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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Monographs, No. 45 Arado Ar 196

Murawski Marek J.

ISBN: PB: 9788361220961, Casemate, Kagero, March 2015
104 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 125 colour and black&white illus., 20 plan drawings, 5 profiles

Not for sale in Poland! This superb monograph is devoted to the Ar 196, a shipboard reconnaissance aircraft, which became the standard aircraft of the Kriegsmarine throughout World War II. Loved by its pilots for its superior handling both in the...

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Aviation

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Monographs, No. 59 Junkers Ju 88, Volume II

Murawski Marek J., Rys Marek

ISBN: PB: 9788364596278, Casemate, Kagero, March 2015
120 pp., 29.7x21 cm, painting schemes, 96 archive photos, 97 renders

Not for sale in Poland! The sixteenth issue of the Topdrawings series is dedicated to the bomber variants of the Junkers Ju 88. It contains scale drawings of all subvariants of the A-variant. Also included are colour profiles of 4 aircraft.

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Africa

Magnificent and Beggar Land Angola since the Civil War

de Oliveira Ricardo Soares

ISBN: PB: 9781849042840, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Based on three years of research in and extensive first-hand knowledge of Angola, "Magnificent and Beggar Land" is the definitive account of the fast-changing dynamics of this important yet misunderstood African state; a major...

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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

Medea

Euripides

ISBN: PB: 9780226203454, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
72 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In the centuries since it was first performed, Euripides's "Medea" has established itself as one of the most influential of the Greek tragedies. The story of the wronged wife who seeks revenge against her unfaithful husband by murdering their childre...

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Aviation

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Monographs, No. 57 Junkers Ju 88, Volume I

Murawski Marek J., Rys Marek

ISBN: PB: 9788364596117, Casemate, Kagero, November 2014
120 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 120 black&white photos, 120 renders

Not for sale in Poland! The first volume of the Monograph Junkers Ju 88 describes the genesis and development of the construction of the most modern German bomber in early period of the Second World War. The author presents the history of the vario...

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History of Art

Asia

Museum on the Roof of the World Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet

Harris Clare E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213170, ISBN: HB: 9780226317472, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
328 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 19 colour plates, 50 halftones, 1 line illus.

For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics...

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America

Psychology

Madness Is Civilization When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948-1980

Staub Michael E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226214634, ISBN: HB: 9780226771472, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones

In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for America's problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscene social...

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Europe

Men from the Ministry How Britain Saved Its Heritage

Thurley Simon

ISBN: PB: 9780300205244, ISBN: HB: 9780300195729, Yale University Press, September 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 50 black&white illus.

Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments and historic sites and opened them to the public. Nothing like it had ever been seen before. Of course, collections of paintings, sculptures,...

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Aviation

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Monographs, No. 56 Vought F4U Corsair, Volume II

Szlagor Tomasz, Wieliczko Leszek A.

ISBN: PB: 9788364596087, Casemate, Kagero, September 2014
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 18 scale drawings, 112 black&white photos, 5 paintings

Not for sale in Poland! The second volume carries on the story of the F4U Corsair by examining its development and operational service in later stages of the World War Two. By early 1944 the Corsair well proved its worth in combat. Finally qualifie...

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Military

Europe

Monty's Men The British Army and the Liberation of Europe

Buckley John

ISBN: PB: 9780300205343, Yale University Press, August 2014
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain's fighting forces during World War Two, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of Hitler's Germany. Following Britain's military commanders and troops...

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