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Most Dangerous Moment of the War Japan's Attack on the Indian Ocean, 1942

Clancy John

ISBN: PB: 9781612005331, Casemate, August 2017
208 pp., 22.8x15.4 cm

In early April 1942, a little-known chapter of World War II took place, said by Sir Winston Churchill to be "the most dangerous moment of the war" when the Japanese made their only major offensive westwards into the Indian Ocean. As historian Sir Art...

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America

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Discovering Gettysburg An Unconventional Introduction to the Greatest Little Town in America and the Monumental Battle that Made It Famous

Coleman Stephen W.

ISBN: HB: 9781611213539, Casemate, Savas Beatie, August 2017
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 180 caricatures, 200 photos, 9 maps

Gettysburg. Does any other single word in any language invoke so much passion and angst, enthusiasm and sadness, as do those ten letters? But what IS Gettysburg, exactly? I am almost embarrassed to say I discovered the answer to that question – or at...

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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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America

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Twenty-Two on Peleliu Four Pacific Campaigns with the Corps: The Memoirs of an Old Breed Marine

Peto George, Margaritis Peter

ISBN: HB: 9781612005270, Casemate, August 2017
368 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm, 30 illus.

On September 15, 1944, the U.S. First Marine Division landed on a small island in the Central Pacific called Peleliu as a prelude to the liberation of the Philippines. Among the first wave of Marines that hit the beach that day was 22-year-old George...

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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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Battle above the Clouds Lifting the Siege of Chattanooga and the Battle of Lookout Mountain, October 16 - November 24, 1863

Powell David A.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213775, Casemate, Savas Beatie, August 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images and maps

In October 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland was besieged in Chattanooga, all but surrounded by familiar opponents: The Confederate Army of Tennessee. The Federals were surviving by the narrowest of margins, thanks only to a trickle of supplies...

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War by Numbers Understanding Conventional Combat

Lawrence Christopher A.

ISBN: HB: 9781612348865, Casemate, Potomac Books, August 2017
498 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

"War by Numbers" assesses the nature of conventional warfare through the analysis of historical combat. Christopher A. Lawrence establishes what we know about conventional combat and why we know it. By demonstrating the impact a variety of factors ha...

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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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Anthropology

Military Anthropology Soldiers, Scholars and Subjects at the Margins of Empire

McFate Montgomery

ISBN: HB: 9781849048125, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In almost every military intervention in its history, the US has made cultural mistakes that hindered attainment of its policy goals. From the strategic bombing of Vietnam to the accidental burning of the Koran in Afghanistan,...

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