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Mobile Warfare for Africa On the Successful Conduct of Wars in Africa and Beyond - Lessons Learned from the South African Border War

DeVries Roland, Burger Camille, Steenkamp Willem

ISBN: PB: 9781912174089, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
528 pp., 24.6x17 cm, 330 photos, 40 maps

Presenting a remarkable amount of experience drawing primarily from South Africa's Border War in the form of case studies, supported fully by an extensive number of photographs and specially commissioned maps, this study has applications for historia...

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Biography & Memoires

Gabriel Rains and the Confederate Torpedo Bureau

Waters Davis W.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213508, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
168 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 31 images, 2 maps

"Ironclads are said to master the world, but torpedoes master the ironclads". Gabriel J. Rains was a Confederate Brigadier General who was more than a military officer – he was a scientist. His Civil War appointment gave him an opportunity to develop...

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Chickamauga Campaign - Glory or the Grave The Breakthrough, the Union Collapse, and the Defense of Horseshoe Ridge, September 20, 1863

Powell David A.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213836, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
744 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 37 maps, 40 images

Now in paperback, "Glory or the Grave: The Breakthrough, the Union Collapse, and the Defense of Horseshoe Ridge, September 20, 1863" is the second volume in The Chickamauga Campaign, David Powell's magnificent three-volume study of this overlooked an...

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Military

Chickamauga Campaign Barren Victory: The Retreat into Chattanooga, the Confederate Pursuit, and the Aftermath of the Battle, September 21 to October 20, 1863

Powell David A.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213843, ISBN: HB: 9781611213287, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 15 images, 5 maps

Barren Victory is the third and concluding volume of the magisterial Chickamauga Campaign Trilogy, a comprehensive examination more than a decade in the making of one of the most important and complex military operations of the Civil War. The first...

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America

Under the Crescent Moon The Eleventh Corps in the American Civil War, 1862-1864. From the Defenses of Washington to Chancellorsville

Pula James S.

ISBN: HB: 9781611213379, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 maps, 40 illus.

The Eleventh Corps served in the Army of the Potomac for just twelve months (September 1862 – August 1863), but during that time played a pivotal role in the critical battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, hastened westward to reinforce a Union...

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Military

"Rabble of Gentility" The Royalist Northern Horse, 1644-45

Barratt John

ISBN: PB: 9781911512981, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
120 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 30 black&white illus., maps

General George Monck once described the Royalist horse as "a rabble of gentility". Modern research has largely dispelled this image of the King's cavalry. However the description seems at first sight appropriate to the body of cavalry known as the "N...

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First to Fight The U.S. Marines in World War I

Gilbert Oscar E., Cansiere Romain

ISBN: HB: 9781612005089, Casemate, December 2017
288 pp., 21x15 cm, 30 illus.

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!" The words of Captain Lloyd Williams at Belleau Wood in June 1918 entered United States Marine Corps legend, and the Marine Brigade's actions there – along with the censor's failure to take out the name of the Brigad...

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Biography & Memoires

Flag The Story of Revd David Railton MC and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior

Richards Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781612004471, Casemate, November 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 pages of photos

Reverend David Railton MC served as a chaplain on the Western Front during World War I. Attached to three divisions between 1916 and 1918, Railton supported the soldiers in their worst moments, he buried the fallen, comforted the wounded, wrote to th...

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Biography & Memoires

Recollections from the Ranks Three Russian Soldiers' Autobiographies from the Napoleonic Wars

Boland Darrin

ISBN: HB: 9781912174188, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2017
156 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, illus. and maps

From Napoleon's invasion of 1812 to the Wars of Liberation and beyond, seen from the common Russian soldier's perspective. This volume is composed of three accounts previously unavailable in English. Detailed annotations illuminate a seldom understoo...

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Aviation

Military

Prisoner of the Swiss A World War II Airman's Story

Culler Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9781612005546, Casemate, November 2017
160 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

During World War II, 1,517 members of US aircrews were forced to seek asylum in Switzerland. Most neutral countries found reason to release US airmen from internment, but Switzerland took its obligations under the Hague Convention more seriously than...

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