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Faces from the Front Harold Gillies, The Queen's Hospital, Sidcup and the Origins of Modern Plastic Surgery

Bamji Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781911512660, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
304 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 61 colour illus., 232 black&white illus., 2 tables

"Faces from the Front" examines the British response to the huge number of soldiers who incurred facial injuries during the First World War. These injuries were produced within a short time span, but (for the first time in a major conflict) did not n...

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Christianity

Europe

Faith in Conflict The Impact of the Great War on the Faith of the People of Britain

Bell Stuart

ISBN: HB: 9781911512677, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos

It may seem obvious that the Great War, with its immense cost in terms of lives lost and injuries of body and mind incurred, must have had a significant impact on the religious faith of the British people. There is much anecdotal evidence to support...

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Military

Oder Front 1945, Volume 1 General Gotthard Heinrici, Heeresgruppe Weichsel and Germany's Final Defense in the East, 20 March-3 May 1945

Hamilton Stephan A.

ISBN: PB: 9781912174218, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2017
450 pp., 21.6x28 cm, 56 maps, black&white photos

Nazi Germany's fall is regularly depicted through the dual images of Adolf Hitler directing the final battle for Berlin from his claustrophobic Fuhrerbunker, and the subsequent Soviet victory immortalized by the flying of the 'Hammer and Sickle' over...

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Biography & Memoires

Malinovskii Hero of the Soviet Union

Sokolov Boris, Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9781910777831, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2017
450 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, maps

The prolific writer Boris Sokolov – author of biographies of Georgii Zhukov and others – returns with a new book on Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovskii (1898-1967): a Marshal of the Soviet Union and former Defence Minister, who like so many of those who m...

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Military

Wasted Years, Wasted Lives Volume 2: The British Army in Northern Ireland 1978-79

Wharton Ken

ISBN: PB: 9781912174157, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2017
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 70 black&white photos, 4 maps

Volume 2 does what it says on the can – it continues from where the first volume left off. It looks at the bloody years of 1978 and 1979. It covers eyewitness accounts from soldiers on the ground and there is the occasional comment from civilians who...

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Aviation

Flight of the Dragon A Taiwanese U-2 Pilot's Long Journey to Freedom

Rios Bromley Linda

ISBN: PB: 9781911096481, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
152 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 photos

When Chang-di "Robin" Yeh departed on his scheduled recon flight on 1 November 1963, his life was full of promise. In an instant, the experienced pilot transitioned from a free man to a prisoner held on spy charges by mainland China. Promised early o...

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Killer Butterflies Combat, Psychology and Morale in the British 19th (Western) Division 1915-18

Roberts James

ISBN: HB: 9781911512240, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
168 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

In this ground-breaking work, James Roberts examines the willingness and ability of British volunteer and conscript infantrymen of the Great War to perform the soldier's fundamental role: to kill or maim the enemy, and accept the attendant chance of...

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Bullets, Bombs and Poison Gas Supplying the Troops on the Western Front 1914-1918 (Documentary Sources)

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512080, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 39 tables, 32 colour illus.

Soldiers in the trenches were issued with four bullets a day unless they were either snipers or manned a machine gun. This does not seem like a lot of bullets. However, four bullets a day is 28 per week. Therefore a million soldiers need 28 million b...

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Military

Polonica

Narvik and the Allies The Polish Brigade at Narvik 1940

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: PB: 9781911512288, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
216 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.

This work is about the co-operation between the Allies in Norway between April and June 1940 by initially considering the military-politics of the period August 1939 until the German invasion of Norway in April 1940. Much of the work examines the rol...

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Military

Lost Opportunity The Battle of the Ardennes 22 August 1914

House Simon J.

ISBN: HB: 9781911096429, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
256 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 50 colour maps

On 22 August 1914 – on a battlefield 100 kilometres wide stretching from Luxembourg to the River Meuse – two French and two German armies clashed in a series of encounters known collectively as the Battle of the Ardennes. On that day, 27,000 young Fr...

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