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THE ARDENNES, 1944-1945 HITLER’S WINTER OFFENSIVE

BY CHRISTER BERGSTRÖM

In December 1944, just as World War II appeared to be winding down, Hitler shocked the world with a powerful German counteroffensive that cracked the center of the American front. The attack came through the Ardennes, the hilly and forested area in eastern Belgium and Luxembourg that the Allies had considered a “quiet” sector. Instead, for the second time in the war, the Germans used it as a stealthy avenue of approach for their panzers.

Much of U.S. First Army was overrun, and thousands of prisoners were taken as the Germans forged a 50-mile “bulge” into the Allied front. But in one small town, Bastogne, American paratroopers, together with remnants of tank units, offered dogged resistance. Meanwhile the rest of Eisenhower’s “broad front” strategy came to a halt as Patton, from the south, and Hodges, from the north, converged on the enemy incursion. Yet it would take an epic, six-week-long winter battle, the bloodiest in the history of the U.S. Army, before the Germans were finally pushed back.

Christer Bergström has interviewed veterans, gone through huge amounts of archive material, and performed on-the-spot research in the area. The Ardennes Offensive has often been described from the American point of view; however, this balanced book devotes equal attention to the perspectives of both sides. This book includes nearly 400 photos, numerous maps, and 32 superb color profiles of combat vehicles and aircraft.

978-1-61200-2774, hardback, 508 pages, $69.95

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RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY CASEMATE Operation Thunderclap and the Black March Richard Allison In February 1945, the Allies launched Operation Thunderclap, a series of maximum efforts against cities in eastern Germany, partly to pave the way for the Red Army that would soon be overrunning that territory.These deep-penetration raids would tax the bomber crews immensely, as well as bring new devastation to cities yet untouched by U.S. airpower.

Two B-17 crew members, a co-pilot and gunner, trained together in Gulfport, MS, and in fall 1944 were assigned to the longest-serving and most decorated U.S. bomb group in England. However, their paths then diverged. The co-pilot flew 31 missions until war’s end; the gunner was shot down and captured on his very first combat mission. These crew members both lived and this is their story: an account of both constant air combat and travail on the ground.This work includes a firsthand view of the bombing of Dresden.

978-1-61200-2651, hardback, 256 pages, $34.95

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Fabled Fifteen Thomas McKelvey Cleaver The record of Carrier Air Group 15 in World War II is astonishing by any measure: it scored 312 enemy aircraft destroyed, 33 probably destroyed, and 65 damaged in aerial combat, plus 348 destroyed, 161 probably destroyed, and 129 damaged in ground attacks. Twenty-six Fighting 15 pilots became aces, including their leader, Commander David McCampbell, who became the U.S. Navy’s “Ace of Aces.” Twenty-one squadron pilots were killed in action and one in an operational accident aboard the carrier Essex.

The fighter squadron’s partners, Bombing Squadron 15 and Torpedo Squadron 15, scored 174,300 tons of enemy shipping, including 37 cargo vessels sunk, 10 probably sunk, and 39 damaged. As well, Musashi, the world’s largest battleship, was sunk, along with a light aircraft carrier, a destroyer, destroyer escort, two minesweepers and other craft—plus the Zuikaku, the last surviving carrier that participated in the Pearl Harbor attack. Incredibly, every pilot of Torpedo 15 was awarded the Navy Cross, the highest award for bravery after the Medal of Honor.

978-1-61200-2576, hardback, 264 pages, $32.95

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Artillery Scout James Bilder The American Doughboys of World War I are often referred to as the “Lost Generation”; however, in this book we are able to gain an intimate look at their experiences after being thrust into the center of Europe’s “Great War” and enduring some of the most grueling battles in U.S. history.

Len Fairfield (the author’s grandfather) was an Artillery Scout, or Forward Observer, for the U.S. Army, and was a firsthand witness to the war’s carnage as he endured its countless hardships, all of which are revealed here in vivid detail. His story takes the reader from a hard life in Chicago, through conscription, rigorous training in America and France, and finally to the battles which have become synonymous with the U.S. effort in France—St. Mihiel and the Argonne Forest, the latter claiming 26,000 American lives, more than any other U.S. battle.

978-1-61200-2712, hardback, 208 pages, $34.95

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A Street in Arnhem Robert Kershaw In this long-awaited book, Robert Kershaw follows up his best-selling account of Operation Market Garden—It Never Snows in September—to focus on the experiences of Dutch civilians and British and German soldiers in one street while fighting to survive at the heart of one of the most intense battles of World War II. He tells the story from the perspective of what could be seen or heard from the Utrechtseweg, a road that runs seven kilometers from the Arnhem railway station west to Oosterbeek.

The book charts the destruction of an exclusive rural community, where wealthy Dutch holiday-makers had relaxed before the war. Many original Dutch, German and English accounts have been unearthed through interviews, diary accounts and letters.

978-1-61200-2644, hardback, 336 pages, $32.95

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Ghosts of the ETO Jonathan Gawne No history of the war in Europe has ever taken into account the actions of the men of the US 23rd Special Troops. These men took part in over 22 deception operations against the German Army. Some of these operations had tremendous impact upon how the battles in Europe were fought.The men who participated in these actions were sworn to secrecy for 50 years, and are only now willing to talk about their role.The 23rd was the only tactical deception unit of the American Army in World War ll combining all aspects of deception. This book also covers the birthplace of sonic deception: the Army Experimental Station at Pine Camp; and their smaller sister unit, the 3133rd Sonic Deception company that saw action for 14 days in Italy.

Jonathan Gawne is a leading military historian and is the author of the best selling “Spearheading D Day” and “The US Army Photo Album.”

978-1-61200-2507, paperback, 352 pages, $22.95

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Into the Dark Water John J. Domagalski Made famous by her final commanding officer, John F. Kennedy, PT-109 is one of the most celebrated warships in American history. However, a full chronicle of PT-109’s wartime story has heretofore been lacking. Behind the familiar account of the future president and the boat’s violent demise is the little-known record under two previous officers during the swirling battles around Guadalcanal. Bryant Larson and Rollin Westholm preceded Kennedy as commanders of PT-109, and their fights with the brave ship and its crew hold second to none in the chronicles of US Navy daring. This book provides the complete record of PT-109 in the Pacific.

978-1-61200-234-7, hardback, 280 pages, $29.95

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The Lieutenant Don't Know Jeffrey D. Clement In our wars since 2001 the term “front line” has long since lost its meaning, and the true combats have waged throughout the countries we’ve invaded, especially along the supply routes. Our opponents have not been able to stand with conventional forces, but instead attack inside our lines, their presence everywhere, if not always discernible. Into this mix of behind-the-lines attacks, combat logistics have played a larger role than ever.When he joined the Marines, Jeff Clement was not a high-speed, top-secret recon guy.A logistician instead, he led combat convoys across treacherous terrain in southern Afghanistan through frequent enemy attacks in order to resupply US and British positions. This book provides a refreshing look at the nitty-gritty of what our troops have been dealing with in Afghanistan, from the perspective of a young officer who was perfectly willing to take responsibility for his units in a confusing war where combat was all around, and looking over all their roads.

978-1-61200-248-4, hardback, 264 pages, $32.95

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ANCIENT HISTORY Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World 3000 BCE–500CE Simon Anglim et al.

This book describes the fighting techniques of soldiers in Europe and the Middle East in an age before gunpowder. The book explores the unique tactics required to win battles with the technology available, and points out how little has changed in some respects in the art of war.

978-1-909160-46-0, paperback, 256 pages, $17.98

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Bloodline Miles Russell 'Bloodline: Celtic Kings in Roman Britain' is Miles Russell’s latest publication. This detailed and comprehensive book offers fresh research and analysis of the British provincial kings during the Roman occupation. The author’s extensive knowledge and expertise in this field provides a high level of academic authority. This book develops the theme that southern Britain was liberated by Rome.

978-1-84868-238-2, paperback, 192 pages, $29.95

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Mongols WB Bartlett In the space of 200 hundred years, the Mongols built the greatest empire that the world had ever known and then lost it again. At its greatest extent, the lands they held dwarfed those under the control of Rome at its prime whilst the conquests of its founder, Genghis Khan, outshone those of even Alexander the Great. There were few parts of the known world that were not touched by the Mongols in one way or another.This was truly a world empire.

978-1-84868-191-0, paperback, 304 pages, $19.95

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Viking Warfare Ian Stephenson Despite a wealth of archaeological evidence on this subject, there has been no major study in English since the nineteenth century. Ian Stephenson examines the types and range of weapons and armor found, and considers other aspects in order to build a complete picture of the warfare of the period.

978-1-84868-690-8, paperback, 128 pages, $29.95

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Ambush

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Rose Mary Sheldon Greek warfare consists of many varieties of fighting. The fact is that the use of spies, intelligence gathering, ambush, and surprise attacks at dawn or at night were also a part of Greek warfare.

This book will dispel both the modern and ancient prejudices against irregular warfare and provide a fresh look at the tactics of the ancient Greeks.

Timothy Venning This is a fascinating exploration of how the history of Europe, and indeed the world, might have been different if the Western Roman Empire had survived the crises that pulled it apart in the 4th and 5th centuries. Dr. Timothy Venning starts by showing how that survival and recovery might plausibly have happened if several minor things had been different.

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978-1-84832-592-0, hardback, 322 pages, $50.00

Mercenaries in the Classical World

978-1-84884-429-2, hardback, 224 pages, $39.95

Roman Conquests: Asia Minor, Syria and Armenia

Stephen English Mercenaries were a significant factor in many of the wars of the Classical world, being employed in large numbers by many states.This book examines the role of the mercenaries and their influence on the wars of the period down to the death of Alexander the Great. It also looks at the social and economic pressures that drove tens of thousands to make a living of fighting.

Richard Evans While conquering Greece and Macedonia the Romans defeated an intervention by the Seleucid Empire, the most powerful of the Hellenistic states founded by Alexander the Great's successors. Soon Roman armies crossed to Asia for the first time to carry the war to the Seleucids.This book describes the course of these wars.

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978-1-84884-330-1, hardback, 192 pages, $29.95

Alcibiades

978-1-84415-971-0, hardback, 192 pages, $39.95

Empire Halts Here

Professor P J Rhodes Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to prominence during the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens. Flamboyant and charismatic this close associate of Socrates persuaded the Athenians to attempt to stand up to the Spartans on land as part of an alliance he was instrumental in bringing together.

Stan Beckensall This book of captioned pictures explores a sweep of the most attractive part of its course, from Heddon-on-the-Wall to Birdoswald, followed by carefully selected images of its main components such as wall, ditch, vallum, forts, milecastles, turrets, bridges and roads that mark its regular course.They include the results of recent excavations that each year add to our understanding of it.

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978-1-84884-069-0, hardback, 160 pages, $39.95

Constantine the Great General Elizabeth James & Stephen English Constantine the Great is a titanic figure in Roman, and indeed world history. Most famed for making Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire and for moving the seat of imperial rule to Constantinople, he is most often studied for his religious and political impact.

978-1-84884-118-5, hardback, 192 pages, $34.95

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Expedition to Disaster

978-1-445600-15-4, paperback, 160 pages, $27.95

The Sword of the Republic Jeremiah B. McCall Marcellus’ military exploits were largely unmatched by any other aristocrat of Roman Middle Republic. As a young soldier in the First Punic War, he won a reputation for his skill in single combat. In his first consulship, he earned a triumph for defeating a Gallic tribe, no small feat in and of itself, and also slew the Gallic chieftain Britomartus in single combat.

978-1-84884-379-0, hardback, 192 pages, $29.95

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The Tactics of Aelian

Iain Ferris It was not until a Time Team dig that large-scale public interest in the site really wakened and a fiveyear international field project begun. This book will present a history of the site and its place in the Roman military north.

Philip Matyszak The Athenian expedition to conquer Sicily was one of the pivotal events of the classical period. At this time (415 BC), Athens was locked in a decades-long struggle with Sparta for mastery of the Greek world. New archaeological discoveries allow the ensuing siege to be reconstructed in greater detail than ever before.

Christopher Matthew Christopher Matthew's new edition is based on the 1616 edition but written in modern English with new renditions of all its accompanying figures. It has the original 1616 notes as well as comprehensive new notes and cross references to the other ancient manuals that drew upon it.

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Vinovia

978-1-445601-28-1, paperback, 192 pages, $30.00

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Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul

A Storm of Spears

War for the Throne

Bob Carruthers The Gallic Wars are described by Julius Caesar in this book, which was originally titled Commentarii de Bello Gallico, it is a pertinent and altogether the most important historical source regarding the conflict.

Christopher Matthew The author focuses meticulously on the details of the equipment, tactics and capabilities of the individual hoplites.These findings are supported by practical testing with his own replica hoplite panoply and the experiences of a group of dedicated re-enactors.

John Barratt The opening years of the fifteenth century saw one of the most bitterly contested political and military convulsions in the history of the British Isles. Henry IV fought a protracted and bloody campaign against the most powerful nobles in the land.

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978-1-78159-149-9, paperback, 256 pages, $14.95

Handbook to Roman Legionary Fortresses

978-1-61200-119-7, hardback, 360 pages, $32.95

MEDIEVAL HISTORY

978-1-84884-028-7, hardback, 160 pages, $39.95

17TH CENTURY

M.C. Bishop This is a reference guide to Roman legionary fortresses throughout the former Roman Empire, of which approximately eighty-five have been located and identified.

With the expansion of the empire and the garrisoning of its army in frontier regions during the 1st century AD, Rome began to concentrate its legions in large permanent bases. This book brings together the legionary fortresses of the whole empire. An introductory section outlines history of legionary bases

Josephine Wilkinson Richard III is a paradox - the most hated of English kings, yet the most beloved, a deeply pious man, yet materialistic to the point of obsession, puritan, yet the father of at least two illegitimate children.

This new biography concentrates on the neglected early part of Richard’s life - from his birth in 1452 to his marriage to the beautiful Anne Neville

Stuart Reid This is a groundbreaking history of the Great Civil War or rather the last Anglo-Scottish War as it was fought in Scotland and by Scottish armies in England between 1639 and 1651. This is the story of those armies and generals such as Alexander Leslie, James Graham, Marquis of Montrose and of course Oliver Cromwell.

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978-1-84884-138-3, hardback, 256 pages, $29.95

The Anglo-Saxon Age Timothy Venning Taking a similar approach to his successful If Rome Hadn't Fallen, Timothy Venning explores the various decision points in a fascinating period of British history and the alternative paths that it might have taken.

978-1-78159-125-3, hardback, 256 pages, $39.95

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Mark Antony Patricia Southern History has not been kind to Mark Antony, but then he was probably his own worst enemy, fatally flawed, too fond of wine and women, extravagant, impetuous, reckless, always in debt, and attached to all the wrong people.There is some truth in this list of Antony’s failings, but the propaganda machine of his enemy, Octavian, ensured that these facets of Antony’s character were the only ones to survive.

978-1-4456-0863-1, paperback, 288 pages, $19.95

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Roman Britain Patricia Southern For nearly four centuries, from AD 43 to 410, Britain was a small province on the north western edge of the vast Roman Empire.

Patricia Southern’s masterly new history tells the story from first contact, through invasion and conquest, coexistence to eventual decline incorporating the political, social Voices from the varied population of Roman Britain are placed center stage in this narrative.

978-1-445601-46-5, hardback, 448 pages, $39.95

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Richard III

978-1-84868-513-0, paperback, 352 pages, $19.95

The Battle of Hastings 1066 - The Uncomfortable Truth John Grehan & Martin Mace The Battle of Hastings is the most defining event in English history.

This in-depth examines the early sources to unravel the evidence that historians choose to ignore because it does not fit the traditional view of where the battle was fought.

978-1-84884-827-6, hardback, 192 pages, $39.95

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Siege of Orleans and the Loire Campaign 1428-1429 Stephane Gondoin Year 1428: The war between England and France has been raging for nearly one hundred years. The English control territory to the north of the Loire, but have no control of regions beyond the river.This is a detailed, animated and richly illustrated book.

978-2-35250-119-0, paperback, 80 pages, $19.95

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John Talbot and the War in France 1427-1453 A.J. Pollard John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury was the last of the celebrated English commanders of the Hundred Years' War. In his lifetime his reputation for audacity and courage gave him an unrivalled fame among the English, and he was feared and admired by the French. A.J. Pollard, in this pioneering and perceptive account, reconstructs the long career of this extraordinary soldier and offers a fascinating insight into warfare in the late medieval period.

978-184415247-6, paperback, 172 pages, $21.99

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Crown, Covenant and Cromwell

978-1-84832-687-3, hardback, 256 pages, $34.95

French Armies of the Thirty Years War Stéphane Thion This is a comprehensive book on the French army of Louis XIII and Richelieu with full accounts of battles of this period and order of battles.This book begins in 1617, the year that Louis XIII really took power by distancing the queen mother and ordering the assassination of Concini (24 April 1617), and ends in 1648 – five years after the death of Louis XIII. 978-2-917747-01-8, paperback, 174 pages, $46.45

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Edgehill: The Battle Reinterpreted Christopher L. Scott, Alan Turton & Dr. Eric Gruber von Arni This paperback edition of this seminal new study of a key battle of the Civil Wars re-examines one of England's most mysterious battlefields at Edgehill, and it combines the work of three outstanding military historians. Each is an expert in the areas of battlefield interpretation, military equipment and organization, and battle casualties and care.

978-184415254-4, paperback, 240 pages, $32.99

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Civil War in the South-West England John Barratt Between 1642 and 1646 two armies fought for control of Southwest England in one of the decisive confrontations of the English Civil Wars. In this short, turbulent period Royalists loyal to King Charles I clashed with the forces of Parliament.

978-184415146-2, paperback, 160 pages, $24.95

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Marston Moor David Clark Following on from the success of the first book in this series on the English Civil war, Naseby, here is the story of Marston Moor, arguably the most famous battle in the four year conflict. In this exciting analysis of the battle the Author has captured the atmosphere and made it possible to get the most out of the experience. Marston Moor was an extremely bitter and costly battle and a defeat for the Royalist cause that had major implications for King Charles I. One result was that the key city of York was lost seriously weakening the King's grip on the North.

978-085052985-2, paperback, 192 pages, $16.95

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Sedgemoor 1685 John Tincey A new account of Monmouth's rebellion of 1685 and the Battle of Sedgemoor.The author focuses on the confrontation between Monmouth and John Churchill, the future Duke of Marlborough, and provides a graphic reassessment of the campaign.

He retraces the routes taken by the opposing armies across the West County, following every twist and turn the soldiers took 300 years ago.

978-184415147-9, hardback, 224 pages, $39.95

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Naseby

Bob Carruthers This is the definitive military history of the Civil Wars, which swept the British Isles from 1642 to 1649.The martial aspects of the wars are covered in detail along with a comprehensive overview of the religious and political dimensions.

Glenn Foard The Battle of Naseby on 14 June 1645 was a devastating victory for the New Model Army commanded

by Fairfax and Cromwell. It determined the fate of Charles I and secured the future of Parliamentary democracy. Naseby rivals Hastings as one of the most important battles fought on English soil. In this fascinating study Glenn Foard reviews the whole Naseby campaign in unprecedented and vivid detail.

He places the event in its regional and national context.

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The English Civil Wars 1642-1649

978-1-78159-147-5, paperback, 128 pages, $14.95

978-184415132-5, paperback, 432 pages, $34.95

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Cromwell's Wars at Sea John Barratt The 200 years that separate the navy of Drake's day from that of Nelson were critical for the development of Britain's sea power, and the decade of the Commonwealth, of Cromwell's rule, is one of the turning points in the story.

In the aftermath of a disastrous civil war and the execution of Charles I, the navy fought to defend the frail republic against the rivalry and hostility of other European nations and to extend British influence across the globe.

In this fascinating reassessment of a decisive phase in the growth of British sea power, John Barratt shows how Cromwell's navy confronted the threats that came against it during a decade of almost continuous naval warfare, against the Royalists, the Dutch and the Spanish.

At the same time he describes in detail the naval organization of the day and the rapid expansion of the service in the early 1650s, as well as the ships and the seamen who manned them.

978-184415459-3, hardback, 224 pages, $39.95

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INTRODUCING WESTHOLME PUBLISHING The Byzantine Art of War

Secrets of the English Bow

Michael J. Decker This book explores the military history of the thousandyear empire of the eastern Mediterranean, Byzantium.

Throughout its history the empire faced a multitude of challenges from foreign invaders seeking to plunder its wealth and to occupy its lands, from the deadly Hunnic hordes of Attila, to the Arab armies of Islam, to the western Crusaders bent on carving out a place in the empire or its former lands. In order to survive the Byzantines relied on their army that was for centuries the only standing, professional force in Europe. Leadership provided another key to survival; Byzantine society produced a number of capable strategic thinkers and tacticians—and several brilliant ones.

Hugh D. H. Soar Dominating medieval battlefields for more than two centuries but requiring long and arduous practice to command, the English war bow and its battle shaft are the symbols of the rise of British power in Europe. Despite being crafted for hundreds of years and wielded by generations of archers, no example of the war bow exists, outside of a single broken limb. Now for the first time, expert craftsmen use all available evidence including applied archaeology to unlock the secrets of the English war bow. Historian Hugh D. H. Soar is joined by Mark Stretton, master blacksmith, and Joseph Gibbs, bowyer, in order to demonstrate how a war bow and its associated arrow heads and shafts may have been constructed and used.

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978-1594161681, hardback, 267 pages, $29.95

The Campaigns of Hannibal

978-1594161261, paperback, 240 pages, $19.95

Guyasuta and the Fall of Indian America

Patrick Leonard MacDougall The great Carthaginian general, Hannibal, remains one of the most fascinating personalities of the ancient world.

Most are familiar with his famous trek across the Alps, complete with elephants and an army of tens of thousands, but fewer understand that the Carthaginian clash with Rome during the third century B.C. was a war between two mighty regional powers that would define the future of Mediterranean world.The victor of the Punic Wars would determine whether the focus would be on North Africa or along the Italian Peninsula. Based on classical sources this title is a wonderful one-volume history that is ideal for those who wish to learn more about Hannibal's military genius as well as those seeking a synopsis of the Punic Wars.

Brady J. Crytzer Nearly a century before the United States declared the end of the Indian Wars, the fate of Native Americans was revealed in the battle of Fallen Timbers. In 1794, General Anthony Wayne led the first American army— the Legion of the United States—against a unified Indian force in the Ohio country. The Indians were routed and forced to vacate their lands. It was the last of a series of Indian attempts in the East to retain their sovereignty and foreshadowed what would occur across the rest of the continent. Historian Brady J. Crytzer traces how American Indians were affected by the wars leading to American Independence through the life of one of the period’s most influential figures.

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978-1594160561, paperback, 216 pages, $15.95

A History of the Vandals

978-1594161742, hardback, 286 pages, $29.95

John Barry

Torsten Cumberland Jacobsen The fifth century AD was a time of great changes in the Mediterranean world. In the early 400s, the Roman Empire ranged from the lowlands of Scotland to the Upper Nile and from Portugal to the Caucasus. One hundred years later, Roman control of Western Europe and Western North Africa had been lost. In its place, a number of Germanic kingdoms had been established in these regions.

One of the most fascinating of these tribes of late antiquity were the Vandals, who over a period of six hundred years had migrated from the woodland regions of Scandinavia across Europe and ended in the deserts of North Africa. Here is the first account in English covering the entire story of the Vandals from their emergence to the end of their kingdom.

Tim McGrath The man regarded as “the Father of the American Navy” returns to the quarterdeck in John Barry: An American Hero in the Age of Sail, the first comprehensive biography of this legendary officer in generations. Son of a hardscrabble Irish farmer from County Wexford, Barry was sent to sea as a child, arriving in Philadelphia during the restless decade before the American Revolution. Brave and ambitious, he ascended the ratlines to become a successful merchant captain at a young age, commanding the most prestigious ship in the colonies and recording the fastest known day of sail in the century. The author brings the story of this self-made American back to life in a major new biography.

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978-1594161599, hardback, 360 pages, $29.95

978-1594161049, hardback, 704 pages, $35.00

The Mongol Art of War

Kidnapping the Enemy

Mr. Timothy May During the thirteenth century, Mongol armies under Chinggis Khan and his successors established the largest contiguous land empire in history, stretching across Asia and into eastern Europe. Contemporary descriptions of their conquests have led to a popular misconception that the Mongols were an undisciplined horde of terrifying horsemen who swept over opponents by sheer force of numbers. The Mongol army actually used highly trained regiments led by brilliant tacticians, such as Subutai, that carried out planned and practiced maneuvers. It was the strength, quality, and versatility of the Mongol military organization, not unchecked ferocity, that made them the pre-eminent warriors of their time. Historian Timothy May overturns myths and misunderstandings that distort our understanding of Mongol warfare.

Christian M. McBurney On the night of December 12, 1776, while on a reconnaissance mission in New Jersey, Lieutenant Colonel William Harcourt and Cornet Banastre Tarleton of the British dragoons learned from Loyalist informers that Major General Charles Lee, the second-in-command in the Continental army behind only George Washington, was staying at a tavern at nearby Basking Ridge. Gaining valuable information as they rode, by threatening captured American soldiers with death if Lee’s whereabouts was not revealed, Harcourt and Tarleton, surrounded the tavern, and after a short but violent struggle, captured him. Here is the full story of each of these remarkable raids, the subsequent exchange of the two generals, and the impact of these kidnappings on the Revolutionary War.

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Monmouth Court House

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The Artillery Service in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65

Joseph G. Bilby & Katherine Bilby Jenkins The battle of Monmouth Court House, New Jersey, is among the most important battles in the history of the American Army. Well known in American mythology as the battle where Molly Pitcher fought alongside her fallen husband, Monmouth Court House is regarded by historians as the moment when the image of the American army in both Europe and the colonies was transformed from that of a rag-tag band of ill-trained civilians to that of a disciplined, well-guided, professional military unit. The entire campaign and battle are described, including an analysis of the commanders, personnel, organization, training, and weapons of both armies.The book also assesses the historiography and folklore of the battle.

John C. Tidball & Lawrence M. Kaplan (Ed) The Artillery Service in the War of the Rebellion, 1861– 65, is a comprehensive overview and analysis of the U.S. Army’s field artillery service in the Civil War’s principal battles, written by John C.Tidball, a distinguished artilleryman of the era. The overview, which appeared in the Journal of the Military Service Institution from 1891 to 1893, and nearly impossible to find today, examines the Army of the Potomac, including the battles of Fair Oaks, Gaines’s Mill, Mechanicsville, Malvern Hill, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; the Army of the Tennessee, including the battles of Stones River and Chickamauga, and the Army of the Ohio’s battle of Shiloh.

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The Pennsylvania Associators, 1747-1777

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The Caning

Joseph Seymour Known at various times as the Military Association of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Association, or simply Associators, this long-neglected organization represented a new constituency in Pennsylvania politics and by extension, a new American response to arbitrary rule. Organized on December 7, 1747, at Philadelphia, the Military Association served as the de facto armed force for Pennsylvania, a colony whose leadership, a loose coalition of Quaker and German pacifists, land barons, and merchants, foreswore military preparedness on religious and ideological grounds. Seymour demonstrates that while the Pennsylvania Associators contributed to success in the campaigns in which they fought, a more important investigation are the concerns that motivated these men.

Stephen Puleo Early in the afternoon of May 22, 1856, ardent pro-slavery Congressman Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina strode into the United States Senate Chamber in Washington, D.C., and began beating renowned anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner with a gold-topped walking cane. Brooks struck again and again—more than thirty times across Sumner’s head, face, and shoulders—until his cane splintered into pieces and the helpless Massachusetts senator, having nearly wrenched his desk from its fixed base, lay unconscious and covered in blood. It was a retaliatory attack. One of the most shocking and provocative events in American history, the caning convinced each side that the gulf between them was unbridgeable and that they could no longer discuss their vast differences of opinion regarding slavery on any reasonable level.

