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Defenders of Japan The Post-Imperial Armed Forces 1946-2016: A History

Mulloy Garren

ISBN: HB: 9781849048934, Hurst Publishers, December 2019
320 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! Japan's post-war armed forces are a paradox, both embarrassing remnants of the past and valuable repositories of experience. This book charts the development of the Japan Self-Defence Forces (JSDF) from 1954 as both unorthodox...

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Days of Battle Armoured Operations North of the River Danube, Hungary 1944-45

Szamveber Norbert

ISBN: PB: 9781912174263, ISBN: HB: 9781907677649, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2018
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, 16 maps

"Days of Battle" describes a hitherto neglected part of the military history of Hungary during World War II. In three separate studies, Dr Norbert Szamveber, drawing from files and documentation from German, Hungarian and Soviet sources, presents det...

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Drive on Moscow, 1941 Operation Taifun and Germany’s First Great Crisis in World War II

Zetterling Niklas

ISBN: PB: 9781612005966, Casemate, May 2018
288 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, 16 pages of photos

At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well trained, confident, and had good reasons to hope that the war in the East would be over with one last offensi...

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Danish Volunteers of the Waffen-SS Freikorps Danmark 1941-43

Bjerregaard Jens Pank

ISBN: HB: 9781911512707, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
320 pp., 30.5x22.2 cm, 550 black&white photos

The book Danish Volunteers of the Waffen-SS tells the story of Freikorps Danmark in pictures from 1941-1943. Freikorps Danmark was established as a Danish corps which had to fight communism and, from its beginning, it was controlled from Denmark and...

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Defending Island Britain in the Second World War Documentary Sources

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512592, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 illus.

Historically, one could argue that island nations were presented with a degree of comfort in being surrounded by water (especially so before the invention of flight and submarines); however, technological advances in the early part of the 20th centur...

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Death and Disease in the Civil War A Union Surgeon's Correspondence from Harpers Ferry to Richmond

Loperfido Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781611213591, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
168 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 35 images

Union surgeon James Dana Benton witnessed firsthand the suffering and death brought about by the ghastly wounds, infections, and diseases that wreaked havoc to both the Union and Confederate armies. A native of New York, Dr. Benton penned a series of...

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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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Day Rommel Was Stopped The Battle of Ruweisat Ridge, 2 July 1942

Jephson F. R., Jephson Chris

ISBN: HB: 9781612005584, Casemate, October 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, photos, maps

George VI's biographer, Sir John Wheeler Bennett wrote "The actual turning of the tide in the 2nd World War may be accurately determined as the first week of July 1942". This book argues that it is possible to be even more exact: the tide turned at a...

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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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D-Day, What We Haven't Told You The Secrets of D-Day

Bauduin Philippe

ISBN: PB: 9782840484806, Casemate, Heimdal, June 2017
128 pp., 29.7x21 cm

The Normandy Landings of 6 June 1944 were a major and decisive episode of the Second World War and have been, for more than sixty years, the object of countless books, films, investigations, reports and television series. However, is it known that D-...

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