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Miracle at the Litza Hitler's first Defeat on the Eastern Front

Jacobsen Alf R., Stewart Frank

ISBN: HB: 9781612005065, Casemate, September 2017
160 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 34 illus.

In the early summer of 1941 German mountain soldiers under the command of General Eduard Dietl set out in northern Norway up through Finland to the Russian border. Operation Silberfuchs was underway. The northernmost section of the Eastern Front woul...

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Most Dangerous Moment of the War Japan's Attack on the Indian Ocean, 1942

Clancy John

ISBN: PB: 9781612005331, Casemate, August 2017
208 pp., 22.8x15.4 cm

In early April 1942, a little-known chapter of World War II took place, said by Sir Winston Churchill to be "the most dangerous moment of the war" when the Japanese made their only major offensive westwards into the Indian Ocean. As historian Sir Art...

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Anthropology

Military Anthropology Soldiers, Scholars and Subjects at the Margins of Empire

McFate Montgomery

ISBN: HB: 9781849048125, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In almost every military intervention in its history, the US has made cultural mistakes that hindered attainment of its policy goals. From the strategic bombing of Vietnam to the accidental burning of the Koran in Afghanistan,...

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Biography & Memoires

Malinovskii Hero of the Soviet Union

Sokolov Boris, Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9781910777831, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2017
450 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, maps

The prolific writer Boris Sokolov – author of biographies of Georgii Zhukov and others – returns with a new book on Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovskii (1898-1967): a Marshal of the Soviet Union and former Defence Minister, who like so many of those who m...

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Marine Corps Tank Battles in Korea

Gilbert Oscar E.

ISBN: PB: 9781612005317, Casemate, July 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 photos

This thorough and engaging narrative of the Marine Corps tank battalions in Korea newly available in affordable paperback Full of first-hand accounts by veterans, this readable book tells the story of the Korean War through the eyes of a tanker Inclu...

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Marine Corps Tank Battles in Vietnam

Gilbert Oscar E.

ISBN: PB: 9781612005324, ISBN: HB: 9781932033663, Casemate, July 2017
304 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 16 photos

Marine Corps tankers in Vietnam had to battle the terrain and climate, and a savage unrelenting enemy, demonstrating the versatility, dedication, and courage that Americans have come to expect of their Marines. Author Oscar Gilbert weaves veterans' a...

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Meade and Lee After Gettysburg Volume 1: From Falling Waters to Culpeper Courthouse, July 14 to October 1, 1863

Hunt Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9781611213430, Casemate, Savas Beatie, June 2017
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 maps, 25 illus.

The period of the Civil War in Virginia sandwiched between the traditional ending date of the Gettysburg Campaign and the arrival of U. S. Grant is routinely overlooked. The operations conducted during that period have been overshadowed by the bloods...

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Political Science

My Enemy's Enemy India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal

Paliwal Avinash

ISBN: HB: 9781849048347, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The archetype of 'my enemy's enemy is my friend', India's political and economic presence in Afghanistan is often viewed as a Machiavellian ploy aimed against Pakistan. The first of its kind, this book interrogates that simplis...

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Magyar Warriors Volume 2: The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces, 1919-1945

Bernad Denes, Kliment Charles K.

ISBN: HB: 9781910777923, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
432 pp., 24.6x17.8 cm

The Hungarian armed forces (known as the Honvedseg) were built up from the 1920s, their expansion gaining momentum once Hungary became free of the strict post-First World War Trianon treaty limitations in August 1938. Politically, Hungary was looking...

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Miners at War 1914-1919 South Wales Miners in the Tunneling Companies on the Western Front

Wood Ritchie

ISBN: HB: 9781911096498, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 54 black&white illus., 24 maps, 26 tables

The author's compilation of a unique register identifying those individual South Wales miners who served in the tunnelling companies has allowed a remarkable story to be told. For the first time, the lives of individual South Wales miners are highlig...

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