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Showdown in Western Sahara Air Warfare over the Last African Colony, 1957-1991

Cooper Tom

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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Iraqi Mirages Mirage F.1 in Service with Iraqi Air Force, 1981-2003

Cooper Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781912390311, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
88 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 110 black&white photos, 12 colour photos, 18 colour profil

Originally envisaged as a privately funded project for a possible future NATO-fighter, the Dassault Mirage F.1 evolved into one of the most aesthetically attractive and commercially most successful combat aircraft of the 1970s and 1980s. Developed i...

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Moscow's Game of Poker Russian Military Intervention in Syria, 2015-2017

Cooper Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781912390373, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
88 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 110 photographs; 18 colour profiles, 6 maps

In August 2015, the government of the Russian Federation embarked its military forces on an intervention in Syria. Ever since, there is no end of discussions about Russian military capabilities and intentions – in Syria and beyond. To many, the perf...

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Olmutz to Torgau Horace St Paul and the Campaigns of the Austrian Army in the Seven Years War 1758-60

Cogswell Neil

ISBN: HB: 9781911512721, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
704 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 242 maps and plans

Following the disastrous conclusion to the campaign of 1757, the Austrian Army regrouped in Bohemia. Meanwhile, the King of Prussia sought to complete his reconquest of Silesia before seizing the initiative and thrusting directly towards Vienna. In h...

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Doomed Before the Start The Allied Intervention in Norway 1940, Volume 2: Evacuation and Further Naval Operations

Cherry Niall

ISBN: HB: 9781911512134, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 112 illus.

Books on the events of the early months of 1940 are dominated by the desperate fighting undertaken by the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France and Belgium following the German invasion of May 10th and it is often overlooked that prior to th...

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Aviation

Hot Skies Over Yemen Volume 1: Aerial Warfare over the Southern Arabian Peninsula, 1962-1994

Cooper Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781912174232, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 120 photos, 15-18 colour profiles, 3 maps

Since September 1962, hardly a week passed without a major armed confrontation or an outright war in Yemen. The number of long-lasting insurgencies, mutinies, rebellions, or terrorism-related activities that took place during this period is going int...

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Biography & Memoires

Passchendaele 103 Days in Hell

Churchill Alexandra, Holmes Andrew, Dyer Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9781911512301, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
224 pp., 24.2x27.5 cm, 8 maps, 130 black&white illus.

2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the 3rd Battle of Ypres. In "Passchendaele: 103 Days in Hell", Alexandra Churchill, with Andrew Holmes and Jonathan Dyer, explains this pivotal engagement using 103 personal stories of men who fought in it. Using a...

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Lobositz to Leuthen Horace St Paul and the Seven Years War, 1756-1757

Cogswell Neil

ISBN: HB: 9781911096672, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
536 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 219 maps, plans, charts, diagrams

In 1751, at the age of 22 and then a law student, Horace St Paul had, as he described it, "a difference" with an older man over the favour of a lady. This "difference" resulted in the death of the older man in an impromptu duel to which there were no...

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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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Africa

Paras Portugal's First Elite Force in Africa, 1961-1974

Cann John P.

ISBN: PB: 9781911512486, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
72 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 27 colour illus., 73 black&white illus.

Portuguese paratroopers or "paras" began as a stepchild of the army and found a home in the Portuguese Air Force in 1955. Initially, the post-World War Two Portuguese Army seemed to have had mixed emotions about the need for elite, special-purpose fo...

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