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Military Transformed? Adaptation and Innovation in the British Military, 1792-1945

LoCicero Michael, Mahoney Ross

ISBN: PB: 9781911096702, ISBN: HB: 9781909384460, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2014
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 tables

Between 1792 and 1945, the character of warfare changed. Battalions standing shoulder to shoulder during the Napoleonic era gave way to the industrialised, modern armies of the First and Second World Wars. The organisation and operational methods of...

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Biography & Memoires

Mosquito Down! The Extraordinary Memoir of a Second World War Bomber Command Pilot on the Run in Germany and Holland

Dell Frank, Piper Brett

ISBN: HB: 9780992620721, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, June 2014
208 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Frank Dell's experience as a Second World War pilot with the Royal Air Force's Light Night Striking Force takes an even more dramatic turn when his Mosquito is shot down over Germany on the night of 14/15 October 1944. In Mosquito Down Frank recounts...

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World

Making of the First World War

Beckett Ian F. W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300206647, ISBN: HB: 9780300162028, Yale University Press, April 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Nearly a century has passed since the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Ferdinand, yet the repercussions of the devastating global conflict that followed echo still. In this provocative book, historian Ian Beckett turns the spotlight on twe...

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America

Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure that Shocked Washington City

Schultz Nancy Lusignan

ISBN: PB: 9780300205893, ISBN: HB: 9780300118469, Yale University Press, March 2014
288 pp., 23.6x15.7 cm, 24 illus.

In the spring of 1824 in the young capital city of Washington, D. C. , Ann Mattingly, widowed sister of the city's mayor, was miraculously cured of a ravaging cancer. Just days, or perhaps even hours, from her predicted demise, she arose from her sic...

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America

My Bondage and My Freedom

Douglass Frederick, Blight David W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300190595, Yale University Press, March 2014
432 pp., 21x14 cm

Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation's enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

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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Modelling - Military Drawings

Monographs, No. 53 Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate

Weliczko Leszek

ISBN: PB: 9788362878871, Casemate, Kagero, January 2014
92 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 8 painting schemes, 14 artworks

Not for sale in Poland! The monograph on the Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate, WW2 Japanese fighter plane, discusses its origins and development (including subsequent modifications and variants: Ki-106, Ki-113, Ki-116, Ki-84R, Ki-84P and Ki-84N), camouflage a...

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Mini Topcolors, No. 40 Pacific Lightnings, Part 1

Goralczyk Maciej

ISBN: PB: 9788362878888, Casemate, Kagero, December 2013
16 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, highly illustrated

Not for sale in Poland! Two decal sheets with 1:72, 1:48 and 1:32 individual markings for 8 P-38 Lightnings with sexy nose art. The decal sheets were printed by Cartograf. Each painting scheme is depicted on beautifully drawn 4-view colour profiles...

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Mini Topcolors, No. 39 Captured Panzers - German Vehicles in Allied Service

Wrobel Arkadiusz

ISBN: PB: 9788362878895, Casemate, Kagero, December 2013
16 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, highly illustrated with decal sheet

Not for sale in Poland! German armoured fighting vehicles captured by Allied troops and used against their former owners. Included in the latest Mini top colors is a decal sheet was printed by Cartograf. The authors selected the following vehicles...

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Europe

Making England Western Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture

Makdisi Saree

ISBN: PB: 9780226923147, ISBN: HB: 9780226923130, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

The central argument of Edward Said's "Orientalism" is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. Saree Makdisi directly challenges that pr...

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