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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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Top Drawings, No. 22 German Pocket Battleship Admiral Graf Spee

Draminski Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9788364596308, Casemate, Kagero, April 2015
24 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 23 drawings sheets, A4 colour profiles, 2 double B

Not for sale in Poland! The Deutschland-class ships were the first heavy vessels of the German Navy after the First World War. In Germany they were classified as "Panzerschiffe", but in other countries the term "pocket battleships" was very popular...

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German Railway Gun: Leopold 28 cm K5 (E)

Wijnstok Jan Coen

ISBN: PB: 9788360672242, Casemate, Model Centrum Progres, April 2015
56 pp., 29x20.5 cm

Technical/historical background by the Dutch expert, illustrated with 31 b&w period photos and a selection of 224 detailed walkaround photographs highlighting in color all exterior and interior details of the World's only preserved K5(E) railway guns...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Working in the Killing Fields Forensic Science in Bosnia

Ball Howard

ISBN: HB: 9781612347189, Casemate, Potomac Books, April 2015
232 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 illus.

While the specificities of individual wars vary, they share a ubiquitous aftermath: the task of finding and identifying the "disappeared". The Bosnian war of the early 1990s that destroyed the sovereign state of Yugoslavia is no exception. In Working...

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Sudden Justice America's Secret Drone Wars

Woods Chris

ISBN: HB: 9781849044028, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Sudden Justice" explores the secretive history of the United States' use of armed drones and their key role not only on today's battlefields, but also in a covert targeted killing project that has led to the deaths of thousand...

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Psychology of Strategy Exploring Rationality in the Vietnam War

Payne Kenneth

ISBN: HB: 9781849043373, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! How do strategists decide what they wish to achieve through war, and how they might accomplish it? And why does their understanding of violence regularly turn out to be wrong? In seeking answers to these questions Kenneth Payne...

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Europe

France 1940 Defending the Republic

Nord Philip G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300189872, Yale University Press, March 2015
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm

In this revisionist account of France's crushing defeat in 1940, a world authority on French history argues that the nation's downfall has long been misunderstood. Philip Nord assesses France's diplomatic and military preparations for war with German...

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Samurai and the Culture of Japan's Great Peace

Drixler Fabian, Fleming William D., Wheeler Robert George

ISBN: PB: 9781933789033, Yale University Press, March 2015
128 pp., 25x15 cm, 150 colour illus.

Through artifacts from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and other collections at Yale University, this lavishly illustrated volume takes readers on a journey into Japan's early modern cultural and political history. It also offers tantalizi...

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Shadow Factories Britain's Production Facilities and the Second World War

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781910294468, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2015
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

Wartime is costly. Whilst the human cost is a burden which remains part of our every waking thoughts for many years after the end of the conflict, the physical cost, at least in some cases, is easier to deal with. Some, if not most of the physical c...

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Race to the Rhine Liberating France and the Low Countries, 1944-1945

Marriott Leo, Forty Simon

ISBN: HB: 9781612002941, Casemate, March 2015
192 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

The speed of the German Blitzkrieg in 1940 and the relative ease with which they brushed aside Allied defenses meant four years of occupation. But in June 1944 – this time with American forces – the Allies finally returned for a rematch. The destruct...

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