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Stay and Fight it Out The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Culp's Hill and the North End of the Battlefield
ISBN: PB: 9781611213317, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 maps, 150 illus.
July 1, 1863, had gone poorly for the Union army's XI Corps. Shattered in battle north of the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, the battered and embarrassed unit ended the day hunkered at the crest of a cemetery-topped hill south of the village. Reinf...
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£11,00
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Showdown in Western Sahara Air Warfare over the Last African Colony, 1957-1991
ISBN: PB: 9781912390359, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
88 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 110 photos, 10 maps, 12 colour profiles
The former colony of Spanish Sahara saw frequent outbursts of tribal and ethnic rebellions already while ruled by colonial authorities, in the late 19th and through into the early 20th Century. Its vastness and distances dictated the application of a...
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£16,00
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September Mourn The Dunker Church of Antietam
ISBN: HB: 9781611214017, Casemate, Savas Beatie, September 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 64 images, 3 maps
The Dunker Church is one of the most iconic structures of the American Civil War. Surprisingly, few people know much if anything about its fascinating story or the role it played within the community of Sharpsburg and its importance during and after...
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£15,00
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Secret Expedition The Anglo-Russian Invasion of Holland 1799
ISBN: HB: 9781912390205, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
304 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 23 images, 20 photos, 8 colour maps
In 1799, as part of the Second Coalition against France, an Anglo-Russian army landed in Holland to overthrow the Batavian Republic and to reinstate the Stadtholder William V of Orange. Initially called "The Secret Expedition", although not really a...
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£29,00
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Stars in a Dark Night Hornsea and the Great War
ISBN: HB: 9781912174997, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
208 pp., 24.5x17 cm, c 175 black&white photos, maps
This is the story of the small east coast town of Hornsea during and after the Great War. The war touched every aspect of life on the home Front and those who were left behind suffered terribly as the war dragged on. This study meticulously explores...
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£16,00
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Silent Landscape at Gallipoli The Battlefields of the Dardanelles, One Hundred Years On
ISBN: HB: 9781911512738, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2018
176 pp., 245x318 cm, 120 colour photographs and maps
In our first book, we explored the impact of the fighting on the landscape of the Western Front – showing how the physical effects of war have left indelible traces; in this book, we follow the same theme, but from a different perspective. The Gallip...
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£29,00
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Silent Sentinels A Reference Guide to the Artillery of Gettysburg
ISBN: PB: 9781611212471, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 43 images, 7 maps
Artillery played an important and perhaps decisive role in the July 1863 battle of Gettysburg. Although many hundreds of books have been published on the battle, very few have focused more than a few paragraphs or a sprinkling of entries on the "long...
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£14,00
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Seeker After Truths The Life and Times of G. A. Studdert Kennedy ("Woodbine Willie") 1883-1929
ISBN: HB: 9781912174041, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy became one of the most famous army chaplains of the First World War, earning the nickname "Woodbine Willie" because of his habit of giving out both cigarettes and bibles to the men at the front. During the war he also earned...
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£25,00
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Spies, Lies, and Citizenship The Hunt for Nazi Criminals
ISBN: HB: 9781612347271, Casemate, Potomac Books, February 2018
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 photographs, 1 drawing
In the 1970s, news broke that former Nazis had escaped prosecution and were living the good life in the United States. Outrage swept the nation, and the public outcry put extreme pressure on the U.S. government to investigate these claims and to depo...
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£26,00
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School in Arms Uppingham and the Great War
ISBN: HB: 9781911512646, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
328 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 43 photos, 16 tables
For many people, their only knowledge of Uppingham's involvement in the Great War is through Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth and its account of her relationship with three men who went to the school and lost their lives during the war. In this boo...
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£25,00
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