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Chig Sky Pilot to the Glider Pilots of Arnhem

Vockins Mike

ISBN: HB: 9781911512332, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 maps, 23 illus.

New, hitherto unseen, first-hand accounts of the battle of Arnhem, the heroic Allied military operation known as "Market Garden", become rarer as time passes. "Chig: Sky Pilot to the Glider Pilots of Arnhem" is the story of a choir boy, who became a...

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Wings Over Sinai The Egyptian Air Force During the Sinai War, 1956

Nicolle David, Ali Gabr Gabr, Cooper Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781911096610, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 120 black&white illus. 3 colour illus., 15 colour profiles

Sixty years since the tripartite aggression of France, Great Britain and Israel against Egypt, this is the first account about Egyptian military operations during the Suez War of 1956 (or "Suez Crisis", as it is known in the West). Based on research...

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Gator on the Rise Kamov's Hokum Attack Helicopter Story 1977-2015

Mladenov Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9781911096450, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
144 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 150 colour photos, 110 black&white photos

The Kamov Ka-50 (NATO codename Hokum) was developed as a new-generation heavily-armoured attack helicopter – originally conceived as a one-to-one replacement of the Mi-24 Hind. The programme was launched at the Moscow-based Kamov Experimental Design...

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Hawker Hunters at War Iraq and Jordan, 1958-1967

Cooper Tom, Salti Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9781911096252, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2016
104 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 113 black&white photos, 12 colour photos, 15 colour profiles

Designed by Sydney Camm as a swept wing, daytime interceptor with excellent manoeuvrability, the Hunter became the first jet aircraft manufactured by Hawker for the Royal Air Force. It set numerous aviation records and saw widespread service with a l...

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Green Leader Operation Gatling, the Rhodesian Military's Response to the Viscount Tragedy

Pringle Ian

ISBN: PB: 9781911096726, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
242 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 colour and black&white photos, maps

On 3 September 1978, a Russian-supplied heat-seeking missile shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount civilian airliner shortly after it took off from the lakeside holiday resort of Kariba in the Zambezi Valley. Miraculously, 18 people, including small chi...

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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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Phoenix: A Complete History of the Luftwaffe 1918-1945 Volume 1: The Phoenix is Reborn 1918-1934

Meredith Richard

ISBN: HB: 9781910294505, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2016
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 maps, 3 tables, 115 black&white illus.

Based on forty years of detailed research, the Phoenix Project is a unique history of the wartime German Luftwaffe. Going far beyond a simple description of famous air battles and operations the overall work draws extensively on original documents, s...

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Soviet Autogyros 1929-1942

Maslov Mikhail

ISBN: PB: 9781910294659, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2015
144 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 186 black&white and colour photos, profiles

The material presented in this book describes the history of the development, testing and limited operations of early Soviet autogyros. As in the rest of the world, autogyros appeared in the Soviet Union in a period of full exploration of the skies b...

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Gott Strafe England Volume 1: The German Air Assault against Great Britain 1914-1918

Parker Nigel J.

ISBN: HB: 9781909982710, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2015
424 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus., maps

"Gott Strafe England" is the definitive account detailing the German air attacks against Great Britain during the First World War. This method of attack was a totally new concept, taking the war away from the battlefield and into the previously safe...

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Gott Strafe England Volume 2: The German Air Assault against Great Britain 1914-1918

Parker Nigel J.

ISBN: HB: 9781910294512, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus., maps

"Gott Strafe England" is the definitive account detailing the German air attacks against Great Britain during the First World War. This method of attack was a totally new concept, taking the war away from the battlefield and into the previously safe...

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