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Hey for Old Robin! The Campaigns and Armies of the Earl of Essex During the First Civil War, 1642-44

Scott Chris, Turton Alan

ISBN: PB: 9781911512219, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 70 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.

"Hey For Old Robin!" was the cry of the Earl of Essex's army during the First Civil War as, contrary to modern popular belief, Robert Devereux was well-liked by the men he led. This book fills a gap in the literature of the Civil Wars, taking up the...

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Army of Brigadiers British Brigade Commanders at the Battle of Arras 1917

Harvey Trevor

ISBN: HB: 9781911512004, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
356 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 tables, 16 maps, 32 black&white illus.

There have been two major studies in recent years that have explored the roles and responsibilities of British generals at different levels within the British Expeditionary Force's command structure. Dr Simon Innes-Robbins has written about the gener...

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Taste of Success The First Battle of the Scarpe: The Opening Phase of the Battle of Arras, 9-14 April 1917

Smithson Jim

ISBN: HB: 9781911096405, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
288 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 40 black&white illus., 4 tables, 56 maps

Wedged between the Battles of the Somme and Passchendaele, the Battle of Arras has often been termed "The Forgotten Battle" with little in the way of supporting literature. "A Taste of Success" is aimed at filling that void -giving the reader an insi...

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Biography & Memoires

Cromwell's Buffoon The Life and Career of the Regicide, Thomas Pride

Hodkinson Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781911512110, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
184 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 maps, 13 black&white illus.

Colonel Thomas Pride was central to one of the English Civil War's key events: the arrest and exclusion of 140 Members of Parliament at Westminster in December 1648. Those that remained in the House of Commons – the Rump – voted to bring King Charles...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Wings Over Sinai The Egyptian Air Force During the Sinai War, 1956

Nicolle David, Ali Gabr Gabr, Cooper Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781911096610, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 120 black&white illus. 3 colour illus., 15 colour profiles

Sixty years since the tripartite aggression of France, Great Britain and Israel against Egypt, this is the first account about Egyptian military operations during the Suez War of 1956 (or "Suez Crisis", as it is known in the West). Based on research...

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Army of James II, 1685-1688 The Birth of the British Army

Ede-Borrett Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781911512363, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 60 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.

Between James' accession in February 1685 and flight in December 1688 the British Armies increased four fold (the English, Scots and Irish Armies were still separate institutions and were to remain so until the early 18th Century, in the case of the...

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Churchill's Secret War with Lenin British and Commonwealth Military Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918-20

Wright Damien

ISBN: HB: 9781911512103, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
504 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 8 maps, 8 colour illus., 198 black&white illus.

After three years of great loss and suffering on the Eastern Front, Imperial Russia was in crisis and on the verge of revolution. In November 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks (later known as "Soviets") seized power, signed a peace treaty with the Central Pow...

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Reminiscences 1808-1815 Under Wellington The Peninsular and Waterloo Memoirs of William Hay

Bamford Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781911512325, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
164 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, maps, 3 black&white illus.

William Hay had a varied and exciting military career during the later years of the Napoleonic Wars, which took him to the Peninsula, to Waterloo, and, after 1815, to Canada. Graduating from the Royal Military College at Marlow, of which he begins hi...

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Four Flags, the Odyssey of a Professional Soldier Part 2: Rhodesian Security Forces 1979-80, South African Defence Force 1981-83

Barr Colonel David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512493, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Dave Barr knew from 12 years old he wanted to be a Marine. Following a series of menial jobs – including working at a shoe shiner in a barber's shop and in service stations – at 17 he joined the Marines before shipping out to Vietnam. This was his dr...

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Magyar Warriors Volume 2: The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces, 1919-1945

Bernad Denes, Kliment Charles K.

ISBN: HB: 9781910777923, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
432 pp., 24.6x17.8 cm

The Hungarian armed forces (known as the Honvedseg) were built up from the 1920s, their expansion gaining momentum once Hungary became free of the strict post-First World War Trianon treaty limitations in August 1938. Politically, Hungary was looking...

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