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U.S. Aircraft Carriers 1939-45 is the newest addition to the Casemate Illustrated Special series. This beautifully illustrated title tells the story of development of American carriers during World War II.

Spies on the Mekong provides a detailed look at the CIA's clandestine operations in Laos during the Cold War.

Hold at All Hazards is an exciting historical novel about a light artillery unit during the Battle of Gettysburg.

U.S. Aircraft Carriers 1939-45 – Ingo Bauernfeind

This extensively illustrated volume tells the dramatic, yet successful, story of U.S. aircraft carriers in World War II by class, ranging from early pre-war designs to escort carriers built from destroyer hulls, to the gigantic fleet carriers serving as the predecessors of modern-day supercarriers. Besides covering the famous great carrier battles in the Pacific, this book also tells of the equally important actions of U.S. flattops hunting and destroying German U-boats in the Atlantic.

Including profiles and explanatory text boxes, the concise text gives a clear overview of each ship's career, its fate, and its significance in American naval history. Moreover, the reader learns about the technical evolution of U.S. carriers throughout the war, and the various aircraft launched from these magnificent vessels to engage their Japanese or German foes. This volume provides an overview of preserved World War II flattops serving as floating museums for future generations, as well as a dive to the sunken U.S.S. Saratoga at Bikini Atoll.

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Spies on the Mekong – CIA Clandestine Operations in Laos – Ken Conboy

During the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency's biggest and longest paramilitary operation was in the tiny kingdom of Laos. Hundreds of advisors and support personnel trained and led guerrilla formations across the mountainous Laotian countryside, as well as running smaller road-watch and agent teams that stretched from the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the Chinese frontier. Added to this number were hundreds of contract personnel providing covert aviation services.

But for the Foreign Intelligence officers at Langley, Laos was more than a paramilitary battleground. Because of its geographic location as a buffer state, as well as its trifurcated political structure, Laos was a unique Cold War melting pot. This book comprehensively details the cloak-and-dagger side of the war in Laos for the first time, from agent recruitments to servicing dead-drops in Vientiane.

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Hold at All Hazards – Bigelow's Battery at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 – David H. Jones

By late January of 1863, the soldiers of the 9th Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery are badly demoralized, inadequately trained, and poorly disciplined. When the inept captain of the battery believes that he's about to be fired, he hastily resigns, and the governor of Massachusetts promptly selects a 23-year-old artillery officer with battlefield experience to take command. Captain John Bigelow institutes strict discipline and rigorous training which causes the men, including Chief Bugler Charles Wellington Reed, to consider him to be a heartless tyrant.

In late June of 1863, the battery is collected by the Army of the Potomac as it passes the Washington defenses to thwart an invasion by Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. After days of hard marching, Bigelow's Battery arrives on the Gettysburg battlefield in the forenoon of July 2, 1863. Within hours, they are immersed in violent combat during which the officers and men of the battery fight like veterans against the Confederates. Unbeknownst to Charlie, he will twice disobey a direct order from Captain Bigelow before the day is out.