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Polonica

Frantic 7 The American Effort to Aid the Warsaw Uprising and the Origins of the Cold War, 1944

Radzilowski John, Szczesniak Jerzy

ISBN: HB: 9781612005607, Casemate, February 2018
224 pp., 21x15 cm, 40 colour and black&white illus.

The Frantic operations were conceived in late 1943 as Soviet advances made Soviet airfields accessible to Allied long-range aircraft. American aircraft could hit targets in central Europe, refuel and rearm at Soviet bases, then fly back to bomb addit...

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Criminology

Spies, Lies, and Citizenship The Hunt for Nazi Criminals

Barbier Mary K.

ISBN: HB: 9781612347271, Casemate, Potomac Books, February 2018
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 photographs, 1 drawing

In the 1970s, news broke that former Nazis had escaped prosecution and were living the good life in the United States. Outrage swept the nation, and the public outcry put extreme pressure on the U.S. government to investigate these claims and to depo...

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Forgotten Battle of the Kursk Salient 7th Guards Army's Stand Against Army Detachment Kempf

Zamulin Valeriy, Britton Stuart

ISBN: HB: 9781911512578, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
760 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 45 photos, 8 maps, 13 tables

Using the Russian Ministry of Defense's archives and Western sources, the author has produced a companion work to his masterful study of II SS Panzer Corps' offensive and the culminating clash at Prokhorovka. He lays out the German and Soviet plans f...

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America

Military

Death and Disease in the Civil War A Union Surgeon's Correspondence from Harpers Ferry to Richmond

Loperfido Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781611213591, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
168 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 35 images

Union surgeon James Dana Benton witnessed firsthand the suffering and death brought about by the ghastly wounds, infections, and diseases that wreaked havoc to both the Union and Confederate armies. A native of New York, Dr. Benton penned a series of...

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America

How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan Two Years in the Pashtun Homeland

Grindle Douglas

ISBN: HB: 9781612349541, Casemate, Potomac Books, January 2018
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 photos

In June 2011, the hallways of the district government center in rural Dand District, Afghanistan hummed with activity, with scores of local village elders visiting offices to appeal for assistance and handouts. Outside, insurgents had been pushed out...

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Military

Golden Fleece High-Risk Adventure at West Point

Carhart Tom

ISBN: HB: 9781612349107, Casemate, Potomac Books, January 2018
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm

In the fall of 1965, Army cadet Tom Carhart and five others at West Point Academy pulled off a feat of precision and ingenuity that made them famous: the theft of the Navy's Billy-Goat mascot from their rival academy, Annapolis, just before the bigge...

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Aviation

Biography & Memoires

First Kills The Illustrated Biography of Fighter Pilot Wladyslaw Gnys

Gnys Stefan

ISBN: HB: 9781612005560, Casemate, December 2017
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, highly illustrated

Polish pilot W³adek Gnyœ was credited with shooting down the first two German aircraft of World War II on September 1, 1939. On 2 September 1939, as Gnys' squadron took off near Krakow to intercept the German invaders, German Stuka pilot Frank Neuber...

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Biography & Memoires

Resisting Sherman A Confederate Surgeon's Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865

Robertson Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9781611213867, ISBN: HB: 9781611212600, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 maps, 45 images

Surprisingly little ink has been spilled on the final months of the Civil War in the Carolinas, despite its fascinating cast of characters, host of combats large and small, and its impact on the course of the war. Now in paperback, Resisting Sherman:...

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US Army Cooks' Manual Rations, Preparation, Recipes, Camp Cooking

ISBN: HB: 9781612004709, Casemate, December 2017
240 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm

An army marches on its stomach – so the classic saying goes. This book brings together excerpts from contemporary manuals for U.S. Army cooks to show how the U.S. Army fed and provisioned its troops in the early 20th century and lift the lid on what...

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Military

School in Arms Uppingham and the Great War

Halstead Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9781911512646, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
328 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 43 photos, 16 tables

For many people, their only knowledge of Uppingham's involvement in the Great War is through Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth and its account of her relationship with three men who went to the school and lost their lives during the war. In this boo...

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