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War in the North Sea The Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy 1914-1918

Barry Quintin

ISBN: HB: 9781911096382, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
456 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 100 black&white illus., 15 maps

For years before the outbreak of the First World War, it was the expectation of most officers of the Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy that very shortly thereafter, a decisive fleet action would be fought. This had a major impact on the strateg...

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Biography & Memoires

General and the President MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War

Brands H. W.

ISBN: HB: 9780385540575, Casemate, Presidio Press, November 2016
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, illus.

From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the post-World War II order....

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History of Art

Sovereign Artist Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV

Burchard Wolf, Le Brun Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781911300052, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, November 2016
272 pp., 28x24 cm, 200 colour illus.

In his joint capacities of Premier peintre du roi, director of the Gobelins manufactory and rector of the Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Le Brun exercised a previously unprecedented influence on the production of the visual arts – so mu...

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Military

War in the East A Military History of the Russo-Turkish War 1877-78

Barry Quintin

ISBN: PB: 9781911096696, ISBN: HB: 9781907677113, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 266 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 25 maps

When Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire in April 1877, it was the fifth time during the nineteenth century that hostilities had broken out between the two empires. On this occasion the other Great Powers had done all they could to prevent it,...

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Eureka Stockade A Ferocious and Bloody Battle

Blake Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9781922132048, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
236 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

"Eureka Stockade: A Ferocious and Bloody Battle", is the epic account of the battle for the Eureka Stockade, an iconic moment in Australian history. On the chilly dawn morning of 3 December 1854 British soldiers and police of the Victorian colonial g...

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Contemporary Art

Photography

Erwin Blumenfeld From Dada to Vogue

Blumenfeld Yorick

ISBN: PB: 9780993078682, Casemate, Osborne Samuel Gallery, October 2016
120 pp., 26.5x20.5 cm, illus.

The remarkable life and career of pioneering photographer Erwin Blumenfeld has been well documented. A pre-war visit to New York established his reputation, once he returned in 1941 he rapidly became one of the best known and most creative fashion ph...

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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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Fashion

1960s Look Recreating the Fashions of the Sixties

Brown Mike

ISBN: PB: 9781781220078, Casemate, Sabrestorm Publishing, September 2016
144 pp., 28x22.9 cm, colour photos throughout

The 1960s, known as the "Swinging Sixties", are recognised as a landmark decade both by those who lived through them and those who look back in awe at the revolutionary changes in fashion, style and sexual freedom. Continuing interest and appreciat...

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Military

Civil War Captain and His Lady A True Story of Love, Courtship, and Combat

Barr Gene

ISBN: HB: 9781611212907, Casemate, Savas Beatie, August 2016
360 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 maps, 36 black&white illus.

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Biography & Memoires

Aviation

Ruddy Awful Waste Eric Lock DSO, DFC & Bar: The Brief Life of a Battle of Britain Ace

Brew Steve, Bradbury Mike

ISBN: HB: 9780993415234, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, August 2016
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 70 illus.

In early 1939, 19-year-old Salopian Eric Lock joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve to fulfil his dream of flying. Within eighteen months, he found himself pitted against one of the largest air forces in the world, fighting for the survival of his homelan...

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