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Lost Idol The Life and Death of a Young Officer: Esmond Elliot 1895-1917

Astor Johnnie, Alexandra Campbell

ISBN: HB: 9781912174027, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
248 pp., 24.5x18 cm, 100 illus. and maps

Esmond Elliot, younger son of the Earl of Minto, Viceroy of India, was killed while serving with the Scots Guards, aged 22, at the beginning of the Passchendaele Offensive. Compiled from his grieving mother's memorial of his life, together with his...

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In the Shadow of Bois Hugo The 8th Lincolns at the Battle of Loos

Atter Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9781911512776, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
128 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 illus., maps

This is the first book dedicated to the subject of the 8th (Service) Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment during the First World War – and this particular Kitchener battalion has been a neglected topic of study; however, there is a rich mine of informati...

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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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Oder Front 1945, Volume 2 Documents, Reports and Personal Accounts

Hamilton Stephan A.

ISBN: PB: 9781912174201, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
578 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 300 documents, 38 colour maps and tables

"The Oder Front 1945, Volume 2" breaks new ground in its operational level detail of the German defense of the Oderfront between January-May 1945. Volume 2 pieces together the various orders, directives, and command guidance issued by the Fuhrer, OKW...

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Ultimate Guide to the Declaration of Independence

Hirsch David

ISBN: PB: 9781611213737, Casemate, Savas Beatie, August 2017
80 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 17 images

Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, the logical force of the Declaration facilitated the survival of a nation. "The Ultimate Guide to the Declaration of Independence" explains the document more thoroughly than any book previously published. With the aid of...

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Most Dangerous Moment of the War Japan's Attack on the Indian Ocean, 1942

Clancy John

ISBN: PB: 9781612005331, Casemate, August 2017
208 pp., 22.8x15.4 cm

In early April 1942, a little-known chapter of World War II took place, said by Sir Winston Churchill to be "the most dangerous moment of the war" when the Japanese made their only major offensive westwards into the Indian Ocean. As historian Sir Art...

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Discovering Gettysburg An Unconventional Introduction to the Greatest Little Town in America and the Monumental Battle that Made It Famous

Coleman Stephen W.

ISBN: HB: 9781611213539, Casemate, Savas Beatie, August 2017
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 180 caricatures, 200 photos, 9 maps

Gettysburg. Does any other single word in any language invoke so much passion and angst, enthusiasm and sadness, as do those ten letters? But what IS Gettysburg, exactly? I am almost embarrassed to say I discovered the answer to that question – or at...

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Hot Skies Over Yemen Volume 1: Aerial Warfare over the Southern Arabian Peninsula, 1962-1994

Cooper Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781912174232, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 120 photos, 15-18 colour profiles, 3 maps

Since September 1962, hardly a week passed without a major armed confrontation or an outright war in Yemen. The number of long-lasting insurgencies, mutinies, rebellions, or terrorism-related activities that took place during this period is going int...

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Canadians on the Somme, 1916 The Neglected Campaign

Stewart William F.

ISBN: HB: 9781911512950, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 77 black&white pictures, 6 diags, 32 maps, 12 tables

Ordered lines of heavily laden soldiers with rifles at "high port" trudging through mud against uncut barbed wire under heavy machine gun fire is the enduring view of the Somme 1916. What makes Canada's Somme campaign so difficult to characterise was...

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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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