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Churchill's Secret War with Lenin British and Commonwealth Military Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918-20

Wright Damien

ISBN: HB: 9781911512103, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
504 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 8 maps, 8 colour illus., 198 black&white illus.

After three years of great loss and suffering on the Eastern Front, Imperial Russia was in crisis and on the verge of revolution. In November 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks (later known as "Soviets") seized power, signed a peace treaty with the Central Pow...

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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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World War II Soviet Field Weapons and Equipment A Visual Reference Guide

Ward Keith

ISBN: PB: 9781909384996, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2016
160 pp., 29.7x21.1 cm, 300 colour illus.

This title is the second in a series that employs a simple and effective concept to illustrate and describe the multiplicity of equipment and weapons systems used on the ground during World War II. Whilst many books have described such weapons and wa...

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Europe

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Battle of Montgomery, 1644 The English Civil War in the Welsh Borderlands

Worton Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9781911096238, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
120 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 8 maps, 8 black&white illus., 42 colour illus.

Reflecting on the Battle of Montgomery, Sir Thomas Myddelton – who had jointly commanded the victorious Parliamentarian Army – later described it as: "as great a victory as hath been gained in any part of the kingdom". Fought on 18 September 1644 in...

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Western Desert Campaign 1940-41

Wahlert Glenn

ISBN: PB: 9780975766927, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
192 pp., 24.7x17.5 cm

While the North African campaign has been studied in detail over the years, much of this study has been dedicated to the battles between the British 8th Army and Rommel's Afrika Korps. There has been little serious study of Wavell's campaign against...

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Another Bloody Chapter in an Endless Civil War Volume 1: Northen Ireland and the Troubles 1984-87

Wharton Ken

ISBN: HB: 9781911096276, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

The period under review covers the years of 1984-1987 – nearing the end of the third decade of the Troubles. It will use research and oral contributions from the mid to late 1980s and will show not only how the Provisional IRA (PIRA) grew in financia...

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Bully Beef & Balderdash Some Myths of the AIF Examined and Debunked

Wilson Graham

ISBN: HB: 9781921941566, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
448 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

The Australian Imperial Force, first raised in 1914 for overseas war service, became better known by its initials – the "AIF". There was a distinct character to those who enlisted in the earliest months and who were destined to fight on Gallipoli. Du...

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Biography & Memoires

Dust Donkeys and Delusions The Myth of Simpson and his Donkey Exposed

Wilson Graham

ISBN: PB: 9781921941740, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
416 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

"Dust, Donkeys and Delusion" examines and clinically debunks the myth that has grown up around Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick, the so-called "Man with the Donkey", the quintessential Australian "hero" of Gallipoli. While the various elements of the...

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Biography & Memoires

America

American Ulysses A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

White Ronald C.

ISBN: HB: 9781400069026, Casemate, Presidio Press, September 2016
816 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 120 illus.

A major new biography of the Civil War general and American president, by the author of the New York Times bestseller, A. Lincoln. The dramatic story of one of America's greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a majo...

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Contemporary Art

Tree Within

Wilkinson Alan

ISBN: PB: 9781908326898, Casemate, Sansom & Co, September 2016
112 pp., 26.5x23 cm, 100 colour illus.

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