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Super Drawings in 3D Japanese Battleship Kongo

Nowak Grzegorz, Goralski Waldemar

ISBN: PB: 9788361220152, Casemate, Kagero, April 2015
56 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 104 renders, 1 fold-out poster, 2 fold-out plans

Not for sale in Poland! Kongo, meaning indestructable, was the Imperial Japanese Navy's first super-dreadnought type battlecruiser, and the name-ship of her class, which also included the Hiei, Kirishima, and Haruna. She was upgraded to a battleshi...

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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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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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Europe

Stalin and the Lubianka A Documentary History of the Political Police and Security Organs in the Soviet Union, 1922-1953

Shearer David R., Khaustov Vladimir

ISBN: HB: 9780300171891, Yale University Press, February 2015
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization and fortunes of the politica...

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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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Modelling - Military Drawings

Serbian Army in the Wars for Independence Against Turkey, 1876-1878

Babac Dusan

ISBN: HB: 9781909982246, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2015
280 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

The Wars for Independence, also called the First and the Second Serbo-Turkish Wars 1876-1878, were the first military conflicts in the modern history of the Serbian state, after which the Principality of Serbia gained full independence at the Berlin...

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Medieval

Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages

Mills Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780226169125, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
400 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 11 colour plates, 78 halftones

During the Middle Ages in Europe, some sexual and gendered behaviors were labeled "sodomitical"‌ or evoked the use of ambiguous phrases such as the "unmentionable vice" or the "sin against nature". How, though, did these categories enter the field of...

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Super Drawings in 3D Heavy Cruiser Admiral Hipper

Goralski Waldemar

ISBN: PB: 9788364596148, Casemate, Kagero, January 2015
80 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 1x double B2 sheet with scale drawings

Not for sale in Poland! On 18 June 1935 a bilateral agreement between Great Britain and Germany, which set German naval strength at a ratio of 1/3 of the size of the Royal Navy was signed. Hence the Germans were allowed to maintain the fleet of the...

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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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