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The Rhode Island Campaign

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The Fate of War

Christian M. McBurney On July 29, 1778, a powerful French naval squadron sailed confidently to the entrance of Narragansett Bay. Its appearance commenced the first joint French and American campaign of the Revolutionary War. The new allies’ goal was to capture the British garrison at Newport, Rhode Island. With British resolve reeling from the striking patriot victory at Saratoga the previous autumn, this French and American effort might just end the war.

This book unravels one of the most complex and multifaceted events of the war, one which combined land and sea strategies and featured controversial decisions on both sides.

Duane Schultz The Union assault on the critical Confederate stronghold of Fredericksburg,Virginia, along the Rappahannock River in December 1862 was one of the most significant and storied battles of the Civil War. It was fought in order to secure confidence in the North for Lincoln’s administration after 18 months of Confederate victories, Union setbacks, and directionless Northern leadership. The result was a complete and stunning Confederate victory and one of the bloodiest losses for the Union Army. Historian and professional psychologist Duane Schultz uses this key moment in Civil War history to address how soldiers and civilians react to the stress of war.

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The War Man

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The Lost Cause

Robert A. Mayers In 1775, the first year of the American Revolution, Congress made an appeal for troops. The resulting army of citizen-soldiers began what for many would be more than five years of battle and deprivation.Their consolation, however, was that they would ultimately defeat the most powerful army of the age. John Allison, a New York farmer,answered the call to arms in 1775, joining the Continental Army's 3rd New York Infantry. Allison was surrounded by like-minded volunteers, yet all were equally unprepared for campaigning. Despite the lack of training, equipment, and clothing, Allison and the rest of his company found themselves marching toward Quebec in the winter of 1775-76 as part of the unsuccessful American invasion of Canada. So begins the remarkable story of the wartime experiences of an average soldier of the American Revolution. Using letters, muster rolls, orderly books, service records, and oral family history, the author reconstructs the campaign life of John Allison. from the freezing Canadian wilderness to the American victory at Yorktown,Virginia.

James P. Muehlberger This is a thoroughly researched, thrilling account of the rise, pursuit, and prosecution of the legendary outlaw gang.

Beginning with the newfound evidence of the Gallatin bank teller murder, the author explains how Jesse James attempted to avenge the death of his Confederate partisan leader, “Bloody Bill” Anderson, but shot the wrong man. Having lost his thoroughbred, Jesse stole another horse. Newly minted lawyer Henry McDougal brashly sued Jesse and Frank James for the loss of property, which would hang the murder on their heads. While Jesse professed his innocence and remained at large, his case was taken up by John Newman Edwards, editor of the Kansas City Times. Through Edwards’s pen, the James brothers were transformed from petty criminals to noble outlaws still fighting for Southern honor—the “Lost Cause.” Not fooled by Edwards’s rhetoric and populist appeal, McDougal and others, including Pinkerton detectives and the governor of Missouri, led a behind-the-scenes fight to bring down the gang.

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Small Arms at Gettysburg

Coming Through Fire

Joseph G. Bilby The Battle of Gettysburg (1-3 July, 1863), has become one of the most analysed battles in military history, but until now there has never been a detailed examination of the actual firearms used.The battle was a watershed, with weapons technologies representing past, present, and future - sabres, smoothbore rifles, and breechloaders - in action alongside each other for the first and last time."Small Arms at Gettysburg" is a comprehensive and fascinating examination of the individual weapons used during the battle - muskets, rifle-muskets, carbines, repeaters, sharpshooter arms, and swords - providing a detailed history as well as looking at how their deployment during the battle affected its outcome.

Duane Schultz The cold dawn of November 27, 1868, was the moment George Armstrong Custer had longed for ever since the Civil War ended three years before. It was also the moment Black Kettle of the Cheyenne nation had feared ever since he had survived the deadly attack on his people at Sand Creek, Colorado Territory. Custer, who gloried in battle, was no longer the national hero, the celebrity he had been in wartime. He was a forgotten man who had failed in his first Indian campaign the year before.

He needed a resounding victory to resurrect the attention he craved, and the sleepy Cheyenne village along the banks of the Washita River proved irresistible. Here are the stories of a Civil War hero and native warrior who met along the Washita River.

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Stealing the General

Firearms in American History

Russell S. Bonds On April 12, 1862—one year to the day after Confederate guns opened on Fort Sumter and started the Civil War— a tall, mysterious smuggler and self-appointed Union spy named James J. Andrews and nineteen infantry volunteers infiltrated north Georgia and stole a steam engine called the General. Racing northward at speeds approaching sixty miles an hour, cutting telegraph lines and destroying track along the way, Andrews planned to open East Tennessee to the Union army, cutting off men and matériel from the Confederate forces in Virginia. If they succeeded, Andrews and his raiders could change the course of the war. Based on eyewitness accounts, as well as correspondence, diaries, military records, newspaper reports and deposition testimony, this is considered to be the definitive history of "the boldest adventure of the war."

Mr. Charles G. Worman The firearm provided food for the cooking pot and protection against animal and human marauders. It was also a major trade item with American Indians and was carried by soldiers of the many armies who fought over the New World. It is no coincidence that guns are intertwined with American history: the development and mass production of firearms parallels the history of European involvement in the Americas. Yet despite its long and important service, an accurate portrayal of the role of firearms in American history remains obscured by reoccurring inaccuracies and tall tales at the popular level. "Firearms in American History" describes firearms development and use in America from colonization in the 1500s to the end of the 1800s in the hands of the military, American Indians, and civilians.

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To Raise up a Nation

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The Long Journey Nez Perce

William S. King Drawing on decades of research William S. King has written an important history of African Americans’ own contributions and points of crossracial cooperation to end slavery in America. Beginning with the civil war along the border of Kansas and Missouri, the author traces the life of John Brown and the personal support for his ideas from elite New England businessmen, intellectuals such as Emerson and Thoreau, and African Americans, including his confidant, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman.

King links events that contributed to the growing antipathy in the North toward slavery and the South’s concerns for its future.

Kevin Carson In 1877, the U.S. Government opened the Nez Perce lands in Oregon to settlers and ordered the tribe to move to a reservation in Idaho Territory. Although reluctant to leave their homeland, the Nez Perce began the long trek eastward. A small band of young warriors vented their frustration, however, in two days of deadly attacks on settlements along the Salmon River. Realizing that the U.S. response would be overwhelming--particularly in light of Custer's defeat the year before--the Nez Perce leaders, including Chiefs Joseph, Looking Glass, and White Bird, prepared their people for war.The Nez Perce War is one of the most important campaigns of the Indian Wars.

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Cities of Gold Bill Yenne For half a millennium, stories of vast treasures—El Dorado, Manoa, the Seven Cities of Cibola, the Lost Dutchman Mine—have been part of the lore of the Americas. Long before the Europeans set foot in the New World, myths and rumors of fabulous wealth in distant lands, such as the kingdom of Prester John, were told and retold so often that they were assumed to be true.When Spanish explorers first made contact with the Aztec and Inca civilizations, they found cultures that were literally dripping with gold. This evidence made it easy to believe the native stories of even greater wealth just beyond the horizon. In these uncharted lands, dreamers sought their fortunes: Francisco de Coronado ranged over the North American plains in search of the elusive Quivira; Gonzalo Pizarro, brother of the Incan conqueror, and Lope Aguirre, the “Wrath of God,” were both part of ill-fated expeditions in search of El Dorado; and Leonard Clark walked out of the Amazon after World War II with gold and claimed he had found that fabled kingdom.

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Sioux War Dispatches Marc H. Abrams Sioux War Dispatches: Reports from the Field, 1876-1877, tells the story of the Great Sioux War, including the battle of the Little Big Horn, primarily through the eyes of contemporary newspaper correspondents, both civilian and military. The volume begins with the Black Hills dilemma and the issue of the unceded territory (the disputed lands that were adjacent to the Great Sioux Reservation) and continues through to the spring of 1877 with the surrender of the legendary Sioux leader Crazy Horse. Along the way readers will learn about the Reynolds battle, the skirmish at Tongue River Heights, the battle of the Rosebud, the battle of the Little Big Horn, the skirmish at Warbonnet Creek, the fight at Slim Buttes, and more. In addition to numerous annotated excerpts from those who were there, are rare original dispatches, reprinted in full, that will transport readers back in time to experience first hand the action of the Great Sioux War. 978-1594161568, hardback, 448 pages, $35.00

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Sitting Bull

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The Final Mission

Bill Yenne Sitting Bull's name is still the best known of any American Indian leader, but his life and legacy remain shrouded with misinformation and half-truths. Sitting Bull's life spanned the entire clash of cultures and ultimate destruction of the Plains Indian way of life. He was a powerful leader and a respected shaman, but neither fully captures the enigma of Sitting Bull. He was a good friend of Buffalo Bill and skillful negotiator with the American government, yet erroneously credited with both murdering Custer at the Little Big Horn and with being the chief instigator of the Ghost Dance movement.

The reality of his life, as Bill Yenne reveals in his absorbing new portrait is far more intricate and compelling.

Elizabeth Hoban & Lt. Col. Henry Supchak In July 1944, Lt. Henry Supchak was flying his second-tolast mission over Germany when his B-17 bomber, Priority Gal, was hit by antiaircraft fire, disabling two engines and wounding him in the thigh. He attempted to reach neutral Switzerland, but was forced instead to order his eight crewmen to bail out over Austria. As Supchak prepared to abandon his aircraft he saw that it was on a collision course with an Alpine village. He instinctively got back into his seat, adjusted the controls, and barely escaped before the plane exploded at the base of a mountain. Beautifully written with honesty and emotion, this is a gripping and uplifting story of forgiveness, reconciliation, and healing from the devastation of war.

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The Origin of the Fighter Aircraft

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Into the Fire

Jon Guttman When World War I began in August 1914, the airplane had already proven its worth as an intelligence gathering "eye-in-the-sky." These scouting aircraft soon became indispensable to armies on both sides, and the attempt to drive enemy planes away began in earnest. Local air superiority was incorporated into battlefield strategy, and the useof aircraft to conduct offensive operations would change warfare as dramatically as the first firearms 300 years before. By the end of 1915, the basic formula of the armed scout settled on a single-seater with a machine gun synchronized to fire through its propeller blades.This heavily armed aircraft became the first true fighter plane whose primary function was to destroy enemy aircraft, whether scouts, balloons, bombers, or other fighters.

Duane Schultz Planned by Winston Churchill, authorized by Dwight D. Eisenhower, and executed by five specially trained American bomber units, the attack on the oil refineries of Ploesti, Romania, was among the most daring and dangerous missions of World War II. If the raid succeeded, the Nazi war machine would suffer a devastating blow.

On August 1, 1943, nearly two hundred B-24 bombers flew from Benghazi, North Africa, with directions to descend on Ploesti at treetop level, bomb the refineries, and return. The low-level bombers could evade enemy radar and were thought to be more difficult to shoot down. Duane Schultz re-creates this great battle, combining original research and interviews with survivors in order to capture the tension, drama, and heroics of the warring sides.

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978-1594160837, hardback, 256 pages, $26.00

The Bismarck Episode Russell Grenfell "Captain Grenfell has both the background and literary ability to bring the whole dramatic story brilliantly alive.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

978-1594160516, hardback, 288 pages, $26.00

The Last Days Patton

The British Navy’s sinking of a notorious symbol of Nazi Germany, the battleship Bismarck, in May 1941 ranks as one of the most significant victories of the Second World War. It was imperative that Britain find and destroy the Bismarck, a true threat to Britain’s ocean lifeline, before it could escape into the Atlantic. In The Bismarck Episode a veteran naval writer tells the intense and dramatic story of how the battleship was discovered, pursued, and ultimately destroyed.

Ladislas Farago “It would be as hard to give up all thought [of being a soldier] as it would be to stop breathing,” wrote George S. Patton in October 1945; “The great tragedy of my life was that I survived the last battle.” But Patton would not see the year out: in December he would die as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Germany.

It seemed plausible that America’s greatest general may have been a victim of foul play.This book reconstructs the last months of Patton’s life in order to determine if the general did indeed try to provoke a war with the Soviet Union and whether he failed to sufficiently de-Nazify the area of Germany under his jurisdiction.

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Crossing the Rapido Duane Schultz The Rapido River was the last natural barrier between General Mark W. Clark’s Fifth U.S. Army and Rome. Ignoring intelligence reports that the Germans had significant forces protecting the opposite side of the river, Clark ordered the 36th Division to make a nighttime crossing on January 20, 1944. The division, already coming through some of the heaviest fighting in Italy, knew they could not succeed: they had to cross a fast-flowing river at night in bitter cold and face one of the strongest, most formidable German defensive lines in Europe, full of minefields, veteran troops, and withering artillery and mortar fire. Once in the water, men in full field gear were borne away by the current or vanished in massive explosions. The few who managed to reach the other side found themselves pinned down unable to move. Soldiers died by the hundreds, yet the stunned survivors who fell back to the launch site were ordered to attack again, this time in daylight.

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V-2 T.D. Dungan In August 1944, Londoners thought the war might be over

by Christmas. But on September 8, 1944, in the London suburb of Chiswick, a thunderous double-boom was heard followed by a huge plume of black smoke rising high into the air. Several minutes later another explosion rocked the earth near Epping. There had been no warnings, no drone of aircraft above, just sudden devastation.

"Operation Penguin," the V-2 offensive, had begun.

The A-4 rocket, better known as the V-2,Vergeltungswaffen Zwei, or "Vengeance Weapon 2," was the first ballistic missile to be used in combat.

Soaring over 50 miles high at supersonic speeds, the V-2 would strike its target within 5 minutes of launching. Once in the air its deadly warhead was unstoppable.

The ancestor of all Cold War and modern day ballistic missiles, as well as the rockets used for space exploration, the V-2 could not win the war for Germany but its unprecedented invulnerability and influence on Allied planning made the V-2 and the advancements it represented the ultimate war prize.

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REVOLUTIONARY WAR 1781 Robert L. Tonsetic The Treaty of Paris in 1783 formally ended the American Revolutionary War, but it was the pivotal campaigns and battles of 1781 that decided the final outcome. 1781 was one of those rare years in American history when the future of the nation hung by a thread, and only the fortitude, determination, and sacrifice of its leaders and citizenry ensured its survival.

978-1-61200-154-8, paperback, 284 pages, $18.95

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Stop the Revolutions Thomas J. McGuire The story surrounding the British effort to bring the American Revolution to a peaceful end. Here is the story of the fateful September 11, 1776 meeting between British Admiral Lord Richard Howe and Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Edward Rutledge.

978-0-8117-0587-5, hardback, 224 pages, $29.95

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18TH CENTURY Culloden Tony Pollard (Ed) In battle at Culloden Moor on 16 April 1746 the Jacobite cause was dealt a mortal blow. The power of the Highland clans was broken.

And the image of sword-wielding Highlanders charging into a hail of lead delivered by the red-coated battalions of the Hanoverian army has passed into legend. The battle was decisive - it was a turning point in British history.

In this book a team of leading historians and archaeologists reconsiders every aspect of the battle.

978-1-84884-687-6, paperback, 288 pages, $29.95

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James Falkner’s Guide to Marlborough’s Battlefields James Falkner This battlefield guide is an invaluable companion for visitors to the many battlefields associated with Marlborough's triumphs.

978-1-84415-632-0, paperback, 224 pages, $28.95

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Organization of the German State Forces in 1866 Stuart Sutherland The so-called Seven Weeks' War of 1866 between Prussia and Italy and Austria was notable not only for its effect on future German history but also because it was the last time the armies of the smaller. Forces from 30 smaller states were involved, and they were either of some strength or barely able to guard their rulers' palaces.

978-1-906033-68-2, paperback, 112 pages, $49.95

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Campaign of the Army of the North 1870-71 Louis Faidherbe The author of this work, Louis Faidherbe was recalled to France, from Africa, after the disaster of Sedan, and on 18 November 1870 given command of the so-called Army of the North. As a native of the region and a staunch republican, Faidherbe was a natural choice as commander, despite his lack of combat experience.

978-1-906033-67-5, paperback, 64 pages, $39.95

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Pocket Hercules M.J. Trow William Morris was in the front rank during the Charge of the Light Brigade. He was one of the first horsemen to reach the Russian guns. This is his story. M.J. Trow's vivid biography of this typical Victorian soldier gives a fascinating insight into the officer class that fought the Crimean War. In recording Morris's experiences during a notorious campaign, the author reveals much about the hidebound character of the British army of that era.

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The Adventures of Sir Samuel White Baker M.J. Trow Sir Samuel White Baker is one of those larger-than-life heroes only the Victorians could invent. For too long, the British Empire has been denigrated and equated with arrogance at best and racial bigotry at worst. Samuel Baker transcends that.

978-1-84884-178-9, hardback, 224 pages, $39.95

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Queen Victoria’s Little Wars

Arnold Blumberg To commemorate the War of 1812, this book tells the complete story of the great conflict between a young United States of America and imperial Great Britain.

Byron Farwell This is the story of what Rudyard Kipling called ‘the savage wars of peace’.Throughout Queen Victoria’s long reign there was not a single year in which British soldiers were not fighting for her and her Empire. It tells the fascinating story of the little known and extraordinary small wars, and of the men who fought them.

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When Washington Burned

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Curling Letters of the Zulu War Adrian Greaves & Brian Best The crushing defeat suffered by the British Army by the Zulus at Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 is by any standards a gripping andshocking story. The discovery of a complete set of diaries written by a young Royal Artillery officer who was the only survivor of his unit which lost all their guns is a very important find.

978-184415142-4, paperback, 176 pages, $25.99

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Kingdom in Crisis John Laband This is the first history of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 to examine in full the complexities of the Zulu response to the British invasion of their kingdom. He gives insight into the social, political and military traditions of the Zulus.

978-1-84415-584-2, paperback, 288 pages, $24.95

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NAPOLEONIC HISTORY Thunder on the Danube John H. Gill This book covers Napoleon’s Defeat of the Habsburgs. It includes the fall of Vienna and the Battle of Aspern.

978-1-84832-510-4, hardback, 512 pages, $60.00

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1812: Napoleon in Moscow Paul Britten Austin At the gates of Moscow, Napoleon's Grand Army prepares to enter in triumphal procession.

But what it finds is a city abandoned by its inhabitants – save only the men who emerge to fan the flames as incendiary fuses hidden throughout the empty buildings of Moscow set the city alight. For three days Moscow burned, while looters dodged the fires to plunder and pillage.

978-1-84832-703-0, paperback, 256 pages, $24.95

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1812: The Great Retreat Paul Britten Austin This volume follows the army's withdrawal through 800 miles of devastated countryside, crossing the horrific relics of the Borodino battlefield, fighting its way through the Russian General Kutusov's successive attempts to cut it off, and winning, against overwhelming odds, the three-day battle of the Berezina crossing. It describes Marshal Ney's achievement in holding together the rear-guard until he himself was the last man to re-cross the Niemen into Poland.

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1812: The March on Moscow Paul Britten Austin More than a third of a million men set out on that midsummer day of 1812: none can have imagined the terrors and hardships to come.

They would be lured all the way to Moscow without having achieved the decisive battle Napoleon sought; and by the time they reached the city their numbers would already have dwindled by more than a third.

978-1-84832-704-7, paperback, 416 pages, $24.95

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Russian Officer Corps of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

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With Napoleon’s Guard in Russia

Alexander Mikaberidze Presented here are more than 800 detailed biographies of the senior Russian officers who commanded troops in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.This amazing study spans the critical years of 1792 to 1815, but also includes those officers whose service fell before and after this period.

Louis Joseph Vionnet & Jonathan North (Trans) (Ed) Major Vionnet’s memoirs of Napoleon’s disastrous 1812 campaign in Russia are full of personal anecdote and vivid glimpses into the life of the nineteenth-century soldier. His account concentrates on the retreat from Moscow, but he was present at all the major actions.

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Guthrie’s War

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Bonaparte in Egypt

Gareth Glover (Ed) Lieutenant Charles Crowe's journal of the 27th Foot (Inniskillings) of the final campaign of Wellington's army is a rare work for many reasons. It is, perhaps surprisingly, the first memoir about this campaign from this famous regiment to be published. Crowe talks openly of the ravages of war, and the pillaging, raping and looting; the horrors of war in detail.

Michael Crumplin George James Guthrie is one of the unsung heroes of the Peninsular War and Waterloo, and of British military medicine. He was a guiding light in surgery. He was not only a soldier's surgeon and a hands-on doctor, he also set a precedent by keeping records and statistics of cases. Michael Crumplin, in this comprehensive and graphic study of this remarkable doctor, follows him through his career in the field.

J. Christopher Herold Originally published in 1962, J. Christopher Herold's Bonaparte in Egypt is the best modern account of this extraordinary campaign. In a detailed study, elegantly written, Herold covers all aspects of Bonaparte's expedition: military, political, and cultural. It was a bold adventure, full of drama, topped and tailed by the extremes of total triumph and utter defeat.

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An Eloquent Soldier

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Soldier of the Seventy-First

978-1-84884-245-8, hardback, 208 pages, $39.95

Tales from the Rifle Brigade

Joseph Sinclair This remarkable memoir was first published in Edinburgh in 1819 and has withstood the test of time.

One cannot improve on Sir Charles Oman’s description of the book as: ‘the work of a man of superior education, who had enlisted in a moment of pique and humiliation to avoid facing at home the consequences of his own conceit and folly.

John Kincaid To Napoleon's troops, the sharp shooters of the 95th (Rifle) Regiment were 'the rascals in green', famed throughout Europe for their bravery, skill, and dash. Kincaid's Adventures in the Rifle Brigade was the first book to be published by a veteran, recounting the amazing escapades of this legendary unit in the war against French armies in Portugal and Spain.

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978-1-84832-561-6, hardback, 160 pages, $39.95

Cavalry Outpost Duties

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The Battle of Borodino

Général Antoine Fortuné De Brack Written with an intelligence vast and active, with a glowing heart, in an observing and delicate spirit, with a rare love for the soldier, this book, almost improvised, is a charming little masterpiece. At once witty and profound, the author, laying aside all prejudice, shows himself so original that certain parts, without ceasing to be true, have a perfume of poetry which charms the military reader.

Alexander Mikaberidze On 7 September 1812 at Borodino, 75 miles west of Moscow, the armies of the Russian and French empires clashed in one of the climactic battles of the Napoleonic Wars. This horrific contest has fascinated historians ever since. The survival of the Russian army after Borodino was a key factor in Napoleon's eventual defeat and the utter destruction of the French army of 1812.

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Napoleon and the Art of Diplomacy

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Wellington’s Spies

William R. Nester Warriors are not generally known for their diplomatic skills and Napoleon is no exception.After all, conquerors are accustomed to imposing rather than negotiating terms. For Napoleon, however, the arts of war and diplomacy meshed.

Mary McGrigor Intelligence was just as important in the Napoleonic Wars as it is today. Then there was only one way of obtaining it – by spies and informers. The Author uses first hand accounts of three of Wellington’s most daring and successful Intelligence Officers.

The three men were very different in character.

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Soldier of the Empire Bob Carruthers Jean-Roch Coignet was a French soldier who served in the military campaigns of the Consulate and First French Empire. He later wrote his memoirs detailing his military service in The Notebooks of Captain Coignet after the death of his wife in August 1848. These were initially published in Auxerre between 1851 and 1853 under the title Aux Vieux de la Vieille.

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Waterloo 1815: Captain Mercer’s Journal Cavalie Mercer, Bob Carruthers & W.H. Fitchett Originally published in 1900, this book features excerpts from Alexander Cavalié Mercer's account of the battle of Waterloo.

As an artillery officer at the sharp end, this is his eyewitness account of the events that lead to Napoleon's final defeat in June 1815.

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Into Battle With Napoleon 1812 Jakob Walter & Bob Carruthers This is the contemporary account of Jakob Walter, a Westphalian conscript in Napoleon’s Grande Armée. Walter took part in the Emperor’s campaigns against Prussia, Austria and finally, the disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. Together the text and illustrations provide powerful insight in to the events of 1812.

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Campaigning for Napoleon

A Little Short of Boats

One Continuous Fight

Maurice de Tascher In 1806 an enthusiastic young Frenchman Maurice de Tascher embarked on a career as a soldier in Napoleon's Grand Armée.

He was inspired by the emperor's triumphs and determined to win glory and serve his country. In 1813 de Tascher died, a victim of Napoleon's disastrous war against Russia. This is his story.

James A. Morgan, III “[P]erhaps a small demonstration on your part would have the effect to move them,” wrote Army of the Potomac commander Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan to Brig. Gen. Charles P. Stone on October 20, 1861.The simple telegram triggered the “demonstration” by Col. Edward Baker’s brigade the following day.

Eric J. Wittenberg, J. David Petruzzi & Michael F. Nugent This is the first detailed military history of Lee’s retreat and the Union effort to destroy the wounded Army of Northern Virginia. This book draws upon a massive array of documents, letters, diaries, newspaper accounts, and published primary and secondary sources.

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Escape from Elba Norman MacKenzie This book describes Napoleon's exile and phoenix-like return. The author chronicles this extraordinary year: the tense last hours of Napoleon's empire, his exile, his midnight escape and his whirlwind march over snowbound mountains to Grenoble.

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AMERICAN CIVIL WAR Bull Run to Gettysburg David Bickley If you are interested in painting, collecting or gaming with model soldiers, or interested in the American Civil War in any way then this book is for you. As well as many articles that set the scene and atmosphere of the period, this book contains painting guides, rules and campaigns that are informative and great fun to play. This full color book is all you need to recreate the battles and tactics of the American Civil War.

978-1-90154-322-3, hardback, 176 pages, $52.00

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Year of Glory Monte Akers No commander during the Civil War is more closely identified with the “cavalier mystique” as Major General J.E.B. Stuart. And none played a more prominent role during the brief period when the hopes of the nascent Confederacy were at their apex, when it appeared as though the Army of Northern Virginia could not be restrained from establishing Southern nationhood.

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First Bull Run Pascal le Pautremat The Battle of Bull Run took place in July 1861 and although when all was said and done, its impact was relatively limited, it did have a far-reaching effect on the American Civil War itself. The psychological impact of the battle on the combatants was indeed unquestionable.

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The Campaigns for Vicksburg Kevin J. Dougherty Long relegated to a secondary position behind Gettysburg,Vicksburg has more recently earned consideration by historians as the truly decisive battle of the Civil War. Indeed, Vicksburg is fascinating on many levels.

A focal point of both western armies, the Federal campaign of maneuver that finally isolated the Confederates in the city was masterful.

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Champion Hill Timothy B. Smith The Battle of Champion Hill was the decisive land engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign. The May 16, 1863, fighting took place just 20 miles east of the river city, where the advance of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Federal army attacked Gen. John C. Pemberton's hastily gathered Confederates.The bloody fighting seesawed back and forth until superior Union leadership broke apart the Southern line, sending Pemberton's army into headlong retreat.

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Divided Loyalties James W. Finck On May 16, 1861, the Kentucky state legislature passed an ordinance declaring its neutrality, which the state’s governor, Beriah Magoffin, confirmed four days later. Kentucky’s declaration and ultimate support for the Union stood at odds with the state’s social and cultural heritage.

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Failure in the Saddle David A. Powell The Confederate cavalry has a storied and generally favorable relationship with the history of the Civil War. Despite the brutal nature of the larger conflict, tales of raids and daring exploits all create a whiff of romance that lingers about the horse-soldiers of the Lost Cause.

978-1-932714-87-6, hardback, 408 pages, $34.95

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Plenty of Blame to Go Around Eric J. Wittenberg & J. David Petruzzi June 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is in its opening hours.

Harness jingles and hoofs pound as Confederate cavalryman James Ewell Brown (JEB) Stuart leads his three brigades of veteran troopers on a ride that triggers one of the Civil War’s most bitter and enduring controversies.

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Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg Eric J. Wittenberg Few aspects of the battle of Gettysburg are as misunderstood as the role played by the cavalry of both sides.This is the first and only book to examine in significant detail how the mounted arm directly affected the outcome of the battle. This edition is a detailed tactical treatment of the fighting on Brinkerhoff’s Ridge.

