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Defending Island Britain in the Second World War Documentary Sources

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512592, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 illus.

Historically, one could argue that island nations were presented with a degree of comfort in being surrounded by water (especially so before the invention of flight and submarines); however, technological advances in the early part of the 20th centur...

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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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Aviation

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Brazilians at War Brazilian Aviation in the Second World War

Rivas Santiago

ISBN: PB: 9781911512585, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 270 black&white photos, 35 colour photos, 6 maps, 10 tables

When the Second World War erupted, Latin America – despite being initially neutral – became part of it. Brazil, with its large provision of goods to the Allied Powers, was soon a victim of the Axis submarines – leading to the urgent development of an...

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Aviation

Flight of the Dragon A Taiwanese U-2 Pilot's Long Journey to Freedom

Rios Bromley Linda

ISBN: PB: 9781911096481, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
152 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 photos

When Chang-di "Robin" Yeh departed on his scheduled recon flight on 1 November 1963, his life was full of promise. In an instant, the experienced pilot transitioned from a free man to a prisoner held on spy charges by mainland China. Promised early o...

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Killer Butterflies Combat, Psychology and Morale in the British 19th (Western) Division 1915-18

Roberts James

ISBN: HB: 9781911512240, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
168 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

In this ground-breaking work, James Roberts examines the willingness and ability of British volunteer and conscript infantrymen of the Great War to perform the soldier's fundamental role: to kill or maim the enemy, and accept the attendant chance of...

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Bullets, Bombs and Poison Gas Supplying the Troops on the Western Front 1914-1918 (Documentary Sources)

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512080, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 39 tables, 32 colour illus.

Soldiers in the trenches were issued with four bullets a day unless they were either snipers or manned a machine gun. This does not seem like a lot of bullets. However, four bullets a day is 28 per week. Therefore a million soldiers need 28 million b...

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Biography & Memoires

Best Love to All The Letters and Diaries of Captain Eric Rigby-Jones, Mc and Bar and His Experiences as a Young Officer with the Liverpool Pals on the Western Front in 1917 and 1918

Rigby-Jones John

ISBN: HB: 9781911512059, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2017
312 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 maps, 85 black&white illus.

"Best Love to All" is an account of the experiences of the author's grandfather as a young officer on the Western Front with the Liverpool Pals. Based on his unpublished letters and diaries, it covers his participation in the battles of Arras and Ypr...

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Polonica

Divided Loyalty Britain's Polish Ally During World War II

Rogalski Wieslaw

ISBN: PB: 9781911096641, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2017
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus., 3 maps

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Poland was a quasi-military State undergoing rapid political and social change. Nevertheless, Britain signed an agreement with the country as part of its decision to adopt a policy of encircling Germany: a res...

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Europe

Britain's Civilian Armies in World War II The Fight on the Home Front

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781911096313, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
232 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus., 20 tables

Whilst the men and women of national service age were called to arms in the various Services, a parallel process was being undertaken involving the civilian population. This initiative relied in the main on volunteers accepting challenges and committ...

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Glories to Useless Heroism The Seven Years' War in North America from the French Journals of Comte Maures De Malartic, 1755-1760

Raffle William

ISBN: PB: 9781911512196, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 maps

"These are the facts and notes taken by a soldier on campaign, written daily, sometimes in a tent, sometimes in a canoe, today in the presence of the enemy, tomorrow in conference with a tribe of savages". This succinct description is taken from the...

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