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Courage without Glory The British Army on the Western Front 1915
ISBN: PB: 9781912174119, ISBN: HB: 9781910777183, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 colour maps, 15 black&white illus.
The year 1915 was one of unprecedented challenges for the British Army. Short of manpower, firepower and experience, the army needed time to adapt before it could hope to overcome the formidable German defences of the Western Front. Yet the insistent...
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Indian Army in the First World War New Perspectives
ISBN: HB: 9781911512783, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 illus., 2 maps
The book addresses the important global role of the Indian Army during the First World War. It is an academic reassessment of the army by both established and early career scholars of the Indian Army, as well as naval historians. It looks at the hist...
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Day Rommel Was Stopped The Battle of Ruweisat Ridge, 2 July 1942
ISBN: HB: 9781612005584, Casemate, October 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, photos, maps
George VI's biographer, Sir John Wheeler Bennett wrote "The actual turning of the tide in the 2nd World War may be accurately determined as the first week of July 1942". This book argues that it is possible to be even more exact: the tide turned at a...
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Miracle at the Litza Hitler's first Defeat on the Eastern Front
ISBN: HB: 9781612005065, Casemate, September 2017
160 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 34 illus.
In the early summer of 1941 German mountain soldiers under the command of General Eduard Dietl set out in northern Norway up through Finland to the Russian border. Operation Silberfuchs was underway. The northernmost section of the Eastern Front woul...
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Fortress Salopia Exploring Shropshire's Military History from the Prehistoric Period to the Twentieth Century: 2016 Conference Proceedings
ISBN: HB: 9781911512691, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
148 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 28 photos, 6 maps, 3 line drawings/plans, 1 archaeological survey plan
"Fortress Salopia" is the culmination of contributions from heritage and historic professionals, practising archaeologists and academic historians that explores the unique military past of the county of Shropshire from the prehistoric period to the 2...
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On Gladsmuir Shall the Battle Be! The Battle of Prestonpans 1745
ISBN: HB: 9781911512837, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus., 13 maps
In the summer of 1745, a charismatic (but inexperienced) young Prince sailed to Scotland – determined to wrest the crowns of Great Britain from the head of George II. In a few short weeks, he raised an army large enough to challenge the government's...
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New Way of Fighting: Professionalism in the English Civil War Proceedings of the 2016 Helion and Company "Century of the Soldier" Conference
ISBN: HB: 9781911512615, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
172 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 illus. and maps
War quickens the pace of military and technological change, and the increasing pace and scope of European warfare during the 16th and 17th centuries prepared the ground for the professional military forces we are familiar with today. The speakers at...
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Jungle Survival Pocket Manual 1939-1945 Instructions on Warfare, Terrain, Endurance and the Dangers of the Tropics
ISBN: HB: 9781910860212, Casemate, The Pool of London Press, July 2017
144 pp., 18x12 cm, 20 line illus.
During the Second World War, British and American soldiers were sent to new and challenging theatres, fighting to survive not only encounters with the enemy but the landscape they found themselves in. Being posted to South-East Asia and the Pacific t...
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Approach to Battle Training the Indian Army During the Second World War
ISBN: HB: 9781911096511, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2016
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 maps
The Indian Army was the largest volunteer army during the Second World War. Indian Army divisions fought in the Middle East, North Africa and Italy – and went to make up the overwhelming majority of the troops in South East Asia. Over two million per...
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No Armour But Courage Colonel Sir George Lisle, 1615-1648
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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