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Spearhead of the Fifth Army The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Italy, from the Winter Line to Anzio

van Lunteren Frank

ISBN: HB: 9781612004273, Casemate, August 2016
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 illus.

Upon the completion of the Sicily and Salerno Campaigns in 1943, the paratroopers of Colonel Reuben Tucker's 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment were among the first Allied troops to enter Naples. A ghost town at first sight, the residents soon express...

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Fiction

Classic War Fiction

Mr Britling Sees it Through

Wells H. G.

ISBN: PB: 9781612004150, Casemate, August 2016
444 pp., 19x13.2 cm

A profound and very human account of the early years of the war, told from the perspective of a father rather than combatants, but no less revealing. Mr Britling lives in the quintessentially English town of Matching's Easy in Essex. He is a great...

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America

Military

Omaha Beach Tuesday 6th June 1944

Prime Christophe

ISBN: PB: 9782815103046, Casemate, OREP, August 2016
128 pp., 26.5x20 cm

Tuesday, June 6th 1944. It is dawn and the German lookouts on sentry along the beach of Sables d'Or at the Pointe du Hoc spot some worrying silhouettes in the distance. An incredible number of masts and ships begin to appear as the mist rises. It is...

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Military

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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Biography & Memoires

Military

March By Moonlight A Bomber Command Story of Ops and Evasion, Captivity and Friendship

Love Barry, Love Jack

ISBN: HB: 9780993415210, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, July 2016
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 illus.

In May 1942 RAF Bomber Command observer Jack Love's world comes crashing down, literally. His aircraft sustains flak damage and a catastrophic engine failure forces a crash-landing in Northern France. The pilot manages a safe belly-landing in a ploug...

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Military

Juno Beach Port-Juno Normandy 44

Benamou Jean-Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9782815103367, Casemate, OREP, July 2016
40 pp., 20x20 cm

The use of images is a device used by war correspondents to recall the actions of the armed forces of their countries. This book looks back to June 6th 1944 and the landings by the Canadians on Juno Beach, immortalised by these images of the tense fi...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D Japanese Aircraft Carrier Taiho

Goralski Waldemar

ISBN: PB: 9788364596759, Casemate, Kagero, July 2016
92 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, full colour throughout

Not for sale in Poland! The design work on the new carrier commenced as early as 1937 and the initial design was unveiled on 27 November and received the number "02". On 21 July 1938 corrections were done to the design and it was approved. The ship...

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Medieval

Battle of Val Es Dunes Summer 1047, when the "Batard" became the Duke

Hauguel Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9782815102995, Casemate, OREP, July 2016
48 pp., 24x17 cm

Duke William of Normandy (1027-1087) is best known for his conquest of England but his eventful and chaotic youth is often forgotten. William inherited the Dukedom at the age of eight when his father, Robert the Magnificent, died in 1035 on his retur...

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Contemporary Art

Oliver Clegg

Herbert Martin, Najafi Sina

ISBN: HB: 9781910221075, Casemate, Anomie Publishing, July 2016
288 pp., 30.5x22 cm, 135 illus.

Featuring an interview with Sina Najafi, an essay by Martin Herbert, and designed by Dominique Clausen, this is the first major monograph on the British-born, New Yorkbased artist Oliver Clegg. An eclectic, polyphonic and multidisciplinary artist, Cl...

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Military

Mobility Conquers The Story of 61 Mechanised Battalion Group 1978-2005

Steenkamp Willem, Heitman Helmoed-Romer

ISBN: HB: 9781911096528, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2016
1152 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 61 maps, 400 photos, 2 pp of colour badges & insignia

More than two years in the writing, this book is the warts-and-all story of the birth, career and death of the South African Defence Force's 61 Mechanised Battalion Group (1979-2005) – generally acknowledged as the best fighting unit in Africa in its...

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