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The Battles that Made Abraham Lincoln Larry Tagg Today, Abraham Lincoln is a beloved American icon, widely considered to be our best president. It was not always so. This is the first study of its kind to concentrate on what Lincoln’s contemporaries thought of him during his lifetime, and the obstacles they set before him.

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The Iron Brigade in Civil War and Memory Lance J. Herdegen The Iron Brigade is one of the most celebrated military organizations of the American Civil War. Although it is primarily known because of its remarkable stand on the first bloody day at Gettysburg, its stellar service from the earliest days of the war all the way to Appomattox Court House is routinely ignored. That stunning oversight is finally rectified here in the first book-length account of this legendary combat unit.

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The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 General Ezra A. Carman & Thomas G. Clemens (Ed) Many authors have written about the climactic September 17 battle of the 1862 invasion of Maryland, but it is impossible to do so without referencing Carman’s sweeping and definitive maps and 1,800-page manuscript. His work comprises the basis of the National Park Service’s interpretive programs at Antietam.

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Those Damned Black Hats!

Lance J. Herdegen The Iron Brigade—an all-Western outfit famously branded as The Iron Brigade of the West—served out their enlistments entirely in the Eastern Theater. Hardy men were these soldiers, who waged war beneath their unique black Hardee Hats on many fields, from Brawner’s Farm all the way to Appomattox.

978-1-932714-83-8, paperback, 336 pages, $19.95

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Strangling the Confederacy Kevin Dougherty While the Civil War is mainly remembered for its epic battles between the Northern and Southern armies, the Union was simultaneously waging another campaign that was gradually depriving the South of industry and commerce.

978-1-61200-092-3, paperback, 240 pages, $18.95

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CIVIL WAR Arms of the Spanish Republic Jose Garcia This book, from the AFV Collection, covers arms of the Spanish Republic from the mid 19th century through to the 21st century.

978-849601690-3, paperback, 64 pages, $17.95

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Famous Faces of the Spanish Civil War Steve Hurst This book tells the tragic story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of writers, artists and musicians who were deeply involved and close to it. The author describes the roles of figures such as Arthur Koestler, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, George Orwell, Esmond Romilly, Martha Gellhorn (Hemingway’s lover), Salvador Dali, the poet Federico Lorca (who was killed), and spies Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt.

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Don Troiani's Civil War Militia & Volunteers

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Don Troiani (Art), Earl J. Coates (Text) & Michael J. McAfee Esteemed historical painter Don Troiani offers readers looks at Civil War uniforms. State militias were among the first troops to respond to the outbreak of the Civil War and in breathtaking, accurate detail this book brings you informative text accompanying the illustrations

Garvin This fascinating collection of letters traces the exchanges between a young subaltern on the front, Gerard ‘Ged’ Garvin, and his mother and father at home.

Correspondence was eagerly awaited by all. Ged savored letters home like ‘Jim Hawkins trickling the doubloons through his fingers’.

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978-0-8117-3319-9, paperback, 64 pages, $16.95

Don Troiani's Civil War Zouaves, Chasseurs, Special Branches, & Officers Don Troiani (Art), Earl J. Coates (Text) & Michael J. McAfee The most famous uniforms of the Civil War belonged to the Zouaves, troops of French derivation whose vibrant attire was accented by fezzes and baggy trousers.

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WORLD WAR I Nieuwpoort Sector 1917 Kristof Jacobs This is a spectacular photographic book covers the fighting around the Belgian coastal town of Nieuwpoort. It was here that the Belgian army dug in against the Germans and where the famous flooding was done to hold the enemy off. The books contains hundreds of photographs showing combat, gun positions, tanks and other equipment from the period.

978-90-58681-82-9, hardback, 272 pages, Dutch Text, $69.95

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Sagittarius Rising Cecil Lewis Sent to France with the Royal Flying Corps at just seventeen Cecil Lewis was an illustrious and passionate fighter pilot of the First World War, described by Bernard Shaw in 1935 as 'a thinker, a master of words, and a bit of a poet'. In this account the author evocatively sets his love of the skies and flying against his bitter experience of the horrors of war.

978-1-848325-19-7, paperback, 344 pages, $29.99

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The German Army Handbook of 1918 David Nash Compiled by British Intelligence, for restricted official issue by the General Staff, German Army Handbook of April 1918, is a comprehensive assessment of the German Army during the latter stages of the First World War. 978-1-84415-711-2, hardback, 196 pages, $39.95

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978-1-848325-45-6, hardback, 256 pages, $50.00

Daily Telegraph Soldiers Song and Slang John Brophy & Eric Partridge During the First World War the British soldiers were renowned for their songs and sayings. Indeed nothing would lift the spirits of the often exhausted and demoralized troops more than a singalong. These cheerful and sometimes ribald and satiric songs and sayings have been collected together to give a fascinating insight into the more lighthearted side of trench life.

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Distant Drum F.E. Noakes Guardsman Frederick Noakes fought on the Western Front for the last 18 months of the Great War. In 1934, he wanted to write up his ‘adventures’ while his memory was still ‘undimmed’, using the letters he wrote home during 1917–1919 as the basis for the memoir. His eloquent text, with his views on politics, morale and the trenches, moved friends to persuade Noakes to publish the work privately.

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Daily Telegraph Book of Military Obituaries: Book Two David Twiston Davies (Ed) Following on from the great success of the first volume, the paperback of which is still in print, the Daily Telegraph’s chief obituary writer has assembled another one hundred pithy insights into a plethora of fascinating lives, all published in the newspaper since 2000.

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'Young Citizen Old Soldier". From boyhood in Antrim to Hell on the Somme David Truesdale (Ed) For almost 43 years three school notebooks lay in obscurity in the County Armagh home of sixty two-year old James McRoberts. The closely filled pages recorded just over two years in his life in uniform as he played his part in the Great War. 978-1-908916-48-8, hardback, 224 pages, $59.95

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None That Go Return Don Farr Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow, the four subjects of this book, typify the experiences of many in a world turned upside down by the outbreak of the Great War in early August 1914. This book attempts to place the lives of the four men in their social environment and in the context of political developments and military strategy and operations which affected the activities of their respective battalions, brigades, divisions and armies.

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Chemin des Dames Gérard Lachaux For the whole of WWI, the Aisne Department was the scene of ferocious fighting and terrible battles. The most famous, and saddest, of the all was the Chemin des Dames in 1917 which has remained engraved in the memory of the French.

The author presents life on the Aisne front by means of over 400 photos, and texts, taken from letters and narratives, most of them unpublished or unknown until now.

978-2-35250-051-3, hardback, 200 pages, French Text, $65.00

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Batailles de Champagne Gérard Lachaux This book evokes in a most striking manner the twelve months of fighting which the tragic names of Souain, Massige, Tahure, Perthes et Mesnil-les-Hurlus represent. From the bloody winter battle to the great offensive on 25 September to break the deadlock, a host of powerful, mainly unpublished pictures, uniforms, weapons, memorabilia, and written accounts shed new light on this page of our history.

978-2-35250-063-6, hardback, 116 pages, $59.95

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Les Automitrailleuses de Reconnaissance François Vauvillier 978-291523967-6, paperback, 84 pages, $22.95

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6th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment in the Great War John Hartley The Manchesters saw regular action for most of 1918, coming under attack in the German offensive in March. The Battalion took part in the Advance to Victory and was still advancing when the Armistice was signed in November.

978-1-84884-328-8, hardback, 272 pages, $50.00

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A Gunner’s War Ian Ronayne This artilleryman's complete journal consists of around 25,000 words, with a focus on experience during the Battle of the Somme, in the fighting around Ypres, and, after he was wounded for the second time.

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A Wander Through Wartime London

Diary of an Old Contemptible Peter Downham (Ed) This is a most unusual chronicle of the events of one man during the Great War. A professional soldier at the outbreak, Edward Roe was one of the first to cross over to France in 1914 and as such fought in the early battles of the war and took part in the Retreat from Mons.

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Digging the Trenches

Clive Harris & Neil Bright Through a series of six walks this book discovers the sights, sounds and experience of the capital at war; it details the remaining tangible evidence of the dark days via air raid shelter signs, bomb damage on buildings and memorials detailing heroic and often tragic events.

The new routes cover a wide area of London and reveal further evidence of the experiences of four years air war in the skies above our capital city.

Andrew Robertshaw & David Kenyon Modern research methods archaeological, historical, forensic have transformed our view of the past. This is especially true of the history of the Great War. In this, the first comprehensive survey of this exciting new field, Andrew Robertshaw and David Kenyon introduce the reader to the techniques that are employed and record, in vivid detail, many of the remarkable projects that have been undertaken.

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Aristocrats Go to War Jerry Murland Zillebeke’s small churchyard military cemetery provides the inspiration for this charming piece of military and social history of 27 fallen solders from World War I.

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Best of Fragments from France Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather, Valmai Holt & Tonie Holt (Ed) Bruce Bairnsfather (BB) was the most famous cartoonist of the First World War and his soldier characters Old Bill, Bert and Alf, faced with sardonic good humor everything that the Germans, the mud and their officers could throw at them. However, Bruce never received the acclaim that he deserved for the morale boost that his cartoons gave to the troops at the front and to the people back at home.The 50th Anniversary of Bairnsfather’s death on 29 September 2009 offered an opportunity to redress the balance.

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Civil Service Rifles in the Great War

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Fort Douaumont Christina Holstein This fully revised second edition of Christina Holstein’s acclaimed Battleground guide to Fort Douaumont will be essential reading for students of the Battle of Verdun, for visitors to the battlefield, and for anyone who is interested in the history of twentieth-century fortifications.The battle, which lasted from 21 February to 15 December 1916, was a turning point in the First World War, and Fort Douaumont was at the heart of it.

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Battle for Vimy Ridge 1917 Jack Sheldon & Nigel Cave This book is a guide to both sides of a major battle 12 April 1917, which formed part of the opening of the British offensive, known as the Battle of Arras. For the first time, the accounts of the German soldiers and their commanders are combined with those of the Canadians and British deployed on the other side of No Man’s Land.

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Redan Ridge

Jill Knight Made up entirely of volunteer civil servants and their friends and despite the Government's reluctance to release them, the Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles fought with distinction at Loos, the Somme, Messines, Cambrai, Salonika and Palestine. As casualties mounted, the Rifles' spirit and loyalties strengthened.

Michael Renshaw The fighting on Redan Ridge in 1916 has long been overshadowed by events on each flank, namely Serre on the left and Beaumont Hamel on the right. A special feature in this book includes little known accounts of events at the Quadrilateral on that fateful day.

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German Offensives of 1918 Ian Passingham Few pivotal years in history are less understood than that of 1918.

It was a momentous period, which began with Germany's desperate gamble to win the Great War through a sequence of offensives on the Western Front. The author’s study draws on a wide range of original German, British and French sources, and it features previously unpublished eyewitness accounts and photographs.

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Guns of the Northeast Joe Foster A graphic account of the defense of Hartlepool, Whitby and Scarborough against German sea borne raiders in 1914 and a detailed history the coastal defenses that confronted the German navy. For the first time the author relates the wider story of the batteries of the Northeast of England and of the gunners who manned them in times of war and peace.

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Liverpool VCS

Martin Middlebrook Having established himself as one of the foremost military historians in the world, Martin Middlebrook's books are eagerly awaited and prized by publishers. He does so with not just his usual flair but a real sense of conviction and belonging, using sources that have never been tapped before.

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Manchester Pals

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Massacre on the Marne

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Johnny

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Kitchener's Men

Pals on the Somme 1916 Roni Wilkinson Pals on the Somme covers the history of all the Pals Battalions who fought on the Somme during the First World War. The book looks at the events which led to the war and how the ‘Pals’ phenomenon was born. It considers the attitude and social conditions in Britain at the time. It covers the training and equipping of the Battalions, the preparations for the ‘Big Push’, 1st July 1916 and how

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John Philip Jones The Gallipoli campaign was launched in April 1915 in an effort to knock Turkey out of the war but the force that was deployed was too small to achieve its aim.

General Hamilton was at fault in the way he conducted his campaign. This book examines why Hamilton failed at Gallipoli and shows how he became a well-respected military prophet.

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Michael Stedman Unlike its near neighbor, workingclass Salford, Manchester proved able to raise eight Pals battalions.

Initially, these battalions were composed of middle-class men who experience before the war years was within the commercial, financial and manufacturing interests which formed the foundations of Edwardian Manchester’s life and prosperity. Manchester was undeniably proud of its pals battalions.

Ian F. W. Beckett (Ed) & Steven J. Corvi An in-depth study of Douglas Haig's army commanders on the Western Front during the First World War. Assesses their careers and characters, looks critically at their performance in command and examines their relationship with their subordinates and with Haig himself.

978-1-84415-892-8, paperback, 240 pages, $25.99

North Midland Territorials go to War

James Murphy In Liverpool local heroes tend to be drawn from football or the music business or from the period when the city was one of Britain’s greatest ports. James Murphy’s biographies of twenty-three Liverpool VC winners show what extraordinary sacrifices the men of the city made when they were called on to fight for their country.

Fraser Skirrow Massacre on the Marne is a graphic reconstruction of the experiences of a small closely knit group of fighting men - the 2/5th Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment - in the Great War. Using the words of the men themselves, taken from their letters, diaries and memoirs as well as quotations from the reports and dispatches of the time, Fraser Skirrow records how they learnt the painful lessons of trench warfare.

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Middlebrook Guide to the Somme Battlefields Martin & Mary Middlebrook The Great War saw three great battles and approximately half of the 400,000 who died on the Somme were British.This evocative book written by the authors of the iconic First Day on the Somme is a thorough guide to the cemeteries, memorials and battlefields of the area, with the emphasis on the fighting of 1916 and 1918, with fascinating descriptions and anecdotes.

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Road to St. Julien William St. Clair & John St Clair (Ed) William St Clair is perhaps the only soldier to have left a continuous account of his experiences day by day from the moment of joining up in 1914, through the years of horror in the trenches, to the march into Germany in 1919 and the long aftermath of trying to make sense of what had happened.

A private in the medical corps, St Clair wrote daily letters and they are published here for the first time.

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Rommel And Caporetto John Wilks & Eileen Wilks Rommel was to become the most respected of all generals in World War Two but no-one outside of a small clique in the German Army had heard of him in 1917. His role at the Battle of Caporetto in 1917 has received little attention yet it was the springboard for his future success. This makes for a fascinating and important story.

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Sniping in the Great War

John Hutton The author provides an absorbing account of the raising, training and fighting experiences of the Service and Territorial battalions of the King’s Own Royal Lancasters in France during the Great War. His book gives a graphic insight into the daily routine and grim reality of warfare on the Western Front.

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Martin Pegler Military snipers are highly trained marksmen who target individual enemy soldiers. They are regarded as vital specialists in modern warfare, and their role evolved throughout the Great War. The technique of sniping adapted rapidly to the conditions of static warfare that prevailed through much of the conflict.

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Murderous Tommies Julian Putkowski & Mark Dunning Drawing on contemporary records, this carefully researched work chronicles the circumstances in which each of these murderous Tommies either slaughtered one of their comrades or an unarmed 978-1-84884-626-5, hardback, 224 pages, $39.95

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Soldier from the Wars Returning

Battle of Loos

London Scottish in the Great War

Charles Carrington This book is one of the truest, most profound and readable personal accounts of the Great War. Among other topics, he describes the politicians, the generals, Kitchener's Army, Hore-Belisha, German gas attacks, Picardy, dug-outs, tanks, the sex-life of the soldier, scrounging. trench kits and the censoring of letters. The author saw the First World War from below, as a fighting soldier in a line regiment.

Philip Warner Loos is a small mining town between Lens and La Bassee in northern France. But on 25th September 1915, and for a few days after, it was the center of one of the most intense and bloody battles of the First World War. The casualties were appalling – about 60,000 of which the majority died on the first day. The author has traced survivors from all parts of the line and revealed one of the most horrific tales of war yet to be published.

Leslie McDonnell For many years the London Scottish Rifle Volunteers was largely a social organization for professionals of Scottish ancestry resident in London. The exploits of the London Scottish are well-known, but this work attempts to portray the unit at a deeper level. These volunteers were articulate professionals and left behind numerous journals and diaries, many never before published, which convey their true feelings and aspirations.

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Fire Power Shelford Bidwell & Dominick Graham This is, without doubt, the finest book about the crucial role that artillery played in the two World Wars of the Twentieth century.The authors describe the development of their neglected, inadequate and class-ridden arm through the battles of the First World War and the eventual war-winning role that artillery played, to the culmination of professional military deployment in the Second World War. 978-184415216-2, paperback, 344 pages, $17.99

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Passchendaele Philip Warner Nearly seventy years ago, on 31st July 1917, the small Belgian village of Passchendaele became the focus for one of the most grueling, bloody and bizarre battles of World War 1. By 6th November, when Passchendaele village and the ridge were captured, over half a million British, French, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders and Germans had become casualties. Philip Warner investigates the issues which had a crucial effect on the course of the battle.

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1914-1918 An Eyewitness to War Bob Carruthers This is a fascinating collection of recollections from primary sources reflecting often-overlooked aspects of the Great War. 978-1-78159-151-2, paperback, 304 pages, $19.95

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Bantams Sidney Allinson The Bantams tells the factual but well nigh incredible story of how the British and Canadian armies recruited over 50,000 short men to serve as front-line soldiers.

This book reveals disturbing new information about battlefield executions by firing squads that was only recently released from British official records long held secret from the public.

978-1-848840-30-0, hardback, 320 pages, $39.99

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Fromelles 1916 Michael Senior In addition to a full run of The Lee Magazine, the author has drawn on a wide range of archive sources that include unpublished letters, diaries, memoirs and newspapers.

Fromelles 1916 gives an unrivaled insight into the life and times of an English village in the First World War – a way of life swept away for ever by the changes ushered in by the conflict.

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German Army on the Western Front 1917 - 1918 David Bilton This highly illustrated book covers the German retreat from the Somme, through the defensive battles of 1917, the Kaiserschlacht (Kaiser’s Battle) of early 1918, to the final Allied offensive from August to the end of the War. The post-Armistice events are also covered as the implications of defeat sunk in on an exhausted nation and its shattered army.

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Greater Game Clive Harris & Julian Whippy This fascinating book examines the deadly impact of The Great War on a number of leading professional sportsmen of the age. Their untimely deaths pressed home how even the fittest and most gifted were vulnerable and their loss was felt by far more than their families and friends.

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In Flanders Flooded Fields

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Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide: Ypres Tonie & Valmai Holt 958-085052551-9, paperback, 272 pages, $24.95

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Some Desperate Glory Edwin Campion Vaughan Intensely honest and revealing, Vaughan's diary evokes the minutiae of trench warfare: its constant dangers and mind-numbing routine interspersed with lyrical and sometimes comic interludes.

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I Survived the Somme Charles Meeres Charles Meeres served on the Western Front between 1915 and 1918. He kept a secret diary and painted many watercolors of life at the front. He described how he fought alongside the men of Kitchener’s army at the Battle of Loos in 1915 and daily life in the trenches in the winter of that year.

He was present at the first day of the battle of the Somme. Subsequent battles include the Battle of Arras in 1917, and a description from his comrades of the Third Battle of Ypres. These sections come directly from the diaries as written up each night by Meeres, and bring to life the daily details of army life in the dramatic times of the First World War. 978-1-4456-0618-7, hardback, 176 pages, $24.95

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WORLD WAR II Fighting with the Filthy Thirteen

Paul Van Pul This is the story of what happened between Antwerp and Dunkirk that fateful month and how the King of the Belgians safeguarded the independence of his small nation from its all-powerful neighbors.This book contains 25 maps, several drawings and 138 photographs.

Jack Womer & Stephen C. DeVito The Filthy Thirteen is the notorious squad of fighting men in the 101st Airborne Division. In this work one of the squad’s integral members reveals his own inside account of fighting as a spearhead of the Screaming Eagles in Normandy, Market Garden, and the Battle of the Bulge.

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Surrounded by Heroes

Soviet Tank Units 1939–45

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Camp 186

Leonard Lebenson When the author was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1942 he had no reason to expect special treatment. Instead, because he was a typist and draftsman, he was grabbed up by an outfit desperately in need of those skills. It was the G-3 (Operations) Section of the 82nd Airborne. Len Lebenson thus gained a ringside seat for some of the greatest campaigns of World War II.

David Porter The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide: Soviet Tank Units, 1939– 45 offers an highly illustrated guide to the main armored fighting vehicles used by the Red Army during World War II. This compact volume includes sample unit structures and orders of battle from company up to corps level, providing an organizational context for key campaigns.

Ken Free This book tells the story of one of the most amazing PoW Camps of the second World War. Camp 186 held 6,000 mostly ‘other ranks’ – ordinary Germans who had been forced into an abnormal situation.

Home to extreme Nazis and to strong pacifists they formed a volatile mixture. Using original articles and letters by the prisoners, it tells some of their stories, from capture to arriving at night in a desolate field.

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Come Back To Portofino James Bourhill Using archival sources and private documents recently unearthed, Come Back to Portofino chronicles the journey taken by volunteers in the 6th South African Armoured Division. From training camps in Egypt through to the blissful summer of 1945 the ‘Div’ left its mark on towns and villages across Italy.

978-1-920143-56-5, paperback, 480 pages, $29.95

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Panzer I Lucas Franco This book is part a of new series coming to us from AF Editions in Spain. Published last year in Spanish, they are now appearing for the first time in English. The book features a comprehensive narrative text and a combination of exceptionally high quality 4 color black and white photos accompanied by spectacular full color profiles of each of the tanks-all custom created for these books.

978-848731443-8, paperback, 64 pages, $16.95

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Encyclopedia of Elite Forces in the Second World War Michael E. Haskew World War II saw elite units take a prominent role on the battlefield for the first time. This is a wideranging guide to the excellent units on land, sea or in the air whose success was usually hard- won against the odds, and whose actions had an impact on the course of the fighting around them.

978-190570427-9, hardback, 192 pages, $34.95

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Panzergrenadier Divisions, 1939–1945 Chris Bishop Illustrated with detailed artworks of Wehrmacht vehicles and their markings with exhaustive captions and specifications this is the study of the equipment and organization of Germany’s motorized army divisions during World War II. The book describes the models of tank with each panzergrenadier division.

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Western Allied Tanks 1939–45

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Desert Rats

David Porter The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide: Western Allied Tanks, 1939–45 offers an highly illustrated guide to the main armored fighting vehicles used by the Western Allies during World War II. This compact volume includes sample unit structures and orders of battle from company up to corps level, providing an organizational context for key campaigns.

John Sadler From 1940-3 Britain was engaged in a life and death struggle with the Axis powers in North Africa, a titanic, swaying conflict that surged back and forth across the barren wastes of Egypt, Libya and Tunisia.

This desert war encompassed many of the epic battles of the Second World War, Halfaya Pass, Gazala, Tobruk, and El Alamein. Desert rats includes numerous unpublished veterans accounts.

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Kriegsmarine David Porter Germany’s navy, the Kriegsmarine, played a critical role in the Third Reich’s attempt to restrict the flow of supplies, men and materiel from the United States to Britain in the early years of the war and from North America and Britain to the Soviet Union from 1941. Such was the success of the U-boats in particular, by the end of the war more than 3000 Allied ships with a combined gross tonnage 14.5 million had been sent to the bottom of the sea.

978-1-90744-610-8, hardback, 192 pages, $34.95

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Norfolk at War Frank Meeres During the Second World War, Norfolk was truly on the ‘front line’. Being so close to the Continent, air raids were frequent and invasion was a very real and persistent threat for the people of the county. The men and women of Norfolk took up positions in all branches of the forces to fight for their country.

978-1-4456-0466-4, paperback, 160 pages, $24.95

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Fighter Boy Barry Sutton This book, based on a diary he kept during the Battle of Britain, covers September 1939 to September 1940 during which time based at North Weald one of Fighter Command’s most important fighter stations, he shot down 3 German fighters and was shot down twice himself. It is also the story of his family.

978-1-445606-27-9, paperback, 356 pages, $19.95

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Geoffrey Guy's War Geoffrey Guy Geoffrey Guys descriptions of student life, learning to fly, foreign travel, and camaraderie with fellow pilots are filled with excitement, hope and humor. The mood becomes more serious in later chapters as he relates the death of successive friends, his certain conviction of his own death during the Battle of Imphal, and the miracle of his survival.

978-1-445600-22-2, paperback, 192 pages, $24.95

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Gun Button To Fire

Joan Mant Joan Mant’s engaging account of what life was like working in the Women’s Land Army clearly shows what a hard and demanding task these women had; a task that lacked the apparent glamour of life in the armed services.

Tom Neil This is a fighter pilot's story of eight memorable months from May to December 1940. Tom flew 141 combat missions (few pilots reached 50) mostly from North Weald airfield in Essex, and shot down 13 enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain.

This is a fighter pilot's story of eight memorable months from May to December 1940.

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All Muck Now Medals

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Jack Wardrops Diary George Forty The personal story of a British tank sergeant’s war, from the fall of France in 1940, through the bloody campaigns against Rommel’s forces in North Africa, the hard-fought drive up Italy, D-Day and the battles for France and the low countries, and the invasion of the German heartland itself. George Forty uses Jack Wardrop’s war diary as the basis for this firsthand tale of bravery.

978-1-84868-580-2, paperback, 256 pages, $27.95

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Last of the Few

Churchill 1940-1945 Walter Reid When he became Prime Minister on 10 May 1940 Churchill was without allies. Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain saved Britain from immediate defeat, but it was evident that Britain alone could never win the war. Churchill’s account of relations with his allies and associates was sanitized for the historical record and has been accepted uncritically.

978-184341044-7, hardback, 320 pages, $51.50

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If Hitler Comes

Dilip Sarkar Dilip Sarkar relates the stories of 18 pilots, researched through personal interviews, correspondence and contemporary archive material.

Many of the pilots featured became ‘aces’ in the Battle of Britain, others achieved such status afterwards whilst others went into action only to be instantly blasted out of the sky without even having seen the enemy.

Gordon Barclay Between May 1940 and the summer of 1941 the British people expected a German invasion that, had it succeeded, would have enslaved them into the Nazis’ racist war. This period saw an unparalleled effort to prepare the defense of the UK against invasion.This book tells that story, against the wider history of the period and its people, and describes what was built, and what now survives.

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978-1-445602-82-0, paperback, 224 pages, $19.95

Letters from Normandy John Mercer John Mercer was called up in June 1944, and after an intense nine months of square-bashing, vehicle training, Morse code, and line laying, he became a gunner and landed in Normandy on 13 June 1944. Mercer’s letters to his widowed mother, together with extracts from the official War Diaries, help to tell this gripping story of all that makes soldiers’ life.

978-1-445601-76-2, hardback, 192 pages, $32.95

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We're Here to Win the War for You Martin Bowman Asked why he was in Britain, a US serviceman, fighting the war in the skies over Germany with the US 8th Air Force quipped, ‘We’re here to win the war for you’. Martin Bowman has spent much of the past two decades recording the memories of hundreds of American airmen who came to Britain to fight the Germans and Italians. He gives a unique insight into both combat missions and life back at base.

978-1-84868-429-4, paperback, 356 pages, $29.95

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North Atlantic Front James Miller This book tells the story of operations along this northern front. Illustrated with over a hundred archive photographs, this is a fascinating glimpse into a theater of war overlooked by other naval history books.

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Fascist Scotland Gavin Bowd

Bismarck Niklas Zetterling & Michael Tamelander The sinking of the German battleship Bismarck—a masterpiece of engineering, well-armored with a main artillery of eight 15-inch guns—was one of the most dramatic events of World War II. She left the port of Gotenhafen for her first operation on the night of 18 May 1941, yet was almost immediately discovered by Norwegian resistance and Allied air reconnaissance.

