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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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Blood in the Forest The End of the Second World War in the Courland Pocket

Hunt Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9781911512066, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 maps, 19 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

"Blood in the Forest" tells the brutal story of the forgotten battles of the final months of the Second World War. While the eyes of the world were on Hitler's bunker, more than half a million men fought six cataclysmic battles along a front line of...

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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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Battle for Angola The End of the Cold War in Africa c 1975-89

Venter Al J.

ISBN: HB: 9781911096412, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
496 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 200 black&white photos, 2 x 16 pp colour sections

Following the publication of Al Venter's successful Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa – shortlisted by the New York Military Affairs Symposium's "Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for 2013" – his Battle for Angola delves still further into the troubled hi...

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Miners at War 1914-1919 South Wales Miners in the Tunneling Companies on the Western Front

Wood Ritchie

ISBN: HB: 9781911096498, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 54 black&white illus., 24 maps, 26 tables

The author's compilation of a unique register identifying those individual South Wales miners who served in the tunnelling companies has allowed a remarkable story to be told. For the first time, the lives of individual South Wales miners are highlig...

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Friends are Good on the Day of Battle The 51st (Highland) Division During the First World War

French Craig

ISBN: HB: 9781911096542, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 maps, 26 tables

The aim of this book is to evaluate the 51st (Highland) Division over the course of the First World War. Underpinning the study is an analysis of both change and continuity – at home and overseas – and the performance of the division as a fighting un...

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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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Honoring Those They Led Decorated Field Commanders of the Third Reich: Command Authorities, Award Parameters, and Ranks

Yerger Mark C., Fiorenza Leslie

ISBN: HB: 9781911512226, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
264 pp., 27.6x21.9 cm, 300 black&white illus.

"Honoring Those They Led" examines specific points and groups within a massive subject; Commanding Generals of WW II German field commands with those primarily studied being among those presented one or more of their highest combat decorations by Ado...

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Britain's Quest for Oil The First World War and the Peace Conferences

Gibson Martin

ISBN: HB: 9781911512073, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 chart, 22 tables, 3 black&white illus.

The First World War showed the vital importance of oil. Use of oil fuelled aircraft, tanks, motor vehicles and especially warships increased greatly during the war. The war made it clear that major powers had to have secure oil supplies. Britain and...

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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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