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Stalin's Favorite: The Combat History of the 2nd Guards Tank Army from Kursk to Berlin Volume 2: From Lublin to Berlin, July 1944 - May 1945

Nebolsin Igor, Britton Stuart

ISBN: HB: 9781910777794, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2016
552 pp., 24.9x17 cm

The author Igor Nebolsin continues with his detailed chronology of the 2nd Guards Tank Armys combat operations. This volume includes the hard fighting outside of Warsaw in the summer of 1944; the 1st Belorussian Fronts winter offensive in the Vistula...

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America

Lincoln's Greatest Journey Sixteen Days that Changed a Presidency, March 24 - April 8, 1865

Trudeau Noah

ISBN: HB: 9781611213263, Casemate, Savas Beatie, September 2016
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 images, 11 maps

March 1865: The United States was at a crossroads and, truth be told, Abraham Lincoln was a sick man. "I am very unwell," he confided to a close acquaintance. A vast and terrible civil war was winding down, leaving momentous questions for a war-weary...

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Theirs is the Glory Arnhem, Hurst and Conflict on Film

Truesdale David, Esler Smith Allan

ISBN: HB: 9781911096634, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2016
392 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 65 colour photos, 275 black&white photos, 10 maps

Theirs is the Glory – the story of the Battle of Arnhem – was the biggest-grossing UK war film for a decade. Made by veterans of the battle in the late summer of 1945, it tells their story day by day: the pre-operation briefing, the drop, the race to...

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Biography & Memoires

America

American Ulysses A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

White Ronald C.

ISBN: HB: 9781400069026, Casemate, Presidio Press, September 2016
816 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 120 illus.

A major new biography of the Civil War general and American president, by the author of the New York Times bestseller, A. Lincoln. The dramatic story of one of America's greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a majo...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Camouflage and Markings of Commonwealth and Greek Armor in the Balkans Campaign April - May 1941

Plowman Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9788360672273, Casemate, Model Centrum Progres, September 2016
72 pp., 29x20.5 cm, 24 colour illus., 148 black&white illus.

Published to coincide with the 75th Anniversary of the battle of Greece, this is an authoritative guide to the armor deployed by Commonwealth and Greek troops in continental Greece and in Crete. Covering wide variety of armored vehicles fielded by Br...

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Fighting for the Empire An Irish Doctor's Adventures Through Imperial Campaigns and Two World Wars

Worsfold David

ISBN: HB: 9781781220061, Casemate, Sabrestorm Publishing, September 2016
240 pp., 23.6x16 cm, colour throughout

"Fighting for the Empire" is the story of a remarkable Irishman, a staunch Catholic from Galway who served the British Crown and its Empire for almost fifty years. His extraordinary military career took in countless conflicts including two World Wars...

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Biography & Memoires

Military

General Fox Conner Pershing's Chief of Operations and Eisenhower's Mentor

Rabalais Steven

ISBN: HB: 9781612003979, Casemate, September 2016
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 illus.

John J. Pershing considered Fox Conner to have been "a brilliant soldier" and "one of the finest characters our Army has ever produced." During World War I, General Conner served as chief of operations for the American Expeditionary Force in Europe....

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Political Science

America

Loving and Leaving Washington Reflections on Public Service

Yochelson John

ISBN: HB: 9781612348247, Casemate, Potomac Books, September 2016
296 pp., 23x15 cm

John Yochelson was seventeen when he first heard President Kennedy's call, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country". Responding to the call to public service, he had a front-row seat from the mid-1970s through...

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Europe

Photography

Liberation of Europe 1944-1945 The Photographers who Captured History from D-Day to Berlin

Barnes Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781612004020, Casemate, September 2016
336 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 400 illus.

The Second World War presented a huge range of challenges to press photography both in terms of its execution and getting the results in print. Life on the home front was the main subject until the invasion of France changed everything in 1944. Pho...

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Asia

Law and the Economy in Colonial India

Roy Tirthankar, Swamy Anand V.

ISBN: HB: 9780226387642, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 8 line drawings, 15 tables

Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India's economy has grown rapidly. To sustain growth and foreign investment over the long run requires a well-developed legal infrastructure for conducting business, including cheap and reliable contract enfor...

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