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Crucible of the Jacobite '15 The Battle of Sheriffmuir 1715
ISBN: HB: 9781911512899, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 illus.
Just over three centuries ago, there was a major battle in Scotland that was to decide the fate of the newly established – and bitterly contested – union of England and Scotland. On one hand there was a numerically superior army, trained and armed bu...
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£25,00
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To Hazard All A Guide to the Maryland Campaign, 1862
ISBN: PB: 9781611214093, Casemate, Savas Beatie, September 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images, 16 maps
"The present seems to be the most propitious time since the commencement of the war for the Confederate Army to enter Maryland," wrote Robert E. Lee following his army's stunning success at Second Manassas. Confederate armies advanced across a thous...
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£11,00
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Odessa 1941-44 Defense, Occupation, Resistance and Liberation
ISBN: HB: 9781912390144, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2018
196 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 16 black&white photos, maps
After a brief overview of the origins and development of the city of Odessa on the Black Sea Coast, author Nikolai Ovcharenko turns to its citizens' ordeal during the Second World War. In the process, he describes the heroism of the city's defenders...
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£25,00
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Running a Big Ship The Classic Guide to Commanding a Second World War Battleship
ISBN: HB: 9781910860199, Casemate, The Pool of London Press, July 2017
240 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Having completed the highly prestigious commission of commanding HMS Hood, then the most famous warship in the world, in her halcyon pre-war years, Captain Rory O'Conor brought together all of his experiences to create the ultimate officers' guide fo...
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£12,00
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100 Hour War The Conflict Between Honduras and El Salvador in July 1969
ISBN: PB: 9781911096504, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
104 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 25 colour photos, 120 black&white photos
In July 1969, while the world was expectant about the upcoming first manned landing on the moon, two little-known Central American States crossed sabers in what was derogatorily coined by the media as "The Soccer War". Far from a simple out-of-hand s...
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£16,00
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Bandit Mentality Hunting Insurgents in the Rhodesian Bush War, A Memoir
ISBN: PB: 9781911512028, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2017
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus., 1 map
"Bandit Mentality" captures Lindsay "Kiwi" O'Brien's Bush War service from 1976-1980 at the coalface of the Rhodesian conflict. Starting in the BSA Police Support Unit, the police professional anti-terrorist battalion, he served across the country as...
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£19,00
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Daphne Oram An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics
ISBN: HB: 9781910221112, Casemate, Anomie Publishing, November 2016
160 pp., 22x16.5 cm, 12 illus.
Daphne Oram (1925-2003) was one of the central figures in the development of British experimental electronic music. Having declined a place at the Royal College of Music to become a music balancer at the BBC, she went on to become the co-founder and...
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£20,00
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You Never Know Your Luck Battle of Britain to the Great Escape: The Extraordinary Life of Keith "Skeets" Ogilvie DFC
ISBN: HB: 9780993415227, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, July 2016
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 illus.
When the Royal Canadian Air Force wouldn't accept him as a pilot in the summer of 1939, Keith "Skeets" Ogilvie walked across the street in Ottawa and joined the Royal Air Force. A week later he was on a boat to England and a future he could not have...
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£25,00
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Last Road North A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign, 1863
ISBN: PB: 9781611212433, Casemate, Savas Beatie, July 2016
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 14 maps, 100 illus.
A string of battlefield victories through 1862 had culminated in the spring of 1863 with Lee's greatest victory yet: the battle of Chancellorsville. Propelled by the momentum of that supreme moment, confident in the abilities of his men, Lee decided...
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£8,00
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Black Hawks Rising The Story of AMISOM's Successful War against Somali Insurgents, 2007-2014
ISBN: HB: 9781910777695, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2016
286 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Black Hawks Rising – the title of this book – acknowledges the formation and deployment of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) in March 2007. Initially confined to peacekeeping within the Mogadishu enclave, it transformed into a peace-makin...
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