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Air Battles, No. 14 The Luftwaffe Over El-Alamein
ISBN: PB: 9788361220688, Casemate, Kagero, December 2010
56 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 56 black&white photos, 10 colour profiles
Not for sale in Poland! The Battle of El Alamein, fought in the deserts of North Africa, is seen as one of the decisive victories of World War Two. Primarily fought between two of the outstanding commanders of World War Two, Rommel and Montgomery,...
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£15,00
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Modelmania, No. 09 F4u-1, -4 Corsair
ISBN: PB: 9788372372048, Casemate, AJ Press, December 2010
128 pp., 29.5x21 cm, black&white and colour photos, drawings, scale plans, colour profiles
Not for sale in Poland! The book starts with a brief historical description of the airplane, its design, development and combat service history and numerous photos covering both wartime shots and preserved aircraft in full-colour. Worth attention a...
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£27,00
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Air Battles, No. 15 Thunderbolts of the U.S. 8th Army Air Force: March 1943 - February 1944
ISBN: PB: 9788361220718, Casemate, Kagero, December 2010
78 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 80 black&white photos, 10 colour profiles
Not for sale in Poland! Book contents: - Cross-Channel Ventures - Extended Range - Change of Strategy - The Big Week "Thunderbolts of the U.S. 8th Army Air Force" describes the use of P-47 Thunderbolt fighters in many air operations over Europe bet...
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£15,00
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60 Years Of Combat Aircraft - from WWI to Vietnam War 1914-1974
ISBN: HB: 9782352501176, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, December 2010
164 pp., 32x23.5 cm, 400 profiles & illustrations
From the Battle of the Marne to the end of the Vietnam War, this "first half" of the 20th Century must undeniably be considered as the period of greatest development for aerial warfare. With the 400 profiles and illustrations contained in this book...
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£37,00
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Gun Power, No. 29 Schneidereca, St. Echamond
ISBN: PB: 9788372371966, Casemate, AJ Press, December 2010
136 pp., 29.5x21 cm, illus.
Not for sale in Poland! The monograph tells the story of the French armour beginnings, covering the first and second French tanks ever produced, the Schneider CA and the St. Chamond, and describes their combat use as well as the development of doctr...
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£25,00
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Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness
ISBN: PB: 9780226907758, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Until the nineteenth century, the Russian legal system was subject to an administrative hierarchy headed by the tsar, and the courts were expected to enforce, not interpret the law. Richard S. Wortman here traces the first professional class of legal...
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£28,00
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Clicko The Wild Dancing Bushman
ISBN: PB: 9780226647425, ISBN: HB: 9780226647418, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
During the 1920s and '30s, Franz Taibosh – whose stage name was Clicko – performed in front of millions as one of the stars of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Prior to his fame in the United States, Taibosh toured the world as the "...
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£13,50
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£51,00
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Enlightenment A Genealogy
ISBN: PB: 9780226184494, ISBN: HB: 9780226184470, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
184 pp., 21.5x13 cm
What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of "the Enlightenment" first em...
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£23,00
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£56,50
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Forgotten Frontier A History of the Sixteenth-Century Ibero-African Frontier
ISBN: PB: 9780226330310, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
296 pp., 21.5x13 cm, 9 figures, 4 tables, 1 halftone
The sixteenth-century Mediterranean witnessed the expansion of both European and Middle Eastern civilizations, under the guises of the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman empire. Here, Andrew C. Hess considers the relations between these two dynasties...
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£28,00
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Question of Command Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq
ISBN: PB: 9780300168075, Yale University Press, November 2010
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 maps, 20 black&white illus.
According to the prevailing view of counterinsurgency, the key to defeating insurgents is selecting methods that will win the people's hearts and minds. The hearts-and-minds theory permeates not only most counterinsurgency books of the twenty-first c...
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£29,00
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