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US Army Cooks' Manual Rations, Preparation, Recipes, Camp Cooking

ISBN: HB: 9781612004709, Casemate, December 2017
240 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm

An army marches on its stomach – so the classic saying goes. This book brings together excerpts from contemporary manuals for U.S. Army cooks to show how the U.S. Army fed and provisioned its troops in the early 20th century and lift the lid on what...

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School in Arms Uppingham and the Great War

Halstead Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9781911512646, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
328 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 43 photos, 16 tables

For many people, their only knowledge of Uppingham's involvement in the Great War is through Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth and its account of her relationship with three men who went to the school and lost their lives during the war. In this boo...

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Some Other and Wider Destiny Wakefield Grammar School Foundation and the Great War

Merckx Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9781912174010, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
416 pp., 24.5x18 cm, 46 colour illus., 209 black&white illus.

The First World War demanded one of the most sustained and extraordinary efforts ever made by the British people. It was made possible by a multitude of individuals and by the communities of which they were a part. This study is a celebration one of...

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15 Years of War How the Longest War in U.S. History Affected a Military Family in Love, Loss, and the Cost of Service

Schellhaas Kristine

ISBN: PB: 9781611213485, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 60 illus.

Less than 1% of our nation will ever serve in our armed forces, leaving many to wonder what life is really like for military families. He answers the call of duty in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Pacific; she keeps the home fires burning. Worlds apart,...

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Ratels on the Lomba The Story of Charlie Squadron

Scholtz Leopold

ISBN: PB: 9781911512875, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 colour and black&white illus., 1 map

Charlie Squadron – the iron fist of the South African Defense Force's 61 Mechanised Battalion Group – led the way on 3 October 1987 during the climactic battle on the Lomba River in Southern Angola. Not only were they up against a vastly superior f...

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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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Vitebsk The Fight and Destruction of the 3rd Panzer Army

Heidkamper Otto

ISBN: HB: 9781612005485, Casemate, December 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 maps

The city of Vitebsk in Belarus was of strategic importance during the fighting on the Eastern Front, as it controlled the route to Minsk. A salient in the German lines, Vitebsk had been declared a Festerplatz – a fortress town – meaning that it must...

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Doomed Before the Start The Allied Intervention in Norway 1940, Volume 2: Evacuation and Further Naval Operations

Cherry Niall

ISBN: HB: 9781911512134, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 112 illus.

Books on the events of the early months of 1940 are dominated by the desperate fighting undertaken by the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France and Belgium following the German invasion of May 10th and it is often overlooked that prior to th...

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Battle of the Selle Fourth Army Operations on the Western Front in the Hundred Days, 9-24 October 1918

Hodgkinson Peter

ISBN: HB: 9781911512639, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white photos, 13 maps

This book considers a relatively unknown series of actions of the victorious Hundred Days of 1918: the operations at the River Selle. Between 9-24 October, the British Fourth Army drove elements of two German armies back from the Hindenburg support l...

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Richmond Shall Not Be Given Up The Seven Days' Battles, June 25 - July 1, 1862

Crenshaw Doug

ISBN: PB: 9781611213553, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images and maps

In the spring of 1862, the largest army ever assembled on the North American continent landed in Virginia, on the peninsula between the James and York Rivers, and proceeded to march toward Richmond. Between that army and the capital of the Confederat...

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