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Western Desert Campaign 1940-41

Wahlert Glenn

ISBN: PB: 9780975766927, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
192 pp., 24.7x17.5 cm

While the North African campaign has been studied in detail over the years, much of this study has been dedicated to the battles between the British 8th Army and Rommel's Afrika Korps. There has been little serious study of Wavell's campaign against...

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New Approaches to the Military History of the English Civil War Proceedings of the First Helion And Company "Century of the Soldier" Conference, 2015

Pells Ismini

ISBN: HB: 9781911096443, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 colour illus., 3 diags, 2 maps, 5 statistical tables

In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the military history of the English Civil War and its associated conflicts in Ireland and Scotland. Historians are increasingly paying attention to the "actualities of war" (to use Sir Basil Lidde...

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Another Bloody Chapter in an Endless Civil War Volume 1: Northen Ireland and the Troubles 1984-87

Wharton Ken

ISBN: HB: 9781911096276, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

The period under review covers the years of 1984-1987 – nearing the end of the third decade of the Troubles. It will use research and oral contributions from the mid to late 1980s and will show not only how the Provisional IRA (PIRA) grew in financia...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

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Scale Modelling WW1 Tanks

Astier Frederik

ISBN: PB: 9782352504689, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, October 2016
128 pp., 29.5x20.8 cm, 500 colour and black&white illus.

"Tank Models of the First World War" accurately describes assembly methods, painting and realization of dioramas for each of the 6 models: the Mark IV "Male" English, Mark IV "Female" and the German A7V, Schneider CA, the St. Chamond and the French R...

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Bully Beef & Balderdash Some Myths of the AIF Examined and Debunked

Wilson Graham

ISBN: HB: 9781921941566, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
448 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

The Australian Imperial Force, first raised in 1914 for overseas war service, became better known by its initials – the "AIF". There was a distinct character to those who enlisted in the earliest months and who were destined to fight on Gallipoli. Du...

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Biography & Memoires

Dust Donkeys and Delusions The Myth of Simpson and his Donkey Exposed

Wilson Graham

ISBN: PB: 9781921941740, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
416 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

"Dust, Donkeys and Delusion" examines and clinically debunks the myth that has grown up around Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick, the so-called "Man with the Donkey", the quintessential Australian "hero" of Gallipoli. While the various elements of the...

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Green Leader Operation Gatling, the Rhodesian Military's Response to the Viscount Tragedy

Pringle Ian

ISBN: PB: 9781911096726, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
242 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 colour and black&white photos, maps

On 3 September 1978, a Russian-supplied heat-seeking missile shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount civilian airliner shortly after it took off from the lakeside holiday resort of Kariba in the Zambezi Valley. Miraculously, 18 people, including small chi...

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Half-Shilling Curate A Personal Account of War and Faith 1914-1918

Reay Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9781911096467, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
168 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus., 2 maps

"The Half-Shilling Curate", as he was affectionately known by his family, tells the very personal story of an army chaplain – The Reverend Herbert Butler Cowl – from Christmas Eve 1914 to the end of hostilities in 1919. His descriptive account, from...

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Captains of the Soul A History of Australian Armu Chaplains

Gladwin Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781922132529, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
412 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

Known affectionately as "Padres", chaplains have been integral to the Australian Army for a century. From the legendary William "Fighting Mac" McKenzie, whose friendships with diggers in the trenches of Gallipoli and France made him a national figure...

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America

Capital Culture J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience

Harris Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226434469, ISBN: HB: 9780226067704, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones

American art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served a...

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