978-1-935149-04-0, hardback, 320 pages, $32.95

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Building for War Bonita L. Gilbert This intimately researched work tells the story of the thousand-plus Depression-era civilian contractors who came to Wake Island, a remote Pacific atoll, in 1941 to build an air station for the U.S. Navy. Author Gilbert charts the contractors’ hardwon progress as they scramble to build the naval base as well as runways for the U.S. Army Air Corps’s B-17 Flying Fortresses while war clouds gather over the Pacific.

978-1-61200-129-6, hardback, 400 pages, $32.95

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D-Days in the Pacific With the US Coastguard 978-1-78027-052-4, paperback, 256 pages, $18.99

Special Offer $10.99 Bounce the Rhine

Charles Whiting Bounce the Rhine covers the British army's push for the Rhine and the total allied effort in breaching this last natural defensive feature on the western side of Germany. Told with Charles Whiting's usual panache, the book explains the enormity of the problem of crossing the Rhine and how this was achieved. Charles Whiting is one of the most distinguished and prolific authors on World War II, with over 250 books to his credit. As someone who saw action in the west during the War, he is able to write with insight, and authority.

978-193203307-6, hardback, 256 pages, $29.95

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American Guerrilla Mike Guardia With his parting words “I shall return,” General Douglas MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan. Yet one young Army Captain named Russell Volckmann refused to surrender.

He disappeared into the jungles of north Luzon where he raised a Filipino army of over 22,000 men.

This book establishes how Volckmann’s leadership was critical to the outcome of the war in the Philippines.

978-1-935149-22-4, hardback, 240 pages, $32.95

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Ken Wiley The images of soldiers and marines coming ashore on hostile shores are embedded in our collective memory of World War II. But what of the sailors who manned the landing craft, going back and forth under fire with nowhere to take cover, their craft the special targets of enemy gunners?

978-1-935149-21-7, paperback, 350 pages, $19.95

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Eastern Inferno Christine Alexander (Ed) & Mason Kunze (Ed) This book presents the remarkable personal journals of a German soldier who participated in Operation Barbarossa and subsequent battles on the Eastern Front, revealing the combat experience of the GermanRussian War as seldom seen before.

978-1-935149-47-7, hardback, 240 pages, $32.95

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Fogg in the Cockpit Richard P. Fogg & Janet R. Fogg Renowned for decades as the world’s foremost railroad artist, Howard Fogg’s career spanned half a century and some twelve hundred paintings. However, while his art has been welcomed for decades, few of his enthusiasts have been aware of his prior career, as a fighter pilot in the U.S. 8th Air Force during World War II. 978-1-61200-004-6, hardback, 360 pages, $32.95

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Jungvolk Wilhelm R. Gehlen & Don A. Gregory This is the wartime memoir of a boy named Will, who happened to be the nephew of the head of Nazi Germany’s intelligence agency, Foreign Armies East. After reading this book, the reader will wonder who had the most exciting time during World War II. In this book Gehlen, provides an intimate glimpse of the chaos, horror and black humor of life just behind the front lines.

978-1-932033-87-8, hardback, 320 pages, $40.00

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Leyte, 1944 Nathan N. Prefer When General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia in March 1942, having successfully left the Philippines to organize a new American army, he vowed, "I shall return!"

More than two years later he did return, at the head of a large U.S. army to retake the Philippines from the Japanese. Leyte was a threedimensional battle and did indeed decide the fate of the Philippines in World War II. 978-1-61200-155-5, hardback, 424 pages, $32.95

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Men of Barbarossa Samuel W. Mitcham Jr This book not only tells the story of Operation Barbarossa but describes the expertise, skills, and decision-making powers of the men who directed it. The result is an illuminating look at the personalities behind the carnage, as summer triumph turned to winter crisis, including new insights into the invasion’s many tactical successes, as well as its ultimate failure.

978-1-935149-15-6, hardback, 256 pages, $32.95

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Perilous Moon Stuart Nimmo This exceptional, lavishly illustrated book invites the reader into intimate familiarity with Occupied France during World War II, through the eyes of a downed British bomber pilot who clandestinely made his way to Paris and became immersed in its political and moral complexity.

978-1-61200-124-1, hardback, 224 pages, $34.95

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Sacrifice on the Steppe

Shadow Commander Mike Guardia The fires on Bataan burned on the evening of April 9, 1942—illuminating the white flags of surrender against the nighttime sky. Battered remnants of the American-Philippine army surrendered to the forces of the Rising Sun. Yet amongst the chaos and devastation of the American defeat, Army Captain Donald D. Blackburn refused to lay down his arms.

978-1-61200-065-7, hardback, 240 pages, $32.95

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Shattered Genius David Stone This work describes the turbulent existence of the German general staff from its resurrection by Hitler in 1935 to the end of World War II. It highlights the increasingly fractured relationship between general staff officers and Hitler during this period— a deteriorating situation that culminated in von Stauffenberg’s abortive attempt to assassinate the Führer in 1944.

978-1-61200-098-5, hardback, 424 pages, $34.95

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The Battle of Denmark Strait Robert Winklareth To Great Britain and Germany, the Battle of the Denmark Strait came like a thunderclap in the spring of 1941. The pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, was utterly destroyed, and its newest battleship, Prince of Wales, severely damaged and forced to withdraw. This was at the hands of Germany’s huge battleship Bismarck, on its first foray into North Atlantic waters. The blast of heavy shells between the behemoths resonated both in Whitehall and Berlin.

978-1-61200-123-4, hardback, 336 pages, $32.95

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The Drive on Moscow, 1941 Niklas Zetterling & Anders Frankson At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow.

This book recreates the battle from the perspective of the soldiers as well as the generals.

978-1-61200-120-3, hardback, 336 pages, $32.95

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The True Story of Catch 22

Hope Hamilton When Germany’s Sixth Army advanced to Stalingrad in 1942, its long-extended flanks were mainly held by its allied armies—the Romanians, Hungarians, and Italians.

But as history tells us, these flanks quickly caved in before the massive Soviet counteroffensive which commenced that November, dooming the Germans to their first catastrophe of the war.

Patricia Chapman Meder When this book was published it was quickly apparent that this book was based on the Bomb Group Patricia Chapman Meder’s father commanded in World War II. In this book the reader will discover that truth is indeed as fascinating as fiction!

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978-1-61200-002-2, hardback, 384 pages, $32.95

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Deutsche Soldaten Agustin Saiz There have been all manner of books written on the German Army since the end of World War II. Books on the men, their tactics, commanders, equipment, weaponry and histories of the major battles they fought in can be found on the bookshelves of almost all 20th Century history enthusiasts. This is a visual history of the German soldier and provides a reflection of how the men lived.

978-1-932033-96-0, hardback, 356 pages, $55.00

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Patton's Last Battle Charles Whiting It was to be the last year in the life of General George Patton. It would commence with the great victory of the Battle of the Bulge.

It would end in dismissal, despair and finally death. For despite his victory at Bastogne and his tremendous drive through Southern Germany, his boss Eisenhower, would cruelly relieve him of his post as Governor of Bavaria, take away his beloved Third Army and finally relegate him to the command of the 15th US Army, which existed on paper only.

This is the record of Patton's last year until he died, not, ironically, on the battlefield, but peacefully in bed.

978-193203303-8, hardback, 328 pages, $29.95

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Belgen in de RAF - Vol 3 Jean-Louis Roba The 3rd volume in a series of biographies of Belgian flying officers in the Royal Air Force during World War 2. The pilots covered are: Albert Petrisse, Maurice Laloux, Alexis Besschops, Richard Delbrouck and Joseph Marchal.

978-905868035-8, paperback, 96 pages, Dutch Text, $18.95

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Memoirs Van Turksin Jos Vinks Turksin founded the "Fabriekswacht" in 1941 as a sort of security service for the Luftwaffe based in Belgium during the Second World War. This book is drawn from his personal papers.

978-907254747-7, paperback, 192 pages, Dutch Text, $29.95

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Adolf Hitler Josef Charita & Jean-Louis Roba

978-90-5868-185-0, hardback, 256 pages, French Text, $79.95

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Belges dans la RAF Jean-Louis Roba

978-907254780-4, paperback, 80 pages, French Text, $18.95

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Bruxelles 1940 - 1945 Jean-Louis Roba

978-907254795-8, paperback, 96 pages, French Text, $18.95

Special Offer $8.99 The Secret Army

Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski Tadeusz Komorowski was born in 1895 in Galicia, a region then ruled by the Austrians, and he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in the First World War. Poland regained its independence in 1918, and Komorowski fought against the Russians in the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–21.

When Germany had invaded Poland in 1939, Komorowski was the commander of units defending the Vistula River, but he was pushed eastwards by the fierce advance. Despite being surrounded by German forces, he escaped to Cracow. Although he planned to escape to the West, he was ordered to stay and start a resistance movement. He stayed in Cracow until the summer of 1941, when he was sent to Warsaw. The legend of ‘Bór’ was about to begin.

978-1-84832-595-1, hardback, 416 pages, $39.95

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Last Days of the Reich Count Folke Bernadotte Count Folke Bernadotte was one of those rare figures in war – a man trusted by both sides alike.

Shortly before the war ended, Bernadotte was the leader of a rescue operation to transfer western European inmates to Swedish hospitals in the socalled ‘White Buses’. This work through the Swedish Red Cross involved mercy missions to Germany and it was through this link that Bernadotte came into touch with prominent Nazi leaders in the 1940s.

978-1-84832-522-7, hardback, 176 pages, $39.99

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Ulrich von Hassell Diaries, 1938–1944

At Hitler's Side Nicolaus von Below This is the personal account of a Luftwaffe aide always at Hitler’s side from 1937 until the last days in Berlin, now published for the first time in English. This is a superb source describing life in Hitler’s inner circle, relied upon on by Gitta Sereny in her biography of Albert Speer.

978-1-84832-585-2, paperback, 256 pages, $24.95

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Churchill's Underground Army John Warwicker British Secret Intelligence Service officers and others in the War Office were never convinced that appeasement would prevent a Nazi invasion. Defying high-level opposition, they quietly worked instead on preemptive ‘Last Ditch’ survival plans. These included a secret resistance network known as the GHQ Auxiliary Units. It was the only one in Europe prepared in advance of an enemy assault.

978-1-84832-515-9, hardback, 320 pages, $50.00

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Countdown to Valkyrie Nigel Jones Although there were more than 40 plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler, none came closer to success than the July Plot of 1944. The attempt was masterminded by Count von Stauffenberg, a member of the German General Staff, who had been rushed back from Africa after losing his left eye and right hand. In remarkable detail Nigel Jones dissects the lead up to the attempt, the events of the day in minute-byminute detail, and the aftermath.

978-184832508-1, hardback, 320 pages, $32.95

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Disaster at Stalingrad Peter Tsouras It is early September 1942 and the German commander of the Sixth Army, General Paulus, is poised to advance on the Russian city of Stalingrad. His primary mission was to take the city to secure the valuable oil fields in the Caucasus.What happens next is a brutal war of attrition that lasted for nearly two years, and the victory by a resolute Soviet Red Army.

978-1-84832-663-7, hardback, 256 pages, $29.95

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Hitler Strikes North

Hitler Was My Friend Heinrich Hoffmann Heinrich Hoffmann became Hitler's official photographer and traveled with him extensively.

He took over two million photographs of Hitler, and they were distributed widely, including on postage stamps, an enterprise that proved very profitable for both men.This edition of a classic book includes photographs by Hoffmann.

978-1-84832-608-8, hardback, 256 pages, $39.95

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Tapping Hitler's Generals Sonke Neitzel Between 1942 and 1945, MI-19, a division of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, created a number of Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centres in and around London. The most important of these centres was at Trent Park, in North London.

Sophisticated tapping equipment was installed, and secret gramophone recordings were made of conversations between German general staff officers.

978-1-84415-705-1, hardback, 416 pages, $49.95

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U-48: The Most Successful U-Boat of the Second World War Franz Kurowski By 1 August 1941, U-48, the most successful boat of the Second World War, had sunk 56 merchant ships of 322,478 gross tons and one corvette. Schultze became commander of operation 3 U-Flotilla and later was appointed commander, II/Naval College Schleswig. He died in 1987 at the age of 78. U-48 was scuttled on 3 May 1945.

978-1-84832-606-4, hardback, 208 pages, $39.95

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Alexander Memoirs, 1940–1945 Alexander of Tunis After his first meeting with General Alexander in August 1942, Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks wrote that: ‘By repute he was Winston Churchill’s fire brigade chief par excellence: the man who was always dispatched to retrieve the most desperate situations.’

Churchill was indeed in need of a fire brigade chief.

978-1-84832-567-8, hardback, 240 pages, $39.95

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At Rommel’s Side

Ulrich von Hassell Without doubt, Ulrich von Hassell was one of the most important members of the German Resistance: this his wartime memoir with new material from his grandson.

Hassell joined the Nazi Party in 1933, but strongly opposed the Anti-Comintern Pact (1937) and was sacked by Ribbentrop from his posting in Rome.

J. Greene & A. Massignani More than any other campaign of WWII, Operation Weserubing has been shrouded in mystery. The operation necessitated combining the resources of air force, army and navy. This combined arms assault was the first ‘three dimensional’ strategic invasion in history.

Hans-Joachim Schraepler Erwin Rommel, Hitler’s so-called ‘Desert Fox’, is possibly the most famous German Field-Marshal of WWII. He is widely regarded as the one of the most skilled commanders of desert warfare and, in contrast to other leaders of Nazi Germany, is considered to have been a chivalrous and humane officer.

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Cracking the Luftwaffe Codes Gwen Watkins Bletchley Park, or 'Station X', was home to the most famous code breakers of the Second World War. After the war, many intercepts, traffic-slips and paperwork were burned. The truth about Bletchley was not revealed until F. Winterbotham's The Ultra Secret was published in 1974. In this book former WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) Gwen Watkins brings to life the reality of this crucial division.

978-1-84832-682-8, paperback, 240 pages, $24.95

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Day Fighters in Defence of the Reich

When Shall their Glory Fade?

James Dunning Written by a Commando veteran of World War II, this is a remarkable, vivid and honest account of the battles and actions behind the award of the thirty eight Battle Honours that were awarded to the Army Commandos

by Her Majesty the Queen in 1958.The story of each honor is presented using the stories and experiences of the commandos, officers and men who fought.

978-1-84832-597-5, hardback, 304 pages, $39.95

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Fire by Night

Donald Caldwell The previous volume in this series is a narrative history of these defenses. The present book extends the story in an unprecedented fashion, and is based on documents in the German, American and British government archives and German pilot logbooks from the author’s extensive collection.

Jennie Gray When she was very young, the author was captivated by the story her father, Joe Mack, repeatedly told her about his astonishing rescue from a crashed and burning Lancaster one night in 1943. She writes from the heart, honestly and at times lyrically and her thorough research uncovers the harsh realities of warfare, the failure of procedures and, worst of all, her father’s shocking secret.

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Hitler’s Paratrooper Gilberto Villahermosa Rudolf Witzig entered the history books as the heroic captor of Belgium’s supposedly impregnable fortress Eben Emael in May 1940–the first time that gliderborne troops were used in the war. To many people, he is also known as the commander of the battle group that fired the first shots of the Tunisian campaign.This biography is a history of the man.

978-1-84832-559-3, hardback, 304 pages, $39.95

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I Flew for the Fuhrer Heinz Knocke Heinz Knoke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of World War II and this record of his experiences has become a classic among aviation memoirs, a bestselling counter-balance to the numerous accounts written by Allied pilots. Knoke joined the Luftwaffe on the outbreak of war, and eventually became commanding officer of a fighter wing.

978-1-84832-648-4, paperback, 188 Pages, $24.95

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Kesselring: The Making of the Luftwaffe Kenneth Macksey Illustrated with maps and a center section of black and white photographs. Kesselring-commander, leader, administrator; the only senior German officer to start and finish the Second World War holding a high command appointment.

978-1-84832-649-1, paperback, 256 pages, $24.95

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Malta Spitfire George Beurling Twenty-five thousand feet above Malta – that is where the Spitfires intercepted the Messerschmitts, Macchis and Reggianes as they swept eastwards in their droves, screening the big Junkers with their bomb loads as they pummeled the island beneath – the most bombed patch of ground in the world. One of those Spitfire pilots was George Beurling, who in fourteen flying days destroyed twenty-seven German and Italian aircraft.

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Bomber Boys Mel Rolfe Lancaster pilot Victor Wood’s aircraft arrived too early over Gelsenkirchen when the target was shrouded in darkness and the Main Force miles behind. His bomber was suddenly struck with terrifying force by flak and turned upside-down.

978-190494386-0, paperback, 256 pages, $19.95

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Daily Telegraph Book of Naval Obituaries David Twiston Davies (Ed) This book is the companion to two earlier volumes celebrating the soldiers and airmen. It contains one hundred biographies which were published in The Daily Telegraph during the past eighteen years, but have never before appeared in book form.

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Into Enemy Arms Michael Hingston Ditha Bruncel’s detailed memory of living in Germany during the Second World War provides a rare, first-hand insight into the day-to-day struggle against Nazi oppression, when even small acts of defiance or resistance carried great personal risk.

This book tells the extraordinary story of Ditha and the escaped POWs she helped to save.

978-1-906502-31-7, paperback, 288 pages, $19.95

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Tales of my Time Raymond Baxter with Tony Dron From such disparate experiences as hair-raising escapes at the controls of a Spitfire over Sicily and occupied Holland to speaking to the nation while suspended in a box near the roof of Westminster Abbey, Raymond Baxter has endless tales to tell.

A renowned Formula 1 Grand Prix commentator, he also competed in and reported on fourteen consecutive Monte Carlo Rallies and thirty Farnborough Air Shows where, as a veteran combat pilot, he flew a Harrier on two occasions.

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Breakout at Normandy Mark Bando The 2nd Armored Division during the landing in 1944 in Normandy.

978-2-84048-343-4, hardback, 160 pages, French Text, $87.00

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Objectif La Haye-du-Puits The extreme difficulty of the battles in the Cotentin marshes has already been discussed in Operation Cobra, during which Mont Castre represented a primary obstacle.

Here Heimdal presents La Hayedu-Puits, the final hurdle to achieve in order to prepare the departure base necessary for the ultimate breach. Highly illustrated with numerous color photos, this work offers a rich description of the terrain and equipment used on the battlefield.

978-2-84048-321-2, hardback, 80 pages, French Text, $43.00

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Prises de guerre Mark Bando & Michael Beaver The authors present objects taken from the Waffen-SS by American soldiers between 1944 and 1945.

Included are photos, badges, and medals, along with many other souvenirs brought back by the troops. Included among the rich photographic documentation are images of the capturing of German soldiers by the Americans.

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Veteran Recall Hilary Kaiser This collection of reminiscences and poems of American veterans residing in France brings alive the realities of World War II, particularly in France but also in North Africa, the South Pacific, England, Belgium, Holland, Italy and Germany. Many compelling images emerge from these seventeen stories.

978-284048194-2, paperback, 160 pages, $22.95

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Tunisian Tales Niall Cherry This book covers the raising of the Brigade in 1941 and training in the UK before their transfer to the Mediterranean theater of operations. It also covers the three airborne operations carried out by the Brigade there - Bone, Souk-el-Arba and Depienne/Oudna - in great detail. The book is complemented by over 100 photos many never published before, several maps (including one used

by Lieutenant Colonel Pearson when in command of the 1st Parachute Battalion).

978-1-907677-22-9, hardback, 424 pages, $69.95

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With the Red Devils at Arnhem

Helmets of Eto Regis Giard & Frederic Blais This book proposes a complete study of the variants in the manufacturing of the M1 helmet, illustrated with more than 700 full-color photos and presents a new selection of helmets coming from the woodwork, stemming from private collections and museums. The selection of more than 120 helmets evokes, from Normandy to Germany, the battles of the European Theatre of operation.

978-2-35250-062-9, hardback, 216 pages, $49.95

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SS Totenkopf France 40 Eric Lefèvre Published in 1942 with the title Damals, this album is aimed at enhancing the reputation of the SS-Totenkopf Division, a rather unusual motorized Waffens-SS formation whose nucleus had been shaped with concentration camp guards, the infamous SSTotenkopfverbände.

978-2-35250-115-2, hardback, 144 pages, English/French/German Text, $49.95

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12th and 15th Air Forces

Marek Swiecicki The Battle of Arnhem remains a much-studied and discussed battle, with an uninterrupted flow of books being published about it.

Helion are bringing back into print a fascinating eyewitness account that has remained overlooked since it was last published shortly after the battle itself. The 1st Polish Parachute Brigade played both an important and controversial role at Arnhem.

Gérard Paloque Created in 1942, and immediately placed under the command of General Doolittle, the 12th Air Force was responsible for conducting Operation Torch on November 8, 1942. The unit served with the Northwest African Air Forces from February to December 1943, then with the Allied Air Forces in the Mediterranean until the end of the war alongside the other unit presented in this work: the 15th Air Force.

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978-1-907677-34-2, paperback, 128 pages, $29.95

The Diaries of Ronald Tritton, War Office Publicity Officer 1940-45

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9th Air Force

Fred McGlade (Ed) The diary kept by Ronald Edward Tritton is a revealing and often frank record of the internal conflicts at the Public Relations Department of the War Office and the Ministry of Information during the Second World War.

Grégory Pons During the preparation of the Normandy Invasion, the American high command realized soon enough that the 8th Air Force, which was wholly committed to strategic bombing, could not undertake the close support of ground units in this major offensive.

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978-1-907677-44-1, hardback, 672 pages, $69.95

Steel Bulwark Ian Baxter This is a unique visual book providing the reader with a wide selection of rare and mostly unpublished photographs accompanied by in-depth captions.

The images reveal the unfolding story of the last desperate years of the German Panzer forces.

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Allies in Battledress Jean Bouchery This is the third volume devoted to the Allied troops under the Anglo-Canadian command of the 21st Army Group (the Tommy during the Liberation, 2 vols., and the Canadian during the Liberation).The aim of this book is to discover the distinguishing features of those who donned British battledress.

978-2-35250-191-6, hardback, 144 pages, $55.00

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American Paratrooper Helmets Michel de Trez Michel De Trez has agreed to open up the showcases and the reserves of the Centre Historique des Parachutistes du Jour-J to present us with this compendium of American paratrooper helmets.

This study, stands out from other books of its kind by the quality of the collection presented and by the unpublished photos unearthed from among the veterans’ possessions, providing the author with the pictorial testimony needed to illustrate the book.

978-2-35250-141-1, hardback, 224 pages, $49.95

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Clandestine Parachute Pick-Up Operations Jean-Louis Perquin This second volume of the collection Resistance is devoted to the parachuting and picking up of agents, from 1940 to 1944.

It is a gripping frieze of these operations and a vigorous tribute to those heroes of the resistance whom the author describes here, using both his extensive personal documentation, connections among the veterans and many museum conservators throughout Europe.

978-2-35250-249-4, paperback, 265 pages, $32.95

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D-Day Paratroopers Volume 1 On the night of 5- 6 June 1944, US paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were dropped over the Cotentin peninsula, on the western part of the Normandy beachhead. The uniforms, equipment and small arms of these men immortalized by ‘Band of Brothers’ are presented here in the sharpest detail, as well as their orders of battle and insignia.

978-2-35250-170-1, hardback, 128 pages, $44.95

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German Helmets Dan Tylisz In the first volume of this new series by Militaria Magazine, collectors will discover a new aspect of helmet camouflage, focusing on the spontaneous gesture of the front-line soldier, the individuality of ‘battlefield found’ helmets.

978-2-35250-214-2, paperback, 84 pages, $24.95

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German Pioneer Equipment and Vehicles Rodolphe Roussille The fruit of the seven years’ research, this is the first of a series devoted to the vehicles and crossing equipment used by the German pioneers during World War Two, a theme neglected by military specialists until now.

978-2-35250-160-2, hardback, 144 pages, $49.95

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Soldiers in Normandy The British Alexandre Thers Each mini-guide allows the reader to get to know more about a region's history, linking historical events with places of interest and sites of note, as well as providing an unprecedented visual feast of contemporary photographs, uniforms, badges and equipment - all in full color.

978-291523944-7, paperback, 32 pages, $7.50

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Grey Ghost Lee W. Meredith The complete history of the eight vessels named Hornet, of which the most famous was her seventh incarnation, the aircraft carrier that carried Doolittle's Raiders to Japan. That Hornet was sunk a few months later.The eight Hornet served during the final 15 months of world War Two, and is the most decorated warship in the American Navy. Merideth's book doubles as a walking tour of the portions of the ship open to the public.

978-096262375-2, paperback, 245 pages, $18.95

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Germany's Panzer Arm in World War II R.L. DiNardo This book presents complete analysis of the German Panzer arm. New perspectives on the rise and decline of the Third Reich's war machine are offered and DiNardo gives readers a detailed examination of the panzer arm from the interwar years through the end of World War II.

978-0-8117-3342-7, paperback, 176 pages, $16.95

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GI Ingenuity James Jay Carafano Here is an old-fashioned combat narrative, with mayhem and mass slaughter at center stage. But the book goes farther, combining military history with the history of science, technology and the culture to show how the American soldier improvised, innovated and adapted on the battlefield.

978-0-8117-3468-4, paperback, 288 pages, $17.95

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In the Fire of the Eastern Front

LtCol (Ret) Jay A. Stout The dramatic story of World War II in the air with vivid accounts of the aerial combat. Jay Stout tells how the U.S. built an air force of 2.3 million men after starting with 45,000 and defeated the world's best air force.

Hendrick C. Verton Dutch SS accounts are very rare, particularly ones that describe recruiting, training and frontline service as completely and colorfully as here. Hendrick C. Verton volunteered for the Waffen-SS in early 1941 and fought on the Eastern Front until the end of the war as a member of the 5th SS Panzer Division and SS Regiment Besselein.

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The Men Who Killed the Luftwaffe

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Fist From the Sky Peter C. Smith Lieutenant Commander Takashige Egusa was one of the Imperial Japanese Navy's most skillful and influential dive-bomber pilots. He led an attack force against Pearl Harbor, calmly circling his special flame-red Aichi dive bomber before selecting his target.

Assaults on the deadly gun batteries of Wake Island followed, as well as air support for the invasion of Ambon. Badly burned at Midway, Egusa returned to duty, only to be killed on his final mission. As one Japanese officer said, "He was the 'God of Dive-Bombing.'"

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Kursk Walter S. Dunn Jr. The battle of Kursk was a significant turning point in the summer of 1943 and was the German's last major offensive on the Eastern Front. This was history's largest armored battle and this book brings the reader exciting descriptions of Tigers, Panthers, and T-34s in combat.

978-0-8117-3502-5, paperback, 208 pages, $16.95

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Operation Mercury

Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. Details the massive battles on the Eastern Front from the summer of 1944 until the fall of Budapest in early 1945. The last place a German soldier wanted to be in 1944 was the Russian front and readers can get the full story of this crushing battle.

John Sadler The fall of Crete in May 1941 was a catastrophic blow to the Allied cause. Nevertheless, the British, New Zealand, and the Australian defenders force the German invaders to pay a heavy price for the victory. The daring German parachute assault, proved a near disaster, so much so that Hitler never sanctioned another, but the Germans recovered, gained the initiative, and took the island in ten days.

This is a study of a brief but bloody campaign with full personal accounts of air, ground and naval actions.

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The German Defeat in the East

978-0-8117-3371-7, paperback, 336 pages, $21.95

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War Shots Charles Jones, Foreword by Gen. James L. Jones The story of how military photographers got their shots while storming beaches and assaulting pillboxes with combat troops.

Hatch has won awards and has been recognized for his photographic contributions to coverage of World War II. 978-0-8117-0631-5, hardback, 240 pages, $27.95

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Tigers in the Mud Otto Carius & Robert J. Edwards (Trans) WWII began with a metallic roar as the German Blitzkreig raced across Europe, spearheaded by the most dreaded weapon of the 20th century: the Panzer. No German tank better represents that thundering power than the infamous Tiger, and Otto Carius was one of the most successful commanders to ever take a Tiger into battle, destroying well over 150 enemy tanks during his incredible career.

