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Dubno 1941 The Greatest Tank Battle of the Second World War

Isaev Aleksei

ISBN: HB: 9781910777749, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
256 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 9 colour illus., 134 black&white photos, 15 maps

In June 1941 – during the first week of the Nazi invasion in the Soviet Union – the quiet cornfields and towns of Western Ukraine were awakened by the clanking of steel and thunder of explosions; this was the greatest tank battle of the Second World...

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Polonica

Divided Loyalty Britain's Polish Ally During World War II

Rogalski Wieslaw

ISBN: PB: 9781911096641, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2017
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus., 3 maps

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Poland was a quasi-military State undergoing rapid political and social change. Nevertheless, Britain signed an agreement with the country as part of its decision to adopt a policy of encircling Germany: a res...

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Contemporary Art

David Evans (1929-1988)

Liss Paul, Gage Pete, Hicks Alistair

ISBN: PB: 9780993088469, Casemate, Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, May 2017
192 pp., 27x21.5 cm, 160 illus.

David Evans' death in a road accident in 1988, at the age of 59, bought to an abrupt end the career of one of the most distinguished watercolourists of his generation. The recent discovery of pictures remaining in his studio, nearly thirty years afte...

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Duty Nobly Done The South Wales Borderers at Gallipoli 1915

Ashwood Rodney

ISBN: HB: 9781911512172, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
364 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 maps, 2 colour illus., 41 black&white illus.

While the main emphasis of the Great War was on the Western Front of France and Belgium, the British Army also took part in what was a lesser known conflict, but one of equal intensity and drama. This was at Gallipoli, on the shores of Turkey, betwee...

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Biography & Memoires

Da Nang Diary A Forward Air Controller's Gunsight View of Combat in Vietnam

Yarborough Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781612004754, ISBN: HB: 9781612002200, Casemate, March 2017
356 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The classic, revised story of how an elite group of US Air Force pilots fought a secret air war over Vietnam in Cessna 0-2 and OV-10 Bronco prop planes?flying as low as they could get. The eyes and ears of the fast-moving jets who rained death and de...

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Douglas MacArthur American Warrior

Herman Arthur

ISBN: PB: 9780812985108, Casemate, Presidio Press, February 2017
960 pp., 23.5x15.5 cm, maps, colour illus.

Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by George Armstrong Custer and Robert E. Lee. But he was also o...

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Dirty War Rhodesia and Chemical Biological Warfare 1975-1980

Cross Glenn

ISBN: PB: 9781911512127, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
248 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 33 illus.

"Dirty War" is the first comprehensive look at the Rhodesia's top secret use of chemical and biological weapons (CBW) during their long counterinsurgency against native African nationalists. Having declared its independence from Great Britain in 1965...

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Determined to Stand and Fight The Battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1864

Quint Ryan

ISBN: PB: 9781611213461, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 maps, 150 illus.

In early July 1864, a quickly patched together force of outnumbered Union soldiers under the command of Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace prepared for a last-ditch defense along the banks of the Monocacy River. Behind them, barely fifty miles away, lay the capit...

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Biography & Memoires

Daphne Oram An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics

Oram Daphne

ISBN: HB: 9781910221112, Casemate, Anomie Publishing, November 2016
160 pp., 22x16.5 cm, 12 illus.

Daphne Oram (1925-2003) was one of the central figures in the development of British experimental electronic music. Having declined a place at the Royal College of Music to become a music balancer at the BBC, she went on to become the co-founder and...

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Daring All Things The Autobiography of George Kendall (1881-1961)

Kendall George

ISBN: HB: 9781911096627, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

"Daring All Things" is a unique and extraordinary autobiography, which was published for the first time 55 years after its completion (shortly before The Rev George Kendall died suddenly in 1961, aged 79). The book is the life story of a man born int...

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