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Pyramids and Poppies The 1st South African Infantry Brigade in Libya, France and Flanders 1915-1919

Digby Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781910294628, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2015
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus., maps

This re-issue of Pyramids and Poppies coincides with the hundredth anniversary of the formation of the First SA Brigade, in August 1915. No book has been written that covers the whole spectrum of the 1st SA Brigade in the First World War. Pyramids an...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D Varyag

Draminski Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9788361220640, Casemate, Kagero, February 2015
58 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 3D colour artwork, close-up views, photos, scale line

Not for sale in Poland! In-depth look the Imperial Russian cruiser Varyag, famed for her crew's heroic defiance during the Russo-Japanese War, including design and construction notes, technical characteristics, data tables, machinery, propulsion, a...

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Europe

Stalin's World Dictating the Soviet Order

Davies Sarah, Harris James

ISBN: HB: 9780300182811, Yale University Press, December 2014
360 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Drawing on declassified material from Stalin's personal archive, this is the first systematic attempt to analyze how Stalin saw his world – both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context. Stalin rarely left his offi...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Auschwitz and After

Delbo Charlotte, Lamont Rosette C., Langer Lawrence L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300190779, Yale University Press, November 2014
384 pp., 21x14 cm

Written by a mamber of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the post-war experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies clas...

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America

Steaming to the North The First Summer Cruise of the US Revenue Cutter Bear, Alaska and Chukotka, Siberia, 1886

Donahue Katherine C., Switzer David C.

ISBN: HB: 9781602232389, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2014
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 74 halftones

On a rugged frontier where the ocean was king, most laws came from those who ruled the sea – and few ships policed the western Arctic like the revenue cutter Bear. Commissioned into the organization that would eventually become the US Coast Guard, th...

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Military

Wellington's Wars The Making of a Military Genius

Davies Huw

ISBN: PB: 9780300208658, ISBN: HB: 9780300164176, Yale University Press, October 2014
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington lives on in popular memory as the 'Invincible General', loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This incisive book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate – and controversial – n...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D Heavy Cruiser Lutzow

Draminski Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9788364596070, Casemate, Kagero, August 2014
80 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 140 renders

Not for sale in Poland! The text part of this book describes technical specifications of the ship and her operational history in detail. This is accompanied by more than 100 color illustrations showing Lutzow's appearance during Operation Rosselspr...

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Europe

Media Studies

Huns Have Got My Gramophone! Advertisements from the Great War

Doran Amanda-Jane, McCarthy Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781851243990, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2014
112 pp., 17x11 cm, 50 black&white illus.

Fountain-Pens – The Super-Pen for Our Super-Men Ladies! Learn To Drive! Your Country Needs Women Drivers! Do you drink German water? When Britain declared war on Germany in 1914, companies wasted no time in seizing the commercial opportunities presen...

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Aviation

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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Biography & Memoires

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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