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Children and War Volume 2: Past and Present

Prontera Grazia, Aschauer Wolfgang, Buckley John, Embachler Helga, Albert Albert

ISBN: PB: 9781911096917, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
284 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 tables, 28 black&white illus.

The amount of international research on "Children and War" carried out by academics, governments and non-governmental organisations has continually increased in recent years. At the same time there has been growing public interest in how children exp...

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Military

Battle of Montgomery, 1644 The English Civil War in the Welsh Borderlands

Worton Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9781911096238, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
120 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 8 maps, 8 black&white illus., 42 colour illus.

Reflecting on the Battle of Montgomery, Sir Thomas Myddelton – who had jointly commanded the victorious Parliamentarian Army – later described it as: "as great a victory as hath been gained in any part of the kingdom". Fought on 18 September 1644 in...

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Photography

Liberation of Europe 1944-1945 The Photographers who Captured History from D-Day to Berlin

Barnes Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781612004020, Casemate, September 2016
336 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 400 illus.

The Second World War presented a huge range of challenges to press photography both in terms of its execution and getting the results in print. Life on the home front was the main subject until the invasion of France changed everything in 1944. Pho...

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Days of Adversity The Warsaw Uprising 1944

McGilvray Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781911096733, ISBN: HB: 9781909982956, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2015
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 maps, 100 black&white illus.

This work is a re-examination of the decisions regarding the 1944 Warsaw Uprising made by the leadership of the underground Polish Army (AK), as well as the questionable attitudes of senior Polish commanders in exile in London. The questions raised a...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Generalissimo Stalin The Myth of Stalin as a Great Military Strategist

Gorbachevsky Boris

ISBN: PB: 9781909384255, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2014
350 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus, maps

This new book from the author of Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front reveals a bitter truth about that war, which has thrown neo-Stalinists in Russia today into a fury. A frontline veteran who survived the most savage...

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Military

On the Precipice Stalin, the Red Army Leadership and the Road to Stalingrad , 1931-1942

Mezhiritsky Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781909384958, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2014
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Like some astronomers, who discover cosmic objects not by direct observation, but by watching the deviations of known heavenly bodies from their calculated trajectories, Peter Mezhiritsky makes his findings in history through thoughtful reading and t...

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Children and War Volume 1: Past and Present

Embacher Helga, Prontera Grazia

ISBN: PB: 9781911096719, ISBN: HB: 9781909384477, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2013
298 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 tables, 28 black&white illus.

The amount of international research on "Children and War" carried out by academics, governments and non-governmental organisations has continually increased in recent years. At the same time there has been growing public interest in how children exp...

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Jewish Studies

Polonica

Needle in the Bone How a Holocaust Survivor and a Polish Resistance Fighter Beat the Odds and Found Each Other

Mirriam-Goldberg Caryn

ISBN: HB: 9781612345680, Casemate, Potomac Books, November 2012
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 black&white illus.

"Needle in the Bone" highlights the astonishing stories of two Poles – a Holocaust survivor, Lou Frydman, and a Polish resistance fighter, Jarek Piekalkewicz. As mere teenagers during World War II, they defied daunting odds, lost everything and nearl...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Molotov Stalin's Cold Warrior

Roberts Geoffrey

ISBN: HB: 9781574889451, Casemate, Potomac Books, December 2009
254 pp., 23x15 cm

The orthodox view of Vyacheslav Molotov is that he was no more than Stalin's faithful servant; a dogmatic conservative communist of little or no imagination. Molotov was, indeed, Stalin's right-hand man while from the 1920s the two men presided over...

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Kremlin Rising Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution (Updated Edition)

Baker Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781597971225, Casemate, Potomac Books, March 2007
478 pp., 23x15 cm

With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself on a fitful transition to Western-style democracy and a market economy. But a decade later, Boris Yeltsin's handpicked successor – Vladimir Putin, a self-described childhood hooligan...

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