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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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Portuguese Commandos Feared Insurgent Hunters, 1961-1974

Cann John P.

ISBN: PB: 9781911096320, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
104 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 90 black&white illus., 10 colour photos, 10 tables, 15 maps

During the 13-year insurgency (1961-74) in Portuguese Africa, more than 800,000 men and women served in the Portuguese armed forces. Of this number, about 9,000 served as commandos (or about 1 percent). Yet their combat losses ? 357 dead, 28 missing...

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Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes Back, June 1982 - December 1986

Hooton E. R., Nadimi Farzin, Cooper Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781911096573, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 135 colour illus., 5 maps, 5 charts

The Iran-Iraq War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century and accidentally created the current nightmare of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. There have been many books on the conflict, but this is the first detailed military history u...

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Crete: The Battle for Heraklion 1941 The Campaign Revealed through Allied and Axis Accounts

Prekatsounakis Yannis

ISBN: HB: 9781911096337, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
352 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 400 black&white illus., 28 maps

Crete, 20 May 1941: the first campaign-sized airborne assault is launched. Many books have been written about this famous invasion, with the emphasis mainly on the battles for Maleme and Chania. The Battle for Heraklion – an epic struggle – remained...

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Children and War Volume 2: Past and Present

Prontera Grazia, Aschauer Wolfgang, Buckley John, Embachler Helga, Albert Albert

ISBN: PB: 9781911096917, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
284 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 tables, 28 black&white illus.

The amount of international research on "Children and War" carried out by academics, governments and non-governmental organisations has continually increased in recent years. At the same time there has been growing public interest in how children exp...

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Reconographers Intelligence and Reconnaissance in British Tank Operations on the Western Front 1916-18

Hardy Colin

ISBN: HB: 9781911096344, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2016
144 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 34 photos, 9 maps, 10 pencil sketches, 3 diags

This is the first book devoted to the subject of reconnaissance in the nascent Tank Corps in the Great War. It is a neglected field in spite of passing references to reconnaissance in a number of early books on the history of the Tank Corps. This is...

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