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Crucible of the Jacobite '15 The Battle of Sheriffmuir 1715

Oates Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9781911512899, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 illus.

Just over three centuries ago, there was a major battle in Scotland that was to decide the fate of the newly established – and bitterly contested – union of England and Scotland. On one hand there was a numerically superior army, trained and armed bu...

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Courage without Glory The British Army on the Western Front 1915

Jones Spencer

ISBN: PB: 9781912174119, ISBN: HB: 9781910777183, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 colour maps, 15 black&white illus.

The year 1915 was one of unprecedented challenges for the British Army. Short of manpower, firepower and experience, the army needed time to adapt before it could hope to overcome the formidable German defences of the Western Front. Yet the insistent...

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Chaco Air War 1932-35 The First Modern Air War in Latin America

Sapienza Antonio

ISBN: PB: 9781911512967, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
96 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 200 illus.

The Chaco War was probably the first "modern" conflict in Latin America where military aviation was widely used in all roles. Bolivia, as the reader will find out, had a very powerful military air force, but unfortunately for them and luckily for Par...

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Combat History of 21st Panzer Division 1943-45

Kortenhaus Werner

ISBN: PB: 9781912174140, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
520 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 80 black&white photos, 21 maps

For years, one of the most essential sources for study of the Normandy invasion was known only to a select few and nearly unobtainable even to those who knew of its existence. It has never before been translated. None of the major English language hi...

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Canadians on the Somme, 1916 The Neglected Campaign

Stewart William F.

ISBN: HB: 9781911512950, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 77 black&white pictures, 6 diags, 32 maps, 12 tables

Ordered lines of heavily laden soldiers with rifles at "high port" trudging through mud against uncut barbed wire under heavy machine gun fire is the enduring view of the Somme 1916. What makes Canada's Somme campaign so difficult to characterise was...

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Civil War London A Military History of London under Charles I and Oliver Cromwell

Flintham David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512622, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
128 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 illus.

London was the critical location throughout the English Civil Wars – a fact that has been emphasised by countless historians, with some going as far to say that by fleeing his capital in January 1642, King Charles I lost the war several months before...

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Biography & Memoires

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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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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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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Confronting Case Blue Briansk Front's Attempt to Derail the German Drive to the Caucasus, July 1942

Sdvizhkov Igor'

ISBN: HB: 9781911096436, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
384 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 10 maps, 3 colour photos, 6 black&white photos

The author, Igor' Sdvizhkov, takes a close look at the attempt by the Briansk Front's Operational Group Chibisov to collapse the northern shoulder of the German drive to the Caucasus – north-west of Voronezh – in July 1942. Using both previously clas...

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