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Secret Expedition The Anglo-Russian Invasion of Holland 1799

van Uythoven Geert

ISBN: HB: 9781912390205, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
304 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 23 images, 20 photos, 8 colour maps

In 1799, as part of the Second Coalition against France, an Anglo-Russian army landed in Holland to overthrow the Batavian Republic and to reinstate the Stadtholder William V of Orange. Initially called "The Secret Expedition", although not really a...

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Battle of Cherkassy

von Vormann Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9781612006031, Casemate, September 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 maps

In 1943 the tide began to turn against Germany on the Eastern Front. Their summer offensive, Operation Citadel, was a failure, and the Red Army seized the initiative, despite appallingly high losses. Waging a war of attrition, the Russians gradually...

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Military History of Modern South Africa

van der Waag Ian

ISBN: HB: 9781612005829, Casemate, April 2018
420 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 illus.

Twentieth-century South Africa saw continuous, often rapid and fundamental socio-economic and political change. The century started with a brief but total war. Less than ten years later Britain brought the conquered Boer republics and the Cape and Na...

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Africa

Biafra's War 1967-1970 A Tribal Conflict in Nigeria That Left a Million Dead

Venter Al J.

ISBN: PB: 9781912174720, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 100 black&white and colour photos, 4 maps

Almost half a century has passed since the Nigerian Civil War ended. But memories die hard, because a million or more people perished in that internecine struggle, the majority women and children, who were starved to death. Biafra's war was modern A...

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That Field of Blood The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862

Vermilya Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781611213751, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images and maps

September 17, 1862 – one of the most consequential days in the history of the United States – was a moment in time when the future of the country could have veered in two starkly different directions. Confederates under General Robert E. Lee had em...

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Biography & Memoires

Teenage Resistance Fighter With the Maquisards in Occupied France

Verneret Hubert

ISBN: HB: 9781612005508, Casemate, September 2017
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

September 5, 1944 "The Americans are approaching; we follow their progress impatiently on the radio, by intercepting messages reserved for the commandos. They cannot be beaten now. But it is up to us to do the impossible to speed up the progression o...

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Battle of the Bridges The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Operation Market Garden

van Lunteren Frank

ISBN: PB: 9781612004778, ISBN: HB: 9781612002323, Casemate, June 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Operation Market Garden has been recorded as a complete Allied failure in World War II, an overreach that resulted in an entire airborne division being destroyed at its apex. However, within that operation were episodes of heroism that still remain u...

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Biography & Memoires

Chig Sky Pilot to the Glider Pilots of Arnhem

Vockins Mike

ISBN: HB: 9781911512332, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 maps, 23 illus.

New, hitherto unseen, first-hand accounts of the battle of Arnhem, the heroic Allied military operation known as "Market Garden", become rarer as time passes. "Chig: Sky Pilot to the Glider Pilots of Arnhem" is the story of a choir boy, who became a...

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Africa

Battle for Angola The End of the Cold War in Africa c 1975-89

Venter Al J.

ISBN: HB: 9781911096412, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
496 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 200 black&white photos, 2 x 16 pp colour sections

Following the publication of Al Venter's successful Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa – shortlisted by the New York Military Affairs Symposium's "Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for 2013" – his Battle for Angola delves still further into the troubled hi...

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Spearhead of the Fifth Army The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Italy, from the Winter Line to Anzio

van Lunteren Frank

ISBN: HB: 9781612004273, Casemate, August 2016
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 illus.

Upon the completion of the Sicily and Salerno Campaigns in 1943, the paratroopers of Colonel Reuben Tucker's 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment were among the first Allied troops to enter Naples. A ghost town at first sight, the residents soon express...

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