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Somme Four Years of Fighting

Brown Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9782815102926, Casemate, OREP, April 2017
48 pp., 24x17 cm

Throughout the course of centuries, the Somme has been the scene of numerous battles and the passageway for armies. However, the Great War of 1914-1918 was, by far, the most murderous conflict to fall upon the region, leaving in its wake an indelible...

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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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Understanding the Ypres Salient An Illuminating Battlefield Guide

Scotland Thomas, Heys Steven

ISBN: PB: 9781911512509, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
256 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 49 maps, 147 colour illus.

This work aims to provide the reader with a clear understanding of what happened in Ypres Salient between 1914 and 1918. It sets out to transport the visitor around sites of importance for the First, Second and Third Battle of Ypres, and in so doing...

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Two Wheels to War A Tale of Twelve Bright Young Men Who Volunteered Their Own Motorcycles for the British Expeditionary Force 1914

Shelley Martin, Shelley Nick

ISBN: HB: 9781911096580, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
302 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 maps, 100 black&white illus.

"Two Wheels To War" is a scholarly but entertaining look at the largely forgotten world of the motorcycle despatch rider in the early months of the First World War, then a new phenomenon in the field of conflict. At the heart of the book is an illust...

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On the Frontlines of the Television War A Legendary War Cameraman in Vietnam

Hirashiki Yasutsune

ISBN: HB: 9781612004723, Casemate, April 2017
304 pp., 23.6x15.9 cm

"On The Frontlines of the Television War" is the story of Yasutsune "Tony" Hirashiki's ten years in Vietnam – beginning when he arrived in 1966 as a young freelancer with a 16mm camera but without a job or the slightest grasp of English and ending in...

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Passchendaele 103 Days in Hell

Churchill Alexandra, Holmes Andrew, Dyer Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9781911512301, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
224 pp., 24.2x27.5 cm, 8 maps, 130 black&white illus.

2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the 3rd Battle of Ypres. In "Passchendaele: 103 Days in Hell", Alexandra Churchill, with Andrew Holmes and Jonathan Dyer, explains this pivotal engagement using 103 personal stories of men who fought in it. Using a...

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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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Imperial Bayonets Tactics of the Napoleonic Battery, Battalion and Brigade as Found in Contemporary Regulations (New Edition)

Nafziger George

ISBN: HB: 9781911512233, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
296 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 7 charts, 94 tables, 132 illus.

"Imperial Bayonets" examines the maneuvering systems of the French, Prussians, Russians, Austrians and British from 1792 to 1815. It studies infantry maneuvers and firepower, cavalry maneuvers, and artillery. It is THE definitive work on Napoleonic t...

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Lutzen and Bautzen Napoleon's Spring Campaign of 1813

Nafziger George

ISBN: HB: 9781911512271, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
388 pp., 24.5x17 cm, maps, 100 illus.

One army lost in the Russian winter, Napoleon raised another to keep his grip on Europe. A tired Russian Army and a raw Prussian force marched to meet him. "Lutzen and Bautzen" is a detailed and masterful study of a misunderstood and little covered c...

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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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