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Best Love to All The Letters and Diaries of Captain Eric Rigby-Jones, Mc and Bar and His Experiences as a Young Officer with the Liverpool Pals on the Western Front in 1917 and 1918

Rigby-Jones John

ISBN: HB: 9781911512059, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2017
312 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 maps, 85 black&white illus.

"Best Love to All" is an account of the experiences of the author's grandfather as a young officer on the Western Front with the Liverpool Pals. Based on his unpublished letters and diaries, it covers his participation in the battles of Arras and Ypr...

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Aviation

Bomber Command: Battle of Berlin Failed to Return

Bond Steve, Darlow Steve, Feast Sean, Macdonald Andy, Owen Robert, Russel Nicole, Sandall Howard

ISBN: HB: 9780993415272, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, May 2017
128 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 100 illus.

"Tonight you are going to the Big City. You will have the opportunity to light a fire in the belly of the enemy that will burn his black heart out". The message from Commander-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command Sir Arthur Harris was clear. As the Second...

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Africa

Black Beret: The History of South Africa's Armoured Forces Volume 2: The War in Italy and The Interwar Years 1942-1961

Steenkamp Willem

ISBN: HB: 9781911512400, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2017
504 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 200 black&white illus.

Volume 2 of "The Black Beret" picks up where the previous volume left off, describing the bowing out of the South African Tank Corps, the formation of 6th South African Armoured Division and its subsequent campaign in Italy. Its exploits in Italy are...

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Military

Bandit Mentality Hunting Insurgents in the Rhodesian Bush War, A Memoir

O'Brien Lindsay

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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Military

Battle of Majuba Hill The Transvaal Campaign, 1880-1881

Laband John

ISBN: PB: 9781911512387, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2017
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.

The ignominious rout of a British force at the battle of Majuba on 27 February 1881 and the death of its commander, Major General Sir George Pomeroy-Colley, was the culminating British disaster in the humiliating Transvaal campaign of 1880-1881 in So...

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Military

Blitzkrieg From the Ground Up

Zetterling Niklas

ISBN: HB: 9781612004600, Casemate, May 2017
288 pp., 23.6x15.9 cm

The successes of the German Blitzkrieg in 1939-1941 were as surprising as they were swift. Allied decision-makers wanted to discover the secret to German success quickly, even though only partial, incomplete information was available to them. The fal...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

British Cruiser Tanks A9 & A10

Brown Peter

ISBN: PB: 9788360672280, Casemate, Model Centrum Progres, April 2017
88 pp., 29x20.5 cm, 124 black&white photos, 30 colour plates of artwork, 64 line drawings

The A9 and A10 were the first of the British Cruiser tanks. They played an important part in the battles in France in 1940 and North Africa in 1941. Covering their development, production and service this book fills a long-neglected gap in the histor...

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Landscape Architecture

British Art Ancient Landscapes

Smile Sam

ISBN: PB: 9781911300144, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, April 2017
120 pp., 28x21.8 cm, 60 colour illus.

Published to accompany an exhibition at Salisbury Museum and Art Gallery, this volume explores the most significant works of art engaged with prehistoric moments across Britain from the 18th century to the 21st. While some of the works in the earlier...

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Military

Bavarian Army During the Thirty Years War, 1618-1648 The Backbone of the Catholic League'

Spring Laurence

ISBN: PB: 9781911512394, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
128 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 charts, 14 black&white illus.

The Bavarian Army has been overshadowed by those of Gustavus Adolphus' and Wallenstein's Armies, but it was one of only a few armies to have fought throughout the Thirty Years War, first as part of the Catholic League and then an independent army aft...

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Military

Blood and Bandages Fighting for Life in the RAMC Field Ambulance 1940-1946

Coward Liz, Earl William

ISBN: HB: 9781781220085, Casemate, Sabrestorm Publishing, April 2017
160 pp., 21x14.7 cm, heavlly illustrated

War changes everyone and for those lucky enough to survive there can be no return to the carefree days before the hell of war broke out. William Earl was a 26 year old Chemist's Assistant when his call up papers arrived and his life changed forever....

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