War, combat and military adventure fiction

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"e;Casemate has a long history of publishing high quality military history non-fiction.

The Routledge History of the First World War is a work which, in a single volume, covers a range of major themes and issues relating to that conflict.

'An extraordinary biography by the very last witness of a devastating four years in British history' Daily MailOn 17 June 2009, Harry Patch celebrated his 111th birthday.

Launched in 1914, two years after the ill-fated voyage of her sister ship, RMS Titanic, the Britannic was intended to be superior to her tragic twin in every way.

Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Titles of the Year for 2017"e;A uniquely colorful chronicle of this dramatic and convulsive chapter in American--and world--history.

The sweeping, intergenerational story of a Vermont family, from WWII to the dawning of the '60s--the most magisterial and moving novel of acclaimed author Jeffrey Lent's career.

A detailed and absorbing narrative of the campaigns fought on the 'forgotten' Eastern Front of the Great War, vividly illustrating that these campaigns were no less costly, tragic and important than the catastrophes of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele.

Bestselling author Douglas Jackson expertly brings the Roman Empire to life in this brutal and bloody historical adventure.

First published in 1923, this book examines the causes and evils of War.

The tragic slaughter of the trenches is imprinted on modern memory; but it is more difficult to grasp the wider extent and significance of the First World War.

Why did the British government declare war on Germany in August 1914?

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.

The phenomenal #1New York Timesbestseller that captured the imagination of a generation"e;A remarkable novel.

First published in 1988, this annotated selection of Wilfred Owen's poetry and prose provides a comprehensive one-volume text of his best work.

This book helps readers understand the extent to which shell shock continues to shape modern memories of the First World War.

The story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the Irish Revolution.

The first general history in English of the Ottoman Army in the First World War, Ordered to Die is based on newly available Turkish archival and official sources.

No mission too difficult, no sacrifice too great Duty First!

Homes fit for Heroes looks at the pledge made 100 years ago by the Lloyd George government to build half a million 'homes fit for heroes' - the pledge which made council housing a major part of the housing system in the UK.

In October 1918, war-weary German sailors mutinied when the Imperial Naval Command ordered their engagement in one final, fruitless battle with the British Royal Navy.

Josh and Miriam Retallick and their grandson Ben seem almost part of the wild and rugged Cornish landscape of 1913.

McGinley foregoes his usual murder mystery genre; instead, he presents an historical novel set during the Anglo-Irish War of 1919 to 1921.

'Lost Tommies' brings together never-before-seen images of Western Front tommies and their amazing stories in a beautiful collection that is part thriller, part family history and part national archive.

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Fans of Andy McNab, Lee Child, Clive Cussler and Stephen Leather will love this break-neck, adrenalin-fuelled rollercoaster of a thriller from multi-million copy bestseller Chris Ryan.

A major new account of the role and performance of the French army in the First World War.

To what extent did a perceived morality crisis play a role in the dramatic events of the last years of the Ottoman Empire?

The result of over twenty-five years of research, Beneath Flanders Fields reveals how this intense underground battle was fought and won.

Reassesses British and Italian grand strategies from 1914 to 1920: including the war, the peace conference and the Fiume crisis.

With “shattering prose,” the New York Times–bestselling author of From Here to Eternity captures the intense combat in the battle of Guadalcanal (San Francisco Chronicle).

In the early summer of 1914, the headmaster of Brighton College, Canon W.

Having survived the bloody Battle of New Orleans and the loss of their ironclad Yazoo River, captain Samuel Bowater, engineer Hieronymus Taylor, and the survivors of their crew are given new orders -- take command of an ironclad warship being built in Memphis, Tennessee.

Through exploring the battle of ideas set in motion in August 1914, First World War: Still No End In Sight provides a framework for understanding the changing focus of political conflict from ideology to culture.

The Lee-Enfield is one of the 20th century's most recognisable and longest-serving military rifles.

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At the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, the international community came together to find a way forward in the aftermath of the First World War.

American soldier Robert Jackson joined the army to earn tuition for college; he wanted only to settle down with his high school sweetheart and start a family.

From the author of the acclaimed debut novelThe Curiositycomes an emotionally resonant tale about a woman who must take care of two wounded men one, her soldier-husband, just home from the war in Iraq; the other, a dying World War II scholar-historian who harbors a long-buried secret.

A faded newspaperman downs a double Makers Mark and contemplates life as a ham-and-egger, a hack.

A classic tale of love and adventure from the author of the Captain Hornblower series.

Created by a long-forgotten Austrian nobleman, Adolf Odkolek von Augezd, the air-cooled Hotchkiss machine gun was the first to function effectively by tapping propellant gas from the bore as the gun fired.

'Sean McMeekin has written a classic of First World War history .

The International Society for First World War Studies' ninth conference, 'War Time', drew together emerging and leading scholars to discuss, reflect upon, and consider the ways that time has been conceptualised both during the war itself and in subsequent scholarship.

After saving the Empire's richest province from a foreign army, Marcus and the men who protect him have been in hiding.

Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is about to celebrate her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive.