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Nanoweapons A Growing Threat to Humanity

Del Monte Louis A.

ISBN: HB: 9781612348964, Casemate, Potomac Books, April 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Nanoweapons just might render humanity extinct in the near future – a notion that is frightening and shocking but potentially true. In Nanoweapons Louis A. Del Monte describes the most deadly generation of military weapons the world has ever encounte...

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Duty Nobly Done The South Wales Borderers at Gallipoli 1915

Ashwood Rodney

ISBN: HB: 9781911512172, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
364 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 maps, 2 colour illus., 41 black&white illus.

While the main emphasis of the Great War was on the Western Front of France and Belgium, the British Army also took part in what was a lesser known conflict, but one of equal intensity and drama. This was at Gallipoli, on the shores of Turkey, betwee...

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Battle of Kursk Controversial and Neglected Aspects

Zamulin Valeriy, Britton Stuart

ISBN: HB: 9781911512370, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
388 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 154 photos

In this book, noted historian of the Battle of Kursk Valeriy Zamulin, the author of multiple Russian-language books on the Battle of Kursk and Destroying the Myth: The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July 1943: An Operational Narrative takes a fre...

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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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Camp Borden A Century of Service

March William

ISBN: PB: 9780978069629, Casemate, Aviaeology, March 2017
120 pp., 20.3x27.9 cm, 316 colour and black&white illus.

"Camp Borden: A Century of Service" is an overview of the history of this iconic institution. Over ten decades Borden has been a temporary posting, as either instructor or trainee, for countless thousands of military men and women who have served Can...

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Target Saigon, 1973-75 Volume 1: The Fall of South Vietnam

Grandolini Albert

ISBN: PB: 9781911512349, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
104 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 5 maps, 150 illus.

After 27 years of conflict it seemed that peace would finally settle on the Indochina peninsula on 27January 1973 with the signing of a peace accord in Paris. The North Vietnamese had previously launched their greatest offensive against South Vietnam...

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Hey for Old Robin! The Campaigns and Armies of the Earl of Essex During the First Civil War, 1642-44

Scott Chris, Turton Alan

ISBN: PB: 9781911512219, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 70 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.

"Hey For Old Robin!" was the cry of the Earl of Essex's army during the First Civil War as, contrary to modern popular belief, Robert Devereux was well-liked by the men he led. This book fills a gap in the literature of the Civil Wars, taking up the...

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Army of Brigadiers British Brigade Commanders at the Battle of Arras 1917

Harvey Trevor

ISBN: HB: 9781911512004, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
356 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 tables, 16 maps, 32 black&white illus.

There have been two major studies in recent years that have explored the roles and responsibilities of British generals at different levels within the British Expeditionary Force's command structure. Dr Simon Innes-Robbins has written about the gener...

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Taste of Success The First Battle of the Scarpe: The Opening Phase of the Battle of Arras, 9-14 April 1917

Smithson Jim

ISBN: HB: 9781911096405, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
288 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 40 black&white illus., 4 tables, 56 maps

Wedged between the Battles of the Somme and Passchendaele, the Battle of Arras has often been termed "The Forgotten Battle" with little in the way of supporting literature. "A Taste of Success" is aimed at filling that void -giving the reader an insi...

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Special Forces Berlin Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army's Elite, 1956-1990

Stejskal James

ISBN: HB: 9781612004440, Casemate, March 2017
336 pp., 23.6x15.9 cm

It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two U.S. Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two detachments were highly classified secrets. The massive arm...

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