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Italian Folgore Parachute Division North African Operations 1940-43

Morisi Paolo

ISBN: HB: 9781911096245, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
192 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 100 black&white illus., 9 maps, 4 plates

The North African campaign was one of the hardest fought episodes of the Second World War, yet the vital part played by the Italian Army – and in particular, its Folgore Parachute Division on behalf of the Axis Alliance – is frequently overlooked. In...

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Battles Before Case Studies of Australian Army Leadership after the Vietnam War

Connery David

ISBN: PB: 9781925520194, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
136 pp., 24.7x17.5 cm, 50 colour illus.

Much of Australia's military history literature focuses on battles and the way generals plan and prosecute an action or campaign. But what do generals do when they are not fighting battles? "The Battles Before" examines the role of senior leaders in...

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Vanished Hero The Life, War, and Mysterious Disappearance of America's WWII Strafing King

Stout Jay A.

ISBN: HB: 9781612003955, Casemate, November 2016
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 illus.

A hell-bent-for-leather fighter pilot, Elwyn G. Righetti remains one of the most elusive, yet compelling, colorful and controversial commanders of World War II. Arriving late to the war, he led the England-based 55th Fighter Group against the Nazis d...

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No Armour But Courage Colonel Sir George Lisle, 1615-1648

Jones Serena

ISBN: HB: 9781911096474, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
408 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 photos, 11 illus.

Few army officers of King Charles I shone as bright as George Lisle during the English Civil Wars, yet have drawn so little attention from subsequent historians. Born in London in 1615, Lisle's father was a well-connected publisher and monopolist, an...

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Daphne Oram An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics

Oram Daphne

ISBN: HB: 9781910221112, Casemate, Anomie Publishing, November 2016
160 pp., 22x16.5 cm, 12 illus.

Daphne Oram (1925-2003) was one of the central figures in the development of British experimental electronic music. Having declined a place at the Royal College of Music to become a music balancer at the BBC, she went on to become the co-founder and...

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Under a Blood Red Sun The Remarkable Story of PT Boats in the Philippines and the Rescue of General MacArthur

Domagalski John

ISBN: HB: 9781612004075, Casemate, November 2016
304 pp., 23.1x16 cm, 16 illus.

During the opening days of World War II in the Pacific, a small group of American sailors in the Philippines were propelled into the forefront of the fighting. They were manned with six small wooden torpedo (PT) boats and led by a courageous, larger-...

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Daring All Things The Autobiography of George Kendall (1881-1961)

Kendall George

ISBN: HB: 9781911096627, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

"Daring All Things" is a unique and extraordinary autobiography, which was published for the first time 55 years after its completion (shortly before The Rev George Kendall died suddenly in 1961, aged 79). The book is the life story of a man born int...

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Portable Studio

Appleson Trevor

ISBN: HB: 9781861543806, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2016
608 pp., 22x17.5 cm

"Portable Studio" documents contemporary British youth culture, and was created in collaboration with the young people Appleson met and photographed on the streets of Birmingham in 2014. Inspired by the way identities are now curated online, the proj...

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From the Western Front to Salonika A French Soldier Writes Home (1914-1918)

Labaume-Howard Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9781911096283, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 102 photos, drawings, maps

The book's editor, Catherine Labaume-Howard, found 300 of her grandfather's letters in an old potato sack when a family home was sold. The author of the letters, Pierre Suberviolle, was from Montauban in the South of France. He joined the army on 7 A...

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Charles Family's War A Gripping Story of Twin Brothers During World War II

Fewster Alan

ISBN: PB: 9781925275285, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
296 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm, 50 black&white illus.

Edwin Llewellyn Charles was a slim, handsome youth, but Terence John, his brother, was beautiful and he knew it. Technically, the boys were twins, but their personalities could not have been more different. So begins this sweeping true story of a f...

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