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New Way of Fighting: Professionalism in the English Civil War Proceedings of the 2016 Helion and Company "Century of the Soldier" Conference

Jones Serena

ISBN: HB: 9781911512615, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
172 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 illus. and maps

War quickens the pace of military and technological change, and the increasing pace and scope of European warfare during the 16th and 17th centuries prepared the ground for the professional military forces we are familiar with today. The speakers at...

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Teenage Resistance Fighter With the Maquisards in Occupied France

Verneret Hubert

ISBN: HB: 9781612005508, Casemate, September 2017
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

September 5, 1944 "The Americans are approaching; we follow their progress impatiently on the radio, by intercepting messages reserved for the commandos. They cannot be beaten now. But it is up to us to do the impossible to speed up the progression o...

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7 Leadership Lessons of D-Day Lessons from the Longest Day - June 6, 1944

Antal John

ISBN: HB: 9781612005294, Casemate, September 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 35 illus.

The odds were against the Allies on June 6, 1944. The task ahead of the paratroopers who jumped over Normandy and the soldiers who waded ashore onto the beaches, all under fire, was colossal. In such circumstances good leadership can be the defining...

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Short History

Greek Warriors Hoplites and Heroes

Willekes Carolyn

ISBN: PB: 9781612005157, Casemate, September 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Thermopylae, Marathon: though fought 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece, the names of these battles are more familiar to many than battles fought in the last half-century, but our concept of the men who fought in these battles may be more a product of...

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Lost Idol The Life and Death of a Young Officer: Esmond Elliot 1895-1917

Astor Johnnie, Alexandra Campbell

ISBN: HB: 9781912174027, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
248 pp., 24.5x18 cm, 100 illus. and maps

Esmond Elliot, younger son of the Earl of Minto, Viceroy of India, was killed while serving with the Scots Guards, aged 22, at the beginning of the Passchendaele Offensive. Compiled from his grieving mother's memorial of his life, together with his...

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What Did You Do In Great War, Grandfather? The Life and Times of an Edwardian Horse Artillery Officer

Barrington Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781912174034, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 90 photos and maps

Part history, part social documentary, part love story, this is a grandson's search for what his grandfather did in the Great War. Drawing on war diaries in the National Archives, unit records in the Royal Artillery museum, and a unique pictorial rec...

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Oder Front 1945, Volume 2 Documents, Reports and Personal Accounts

Hamilton Stephan A.

ISBN: PB: 9781912174201, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
578 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 300 documents, 38 colour maps and tables

"The Oder Front 1945, Volume 2" breaks new ground in its operational level detail of the German defense of the Oderfront between January-May 1945. Volume 2 pieces together the various orders, directives, and command guidance issued by the Fuhrer, OKW...

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Most Dangerous Moment of the War Japan's Attack on the Indian Ocean, 1942

Clancy John

ISBN: PB: 9781612005331, Casemate, August 2017
208 pp., 22.8x15.4 cm

In early April 1942, a little-known chapter of World War II took place, said by Sir Winston Churchill to be "the most dangerous moment of the war" when the Japanese made their only major offensive westwards into the Indian Ocean. As historian Sir Art...

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Discovering Gettysburg An Unconventional Introduction to the Greatest Little Town in America and the Monumental Battle that Made It Famous

Coleman Stephen W.

ISBN: HB: 9781611213539, Casemate, Savas Beatie, August 2017
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 180 caricatures, 200 photos, 9 maps

Gettysburg. Does any other single word in any language invoke so much passion and angst, enthusiasm and sadness, as do those ten letters? But what IS Gettysburg, exactly? I am almost embarrassed to say I discovered the answer to that question – or at...

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Canadians on the Somme, 1916 The Neglected Campaign

Stewart William F.

ISBN: HB: 9781911512950, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 77 black&white pictures, 6 diags, 32 maps, 12 tables

Ordered lines of heavily laden soldiers with rifles at "high port" trudging through mud against uncut barbed wire under heavy machine gun fire is the enduring view of the Somme 1916. What makes Canada's Somme campaign so difficult to characterise was...

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