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Backroom Boys Alfred Conlon and Army's Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs,1942-46

Sligo Graeme

ISBN: HB: 9781921941122, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
416 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

"The Backroom Boys" is the remarkable, but little known, story of how a varied group of talented intellectuals, drafted into the Australian Army in the dark days of 1942, provided high-level policy advice to Australia's most senior soldier, General B...

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Do Unto Others Counter Bombardment in Australia's Military Campaigns

Smith Alan H.

ISBN: HB: 9780987057440, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
448 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

Since 1899, the significant role Australian gunners have played in supporting the Australian Military Forces' campaigns has been well-documented. They have gallantly and whole-heartedly supported Australian, British, New Zealand and Indian armies in...

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Captain Starlight The Strange but True Story of a Bushranger, Imposter and Murderer

Smith Jane

ISBN: PB: 9781925275308, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
300 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

Perth, 1899: a respected public servant mistakes a bottle of cyanide for his heart medicine, swallows it and dies. Months later on the other side of the country, a prisoner of Pentridge gaol with the same name as the deceased reads of the inquest wit...

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101st Airborne Market Garden 1944

Smith Stephen, Forty Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781612004235, Casemate, Past & Present, October 2016
64 pp., 23.4x18.4 cm, 140 illus.

After its operations in the Cotentin and around Carentan, the 101st was withdrawn from the lines in late June and sailed back to England on LSTs in July. After several false alerts, they invaded by air again into the Netherlands on September 17, 1944...

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Bastogne Ardennes 1944

Smith Stephen, Forty Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781612004341, Casemate, Past & Present, October 2016
64 pp., 23.4x18.4 cm, 140 illus.

Bastogne will live forever in the annals of American military history. From the resounding "Nuts", in response to the German demand for surrender, to the breaking of the siege by Patton's Third Army – brilliantly disengaged from its positions on the...

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Recce Small Team Missions Behind Enemy Lines

Stadler Koos

ISBN: HB: 9781612004044, Casemate, September 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 illus.

South African Special Forces, known as the "Recces", are an elite group of soldiers that few can aspire to join. Shrouded in secrecy due to the covert nature of their work, the legendary Recces have long fascinated, but little is known about how they...

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Mobility Conquers The Story of 61 Mechanised Battalion Group 1978-2005

Steenkamp Willem, Heitman Helmoed-Romer

ISBN: HB: 9781911096528, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2016
1152 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 61 maps, 400 photos, 2 pp of colour badges & insignia

More than two years in the writing, this book is the warts-and-all story of the birth, career and death of the South African Defence Force's 61 Mechanised Battalion Group (1979-2005) – generally acknowledged as the best fighting unit in Africa in its...

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Survival & Combat Guide

Tank Commander Pocket Manual 1939-1945

Sheppard R.

ISBN: HB: 9781910860168, Casemate, The Pool of London Press, June 2016
144 pp., 18x12 cm

From the pioneering tactics and terror of the Blitzkrieg assault, through the carnage of Barbarossa, Kursk, the Desert War, and the Normandy Bocage and the Battle of the Bulge, there were perhaps no more unsettling and merciless positions to occupy i...

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Aviation

Eyes All Over the Sky Aerial Reconnaissance in the First World War

Streckfuss James

ISBN: HB: 9781612003672, Casemate, June 2016
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

After the first successful flight by the Wright brothers in 1903, the age of aviation was born, and by 1910 army commanders in the United States and Europe began ordering aircraft and experimenting with them. But at the outbreak of World War I in 191...

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Radical View Avant Garde British Printmaking 1914-1964

Samuel Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9780993078651, Casemate, Osborne Samuel Gallery, May 2016
108 pp., 26.5x21.5 cm, colour illus.

This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition at the Osborne Samuel Gallery from 9 May to 4 June, 2016. The exhibition was curated specifically to show diversity, originality and technical expertise, and the accompanying catalogue is laid o...

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