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Fury from the North North Korean Air Force in the Korean War, 1950-1953

Dildy Douglas C.

ISBN: PB: 9781912390335, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2019
88 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 120 photos, 15-18 colour profiles, 3 maps

It was almost exactly 15.00 hours local time, on 25 June 1950, when nine Yakovlev Yak-9P fighters of the North Korea's 'Korean People's Air Force' (KPAF) simultaneously attacked Seoul International Airport and the Kimpo Airfield outside Seoul, the ca...

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Fearlessly into the Fight The Life and Battles of Confederate General William Barksdale from the Halls of Congress to the Fields of Gettysburg

Ashton J. Douglas

ISBN: HB: 9781611213928, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2018
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 29 images, 9 maps

William Barksdale, a prominent Mississippi attorney and newspaper editor, won a seat in the U.S. Congress in 1853. His pro-slavery views and vocal support for states' rights earned the democrat national prominence and helped push the country closer t...

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Fighting for General Lee Confederate General Rufus Barringer and the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade

Barringer Sheridan

ISBN: PB: 9781611213850, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 21 images, 10 maps

Rufus Barringer fought on horseback during the Civil War with General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and rose to lead the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade in some of the war's most difficult combats. Now in paperback, Fighting for General Lee: Confed...

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Forgotten Heroes Aces of the Royal Hungarian Air Force in the Second World War

Stenge Csaba B.

ISBN: HB: 9781911512684, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
464 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 400 black&white and colour photos, 40 tables

Prior to the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces – including the Air Force – prepared to engage the Little Entente forces; however, after a short skirmish prior to the war with the Slovaks, during the war, their oppone...

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For Queen and Company Vignettes of the Irish Soldier in the Indian Mutiny

Truesdale David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512790, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
112 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 60 illus.

This book records the actions of those Irish soldiers (and others) who were awarded the Victoria Cross in the event known to the British public in 1857 as "The Indian Mutiny". Since then, revisionist historians have applied other names to what occurr...

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First Bridge Too Far The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943

Saliger Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781612006895, Casemate, July 2018
256 pp., 22.9x15 cm

The full story of the British airborne forces attempt to take the strategically important Primosole Bridge, published for the 75th anniversary of the battle Shows how this battle was a precursor to the Battle of Arnhem – and the lessons that were and...

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From Moscow to Stalingrad The Eastern Front, 1941-1942

Buffetaut Yves

ISBN: PB: 9781612006093, Casemate, May 2018
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 150 black&white and colour photos

The path from Moscow to Stalingrad was littered with successes and losses for both the Red Army and the Wehrmacht, with tensions remaining high and culminating in one of the harshest battles of the Second World War. Part of the Casemate Illustrated s...

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Futile Exercise? The British Army's Preparations for War 1902-1914

Batten Simon

ISBN: HB: 9781911512851, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2018
200 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white photos, 4 maps

According to the official historian Brigadier-General James Edmonds: "In every respect the Expeditionary Force of 1914 was incomparably the best trained, best organized, and best equipped British Army which ever went forth to war". There has been con...

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For Orange and the States The Army of the Dutch Republic, 1713-1772, Part I: Infantry

Geerdink-Schaftenaar Marc

ISBN: PB: 9781911512158, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2018
104 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

The Dutch Republic was one of the great European powers during the 17th and 18th Centuries. Generally, the Dutch Republic was considered to have lost that status after the 1713 Peace of Utrecht; however, when the Republic entered the War of Austrian...

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From Docks and Sand Southport and Bootle's Battalion, The 7Th King's Liverpool Regiment, in the First World War

Gregson Adrian

ISBN: HB: 9781911512165, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

This book is a study of the importance and significance of community identity to a fighting unit in the First World War. In this case the unit in question is primarily 7th King's Regiment and more widely the 55th West Lancashire Division, 1914-18....

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