978-0-8117-2911-6, paperback, 368 pages, $21.95

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Rommel's Desert War Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. In a series of battles marked by daring raids and quick-armored thrusts against a numerically superior enemy, Erwin Rommel, the notorious Desert Fox, and his Afrika Korps waged one of World War II's toughest campaigns in the North African desert in 1942.This exciting book is told largely from Rommel's prespective, using his papers and letters.

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Retreat to the Reich Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. The Allied landings in France on June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the German defeat in the West.

Military historian Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., vividly recaptures the desperation of the Wehrmacht as it's thin gray line finally snapped amidst brutal hedgerow-to-hedgerow fighting in Normandy. This book recounts the German military retreat and the erosion of Germany's stronghold in Europe as viewed through the eyes of a defiant, but ultimately defeated Wehrmacht.

978-0-8117-3384-7, paperback, 304 pages, $17.95

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Panzer Aces Franz Kurowski & David Johnston (Trans) With speed, violence and deadly power, heavily armored tanks spearheaded the German blitzkrieg that stormed across Europe in 1939.

Author Kurowski tells the actionpacked stories of six of the most daring and successful officers ever to command Panzers.

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Panzer Aces II

The American GI in Europe in World War II

Franz Kurowski & David Johnston (Trans) Here is the sequel to the wellregarded Panzer Aces. Kurowski relates the combat careers of six more decorated German Panzer officers.These officers campaigned with Rommel in the deserts of North Africa, participated in the tank battle at Kursk, and fought frightening small-unit contests in the dark of night.

J.E. Kaufmann & H.W. Kaufmann Firsthand accounts and narrative chronicling the war in Europe after D-Day. The accounts are based on interviews with over 200 veterans the authors weaved together from testimonies that capture the complete experience of the individual soldier during the brutal summer of 1944.

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978-0-8117-3175-1, paperback, 432 pages, $19.95

Kampfgruppe Peiper at the Battle of the Bulge David Cooke & Wayne Evans On December 16, 1944, Hitler's last great offensive of World War II commenced, pushing through the Ardennes in an attempt to reach the Meuse River and beyond it, the Allies' supply ports. Equipped with Tiger tanks, Kampfgruppe Peiper, Germany's most powerful battle group spearheaded the offensive, but failed to reach the Meuse. The authors tell the gripping story of Kampfgruppe Peiper in this pager turner.

978-0-8117-3481-3, paperback, 224 pages, $16.95

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Grenadiers Kurt Meyer German General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer's autobiography is a fascinating insight into the mind of one of Germany's most highly decorated and successful soldiers of World War II. Follow Meyer with the 1st SS-Panzer Division "Leibstandarte" and the 12th SS-Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" from the first day of the war in Poland, through service in France, Russia, and Greece, up to his capture in Normandy in 1944 and his postwar trials and tribulations.

978-0-8117-3197-3, paperback, 432 pages, $21.95

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German Order of Battle Volume I Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. This is the first of 3 definitive volumes that cover the German ground forces that swept across Europe with such ruthless efficiency in 1939 and 1940 and battled the Allies around the globe until the bitter end of 1945.

978-0-8117-3416-5, paperback, 400 pages, $19.95

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978-0-8117-0526-4, hardback, 416 pages, $29.95

Blitzkrieg No Longer Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. After a crushing loss at Stalingrad, the German war machine regrouped in early 1943 to stave off total defeat, but it could not stem the rising Allied tide.

This book covers the aftermath of Stalingrad, Kursk, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, the U-boat war and air battles.

978-0-8117-0533-2, hardback, 320 pages, $27.95

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Battlecruiser – Fast Battleship Haruna Miroslaw Skwiot 978-83-62878-38-3, paperback, 84 pages, $22.95

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BM-13N Katyusha Albert Osiński Katyusha multiple rocket launchers are a type of rocket artillery first built and fielded by the Soviet Union in World War II. Compared to other artillery, these multiple rocket launchers deliver a devastating amount of explosives to an area target quickly, but with lower accuracy and requiring a longer time to reload. They are fragile compared to artillery guns, but inexpensive and easy to produce. Katyushas of World War II, the first self-propelled artillery massproduced by the Soviet Union, were usually mounted on trucks.This mobility gave them another advantage: being able to deliver a large blow all at once, and then move before being located and attacked with counter-battery fire.

9788389088949, paperback, 36 pages, $12.95

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GAZ-67

BMW R 75 Lukasz Gladysiak

978-83-62878-39-0, paperback, 56 pages, $19.95

Special Offer $10.99 IIyushin II-2 AM-8

Maciej Noszczak The Ilyushin Il-2 was a World War II ground-attack aircraft, produced by the Soviet Union in very large numbers. In combination with its successor, the Ilyushin Il-10, over 40,000 were built, making it the single most produced military aircraft design in all of aviation history, as well as one of the most produced piloted aircraft in history. Regarded as the best ground attack aircraft of World War II, it was a prominent aircraft for tank killing with its accuracy in dive bombing and its 37mm guns penetrating their thin back armor.

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Objective: the Caucasus!

Marek J. Murawski Located on the peripheries of Turkey, Iran, and Russia, and rich in natural resources such as oil, coal and peat, the Caucasus has been an arena for political, military, religious, and cultural rivalries and expansionism for centuries.These resources were immensely important to Hitler and his war effort, especially as the war became global and much of his fuel supply was cut off.This impressive, full-color book examines the role the Luftwaffe played in this ambitious operation.

9788362878031, paperback, 72 pages, $16.95

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Pz.Kpfw IV Family Marek Jaszczolt & Jacek Pasieczny A big decal sheet with 1:72, 1:48 and 1:35 individual and national markings for 11 Pz.Kpfw. IV tanks and 5 other vehicles built around the Panzer IV hull. The decal sheet was printed by Cartograf. Each painting scheme is depicted on beautifully drawn color profile and described in the 20 page guidebook with English and Polish text.

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Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. The second of 3 volumes of German ground forces in World War II covers the 291st through 999th Infantry Divisions; named infantry divisions; jaeger, light, and mountain divisions; security divisions; and Luftwaffe ground divisions.

Albert Osiński The GAZ-67 and the subsequent GAZ-67B were general purpose four wheel drive Soviet military vehicles built by GAZ starting in 1943. By the end of the war, it was the soviet equivalent of the Willy's Jeep. The GAZ-67 was a further development of the earlier GAZ-64. A main improvement was a wider track of 1446 mm. It also had a strengthened chassis frame, enlarged fuel tank and other improvements.

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Dick Taylor The Valentine was unusual, as unlike most British tanks to see service during WW2 it began life as a private venture. That is, it was not designed to a General Staff specification, but came off the drawing-board with the intention of exciting interest within the military establishment to secure an order.

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German Order of Battle Volume II

978-0-8117-3437-0, paperback, 400 pages, $19.95

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Into the Vally

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Wings on Windermere

Air War Market Garden: The Build Up to the Beginning

Allan King In the early ‘40s a factory was built from scratch to produce Short Sunderlands, along with a complete village to house the workers. The fascinating story of this forgotten factory is told in this book, alongside the history of the big ‘planes built there, which served with the RAF and other air arms until the 1950s.

Martin Bowman This is the first volume of a four part work presenting a complete account of the air operations throughout ‘Market-Garden’ when British, US and Polish troops attempted to seize bridges across the Lower Rhine as a springboard for crossing into Germany.

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978-83-89450-82-1, paperback, 160 pages, $59.00

Panzer Destroyer Vasiliy Krysov The day after Vasiliy Krysov finished school, on 22 June 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union and provoked a war of unparalleled extent and cruelty. For the next three years, as a tank commander, Krysov fought against the German panzers in some of the most intense and destructive armored engagements in history–including those at Stalingrad, Kursk and Königsberg.

978-1-84415-951-2, hardback, 224 pages, $39.95

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'Shan' Hackett Roy Fullick 'Shan' Hackett is remembered by his own and succeeding generations for a variety of achievements and attributes.A superb fighting soldier, he served with the Trans-Jordan Force, had fought through North Africa and was involved in the formation of the Long Range Desert Group, the SAS and Popski's Private Army.

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Adventurous Empires Phillip E Sims This is a story from a bygone age recalling the most successful flyingboat airliner ever built. Designed to a specification for Imperial Airways, then Britain’s national airline, it carried passengers and, more importantly, mail throughout the British Empire.

978-1-78159-107-9, hardback, 256 pages, $39.95

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Air Raid Shelters of the Second World War Stephen Wade This book will feature the design, creation and use of air raid shelters, including interviews with people who used them during the Second World War. The book will contain the different types of bunkers/air raid shelters (both public and in people’s gardens) and discuss the strength and weakness of their designs, using original designs and primary material. The nostalgia/social history of the book will cover people’s experiences of staying in the air raid shelters.

978-1-84884-327-1, hardback, 192 pages, $39.95

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978-1-78159-115-4, hardback, 256 pages, $39.95

American Expeditionary Force Jack Holroyd The book is split into eight chapters which deal with different pivotal moments during the First World War from the American perspective, from the reasons behind the American involvement in the war and initial training to the major battles at Cantigny, Chateau Thierry and St. Mihiel.

978-1-84884-877-1, paperback, 144 pages, $19.99

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Battle of Kursk 1943 Hans Seidler The greatest tank battle in world history, known as Operation CITADEL, opened during the early hours of 5 July 1943, and its outcome was to decide the eventual outcome of the war on the Eastern Front. Images of War Battle of Kursk, is an illustrated account of this pivotal battle of the war on the Eastern Front, when the Germans threw 900,000 men and 2,500 tanks against 1,300,000 soldiers and 3,000 tanks of the Red Army in a savage battle of attrition.

978-1-84884-393-6, paperback, 160 pages, $24.95

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Battle of the Bulge Andrew Rawson Hitler's desperate last throw during the depths of winter 1944/45 came perilously close to being a major disaster for the Allies. Their offensive through the Ardennes fell on the Americans and caught them totally by surprise.The situation was for a time extremely serious and in some areas panic set in and events went out of control.

978-184415185-1, paperback, 112 pages, $24.99

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Armoured Warfare on the Eastern Front Anthony Tucker-Jones On the Eastern Front massive Soviet and German tank armies clashed in a series of battles that were unmatched in their scale and ferocity. Several of them have attained almost legendary status.

978-1-84884-280-9, paperback, 160 pages, $24.95

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Fighters Under Construction in World War Two Graham Simons Following the end of the Great War, the Royal Air Force was drastically reduced in both manpower and equipment. The application of a 'Ten Year Rule’ in which the British Government foresaw no war being fought during the next ten years resulted in minimal defense expenditure throughout the 1920s.

978-1-78159-034-8, paperback, 128 pages, $29.95

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Himmler’s Nazi Concentration Camp Guards Ian Baxter This book is the most thorough study yet of the whole process of recruitment, indoctrination and performance of those responsible for the guarding of concentration camp inmates. It is not an attractive subject – the conversion of human beings into murderers and individuals routinely carrying out appalling acts of cruelty are bound to be shocking.

978-1-84884-799-6, paperback, 128 pages, $24.95

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Anti Tank Mark Carter This is a vivid and perceptive insight into the horrors of war as experienced by British soldiers of the Royal Artillery in the Desert War in 1941–2. The author, who fought in the campaign, brings to life the true nature of the fighting as British gunners struggled to defend their comrades from the armored power of the Axis forces under Erwin Rommel.

978-1-84884-811-5, hardback, 192 pages, $29.95

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Arctic Snow to Dust of Normandy Patrick Dalzel-Job Very few men have a more exciting and dramatic story of their wartime activities to tell than Patrick Dalzel-Job. In 1940 using his special knowledge of North Norway's coast line he landed and moved over 10,000 Allied soldiers in local boats without the loss of a single life. Acting against specific orders he evacuated civilians from Narvik just before it was bombed.

978-184415238-4, paperback, 224 pages, $25.99

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Assaults From the Sky Martin Bowman This is the second volume of a five part work on D-Day that includes a multitude of personal military accounts from both Allied and German Aviation personnel ‘who were there’. Overlord began with an assault by more than 23,000 airborne troops.

978-1-78159-116-1, hardback, 256 pages, $34.95

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Atlantic Wall: Channel Islands George Forty The only part of the British Isles that can answer the question 'What was it like to be invaded and occupied in World War 2?’ are the holiday islands of Jersey, Alderney, Guernsey and Sark. Left undefended in 1940, they fell like ripe plums into German hands. Amid the routine of occupation came periods of danger and action from raiding parties.

978-085052858-9, paperback, 160 pages, $16.95

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Fort Eben Emael 1940 Tim Saunders The seizure of the Belgian fortress stronghold at Eban Emael by German Airborne and Special Forces was the dramatic opening shot in the Nazis’ devastating May 1940 offensive. Codenamed Operation GRANITE, it involved glider forces in a daring ‘coup de main’ operation achieving total surprise and success.The simultaneous assaults on key bridges on the Albert Canal are also described in graphic detail.

978-184415255-1, paperback, 160 pages, $19.95

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Hitlers Forgotten Armies: Combat in Norway & Finland Bob Carruthers The German campaigns in the northern theatre of operations encompassing Denmark, Norway, Finland and the far north of Russia are detailed in this long neglected account of the campaign as described from the German point of view.

978-1-78159-143-7, paperback, 384 pages, $22.95

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Battle for Crete John Hall Spencer After two years' extensive research the author has written a thorough account of the political and military background to the German invasion of Crete and the bitter fighting that followed the first airborne assault on an island in history.The book tells of confused negotiations between the British and Greek governments.

978-184415770-9, hardback, 320 pages, $39.95

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Battle Tales from Burma Brigadier John Randle OBE MC John Randle served with the greatly respected Baluch Regiment of the former Indian Army right through the fiercely fought Burma Campaign, winning an MC yet on VJ day he was only some 60 miles from where had started out nearly four years before.

978-184415112-7, hardback, 176 pages, $39.99

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Beyond the Dams to the Tirpitz Alan W Cooper First published to acclaim in 1983, this book is set to impact upon the book-buying public, eager for accounts of this period of World War history. Relaying the later operations of 617 Squadron, this book steers away from typical accounts of the group, which dwell on this predominant feature of their service history.

978-1-78159-063-8, paperback, 256 pages, $19.95

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Bruneval Paul Oldfield This book covers the development of radar, the search for German radar in the Second World War, the discovery of Würzburg radar at Bruneval, the planning and preparations for the audacious raid, its highly successful execution and the aftermath.

978-1-78159-067-6, paperback, 198 pages, $19.95

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Captured Memories 1930-1945 Dr Peter Liddle In this sequel to his successful first volume Peter Liddle brings his years of Oral History experience to the Thirties and the Second World War. He was the founder/Director of a new archive in 1999 specifically dedicated to the rescue of evidence of the Second World War which now documents the lives of more than nine thousand people in that war. Many of the most vivid recollections he has recorded covering this period appear in this book.

978-1-84884-233-5, hardback, 336 pages, $50.00

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Children of the Camps Mark Felton Children of the Camps: Japan’s Last Forgotten Victims tells the truly heart-rending stories of Caucasian and Eurasian children who ended up imprisoned inside Japanese internment camps throughout Asia. It is written from the perspective of the survivors, who are all elderly today, and the effects that it had on their lives and families.

978-1-84884-261-8, hardback, 224 pages, $39.95

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Churchill's Secret Defence Army Arthur Ward Formed in the Summer of 1940, in great secrecy, the 'Auxiliary Units', a force of 'stay behind' saboteurs and assassins was intended to cause havoc behind the German front line should the Wehrmacht gain a foothold in Britain. Arthur Ward looks deeper into the story of the Invasion Summer of 1940 and interviews those involved with Auxiliary Units.

978-1-84884-808-5, hardback, 256 pages, $50.00

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Churchill’s Pirates Jon Sutherland & Diane Canwell Jon Sutherland looks at the personnel and equipment of the Royal Naval Patrol, and includes many firsthand accounts. Lengthy Appendices include vessel’s names, numbers and fate.

978-1-84884-256-4, hardback, 256 pages, $39.95

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Commando Tactics Stephen Bull British commandos are among the most celebrated soldiers of the Second World War. Their daring, ingenuity and bravery have given rise to an almost legendary reputation that makes it difficult to appreciate fully their role and their true value as fighting men. Stephen Bull, in this in-depth study of commando tactics and history, seeks to dispel the myths and the misunderstandings that surround them.

978-1-84884-074-4, hardback, 224 pages, $39.95

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Commandos in Exile Nicholas van der Bijl Formed from members of Free Forces who had escaped from German occupation, 10 (InterAllied) Commando was one of the most unusual units in WW2. All members had to pass the Green Beret commando course at Achnacarry in Scotland and the book begins by describing this training. The history of X Commando, made up of escaped Jewish individuals is especially interesting. The book also reviews the growth of post-war national Commando forces.

978-184415790-7, hardback, 224 pages, $39.95

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Glider Pilots in Sicily Mike Peters The British Airborne landings on Sicily are the least known and the most fraught with political and technical strife. Newly formed Air landing troops were delivered into battle in gliders they knew little about.The men of the Glider Pilot Regiment had selfassembled the gliders while living in the empty packing cases. They accomplished this complex and technically challenged task while living on fly ridden, dusty North African airfields.This is the first account of the Sicily air landing operation.

978-1-84884-683-8, hardback, 224 pages, $39.95

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Destroyer Down Arthur S. Evans Destroyer Down contains the details of the majority of the sinkings that occurred throughout WWII and includes many firsthand accounts from the officers and crew involved.

978-1-84884-270-0, hardback, 256 pages, $50.00

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El Alamein 1942 Jonathan Sutherland & Diane Canwell The Battlefield General game books put you in command of the forces engaged in some of history's most famous battles.Your ability to make the right tactical decision will be tested at every turn of the page. The 2nd Battle of El Alamein in October 1942 was one of the crucial turning points of WWII. 978-1-84884-689-0, paperback, 176 pages, $19.95

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Escaper’s Progress

D-Day to Paris The Allied campaign in Normandy is one of the most spectacular unusual military campaigns ever undertaken. This is the comprehensive review of the Allied campaign in Normandy from primary sources, including extensive eyewitness accounts, Allied plans, intelligence reports, historical documents and combat reports.

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The Battles For Normandy

David James & Christopher Jones David James was in Motor Gunboats (with Robert Hichens of Gunboat Command.) Captured in February 1943 after abandoning ship as a result of a fierce engagement with three German armed trawlers in the North Sea he was imprisoned in Dulag Marlag. His superbly written narrative is full of suspense and excitement.

This is the comprehensive review of the Allied campaign in Normandy from primary sources including extensive eyewitness accounts, Allied plans, intelligence reports, historical documents and combat reports.This is the story for the campaign in Normandy as told from primary sources including extensive eyewitness accounts, Allied plans and combat reports.

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978-1-84415-843-0, hardback, 176 pages, $39.99

Fighting Flotilla Peter C. Smith Peter Smith details the origin and building of the 'Laforays,' the most powerfully armed and successful ships to see action with the Royal Navy in WWII. 978-1-84884-273-1, hardback, 224 pages, $39.95

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Fighting Through From Dunkirk to Hamburg Bill Cheall & Paul Cheall (Ed) When Bill Cheall joined up in April 1939, he could not have imagined the drama, trauma, rewards and anguish that lay in store. First and foremost a Green Howard, he saw the sharp end of the Nazis’ Blitzkrieg and was evacuated exhausted. Next step, courtesy of the Queen Mary, was North Africa as part of Monty’s 8th Army. After victory in Tunisia, the Sicily invasion followed. Bill’s many and varied experiences make fascinating reading. He tells his story with modesty, humility and humor.

978-1-84884-474-2, hardback, 176 pages, $39.95

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Hitler’s Atlantic Wall Paul Williams This illustrated book describes the massive effort that the occupying Nazi forces put into the construction of the Eastern section of the Atlantic Wall. Hitler’s Atlantic Wall tells the history of how and why the giant batteries were built, the origins of their weaponry and the ingenious engineering and military operations that defeated them.

9781848848177, paperback, 176 pages, $19.95

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The Campaign in Poland This is the powerful film record of the lightning campaign against Poland as documented by the Kriegsberichter. Originally released to cinemas in 1940 as “Der Felazug Am Polen” this is the ultimate primary source from the German perspective.

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U-Boats at War The steel coffins was the name given to the U-boats of the Kriegsmarine by their own crews. Their fatalistic view of the war was certainly justified; it is estimated that seventy five per cent of the 39,000 men who sailed in the U-boat fleet paid the ultimate price as the tide of war turned inexorably against Hitler’s Germany. This incisive DVD tells the story of the U-boat war from the perspective of the men who sailed in the U-boat fleet.

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Waffen SS In France 1940 This is the ultimate primary source on the Waffen SS. Featuring Hitler's elite regiment as recorded by the cameras of Gunter d’Alquen’s SS Kriegsberichte Propaganda Kompanie. The film includes footage from the front lines of the SS in action during the fierce fighting for Holland and France. Also featured is extensive footage of the SS Leibstandarte taking part in the lightning invasions, which witnessed the fall of Yugoslavia and Greece.

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Fuehrer Headquarters Wolf’s Lair In the autumn of 1940, the decision was made by Hitler to construct a base of operations from which Operation Barbarossa could be planned and instigated. This Special Edition 2 Disc DVD helps to reconstruct the story of this extremely secretive center of Nazi operations, from its original design and construction in the early 40s to its continued use by Hitler and eventual demise as the war ended.

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Germany at War Battle Units Under Fire The outcome of the Second World War relied heavily on the design, development and use of tanks, with all nations sporting several types of motorized vehicle and artillery units that each had their own unique and lethal properties. In this DVD, these glorious machines are shown in action in spectacular fashion using rare, unseen and original footage taken from lost German and allied archives.

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Germany at War Panzer Wars After the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the fight for armored superiority on the battlefield was quickly realized as one of the distinguishing factors that, combined with air and sea domination, would determine the outcome of the war. In order to succeed, the Germans would have to develop their technology exponentially in order to triumph against the allies on the field. These two films deal exclusively with these deadly vehicles in meticulous detail.

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Hard Fought Road to the East By the time the Second World War came to fruition in 1939, the Armed Forces of Nazi Germany, comprising of the Heer (Army), Kriegsmarine (Navy) and Luftwaffe, were a modern, well qualified and advanced military unit that presented itself as a formidable opponent to all western world powers. This film shows a cross section of the army units of the German Wehrmacht during 1939 to 1945 on the road to the East.

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U-Boats 1942-1945 This volume records the military events surrounding the decline and defeat of the U-boat fleets.

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Wittmann Vs Ekins The Death of a Panzer Ace Presented by Tom Dormer & Richard Hone This is the story of two men, Michael Wittmann and Joe Ekins, destined to face each other on the battlefields of Normandy is told in this program.

5060247620817, DVD NTSC, 80 mins, $29.95

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COLD WAR ERA Cold War Plans That Never Happened Michael Kerrigan From a NATO nuclear attack on the Soviet Union to a Warsaw Pact land assault on Western Europe, from building an electric fence between North and South Vietnam to building a US base on the moon – it may sound unlikely, but during the Cold War these operations and others were seriously considered by both sides.

978-1-908273-78-9, hardback, 192 pages, $34.95

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Postwar Artillery Michael E. Haskew The Essential Weapons Identification Guide: Postwar Artillery 1945–present offers an highlyillustrated guide to the world's main artillery units and their weapons used since the end of World War II. This compact volume includes sample unit structures and orders of battle from divisional to corps and army level, providing an organizational context for key wars fought since 1945.

978-1-907446-60-3, hardback, 192 pages, $34.95

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Prelude to Suez Robert Hornby In January 1952 Cairo burned in a wave of insurgency against the British as the Suez crisis took hold.

Three months earlier, however, the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 had been abrogated, leading to the withdrawal of all British military personnel from the city to the Canal Zone base at Suez. Colonel Robert Hornby was already committed as the press spokesman for the British Army and chose to stay in Cairo. Hornby gives a unique account of the period.

978-1-84868-864-3, hardback, 224 pages, $34.95

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Spooks Thomas Hennessey & Claire Thomas The real history of MI5 during the era of the Cold War, the IRA & international terrorism. The book looks at MI5's attempts to prevent mass murder on the streets of Britain, including the failure to stop the 7/7 bombings in London in 2005.

978-1-445602-67-7, paperback, 288 pages, $19.95

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Gunship Ace

21st Century Courage

Al J. Venter A former South African Air Force pilot who saw action throughout the region from the 1970s on, Neall Ellis is the best-known mercenary combat aviator alive.

This book describes the full career of this storied aerial warrior, from the bush and jungles of Africa to the forests of the Balkans and the merciless mountains of today’s Afghanistan.

Mark Felton The book examines examples of outstanding courage exhibited by people living in modern Britain.

These include British servicemen and servicewomen serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, police officers, and ordinary civilians in Britain and around the world.

All of the cases cited have been awarded gallantry medals by the British government since 2000.

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978-1-61200-070-1, hardback, 336 pages, $32.95

Blood Clot Jake Scott When the 3 Para battle group departed for Helmand Province, south Afghanistan, nobody really knew what to expect. Within a month of being on the ground the first of many contacts between the Taliban and British forces began. 'Blood Clot' is a personal account of the Parachute Regiment's ferocious tour of duty in Helmand Province, Afghanistan 2006 by a man who was involved in the thick of the action.

978-1-906033-31-6, hardback, 200 pages, $49.95

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Atrocities, Diamonds and Diplomacy Peter Penfold In 1997 Peter Penfold arrived in Sierra Leone as the British High Commissioner. This book describes not just his three-year tour but the background and subsequent events that placed this small country at the center of the world stage. This is a very important account based on the most privileged knowledge.

978-1-78159-105-5, paperback, 224 pages, $24.95

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Conscript in Korea

Ken Wharton This is Ken Wharton's second oral history of the Northern Ireland troubles told again from the perspective of the ordinary British soldier. This book looks deeper into the conflict, utilizing stories from new contributors providing revealing and long-forgotten stories of the troubles from the back streets of the Ardoyne to the bandit country of South Armagh.

Neville Williams This remarkable story begins with as a young National Serviceman in 1951, the author walked through the gates at the Welch Brigade Training Centre, Brecon, and ends when he walked back into Civvy Street in 1953. Between these dates he went through many life-changing experiences, in particular the twelve months he spent with the 1st Battle Welch Regiment in Korea. He tells his story of this almost forgotten war in graphic detail.

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Bullets, Bombs and Cups of Tea

978-1-907677-06-9, paperback, 536 pages, $49.95

Secrets of the Cold War Leland C. McCaslin Secrets of the Cold War focuses on a dark period of a silent war and offers a new perspective on the struggle between the superpowers of the world told in the words of those who were there.

The author, formerly an expert in counterintelligence in US Army Europe, weaves together exciting true accounts of allies.

978-1-906033-91-0, hardback, 248 pages, $39.95

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Les Soldats Perdus ANAPI This book brings together 27 memoirs written by veteran PoW's of the Japanese army and the Vietminh. They recount their life in the prison camps and their inhuman treatment at the hands of their captors during which two thirds of all the prisoners died or were killed and the final third were scarred for life by the experience.

978-291408624-0, paperback, 492 pages, $24.95

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978-1-84884-131-4, hardback, 208 pages, $39.95

Drop Zone Borneo The RAF Campaign 1963-65 Roger Annett In 1963 the Indonesian Army that threatened Borneo numbered 330,000 men, plus three thousand Commandos. Of these, six thousand were within 20 miles of the Borneo frontier. This grew to thirteen thousand in early 1965. This is the exciting account from a pilot who flew the dangerous flying missions and relates the tenseness and stresses of Jungle life in those dangerous days.

978-1-84884-405-6, paperback, 160 pages, $24.95

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From SAS to Blood Diamond Wars Hamish Ross & Fred Marafono MBE Even by SAS standards this is the story of an outstanding warrior.

On the point of being demobbed from the SAS, Fred Marafono was recruited by David Stirling for his private security company.

