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Battle of Kursk Controversial and Neglected Aspects

Zamulin Valeriy, Britton Stuart

ISBN: HB: 9781911512370, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
388 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 154 photos

In this book, noted historian of the Battle of Kursk Valeriy Zamulin, the author of multiple Russian-language books on the Battle of Kursk and Destroying the Myth: The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July 1943: An Operational Narrative takes a fre...

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Bailout Over Normandy A Flyboy's Adventures with the French Resistance and Other Escapades in Occupied France

Fahrenwald Ted

ISBN: PB: 9781612004747, ISBN: HB: 9781612001579, Casemate, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The remarkable memoir of a U.S. fighter pilot, who after his escapades of shooting down German aircraft in France began an even greater adventure after being shot down himself. Ted Fahrenwald was a 22-year-old daredevil pilot in the famed 352nd Fight...

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Britain's Civilian Armies in World War II The Fight on the Home Front

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781911096313, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
232 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus., 20 tables

Whilst the men and women of national service age were called to arms in the various Services, a parallel process was being undertaken involving the civilian population. This initiative relied in the main on volunteers accepting challenges and committ...

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Budapest Operation (29 October 1944 - 13 February 1945) An Operational-Strategic Study

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9781911512424, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
336 pp., 24.4x17 cm, 2 maps

"The Budapest Operation (29 October 1944-13 February 1945): An Operational-Strategic Study" examines in detail the Red Army's operations on the approaches to Budapest and the city's ultimate capture following a long siege. The first part of the stu...

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Blood in the Forest The End of the Second World War in the Courland Pocket

Hunt Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9781911512066, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 maps, 19 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

"Blood in the Forest" tells the brutal story of the forgotten battles of the final months of the Second World War. While the eyes of the world were on Hitler's bunker, more than half a million men fought six cataclysmic battles along a front line of...

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Africa

Battle for Angola The End of the Cold War in Africa c 1975-89

Venter Al J.

ISBN: HB: 9781911096412, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
496 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 200 black&white photos, 2 x 16 pp colour sections

Following the publication of Al Venter's successful Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa – shortlisted by the New York Military Affairs Symposium's "Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for 2013" – his Battle for Angola delves still further into the troubled hi...

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Britain's Quest for Oil The First World War and the Peace Conferences

Gibson Martin

ISBN: HB: 9781911512073, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 chart, 22 tables, 3 black&white illus.

The First World War showed the vital importance of oil. Use of oil fuelled aircraft, tanks, motor vehicles and especially warships increased greatly during the war. The war made it clear that major powers had to have secure oil supplies. Britain and...

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Decorative Arts

Bringing Heaven to Earth Silver Jewellery and Ornament in the Late Qing Dynasty

Herridge Elizabeth, Wood Francis

ISBN: PB: 9780995557703, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, November 2016
200 pp., 28x24 cm, 150 illus.

The prowess of Chinese creative abilities in the decorative arts in the 19th and early 20th centuries was well known globally, but, while much has been written about Chinese textiles and on the influence of the East on European styles of the time, th...

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Battles Before Case Studies of Australian Army Leadership after the Vietnam War

Connery David

ISBN: PB: 9781925520194, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
136 pp., 24.7x17.5 cm, 50 colour illus.

Much of Australia's military history literature focuses on battles and the way generals plan and prosecute an action or campaign. But what do generals do when they are not fighting battles? "The Battles Before" examines the role of senior leaders in...

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Battle of Montgomery, 1644 The English Civil War in the Welsh Borderlands

Worton Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9781911096238, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
120 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 8 maps, 8 black&white illus., 42 colour illus.

Reflecting on the Battle of Montgomery, Sir Thomas Myddelton – who had jointly commanded the victorious Parliamentarian Army – later described it as: "as great a victory as hath been gained in any part of the kingdom". Fought on 18 September 1644 in...

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