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For the Motherland! For Stalin! A Red Army Officer's Memoir of the Eastern Front

Bogachev Boris, Bogacheva Maria

ISBN: HB: 9781849047975, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Boris Bogachev's highly readable account of life as a young platoon commander in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 is both a riveting tale of hardship and courage and a deeply informative military history. The son of a Sovi...

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Reminiscences 1808-1815 Under Wellington The Peninsular and Waterloo Memoirs of William Hay

Bamford Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781911512325, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
164 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, maps, 3 black&white illus.

William Hay had a varied and exciting military career during the later years of the Napoleonic Wars, which took him to the Peninsula, to Waterloo, and, after 1815, to Canada. Graduating from the Royal Military College at Marlow, of which he begins hi...

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Four Flags, the Odyssey of a Professional Soldier Part 2: Rhodesian Security Forces 1979-80, South African Defence Force 1981-83

Barr Colonel David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512493, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Dave Barr knew from 12 years old he wanted to be a Marine. Following a series of menial jobs – including working at a shoe shiner in a barber's shop and in service stations – at 17 he joined the Marines before shipping out to Vietnam. This was his dr...

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Magyar Warriors Volume 2: The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces, 1919-1945

Bernad Denes, Kliment Charles K.

ISBN: HB: 9781910777923, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
432 pp., 24.6x17.8 cm

The Hungarian armed forces (known as the Honvedseg) were built up from the 1920s, their expansion gaining momentum once Hungary became free of the strict post-First World War Trianon treaty limitations in August 1938. Politically, Hungary was looking...

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War in the North Sea The Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy 1914-1918

Barry Quintin

ISBN: HB: 9781911096382, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
456 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 100 black&white illus., 15 maps

For years before the outbreak of the First World War, it was the expectation of most officers of the Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy that very shortly thereafter, a decisive fleet action would be fought. This had a major impact on the strateg...

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General and the President MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War

Brands H. W.

ISBN: HB: 9780385540575, Casemate, Presidio Press, November 2016
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, illus.

From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the post-World War II order....

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War in the East A Military History of the Russo-Turkish War 1877-78

Barry Quintin

ISBN: PB: 9781911096696, ISBN: HB: 9781907677113, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 266 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 25 maps

When Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire in April 1877, it was the fifth time during the nineteenth century that hostilities had broken out between the two empires. On this occasion the other Great Powers had done all they could to prevent it,...

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Eureka Stockade A Ferocious and Bloody Battle

Blake Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9781922132048, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
236 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

"Eureka Stockade: A Ferocious and Bloody Battle", is the epic account of the battle for the Eureka Stockade, an iconic moment in Australian history. On the chilly dawn morning of 3 December 1854 British soldiers and police of the Victorian colonial g...

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Civil War Captain and His Lady A True Story of Love, Courtship, and Combat

Barr Gene

ISBN: HB: 9781611212907, Casemate, Savas Beatie, August 2016
360 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 maps, 36 black&white illus.

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Ruddy Awful Waste Eric Lock DSO, DFC & Bar: The Brief Life of a Battle of Britain Ace

Brew Steve, Bradbury Mike

ISBN: HB: 9780993415234, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, August 2016
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 70 illus.

In early 1939, 19-year-old Salopian Eric Lock joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve to fulfil his dream of flying. Within eighteen months, he found himself pitted against one of the largest air forces in the world, fighting for the survival of his homelan...

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