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War for Africa 12 Months that Transformed a Continent

Bridgland Fred

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...

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History of Art

Woven Splendour The Tapestries at St John's Conventual Church, Valletta Malta

de Glorgio Cynthia

ISBN: HB: 9789993276036, Casemate, Midsea Books, April 2017
144 pp., 26.5x22 cm, colour illus.

In 1697, as the Spanish Grand Master Ramon Perellos y Roccaful sat in his palace, contemplating on the gift which he should give to the conventual church of the Hospitaller Order of the Knights of St John the Baptist in order to immortalise his mages...

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Military

White Water Red Hot Lead On Board U.S. Navy Swift Boats in Vietnam

Daly Dan

ISBN: HB: 9781612004785, Casemate, March 2017
336 pp., 23.6x15.9 cm

During the Vietnam war 3500 officers and men served in the Swift Boat program in a fleet of 130 boats with no armor plating. The boats patrolled the coast and rivers of South Vietnam, with the average age of the crew being twenty-four. Their days con...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Wings Over Sinai The Egyptian Air Force During the Sinai War, 1956

Nicolle David, Ali Gabr Gabr, Cooper Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781911096610, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 120 black&white illus. 3 colour illus., 15 colour profiles

Sixty years since the tripartite aggression of France, Great Britain and Israel against Egypt, this is the first account about Egyptian military operations during the Suez War of 1956 (or "Suez Crisis", as it is known in the West). Based on research...

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Military

World War I From Mobilisation to the Armistice

Yann Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9782815103565, Casemate, OREP, March 2017
32 pp., 24x17 cm

This short book is a chronological and non-exhaustive study of photographs, letters, stories, weapons, and uniforms of soldiers. This study gives the opportunity to access the very private lives of soldiers who participated in various operations on t...

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Military Game

Wargame: The Roman Invasion AD 43-84 Battle for Britain

Dennis Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781911512035, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
48 pp., 29.8x21.2 cm, 12 photos and original figure artwork

In the Battle for Britain series, well-known historical illustrator Peter Dennis breathes life back into the 19th century paper soldier, supplying all the artwork neede to create the armies which struggled for supremacy through our island history. He...

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Military Game

Wargame: The Spanish Armada 1588 Battle for Britain

Dennis Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781911512042, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
48 pp., 29.8x21.2 cm, 12 photos and original figure artwork

In this title in the Battle for Britain series, well-known historical illustrator Peter Dennis takes the battle out to sea, supplying all the artwork needed to create the navies which clashed in the English channel at a moment of supreme danger for t...

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Military

War On Two Fronts An Infantry Commander's War in Iraq and the Pentagon

Hughes Christopher P.

ISBN: PB: 9781612004310, Casemate, January 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 colour illus.

Shortly after the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the war in Iraq became the most confusing in U.S. history, the high command not knowing who to fight, who was attacking Coalition troops, and who among the different Iraqi groups were fighting each...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Women in Uniform 1939-1945

ISBN: PB: 9782352504603, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, December 2016
84 pp., 24x20 cm, full colour throughout

Women's participation in the Second World War is often overlooked, yet thousands of them wore their uniform, working mainly as nurses, but offering also other services, such as managing the enrollment of men in military units. The movement started on...

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Military

World War II Soviet Field Weapons and Equipment A Visual Reference Guide

Ward Keith

ISBN: PB: 9781909384996, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2016
160 pp., 29.7x21.1 cm, 300 colour illus.

This title is the second in a series that employs a simple and effective concept to illustrate and describe the multiplicity of equipment and weapons systems used on the ground during World War II. Whilst many books have described such weapons and wa...

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