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Gallipoli An Australian Medical Perspective
ISBN: PB: 9781921941863, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
140 pp., 24.7x17.5 cm
To be successful, a modern army needs logistical support to survive – to arm, feed, transport, and care for its soldiers. As history shows us, the maintenance of health in any army is a key factor in warfare. In many respects the Gallipoli campaign w...
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Greece February to April 1941
ISBN: PB: 9781922132611, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
160 pp., 24.7x17.5 cm
As with the failed attempt to seize the Gallipoli peninsula in 1915, the allied campaign to assist Greece against a seemingly invincible German juggernaut was poorly conceived and probably doomed even as plans were made to assist that country. Like a...
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Sudan 1885
ISBN: PB: 9781922132994, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
200 pp., 24.7x17.5 cm
The involvement of an Australian colonial military force in Britains Egyptian campaigns between 1883 and 1885 was very short, extending for only five months overall, including the pre-deployment phase. Consequently its influence on these campaigns wa...
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Beyond Adversity "U" Company, 15th Battalion 1941-1942
ISBN: HB: 9780980658279, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
384 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm
In November 1941, about 100 university students began their short-term compulsory military training with the 15th Infantry Battalion. Most were aged 19-22, had daytime jobs and were evening or external students from the arts, commerce and law faculti...
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Western Desert Campaign 1940-41
ISBN: PB: 9780975766927, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
192 pp., 24.7x17.5 cm
While the North African campaign has been studied in detail over the years, much of this study has been dedicated to the battles between the British 8th Army and Rommel's Afrika Korps. There has been little serious study of Wavell's campaign against...
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New Approaches to the Military History of the English Civil War Proceedings of the First Helion And Company "Century of the Soldier" Conference, 2015
ISBN: HB: 9781911096443, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 colour illus., 3 diags, 2 maps, 5 statistical tables
In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the military history of the English Civil War and its associated conflicts in Ireland and Scotland. Historians are increasingly paying attention to the "actualities of war" (to use Sir Basil Lidde...
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Another Bloody Chapter in an Endless Civil War Volume 1: Northen Ireland and the Troubles 1984-87
ISBN: HB: 9781911096276, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.
The period under review covers the years of 1984-1987 – nearing the end of the third decade of the Troubles. It will use research and oral contributions from the mid to late 1980s and will show not only how the Provisional IRA (PIRA) grew in financia...
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Scale Modelling WW1 Tanks
ISBN: PB: 9782352504689, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, October 2016
128 pp., 29.5x20.8 cm, 500 colour and black&white illus.
"Tank Models of the First World War" accurately describes assembly methods, painting and realization of dioramas for each of the 6 models: the Mark IV "Male" English, Mark IV "Female" and the German A7V, Schneider CA, the St. Chamond and the French R...
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Bully Beef & Balderdash Some Myths of the AIF Examined and Debunked
ISBN: HB: 9781921941566, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
448 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm
The Australian Imperial Force, first raised in 1914 for overseas war service, became better known by its initials – the "AIF". There was a distinct character to those who enlisted in the earliest months and who were destined to fight on Gallipoli. Du...
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Dust Donkeys and Delusions The Myth of Simpson and his Donkey Exposed
ISBN: PB: 9781921941740, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
416 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm
"Dust, Donkeys and Delusion" examines and clinically debunks the myth that has grown up around Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick, the so-called "Man with the Donkey", the quintessential Australian "hero" of Gallipoli. While the various elements of the...
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