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Battle of Kursk The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counter-Offensive, July-August 1943

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: PB: 9781912390502, ISBN: HB: 9781910777671, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
390 pp., 24.6x16.8 cm, 6 maps

"The Battle of Kursk: The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counter- Offensive, July-August 1943", offers a peculiarly Soviet view of one of the Second World War's most critical events. While the Germans defeat s at Moscow and Stalingrad showed tha...

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Battle of Moscow 1941-42 The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counter-Offensive along the Moscow Strategic Direction

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: PB: 9781912390458, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
476 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 12 maps

Written by the Soviet General Staff in 1943 Reveals the strategy and tactics that went into the Soviet defence of Moscow Edited and translated by one of the world's experts on the Soviet contribution to World War II "The Battle of Moscow, 1941-1942:...

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Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye Keeping Spain out of World War II

Simmons Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781612006857, Casemate, September 2018
256 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 22 black&white photos, 6 maps

Fascinating account of how intelligence and espionage were enacted to stop Spain from joining the Axis during World War II A highly readable account describing the colourful characters and unbelieveable schemes involved This book will appeal to those...

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Union Soldiers in the American Civil War Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages

Herdegen Lance J.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213393, Casemate, Savas Beatie, September 2018
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 illus.

Some Confederates called him a "Bluebelly", "Mudsill", and even a "Lincolnite" (for President Abraham Lincoln), but the name that has carried down through the decades is simply "Billy Yank". Author Lance Herdegen tells his fascinating multi-faceted s...

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Arras 1914-1918 A Comprehensive Guide to the Battlefields. Part 1 - Arras South

Smithson Jim

ISBN: PB: 9781912174836, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
304 pp., 21x14.5 cm, c 70 colour ills & 40 maps (c 37 colour & 3 black&white)

Arras is known by some as the forgotten battle, because of this it's not one of the most written about or visited First World War areas on the Western Front; in fact, it lacks the general awareness levels when compared to the iconic battlefields of t...

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'Mad Mike' Hoare Legendary Leader of the Wild Geese. A Biography

Hoare Chris

ISBN: HB: 9781612005690, Casemate, September 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 pages of colour & black&white photos

Mad Mike' Hoare became a legend as the leader of the 'Wild Geese' mercenary soldiers in the Congo, and notorious following his failed coup d'état in the Seychelles. He fought in the British Army during World War II and in the years after the war he b...

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Robert E. Lee in War and Peace The Photographic History of a Confederate and American Icon

Hopkins Donald

ISBN: PB: 9781611214215, Casemate, Savas Beatie, September 2018
216 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 154 photos, 3 charts

Robert E. Lee is well known as a Confederate general and as an educator later in life, but most people are exposed to the same handful of images of one of America's most famous sons. It has been almost seven decades since anyone has attempted a serio...

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Major General Robert E. Rodes of the Army of Northern Virginia A Biography

Collins Darrell

ISBN: PB: 9781611214208, Casemate, Savas Beatie, September 2018
504 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 23 images, 19 maps

From First Manassas in 1861 to Third Winchester in 1864, Robert Rodes served in all the great battles and campaigns of the legendary Army of Northern Virginia. Jedediah Hotchkiss, Stonewall Jackson's renowned mapmaker, expressed the feelings of many...

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Aviation

Forgotten Heroes Aces of the Royal Hungarian Air Force in the Second World War

Stenge Csaba B.

ISBN: HB: 9781911512684, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
464 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 400 black&white and colour photos, 40 tables

Prior to the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces – including the Air Force – prepared to engage the Little Entente forces; however, after a short skirmish prior to the war with the Slovaks, during the war, their oppone...

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Iraqi Mirages Mirage F.1 in Service with Iraqi Air Force, 1981-2003

Cooper Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781912390311, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
88 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 110 black&white photos, 12 colour photos, 18 colour profil

Originally envisaged as a privately funded project for a possible future NATO-fighter, the Dassault Mirage F.1 evolved into one of the most aesthetically attractive and commercially most successful combat aircraft of the 1970s and 1980s. Developed i...

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