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Magyar Warriors Volume 1: The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces, 1919-1945

Bernad Denes, Kliment Charles K.

ISBN: PB: 9781912174164, ISBN: HB: 9781906033880, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
404 pp., 24.6x17.8 cm, 500 black&white photos, 43 tables, 13 maps

The Hungarian armed forces, known as the Honvedseg, were built up in the 1930s, their expansion gaining momentum once Hungary became free of the strict post- World War I Trianon treaty limitations in August 1938. Politically, Hungary was looking for...

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50th at Bay - The Years of Defeat A History of the 50th Northumbrian Division 1939 to September 1942

Barnes B. S.

ISBN: HB: 9781912174829, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
208 pp., 24.5x17 cm, c 90 black&white photos, maps

The book begins when war is declared and the Territorials of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division are mobilised before their move to France. Many of these men joined the territorials in the 1930s because they could find no work in the depression and the...

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Stars in a Dark Night Hornsea and the Great War

Barnes B. S.

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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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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Danish Volunteers of the Waffen-SS Freikorps Danmark 1941-43

Bjerregaard Jens Pank

ISBN: HB: 9781911512707, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
320 pp., 30.5x22.2 cm, 550 black&white photos

The book Danish Volunteers of the Waffen-SS tells the story of Freikorps Danmark in pictures from 1941-1943. Freikorps Danmark was established as a Danish corps which had to fight communism and, from its beginning, it was controlled from Denmark and...

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America

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By Fire and Bayonet Grey's West Indies Campaign of 1794

Brown Steve

ISBN: HB: 9781911512608, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 8 maps

There have been few books about Grey's glorious (but ultimately ill-fated) West Indies campaign in the early years of the long and terrible wars of 1793-1815, yet five of the subalterns in Grey's expeditionary force went on to command divisions in We...

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"Rabble of Gentility" The Royalist Northern Horse, 1644-45

Barratt John

ISBN: PB: 9781911512981, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
120 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 30 black&white illus., maps

General George Monck once described the Royalist horse as "a rabble of gentility". Modern research has largely dispelled this image of the King's cavalry. However the description seems at first sight appropriate to the body of cavalry known as the "N...

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Biography & Memoires

Recollections from the Ranks Three Russian Soldiers' Autobiographies from the Napoleonic Wars

Boland Darrin

ISBN: HB: 9781912174188, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2017
156 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, illus. and maps

From Napoleon's invasion of 1812 to the Wars of Liberation and beyond, seen from the common Russian soldier's perspective. This volume is composed of three accounts previously unavailable in English. Detailed annotations illuminate a seldom understoo...

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America

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Autobiography or Narrative of a Soldier The Peninsular War Memoirs of William Brown of the 45th Foot

Brown William

ISBN: HB: 9781911512943, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2017
152 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 maps

William Brown's autobiography is a unique historical document, since he is the only memoirist to have come to light from the ranks of the 45th (1st Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot for the period of the Peninsula War – a regiment that was one of Wel...

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What Did You Do In Great War, Grandfather? The Life and Times of an Edwardian Horse Artillery Officer

Barrington Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781912174034, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 90 photos and maps

Part history, part social documentary, part love story, this is a grandson's search for what his grandfather did in the Great War. Drawing on war diaries in the National Archives, unit records in the Royal Artillery museum, and a unique pictorial rec...

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