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Fighting for General Lee Confederate General Rufus Barringer and the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade
ISBN: PB: 9781611213850, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 21 images, 10 maps
Rufus Barringer fought on horseback during the Civil War with General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and rose to lead the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade in some of the war's most difficult combats. Now in paperback, Fighting for General Lee: Confed...
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£15,00
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Generals of Shiloh Character in Leadership, April 6-7, 1862
ISBN: HB: 9781611213690, Casemate, Savas Beatie, April 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 6 maps, 58 images
"Character is destiny" wrote Greek Philosopher Heraclitus more than twenty-five centuries ago. Douglas Southall Freeman, the Army of Northern Virginia's preeminent historian, echoed that view when he wrote, "Further study... may prove both more profi...
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£26,00
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Field Marshal The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel
ISBN: PB: 9781612005669, Casemate, February 2018
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, brilliant soldier, a devoted husband and proud father; intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical, and arrogant. In France in 1940, then for two years in North Africa, then finally...
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£15,00
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Campaigns and Battles of General Nathan Bedford Forrest Kentucky to Chickamauga, 1861-1863
ISBN: HB: 9781611212846, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 58 maps, 2 images
Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of the most intriguing characters to emerge during the Civil War. There are no shortage of books and articles on the man and his generalship, with topics ranging from hero worship based on his extraordinary battlefield...
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£22,00
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Gerhard Fieseler The Man Behind the Storch
ISBN: HB: 9781911512745, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
324 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white photos
The Fieseler Storch is the most famous slow-speed aircraft of the Second World War. A remarkably versatile reconnaissance plane, as well as a Nazi showpiece and diplomatic gift – and even, in post-war British hands, a tool in helicopter design – it w...
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£25,00
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Seeker After Truths The Life and Times of G. A. Studdert Kennedy ("Woodbine Willie") 1883-1929
ISBN: HB: 9781912174041, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy became one of the most famous army chaplains of the First World War, earning the nickname "Woodbine Willie" because of his habit of giving out both cigarettes and bibles to the men at the front. During the war he also earned...
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£25,00
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Diversifying Diplomacy My Journey from Roxbury to Dakar
ISBN: HB: 9781612349503, Casemate, Potomac Books, February 2018
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 photos, 6 illus.
Today, diverse women of all hues represent this country overseas and elsewhere. Some have called this development the "Hillary Effect." But well before Hillary Clinton, our most recent female secretary of state, there was Madeleine Albright, the firs...
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£24,00
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First Kills The Illustrated Biography of Fighter Pilot Wladyslaw Gnys
ISBN: HB: 9781612005560, Casemate, December 2017
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, highly illustrated
Polish pilot W³adek Gnyœ was credited with shooting down the first two German aircraft of World War II on September 1, 1939. On 2 September 1939, as Gnys' squadron took off near Krakow to intercept the German invaders, German Stuka pilot Frank Neuber...
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£25,00
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Resisting Sherman A Confederate Surgeon's Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865
ISBN: PB: 9781611213867, ISBN: HB: 9781611212600, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 maps, 45 images
Surprisingly little ink has been spilled on the final months of the Civil War in the Carolinas, despite its fascinating cast of characters, host of combats large and small, and its impact on the course of the war. Now in paperback, Resisting Sherman:...
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£15,00
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£16,00
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Gabriel Rains and the Confederate Torpedo Bureau
ISBN: PB: 9781611213508, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
168 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 31 images, 2 maps
"Ironclads are said to master the world, but torpedoes master the ironclads". Gabriel J. Rains was a Confederate Brigadier General who was more than a military officer – he was a scientist. His Civil War appointment gave him an opportunity to develop...
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