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Douglas MacArthur American Warrior

Herman Arthur

ISBN: PB: 9780812985108, Casemate, Presidio Press, February 2017
960 pp., 23.5x15.5 cm, maps, colour illus.

Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by George Armstrong Custer and Robert E. Lee. But he was also o...

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Blood in the Forest The End of the Second World War in the Courland Pocket

Hunt Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9781911512066, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 maps, 19 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

"Blood in the Forest" tells the brutal story of the forgotten battles of the final months of the Second World War. While the eyes of the world were on Hitler's bunker, more than half a million men fought six cataclysmic battles along a front line of...

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Ultimate Guide to the Gettysburg Address

Hirsch David, Van Haften Dan

ISBN: PB: 9781611213331, Casemate, Savas Beatie, January 2017
64 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, colour illus.

Abraham Lincoln's November 19, 1863, Gettysburg Address is generally recognized as one of the greatest leadership speeches ever written. The Ultimate Guide to the Gettysburg Address explains the 272-word speech more thoroughly than any book previousl...

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Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes Back, June 1982 - December 1986

Hooton E. R., Nadimi Farzin, Cooper Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781911096573, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 135 colour illus., 5 maps, 5 charts

The Iran-Iraq War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century and accidentally created the current nightmare of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. There have been many books on the conflict, but this is the first detailed military history u...

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War On Two Fronts An Infantry Commander's War in Iraq and the Pentagon

Hughes Christopher P.

ISBN: PB: 9781612004310, Casemate, January 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 colour illus.

Shortly after the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the war in Iraq became the most confusing in U.S. history, the high command not knowing who to fight, who was attacking Coalition troops, and who among the different Iraqi groups were fighting each...

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Ceramics in America 2016 Ceramics in America Annual

Hunter Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780982772287, Casemate, Chipstone Foundation, January 2017
232 pp., 28.6x21.3 cm, 280 colour illus.

Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technol...

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Reconographers Intelligence and Reconnaissance in British Tank Operations on the Western Front 1916-18

Hardy Colin

ISBN: HB: 9781911096344, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2016
144 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 34 photos, 9 maps, 10 pencil sketches, 3 diags

This is the first book devoted to the subject of reconnaissance in the nascent Tank Corps in the Great War. It is a neglected field in spite of passing references to reconnaissance in a number of early books on the history of the Tank Corps. This is...

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Rout of the German Forces in Belorussia Operation Bagration, 23 June - 29 August 1944

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9781911096597, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2016
416 pp., 24.4x17 cm, 4 maps

"The Rout of the German-Fascist Troops in Belorussia in 1944" covers the Red Army's Belorussian strategic operation: the linchpin of the 10 major Soviet offensive efforts launched that year to clear the country of the invader. During the course of th...

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Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980 - May 1982

Hooton E. R., Nadimi Farzin, Cooper Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781911096566, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2016
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 135 colour illus., 5 maps, 5 charts

The Iran-Iraq War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century and accidentally created the current nightmare of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. There have been many books on the conflict, but this is the first detailed military history u...

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Bringing Heaven to Earth Silver Jewellery and Ornament in the Late Qing Dynasty

Herridge Elizabeth, Wood Francis

ISBN: PB: 9780995557703, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, November 2016
200 pp., 28x24 cm, 150 illus.

The prowess of Chinese creative abilities in the decorative arts in the 19th and early 20th centuries was well known globally, but, while much has been written about Chinese textiles and on the influence of the East on European styles of the time, th...

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