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Oder Front 1945, Volume 2 Documents, Reports and Personal Accounts

Hamilton Stephan A.

ISBN: PB: 9781912174201, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
578 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 300 documents, 38 colour maps and tables

"The Oder Front 1945, Volume 2" breaks new ground in its operational level detail of the German defense of the Oderfront between January-May 1945. Volume 2 pieces together the various orders, directives, and command guidance issued by the Fuhrer, OKW...

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Canadians on the Somme, 1916 The Neglected Campaign

Stewart William F.

ISBN: HB: 9781911512950, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 77 black&white pictures, 6 diags, 32 maps, 12 tables

Ordered lines of heavily laden soldiers with rifles at "high port" trudging through mud against uncut barbed wire under heavy machine gun fire is the enduring view of the Somme 1916. What makes Canada's Somme campaign so difficult to characterise was...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

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Godoy's Army Spanish Regiments and Uniforms from the Estado Militar of 1800

Esdailes Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781911512653, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
120 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 79 colour plates

Based on an extremely rare (albeit slightly incomplete) illustrated version of the Spanish Army's order of battle as it existed in the year 1800, this work cannot but form a most unusual addition to the collection of anyone interested in military uni...

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Europe

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Civil War London A Military History of London under Charles I and Oliver Cromwell

Flintham David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512622, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
128 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 illus.

London was the critical location throughout the English Civil Wars – a fact that has been emphasised by countless historians, with some going as far to say that by fleeing his capital in January 1642, King Charles I lost the war several months before...

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History

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Faces from the Front Harold Gillies, The Queen's Hospital, Sidcup and the Origins of Modern Plastic Surgery

Bamji Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781911512660, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
304 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 61 colour illus., 232 black&white illus., 2 tables

"Faces from the Front" examines the British response to the huge number of soldiers who incurred facial injuries during the First World War. These injuries were produced within a short time span, but (for the first time in a major conflict) did not n...

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Oder Front 1945, Volume 1 General Gotthard Heinrici, Heeresgruppe Weichsel and Germany's Final Defense in the East, 20 March-3 May 1945

Hamilton Stephan A.

ISBN: PB: 9781912174218, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2017
450 pp., 21.6x28 cm, 56 maps, black&white photos

Nazi Germany's fall is regularly depicted through the dual images of Adolf Hitler directing the final battle for Berlin from his claustrophobic Fuhrerbunker, and the subsequent Soviet victory immortalized by the flying of the 'Hammer and Sickle' over...

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Biography & Memoires

Malinovskii Hero of the Soviet Union

Sokolov Boris, Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9781910777831, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2017
450 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, maps

The prolific writer Boris Sokolov – author of biographies of Georgii Zhukov and others – returns with a new book on Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovskii (1898-1967): a Marshal of the Soviet Union and former Defence Minister, who like so many of those who m...

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Wasted Years, Wasted Lives Volume 2: The British Army in Northern Ireland 1978-79

Wharton Ken

ISBN: PB: 9781912174157, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2017
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 70 black&white photos, 4 maps

Volume 2 does what it says on the can – it continues from where the first volume left off. It looks at the bloody years of 1978 and 1979. It covers eyewitness accounts from soldiers on the ground and there is the occasional comment from civilians who...

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Killer Butterflies Combat, Psychology and Morale in the British 19th (Western) Division 1915-18

Roberts James

ISBN: HB: 9781911512240, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
168 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

In this ground-breaking work, James Roberts examines the willingness and ability of British volunteer and conscript infantrymen of the Great War to perform the soldier's fundamental role: to kill or maim the enemy, and accept the attendant chance of...

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Bullets, Bombs and Poison Gas Supplying the Troops on the Western Front 1914-1918 (Documentary Sources)

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512080, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 39 tables, 32 colour illus.

Soldiers in the trenches were issued with four bullets a day unless they were either snipers or manned a machine gun. This does not seem like a lot of bullets. However, four bullets a day is 28 per week. Therefore a million soldiers need 28 million b...

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