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Backroom Boys Alfred Conlon and Army's Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs,1942-46

Sligo Graeme

ISBN: HB: 9781921941122, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
416 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

"The Backroom Boys" is the remarkable, but little known, story of how a varied group of talented intellectuals, drafted into the Australian Army in the dark days of 1942, provided high-level policy advice to Australia's most senior soldier, General B...

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Bastogne Ardennes 1944

Smith Stephen, Forty Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781612004341, Casemate, Past & Present, October 2016
64 pp., 23.4x18.4 cm, 140 illus.

Bastogne will live forever in the annals of American military history. From the resounding "Nuts", in response to the German demand for surrender, to the breaking of the siege by Patton's Third Army – brilliantly disengaged from its positions on the...

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Beyond Adversity "U" Company, 15th Battalion 1941-1942

Park William

ISBN: HB: 9780980658279, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
384 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

In November 1941, about 100 university students began their short-term compulsory military training with the 15th Infantry Battalion. Most were aged 19-22, had daytime jobs and were evening or external students from the arts, commerce and law faculti...

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Bully Beef & Balderdash Some Myths of the AIF Examined and Debunked

Wilson Graham

ISBN: HB: 9781921941566, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
448 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

The Australian Imperial Force, first raised in 1914 for overseas war service, became better known by its initials – the "AIF". There was a distinct character to those who enlisted in the earliest months and who were destined to fight on Gallipoli. Du...

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Fiction

Classic War Fiction

Behind the Lines

Morris W. F.

ISBN: PB: 9781612004136, Casemate, August 2016
314 pp., 19x13.2 cm

I never saw the man again, alive or dead. One will say that I saw him only for a moment, that it was misty at the time, and that even I did not recognise the features, covered as they were with grime and stubble. Yet I am sure that the taller of the...

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Contemporary Art

Brian Rice Catalogue Raisonne of Paintigs, Drawings, Collages and Studies 1952-2016

Turner Silvie

ISBN: HB: 9781908326966, Casemate, Sansom & Co, August 2016
312 pp., 28x23.5 cm, colour illus.

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Medieval

Battle of Val Es Dunes Summer 1047, when the "Batard" became the Duke

Hauguel Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9782815102995, Casemate, OREP, July 2016
48 pp., 24x17 cm

Duke William of Normandy (1027-1087) is best known for his conquest of England but his eventful and chaotic youth is often forgotten. William inherited the Dukedom at the age of eight when his father, Robert the Magnificent, died in 1035 on his retur...

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Political Science

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Blinking Red Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11

Allen Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781612348230, ISBN: HB: 9781612346151, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
280 pp., 23x15 cm

After the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission argued that the United States needed a powerful leader, a spymaster, to forge the scattered intelligence bureaucracies into a singular enterprise to vanquish America's new enemies – stateless intern...

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Aviation

Black Hawks Rising The Story of AMISOM's Successful War against Somali Insurgents, 2007-2014

Oloya Opiyo

ISBN: HB: 9781910777695, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2016
286 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Black Hawks Rising – the title of this book – acknowledges the formation and deployment of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) in March 2007. Initially confined to peacekeeping within the Mogadishu enclave, it transformed into a peace-makin...

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Classic War Fiction

Bretherton Khaki or Field-Grey?

Morris W. F.

ISBN: PB: 9781612003764, Casemate, May 2016
320 pp., 19x13.2 cm

Towards the end of the war as the Germans are in their final retreat in November 1918, a British raiding party stumbles across a strange and eerie scene in a ruined chateau, under fire. Following the strains of a familiar tune, and understandably per...

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