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Stalin's Favorite: The Combat History of the 2nd Guards Tank Army from Kursk to Berlin Volume 1: January 1943 - June 1944

Nebolsin Igor

ISBN: HB: 9781909982154, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2015
504 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 250 black&white photos, 24 colour maps, 70 tables

This is the first detailed combat history of any Soviet unit available in the English language known to the author. The 2nd Tank Army was not an ordinary force; by 1945 it was an elite Guards formation which played a decisive role in the Soviet offen...

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Dearest Mother First World War Letters Home from a Young Sapper Officer in France and Salonika

Baines Andrew, Palmer Joanna

ISBN: PB: 9781910294574, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2015
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 100 black&white illus.

John Stanhope Baines, a Winchester classical scholar and young Royal Engineers officer, was on active service in France and Salonika during the First World War. Throughout this time he wrote to his "Dearest Mother", who had studied classics at Cambri...

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Rebuilding Britain The Aftermath of the Second World War

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781910294451, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2015
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Undoubtedly, the Second World War was one of the darkest periods of history. With untold losses and countless with physical and mental scars, there was little to celebrate except the relief of closure. Yet what happened once the noise of the shelling...

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Biography & Memoires

Padre, Prisoner and Penpusher The World War One experiences of the Reverend Benjamin O'Rorke

Howson Peter

ISBN: HB: 9781910294703, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2015
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 map, 12 black&white illus.

Few army chaplains had as varied a career during the First World War as the Reverend Benjamin O'Rorke. A regular army chaplain who had seen service in the Boer War he was mobilised with 54 other chaplains at the start of hostilities. He went to Franc...

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Aviation

Gott Strafe England Volume 2: The German Air Assault against Great Britain 1914-1918

Parker Nigel J.

ISBN: HB: 9781910294512, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus., maps

"Gott Strafe England" is the definitive account detailing the German air attacks against Great Britain during the First World War. This method of attack was a totally new concept, taking the war away from the battlefield and into the previously safe...

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Mud, Blood and Determination The History of the 46th (North Midland) Division in the Great War

Peaple Simon

ISBN: HB: 9781910294666, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2015
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 colour maps, 2 tables, 50 black&white illus.

This groundbreaking modern history of the 46th (North Midland) Division draws upon a vast array of largely neglected sources from a variety of archives, and challenges some comfortable assumptions. University historians' increasingly positive views...

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Shadow Factories Britain's Production Facilities and the Second World War

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781910294468, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2015
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

Wartime is costly. Whilst the human cost is a burden which remains part of our every waking thoughts for many years after the end of the conflict, the physical cost, at least in some cases, is easier to deal with. Some, if not most of the physical c...

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Battle of Moscow 1941-1942 The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counter Offensive Along the Moscow Strategic Direction

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9781910294642, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2015
528 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 55 maps

"The Battle of Moscow, 1941-1942: The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counteroffensive Along the Moscow Strategic Direction" is a detailed examination of one of the major turning points of World War II, as seen from the Soviet side. The Battle of...

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Playing the Game The British Junior Infantry Officer on the Western Front 1914-1918

Moore-Bick Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781910294758, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2015
312 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The British Army expanded significantly during the First World War, creating a huge demand for new officers to lead the infantry through the horrors and privations of trench warfare. Thousands of civilians accepted commissions with little or no previ...

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Africa

Black Beret: The History of South Africa's Armoured Forces Volume 1: Beginnings to the Invasion of Madagascar 1942

Steenkamp Willem

ISBN: HB: 9781910294680, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2015
608 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 maps, 275 black&white illus.

Volume 1 of "The Black Beret" starts with the early history of South Africa and ends with the invasion of Madagascar by the South African Forces during WWII. This volume covers topics such as how armour came to the battlefield, the use of horses vs...

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