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Battle of the Bridges The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Operation Market Garden

van Lunteren Frank

ISBN: PB: 9781612004778, ISBN: HB: 9781612002323, Casemate, June 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Operation Market Garden has been recorded as a complete Allied failure in World War II, an overreach that resulted in an entire airborne division being destroyed at its apex. However, within that operation were episodes of heroism that still remain u...

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Short History

Big Guns Artillery on the Battlefield

Konstam Angus

ISBN: PB: 9781612004884, Casemate, June 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Ever since the first appearance of large-calibre guns in the Middle Ages, gunpowder artillery has had an enormous impact on military strategy and warfare. Cannons were initially developed to tackle fortifications, but then technology enabled the deve...

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Before Intelligence Failed British Secret Intelligence on Chemical and Biological Weapons in the Soviet Union, South Africa and Libya

Wilkinson Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781849043007, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In the wake of the 2003 Iraq War, the term 'intelligence failure' became synonymous with the Blair Government and how it had used intelligence to construct a case for war. This book examines British secret intelligence over the...

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Aviation

Bomber Command: Battle of Berlin Failed to Return

Bond Steve, Darlow Steve, Feast Sean, Macdonald Andy, Owen Robert, Russel Nicole, Sandall Howard

ISBN: HB: 9780993415272, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, May 2017
128 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 100 illus.

"Tonight you are going to the Big City. You will have the opportunity to light a fire in the belly of the enemy that will burn his black heart out". The message from Commander-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command Sir Arthur Harris was clear. As the Second...

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Africa

Black Beret: The History of South Africa's Armoured Forces Volume 2: The War in Italy and The Interwar Years 1942-1961

Steenkamp Willem

ISBN: HB: 9781911512400, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2017
504 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 200 black&white illus.

Volume 2 of "The Black Beret" picks up where the previous volume left off, describing the bowing out of the South African Tank Corps, the formation of 6th South African Armoured Division and its subsequent campaign in Italy. Its exploits in Italy are...

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Bandit Mentality Hunting Insurgents in the Rhodesian Bush War, A Memoir

O'Brien Lindsay

ISBN: PB: 9781911512028, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2017
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus., 1 map

"Bandit Mentality" captures Lindsay "Kiwi" O'Brien's Bush War service from 1976-1980 at the coalface of the Rhodesian conflict. Starting in the BSA Police Support Unit, the police professional anti-terrorist battalion, he served across the country as...

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Battle of Majuba Hill The Transvaal Campaign, 1880-1881

Laband John

ISBN: PB: 9781911512387, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2017
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.

The ignominious rout of a British force at the battle of Majuba on 27 February 1881 and the death of its commander, Major General Sir George Pomeroy-Colley, was the culminating British disaster in the humiliating Transvaal campaign of 1880-1881 in So...

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Blitzkrieg From the Ground Up

Zetterling Niklas

ISBN: HB: 9781612004600, Casemate, May 2017
288 pp., 23.6x15.9 cm

The successes of the German Blitzkrieg in 1939-1941 were as surprising as they were swift. Allied decision-makers wanted to discover the secret to German success quickly, even though only partial, incomplete information was available to them. The fal...

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Europe

Travel

Backpack Ambassadors How Youth Travel Integrated Europe

Jobs Richard Ivan

ISBN: PB: 9780226462035, ISBN: HB: 9780226438979, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 halftones, 1 line drawing

Even today, in an era of cheap travel and constant connection, the image of young people backpacking across Europe remains seductively romantic. In "Backpack Ambassadors", Richard Ivan Jobs tells the story of backpacking in Europe in its heyday, the...

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America

Military

Bloody Engagements John R. Kelso's Civil War

Kelso John R., Grasso Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300210965, Yale University Press, April 2017
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

The first edited edition of a Union soldier's remarkable memoir, offering a rare perspective on guerrilla warfare and on the larger meanings of the Civil War. While tales of Confederate guerilla-outlaws abound, there are few scholarly accounts of th...

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