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How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan Two Years in the Pashtun Homeland

Grindle Douglas

ISBN: HB: 9781612349541, Casemate, Potomac Books, January 2018
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 photos

In June 2011, the hallways of the district government center in rural Dand District, Afghanistan hummed with activity, with scores of local village elders visiting offices to appeal for assistance and handouts. Outside, insurgents had been pushed out...

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America

Military

First to Fight The U.S. Marines in World War I

Gilbert Oscar E., Cansiere Romain

ISBN: HB: 9781612005089, Casemate, December 2017
288 pp., 21x15 cm, 30 illus.

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!" The words of Captain Lloyd Williams at Belleau Wood in June 1918 entered United States Marine Corps legend, and the Marine Brigade's actions there – along with the censor's failure to take out the name of the Brigad...

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Aviation

Biography & Memoires

First Kills The Illustrated Biography of Fighter Pilot Wladyslaw Gnys

Gnys Stefan

ISBN: HB: 9781612005560, Casemate, December 2017
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, highly illustrated

Polish pilot W³adek Gnyœ was credited with shooting down the first two German aircraft of World War II on September 1, 1939. On 2 September 1939, as Gnys' squadron took off near Krakow to intercept the German invaders, German Stuka pilot Frank Neuber...

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Military

Marine Corps Tank Battles in Korea

Gilbert Oscar E.

ISBN: PB: 9781612005317, Casemate, July 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 photos

This thorough and engaging narrative of the Marine Corps tank battalions in Korea newly available in affordable paperback Full of first-hand accounts by veterans, this readable book tells the story of the Korean War through the eyes of a tanker Inclu...

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Marine Corps Tank Battles in Vietnam

Gilbert Oscar E.

ISBN: PB: 9781612005324, ISBN: HB: 9781932033663, Casemate, July 2017
304 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 16 photos

Marine Corps tankers in Vietnam had to battle the terrain and climate, and a savage unrelenting enemy, demonstrating the versatility, dedication, and courage that Americans have come to expect of their Marines. Author Oscar Gilbert weaves veterans' a...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Tanks A Century of Tank Warfare

Gilbert Oscar E., Cansiere Romain

ISBN: PB: 9781612004907, Casemate, June 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Tanks made their first appearance on the battlefield in September 1916 and have captured the public imagination ever since. Other countries scrambled to develop tanks of their own, and by the time war broke out again in 1939, a wide variety of tanks,...

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Military

Target Saigon, 1973-75 Volume 1: The Fall of South Vietnam

Grandolini Albert

ISBN: PB: 9781911512349, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
104 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 5 maps, 150 illus.

After 27 years of conflict it seemed that peace would finally settle on the Indochina peninsula on 27January 1973 with the signing of a peace accord in Paris. The North Vietnamese had previously launched their greatest offensive against South Vietnam...

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Military

Britain's Quest for Oil The First World War and the Peace Conferences

Gibson Martin

ISBN: HB: 9781911512073, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 chart, 22 tables, 3 black&white illus.

The First World War showed the vital importance of oil. Use of oil fuelled aircraft, tanks, motor vehicles and especially warships increased greatly during the war. The war made it clear that major powers had to have secure oil supplies. Britain and...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D Japanese Carrier Shinano

Goralski Waldemar

ISBN: PB: 9788365437174, Casemate, Kagero, February 2017
84 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, full colour throughout

Not for sale in Poland! On 4 May 1940 the third Yamato-class battleship was laid down at the Navy Shipyard in Yokosuka. It was to be named Shinano, after a province on the Honshu island, in Nagato prefecture. That was also the name of the longest r...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Rodin and Dance The Essence of Movement

Gerstein Alexandra, Le Normand-Romain Antoniette, Blanchetiere Francois, Bellow Juliette, Biass-Fabiani Sophie

ISBN: PB: 9781907372995, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, October 2016
192 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 150 colour illus.

"Rodin and Dance: The Essence of Movement" is the first serious study of Rodin's late sculptural series known as the Dance Movements. Exploring the artist's fascination with dance and bodies in extreme acrobatic poses, the exhibition and accompanying...

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