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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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Green Leader Operation Gatling, the Rhodesian Military's Response to the Viscount Tragedy

Pringle Ian

ISBN: PB: 9781911096726, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
242 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 colour and black&white photos, maps

On 3 September 1978, a Russian-supplied heat-seeking missile shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount civilian airliner shortly after it took off from the lakeside holiday resort of Kariba in the Zambezi Valley. Miraculously, 18 people, including small chi...

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Half-Shilling Curate A Personal Account of War and Faith 1914-1918

Reay Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9781911096467, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
168 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus., 2 maps

"The Half-Shilling Curate", as he was affectionately known by his family, tells the very personal story of an army chaplain – The Reverend Herbert Butler Cowl – from Christmas Eve 1914 to the end of hostilities in 1919. His descriptive account, from...

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Stalin's Favorite: The Combat History of the 2nd Guards Tank Army from Kursk to Berlin Volume 2: From Lublin to Berlin, July 1944 - May 1945

Nebolsin Igor, Britton Stuart

ISBN: HB: 9781910777794, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2016
552 pp., 24.9x17 cm

The author Igor Nebolsin continues with his detailed chronology of the 2nd Guards Tank Armys combat operations. This volume includes the hard fighting outside of Warsaw in the summer of 1944; the 1st Belorussian Fronts winter offensive in the Vistula...

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Theirs is the Glory Arnhem, Hurst and Conflict on Film

Truesdale David, Esler Smith Allan

ISBN: HB: 9781911096634, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2016
392 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 65 colour photos, 275 black&white photos, 10 maps

Theirs is the Glory – the story of the Battle of Arnhem – was the biggest-grossing UK war film for a decade. Made by veterans of the battle in the late summer of 1945, it tells their story day by day: the pre-operation briefing, the drop, the race to...

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Mobility Conquers The Story of 61 Mechanised Battalion Group 1978-2005

Steenkamp Willem, Heitman Helmoed-Romer

ISBN: HB: 9781911096528, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2016
1152 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 61 maps, 400 photos, 2 pp of colour badges & insignia

More than two years in the writing, this book is the warts-and-all story of the birth, career and death of the South African Defence Force's 61 Mechanised Battalion Group (1979-2005) – generally acknowledged as the best fighting unit in Africa in its...

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Vivid Courage Victoria Crosses: Antecedent and Allied Regiments of the Staffordshire Regiment

Hope Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781911096375, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2016
232 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 75 black&white photos, 1 map, 1 regimental tree & 3 registers

In the history of the Victoria Cross, this is the first book exclusively written about the recipients of this prestigious award who were members of this famous regiment. This is the fifth book written by the author – and like his previous works, cont...

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Black Hawks Rising The Story of AMISOM's Successful War against Somali Insurgents, 2007-2014

Oloya Opiyo

ISBN: HB: 9781910777695, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2016
286 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Black Hawks Rising – the title of this book – acknowledges the formation and deployment of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) in March 2007. Initially confined to peacekeeping within the Mogadishu enclave, it transformed into a peace-makin...

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Phoenix: A Complete History of the Luftwaffe 1918-1945 Volume 1: The Phoenix is Reborn 1918-1934

Meredith Richard

ISBN: HB: 9781910294505, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2016
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 maps, 3 tables, 115 black&white illus.

Based on forty years of detailed research, the Phoenix Project is a unique history of the wartime German Luftwaffe. Going far beyond a simple description of famous air battles and operations the overall work draws extensively on original documents, s...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Serbian Army in the Great War, 1914-1918

Babac Dusan

ISBN: HB: 9781910777299, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2016
272 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 500 black&white illus., 36 colour plates

The Kingdom of Serbia waged war against Austria-Hungary and the other Central Powers from 28 July 1914 when the Austro-Hungarian government declared war, until the capitulation of Austria-Hungary. In the first two years of the war, Serbia defeated th...

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