978-1-84884-511-4, hardback, 256 pages, $39.95

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Helmand Mission

The Rise of Militant Islam

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Richard Doherty After celebrating St. Patrick’s Day 2008, 1st Royal Irish Battlegroup deployed to Afghanistan’s Helmand province as part of 16 Air Assault Brigade.This is the stirring story of a regimental family at war and of those who sustained them, including their remarkable chaplain, Padre Albert Jackson, and the rear party which supported the families, especially those whose fathers or sons suffered injury or death.

Anthony Tucker-Jones At the end of the Cold War the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction replaced the Soviet Union as the new enemy of world peace. The pariah WMD states became enemy No.1. The significance of militant Islam’s growing disgust with Western foreign policy and apparent indifference to the suffering of Muslims worldwide was missed until it was too late.

AnnaMaria Cardinalli, Ph.D. When an explosive U.S. military report on the topic of sexuality in southern Afghanistan was leaked into mainstream American media, it generated a firestorm of attention and reaction. While some of the findings regarding Afghan sexual practices were simply of cultural interest, other findings were of grave humanitarian concern, such as the cyclical abuse of young boys, perpetuated over countless generations.

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978-1-84884-148-2, hardback, 176 pages, $39.95

In the Service of the Sultan Ian Gardiner While the Americans were fighting in Vietnam, a struggle of even greater strategic significance was taking place in the Middle East: the Sultanate of Oman guards the entrance to the Arabian Gulf, and thus controls the movement of oil from that region. In the 1960s and 70s, the Communists tried to seize this artery and, had they succeeded, the consequences for the West and for the Middle East would have been disastrous.

978-184415467-8, hardback, 208 pages, $39.95

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Invasion 1982 Graham Bound Falkland Islanders were the first British people to come under enemy occupation since the Channel Islanders during the Second World War.This book tells how islanders' warnings were ignored in London, how their slim defenses gave way to a massive nvasion, and how they survived occupation.

978-184415518-7, hardback, 256 pages, $39.95

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Operation Banner Nick Van der Bijl The book opens by setting the historic backdrop to The Troubles.

In summer 1969 the annual Loyalist marching season sparked violence in Londonderry which spread rapidly.After three days of violence the British Government deployed troops in support of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Initially the Catholic community welcomed the Army’s presence but this was to change over the years.

978-1-844159-56-7, hardback, 272 pages, $39.99

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Air War Afghanistan Tim Ripley This book provides an overview of NATO and other Allied air power in the lengthy campaign to secure democracy in Afghanistan and destroy Taliban and other Islamic extremist terror forces in the combat zone. It contains a mix of explanatory text, diagrams and stunning action color photography.

978-1-84884-356-1, hardback, 272 pages, $60.00

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Counter-Insurgency Ian F. W. Beckett & John Pimlott This historical survey, which covers irregular warfare in countries as widely separated as Chad, Vietnam, Uruguay and Mozambique, will be fascinating reading for anyone studying insurgencies.

978-1-84884-396-7, paperback, 240 pages, $24.95

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Dangerous Frontiers Colonel Bryan Ray In Part 1 of his book the author describes his life as a young officer in the Somaliland Scouts in the (then) British Protectorate of Somaliland. At that time tribal quarrels, generally over water, were taking place in the troubled strip of country between the Protectorate and Ethiopia; the Ogaden.

It was the Scouts' difficult task to keep the warring clansmen apart. It gives a vivid account of a nineteenyear-old in command of Somali troops in a fascinating and unpredictable country.

978-184415723-5, hardback, 224 pages, $39.95

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Victory in the Falklands Nick van der Bijl The Hundred Days that saw the British response to General Galtiere of Argentina’s invasion of the Falklands are for many British people the most remarkable of their lives. There will be massive revival of interest in this period in 2007 and this book covers all the main events of that momentous time.

This is a very balanced overview of a never-to-berepeated but triumphant chapter in British history.

978-184415494-4, hardback, 224 pages, $39.95

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Barrel of a Gun Al J. Venter “Anybody who says that the pen is mightier than the sword hasn’t spent time in Somalia, or in Beirut during its bloody heyday.” So begins this fascinating memoir of a journalist, filmmaker, and just plain raconteur who has made a career of examining warfare—on the ground and as the bullets are flying.

978-1-935149-25-5, hardback, 480 pages, $34.95

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Forsaken Warriors Robert Tonsetic The book is a personal memoir of the author’s service as a US Army advisor during the end-stages of America’s involvement in Vietnam.

During the period 1970–71, the US was beginning to draw down its combat forces, and the new watchword was Vietnamization. It was the period when the will of the US to prosecute the war had slipped, and transferring responsibility to the South Vietnamese was the only remaining hope for victory.

978-1-935149-03-3, hardback, 256 pages, $32.95

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Hearts and Mines Russell Snyder This is a true story of war, the story of one man’s transformation as he retraces the mine-strewn roads of a land itself transformed by mankind’s most shockingly inhuman practice. It is the firsthand account of a member of one of the United States Army’s three-man Tactical Psychological Operations Teams, groups of men tasked with winning the hearts and minds of Iraq’s civilian population 978-1-61200-105-0, hardback, 232 pages, $29.95

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Shade It Black Jessica Goodell & John Hearn In 2008, CBS' Chief Foreign Correspondent, Lara Logan, candidly speculated about the human side of the war in Iraq: "Tell me the last time you saw the body of a dead American soldier. What does that look like? Who in America knows what that looks like? Because I know what that looks like, and I feel responsible for the fact that no one else does..."

978-1-61200-001-5, hardback, 192 pages, $24.95

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Achieving Victory in Iraq Col. Dominic J. Caraccilo & Andrea L. Thompson A fresh and provocative view of the war in Iraq from 2 staff officers.

The book talks about the strategy for achieving victory with critical assessment of what went wrong.

978-0-8117-0388-8, hardback, 240 pages, $24.95

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Blood Stripes David J. Danelo The dynamic story of the life and times of five Marine corporals and sergeants, men at the front lines of the war in Iraq. Controversial Marine Gen. James N. "Mad Dog" Mattis, a legendary Marine commander was interviewed and offered details about the batlle for Fallujah.

978-0-8117-0164-8, hardback, 384 pages, $21.95

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Ronin Mike Tucker This is a boots-on-the-ground perspective on American policy in action in Iraq. In this raw and provocative new book, readers wear desert camouflage, climb to rooftops, and get behind the rifle with a platoon of elite Marine snipers and scouts in Iraq. Author Mike Tucker embedded with the unit for its entire combat tour in 2005-06 to tell this exclusive from-the-frontlines story. Ronin captures true-grit Marines at war as they reconnoiter Iraqi villages, track terrorist targets, grapple with unrealistic rules of engagement, and get the kill.

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Bully Able Leader Lt. Gen. George Loving USAF Here is an action-packed memoir by an American pilot and squadron commander in the Korean War. It tells the story of what it was like to fly the F-80 Shooting Star against MIGS and ground targets.

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Street Without Joy Bernard B. Fall Originally published in 1961, before the USA escalated its involvement in South Vietnam, Street Without Joy offered a clear warning about what American forces would face in the jungles of Southeast Asia: a costly and protracted revolutionary war fought without fronts against a mobile enemy.

This all-time classic on the Vietnam War is a must read!

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Land With No Sun Command Sergeant Maj Ted G. Arthurs Here is a no-holds-barred, straight -in-your-face account of combat in Vietnam. From May 1967 through May 1968, Ted Arthurs was in the thick of it, humping an eightypound rucksack through triple canopy jungle, chasing down the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam and he takes you on his journey.

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Doorway to Hell BG. Ed Wheeler & Ltc.Col. Roberts It started as a mission of mercy-to feed the hungry, cure the sick and bring peace to a country ravaged by civil war. No formal government or organized infrastructure existed in this fourth world country governed by warlords and their armed bands of ‘gunmen’. Operations Restore Hope and Continue Hope were planned and implemented with the aim of bringing order to chaos.

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Warpaint Vol 3 Richard Taylor This book describes the paint schemes, the variations often seen in practice, and the individual and unit markings applied to tanks, armored cars, trucks and smaller vehicles, and towed guns.

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Fighting for the Future Ralph Peters Highly acclaimed military strategist Ralph Peters challenges America's defense establishment and national leadership with startling insights and no-holds-barred criticism. He broadly reinterprets the meaning of strategy in this book.

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Lines of Fire Ralph Peters Here is a definitive collection of the finest and most influential work of Ralph Peters over a generation of conflict. Some of the topics covered here include religious terrorism, the dangers of over-reliance on technology to solve human problems, the military's difficulty adapting to a changed world, and many more writings that will enlighten the reader.

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Looking for Trouble

G. L. Lamborn This book presents a former soldier and CIA officer's insight into the true nature of insurgency and how it will continue to affect the United States in the decades to come.

What we've seen in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrein, Yemen, and elsewhere is merely the beginning. We are entering an extremely dangerous period in our history.

Ralph Peters For the first time, best-selling writer, Ralph Peters, recounts his personal experiences that shaped his views on the world, from the collapsing of the Soviet Union to the drug wars of the Andean Ridge, from quite forays into Burma and Laos to military missions to Pakistan and the Caucasus and on to the Southwest border of the United States and the meanest streets of Los Angeles. Peters writes about the greatest international dramas of our times in this riveting book.

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Arms of Little Value

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Hidden Battles on Unseen Fronts Patricia Driscoll & Celia Straus This book is crafted around soldiers’ stories of their war experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan that culminate in life-altering injuries to the brain and psyche, along with the equally dramatic story of their recoveries. This book documents the ever-increasing cases of physical or mental brain trauma among our vets that has risen as a direct result of more soldiers surviving their flesh wounds on the battlefield.

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Looking for Trouble Ralph Peters For the first time in paperback, best-selling writer, Ralph Peters, recounts his personal experiences that shaped his views on the world.

Peters writes about the greatest international dramas of our times in this riveting book.

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Wars of Blood and Faith

Ralph Peters Strategist Ralph Peters at his most provocative and popular covers the toughest security issues of our time. A sweeping collection that ranges from Muslim military triumphs a thousand years ago to the brutal, unconventional struggles of today.

Ralph Peters In the no-holds barred tradition that has won him so many fans across the nation and around the world, best-selling author and strategist Ralph Peters confronts the crucial security issues of our time and the troubled times to come. His compelling vision spares neither our foreign policy nor our domestic follies as he ruthlessly outlines what it will take to protect our country against a new breed of enemies.

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Endless War

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AVIATION Taking Fire Kevin O'Rourke This book provides an up-close look into the heroism and mystique of this little known segment of the Air Force Special Tactics community by focusing on one of the most dramatic rescues of the Vietnam War. It was June 1972 and Capt. Lynn Aikman is returning from a bombing mission over North Vietnam when his F-4 Phantom is jumped by an enemy MiG and shot down. Aikman lands some distance from a village, and there is a chance that he can be recovered if American rescuers can reach him before the enemy does.

978-1-61200-126-5, hardback, 216 pages, $32.95

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A Mighty Fortress Chuck Alling This is the personal account of the Captain and crew of a lead bomber in the enormous formation raids made by the 8th Airforce during the last few months of the Second World War. It is an extraordinary tale of heroism and bravery on the part of the entire crew of just one B17 amongst hundreds - but the one B17 that meant most to them.

978-1-932033-59-5, paperback, 256 pages, $19.95

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Fortress Ploesti Jay Stout Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the famous big and bloody raid of August 1943 and depicts the entire 1944 strategic campaign of twentyplus missions that all but knocked Ploesti out of the war and denied the German war machine the fuel it so desperately needed.

978-1-935149-39-2, paperback, 320 pages, $18.95

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Sharks of the Air James Neal Harvey In July 1944 the Allies were stunned by the appearance of the Messerschmitt Me-262, the world’s first operational jet warplane. This new German fighter was more than 100 mph faster than any other aircraft in the skies.

978-1-935149-46-0, hardback, 352 pages, $32.95

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Through Blue Skies to Hell

Kimberly's Flight Anna Simon & Ann Hampton U.S. Army Captain Kimberly N. Hampton was living her dream: flying armed helicopters in combat. Captain Hampton was flying an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter above Fallujah, Iraq and her helicopter was wracked by an explosion. This is the story of her exemplary life.

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Assault from the Sky

Edward M. Sion This book provides a look at air war over Europe during the climactic year of World War II. The centerpiece is a mission-by-mission diary of 1st Lieutenant Richard R. Ayesh, bombardier on a B-17 Flying Fortress.

Dick Camp This work describes U.S. Marine Corps helicopter operations, including their actions and evolution, throughout the Vietnam War. Each part tells the story of Marine helicopters from the individual to the strategic level.

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Guardian Angel

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Unsung Eagles

William F. Sine, Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Ret.) U.S. Air Force Pararescue is the most skillful and capable rescue force in the world.This book presents stories of courage told from the perspective of the actual men in the arena.

Jay Stout The nearly half-million American aircrewmen who served during World War II have almost disappeared. And so have their stories. The author saves an exciting collection of those accounts from oblivion.

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Bailout Over Normandy Ted Fahrenwald The author of this remarkable memoir bailed out of his burning Mustang on D-Day+2 and was launched on a thrilling adventure on the ground in Occupied France.This is a suspenseful page-turner and an outrageously witty tale.

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Wot a Way to Run a War! Ted Fahrenwald Ted Fahrenwald flew P-47s and P-51s with the famed 352nd Fighter Group during the critical tipping-point period of the air war over Europe.

A classic devil-may-care fighter pilot, he was also a talented writer and correspondent.

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TITLES FROM THE VINTAGE AVIATION SERIES An Air Fighter's Scrapbook

Jagdstaffel 356

Night Raiders of the Air

Ira Jones Ira “Taffy” Jones was a wellknown air fighter during the First World War, having scored about 40 victories flying SE5 scouts in France with 74 Squadron.Well known in flying circles, Jones recorded stories drawn from his own experiences during the war and wrote of the many personalities he had met or known by association, both during the war and in the post-war flying years. This book recreates the atmosphere of the days of the biplane, of wartime flying, the development of civil aviation, and breathtaking record beating flights, all evoking the delight in flying that characterized those early years.

M.E. Kahnert Although the author has given this Jagdstaffel a fictitious number and changed the names of the pilots composing it, the incidents related in this book have the genuine ring of truth and will be recognized as facts by anyone who has had experience of flying on the Western Front or who has studied it since. Many experts believe this work draws on the experience of the Bavarian Jasta 35, which flew against the British; however, whatever its real number may have been, Jagdstaffel 356 undoubtedly fought in the air over Flanders in 1918. This book is an exciting account of the air war from the German side.

A.R. Kingsford A.R. Kingsford flew with 100 Squadron, the unit that dropped the first bomb at night on Germany and, on November 11, 1918, the last one. One of the many who came to Europe from all over the Commonwealth to fight in the First World War, Kingsford had sailed from New Zealand in 1914. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and learned to fly at Northolt, before being posted to 33 Squadron at Lincoln. Full of incident and adventure, Night Raiders of the Air is a first-person account by this young Commonwealth volunteer on his experiences during the war against Germany.

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Special Units of the Imperial Army

Dam Busters: Failed to Return

D-Day Bombers

Eduardo Cea In this beautifully illustrated book, Eduardo Cea goes into fascinating detail of each of the Special Units and Special Attack Units, commonly known as kamikaze units in the Imperial Navy, or the SimBu-Tai in the Imperial Army, in turn. This book is complete with superb full color artwork, battle orders and other essential facts.

Robert Owen, Steve Darlow, Sean Feast & Arthur Thorning On the night of 16/17 May 1943 a select group of young RAF Bomber Command airmen carried out one of the most audacious and daring low level raids of the Second World War. This book brings together accounts of the lives of some of the Dam Busters who were lost that fateful night.

Stephen Darlow This book is largely an eye-witness account of the heavy bomber contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and therefore to the winning of the war in Europe.

It is told using first-hand experience from the veterans of the campaign together with background information from primary source documents on the tactics and strategy employed.

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Tokubbetsu Kogeki Tai. Special Attack Units

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No Flight from the Cage

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Distant Thunder

Eduardo Cea In this beautifully illustrated book, Eduardo Cea goes into fascinating detail of each of the Special Units and Special Attack Units in turn.

Complete with superb full color artwork, battle orders, lists of pilots and other essential facts and figures, this comprehensive history of Japanese Military Aircraft will interest modelers, enthusiasts and historians alike.

Calton Younger Originally published in 1956, former Second World War prisoner-ofwar Calton Younger’s No Flight from the Cage is the story of a young man’s journey to war, being shot down in May 1942, three years spent behind barbed wire, and of enduring forced marches as the Nazi state crumbled. The author also recounts his adventures on the run in France prior to capture.

Don Harward Don Harward was torn between two worlds; his loyalty to his family and to his country. This book details the engrossing experiences of a helicopter pilot’s tales of war told through letters that come straight from the heart. Often the author labored well into the night after a mission still wearing the dusty flight suit which bore witness to the events he penned.

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Modern Military Airpower

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Alfie's War

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Dust Clouds in the Middle East (reprinted)

Thomas Newdick Illustrated with detailed artworks of modern military aircraft and their markings with exhaustive captions and specifications, The Essential Aircraft Identification Guide is a researched review of the equipment and organization of the world’s air forces and their deployment in recent conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Richard Pike Written in three parts, and as a sequel to Seven Seas, Nine Lives, Richard Pike continues the remarkable experiences of Captain AWF ‘Alfie’ Sutton CBE DSC and bar RN. During events which come as close to fiction as is imaginable, the first part describes how Alfie wakes to find himself laid out amongst the dead. Alfie survived to continue his war and tell his story.

Christopher Shores Originally appearing as a series of magazine articles, the valuable research into air operations, over the old-style Middle East of World War II, here appears in book form.

It deals with a variety of engagements between Britain and her Commonwealth forces and the Germans, Italians and Vichy French across many borders and differing terrains.

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Spitfire Manual

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Chasing the Morning Sun

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Finding the Fallen

Dilip Sarkar How to fly the legendary fighter plane in combat using the manuals and instructions supplied by the RAF during the Second World War. An amazing array of leaflets, books and manuals were issued by the War Office during the Second World War to aid pilots in flying the Supermarine Spitfire, here for the first time they are collated into a single book.

Manuel Queiroz Ten years ago Manuel Queiroz declared his intention to fly solo around the world. Having just beaten cancer, he was buoyed by the recent brush with mortality and ready to take on a life-changing goal. Five years ago he fulfilled his ultimate dream and this is the exhilarating story of his record-breaking journey.

Andy Saunders The logical successor to the highly acclaimed Finding the Few and Finding the Foe, this new work covers a selection of similar mysteries involving missing aircrew and spanning almost the entire twentieth century. The author highlights the fates variously of RAF, USAF, Luftwaffe personnel from bomber, reconnaissance and fighter crews.

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Bomber Command Operation Hurricane

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Churchill and His Airmen

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Footprints on the Sands of Time

Marc Hall This is the story of Operation Hurricane from RAF Bomber Command’s perspective, and that of the numerous crews who flew, fought, and failed to return. Each of the aircraft lost has been investigated in depth; the lives of the crews, the circumstances of their loss, and the identification of the airmen and their crash sites.

Vincent Orange Winston Churchill probably had more impact on 20th Century British military history than any other person and especially during World War II.With his expert eye, Vincent Orange, has carefully studied every detail of Churchill’s relationships with his closest officers to produce a masterful analysis of a neglected subject.

Oliver Clutton-Brock This extensive book is divided into two parts. The first, which has eighteen chapters, deals with German POW camps as they were opened, in chronological order and to which the Bomber Command POWs were sent.

Each chapter includes anecdotes and stories of the men in the camps.

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Iron Man

Pathfinder Companion

Peter Kilduff One of the most successful German fighter pilots of World War I Hauptmann Rudolf Berthold was victorious in forty-four aerial combats. He was shot down or forced to land after six fights and survived crash landings in every case. Described by one of his pilot protégés as, ‘an Iron Man – with an absolutely unbendable iron will’, he was a dedicated patriot.

Sean Feast What sort of men were the Pathfinders, the corps d’élite of Bomber Command? What did they do? What risks did they face? And what contribution did they make to the air war and the ultimate defeat of Germany? By drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with surviving veterans Sean Feast looks to answer these questions and more.

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To Hell and Back Mel Rolfe Following Looking into Hell, published in 1995, Mel Rolfe has researched another twenty stories of gallantry in World War Two.

978-190230436-6, paperback, 192 pages, $17.95

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Tony Blackman Test Pilot

Ikuhiko Hata, Yasuho Izawa & Christopher Shores Hitherto only available in Japanese text, this unique work is now published in English language format (reprinted now following exceptional demand) and provides an in-depth review of the fighter units of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force and their pilots. This translation is an indispensable reference.

Peter McManus In early 1917 the war in the air intensified on the Western Front in France. Richthofen's deadly Jagdstaffel 11 was flying vastly superior Albatros and Halberstadt planes, with synchronized machine guns. Into the fray came 40 Squadron RFC with its problematic FE8s.

Bravery and courage ensured the Germans did not have it all their own way.

Tony Blackman Tony Blackman OBE, MA, FRAeS was educated at Oundle School and Trinity College Cambridge, where he obtained an honors degree in Physics. He learned to fly in the RAF, trained as a test pilot, and then joined A V Roe where he became chief test pilot. As an expert in aviation electronics he was subsequently invited by Smiths Industries to join their Aerospace Board, initially as technical operations director, helping to develop the new large electronic displays and flight management systems. On leaving Smiths he joined the board of the UK Civil Aviation Authority.

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Japanese Army Air Force Units and Their Aces

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Lancaster Down!

Steve Darlow The grandfather of the author was a pilot in a squadron made up of Britons and Canadians. The story of this crew, from 1942 onwards, is so special because, collectively, they experienced everything possible: dangerous flights, the crash, imprisonment and death.

978-190230448-9, hardback, 224 pages, $29.95

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Malta: The Spitfire Year 1942 Christopher Shores, Brian Cull & Nicola Malizia Malta: The Spitfire Year 1942 is an authoritative account of the final Allied victory over Malta. Christopher Shores details the great efforts of Britain's servicemen to defeat their enemy.

978-094881716-8, hardback, 704 pages, $90.00

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One Who Almost Made It Back Peter Celis On the night of 27/28 April 1944, Teddy Blenkinsop and his crew were acting as deputy master bombers during a Pathfinder raid on Montzen in Belgium. After a successful attack, their Lancaster was shot down.

Miraculously, he survived to be protected by Belgian citizens before ending his days in Belsen concentration camp. Little was known of his exploits in between until Peter Celis, a Belgian air-force officer, began to research the story. What he uncovered is far more amazing than any fictional film could be.

978-190650216-4, hardback, 224 pages, $42.95

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Richthofen Jagdstaffel Ahead

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September Evening

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Victor Boys

Barry Diggens This is the first full-length biography ever written on the life and death of the nineteen-year-old Werner Voss, who was a legend in his own lifetime and the youngest recipient of the Pour le Mérite, Germany's highest award for bravery in WWI. Voss is perhaps best remembered for his outstanding courage, his audacity in the air and the prodigious number of victories he achieved before being killed.

Tony Blackman The Handley Page Victor was the third of the three V Bombers and the most long lasting, serving in the RAF until 1993, and still doing invaluable service in the first Iraq war. This book recounts first-hand experiences by the operators themselves, aircrew and ground crew. Published to coincide with the Victor’s 60th anniversary, the gripping text is superbly illustrated with photographs from the operators.

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The Quick and the Dead

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Vulcan Test Pilot

William Arthur Waterton First published in 1956, but still relevant and thought-provoking today, this book is an absolute revelation on test flying with the British aircraft organizations and manufacturers in the 1950s.Written from the pilot’s viewpoint, with refreshing candor and honesty, this account details what really went on behind the scenes in the defense world.

Tony Blackman In 2007 a restored Avro Vulcan Mark 2 – XH558 – took to the skies to help commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Falklands conflict. To coincide with this the memoirs of one of its test pilots, Tony Blackman, was published to great acclaim. Now the first book about test flying this monumental delta-wing aircraft is available in paperback.

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The Sowreys

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Hornchurch Scramble

Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork A fascinating look into the extraordinary history of the Sowrey family; an RAF dynasty whose service spans the first sixty-five years of the RAF’s existence. Members fought in both world wars and five of the Sowreys were awarded the Air Force Cross, amongst their other numerous decorations.

Richard C Smith Now in paperback for the first time, the first volume of Richard Smith's popular and well received study of the illustrious airfield and its distinguished pilots. Taking the reader through World War One (as Sutton's Farm), when early RFC pilots were hailed as the knights of the air, through the 1930s to the outbreak of war.

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African MiGs Vol. 2: Madagascar to Zimbabwe

5th Airforce

Tom Cooper, Peter Weinert, Fabian Hinz & Mark Lepko Completing an in-depth history of the deployment and operations of MiG and Sukhoi fighters in sub-Saharan Africa, Volume 2 covers 11 additional air forces, from Madagascar to Zimbabwe.This encyclopaedic account provides detailed analysis of aerial conflicts including those waged between Ethiopia and Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda, and in Sudan.

Gérard Paloque The 5th US Army Air Force was officially created on 5 February 1942 in the urgency following the Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor. At the outset, with limited means and equipped with obsolete materiel, its various units were tasked with defending Australia. Commanded by the charismatic MajorGeneral George Kenney, it was progressively reinforced by new squadrons arriving from the United States.

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Arab MiGs Volume 3 Tom Cooper, David Nicolle & Patricia Salti The June 1967 War fought between an Arab alliance and Israel was a pivotal event in the modern history of the Middle East. This study provides detailed coverage of the Arab air forces during the course of that conflict. Supported by original documentation, and hundreds of accounts from participants and eyewitnesses, the result is a gripping narrative that uncovers stories for the first time.

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Aerobatic Teams Gérard Paloque Aerobatic display teams are almost as old as aviation itself.

Indeed, from the very beginning, aviators have made it a point of honor to show off their skills and the limits of their aircraft in public with aerobatics that are more and more spectacular. Although there were display teams before the Second World War, they only really became important in the nineteen fifties with the advent of the jet propelled aircraft that allowed for more audacious aerobatics, whilst officially created teams used an ever increasing number of aircraft. Today, almost every air force in all five continents makes it a point of honor to have its own display team.

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General DynamicsLockheed Martin F-16 Frédéric Lert At a time when other planes retire to museums, General Dynamics' fighter-bomber is still a formidable foe in international competitions against so-called "fifth generation" planes. The first prototype flew for the first time in 1974 and the operational career of the last aircraft built will continue well into the 2040s.Almost seventy years and still going strong! Meanwhile, this light fighter was optimized for daytime missions and became a formidable fighter-bomber; more than 4,400 were built and used by more than 25 countries.

Two volumes in the series will be devoted to the F-16.

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Corsair Bruno Pautigny The Corsair no doubt appears at the top of the list of mythical aircraft which have left their mark on aviation history. The aim of this book is to tell the thirty year story of the Corsair’s extraordinary career from its baptism of fire in the Pacific to African skies, passing through the Far-East and a less martial but nonetheless virile interlude in the colorful and exhilarating world of the Pylon Races.This book does not claim to be exhaustive and is destined as much to the enlightened amateur as to the neophyte.

978-2-35250-216-6, paperback, 144 pages, $32.95

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Focke Wulf FW 190 Dominic Breffort The "other" IIIrd Reich fighter is a symbol of technology as well as sturdiness. A mythical plane, the FW 190 first appeared in 1941 and, from thenon, was to be a real problem to Allied air forces. From the Eastern front to the Defense of the Reich, including the Normandy campaign, the fighter that the last German aces flew with distinction, is illustrated in all its variety of camouflage and markings.

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1/72 Heinkel He 111 Ps of KG 27 Maciej Góralczyk The Heinkel He 111 was a German aircraft designed

by Siegfried and Walter Günter in the early 1930s in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Often described as a "Wolf in sheep's clothing", it masqueraded as a transport aircraft, though its actual purpose was to provide the Luftwaffe with a fast medium bomber.

