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Combat History of 21st Panzer Division 1943-45

Kortenhaus Werner

ISBN: PB: 9781912174140, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
520 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 80 black&white photos, 21 maps

For years, one of the most essential sources for study of the Normandy invasion was known only to a select few and nearly unobtainable even to those who knew of its existence. It has never before been translated. None of the major English language hi...

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Chickamauga Campaign - Glory or the Grave The Breakthrough, the Union Collapse, and the Defense of Horseshoe Ridge, September 20, 1863

Powell David A.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213836, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
744 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 37 maps, 40 images

Now in paperback, "Glory or the Grave: The Breakthrough, the Union Collapse, and the Defense of Horseshoe Ridge, September 20, 1863" is the second volume in The Chickamauga Campaign, David Powell's magnificent three-volume study of this overlooked an...

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Chickamauga Campaign Barren Victory: The Retreat into Chattanooga, the Confederate Pursuit, and the Aftermath of the Battle, September 21 to October 20, 1863

Powell David A.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213843, ISBN: HB: 9781611213287, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 15 images, 5 maps

Barren Victory is the third and concluding volume of the magisterial Chickamauga Campaign Trilogy, a comprehensive examination more than a decade in the making of one of the most important and complex military operations of the Civil War. The first...

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Architecture

Chevening A Seat of Diplomacy

Bryant Julius

ISBN: HB: 9781911300113, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, October 2017
144 pp., 25x22 cm, 100 colour illus.

Chevening stands in a magnifi cent park below the wooded escarpment of the North Downs in Kent. It has a history dating back around 800 years, but the house we see today is almost entirely the creation of seven generations of the Stanhope family, bui...

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Biography & Memoires

Churchill: Warrior How a Military Life Guided Winston's Finest Hours

Lavery Brian

ISBN: HB: 9781910860229, Casemate, The Pool of London Press, September 2017
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

On a typical day during the Second World War, Winston Churchill, as Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, issued numerous memos to the ministers and service commanders on many different subjects, on both the grand strategy and the detail of the war...

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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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Europe

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Civil War London A Military History of London under Charles I and Oliver Cromwell

Flintham David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512622, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
128 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 illus.

London was the critical location throughout the English Civil Wars – a fact that has been emphasised by countless historians, with some going as far to say that by fleeing his capital in January 1642, King Charles I lost the war several months before...

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Confederate Courage on Other Fields Overlooked Episodes of Leadership, Cruelty, Character, and Kindness

Crawford Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781611213522, Casemate, Savas Beatie, July 2017
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 6 maps, 53 images

"Confederate Courage on Other Fields: Overlooked Episodes of Leadership, Cruelty, Character, and Kindness" offers four valuable but little-studied events of the Civil War. Each story explores the hardships of battle, and demonstrations of courage and...

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Middle East

Crossing the River Kabul An Afghan Family Odyssey

McLean Kevin

ISBN: HB: 9781612348971, Casemate, Potomac Books, June 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Baryalai Popal sees his Western-educated professors at Kabul University replaced by communists. He witnesses his classmates "disappearing". The communist takeover uproots Popal from his family and home. Thus begins Crossing the River Kabul, the true...

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Courage in Combat Stories by and about Recipients of the Nation's Highest Awards

Rinaldo Richard J.

ISBN: PB: 9781612004563, Casemate, April 2017
456 pp., 23.6x15.9 cm

Published in conjunction with the Legion of Valor of the United States of America, this is an anthology of pieces about courage in combat, including stories by and about recipients of the United States' highest decorations, the Medal of Honor, the Di...

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