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Armed Forces of Poland in the West 1939-46 Strategic Concepts, Planning, Limited Success but no Victory!

Peszke Michael Alfred

ISBN: PB: 9781908916549, ISBN: HB: 9781909982604, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2012
80 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 photos, 3 maps

This monograph focuses on the strategic concepts, planning and the limited success of the Polish military, leading up to the British Guarantee of March, 1939 and then throughout the Second World War. Recreated in France, the Polish Military concept...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

50 Fighter Planes

Fresno Carlos

ISBN: HB: 9788496935419, Casemate, Quiron, July 2012
336 pp., 34x32 cm, 543 colour and black&white illus.

This fantastic new volume from Quiron covers 50 fighter planes from around the world in stunning detail. "50 Fighter Planes" is an indispensable guide for modellers and aviation enthusiasts alike.

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1st Bedfordshires Part One: Mons to the Somme

Fuller Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780956269652, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, July 2012
256 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In August 1914 the 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment were amongst the small professional British Army who gathered and prepared for a war that would "be over by Christmas". With a long and proud history, dating back to 1688, the regiment's fighting...

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Fighting Units in Color, No. 03 VF-17 Jolly Rogers - Early US Navy Corsair Units: VF-12 and VF-17

Jarski Adam, Kolacha Zbigniew

ISBN: PB: 9788372372291, Casemate, AJ Press, June 2012
48 pp., 28x21 cm, 122 black&white photos, 31 colour photos, 22 drawings

Not for sale in Poland! This book was published as part of the "war" against what is probably the most permanent myth of the US Navy aviation units: the myth of red outlines on US national markings of VF-17 aircraft during the first (October – Nove...

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Zhitomir-Berdichev Volume 1: German Operations West of Kiev 24 December 1943 - 31 January 1944

Barratt Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9781907677663, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2012
472 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, 140 colour maps in separately-bound mapbook

On 24 December 1943, the Red Army launched the first of a series of winter offensives against the German Army Group South under von Manstein, the overall object of which was to liberate western Ukraine from occupation. This first offensive is known t...

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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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Biography & Memoires

With the Red Devils at Arnhem Personal Experiences with the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade 1944

Swiecicki Marek

ISBN: PB: 9781907677342, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2012
96 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 22 photos, 2 maps

The Battle of Arnhem is a much-studied and discussed battle, with an uninterrupted flow of books being published about it. Helion are bringing back into print a fascinating eyewitness account that has remained overlooked since it was last published s...

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12th & 15th Air Forces

Paloque Gerard

ISBN: PB: 9782352502104, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, January 2012
128 pp., 25x21 cm, 400 colour profiles, 50 photographs

Created in 1942, and immediately placed under the command of General Doolittle, the 12th Air Force was responsible for conducting Operation Torch on November 8, 1942. The unit served with the Northwest African Air Forces from February to December 19...

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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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Air Battles, No. 18 Objective: the Caucasus! - The Luftwaffe Operations in the Southern Sector of the Eastern Front, May-August 1942

Murawski Marek J.

ISBN: PB: 9788362878031, Casemate, Kagero, November 2011
72 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, illus.

Not for sale in Poland! Located on the peripheries of Turkey, Iran, and Russia, and rich in natural resources such as oil, coal and peat, the Caucasus has been an arena for political, military, religious, and cultural rivalries and expansionism for...

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