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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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Ancient World

Roman Legionary Soldiers of Empire

Elliott Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781612006116, Casemate, June 2018
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

The might of Rome rested on the back of its legions; the superbly trained and equipped fighting force with which the imperial Roman army conquered, subdued and ruled an empire for centuries. The legionary soldier served for 20 years, was rigorously t...

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Russian Army in the Great Northern War 1700-21 Uniforms, Organization, Materiel, Training and Combat Experience

Megorsky Boris

ISBN: PB: 9781911512882, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
196 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 8 colour illus., 30 black&white illus., maps

The book describes the armed forces of Peter the Great in its entirety, and covers in depth old Russian troops and irregulars, as well as Peter's new standing army (guards, infantry, dragoons, elite units and artillery) and his brand-new force(the na...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Resisting Sherman A Confederate Surgeon's Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865

Robertson Thomas

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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Africa

Ratels on the Lomba The Story of Charlie Squadron

Scholtz Leopold

ISBN: PB: 9781911512875, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 colour and black&white illus., 1 map

Charlie Squadron – the iron fist of the South African Defense Force's 61 Mechanised Battalion Group – led the way on 3 October 1987 during the climactic battle on the Lomba River in Southern Angola. Not only were they up against a vastly superior f...

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Richmond Shall Not Be Given Up The Seven Days' Battles, June 25 - July 1, 1862

Crenshaw Doug

ISBN: PB: 9781611213553, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images and maps

In the spring of 1862, the largest army ever assembled on the North American continent landed in Virginia, on the peninsula between the James and York Rivers, and proceeded to march toward Richmond. Between that army and the capital of the Confederat...

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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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Survival & Combat Guide

Running a Big Ship The Classic Guide to Commanding a Second World War Battleship

O'Conor Rory

ISBN: HB: 9781910860199, Casemate, The Pool of London Press, July 2017
240 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Having completed the highly prestigious commission of commanding HMS Hood, then the most famous warship in the world, in her halcyon pre-war years, Captain Rory O'Conor brought together all of his experiences to create the ultimate officers' guide fo...

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Decorative Arts

Rothschild Renaissance A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum

Shirley Pippa, ? Thornton Dora

ISBN: PB: 9780861592128, Casemate, British Museum Press, June 2017
200 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 230 illus.

In 1898, Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild bequeathed to the British Museum the contents from the New Smoking Room at Waddesdon Manor, a collection of nearly 300 objects to be known as the Waddesdon Bequest. The Bequest contains some of the most beautifu...

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Rails of War Supplying the Americans and Their Allies in China-Burma-India

Hantzis Steven J.

ISBN: HB: 9781612348537, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Oppressive conditions, a thankless task, a theater of war long forgotten and barely even known at the time – nonetheless, as Rails of War demonstrates, without James Harry Hantzis and his fellow soldiers of the 721st Railway Operating Battalion, the...

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