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Futile Exercise? The British Army's Preparations for War 1902-1914

Batten Simon

ISBN: HB: 9781911512851, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2018
200 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white photos, 4 maps

According to the official historian Brigadier-General James Edmonds: "In every respect the Expeditionary Force of 1914 was incomparably the best trained, best organized, and best equipped British Army which ever went forth to war". There has been con...

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Landing in the Dawn Dissecting a Legend: The Landing at Anzac, Gallipoli, 25 April 1915

Hurst James

ISBN: HB: 9781911512462, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 50 black&white illus.

The Gallipoli Landing of 25 April 1915 is arguably Australia's best known battle. It is commemorated each year with a national holiday, services, parades and great media attention. 2015, the centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign, was marked by great pu...

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For Orange and the States The Army of the Dutch Republic, 1713-1772, Part I: Infantry

Geerdink-Schaftenaar Marc

ISBN: PB: 9781911512158, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2018
104 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

The Dutch Republic was one of the great European powers during the 17th and 18th Centuries. Generally, the Dutch Republic was considered to have lost that status after the 1713 Peace of Utrecht; however, when the Republic entered the War of Austrian...

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Kursk 1943 The Greatest Battle of the Second World War

Toeppel Roman

ISBN: HB: 9781912390038, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2018
184 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, 8 colour maps, 1 table

The Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 was one of the greatest battles in military history involving more than 3 million soldiers, 10,000 tanks and 8,000 aircraft. While many books have been written on this allegedly most decisive battle of the Se...

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Odessa 1941-44 Defense, Occupation, Resistance and Liberation

Ovcharenko Nikolai

ISBN: HB: 9781912390144, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2018
196 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 16 black&white photos, maps

After a brief overview of the origins and development of the city of Odessa on the Black Sea Coast, author Nikolai Ovcharenko turns to its citizens' ordeal during the Second World War. In the process, he describes the heroism of the city's defenders...

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Silent Landscape at Gallipoli The Battlefields of the Dardanelles, One Hundred Years On

Doughty Simon

ISBN: HB: 9781911512738, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2018
176 pp., 245x318 cm, 120 colour photographs and maps

In our first book, we explored the impact of the fighting on the landscape of the Western Front – showing how the physical effects of war have left indelible traces; in this book, we follow the same theme, but from a different perspective. The Gallip...

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Most Secret War R. V. Jones and the Genesis of British Scientific Intelligence 1939-45

Goodchild James

ISBN: HB: 9781911512554, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 23 illus., 13 diagrams, 3 tables

The history of scientific intelligence – its birth, its importance during the Second World War and its unique wartime qualities – has relied almost entirely on the memories of its pioneer, R.V. Jones. Through scrutiny of Jones' post-war literature (e...

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Danish Volunteers of the Waffen-SS Freikorps Danmark 1941-43

Bjerregaard Jens Pank

ISBN: HB: 9781911512707, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
320 pp., 30.5x22.2 cm, 550 black&white photos

The book Danish Volunteers of the Waffen-SS tells the story of Freikorps Danmark in pictures from 1941-1943. Freikorps Danmark was established as a Danish corps which had to fight communism and, from its beginning, it was controlled from Denmark and...

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Defending Island Britain in the Second World War Documentary Sources

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512592, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 illus.

Historically, one could argue that island nations were presented with a degree of comfort in being surrounded by water (especially so before the invention of flight and submarines); however, technological advances in the early part of the 20th centur...

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From Docks and Sand Southport and Bootle's Battalion, The 7Th King's Liverpool Regiment, in the First World War

Gregson Adrian

ISBN: HB: 9781911512165, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

This book is a study of the importance and significance of community identity to a fighting unit in the First World War. In this case the unit in question is primarily 7th King's Regiment and more widely the 55th West Lancashire Division, 1914-18....

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