art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

Masters of Mayhem Laurence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz
ISBN: HB: 9781612005744, Casemate, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 pages of black&white photos
Striking where the enemy is weakest and melting away into the darkness before he can react. Never confronting a stronger force directly, but willing to use audacity and surprise to confound and demoralize an opponent. Operations driven by good intell...
HB:
£19,00
QTY:
We Dared to Win The SAS in Rhodesia
ISBN: HB: 9781612005874, Casemate, May 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour and black&white photos
In his own words Andre Scheepers describes his childhood on a farm, learning about the bush from his African friends, and becoming a soldier. The family had to leave the farm after being ambushed by terrorists. A quiet, introspective, deep thinker...
HB:
£25,00
QTY:
Biafra's War 1967-1970 A Tribal Conflict in Nigeria That Left a Million Dead
ISBN: PB: 9781912174720, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 100 black&white and colour photos, 4 maps
Almost half a century has passed since the Nigerian Civil War ended. But memories die hard, because a million or more people perished in that internecine struggle, the majority women and children, who were starved to death. Biafra's war was modern A...
PB:
£25,00
QTY:
Ratels on the Lomba The Story of Charlie Squadron
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...
PB:
£19,00
QTY:
Mobile Warfare for Africa On the Successful Conduct of Wars in Africa and Beyond - Lessons Learned from the South African Border War
ISBN: PB: 9781912174089, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
528 pp., 24.6x17 cm, 330 photos, 40 maps
Presenting a remarkable amount of experience drawing primarily from South Africa's Border War in the form of case studies, supported fully by an extensive number of photographs and specially commissioned maps, this study has applications for historia...
PB:
£35,00
QTY:
Teenage Safari A South African Conscript in the Border War in Angola and Namibia
ISBN: PB: 9781911512936, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 colour & black&white photos, 1 map
A wide-eyed South African conscript relates his small share of the war in Angola and Namibia in the 1980s. This is not the usual military history, written by a commander armed with facts, nor a researched story of a war or campaign. It is a persona...
PB:
£16,00
QTY:
War for Africa 12 Months that Transformed a Continent
ISBN: HB: 9781612004921, Casemate, May 2017
360 pp., 23.6x15.9 cm
The Angolan Civil War lasted over a quarter of a century, from 1975 to 2002. Beginning as a power struggle between two former liberation movements, the MPLA and UNITA, it became a Cold War struggle with involvement from the Soviet Union, Cuba, South...
HB:
£25,00
QTY:
Black Beret: The History of South Africa's Armoured Forces Volume 2: The War in Italy and The Interwar Years 1942-1961
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...
HB:
£35,00
QTY:
Battle for Angola The End of the Cold War in Africa c 1975-89
ISBN: HB: 9781911096412, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
496 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 200 black&white photos, 2 x 16 pp colour sections
Following the publication of Al Venter's successful Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa – shortlisted by the New York Military Affairs Symposium's "Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for 2013" – his Battle for Angola delves still further into the troubled hi...
HB:
£35,00
QTY:
Paras Portugal's First Elite Force in Africa, 1961-1974
ISBN: PB: 9781911512486, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
72 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 27 colour illus., 73 black&white illus.
Portuguese paratroopers or "paras" began as a stepchild of the army and found a home in the Portuguese Air Force in 1955. Initially, the post-World War Two Portuguese Army seemed to have had mixed emotions about the need for elite, special-purpose fo...
PB:
£16,00
QTY: