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Theirs is the Glory Arnhem, Hurst and Conflict on Film

Truesdale David, Esler Smith Allan

ISBN: HB: 9781911096634, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2016
392 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 65 colour photos, 275 black&white photos, 10 maps

Theirs is the Glory – the story of the Battle of Arnhem – was the biggest-grossing UK war film for a decade. Made by veterans of the battle in the late summer of 1945, it tells their story day by day: the pre-operation briefing, the drop, the race to...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

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Camouflage and Markings of Commonwealth and Greek Armor in the Balkans Campaign April - May 1941

Plowman Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9788360672273, Casemate, Model Centrum Progres, September 2016
72 pp., 29x20.5 cm, 24 colour illus., 148 black&white illus.

Published to coincide with the 75th Anniversary of the battle of Greece, this is an authoritative guide to the armor deployed by Commonwealth and Greek troops in continental Greece and in Crete. Covering wide variety of armored vehicles fielded by Br...

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Fighting for the Empire An Irish Doctor's Adventures Through Imperial Campaigns and Two World Wars

Worsfold David

ISBN: HB: 9781781220061, Casemate, Sabrestorm Publishing, September 2016
240 pp., 23.6x16 cm, colour throughout

"Fighting for the Empire" is the story of a remarkable Irishman, a staunch Catholic from Galway who served the British Crown and its Empire for almost fifty years. His extraordinary military career took in countless conflicts including two World Wars...

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Biography & Memoires

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General Fox Conner Pershing's Chief of Operations and Eisenhower's Mentor

Rabalais Steven

ISBN: HB: 9781612003979, Casemate, September 2016
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 illus.

John J. Pershing considered Fox Conner to have been "a brilliant soldier" and "one of the finest characters our Army has ever produced." During World War I, General Conner served as chief of operations for the American Expeditionary Force in Europe....

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Passchendaele The Untold Story

Prior Robin, Wilson Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780300221213, Yale University Press, August 2016
280 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 16 black&white illus.

No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele. By its end there had been 275,000 Allied...

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Biography & Memoires

Aviation

Ruddy Awful Waste Eric Lock DSO, DFC & Bar: The Brief Life of a Battle of Britain Ace

Brew Steve, Bradbury Mike

ISBN: HB: 9780993415234, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, August 2016
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 70 illus.

In early 1939, 19-year-old Salopian Eric Lock joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve to fulfil his dream of flying. Within eighteen months, he found himself pitted against one of the largest air forces in the world, fighting for the survival of his homelan...

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ETA A Bomber Command Navigator Shot Down and on the Run

Mellor Gordon

ISBN: HB: 9780993415258, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, August 2016
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 illus.

Gordon Mellor served as a navigator with RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War, and ETA is the first-hand account of a conflict that tests not only his initiative and resilience, but also the ability to survive amidst the extreme dangers of...

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Spearhead of the Fifth Army The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Italy, from the Winter Line to Anzio

van Lunteren Frank

ISBN: HB: 9781612004273, Casemate, August 2016
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 illus.

Upon the completion of the Sicily and Salerno Campaigns in 1943, the paratroopers of Colonel Reuben Tucker's 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment were among the first Allied troops to enter Naples. A ghost town at first sight, the residents soon express...

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Omaha Beach Tuesday 6th June 1944

Prime Christophe

ISBN: PB: 9782815103046, Casemate, OREP, August 2016
128 pp., 26.5x20 cm

Tuesday, June 6th 1944. It is dawn and the German lookouts on sentry along the beach of Sables d'Or at the Pointe du Hoc spot some worrying silhouettes in the distance. An incredible number of masts and ships begin to appear as the mist rises. It is...

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Civil War Captain and His Lady A True Story of Love, Courtship, and Combat

Barr Gene

ISBN: HB: 9781611212907, Casemate, Savas Beatie, August 2016
360 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 maps, 36 black&white illus.

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