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First Kills The Illustrated Biography of Fighter Pilot Wladyslaw Gnys
ISBN: HB: 9781612005560, Casemate, December 2017
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, highly illustrated
Polish pilot W³adek Gnyœ was credited with shooting down the first two German aircraft of World War II on September 1, 1939. On 2 September 1939, as Gnys' squadron took off near Krakow to intercept the German invaders, German Stuka pilot Frank Neuber...
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£25,00
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Resisting Sherman A Confederate Surgeon's Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865
ISBN: PB: 9781611213867, ISBN: HB: 9781611212600, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 maps, 45 images
Surprisingly little ink has been spilled on the final months of the Civil War in the Carolinas, despite its fascinating cast of characters, host of combats large and small, and its impact on the course of the war. Now in paperback, Resisting Sherman:...
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£15,00
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£16,00
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US Army Cooks' Manual Rations, Preparation, Recipes, Camp Cooking
ISBN: HB: 9781612004709, Casemate, December 2017
240 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm
An army marches on its stomach – so the classic saying goes. This book brings together excerpts from contemporary manuals for U.S. Army cooks to show how the U.S. Army fed and provisioned its troops in the early 20th century and lift the lid on what...
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£12,00
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School in Arms Uppingham and the Great War
ISBN: HB: 9781911512646, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
328 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 43 photos, 16 tables
For many people, their only knowledge of Uppingham's involvement in the Great War is through Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth and its account of her relationship with three men who went to the school and lost their lives during the war. In this boo...
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£25,00
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Some Other and Wider Destiny Wakefield Grammar School Foundation and the Great War
ISBN: HB: 9781912174010, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
416 pp., 24.5x18 cm, 46 colour illus., 209 black&white illus.
The First World War demanded one of the most sustained and extraordinary efforts ever made by the British people. It was made possible by a multitude of individuals and by the communities of which they were a part. This study is a celebration one of...
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£29,00
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15 Years of War How the Longest War in U.S. History Affected a Military Family in Love, Loss, and the Cost of Service
ISBN: PB: 9781611213485, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 60 illus.
Less than 1% of our nation will ever serve in our armed forces, leaving many to wonder what life is really like for military families. He answers the call of duty in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Pacific; she keeps the home fires burning. Worlds apart,...
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£16,00
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Ratels on the Lomba The Story of Charlie Squadron
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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£19,00
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48th (South Midland) Division 1908-1919
ISBN: HB: 9781911512547, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 22 photos, 10 maps
On the outbreak of war, the South Midland was the second strongest division in the Territorial Force (TF); by October 1914, it was considered to be the second most efficient of the TF's fourteen 1st Line formations. Like other TF divisions, its pre-w...
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£35,00
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Vitebsk The Fight and Destruction of the 3rd Panzer Army
ISBN: HB: 9781612005485, Casemate, December 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 maps
The city of Vitebsk in Belarus was of strategic importance during the fighting on the Eastern Front, as it controlled the route to Minsk. A salient in the German lines, Vitebsk had been declared a Festerplatz – a fortress town – meaning that it must...
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£25,00
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Doomed Before the Start The Allied Intervention in Norway 1940, Volume 2: Evacuation and Further Naval Operations
ISBN: HB: 9781911512134, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 112 illus.
Books on the events of the early months of 1940 are dominated by the desperate fighting undertaken by the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France and Belgium following the German invasion of May 10th and it is often overlooked that prior to th...
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£29,00
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