Perhaps the best recognized German bomber due to the distinctive, extensively glazed, bullet-shaped "greenhouse" nose of later versions, the Heinkel was the most numerous and the primary Luftwaffe bomber during the early stages of World War II. It fared well until the Battle of Britain, when its weak defensive armament, relatively low speed, and poor maneuverability were exposed.

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JG 26 "Schlageter" Vol. 1 Krzysztof Janowicz Decals in 1:72 and 1:48 scales: • Bf 109E-1, Major. Gotthardt Handrick, I./JG 26, 1939 • Bf 109E-1, Lt. Josef Bürschgens, 2./JG 26, 1939 • Bf 109E-1, Oblt. Eduard Neumann, 8./JG 26, 1939 • Bf 109E-1, Oblt. Karl Ebbighausen, 4./JG 26, 1939 • Bf 109E-1, (W.Nr 3373), 4./JG 26, 1940

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JG 27 w akcji Vol. I Marek J. Murawski Decals in 1:48 and 1:72 scales: • Bf 109E-3 (Samoa), Oblt. Gerd Framme, 2./JG 27, 1940 • Bf 109E-4, Gefr. Ernst Nittmann, 7./JG 27, • 1940, the Bf 109E-1 (W.Nr 3271), Fw. Ernst Arnold, 3./JG 27, 1940 • Bf 109E-7, Oblt. Erbo Graf von Kageneck, 9 /JG 27, Sicily, 1941 • Bf 109E-3, III. / JG 27, the Balkans, 1941 • Bf 109E-7, Major

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Messerschmitt Bf 109 F Marek J. Murawski This special edition of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 F monograph is a great value.This book contains 228 archive photos, color profiles of 44 aircraft, 19 sheets of aircraft manual reprints with detailed views of the construction, 20 sheets of 1/48 and 1/72 scale drawings, and a fold out sheet printed on both sides with 1/32 scale drawings.

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St.G 2 "Immelmann" Marek J. Murawski

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Guerre Aérienne en Libye Jean-Marc Tanguy Eight months of aerial warfare have been gathered together in this exceptional book. For the first time since the end of the operations in October 2011, here is a work illustrating the commitment of the pilots and mechanics in the air force before and after Operation Harmattan in Corsica, Crete, Italy and in the Libyan skies.

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311 Squadron RAF

North American A-36A Apache

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Boeing B-17

Pavel Vancata A history of the successful Czechoslovak bomber squadron in the RAF during WW2. No. 311 (Czechoslovak) Bomber Squadron was established as the second Czechoslovak combat squadron within the Royal Air Force during the summer of 1940, and became the only wholly Czechoslovak bomber squadron in the RAF. The book contains: Superb color illustrations of camouflage and markings, rare black and white archive photographs.

Przemyslaw Skulski The initial version of the famous P-51 Mustang to go into USAAF service was the dedicated fighterbomber variant, the A-36A “Apache”.This book describes and illustrates the design and development of this version of the most famous American WWII fighter. It contains: Scale plans, photos and drawings from technical manuals, superb color illustrations of camouflage and markings and black and white archive photographs.

Graham S Simons & Harry Friedman The Boeing B-17 was the first American heavy bomber to see action in World War when it was supplied to the RAF. The design originated in 1934 when the US Air Corps was looking for a heavy bomber to reinforce their air forces in Hawaii, Panama and Alaska. For its time, the design included many advanced features and Boeing continued to develop the aircraft as experience of the demands of long distance flying at high altitude was gained.

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Macchi MC.202 Folgore Przemysław Skulski This expanded 2nd edition contains: scale plans, photos and drawings from Technical Manuals, superb color illustrations of camouflage and markings, and rare b/w archive photographs. Color photos of the preserved aircraft illustrate all aspects of the airframe. Essential reading for aviation enthusiasts & scale aeromodelers.

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Malta Spitfire Vs - 1942 Brian Cauchi In the desperate battle for Malta in 1941-2, when German and Italian bombers pounded the island, the arrival of Spitfire Vs helped turn the tables in favor of the Allies.

Flown from RN and USN carriers, and some even direct from Gibraltar, the Spitfires significantly enhanced the defenses. For many years arguments have raged about the precise color schemes carried by these aircraft – in this new book Brian Cauchi looks at all the evidence, from photos and personal memories through to surviving parts of these aircraft, and presents his personal interpretation of the many color schemes, official and otherwise, carried by these hard-pressed and hardworking warplanes.

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The Pucará Story Dr. Ricardo Caballero & Phil Cater The Argentine designed and built IA-58 Pucará light attack aircraft was developed in the late 1960s in response to a requirement drawn up by the Fuerza Aérea Argentina (Argentine Air Force). After a long developmental period the design went into series production in 1974. The aircraft remains in active service to this day, with the FAA and with several foreign air forces. Best known for its involvement in the Malvinas conflict (Falklands war) in 1982, the Pucará remains an effective and much appreciated warplane. This book tells the full story of the design, development and operational use of the Pucará, including the many upgrades and redesigns tested and planned at various stages.

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Polish Wings No.16 Wojtek Matusiak This new book in the popular “Polish Wings” series tells the story of Spitfire XVIs used by Polish pilots in Britain, covering the years 19441946, both in Polish squadrons and in RAF and auxiliary units. It includes listings of losses and of officially credited victories.There are over 200 photographs (about half of which have not been published before) and about 30 color profiles (plus top and bottom views for two representative aircraft).

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EX USAAF Aircraft 1945 Andrzej Morgala This addition to the Polish Wings series describes and illustrates all the former USAAF aircraft used by the Polish Air Force after World War II. As with all the titles in this series, specially commissioned artwork depicts the color schemes and markings of the aircraft deployed 978-83-61421-11-5, paperback, 80 pages, $25.00

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Big Wings Philip Kaplan In the history of aviation there have been many attempts to produce aircraft of extraordinary proportions to expand the limits of technology and create new performance standards. With few exceptions, the early attempts did not become the successes envisaged until post-World War II when such aircraft as the Boeing B-52, and and the Boeing 747 'Jumbo Jet' airliner changed the face of aviation in both the military and civil roles. Big Wings is a wellresearched, highly informative look at the sixteen most significant giants of the air.

The aircraft selected are as follows: Military - Douglas B-19, Boeing B-29, Consolidated B-36, Northrop B49 and Boeing B-52 Airliners - Bristol Brabazon, Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 Heavy Lifters Messerschmitt Me323, Consolidated XC-99, Lockheed C5 and Antonov AN-225 Flying Boats - Dornier Do-X, Martin JRM Mars, Hughes HK-1 and Saunders Roe Princess.

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Flight 777 Ian Colvin On 1 June 1943 Flight 777, a Douglas DC-3, en route from Lisbon to Britain, was shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German aircraft.

Among the dead was the actor Leslie Howard, who had returned from Hollywood to England to help the British war effort.Also on board was Howard’s tax adviser,Alfred Chenhalls, who smoked cigars and looked remarkably like Winston Churchill. Did the Germans believe that Churchill was on board Flight 777? Other aircraft flying that route went unmolested by the Luftwaffe in spite of the German air presence over the Bay of Biscay.

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Flying Catalinas Andrew Hendrie The consolidated PBY Catalina was probably the most versatile and successful flying boat/amphibian ever built, serving not just with the US Army, Navy and Coast Guard during the Second World War, but also with the air forces of Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, with the Danes, Free French and Norwegians as well as in Brazil, Chile, Indonesia and elsewhere. In this book Andrew Hendrie tells the story of the "Flying Cats", of their achievements and exploits, of the heroism of many of the crews and the problems they had to endure.

978-1-84884-780-4, hardback, 256 pages, $39.95

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Heroic Flights John Frayn Turner A century after the Wright Brothers first took to the air, the author records those moments of aviation history that stand out from all the others for their pioneering bravery or gallantry in the face of the enemy. A fascinating potpourri embracing the whole story of aviation from those first faltering flights, through the conquest of the world by flight, the drama of war in the air, right up to the present day and the four ill-fated flights of September 11th 2001. Each story is a superb description of the great moments in the history of aviation. A superb read for both the layman and aviation specialist alike 978-085052970-8, hardback, 224 pages, $34.95

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Special Forces Pilot

The US Eighth Air Force in Europe

Colonel Richard Hutchings DSC As a Commando helicopter pilot, the author served with 846 Naval Air Squadron in the Falklands War and was decorated for gallantry (DSC). The author relives his part in operations, in particular Special Forces intelligence gathering and direct action missions, including the Pebble Island raid. The operation is described in detail including events in the air and on the ground in Argentina and Chile.

Martin Bowman This book describes the period when the American daylight offensive faltered and nearly failed and recalls the terrible losses suffered

by Liberators on the low-level attack on the Ploesti oilfields in Rumania and by the B-17s on the notorious Schweinfurt and Regensburg raids which entered 8th Air Force folklore as ‘Black Thursday’.

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978-1-84415-804-1, hardback, 224 pages, $39.99

Stratofortress

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Ultimate Spitfires

Martin W. Bowman Boeing's mighty B-52 Stratofortress has seen continuous operational service with the United States Air Force since the type was introduced in 1957. The aircraft has been upgraded several times and has assumed many different new roles since it was originally conceived and then provided the key airborne platform for America's strategic nuclear force.

Peter Caygill The Spitfire is probably Britain's best loved and admired airplane. It is also revered around the world.

This book looks at the later marques that were modified for various special tasks and differed to a large degree from Supermarine's first early versions that saw action in the early days of World War II. The content explains the design details, development and flight testing of twelve models.

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978-1-84884-860-3, paperback, 224 pages, $34.95

Stuka Alistair Smith The photographs in this collection belonged to Luftwaffe Stuka rear gunner and radio operator Erich Heine. The collection includes photographs of flights of Stukas in formation, operating training aircraft, and a selection of different Luftwaffe uniforms and flight gear. The photographer was based for a period in Czechoslovakia, was shot down over the Ukraine in August 1943 and for a time was listed as missing in action.

978-1-84884-804-7, paperback, 160 pages, $29.95

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Torpedo Bombers Peter C. Smith This is a highly illustrated history one of the most deadly types of attack aircraft. The torpedo bomber first appeared during the later years of World War One but served their most useful role in the Second World War. The most famous attacks include Taranto, where Fairey Swordfish destroyed the Italian Battle fleet and the infamous surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.

978-1-84415-607-8, paperback, 120 pages, $26.95

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The Spitfire Bob Carruthers This unique contemporary account produced from reports and debriefs provides a primary source insight into being a fighter pilot in World War II. 978-1-78159-114-7, paperback, 144 pages, $14.95

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V Bombers Dave Windle & Martin Bowman Britain’s desire to stay at the leading edge in the design and development of modern jet powered aircraft was born in the later stages of World War Two. The RAF sent requests to the leading aircraft manufactures for a variety of specifications, amongst which was one for a longrange heavy bomber. Three designs were accepted, went into production and became the V-Bomber Force.

978-1-84415-827-0, hardback, 80 pages, $39.99

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Vought F4 Corsair Dave Windle The Vought F4U was the best carrier based fighter of WW2. 12,571 aircraft were built and downed 2,140 enemy aircraft for the loss of only 189 Corsairs. It was developed early in 1938 for the US Navy.

The designer, Tex Beisel, worked on the principle of the largest engine in the smallest airframe. Britain received 2012 of the type.

978-1-84884-408-7, hardback, 88 pages, $39.95

Warriors of the Sky Peter Bagshawe This is a collection of fifty exciting short stories written by pilots of the South African Air Force. The majority concern World War II when, along with other Commonwealth air forces, the SAAF fought alongside the RAF in the war-torn skies over Europe.

The book captures the esprit de corps that existed between all the nationalities that fought on the Allied side and creates a record of the heroic actions fought.

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World Air Power Guide David Wragg Compiled by the author of Jane’s Air Forces of the World, this book is a must for aviation experts. In one volume the reader will find the composition and details of all air elements of a staggering 169 nations’ air forces and, where they exist, army air, naval air and such paramilitary organizations as the US Coast Guard Service. David Wragg has researched his subject right up to the minute.

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World War One Aircraft Carrier Pioneer Guy Warner Jack McCleery joined the RNAS in 1916 as a Probationary Flight Officer. During the next ten months he completed his training at Crystal Palace, Eastchurch, Cranwell, Frieston, Calshot and Isle of Grain, and gained his wings as a Flight Sub-Lieutenant. In July 1917 he was posted to the newly commissioning aircraft carrier HMS Furious, which would be based at Scapa Flow and Rosyth.

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Ops: Victory at All Costs

Bob Carruthers This is the history of the Luftwaffe through the eyes of those who served in combat. The rise of the Luftwaffe from the Great War is traced through recollections of Luftwaffe personnel who manned the gliders and perpetuated the charade that this was a civilian undertaking.

Andrew R.B. Simpson Many books have been written about Bomber Command’s war, from the highest levels of command to the experiences of the lowest WAAF, but only a few have been able to reveal the human side of the bomber crews’ experience. Andrew Simpson has compiled a compelling, informative and absorbing documentary record of what the men of Bomber Command went through.

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Voices from the Luftwaffe

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MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY The March on Paris Alexander von Kluck, Introduction by Mark Pottle Von Kluck saw active military service at an early age during the Seven Weeks' War of 1866 and, in 187071, the Franco-Prussian War. He became inspector general of the Seventh Army District in 1913. During the First World War von Kluck commanded the German First Army, notably in the Schlieffen Plan offensive against Paris at the start of the war in August 1914.

978-1-84832-639-2, hardback, 256 pages, $39.95

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Chinese Hordes and Human Waves Brigadier Brian Parritt CBE CNI The North Koreans’ attack on their Southern neighbors shocked and surprised the World. The conflict rapidly escalated with China soon heavily involved on one side and the United States and United Nations on the other.The author, then a young Gunner officer, found himself in the midst of this very nasty war.

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Gurkha Tales John Cross J. P. CROSS has spent 67 years among the Gurkhas, first as a serving officer and then as a resident of Nepal, being the only foreigner in the history of the country to be allowed to be both a house- and land-owner. His language ability is such that, even after 90 minutes of being interviewed on the radio, only those who recognized his voice knew he was not a Nepali.

978-1-84832-690-3, hardback, 288 pages, $34.95

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Adventures of Colonel Daffodil Major General Sir Roy Redgrave Major General Sir Roy Redgrave has enjoyed an unusual, some might say eccentric, life. He was brought up in Romania as part of a thriving international community before he joined the British Army and advanced to high rank. The author has pulled together anecdotes presented here.

978-184415525-5, hardback, 208 pages, $45.00

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Soldier At Heart Mike Reynolds Growing up during the Second World War, Mike Reynolds became so interested in soldiering that he decided to make the Army his life.

Joining as a National Serviceman he was commissioned into The Queen’s Royal Regiment.

978-1-78159-026-3, hardback, 320 pages, $50.00

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Special Forces Commander Michael Scott Early in the Second World War, Peter Wand-Tetley volunteered for ‘special service’. He saw action first with the newly formed Commandos raiding the North African coast and then in the fierce fighting on Crete. As well as describing his exemplary war and his career post war in the turbulent days of the end of Empire.

978-1-84884-673-9, hardback, 240 pages, $39.95

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Ace of the Black Cross Ernst Udet Above the mud and misery of the trenches and the endless slugging matches of the First World War another contest was played out with all the military glamour, chivalric values and deadly outcome of a mediaeval, knightly tournament. This was the battle in the air between the first primitive aircraft and the intrepid aviators who flew them.

978-1-84832-708-5, hardback, 256 pages, $34.95

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Warlords Michael Carver In this book Field Marshal Lord Carver has assembled an engrossing series of short, detailed biographies of forty-three of the dominant military commanders of the twentieth century century,American, British, German and French.

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Axis Sally Richard Lucas One of the most notorious Americans of the twentieth century was a failed Broadway actress turned radio announcer named Mildred Gillars (1900–1988), better known to American GIs as “Axis Sally.”

Despite the richness of her life story, there has never been a full-length biography of the ambitious, star-struck Ohio girl who evolved into a reviled disseminator of Nazi propaganda. Spicing her broadcasts with music, Mildred used her soothing voice to taunt Allied troops.

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General Mark Clark Jon B. Mikolashek Although not nearly as well known as other U.S. Army senior commanders, General Mark Clark is one of the four men—along with Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—who historian Martin Blumenson called “the essential quartet of American leaders who achieved victory in Europe.” Eisenhower nicknamed him the American Eagle. A skilled staff officer, Clark rose quickly through the ranks, and by the time America entered the war he was deputy commander of Allied Forces in North Africa.

978-1-61200-131-9, hardback, 272 pages, $32.95

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Donald Dean VC Terry Crowdy & Susan Bavin Donald Dean lied about his age to enlist in the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment and serve on the Western Front, where he worked his way up from Private to acting Captain.

It was in the last weeks of the war, late in September 1918, that he won his VC for leading a platoon in the determined defense of a recently captured and isolated trench against repeated German counterattacks.

978-1-84884-158-1, hardback, 176 pages, $39.95

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The Last Great Cavalryman Richard Mead Dick McCreery was commissioned into the 12th Royal Lancersand served on The Western Front, winning the MC and surviving wounds. Although not a public figure, McCreery was key figure in the development of armored warfare and among the most important British fighting generals of the Second World War. This is an overdue acknowledgment of his contribution to victory.

978-1-84884-465-0, hardback, 288 pages, $39.95

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To Reason Why

Thomas J. Carty, Ph.D. “Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did,” so the saying goes,“but she did it backwards and in high heels.” Faith Whittlesey popularized this quotation during the 1980s, and many books attribute the line to her.

The message clearly resonated with a generation of American men and women coming to age in the late 20th century, when all things seemed possible.

Sir Denis Forman Denis Forman insisted from infancy on reasoning why. At the beginning of this book he has stopped doing so. But history comes crashing down on what promised to be tremendously enjoyable way of life, and World War Two begins.The story of Wigforce is told in detail, up to its bitter end.

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Backwards, in High Heels

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Winged Scalpel Richard Villar In this fast-paced narrative, ex-SAS surgeon Richard Villar provides ‘a very personal insight into the difficulties, dangers and occasional virtual impossibility of providing medical aid to disaster areas and war zones. He shares his remarkable experiences in the aftermath of three major earthquakes – Kashmir, Java and Haiti – as well as in the Libyan civil war.

978-1-78159-168-0, hardback, 224 pages, $39.95

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In Love and War

The Counter Terrorist Manual

MG34 Machinegun

Leroy Thompson In the past thirty-five years, counter-terrorist units have been deployed to deal with airplane, ship, train, and bus hijackings. They have rescued hostages in various types of buildings and have dealt with barricaded bank robbers, prison rioters, and assorted dangerous criminals. Open the pages of this book and enter the world of the counter-terrorist operator.

Guus de Vries Volume 6 of the Propaganda Photo Series is the first detailed publication on the MG34, Germany's most important machine gun of World War II. This book contains a description of the development, production and use, the accessories and markings of the MG34, including many pictures and descriptions of prototypes and variants that have never been depicted and described before.

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978-1-848325-14-2, hardback, 256 pages, $39.99

Midget Ninja and Tactical Laxatives

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The FG42 Fallschirmjägergewehr

David Rooney & Michael Scott The manner of their meeting was unprecedented. During the lawless mayhem that followed the capture of Badajoz by Wellington, a 14 year old Spanish girl sought the protection of Captain Harry Smith. They fell in love and married shortly after.

From then on their lives and careers were inextricably linked and Juana not only followed her able, brave and ambitious husband but built her own formidable reputation.

Philip Sidnell ‘Midget Ninja and Tactical Laxatives’ is a light-hearted look at some of the most bizarre incidents, weirdest weapons and strangest stratagems to be found in the annals of warfare. Drawn from all periods of history there is something here for every reader with an interest in military history and/or a sense of humor.

Guus de Vries The FG42 Fallschirmjägergewehr is Vol. VIII in the Propaganda Photo Series, a unique series of books on German small arms of World War II. This book gives a detailed description of the origin and history of the enigmatic Fallschirmjägergewehr (paratrooper's rifle), Germany's most famous, but also most mysterious small arm of World War II.

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Chitral Charlie

Iran's Nuclear Option

N S Nash This fascinating biography examines Townshend’s controversial conduct during and after the siege at Chitral (Pakistan) in 1895, and assesses whether his dramatic fall from grace was fair.

Al J. Venter At a time when international terrorism is the focal point of our concerns, a far more pressing threat has arisen to the balance of power in the world and ultimately to the security of our country.

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978-1-932033-33-5, hardback, 460 pages, $29.95

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British Achilles Lorna Almonds Windmill Son of the victor of Jutland, George Jellicoe has enjoyed power and privilege but never shirked his duty. His war exploits are legendary and, as a founder member of Stirling’s SAS and first Commander of the Special Boat Service, he saw action a-plenty. A brigadier at 26 with a DSO and MC he liberated Athens as the Germans withdrew and saved Greece from a Communist revolution.

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TERRORISM & DEFENSE The Complete Encyclopedia of Terrorist Organizations Paul Ashley The Encyclopedia of Terrorist Organizations is a comprehensive guide to terrorist organizations past and present showing the name of each group's background and history.

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FIREARMS & FORTIFICATIONS German Sniper Rifles

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Visser Collection Guus De Vries & Bas Martens The Visser Collection, collected over a period or more than thirty years, was the finest and largest concentration of small arms, fabricated in the Low Countries. This collection has been meticulously described in two monumental volumes, which were published in 1996-1997.

978-90-78521-02-0, hardback, 848 pages, $99.95

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Hartmans' Dutch Gunmakers from the 15th to the 20th Century

Albrecht Wacker Volume 7 of the Propaganda Photo Series describes the development of the sniper rifle in the German army. After an introduction on the early developments up to World War I and the era of the Reichswehr, this book gives a detailed description of the German sniper rifles in World War II.

Guus De Vries & Bas Martens Hartmans' Dutch Gunmakers is a unique and indispensable reference book on gunmakers from the Netherlands from 1500 to the present. It contains authoritative articles on famous Dutch gun makers, a survey of about 1350 gunmakers and factories, arranged per city and an extensive chapter on markings on Dutch firearms.

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K98K Rifle

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The Minimi Machine Gun

Guus De Vries & Bas Martens Volume 1 in the Propaganda Photo Series depicts the K98K rifle, the "workhorse" and most important small arm of the German armed forces during World War II. It contains a detailed description of the history, use and accessories of this rifle, but also covers the sniper rifles, rare variants and special accessories.

Oliver Rosso The FNH Minimi light machine gun was developed to respond to the technological leap forward made by the Soviet PKM. Since 1974, because of its lightness and its firepower, FN Herstal’s light machine gun has illustrated how sound the concept of the direct infantry support weapon is.

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Castles and Fortifications of Wales Alan Phillips Wales, a small country, is littered with the relics of war – Iron Age forts, Roman ruins, medieval castles and the coastal forts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The biggest construction of fortifications in Wales took place during the reign of Edward I. 978-1-445602-29-5, paperback, 128 pages, $24.95

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Saving The Wall Stephen Leach & Alan Whitworth This book tells the story of the conservation of Hadrian's Wall, from the construction of General Wade's Military Road in the eighteenth century to the designation of the Wall as a World Heritage Site in 1987. The first part of the book describes the attempt to protect the Wall via private ownership.

978-1-445600-18-5, paperback, 192 pages, $19.95

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Revolvers Rick Sapp Why shoot a revolver when a modern semiautomatic carries more rounds, reloads faster, is flatter and slimmer, and is no more costly? Revolvers are noproblem guns. Because it has a relatively straightforward design, a revolver is very reliable. A semiautomatic is sensitive to cartridges, and stories about jammed actions because of insufficiently powerful rounds are numerous.

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GENERAL MILITARY HISTORY Shadow Tracker Keith Nelson Kurt Christianson is a natural military strategist and survivor. Independent, unorthodox, resilient and resolute, he displays skills which flout established procedures. His courage and insight whilst in Special Forces in ‘Nam’ unwittingly unravel a traitorous alliance, making him a threat to his superiors and placing his life in mortal danger.

978-1-920143-15-2, paperback, 580 pages, $24.95

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Echoes of an African War Chas Lotter The soldier poet of southern Africa matches his haunting poetry with authentic photos, paintings and sketches to tell the story of the Rhodesian bush war. Echoes of an African War follows the story of the teenaged army recruit

978-0-620-23091-9, hardback, 204 pages, $49.95

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Standby!

Brig-Gen Dick Lord In the air force no mission receives greater priority than the mission of mercy. When lives are at stake all resources available are dedicated to the task. Aircrew, ground crew, paramedics, doctors, mountaineers, navy divers, policemen and trained civilian volunteers are rapidly organized into a rescue team and dispatched with all haste to the disaster scene.

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The Marine Corps B. L. Crumley The United States Marine Corps is one of the most famous military units in the world. The Marine Corps: Three Centuries of Glory tells the story behind a unit that has seen action across the world in its long and illustrious history. The book begins with the Marine Corps’ origins during the colonial period, where battalions of American Marines were raised to fight alongside their British counterparts.

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Other Kaisers Oliver Thomson Oliver Thomson’s book The Other Kaisers is one of the first books to look at the proliferation of German dynasties throughout Europe.

Aimed at the general reader The Other Kaisers will appeal to anyone with an interest in biography and history, particularly royal history. The book’s underlying theme is the ‘Germanness’ of the House of Windsor up until 1935.

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Holy Wars Gary L. Rashba Today's Arab-Israeli conflict, everpresent in the news, is merely the latest iteration of an unending history of violence in the Holy Land—a region that is unsurpassed as witness to a kaleidoscopic military history involving forces from across the world and throughout the millennia. This book describes 3,000 years of war in the Holy Land focusing on pivotal battles or campaigns.

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Letters from Ladysmith Edward Spiers (Ed) Edward Spiers, a leading authority on the Victorian British army, presents here a select edition of letters from the siege of Ladysmith (1899–1900) that have not been seen since their original publication in metropolitan and provincial newspapers. The 250 letters were published in different British newspapers.

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The Hand of History Michael Leventhal (Ed) For this fund-raising book famous writers from around the world have selected their favorite quotes about history. Each has selected a quote and provided an original commentary explaining why it strikes a chord with them.

978-1-84832-623-1, hardback, 184 pages, $27.95

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Battleground Sussex John Grehan & Martin Mace The repeated threat of invasion from the Continent has shaped the very landscape of the county. The rounded tops of the Iron Age hill forts, the sheer walls of the medieval castles, the squat stumps of Martello towers, the moulded Vaubanesque contours of the Palmerstone redoubts and the crouched concrete blocks and bricks of the Second World War pillboxes constitute the visible evidence of Sussex’s position on Britain’s front line.

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Deeds of Heroes Matthew Richardson For over 100 years the Distinguished Conduct Medal – the DCM - was the second highest medal that could be awarded for gallantry to the other ranks of the British army - in some cases also the RAF and Royal Navy, yet the holders of this major award have rarely been given the recognition they deserve. While the heroic exploits of recipients of the Victoria Cross have been the subject of repeated accounts, DCM holders have largely been ignored in print.

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Kent VCs Roy Ingleton The nation holds a special place in its heart for winners of the Victoria Cross and this book is sure to inspire those who call Kent home.

978-1-84884-409-4, hardback, 176 pages, $39.95

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R J M Pugh Most people are familiar with references to Scottish battles such as Bannockburn and Flodden but know little if anything about those events. Rugby and soccer fans outside Scotland may wonder at the sign ‘1314’ held up

by Scottish fans and not know that it is the date of the Battle of Bannockburn when an English king was defeated on Scottish soil.The battle is also commemorated in Scotland’s unofficial national anthem, ‘The Flower of Scotland’. This book tells the stories of these battles.

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Scott of the Antarctic

Assassination

Sue Blackhall Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. Sue Blackhall reassesses his life and the causes of the disaster that ended his and his comrades' lives, and the extent of Scott's personal culpability.

