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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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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Story of ESCI 1968-1999

Carbonel Jean-Christophe

ISBN: PB: 9782352503101, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, February 2014
84 pp., 24x20 cm

This well-known Italian brand will remain famous for having introduced many innovations in the world of modelling, starting with the wide dissemination of board designs. ESCI were originally known for their offerings in the very popular 1/72 scale. T...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D Japanese Heavy Cruiser Takao, 1937-1946

Skulski Janusz

ISBN: PB: 9788362878901, Casemate, Kagero, February 2014
92 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 3D colour artwork, close-up views, photographs, scale line drawings

Not for sale in Poland! Takao was the first of four Takao-class heavy cruisers designed to be an improvement over the previous Myoko-class design. The My?k? had proved to be unstable and required modifications, which were incorporated into the Taka...

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Aviation

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Units, No. 07 JG 53 "Pik As" - The Ace of Spades

Murawski Marek J.

ISBN: PB: 9788362878949, Casemate, Kagero, February 2014
28 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 41 archive photos, 4 painting schemes, 10 throws of painting schemes

Not for sale in Poland! The book presents the history and combat operations of JG 53 "Pik As" – one of the Luftwaffe's most famous fighter wings. A collection of forty original photographs is supplemented by a list of all JG 53 commanders, details...

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Monographs, No. 54 Junkers Ju 87D/G, Volume I

Murawski Marek J., Rys Marek

ISBN: PB: 9788362878932, Casemate, Kagero, February 2014
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, painting schemes, 110 archive photos, 77 renders, 4 A4 sheet of scale drawings

Not for sale in Poland! This monograph of the most famous dive bomber of World War II focuses on the design and combat operations of the late marks of the Stuka: the Ju 87D dive bomber and strike aircraft and the Ju 87G tank buster. In addition to...

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Biography & Memoires

Military

Devil's General The Life of Hyazinth von Strachwitz - "The Panzer Graf"

Bagdonas Raymond

ISBN: PB: 9781612004327, ISBN: HB: 9781612002224, Casemate, February 2014
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This is the story of the most highly decorated German regimental commander of World War II, known as the "Panzer Graf" (Armoured Count). An aristocratic Silesian, whose ancestors had faced the Mongols at Leignitz, Strachwitz first won the Iron Cross...

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Middle East

Islam

Secularizing Islamists? Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan

Iqtidar Humeira

ISBN: PB: 9780226141732, ISBN: HB: 9780226384689, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
232 pp., 23.1x16 cm

"Secularizing Islamists?" provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama'at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama'at-ud-Da'wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. Basing...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters Gender, Secrecy, and Fraternity in Italian Masonic Lodges

Mahmud Lilith

ISBN: PB: 9780226095868, ISBN: HB: 9780226095721, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From its traces in cryptic images on the dollar bill to Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol", Freemasonry has long been one of the most romanticized secret societies in the world. But a simple fact escapes most depictions of this elite brotherhood: There ar...

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Medieval

Christianity

Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities

Lassner Jacob

ISBN: PB: 9780226143187, ISBN: HB: 9780226471075, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
336 pp., 23x15 cm

In "Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam", Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined – and continues to define today – the political and cultural interaction among the three Abrahamic faiths. Lassner l...

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America

Frontier Seaport Detroit's Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepot

Cangany Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780226096704, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 1 map, 2 tables

Detroit's industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today's troubles notwithstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the eighteenth century, when the city was the cent...

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