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Lessons from the Mud 55th (West Lancashire) Division at the Third Battle of Ypres

Knight Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781912390052, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
424 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 25 black&white maps, 12 photos

In Basil Liddell Hart's 1930 account of the Third Battle of Ypres, a tearful, anonymous Staff Officer reportedly uttered words which have entered the historiography of the battle: Good God, did we really send men to fight in that? First World War g...

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Landing in the Dawn Dissecting a Legend: The Landing at Anzac, Gallipoli, 25 April 1915

Hurst James

ISBN: HB: 9781911512462, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 50 black&white illus.

The Gallipoli Landing of 25 April 1915 is arguably Australia's best known battle. It is commemorated each year with a national holiday, services, parades and great media attention. 2015, the centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign, was marked by great pu...

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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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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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Biography & Memoires

Lost Idol The Life and Death of a Young Officer: Esmond Elliot 1895-1917

Astor Johnnie, Alexandra Campbell

ISBN: HB: 9781912174027, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
248 pp., 24.5x18 cm, 100 illus. and maps

Esmond Elliot, younger son of the Earl of Minto, Viceroy of India, was killed while serving with the Scots Guards, aged 22, at the beginning of the Passchendaele Offensive. Compiled from his grieving mother's memorial of his life, together with his...

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Lost Opportunity The Battle of the Ardennes 22 August 1914

House Simon J.

ISBN: HB: 9781911096429, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
256 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 50 colour maps

On 22 August 1914 – on a battlefield 100 kilometres wide stretching from Luxembourg to the River Meuse – two French and two German armies clashed in a series of encounters known collectively as the Battle of the Ardennes. On that day, 27,000 young Fr...

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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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Lobositz to Leuthen Horace St Paul and the Seven Years War, 1756-1757

Cogswell Neil

ISBN: HB: 9781911096672, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
536 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 219 maps, plans, charts, diagrams

In 1751, at the age of 22 and then a law student, Horace St Paul had, as he described it, "a difference" with an older man over the favour of a lady. This "difference" resulted in the death of the older man in an impromptu duel to which there were no...

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Last Blood on Pomerania Leon Degrelle and the Walloon Waffen SS Volunteers, February-May 1945

Borowski Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9781910294482, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2015
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 140 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., maps

The 28th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division "Wallonien", which mostly consisted of French-speaking citizens of the Kingdom of Belgium – first as part of the Wehrmacht, and later in the ranks of the Waffen SS – fought as one of the national legions again...

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Learning from Foreign Wars Russian Military Thinking 1859-73

Persson Gudrun

ISBN: PB: 9781906033613, ISBN: HB: 9781908916983, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2010
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 illus.

"Learning from Foreign Wars" examines how the Russian army interpreted the wars in Europe between 1859 and 1871, and the American Civil War. This was a time marked by rapid change – political, social, economic and technological. By raising the questi...

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