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Daring All Things The Autobiography of George Kendall (1881-1961)

Kendall George

ISBN: HB: 9781911096627, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

"Daring All Things" is a unique and extraordinary autobiography, which was published for the first time 55 years after its completion (shortly before The Rev George Kendall died suddenly in 1961, aged 79). The book is the life story of a man born int...

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From the Western Front to Salonika A French Soldier Writes Home (1914-1918)

Labaume-Howard Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9781911096283, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 102 photos, drawings, maps

The book's editor, Catherine Labaume-Howard, found 300 of her grandfather's letters in an old potato sack when a family home was sold. The author of the letters, Pierre Suberviolle, was from Montauban in the South of France. He joined the army on 7 A...

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Battle of Montgomery, 1644 The English Civil War in the Welsh Borderlands

Worton Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9781911096238, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
120 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 8 maps, 8 black&white illus., 42 colour illus.

Reflecting on the Battle of Montgomery, Sir Thomas Myddelton – who had jointly commanded the victorious Parliamentarian Army – later described it as: "as great a victory as hath been gained in any part of the kingdom". Fought on 18 September 1644 in...

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War in the East A Military History of the Russo-Turkish War 1877-78

Barry Quintin

ISBN: PB: 9781911096696, ISBN: HB: 9781907677113, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 266 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 25 maps

When Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire in April 1877, it was the fifth time during the nineteenth century that hostilities had broken out between the two empires. On this occasion the other Great Powers had done all they could to prevent it,...

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Biography & Memoires

We Are All Flourishing The Letters and Diary of Captain Walter JJ Coats MC 1914-1919

Chojecki Jan, LoCicero Michael Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9781911096399, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 photos

"There have been moments during the last week or so when I had grave doubts as to whether I should see tomorrow". Compiled from the almost daily letters home and a diary written in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, We are all Flourishin...

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Hear their Footsteps King Edward VII School, Sheffield, and the Old Edwardians in the Great War 1914-18

Cornwell John

ISBN: PB: 9781911096269, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
76 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 44 photos

The book recounts the story of an elite Yorkshire day school – and its "Old Boys" who joined the forces – in the First World War. The school was founded by Sheffield City Council in 1905, who finessed an amalgamation of two much older institutions as...

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Military Game

Wargame: Saxons, Vikings, Normans 1066 Battle for Britain

Dennis Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781911096290, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
48 pp., 29.8x21.2 cm, 12 photos and original figure artwork

In these books, Peter Dennis sets the paper soldiers of the 19th century marching again across the wargames tables of the 21st. All the troop types of the wars are represented in full colour in a format designed to create stands of soldiers which can...

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Wargame: Wars of the Roses 1455-1487 Battle for Britain

Dennis Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781911096306, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
48 pp., 29.8x21.2 cm, 12 photos and original figure artwork

In these books, Peter Dennis sets the paper soldiers of the 19th century marching again across the wargames tables of the 21st. All the troop types of the wars are represented in full colour in a format designed to create stands of soldiers which can...

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New Approaches to the Military History of the English Civil War Proceedings of the First Helion And Company "Century of the Soldier" Conference, 2015

Pells Ismini

ISBN: HB: 9781911096443, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 colour illus., 3 diags, 2 maps, 5 statistical tables

In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the military history of the English Civil War and its associated conflicts in Ireland and Scotland. Historians are increasingly paying attention to the "actualities of war" (to use Sir Basil Lidde...

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Another Bloody Chapter in an Endless Civil War Volume 1: Northen Ireland and the Troubles 1984-87

Wharton Ken

ISBN: HB: 9781911096276, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

The period under review covers the years of 1984-1987 – nearing the end of the third decade of the Troubles. It will use research and oral contributions from the mid to late 1980s and will show not only how the Provisional IRA (PIRA) grew in financia...

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