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French Army of the Orient 1798-1801 Napoleon's beloved "Egyptians"

Martin Yves

ISBN: PB: 9781911512714, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
200 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 200 illus.

More than 200 years ago – under the inspiration and leadership of Bonaparte – a revolutionary French Army invaded Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire; this presence lasted beyond Bonaparte's own departure and subsequent rise to power as First Cons...

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Military

Fortress Salopia Exploring Shropshire's Military History from the Prehistoric Period to the Twentieth Century: 2016 Conference Proceedings

Jenkins Tim

ISBN: HB: 9781911512691, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
148 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 28 photos, 6 maps, 3 line drawings/plans, 1 archaeological survey plan

"Fortress Salopia" is the culmination of contributions from heritage and historic professionals, practising archaeologists and academic historians that explores the unique military past of the county of Shropshire from the prehistoric period to the 2...

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History

Military

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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Middle East

Islam

Future of Iran's Past Nizam al-Mulk Remembered

Yavari Neguin

ISBN: HB: 9781849048200, Hurst Publishers, July 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Future of Iran's Past" is a critical study of the life and afterlife of Nizam al-Mulk (1018-1092), celebrated Persian vizier and stalwart figure of power and authority in medieval Islamic society. He became the de facto ru...

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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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Aviation

Military

Fighter Aces Knights of the Skies

Sadler John, Serdiville Rosie

ISBN: PB: 9781612004822, Casemate, June 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Just over a decade after the first powered aeroplane flight, fearless pioneers were flying over the battlefields of France in flimsy biplanes. As more military aircraft took to the skies, they were equipped with weapons and their pilots began to deve...

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Sign Language

America

Fighting in the Shadows The Untold Story of Deaf People in the Civil War

Lang Harry G.

ISBN: HB: 9781563686801, Gallaudet University Press, May 2017
248 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 160 photographs

This visually rich volume presents Harry G. Lang's groundbreaking study of deaf people's experiences in the Civil War. Based on meticulous archival research, "Fighting in the Shadows" reveals the stories of both ordinary and extraordinary deaf soldie...

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Military

Far Distant Ships The Blockade of Brest 1793-1815

Barry Quintin

ISBN: HB: 9781911512141, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 20 black&white illus.

Throughout the long drawn out war at sea during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, it was a cardinal principle of British naval strategy to blockade the port of Brest, the largest and most important of the French naval bases that threatene...

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Europe

Military

For the Motherland! For Stalin! A Red Army Officer's Memoir of the Eastern Front

Bogachev Boris, Bogacheva Maria

ISBN: HB: 9781849047975, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Boris Bogachev's highly readable account of life as a young platoon commander in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 is both a riveting tale of hardship and courage and a deeply informative military history. The son of a Sovi...

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