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U.S. Army Special Warfare and the Secret War in Laos 1959-74 The Green Berets in the Land of a Million Elephants

Celeski Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9781612006659, Casemate, January 2019
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The Secret War in Laos was one of the first "Long Wars" for special operations, spanning a period of about thirteen years. It was one of the largest CIA-paramilitary operations of the time, kept out of the view of the American public until now. Bet...

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Fury from the North North Korean Air Force in the Korean War, 1950-1953

Dildy Douglas C.

ISBN: PB: 9781912390335, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2019
88 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 120 photos, 15-18 colour profiles, 3 maps

It was almost exactly 15.00 hours local time, on 25 June 1950, when nine Yakovlev Yak-9P fighters of the North Korea's 'Korean People's Air Force' (KPAF) simultaneously attacked Seoul International Airport and the Kimpo Airfield outside Seoul, the ca...

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Great Battle Never Fought The Mine Run Campaign, November 26 – December 2, 1863

Mackowski Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781611214079, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images, maps

The stakes for George Gordon Meade could not have been higher. After his stunning victory at Gettysburg in July of 1863, the Union commander spent the following months trying to bring the Army of Northern Virginia to battle once more and finish the...

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America

Stay and Fight it Out The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Culp's Hill and the North End of the Battlefield

Mackowski Chris, White Kristopher, Davis Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781611213317, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 maps, 150 illus.

July 1, 1863, had gone poorly for the Union army's XI Corps. Shattered in battle north of the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, the battered and embarrassed unit ended the day hunkered at the crest of a cemetery-topped hill south of the village. Reinf...

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Showdown in Western Sahara Air Warfare over the Last African Colony, 1957-1991

Cooper Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781912390359, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
88 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 110 photos, 10 maps, 12 colour profiles

The former colony of Spanish Sahara saw frequent outbursts of tribal and ethnic rebellions already while ruled by colonial authorities, in the late 19th and through into the early 20th Century. Its vastness and distances dictated the application of a...

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Europe

Vyborg 1944 The Last Soviet-Finnish Campaign on the Eastern Front

Irincheev Bair

ISBN: HB: 9781912390274, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
176 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 75 black&white photos, colour maps

The war between the Soviet Union and Finland in 1941-44 is much less known in the West and in Russia than the Winter War 1939-40. For Finland the Continuation War is one of cornerstones of national identity. The Vyborg offensive, the battle that ende...

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Crucible of the Jacobite '15 The Battle of Sheriffmuir 1715

Oates Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9781911512899, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 illus.

Just over three centuries ago, there was a major battle in Scotland that was to decide the fate of the newly established – and bitterly contested – union of England and Scotland. On one hand there was a numerically superior army, trained and armed bu...

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Courage without Glory The British Army on the Western Front 1915

Jones Spencer

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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And We Were Young Oundle School and the Great War

Pendrill Colin

ISBN: HB: 9781912174195, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
432 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 300 black&white photos

"A boy, he spent his boy's dear life for England". These words from a poem of 1916 were written in reaction to the news that a young boy, who had left Oundle School just two years earlier, had shot himself, whilst stranded in the Libyan Desert. With...

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Another Bloody Chapter in an Endless Civil War Volume 2: Northern Ireland and the Troubles 1988-90

Wharton Ken

ISBN: HB: 9781911512011, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 60 illus.

Irish Republicanism, like its bloodthirsty Loyalist equivalent, bred and nurtured men of evil; psychopathic men and women who killed without compunction or thought; men and women who thought nothing of robbing innocents of their lives, uncaring of th...

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