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What Did You Do In Great War, Grandfather? The Life and Times of an Edwardian Horse Artillery Officer

Barrington Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781912174034, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 90 photos and maps

Part history, part social documentary, part love story, this is a grandson's search for what his grandfather did in the Great War. Drawing on war diaries in the National Archives, unit records in the Royal Artillery museum, and a unique pictorial rec...

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War by Numbers Understanding Conventional Combat

Lawrence Christopher A.

ISBN: HB: 9781612348865, Casemate, Potomac Books, August 2017
498 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

"War by Numbers" assesses the nature of conventional warfare through the analysis of historical combat. Christopher A. Lawrence establishes what we know about conventional combat and why we know it. By demonstrating the impact a variety of factors ha...

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Why Comrades Go to War Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict

Verhoeven Harry, Roessler Philip

ISBN: PB: 9781849049085, ISBN: HB: 9781849046527, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In October 1996, a motley crew of ageing Marxists and unemployed youth coalesced to revolt against Mobutu Seso Seko, president of Zaire/Congo since 1965. Backed by a Rwanda-led regional coalition that drew support from Asmara t...

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Warriors of the 106th The Last Infantry Division in WWII

King Martin, Johnson Ken

ISBN: HB: 9781612004587, Casemate, July 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The 106th were fresh, green and right in the pathway of the 5th German Army when the Battle of the Bulge began at 0530 hours on December 16, 1944. This book covers the history along with the individual stories of the incredible heroism, sacrifice and...

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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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When Britain Saved the West The Story of 1940

Prior Robin

ISBN: PB: 9780300226430, Yale University Press, May 2017
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

From the comfortable distance of seven decades, it is quite easy to view the victory of the Allies over Hitler's Germany as inevitable. But in 1940 Great Britain's defeat loomed perilously close, and no other nation stepped up to confront the Nazi th...

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Africa

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War for Africa 12 Months that Transformed a Continent

Bridgland Fred

ISBN: HB: 9781612004921, Casemate, May 2017
360 pp., 23.6x15.9 cm

The Angolan Civil War lasted over a quarter of a century, from 1975 to 2002. Beginning as a power struggle between two former liberation movements, the MPLA and UNITA, it became a Cold War struggle with involvement from the Soviet Union, Cuba, South...

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Africa

Why Europe Intervenes in Africa Security, Prestige and the Legacy of Colonialism

Gegout Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9781849046930, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Why Europe Intervenes in Africa" analyses the underlying causes of all European decisions for and against military interventions in conflicts in African states since the late 1980s. It focuses on the main European actors who h...

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Military

White Water Red Hot Lead On Board U.S. Navy Swift Boats in Vietnam

Daly Dan

ISBN: HB: 9781612004785, Casemate, March 2017
336 pp., 23.6x15.9 cm

During the Vietnam war 3500 officers and men served in the Swift Boat program in a fleet of 130 boats with no armor plating. The boats patrolled the coast and rivers of South Vietnam, with the average age of the crew being twenty-four. Their days con...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

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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