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Ancient World

Roman Legionary Soldiers of Empire

Elliott Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781612006116, Casemate, June 2018
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

The might of Rome rested on the back of its legions; the superbly trained and equipped fighting force with which the imperial Roman army conquered, subdued and ruled an empire for centuries. The legionary soldier served for 20 years, was rigorously t...

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Media Studies

Reporting War How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture, and Death to Cover World War II

Moseley Ray

ISBN: PB: 9780300234152, ISBN: HB: 9780300224665, Yale University Press, February 2018
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a for...

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Russian Army in the Great Northern War 1700-21 Uniforms, Organization, Materiel, Training and Combat Experience

Megorsky Boris

ISBN: PB: 9781911512882, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
196 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 8 colour illus., 30 black&white illus., maps

The book describes the armed forces of Peter the Great in its entirety, and covers in depth old Russian troops and irregulars, as well as Peter's new standing army (guards, infantry, dragoons, elite units and artillery) and his brand-new force(the na...

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Africa

Ratels on the Lomba The Story of Charlie Squadron

Scholtz Leopold

ISBN: PB: 9781911512875, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 colour and black&white illus., 1 map

Charlie Squadron – the iron fist of the South African Defense Force's 61 Mechanised Battalion Group – led the way on 3 October 1987 during the climactic battle on the Lomba River in Southern Angola. Not only were they up against a vastly superior f...

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Richmond Shall Not Be Given Up The Seven Days' Battles, June 25 - July 1, 1862

Crenshaw Doug

ISBN: PB: 9781611213553, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images and maps

In the spring of 1862, the largest army ever assembled on the North American continent landed in Virginia, on the peninsula between the James and York Rivers, and proceeded to march toward Richmond. Between that army and the capital of the Confederat...

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Biography & Memoires

Recollections from the Ranks Three Russian Soldiers' Autobiographies from the Napoleonic Wars

Boland Darrin

ISBN: HB: 9781912174188, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2017
156 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, illus. and maps

From Napoleon's invasion of 1812 to the Wars of Liberation and beyond, seen from the common Russian soldier's perspective. This volume is composed of three accounts previously unavailable in English. Detailed annotations illuminate a seldom understoo...

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Survival & Combat Guide

Running a Big Ship The Classic Guide to Commanding a Second World War Battleship

O'Conor Rory

ISBN: HB: 9781910860199, Casemate, The Pool of London Press, July 2017
240 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Having completed the highly prestigious commission of commanding HMS Hood, then the most famous warship in the world, in her halcyon pre-war years, Captain Rory O'Conor brought together all of his experiences to create the ultimate officers' guide fo...

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Rails of War Supplying the Americans and Their Allies in China-Burma-India

Hantzis Steven J.

ISBN: HB: 9781612348537, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Oppressive conditions, a thankless task, a theater of war long forgotten and barely even known at the time – nonetheless, as Rails of War demonstrates, without James Harry Hantzis and his fellow soldiers of the 721st Railway Operating Battalion, the...

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Law

Rebel Law Insurgents, Courts and Justice in Modern Conflict

Ledwidge Frank

ISBN: HB: 9781849047982, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In most societies, courts are where the rubber of government meets the road of the people. If a state cannot settle disputes and ensure that its decisions are carried out, for practical purposes it is no longer in charge. This...

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Reminiscences 1808-1815 Under Wellington The Peninsular and Waterloo Memoirs of William Hay

Bamford Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781911512325, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
164 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, maps, 3 black&white illus.

William Hay had a varied and exciting military career during the later years of the Napoleonic Wars, which took him to the Peninsula, to Waterloo, and, after 1815, to Canada. Graduating from the Royal Military College at Marlow, of which he begins hi...

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