033583, ISBN: HB: 9781908916976, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2010
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white photos, 1 map

This work examines the nature of the relationship between the British Government and the Polish Government-in-Exile, 1939-1945. The relationship was extremely difficult owing to the extremity of the time and the situations of the two governments. Bef...

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Military

Polonica

Black Devils' March - A Doomed Odyssey The 1st Polish Armoured Division 1939-45

McGilvray Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781906033538, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2010
160 pp., 30.5x22.2 cm, 94 photos, 9 maps

The Black Devils March is an account of how the 1st (and only) Polish Armoured Division in the West under the leadership of General Stanislaw Maczek, arose out of the ashes of defeat and while attempting to avoid the internal politics of the Polish G...

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Military

Learning from Foreign Wars Russian Military Thinking 1859-73

Persson Gudrun

ISBN: PB: 9781906033613, ISBN: HB: 9781908916983, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2010
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 illus.

"Learning from Foreign Wars" examines how the Russian army interpreted the wars in Europe between 1859 and 1871, and the American Civil War. This was a time marked by rapid change – political, social, economic and technological. By raising the questi...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Handbook of WWII German Military Symbols & Abbreviations, 1943-45

Booth Terry

ISBN: PB: 9781874622857, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2001
120 pp., 22.9x15.3 cm

To the uninitiated, German military symbols appearing on documents, maps, orders-of-battle, and throughout postwar German WWII military literature, can appear indecipherable. Yet an understanding of their meaning is key to being able to seriously rea...

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