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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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Fighter Aces Knights of the Skies

Sadler John, Serdiville Rosie

ISBN: PB: 9781612004822, Casemate, June 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Just over a decade after the first powered aeroplane flight, fearless pioneers were flying over the battlefields of France in flimsy biplanes. As more military aircraft took to the skies, they were equipped with weapons and their pilots began to deve...

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Short History

Tommies The British Army in the Trenches

Sadler John, Serdiville Rosie

ISBN: PB: 9781612004846, Casemate, June 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

British soldiers have been known as Tommies for centuries, but the name is particularly associated with the British soldier in World War I. In 1914, a small professional force of British soldiers crossed the Channel to aid the French. It soon became...

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"The Bloody Fifth": The 5th Texas Infantry Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia Volume 2: Gettysburg to Appomattox

Schmutz John

ISBN: HB: 9781611213348, Casemate, Savas Beatie, June 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 maps, 10 illus.

The second installment in a sweeping history of the 5th Texas Infantry – "The Bloody Fifth" – one of only three Texas regiments to fight with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The 5th Texas established an exceptional combat record in an army...

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Polonica

Narvik and the Allies The Polish Brigade at Narvik 1940

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: PB: 9781911512288, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
216 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.

This work is about the co-operation between the Allies in Norway between April and June 1940 by initially considering the military-politics of the period August 1939 until the German invasion of Norway in April 1940. Much of the work examines the rol...

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Tigers of Bastogne Voices of the 10th Armored Division during the Battle of the Bulge

Collins Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781612004761, ISBN: HB: 9781612001814, Casemate, June 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The gallant stand of the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne has long become part of historical and media legend. But how many students of the war realize there was already a U.S. unit holding the town when they arrived? And this unit – the 10th Armo...

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Lost Opportunity The Battle of the Ardennes 22 August 1914

House Simon J.

ISBN: HB: 9781911096429, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
256 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 50 colour maps

On 22 August 1914 – on a battlefield 100 kilometres wide stretching from Luxembourg to the River Meuse – two French and two German armies clashed in a series of encounters known collectively as the Battle of the Ardennes. On that day, 27,000 young Fr...

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Meade and Lee After Gettysburg Volume 1: From Falling Waters to Culpeper Courthouse, July 14 to October 1, 1863

Hunt Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9781611213430, Casemate, Savas Beatie, June 2017
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 maps, 25 illus.

The period of the Civil War in Virginia sandwiched between the traditional ending date of the Gettysburg Campaign and the arrival of U. S. Grant is routinely overlooked. The operations conducted during that period have been overshadowed by the bloods...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Dubno 1941 The Greatest Tank Battle of the Second World War

Isaev Aleksei

ISBN: HB: 9781910777749, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
256 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 9 colour illus., 134 black&white photos, 15 maps

In June 1941 – during the first week of the Nazi invasion in the Soviet Union – the quiet cornfields and towns of Western Ukraine were awakened by the clanking of steel and thunder of explosions; this was the greatest tank battle of the Second World...

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