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Chickamauga Campaign Barren Victory: The Retreat into Chattanooga, the Confederate Pursuit, and the Aftermath of the Battle, September 21 to October 20, 1863

Powell David A.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213843, ISBN: HB: 9781611213287, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 15 images, 5 maps

Barren Victory is the third and concluding volume of the magisterial Chickamauga Campaign Trilogy, a comprehensive examination more than a decade in the making of one of the most important and complex military operations of the Civil War. The first...

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Decorative Arts

Bejewelled Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England

Awais-Dean Natasha

ISBN: PB: 9780861592098, Casemate, British Museum Press, December 2017
200 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 160 illus.

Jewellery is often viewed as a feminine preoccupation, but in Tudor and Jacobean England men wore just as much (if not more) jewellery as their female counterparts. Jewels themselves were valued not merely for their intrinsic monetary worth, but also...

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Under the Crescent Moon The Eleventh Corps in the American Civil War, 1862-1864. From the Defenses of Washington to Chancellorsville

Pula James S.

ISBN: HB: 9781611213379, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 maps, 40 illus.

The Eleventh Corps served in the Army of the Potomac for just twelve months (September 1862 – August 1863), but during that time played a pivotal role in the critical battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, hastened westward to reinforce a Union...

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"Rabble of Gentility" The Royalist Northern Horse, 1644-45

Barratt John

ISBN: PB: 9781911512981, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
120 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 30 black&white illus., maps

General George Monck once described the Royalist horse as "a rabble of gentility". Modern research has largely dispelled this image of the King's cavalry. However the description seems at first sight appropriate to the body of cavalry known as the "N...

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Military

First to Fight The U.S. Marines in World War I

Gilbert Oscar E., Cansiere Romain

ISBN: HB: 9781612005089, Casemate, December 2017
288 pp., 21x15 cm, 30 illus.

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!" The words of Captain Lloyd Williams at Belleau Wood in June 1918 entered United States Marine Corps legend, and the Marine Brigade's actions there – along with the censor's failure to take out the name of the Brigad...

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Biography & Memoires

Flag The Story of Revd David Railton MC and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior

Richards Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781612004471, Casemate, November 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 pages of photos

Reverend David Railton MC served as a chaplain on the Western Front during World War I. Attached to three divisions between 1916 and 1918, Railton supported the soldiers in their worst moments, he buried the fallen, comforted the wounded, wrote to th...

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Biography & Memoires

Recollections from the Ranks Three Russian Soldiers' Autobiographies from the Napoleonic Wars

Boland Darrin

ISBN: HB: 9781912174188, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2017
156 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, illus. and maps

From Napoleon's invasion of 1812 to the Wars of Liberation and beyond, seen from the common Russian soldier's perspective. This volume is composed of three accounts previously unavailable in English. Detailed annotations illuminate a seldom understoo...

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Aviation

Military

Prisoner of the Swiss A World War II Airman's Story

Culler Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9781612005546, Casemate, November 2017
160 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

During World War II, 1,517 members of US aircrews were forced to seek asylum in Switzerland. Most neutral countries found reason to release US airmen from internment, but Switzerland took its obligations under the Hague Convention more seriously than...

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Military

Blue & Gray Almanac The Civil War in Facts and Figures, Recipes and Slang

Nofi Albert

ISBN: HB: 9781612005522, Casemate, November 2017
304 pp., 21x15 cm

Albert Nofi tells the story of the American War through a range of insightful essays, anecdotes, and facts. Did you know... - During the final days of the war some Richmond citizens were wont to throw "Starvation Parties", at which elegantly attired...

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Military

In the Shadows of Victory II America's Forgotten Military Leaders, The Spanish-American War to World War II

Phillips Thomas D.

ISBN: HB: 9781612005461, Casemate, November 2017
288 pp., 21x15 cm, 30 illus.

During the course of America's existence, history has enshrined an exceptional few military leaders in the public's collective consciousness while sometimes ignoring others often equally as deserving, relegating them to footnotes at best. Though the...

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