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Ratels on the Lomba The Story of Charlie Squadron

Scholtz Leopold

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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48th (South Midland) Division 1908-1919

Mitchinson William

ISBN: HB: 9781911512547, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 22 photos, 10 maps

On the outbreak of war, the South Midland was the second strongest division in the Territorial Force (TF); by October 1914, it was considered to be the second most efficient of the TF's fourteen 1st Line formations. Like other TF divisions, its pre-w...

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Doomed Before the Start The Allied Intervention in Norway 1940, Volume 2: Evacuation and Further Naval Operations

Cherry Niall

ISBN: HB: 9781911512134, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 112 illus.

Books on the events of the early months of 1940 are dominated by the desperate fighting undertaken by the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France and Belgium following the German invasion of May 10th and it is often overlooked that prior to th...

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Battle of the Selle Fourth Army Operations on the Western Front in the Hundred Days, 9-24 October 1918

Hodgkinson Peter

ISBN: HB: 9781911512639, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white photos, 13 maps

This book considers a relatively unknown series of actions of the victorious Hundred Days of 1918: the operations at the River Selle. Between 9-24 October, the British Fourth Army drove elements of two German armies back from the Hindenburg support l...

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Africa

Mobile Warfare for Africa On the Successful Conduct of Wars in Africa and Beyond - Lessons Learned from the South African Border War

DeVries Roland, Burger Camille, Steenkamp Willem

ISBN: PB: 9781912174089, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
528 pp., 24.6x17 cm, 330 photos, 40 maps

Presenting a remarkable amount of experience drawing primarily from South Africa's Border War in the form of case studies, supported fully by an extensive number of photographs and specially commissioned maps, this study has applications for historia...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Lend-Lease and Soviet Aviation in the Second World War

Kotelnikov Vladimir

ISBN: HB: 9781911512264, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
656 pp., 24.4x17 cm, 100 colour aircraft, 650 colour and black&white illus.

Seventy years have passed since the Second World War yet the books and articles still keep coming in a never-ending stream discussing the question of what role the deliveries of arms and materials by Soviet allies played in the victory of the Red Arm...

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"Rabble of Gentility" The Royalist Northern Horse, 1644-45

Barratt John

ISBN: PB: 9781911512981, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
120 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 30 black&white illus., maps

General George Monck once described the Royalist horse as "a rabble of gentility". Modern research has largely dispelled this image of the King's cavalry. However the description seems at first sight appropriate to the body of cavalry known as the "N...

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Biography & Memoires

Recollections from the Ranks Three Russian Soldiers' Autobiographies from the Napoleonic Wars

Boland Darrin

ISBN: HB: 9781912174188, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2017
156 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, illus. and maps

From Napoleon's invasion of 1812 to the Wars of Liberation and beyond, seen from the common Russian soldier's perspective. This volume is composed of three accounts previously unavailable in English. Detailed annotations illuminate a seldom understoo...

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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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Autobiography or Narrative of a Soldier The Peninsular War Memoirs of William Brown of the 45th Foot

Brown William

ISBN: HB: 9781911512943, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2017
152 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 maps

William Brown's autobiography is a unique historical document, since he is the only memoirist to have come to light from the ranks of the 45th (1st Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot for the period of the Peninsula War – a regiment that was one of Wel...

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