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What Did You Do In Great War, Grandfather? The Life and Times of an Edwardian Horse Artillery Officer

Barrington Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781912174034, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 90 photos and maps

Part history, part social documentary, part love story, this is a grandson's search for what his grandfather did in the Great War. Drawing on war diaries in the National Archives, unit records in the Royal Artillery museum, and a unique pictorial rec...

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Short History

Gladiators Fighting to the Death in Ancient Rome

Bishop M. C.

ISBN: PB: 9781612005133, Casemate, September 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

The gladiator is one of the most enduring figures of Ancient Rome. Heroic, though of lowly status, they fought vicious duals in large arenas filled with baying crowds. The survivor could be either executed (the famous 'thumbs down' signal) or spared...

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History

Military

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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Christianity

Europe

Faith in Conflict The Impact of the Great War on the Faith of the People of Britain

Bell Stuart

ISBN: HB: 9781911512677, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos

It may seem obvious that the Great War, with its immense cost in terms of lives lost and injuries of body and mind incurred, must have had a significant impact on the religious faith of the British people. There is much anecdotal evidence to support...

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Europe

Military

D-Day, What We Haven't Told You The Secrets of D-Day

Bauduin Philippe

ISBN: PB: 9782840484806, Casemate, Heimdal, June 2017
128 pp., 29.7x21 cm

The Normandy Landings of 6 June 1944 were a major and decisive episode of the Second World War and have been, for more than sixty years, the object of countless books, films, investigations, reports and television series. However, is it known that D-...

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Decorative Arts

American Furniture 2016 American Furniture Annual

Beckerdite Luke

ISBN: HB: 9780986385704, Casemate, Chipstone Foundation, June 2017
200 pp., 28.6x21.3 cm

Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technol...

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Landscape Architecture

Garden at War Deception, Craft and Reason at Stowe

Black Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9781911300229, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, June 2017
128 pp., 21x21 cm, 40 illus.

At Stowe, 250 acres of parkland off er a complex web of views, pathways, statues, inscriptions, urns and ideas. Unlike its French fl oricultural precursors, Stowe presents sudden shifts of scene, abrupt revelations, as well as spots at which to stop...

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Middle East

Media Studies

Tough Sell Fighting the Media War in Iraq

Basile Tom

ISBN: HB: 9781612349008, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2017
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Like the War on Terror, the Media War rages on. More than ever, America's ability to fight and win against ISIS requires that we understand how best to communicate about war in the digital age. Tom Basile takes readers behind the scenes during his ti...

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Aviation

Bomber Command: Battle of Berlin Failed to Return

Bond Steve, Darlow Steve, Feast Sean, Macdonald Andy, Owen Robert, Russel Nicole, Sandall Howard

ISBN: HB: 9780993415272, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, May 2017
128 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 100 illus.

"Tonight you are going to the Big City. You will have the opportunity to light a fire in the belly of the enemy that will burn his black heart out". The message from Commander-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command Sir Arthur Harris was clear. As the Second...

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Africa

Military

War for Africa 12 Months that Transformed a Continent

Bridgland Fred

ISBN: HB: 9781612004921, Casemate, May 2017
360 pp., 23.6x15.9 cm

The Angolan Civil War lasted over a quarter of a century, from 1975 to 2002. Beginning as a power struggle between two former liberation movements, the MPLA and UNITA, it became a Cold War struggle with involvement from the Soviet Union, Cuba, South...

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