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Two Wheels to War A Tale of Twelve Bright Young Men Who Volunteered Their Own Motorcycles for the British Expeditionary Force 1914

Shelley Martin, Shelley Nick

ISBN: HB: 9781911096580, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
302 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 maps, 100 black&white illus.

"Two Wheels To War" is a scholarly but entertaining look at the largely forgotten world of the motorcycle despatch rider in the early months of the First World War, then a new phenomenon in the field of conflict. At the heart of the book is an illust...

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Biography & Memoires

Passchendaele 103 Days in Hell

Churchill Alexandra, Holmes Andrew, Dyer Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9781911512301, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
224 pp., 24.2x27.5 cm, 8 maps, 130 black&white illus.

2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the 3rd Battle of Ypres. In "Passchendaele: 103 Days in Hell", Alexandra Churchill, with Andrew Holmes and Jonathan Dyer, explains this pivotal engagement using 103 personal stories of men who fought in it. Using a...

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Bavarian Army During the Thirty Years War, 1618-1648 The Backbone of the Catholic League'

Spring Laurence

ISBN: PB: 9781911512394, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
128 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 charts, 14 black&white illus.

The Bavarian Army has been overshadowed by those of Gustavus Adolphus' and Wallenstein's Armies, but it was one of only a few armies to have fought throughout the Thirty Years War, first as part of the Catholic League and then an independent army aft...

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Imperial Bayonets Tactics of the Napoleonic Battery, Battalion and Brigade as Found in Contemporary Regulations (New Edition)

Nafziger George

ISBN: HB: 9781911512233, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
296 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 7 charts, 94 tables, 132 illus.

"Imperial Bayonets" examines the maneuvering systems of the French, Prussians, Russians, Austrians and British from 1792 to 1815. It studies infantry maneuvers and firepower, cavalry maneuvers, and artillery. It is THE definitive work on Napoleonic t...

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Lutzen and Bautzen Napoleon's Spring Campaign of 1813

Nafziger George

ISBN: HB: 9781911512271, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
388 pp., 24.5x17 cm, maps, 100 illus.

One army lost in the Russian winter, Napoleon raised another to keep his grip on Europe. A tired Russian Army and a raw Prussian force marched to meet him. "Lutzen and Bautzen" is a detailed and masterful study of a misunderstood and little covered c...

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Chig Sky Pilot to the Glider Pilots of Arnhem

Vockins Mike

ISBN: HB: 9781911512332, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 maps, 23 illus.

New, hitherto unseen, first-hand accounts of the battle of Arnhem, the heroic Allied military operation known as "Market Garden", become rarer as time passes. "Chig: Sky Pilot to the Glider Pilots of Arnhem" is the story of a choir boy, who became a...

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Duty Nobly Done The South Wales Borderers at Gallipoli 1915

Ashwood Rodney

ISBN: HB: 9781911512172, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
364 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 maps, 2 colour illus., 41 black&white illus.

While the main emphasis of the Great War was on the Western Front of France and Belgium, the British Army also took part in what was a lesser known conflict, but one of equal intensity and drama. This was at Gallipoli, on the shores of Turkey, betwee...

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Battle of Kursk Controversial and Neglected Aspects

Zamulin Valeriy, Britton Stuart

ISBN: HB: 9781911512370, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
388 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 154 photos

In this book, noted historian of the Battle of Kursk Valeriy Zamulin, the author of multiple Russian-language books on the Battle of Kursk and Destroying the Myth: The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July 1943: An Operational Narrative takes a fre...

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Far Distant Ships The Blockade of Brest 1793-1815

Barry Quintin

ISBN: HB: 9781911512141, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 20 black&white illus.

Throughout the long drawn out war at sea during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, it was a cardinal principle of British naval strategy to blockade the port of Brest, the largest and most important of the French naval bases that threatene...

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Target Saigon, 1973-75 Volume 1: The Fall of South Vietnam

Grandolini Albert

ISBN: PB: 9781911512349, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
104 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 5 maps, 150 illus.

After 27 years of conflict it seemed that peace would finally settle on the Indochina peninsula on 27January 1973 with the signing of a peace accord in Paris. The North Vietnamese had previously launched their greatest offensive against South Vietnam...

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