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And We Were Young Oundle School and the Great War

Pendrill Colin

ISBN: HB: 9781912174195, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
432 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 300 black&white photos

"A boy, he spent his boy's dear life for England". These words from a poem of 1916 were written in reaction to the news that a young boy, who had left Oundle School just two years earlier, had shot himself, whilst stranded in the Libyan Desert. With...

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By Fire and Bayonet Grey's West Indies Campaign of 1794

Brown Steve

ISBN: HB: 9781911512608, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 8 maps

There have been few books about Grey's glorious (but ultimately ill-fated) West Indies campaign in the early years of the long and terrible wars of 1793-1815, yet five of the subalterns in Grey's expeditionary force went on to command divisions in We...

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Indian Army in the First World War New Perspectives

Jeffreys Alan

ISBN: HB: 9781911512783, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 illus., 2 maps

The book addresses the important global role of the Indian Army during the First World War. It is an academic reassessment of the army by both established and early career scholars of the Indian Army, as well as naval historians. It looks at the hist...

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Hundred Thousand Sons of St Louis The French Campaign in Spain April to October 1823

Weaver Ralph

ISBN: HB: 9781912174096, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
120 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 colour & 25 black&white illus., maps

This book sheds light on an almost unknown military campaign conducted by a French army, 100,000 men strong. The army was referred to by the French king as the 'Sons of St. Louis' and was pitted against parts of the regular Spanish army and a numerou...

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48th (South Midland) Division 1908-1919

Mitchinson William

ISBN: HB: 9781911512547, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 22 photos, 10 maps

On the outbreak of war, the South Midland was the second strongest division in the Territorial Force (TF); by October 1914, it was considered to be the second most efficient of the TF's fourteen 1st Line formations. Like other TF divisions, its pre-w...

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Autobiography or Narrative of a Soldier The Peninsular War Memoirs of William Brown of the 45th Foot

Brown William

ISBN: HB: 9781911512943, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2017
152 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 maps

William Brown's autobiography is a unique historical document, since he is the only memoirist to have come to light from the ranks of the 45th (1st Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot for the period of the Peninsula War – a regiment that was one of Wel...

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Jack and Hopit, Comrades in Arms An Officer of the 9th Lancers in the Great War and his War Horse

Merton Serena

ISBN: PB: 9781911512806, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
120 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 125 black&white photos and maps

A chance discovery of the existence of the gravestone carved with the battle honours of Hopit – the Tipperary-foaled hunter – led the author to research the Great War relationship of Hopit and 19-year-old Second Lieutenant John (Jack) Forrester Colvi...

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In the Shadow of Bois Hugo The 8th Lincolns at the Battle of Loos

Atter Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9781911512776, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
128 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 illus., maps

This is the first book dedicated to the subject of the 8th (Service) Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment during the First World War – and this particular Kitchener battalion has been a neglected topic of study; however, there is a rich mine of informati...

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