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Bastogne Ardennes 1944

Smith Stephen, Forty Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781612004341, Casemate, Past & Present, October 2016
64 pp., 23.4x18.4 cm, 140 illus.

Bastogne will live forever in the annals of American military history. From the resounding "Nuts", in response to the German demand for surrender, to the breaking of the siege by Patton's Third Army – brilliantly disengaged from its positions on the...

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Hitler's Compromises Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany

Stoltzfus Nathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300217506, Yale University Press, September 2016
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A comprehensive and eye-opening examination of Hitler's regime, revealing the numerous strategic compromises he made in order to manage dissent History has focused on Hitler's use of charisma and terror, asserting that the dictator made few concessio...

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Recce Small Team Missions Behind Enemy Lines

Stadler Koos

ISBN: HB: 9781612004044, Casemate, September 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 illus.

South African Special Forces, known as the "Recces", are an elite group of soldiers that few can aspire to join. Shrouded in secrecy due to the covert nature of their work, the legendary Recces have long fascinated, but little is known about how they...

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Mobility Conquers The Story of 61 Mechanised Battalion Group 1978-2005

Steenkamp Willem, Heitman Helmoed-Romer

ISBN: HB: 9781911096528, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2016
1152 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 61 maps, 400 photos, 2 pp of colour badges & insignia

More than two years in the writing, this book is the warts-and-all story of the birth, career and death of the South African Defence Force's 61 Mechanised Battalion Group (1979-2005) – generally acknowledged as the best fighting unit in Africa in its...

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Europe

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"Russian" Civil Wars, 1916-1926 Ten Years That Shook the World

Smele Jonathan D.

ISBN: PB: 9781849047210, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
480 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth...

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Aviation

Eyes All Over the Sky Aerial Reconnaissance in the First World War

Streckfuss James

ISBN: HB: 9781612003672, Casemate, June 2016
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

After the first successful flight by the Wright brothers in 1903, the age of aviation was born, and by 1910 army commanders in the United States and Europe began ordering aircraft and experimenting with them. But at the outbreak of World War I in 191...

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History of Art

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Civil War in Art and Memory

Savage Kirk

ISBN: HB: 9780300214680, Yale University Press, May 2016
292 pp., 28x22.2 cm, 88 colour illus., 57 black&white illus.

Reflecting on the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War, this notable book brings together a range of media and perspectives that show how the conflict has been recorded and remembered over time. Fifteen essays written by leading scholars in a v...

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Travel

Military

Normandy War Cemeteries A Guide Book

Stewart Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9782815102933, Casemate, OREP, April 2016
48 pp., 24x17 cm

Normandy, North, South, East and West, has numerous war cemeteries, mostly from World War Two but also from World War One. The coastline of western Normandy, through the history of one pivotal day – D-Day June 6th 1944, has made it one of the most vi...

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Sword Behind the Shield A Combat History of the German Efforts to Relieve Budapest 1945 - Operation "Konrad" I, III, III

Szamveber Norbert

ISBN: HB: 9781909982192, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2016
408 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white photos, maps, tables

The history of the Hungarian theatre of war from late August 1944 to the end of March 1945 is a special chapter of the history of the Eastern Front during World War II. The Soviet 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts had encircled Budapest by Christmas 1944,...

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Fall of the Double Eagle The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary

Schindler John R.

ISBN: HB: 9781612347653, Casemate, Potomac Books, December 2015
328 pp., 23x15 cm

Although southern Poland and western Ukraine are not often thought of in terms of decisive battles in World War I, the impulses that precipitated the Battle for Galicia in August 1914?and the unprecedented carnage that resulted?effectively doomed the...

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