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Black Beret: The History of South Africa's Armoured Forces Volume 1: Beginnings to the Invasion of Madagascar 1942

Steenkamp Willem

ISBN: HB: 9781910294680, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2015
608 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 maps, 275 black&white illus.

Volume 1 of "The Black Beret" starts with the early history of South Africa and ends with the invasion of Madagascar by the South African Forces during WWII. This volume covers topics such as how armour came to the battlefield, the use of horses vs...

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Polonica

Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 3: The Documentary Companion, Tables, Orders and Reports Prepared by Participating Red Army Forces

Glantz David M.

ISBN: HB: 9781909982116, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2014
568 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 maps

Volume 3, the Documentary Companion to Barbarossa Derailed, contains the documentary evidence for the two volumes of narrative. In addition to key Fuhrer Directives issued by Adolf Hitler to provide direction to his forces during the Barbarossa Campa...

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Contemporary Art

Babble

Saatchi Charles

ISBN: HB: 9781861543370, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, January 2014
310 pp., 21.1x16.3 cm, full-colour illus.

Charles Saatchi – famously – refuses to be interviewed, but his 60+ essays in "Babble" give a revealing insight into his forthright and often controversial views on a wide-ranging number of topics. Saatchi has been one of the moving forces of the mod...

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America

Barksdale's Charge The True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863

Tucker Phillip Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9781612002279, Casemate, August 2013
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

<p>On the third day of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee launched a magnificent attack. For pure pageantry it was unsurpassed, and it also marked the centerpiece of the war, both time-wise and in terms of how the conflict had turned a corner – from per...

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Military

Blood, Steel and Myth The II. SS-Panzer-Korps and the Road to Prochorowka, July 1943

Nipe George M.

ISBN: HB: 9780974838946, Casemate, RZM Publishing, March 2013
496 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 300 black&white photos, 13 maps

George Nipe, author of Last Victory in Russia and Decision in the Ukraine, has written a revealing and unprecedented re-analysis of the II. SS-Panzer-Korps' operations during the Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943. Unlike all previous books on the...

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Contemporary Art

Be the Worst You Can Be Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue

Saatchi Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781419703737, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, April 2012
160 pp., 21.2x15.2 cm, 175 two-colour illus.

Charles Saatchi founded the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency in 1970, which grew to become the largest of its kind in the world. At the same time he started collecting art and, later, opened his first gallery in London. He championed young Britis...

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Military

Polonica

Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 2: The German Offensives on the Flanks and the Third Soviet Counteroffensive, 25 August–10 September 1941

Glantz David M.

ISBN: PB: 9781911096108, ISBN: HB: 9781906033903, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2012
456 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white photos, 50 maps

At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorised infantry of German Army Group Centre's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler and most German officers and soldiers believed would be...

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Aviation

Baptism of Fire The First Combat Experiences of the Royal Hungarian Air Force and Slovak Air Force, March 1939

Stenge Csaba B.

ISBN: PB: 9781906033934, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2011
136 pp., 24.8x18.4 cm, 150 black&white photos, 8 colour aircraft profiles, 1 map

This story is a short but devastating episode from the turbulent history of Central Europe in the 20th Century, one that is hardly known outside the countries concerned. This short conflict was hushed up even in the German media in 1939, because the...

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Military

Polonica

Black Devils' March - A Doomed Odyssey The 1st Polish Armoured Division 1939-45

McGilvray Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781906033538, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2010
160 pp., 30.5x22.2 cm, 94 photos, 9 maps

The Black Devils March is an account of how the 1st (and only) Polish Armoured Division in the West under the leadership of General Stanislaw Maczek, arose out of the ashes of defeat and while attempting to avoid the internal politics of the Polish G...

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Aviation

Boeing 707, Kc-135 In Civilian and Military Versions

Breffort Dominique

ISBN: HB: 9782352500759, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, December 2008
212 pp., 29.6x21 cm, illustrated throughout

Although the Boeing 707 is known worldwide as the machine which took civil aviation from the piston engine era into that of the jet engine, what is very often not known is that its existence was only made possible by the success of its immediate pred...

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