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Towards a Wider War British Strategic Decision-Making and Military Effectiveness in Scandinavia, 1939-40

Moretz Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9781911096368, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
424 pp., 24.4x17 cm, 18 black&white illus.

"Towards a Wider War" examines British policy, grand strategy, military operations and tactical execution in the critical period of the "Phoney War" – culminating in Scandinavia and the forlorn campaign in Norway. Recognizing that political and milit...

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Douglas MacArthur American Warrior

Herman Arthur

ISBN: PB: 9780812985108, Casemate, Presidio Press, February 2017
960 pp., 23.5x15.5 cm, maps, colour illus.

Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by George Armstrong Custer and Robert E. Lee. But he was also o...

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Top Drawings, No. 31 Yahagi - Japanese Light Cruiser

Motyka Mariusz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596964, Casemate, Kagero, February 2017
24 pp., 29.7x21 cm

Not for sale in Poland! Yahagi, the second Japanese warship of that name, was the third of the four Agano-class vessels (the other three being Agano, Noshiro and Sakawa). Construction of the Agano-class cruisers was approved by the Japanese parliam...

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Top Drawings, No. 35 German Battleship Sharnhorst

Motyka Mariusz

ISBN: PB: 9788365437105, Casemate, Kagero, February 2017
28 pp., 29.7x21 cm

Not for sale in Poland! The German battleship Scharnhorst was built at Wilhelmshaven shipyard. It was initially designed as a heavy cruiser, then battleship, matching up to French Dunkerque-class ship. The ship was laid down on 15 June 1935, launch...

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Top Drawings, No. 38 Akizuki - The Japanese Destroyer

Motyka Mariusz

ISBN: PB: 9788365437266, Casemate, Kagero, February 2017
24 pp., 29.7x21 cm

Not for sale in Poland! Akizuki was the lead ship of her class of destroyers in the Japanese Imperial Navy considered by many to be among the best Japanese warships of that type in service during World War II. Those longrange vessels were fast, hea...

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Top Drawings, No. 40 German Battleship Gneisenau

Motyka Mariusz

ISBN: PB: 9788365437297, Casemate, Kagero, February 2017
24 pp., 29.7x21 cm

Not for sale in Poland! The contract for construction of the Panzerschiff E (Ersatz Hessen) was signed with the Deutsche Werke shipyard in Kiel on January 25, 1934. The ship was laid down on February 14 of the same year, but the construction proces...

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Lobositz to Leuthen Horace St Paul and the Seven Years War, 1756-1757

Cogswell Neil

ISBN: HB: 9781911096672, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
536 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 219 maps, plans, charts, diagrams

In 1751, at the age of 22 and then a law student, Horace St Paul had, as he described it, "a difference" with an older man over the favour of a lady. This "difference" resulted in the death of the older man in an impromptu duel to which there were no...

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Blood in the Forest The End of the Second World War in the Courland Pocket

Hunt Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9781911512066, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 maps, 19 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

"Blood in the Forest" tells the brutal story of the forgotten battles of the final months of the Second World War. While the eyes of the world were on Hitler's bunker, more than half a million men fought six cataclysmic battles along a front line of...

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Dirty War Rhodesia and Chemical Biological Warfare 1975-1980

Cross Glenn

ISBN: PB: 9781911512127, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
248 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 33 illus.

"Dirty War" is the first comprehensive look at the Rhodesia's top secret use of chemical and biological weapons (CBW) during their long counterinsurgency against native African nationalists. Having declared its independence from Great Britain in 1965...

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Top Drawings, No. 39 Sd.Kfz. 121 Panzer II - All Versions and "Luchs"

Karmieh Samir, Gladysiak Lukasz

ISBN: PB: 9788365437273, Casemate, Kagero, February 2017
24 pp., 29.7x21 cm

Not for sale in Poland! In July of 1934, the Waffenamt (Ordnance Department) ordered the development of an armored vehicle 10 tons in weight and armed with 20mm automatic cannon. In early 1935, number of manufacturers including Krupp AG, MAN (chass...

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