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Lessons from the Mud 55th (West Lancashire) Division at the Third Battle of Ypres

Knight Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781912390052, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
424 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 25 black&white maps, 12 photos

In Basil Liddell Hart's 1930 account of the Third Battle of Ypres, a tearful, anonymous Staff Officer reportedly uttered words which have entered the historiography of the battle: Good God, did we really send men to fight in that? First World War g...

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Landing in the Dawn Dissecting a Legend: The Landing at Anzac, Gallipoli, 25 April 1915

Hurst James

ISBN: HB: 9781911512462, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 50 black&white illus.

The Gallipoli Landing of 25 April 1915 is arguably Australia's best known battle. It is commemorated each year with a national holiday, services, parades and great media attention. 2015, the centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign, was marked by great pu...

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Lend-Lease and Soviet Aviation in the Second World War

Kotelnikov Vladimir

ISBN: HB: 9781911512264, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
656 pp., 24.4x17 cm, 100 colour aircraft, 650 colour and black&white illus.

Seventy years have passed since the Second World War yet the books and articles still keep coming in a never-ending stream discussing the question of what role the deliveries of arms and materials by Soviet allies played in the victory of the Red Arm...

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Last of the Kriegies The Extraordinary True Life Experiences of Five Bomber Command Prisoners of War

Barker Reg

ISBN: HB: 9780993415296, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, November 2017
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 illus.

"For you the war is over". "Last of the Kriegies" tells the extraordinary stories of five of the last remaining Second World War RAF Bomber Command Prisoners-of-War: pilot Reg Barker, bomb aimer Charles Clarke, air gunner David Fraser, air gunner Alb...

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Last Ironsides The English Expedition to Portugal, 1662-1668

Riley Jonathon

ISBN: PB: 9781912174102, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2017
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 illus., 22 maps

When Charles II returned home he began the search for a dynastic marriage. He fixed upon the Infanta of Portugal, Catherine of Braganza, whose dowry included the possession of Tangier, Bombay and valuable trade concessions. The Portuguese had been fi...

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Leibstandarte Ardennes 1944

Smith Steve

ISBN: PB: 9781612005423, Casemate, Past & Present, October 2017
64 pp., 23.4x18.4 cm, 130 illus.

The 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler was the spearhead of the assault by Sepp Dietrich's Sixth Panzer Armee on the northern flank of the German Ardennes offensive. Divided into Kampfgruppen, the lead was Kampfgruppe Peiper whose armo...

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Lost Idol The Life and Death of a Young Officer: Esmond Elliot 1895-1917

Astor Johnnie, Alexandra Campbell

ISBN: HB: 9781912174027, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
248 pp., 24.5x18 cm, 100 illus. and maps

Esmond Elliot, younger son of the Earl of Minto, Viceroy of India, was killed while serving with the Scots Guards, aged 22, at the beginning of the Passchendaele Offensive. Compiled from his grieving mother's memorial of his life, together with his...

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Lost Opportunity The Battle of the Ardennes 22 August 1914

House Simon J.

ISBN: HB: 9781911096429, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
256 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 50 colour maps

On 22 August 1914 – on a battlefield 100 kilometres wide stretching from Luxembourg to the River Meuse – two French and two German armies clashed in a series of encounters known collectively as the Battle of the Ardennes. On that day, 27,000 young Fr...

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Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 2: From Glory to Defeat 1942-1945

Cony Christophe, Roba Jean-Louis

ISBN: PB: 9781612004556, Casemate, June 2017
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 400 colour illus.

Eighty years after its creation, the Luftwaffe is still one of the most fascinating forces in the history of aviation. A companion to Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 1, which covered the victory years from 1939 up to Spring 1942, this volume with nearly 4...

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Lutzen and Bautzen Napoleon's Spring Campaign of 1813

Nafziger George

ISBN: HB: 9781911512271, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
388 pp., 24.5x17 cm, maps, 100 illus.

One army lost in the Russian winter, Napoleon raised another to keep his grip on Europe. A tired Russian Army and a raw Prussian force marched to meet him. "Lutzen and Bautzen" is a detailed and masterful study of a misunderstood and little covered c...

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