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Peter The Great Humbled The Russo-Ottoman War Of 1711

Dorrell Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9781911512318, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
88 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 3 maps, 18 black&white illus.

In 1711 Peter the Great, the Tsar of Russia, led a large army of veterans from Poltava and his other Great Northern War victories into the Balkans. He aimed to humble the Ottomans in the same way he had the Swedes a few years before. Victory would se...

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Pouring with Rain - Troops Fed Up British Second Army and the Liberation Offensive in Flanders 1918

Williams Dennis

ISBN: HB: 9781911096559, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
288 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 60 maps

A lost story now told – of a forgotten British Army in a forgotten campaign achieving against the odds... During the final months of the war, the British Second Army fought a successful War of Liberation alongside French and Belgian forces in the Gro...

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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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Africa

Paras Portugal's First Elite Force in Africa, 1961-1974

Cann John P.

ISBN: PB: 9781911512486, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
72 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 27 colour illus., 73 black&white illus.

Portuguese paratroopers or "paras" began as a stepchild of the army and found a home in the Portuguese Air Force in 1955. Initially, the post-World War Two Portuguese Army seemed to have had mixed emotions about the need for elite, special-purpose fo...

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Portuguese Commandos Feared Insurgent Hunters, 1961-1974

Cann John P.

ISBN: PB: 9781911096320, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
104 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 90 black&white illus., 10 colour photos, 10 tables, 15 maps

During the 13-year insurgency (1961-74) in Portuguese Africa, more than 800,000 men and women served in the Portuguese armed forces. Of this number, about 9,000 served as commandos (or about 1 percent). Yet their combat losses ? 357 dead, 28 missing...

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Aviation

Phoenix: A Complete History of the Luftwaffe 1918-1945 Volume 1: The Phoenix is Reborn 1918-1934

Meredith Richard

ISBN: HB: 9781910294505, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2016
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 maps, 3 tables, 115 black&white illus.

Based on forty years of detailed research, the Phoenix Project is a unique history of the wartime German Luftwaffe. Going far beyond a simple description of famous air battles and operations the overall work draws extensively on original documents, s...

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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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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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Pyramids and Poppies The 1st South African Infantry Brigade in Libya, France and Flanders 1915-1919

Digby Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781910294628, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2015
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus., maps

This re-issue of Pyramids and Poppies coincides with the hundredth anniversary of the formation of the First SA Brigade, in August 1915. No book has been written that covers the whole spectrum of the 1st SA Brigade in the First World War. Pyramids an...

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