Miles Hudson The assassination of political, religious and military leaders, often dictators, is frequently seen as the short cut to solving a particular problem. Examining a series of linked assassinations together with their causes and effects, he seeks to demonstrate that in many cases the killings have produced unforeseen and unintended consequences.

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The African Wars

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Agent Tate

MILITARY REFERENCE Guide to Military Operations Other Than War LTC Keith E. Bonn USA (Ret.) & MSG Anthony E. Baker USAR (Ret.) The first book to cover on-theground functions, such as working with international and interagency task forces; methods of coordination; rules of engagement; checkpoints; civilian population and movement control; evacuating noncombatants; distributing humanitarian aid and much more.

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Chris Peers In The African Wars, Chris Peers provides a graphic account of several of the key campaigns fought between European powers and the native peoples of tropical and subtropical Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

His pioneering and authoritative study describes in vivid detail the organization and training of African warriors, their weapons, their fighting methods and traditions, and their tactics.

Tommy Jonason & Simon Olsson This is the career of the longest serving double agent in the Double Cross system, Harry Williamson. Working under the cover name TATE, he went on to send more than a thousand messages during the war. Harry took part in D-Day, provided the Nazis with misinformation, and misled the German Navy with faulty intelligence over U-boat minefields. After the war he was almost completely anonymous until his name was revealed in the 1990s.

M.H. Gillie Here is a military history classic of the rise of America's armored forces from their humble beginnings in borrowed tanks on the battlefields of France in World War I to a thundering crescendo of tactical prowess and lethal power as they spearheaded the liberation of Western Europe in World War II.

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The Lords of War: From Lincoln to Churchill Correlli Barnett CBE In this compelling study of leadership, Correlli Barnett examines the strengths and weaknesses of twenty leaders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He examines how the difficulties they faced and the political and strategic backgrounds of their days and analyzes how they performed and what they achieved.

978-1-78159-093-5, hardback, 336 pages, $39.95

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Women Wartime Spies Ann Kramer From Mata Hari through to Noor Inyat Khan, women spies have rarely received the recognition they deserve.They have often been trivialized and, in cinema and popular fiction, stereotyped as vamps or dupes. As spies, women have played a critical role during wartime, receiving and passing on vital information, frequently at considerable risk.

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Ranger Dawn Col. Robert W. Black Here is the early history of the forerunners of one of the world's most elite military units, the U.S. Army Rangers. This book follows the story of the American Rangers from the 1600s through the Mexican War of 1846-48.

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Churchill's Angels Bernard O'Connor Over 70 female agents were sent out by Britain’s Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. These women were flown out and parachuted or landed into occupied Europe on highly dangerous missions: their job was to work with resistance movements before and after D-Day.There are stories of rigorous training, thrilling undercover operations, evading capture by the Gestapo, tragic betrayals and extraordinary courage.

978-1-4456-0828-0, hardback, 288 pages, $32.95

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Spitfire Voices Dilip Sarkar The book features the whole range of combat experienced by Spitfire pilots, from air combat to ground attack, deck-landings, crashes and bailouts, victories and defeats. Copiously illustrated with photographs from the albums of the pilots concerned, Spitfire Voices represents exactly what it was like flying to war in a Spitfire.

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The Few Dilip Sarkar The Battle of Britain started on 10 July 1940, ending 16 weeks later on 31 October 1940. The Luftwaffe’s intention was to destroy Fighter Command. During that fateful summer young RAF fighter pilots faced insuperable odds.

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Forging the Thunderbolt

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Small Arms 1914-1945 Michael E Haskew Illustrated with outstanding color profile artworks, The Essential Identification Guide: Small Arms 1914–45 is the definitive study of the small arms equipment of warring nations across both world wars. Organized by conflict and within each war by front, the book describes in depth the various models in service with each force.

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Small Arms 1945-Present Martin J Dougherty Illustrated with outstanding color profile artworks, The Essential Identification Guide: Small Arms 1945–Present is the definitive study of the small arms equipment of warring nations from the end of World War II, through the Cold War to the current conflict in Afghanistan. The book describes in depth the various models in service with each force.

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The World's Greatest War Cartoonists 1792-1945 Mark Bryant This book puts the record straight by assembling, for the first time in a single volume, brief biographies of 300 of the most significant international artists of the past two centuries who drew political cartoons and caricatures.

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Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War Nicholas Smart The six years of prolonged worldwide conflict spawned some 340 serving generals in the British Army. The author has researched and written entries on all, varying in length, according to the subject's importance.

978-184415049-6, hardback, 256 pages, $55.00

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Bloodline Iain Gordon Carmichael Using easy-to-follow, family-tree type tables, Bloodline shows the origins and development of every regular formation in the British Army including the latest amalgamations and changes brought about within the ‘Future Army Structure’. The charts illustrate clearly how up to 25 original regiments of the line have, over the centuries been reduced to a single regiment in today’s superb but shamefully overstretched army.

978-1-84884-205-2, hardback, 164 pages, $39.95

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Military History on the Web

Military Education Benefits for College David J. Renza, M.A. & Lieutenant Colonel Edmund J. Lizotte (Ret.) Every branch of the American military provides opportunities for educational benefits and ways to attend college at either no cost or at a cost far below published tuition rates.This book guides you in how to access, utilize, and take advantage of your benefits so you can earn the degree you deserve.

978-1-932714-79-1, paperback, 192 pages, $18.95

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Surviving Military Separation Marc CB Maxwell Family members have learned that today, military separation is common and that long deployments are the norm. This unique presentation has 365 days of activities for the entire family. The book’s unique setup and presentation allows readers to break down the long deployment into weeklong chunks, which passes the time much more quickly one step at a time.

978-1-932714-23-4, paperback, 240 pages, $19.95

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Challengers and Chargers

Simon Fowler This unique book helps you find websites that will help with your research whether you are checking out a soldier ancestor or an airman or researching a naval campaign. It also features sites that are entertaining or controversial. Sections cover the British armed services and their long military history, but the author also describes in detail websites that focus on American and Canadian forces.

William Loyd From their formation in 1660 The Life Guards, the senior regiment in the British Army, together with the Royal Horse Guards, provided mounted escorts for the Monarch, taking time out for major conflicts such as the First World War, Waterloo and the South African Campaign. This is the story of the thousands of men who passed through the regiment.

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978-1-84415-606-1, paperback, 192 pages, $19.95

Art of Leadership Field Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein Few people over the last century are better qualified to discuss leadership than Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, the charismatic and idiosyncratic Second World War leader. It was a subject to which he devoted much thought.This book was first published as The Path to Leadership in 1961.

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Awards of the George Cross 1940 - 2005 John Frayn Turner Early in WW2, King George VI was deeply impressed by the heroic deeds of servicemen out of the front line and civilian non-combatants in acts connected with the war such as bomb disposal, rescues after air raids.

978-184415351-0, hardback, 224 pages, $45.00

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978-085052353-9, hardback, 168 pages, $29.95

Keeping Faith Brian Harding The Royal British Legion is Great Britain's rough equivalent to the American Legion or Veterans of Foreign Wars in the United States.

Although Britain is sometimes thought of as a "welfare state", British veterans have not always received the recognition or benefits they had been expecting at war's end.

978-085052826-8, hardback, 496 pages, $45.00

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Light Dragoons Allan Mallinson Although only formed in December 1992,The Light Dragoons look back to a history that began in the days of the first Jacobite rebellion.

The 1922 reduction in the Army saw the amalgamation of four regiments of Hussars into the 13th/18th Hussars and the 15th/19th Hussars. Now they too have been amalgamated.

978-1-84884-880-1, paperback, 384 pages, $29.95

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MODELING Chieftain Main Battle Tank Robert Griffin 9788362878529, paperback, 72 pages, $19.95

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Miroslaw Skwiot The BMP-1 was the world's first mass-produced infantry fighting vehicle, a revolutionary design combining the properties of an armored personnel carrier and a light tank. The Soviet military leadership saw any future wars as being conducted with nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, where unprotected infantry would soon be either killed or incapacitated by radiation or chemical and biological agents. This book is an invaluable album of detailed photographs for the modeler.

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Dodge WC51 Andrzej Zak The Dodge WC series was a range of light military trucks produced by Dodge during WWII. The series included weapon carriers, telephone installation trucks, ambulances, reconnaissance vehicles, mobile workshops and command cars. They were replaced after the war by the Dodge M-series vehicles. WC was a Dodge model code:W for 1941 and C for halfton rating. The C code was retained for the 3/4 ton and 1 1/2 ton 6x6 Dodges.

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T-34/85 Stanislaw Krzysztof Mokwa The T-34 medium tank is one of the most-produced and longest-lived tanks of all time. Identification of T-34 variants can be complicated. Turret castings, superficial details, and equipment differed between factories. New features were added in the middle of production runs or retrofitted to older tanks.

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Eastern Front Stanislaw Jabloński This is a series of highly illustrated books on the key machines of World War II and their combat use. Perfect for modelers and filled with color artwork profiles, each volume details the camouflage, markings, insignia, modifications and variants of the best of the war. With extra features such as decals, photo-etched brass and masking foil.

9788361220480, paperback, 26 pages, $16.95

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The Battleship Richelieu Andrzej Sobucki The Richelieu was a French battleship, and the lead ship of her class.

She was the first French 35,000ton battleship, designed to counter the Italian Littorio class battleships, the first modern battleships built since the 1922 Treaty of Washington. Ordered in 1935, she was a scaled-up version of the Dunkerque class battleships, featuring a main armament of eight 380 mm guns in two quadruple turrets in forward super firing positions. Her armor and underwater protection were equal to her contemporaries, except the Japanese Yamato class battleships. Her speed was surpassed only by the fastest U.S. Navy battleships.

This brand-new series focuses on the construction of famous ships.

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Super Model International No. 3 Tomasz Chacewicz, Michal Rosiak & Tomasz Wajnkaim 9788362878543, paperback, 80 pages, $15.95

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Super Model International vol. II Przemyslaw Szymczyk, Lukasz Kapelski, Rafal Bulanda & Lukasz Orczyc-Musialek 978-83-62878-40-6, paperback, 80 pages, $15.95

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NAVAL & MARITIME With the Battle Cruisers Filson Young This is the arresting opening to With the Battle cruisers, Filson Young's unique account of life inside the Grand Fleet. Young's connections with the Liberal administration resulted in a unique and arresting portrait of Jackie Fisher, architect of British naval policy and service, beside one of its most controversial leaders, Sir David Beatty.

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The World's Greatest Battleships David Ross From the English Henry Grace à Dieu in 1514 to the 1950s’ Vanguard battle cruiser, World’s Greatest Battleships celebrates 50 of the most remarkable battleships and battle cruisers across 500 years of history spanning numerous conflicts.

978-1-909160-60-6, hardback, 224 pages, $29.95

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Submarine Upholder Sydney Hart The story of the most successful submarine to sail out of Malta, with 25 kills to its name. Submarine Upholder tells the story of His Majesty’s Submarine Upholder, ordered just days after war started. She was to serve with the 10th Submarine Flotilla based out of Malta and carried, as commander David Wanklyn, who earned a VC while aboard her.

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First to Die Bryan Elson Extensively illustrated with photographs drawn form key archival and private collections, this is the story of four young Canadian seamen, and the early days of the Canadian Navy, celebrating its Centennial in 2010. The four were among the 21 young men who made up the first class of the Royal Navy College of Canada.

978-0-88780-913-2, paperback, 96 pages, $24.95

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Bomb Alley: Aboard HMS Antrim at war David Yates This is the untold story of the Falklands War as experienced by a below-decks seaman on one of the most important ships to be dispatched to the South Atlantic. It is a no-holds-barred account as seen through the eyes of a Royal Navy matelot.

978-1-84415-624-5, paperback, 224 pages, $24.95

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Fishermen Against the Kaiser Douglas d’Enno British fishermen are among the unsung heroes of the First World War. They were immediately caught up in the sea war against the Kaiser’s navy, confronting the threats presented by the submarines, minelayers, gunboats and capital ship of the High Seas Fleet.

Often they found themselves thrust into strange, dangerous situations, which put their lives at risk and tested to the limit their bravery and skill as seamen.

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Monitors of the Royal Navy

Roy M Stanley II For his latest book Colonel Roy Stanley presents aerial photographs of the German and Italian fleets that were selected as important six decades ago and have long lain dormant, unindexed and unexplained. Extensive use of aerial and other Intelligence imagery from long retired files would be enough to make this book a must for those intrigued by Second World War II intelligence and naval history.

Jim Crossley The book deals with the origins of Monitors and how they evolved from the bomb ketches of the 18th century. It looks at how the various classes of monitor were designed and built and explores their careers in both World Wars, including the particular impact they had on the various campaigns in which they fought.

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978-1-84884-471-1, hardback, 256 pages, $50.00

Red Tobruk

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Red Sky in the Morning

Gregory Smith Red Tobruk, the war memoir of the Captain of HMS Eridge from late 1940 until August 1942 is a superb account of wartime action at sea. Frank Gregory-Smith’s war started on the destroyer Jaguar and he saw action off Norway and during the Dunkirk evacuation, when she was hit by enemy air attack with 25 men killed.

Michael Pearson The Arctic convoys that sailed through the cold malevolent waters of the Barents Sea ran the gauntlet of German air and sea attacks as they struggled to transport vital supplies to Britain’s Russian allies. Convoy JW51B was attacked by a powerful German force. A gripping tale of the war at sea under the direst of conditions.

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978-1-84415-862-1, hardback, 208 pages, $39.99

Age of Invincible Nick Childs The story of HMS Invincible, a ship whose eventful life story, it is argued, embodies that of the Royal Navy itself during the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st. From her conception and design, through her various deployments and her evolving role and technical adaptation to meet changing strategic requirements, her fluctuating fortunes have been intertwined with the Royal Navy as a whole.

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978-184415452-4, paperback, 256 pages, $24.95

Royal Navy and the Peruvian-Chilean War 1879 - 1881 Gerard de Lisle (Ed) This beautifully presented book captures the spirit of a little known war where the Royal Navy played a peripheral but crucial role. The power of the British Empire was at its height, thanks to the reach of the Royal Navy and officers from that service who often found themselves in positions of power way beyond their rank.

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The Defence of the Dardanelles Michael Forrest The Straits of Dardanelles were fortified in the 15th century with massive bronze bombards. On 18 March 1915, a powerful fleet of British and French warships attempted to overwhelm the shore defenses of the Dardanelles. This work examines the flaws of Winston Churchill’s strategy and identifies the inadequacies of pitting warships against shore fortifications.

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The Great Edwardian Naval Feud Richard Freemen This is the story of the clash between two gigantic personalities in the early years of the twentieth century.

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The Ohio and Malta Michael Pearson On entering the Mediterranean the convoy was subjected to prolonged ferocious air and submarine attacks and suffered terrific losses. OHIO suffered a direct hit from a torpedo, direct bomb hits and was struck by two Luftwaffe aircraft shot down while attacking her. She was towed into Grand Harbor by three destroyers and a minesweeper with her vital cargo virtually intact.

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Arctic Convoy PQ8 Michael Wadsworth When Robert Brundle took the SS Harmatris to Russia with Convoy PQ8 he was 47 years of age. The 5,395 ton coal fired ship, laden with 8,000 tons of armaments originally set sail on 27 November 1941 to join convoy PQ6 but encountered a fierce storm in which a lorry broke free in the hold and started a fierce blaze below decks. The Harmatris was forced to return to Glasgow for repair. Put to sea again on 26 December, she was now to join PQ8.

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Battle of Trafalgar Geoffrey Bennett The battle of Trafalgar has now passed into national mythology.

The expertise, courage, determination and confidence which gave Britain a victory of spectacular finality in October 1805 also provided her with one of her great legendary figures - a naval hero in life but much more like a national, if very secular, saint in death.

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Bismarck: The Epic Chase

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Fourth Force

James Crossley When the German Battleship Bismarck was commissioned in 1940 she was one of the fastest and most powerful ships afloat. To the Royal Navy and the security of Allied shipping in the Atlantic she posed an enormous threat – she must be destroyed. This new book reveals the full extent of the capabilities of both British and German Radar or the significance of British ULTRA signal intercepts.

Geoff Puddefoot Set up in August 1905, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary was originally a logistic support organization, part of the Navy proper but run on civilian lines, comprising a miscellaneous and very unglamorous collection of colliers, store ships and harbor craft. Just over a century later it has evolved beyond recognition: its ships compare in size, cost and sophistication with all but the largest warships, and the RFA itself has developed into an essential arm of all three Services.

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978-1-84884-250-2, hardback, 176 pages, $32.95

Destroyer Leader Peter C Smith HMS Faulknor was an F Class destroyer, built as a 'leader' or command-ship, of a flotilla of 8 destroyers. Launched in 1934, she was to survive World War II and see action in many of the Royal Navy's most famous operations. The book gives a detailed account of the ship's history from its conception to its demise at the hands of the scrap yard.

978-184415121-9, hardback, 302 pages, $50.00

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A Great & Glorious Victory Richard Harding (Ed) In October 2005 an international naval conference was held at Portsmouth and well-known historians and naval officers from around the world, including Colin White, Brian Lavery, Contre Amiral Remi Monaque and Admiral Sir Jonathan Band, now First Sea Lord, gave a series of papers on aspects of the battle of Trafalgar. Containing a wealth of new information they are now form the core of this book.

978-184832008-6, paperback, 128 pages, $24.95

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Broadsides James Davey & Richard Johns Broadsides explores the political and cultural history of the Navy during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through contemporary caricature.This was a period of intense naval activity – encompassing the Seven Years War, the American War of Independence, the wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and the War of 1812.

978-1-84832-146-5, paperback, 64 pages, $32.95

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978-1-84832-046-8, hardback, 272 pages, $50.00

Periscope View G W G Simpson For the critical years of WWII the key role of the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean was to interrupt the flow of Axis supplies to Rommel’s armies in North Africa.

The possession of Malta, right on the supply lines, allowed this role to be carried out.

The author, in command of the 10th Submarine Flotilla, played a central and unique role in this battle.

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The Great Ships Peter C. Smith Although naval development before World War II focused on aircraft carriers, the British nevertheless had seventy battleships-larger and more powerful than ever before--under construction at the outbreak of the war. The war would hasten the battleship's decline, but not before producing dramatic moments at sea.

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Bold Privateers Roger Marsters In war, disrupting and depleting the enemy’s supply of goods is the way to victory.

During the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, armed merchant ships were licensed to cruise the seas, alone or in small convoys to chase and capture enemy cargo vessels and to attack coastal forts.

978-088780644-5, paperback, 128 pages, $29.95

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Who Sank the Titanic?

Ambrose Greenway For 100 years, between 1850 and 1950, the cargo liner grew to dominate the world’s trade routes, providing regular services that merchants, shippers and importers could rely on.This book will appeal to ship enthusiasts around the world.

Robert J. Strange Designed as the technological marvel of her age, RMS Titanic claimed to be the largest, strongest, safest ship of the early 20th Century; a triumph of centuries of Great Britain’s unrivaled shipbuilding expertise. Yet nothing could be further from the truth.This book examines the intense costcutting pressures which contributed to Titanic’s demise and one of the greatest loss-of-life disasters.

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Cargo Liners

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UNIFORMS & EQUIPMENT Masterpieces of European Arms and Armour in the Wallace Collection Tobias Capwell & David Edge The collection of arms and armor at the Wallace Collection is widely recognized as being one of the largest and most important in the world.

Consisting of around 2,500 objects, it represents both European and Oriental arms and armor.

The European part of the collection was acquired primarily by Sir Richard Wallace, mainly in 1871, from the collections of Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick—founding father of the serious study of arms and armor—and that of the comte de Nieuwerkerke, Director of the Louvre under the Emperor Napoleon III. 978-0-900785-86-3, paperback, 192 pages, $50.00

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Sturmartillerie, Volume 1 Didier Laugier Initially intended as a single volume edition, this work of encyclopedic proportions by Didier Laugier, will finally appear in a two volume series. Rich in both photographs and text, this first volume presents the development of the assault gun, its production, the various models (with sixteen pages of color profiles), weaponry and equipment, along with a historical description of most assault gun groups and brigades.

978-2-84048-285-7, hardback, 400 pages, French Text, $129.00

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Sturmartillerie, Volume 2 Didier Laugier Due to the significance of the rare documentation and photographic records, we have decided to publish this supplemental volume to give this work full attention.

Volume two will highlight other assault gun groups among which are those of the Waffen-SS. Also to be included are full-color presentations of the various uniforms, in addition to certificates and awards.

978-2-84048-306-9, hardback, 144 pages, French Text, $87.00

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Wheeled Armored Fighting Vehicles Youri Obraztsov This book gathers together for the first time all the wheeled armored vehicles in the world with their various modifications, modernization along with the technical specifications for each model. There are more than 300 photos; the book is bilingual, methodical, giving the history of each vehicle and its dimensions in a practical and visual manner. This manual enables you to identify accurately any 8 x 8 combat armored vehicle from a picture even if it’s an incomplete one.

978-2-35250-257-9, hardback, 300 pages, English/French Text, $24.95

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Main Battle Infantry Vehicles Youri Obraztsov This book regroups, for the first time, all tracked IFVs from the world over and their many modernizations and modifications along with a timetable showing the dates that they were put into service. Enriched with more than 350 photos, methodic and bilingual, it reveals the history of each vehicle along with precise dates presenting the capacities and technical characteristics for each and every model. Dimensions are indicated in a practical and visual manner. This handbook allows the precise identification of a tracked vehicle from an image, even partial. A series of four tests will allow you to evaluate your current level and improve your knowledge on the matter. Regrouping all these qualities, this manual is an indispensable tool for the armed forces and everyone that has a passion for armored vehicles and military history.

978-2-35250-189-3, hardback, 128 pages, English/French Text, $27.95

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L’Armée Française 1943-1956 Paul Gaujac After adopting the American uniform in 1943 when the French Expeditionary Corps in North Africa were equipped by the United States, the high command and the units were constantly improving it with additions conforming to French military traditions. However, once peace had returned, its metropolitan army needed new dress and uniforms 978-2-35250-195-4, paperback, 96 pages, French Text, $24.95

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The US Army Soldier Aurélian Morel With the way the battlefield has evolved over the last ten years, the soldier's equipment has had to evolve accordingly. Although the media often shows the US Army Boys right in the heart of the fighting in Afghanistan, and up until recently in Iraq, their equipment, material, and weapons have never been shown in detail.This book draws up a list of the equipment used by the US Army's infantryman.

978-2-352-50259-3, paperback, 80 pages, $22.95

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World War One Soldiers Laurent Mirouze Never before have actual battle uniforms, individual equipment and weapons of the infantrymen of the great war been illustrated in such authentic detail. Original surviving items, painstakingly assembled from rare private and public collections, are illustrated in full color on live models, just as they were worn in the battlefield. Each of these 31 soldiers is photographed from both front and back with key diagrams.

978-2-35250-268-5, paperback, 84 pages, $26.95

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Polish Vickers Pt. 2 Adam Jońca Complementing the well-established and successful “Polish Wings” series on aircraft of the Polish Air Force, this book is the second in a series on Polish army vehicles. It tells the story of four major tanks of British origin used by the Polish army in the 1930s, some still in use at the time of the German invasion. Training and operations with these tanks are described and illustrated, with many photos and full color artwork. Color schemes and markings are described and illustrated.

978-83-61421-50-4, paperback, 96 pages, $27.00

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British Army Uniforms of the American Revolution 1751-1783 Carl Franklin Based on contemporary records and paintings, this book identifies each cavalry and infantry regiment and illustrates changes in uniforms, their facing colors and the nature and shape of lace worn by officers, NCOs and private soldiers from 1751 to 1783. Regiments that served in the American War of Independence are noted and the book includes more than 200 full-color plates of uniforms and distinctions. Divided into four sections, it not only details the cavalry and infantry uniforms of the period but also the tartans of the Highland regiments, some of which were short-lived, and the distinction of the Guards’ regiments.

978-1-84884-690-6, hardback, 320 pages, $60.00

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Visual Encyclopedia of Military Uniforms Chris McNab This is a highly illustrated volume that examines all the significant uniforms of the world, featuring more than 1000 of the world’s soldiers from the first professional armies to the present day. All the most famous types of uniform are featured, such as the British redcoat, the American GI, the German stormtrooper and the Soviet infantryman, along with some more unusual examples that are much less well known.

Each featured uniform is illustrated with an excellent full-color artwork, showing the figure in great detail with full specifications tables that list country of origin and the uniform and equipment carried.

978-1-907446-99-3, paperback, 448 pages, $40.00

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La Légion Étrangère en Indochine 1946-1956 Chris McNab Heimdal offers here another wellresearched work in similar style to the Kriegsmarine.This book details the history and uniforms of the Foreign Legion, presenting previously unseen documentation and images. Over 650 images are included, of which 400 are of color objects.

978-2-84048-307-6, hardback, 256 pages, French Text, $125.00

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NEW AND UPCOMING FROM CASEMATE War Bonds Cindy Hval From blind dates to whirlwind romances to long separations,War Bonds highlights stories of couples who met or married during or shortly after WWII. Underscoring these tales are the principles of maintaining lasting love in the face of tumultuous times, as well as the daily challenges of building a life together. When the soldiers finally came home— and many of them did not—the next job of building a family began. Suddenly it was the females who were the true front-line. Illustrated with photos from the 1940's as well as current photographs of each couple, this book offers readers a glimpse of bygone days, as well as a poignant glimpse of our own.

978-1-61200-2903, hardback, 240 pages, $24.95, February 2015

The Dakota Hunter Hans Wiesman This book tells the story of a Dutch boy who grew up during the 1950s in post-war Borneo, where he had frequent encounters with an airplane, the Douglas DC-3, aka the C-47 Skytrain or Dakota of World War II fame. For a young boy living in a remote jungle community, the aircraft reached the proportions of a romantic icon, as the essential lifeline to a bigger world for him, the beginning of a special bond. This book describes his multiple expeditions in search of the remains of the Dakota legend and takes the reader to some of the remotest spots in the world.

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978-1-61200-2583, hardback, 320 pages, $37.95, December 2014

Marine Corps Tank Battles in the Middle East

Year of Desperate Struggle

Ed Gilbert In the aftermath of Vietnam a new generation of Marines was determined to wage a smarter kind of war. The tank, the very symbol of power and violence, would play a key role in a new concept of mobile warfare, not seen since the dashes of World War II. In America’s longest continual conflict, armored Marines became entangled in further guerilla war, this time amid the broiling deserts, ancient cities, and rich farmlands of Iraq, and in the high, bleak wastes of Afghanistan. This book fully describes how our Marine Corps tankers have risen to the occasion.

Monte Akers By the summer of 1863, following Chancellorsville, it was clear to everyone on both sides of the Civil War that the Army of Northern Virginia was the most formidable force Americans had ever put in the field. It could only be “tied” in battle, if against great odds, but would more usually vanquish its opponents. In this work Akers provides a fascinating, close-in view of the Confederacy’s cavalry arm during this crucial period of the war. After Stuart’s death the Army of Northern Virginia would eventually be cornered, but while he was alive it was often the Northerners who most needed to look to their security.

Hollow Heroes

America's Modern Wars

Michael Arnold The book reveals the truths behind the conventional images of three of Great Britain's primary military leaders during and immediately after the Second World War. In each case there was a totally different side to each man, which demonstrates that a great deal of their reputation was built on contrived results, deception and dishonesty. It examines the influence and impediment of “class” on the performance of the British Army in World War II, and quotes the views of the Americans that far too often there was an unwillingness among the British to base officer promotion on effectiveness rather than on social background.

Christopher A. Lawrence While the past half-century has seen no diminution in the valor and fighting skill of the U.S. military and its allies, the fact remains that our wars have become more protracted, with decisive results more elusive.The book presents a unique examination of the nature of insurgencies and the three major guerrilla wars the United States has fought in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam. It is both a theoretical work and one that applies the hard experience of the last five decades to address the issues of today.

It presents an extensive analysis of insurgencies based upon a unique database of 83 post-WWII cases

978-1-61200-2675, hardback, 288 pages, $34.95, December 2014

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