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Modelling - Military Drawings

Monographs, No. 62 Arado Ar 234 Blitz, Volume 2

Murawski Marek J.

ISBN: PB: 9788364596650, Casemate, Kagero, July 2015
120 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 35 archival photos, 100 redenders, 24 pages pages A4, and 3 pages format A2 drawings with technical data, 2 drawings sheets A4, scale 1:72, 1 double B2 sheet with drawings sheets, scale 1:32

Not for sale in Poland! Tests with the Arado Ar 234 prototypes demonstrated that straight wings retained their good aerodynamic characteristics only at speeds below 800 kph. Near-supersonic flights demanded a completely new approach to wing geometr...

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Asia

History of Art

Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting Kano Hogai and the Search for Images

Foxwell Chelsea

ISBN: HB: 9780226110806, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
296 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 34 colour plates, 70 halftones

The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world's fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of international popularity. With that popularity, however, came criticism, as Western writers began to lament a pe...

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Monographs, No. 61 Arado Ar 234 Blitz, Volume 1

Murawski Marek J.

ISBN: PB: 9788364596346, Casemate, Kagero, June 2015
128 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 10 painting schemes, 93 archival photographs, 16 color photos, A2 sheet with drawings 1/48, 2 double B2 sheet with drawings 1/32, 2 pages A4 sheet of scale drawings 1/72

Not for sale in Poland! The new edition of Arado Ar 234 monograph devoted to the history of the Arado Ar 234 Blitz, the first German jet bomber and reconnaissance plane. The book has been supplemented with new pictures and include a large number of...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

Marshal K. K. Rokossovsky The Red Army's Gentleman Commander

Sokolov Boris

ISBN: HB: 9781909982109, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2015
496 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white photos, 16 maps

The author Boris Sokolov offers this first objective and intriguing biography of Marshal Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky, who is widely considered one of the Red Army's top commanders in the Second World War. Yet even though he brilliantly ser...

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Monographs, No. 60 Dornier Do 17/Do 215

Murawski Marek J.

ISBN: PB: 9788364596339, Casemate, Kagero, May 2015
136 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 2 double A3 sheet with drawings, 24 pages A4 sheets

Not for sale in Poland! The monograph on the WW2 German bombers Dornier Do 17 and Dornier Do 215 discusses their design, development and operational history. Each variant is specified and comprehensively described with coverage of changes made in i...

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Monographs, No. 03 Messerschmitt Bf 109, Volume I

Murawski Marek J., Asen Atanasov

ISBN: HB: 9788364596384, Casemate, Kagero, May 2015
192 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 108 archival photographs, 103 renders, 18 paintings

Not for sale in Poland! The monograph devoted to the early versions of the Messerschmitt Bf 109, the most famous WW2 German fighter, discusses its origins and development with coverage of changes made in its first prototypes, A-D variants and their...

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Europe

Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval Italy c. 1100 to c. 1440

Romano Dennis

ISBN: HB: 9780300169072, Yale University Press, April 2015
280 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 30 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.

Cathedrals and civic palaces stand to this day as symbols of the dynamism and creativity of the city-states that flourished in Italy during the Middle Ages. "Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval Italy" argues that the bustling yet impermanent sites o...

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Military

Mud, Blood and Determination The History of the 46th (North Midland) Division in the Great War

Peaple Simon

ISBN: HB: 9781910294666, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2015
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 colour maps, 2 tables, 50 black&white illus.

This groundbreaking modern history of the 46th (North Midland) Division draws upon a vast array of largely neglected sources from a variety of archives, and challenges some comfortable assumptions. University historians' increasingly positive views...

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Jewish Studies

America

Metropolitan Jews Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit

Corwin Berman Lila

ISBN: HB: 9780226247830, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

In this provocative and accessible urban history, Lila Corwin Berman considers the role that Detroit's Jews played in the city's well-known narrative of migration and decline. Taking its cue from social critics and historians who have long looked tow...

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America

My Dear Molly The Civil War Letters of Captain James Love

Kodner Molly

ISBN: HB: 9781883982829, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, April 2015
528 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 140 halftones

The Missouri History Museum archives are bursting with collections that provide firsthand accounts of both historic and everyday moments, but when archivist M. E. Kodner came across the James Love letters, she knew she had discovered something extrao...

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