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In a Single Blow The Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Beginning of the American Revolution

Greenwalt Phillip

ISBN: PB: 9781611213799, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images, 6 maps

"I have now nothing to trouble your Lordship with, but an affair that happened on the 19th instant..." General Thomas Gage penned the above line to his superiors in London, casually summing up the shots fired at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 17...

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From Docks and Sand Southport and Bootle's Battalion, The 7Th King's Liverpool Regiment, in the First World War

Gregson Adrian

ISBN: HB: 9781911512165, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

This book is a study of the importance and significance of community identity to a fighting unit in the First World War. In this case the unit in question is primarily 7th King's Regiment and more widely the 55th West Lancashire Division, 1914-18....

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Military

Russian Army in the Great Northern War 1700-21 Uniforms, Organization, Materiel, Training and Combat Experience

Megorsky Boris

ISBN: PB: 9781911512882, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
196 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 8 colour illus., 30 black&white illus., maps

The book describes the armed forces of Peter the Great in its entirety, and covers in depth old Russian troops and irregulars, as well as Peter's new standing army (guards, infantry, dragoons, elite units and artillery) and his brand-new force(the na...

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Military

By Fire and Bayonet Grey's West Indies Campaign of 1794

Brown Steve

ISBN: HB: 9781911512608, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 8 maps

There have been few books about Grey's glorious (but ultimately ill-fated) West Indies campaign in the early years of the long and terrible wars of 1793-1815, yet five of the subalterns in Grey's expeditionary force went on to command divisions in We...

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Aviation

Military

Chaco Air War 1932-35 The First Modern Air War in Latin America

Sapienza Antonio

ISBN: PB: 9781911512967, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
96 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 200 illus.

The Chaco War was probably the first "modern" conflict in Latin America where military aviation was widely used in all roles. Bolivia, as the reader will find out, had a very powerful military air force, but unfortunately for them and luckily for Par...

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Aviation

Military

101st Airborne in Normandy

Buffetaut Yves

ISBN: PB: 9781612005232, Casemate, February 2018
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 100 illus.

101st Airborne Division was activated in August 1942 in Louisiana, and its first combat mission was Operation Overlord. On D-Day – June 6, 1944 – 101st and 82nd Airborne dropped onto the Cotentin peninsula hours before the landings, tasked with captu...

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Military

2nd SS Panzer "Das Reich" Division

Buffetaut Yves

ISBN: PB: 9781612005256, Casemate, February 2018
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 100 illus.

The Das Reich Division was the most infamous units of the Waffen-SS. Hitler's Schutzstaffel (SS) units were originally paramilitary formations raised to protect the members of the Nazi party, and the Waffen-SS (the armed SS) was founded in 1934 as th...

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Asia

Khe Sanh Siege in the Clouds. An Oral History

Hammel Eric

ISBN: PB: 9781612005904, Casemate, February 2018
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 pages of photos

In late 1967 as part of the Tet offensive, U.S. commanders hoped to lure the North Vietnamese Army into exposing large numbers of soldiers to their overwhelming air power. But in January 1968, a U.S. Marine Corps force found themselves surrounded by...

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Biography & Memoires

Military

Field Marshal The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel

Butler Daniel Allen

ISBN: PB: 9781612005669, Casemate, February 2018
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, brilliant soldier, a devoted husband and proud father; intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical, and arrogant. In France in 1940, then for two years in North Africa, then finally...

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Biography & Memoires

Campaigns and Battles of General Nathan Bedford Forrest Kentucky to Chickamauga, 1861-1863

Scales John

ISBN: HB: 9781611212846, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 58 maps, 2 images

Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of the most intriguing characters to emerge during the Civil War. There are no shortage of books and articles on the man and his generalship, with topics ranging from hero worship based on his extraordinary battlefield...

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