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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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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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Gold Run The Rescue of Norway's Gold Bullion from the Nazis, 1940

Pearson Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781612004624, ISBN: HB: 9781612002866, Casemate, May 2017
208 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

"Gold Run" is the true story of arguably one of the greatest gold snatches in history. It is a tale of immense bravery, endurance and great leadership of loyal Norwegians, plus a little good fortune and help from the British against intrigue and over...

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Scrapyard Armour Scenes from a Russian Armour Scrapyard

Parker David, Neville Mark, Taylar Andy

ISBN: PB: 9780993564604, Casemate, AFV Modeller, April 2017
116 pp., 29.7x21 cm

116 pages featuring 3 different model builds and 40 pages of walkaround images from the scrapyard Armour.

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Crete: The Battle for Heraklion 1941 The Campaign Revealed through Allied and Axis Accounts

Prekatsounakis Yannis

ISBN: HB: 9781911096337, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
352 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 400 black&white illus., 28 maps

Crete, 20 May 1941: the first campaign-sized airborne assault is launched. Many books have been written about this famous invasion, with the emphasis mainly on the battles for Maleme and Chania. The Battle for Heraklion – an epic struggle – remained...

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Children and War Volume 2: Past and Present

Prontera Grazia, Aschauer Wolfgang, Buckley John, Embachler Helga, Albert Albert

ISBN: PB: 9781911096917, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
284 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 tables, 28 black&white illus.

The amount of international research on "Children and War" carried out by academics, governments and non-governmental organisations has continually increased in recent years. At the same time there has been growing public interest in how children exp...

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Beyond Adversity "U" Company, 15th Battalion 1941-1942

Park William

ISBN: HB: 9780980658279, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
384 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

In November 1941, about 100 university students began their short-term compulsory military training with the 15th Infantry Battalion. Most were aged 19-22, had daytime jobs and were evening or external students from the arts, commerce and law faculti...

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New Approaches to the Military History of the English Civil War Proceedings of the First Helion And Company "Century of the Soldier" Conference, 2015

Pells Ismini

ISBN: HB: 9781911096443, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 colour illus., 3 diags, 2 maps, 5 statistical tables

In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the military history of the English Civil War and its associated conflicts in Ireland and Scotland. Historians are increasingly paying attention to the "actualities of war" (to use Sir Basil Lidde...

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Green Leader Operation Gatling, the Rhodesian Military's Response to the Viscount Tragedy

Pringle Ian

ISBN: PB: 9781911096726, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
242 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 colour and black&white photos, maps

On 3 September 1978, a Russian-supplied heat-seeking missile shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount civilian airliner shortly after it took off from the lakeside holiday resort of Kariba in the Zambezi Valley. Miraculously, 18 people, including small chi...

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Camouflage and Markings of Commonwealth and Greek Armor in the Balkans Campaign April - May 1941

Plowman Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9788360672273, Casemate, Model Centrum Progres, September 2016
72 pp., 29x20.5 cm, 24 colour illus., 148 black&white illus.

Published to coincide with the 75th Anniversary of the battle of Greece, this is an authoritative guide to the armor deployed by Commonwealth and Greek troops in continental Greece and in Crete. Covering wide variety of armored vehicles fielded by Br...

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