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Arras 1914-1918 A Comprehensive Guide to the Battlefields. Part 1 - Arras South
ISBN: PB: 9781912174836, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
304 pp., 21x14.5 cm, c 70 colour ills & 40 maps (c 37 colour & 3 black&white)
Arras is known by some as the forgotten battle, because of this it's not one of the most written about or visited First World War areas on the Western Front; in fact, it lacks the general awareness levels when compared to the iconic battlefields of t...
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£19,00
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Forgotten Heroes Aces of the Royal Hungarian Air Force in the Second World War
ISBN: HB: 9781911512684, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
464 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 400 black&white and colour photos, 40 tables
Prior to the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces – including the Air Force – prepared to engage the Little Entente forces; however, after a short skirmish prior to the war with the Slovaks, during the war, their oppone...
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£59,00
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Hall of Mirrors War and Warfare in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9781912390854, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 colour plates, 10 maps, 12 charts
The 20th Century was hugely violent. It was possibly the most violent century in history. It is a clearly-defined period in the past. A huge amount has been written about war, and warfare, in that period. So, what can we learn from war, and warfare,...
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£25,00
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Days of Battle Armoured Operations North of the River Danube, Hungary 1944-45
ISBN: PB: 9781912174263, ISBN: HB: 9781907677649, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2018
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, 16 maps
"Days of Battle" describes a hitherto neglected part of the military history of Hungary during World War II. In three separate studies, Dr Norbert Szamveber, drawing from files and documentation from German, Hungarian and Soviet sources, presents det...
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£25,00
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£35,00
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Chaco Air War 1932-35 The First Modern Air War in Latin America
ISBN: PB: 9781911512967, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
96 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 200 illus.
The Chaco War was probably the first "modern" conflict in Latin America where military aviation was widely used in all roles. Bolivia, as the reader will find out, had a very powerful military air force, but unfortunately for them and luckily for Par...
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£16,00
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Expeditionary Police Advising and Militarization Building Security in a Fractured World
ISBN: HB: 9781911512868, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 9 photos, 10 charts
This original edited volume draws upon the latest work of a global cast of scholars and practitioners in several fields to examine the history, evolution and lessons of previous expeditionary police advising missions. Since the end of the Cold War, t...
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£49,00
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Ratels on the Lomba The Story of Charlie Squadron
ISBN: PB: 9781911512875, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 colour and black&white illus., 1 map
Charlie Squadron – the iron fist of the South African Defense Force's 61 Mechanised Battalion Group – led the way on 3 October 1987 during the climactic battle on the Lomba River in Southern Angola. Not only were they up against a vastly superior f...
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£19,00
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Naval Advising and Assistance History, Challenges, and Analysis
ISBN: HB: 9781911512820, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 photos
This original edited volume is the only book on naval advising. Drawing upon the work of scholars and practitioners from all over the world, it takes a comparative and global approach to examining the history, theory and evolution of naval advising a...
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£49,00
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Canadians on the Somme, 1916 The Neglected Campaign
ISBN: HB: 9781911512950, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 77 black&white pictures, 6 diags, 32 maps, 12 tables
Ordered lines of heavily laden soldiers with rifles at "high port" trudging through mud against uncut barbed wire under heavy machine gun fire is the enduring view of the Somme 1916. What makes Canada's Somme campaign so difficult to characterise was...
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£37,00
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Malinovskii Hero of the Soviet Union
ISBN: HB: 9781910777831, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2017
450 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, maps
The prolific writer Boris Sokolov – author of biographies of Georgii Zhukov and others – returns with a new book on Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovskii (1898-1967): a Marshal of the Soviet Union and former Defence Minister, who like so many of those who m...
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£39,00
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