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Paras Portugal's First Elite Force in Africa, 1961-1974

Cann John P.

ISBN: PB: 9781911512486, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
72 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 27 colour illus., 73 black&white illus.

Portuguese paratroopers or "paras" began as a stepchild of the army and found a home in the Portuguese Air Force in 1955. Initially, the post-World War Two Portuguese Army seemed to have had mixed emotions about the need for elite, special-purpose fo...

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Portuguese Commandos Feared Insurgent Hunters, 1961-1974

Cann John P.

ISBN: PB: 9781911096320, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
104 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 90 black&white illus., 10 colour photos, 10 tables, 15 maps

During the 13-year insurgency (1961-74) in Portuguese Africa, more than 800,000 men and women served in the Portuguese armed forces. Of this number, about 9,000 served as commandos (or about 1 percent). Yet their combat losses ? 357 dead, 28 missing...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes Back, June 1982 - December 1986

Hooton E. R., Nadimi Farzin, Cooper Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781911096573, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 135 colour illus., 5 maps, 5 charts

The Iran-Iraq War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century and accidentally created the current nightmare of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. There have been many books on the conflict, but this is the first detailed military history u...

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War On Two Fronts An Infantry Commander's War in Iraq and the Pentagon

Hughes Christopher P.

ISBN: PB: 9781612004310, Casemate, January 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 colour illus.

Shortly after the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the war in Iraq became the most confusing in U.S. history, the high command not knowing who to fight, who was attacking Coalition troops, and who among the different Iraqi groups were fighting each...

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Crete: The Battle for Heraklion 1941 The Campaign Revealed through Allied and Axis Accounts

Prekatsounakis Yannis

ISBN: HB: 9781911096337, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
352 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 400 black&white illus., 28 maps

Crete, 20 May 1941: the first campaign-sized airborne assault is launched. Many books have been written about this famous invasion, with the emphasis mainly on the battles for Maleme and Chania. The Battle for Heraklion – an epic struggle – remained...

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Weapon of Choice Small Arms and the Culture of Military Innovation

Ford Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9781849046503, Hurst Publishers, January 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book examines Western military technological innovation through the lens of developments in small arms during the twentieth century. These weapons have existed for centuries, appear to have matured only incrementally and m...

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Darfur and the British

O'Fahey R. S.

ISBN: HB: 9781850659488, Hurst Publishers, January 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This volume presents annotated selections from the British records that were copied in situ by the author in al-Fashir and Kutum in 1970 and 1974 and of which the originals were subsequently destroyed by accident. The British w...

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