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Battle of Majuba Hill The Transvaal Campaign, 1880-1881

Laband John

ISBN: PB: 9781911512387, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2017
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.

The ignominious rout of a British force at the battle of Majuba on 27 February 1881 and the death of its commander, Major General Sir George Pomeroy-Colley, was the culminating British disaster in the humiliating Transvaal campaign of 1880-1881 in So...

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Blitzkrieg From the Ground Up

Zetterling Niklas

ISBN: HB: 9781612004600, Casemate, May 2017
288 pp., 23.6x15.9 cm

The successes of the German Blitzkrieg in 1939-1941 were as surprising as they were swift. Allied decision-makers wanted to discover the secret to German success quickly, even though only partial, incomplete information was available to them. The fal...

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Bloody Engagements John R. Kelso's Civil War

Kelso John R., Grasso Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300210965, Yale University Press, April 2017
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

The first edited edition of a Union soldier's remarkable memoir, offering a rare perspective on guerrilla warfare and on the larger meanings of the Civil War. While tales of Confederate guerilla-outlaws abound, there are few scholarly accounts of th...

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Brazil, 1964-1985 The Military Regimes of Latin America in the Cold War

Klein Herbert S., Luna Francisco Vidal

ISBN: HB: 9780300223316, Yale University Press, April 2017
216 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.

An insightful study of the political, economic, and social changes Brazil experienced during the twenty-year rule of its Cold War military regime. Cuba's revolution in 1959 fueled powerful anti-Communist fears in the United States. As a result, in t...

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British Cruiser Tanks A9 & A10

Brown Peter

ISBN: PB: 9788360672280, Casemate, Model Centrum Progres, April 2017
88 pp., 29x20.5 cm, 124 black&white photos, 30 colour plates of artwork, 64 line drawings

The A9 and A10 were the first of the British Cruiser tanks. They played an important part in the battles in France in 1940 and North Africa in 1941. Covering their development, production and service this book fills a long-neglected gap in the histor...

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Bavarian Army During the Thirty Years War, 1618-1648 The Backbone of the Catholic League'

Spring Laurence

ISBN: PB: 9781911512394, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
128 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 charts, 14 black&white illus.

The Bavarian Army has been overshadowed by those of Gustavus Adolphus' and Wallenstein's Armies, but it was one of only a few armies to have fought throughout the Thirty Years War, first as part of the Catholic League and then an independent army aft...

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Blood and Bandages Fighting for Life in the RAMC Field Ambulance 1940-1946

Coward Liz, Earl William

ISBN: HB: 9781781220085, Casemate, Sabrestorm Publishing, April 2017
160 pp., 21x14.7 cm, heavlly illustrated

War changes everyone and for those lucky enough to survive there can be no return to the carefree days before the hell of war broke out. William Earl was a 26 year old Chemist's Assistant when his call up papers arrived and his life changed forever....

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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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Browned off and Bloody-Minded The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945

Allport Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780300226386, Yale University Press, March 2017
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

<p>More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, disc...

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Bailout Over Normandy A Flyboy's Adventures with the French Resistance and Other Escapades in Occupied France

Fahrenwald Ted

ISBN: PB: 9781612004747, ISBN: HB: 9781612001579, Casemate, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The remarkable memoir of a U.S. fighter pilot, who after his escapades of shooting down German aircraft in France began an even greater adventure after being shot down himself. Ted Fahrenwald was a 22-year-old daredevil pilot in the famed 352nd Fight...

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