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Frank Brangwyn Stations of the Cross
ISBN: PB: 9780956713971, Casemate, Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, March 2015
40 pp., 23x23 cm, 30 colour illus.
This publication – which has been made possible entirely through the generosity of Tigger Hoare – was prompted by the discovery of a complete set of Brangwyn's Stations of the Cross, painted in oil, which originally hung in St Michael's Abbey, Farnbo...
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Frank Brangwyn Drawings from the Collection of Father Jerome Esser
ISBN: PB: 9780993088407, Casemate, Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, March 2015
48 pp., 23x23 cm, 44 colour illus.
During his lifetime Brangwyn made large donations of his works to museums in the United Kingdom and abroad, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the British Museum, the William Morris Gallery, the Albertina in Vienna and the Gruuthuse in Bruges. A...
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Out in Front A Polish Fighter Pilot's Dramatic Air War
ISBN: HB: 9780992620745, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, September 2014
320 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, black&white illus.
Decorated Polish fighter pilot Witold "Lanny" Lanowski tells his remarkable Second World War story beginning with his dramatic escape from Nazi aggression in Poland, fighting with the reformed Polish Air Force in France, and eventually arriving in En...
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£25,00
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Military Transformed? Adaptation and Innovation in the British Military, 1792-1945
ISBN: PB: 9781911096702, ISBN: HB: 9781909384460, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2014
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 tables
Between 1792 and 1945, the character of warfare changed. Battalions standing shoulder to shoulder during the Napoleonic era gave way to the industrialised, modern armies of the First and Second World Wars. The organisation and operational methods of...
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£19,00
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£25,00
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Officers and Soldiers French Dragoons, Volume 1: 1669-1749
ISBN: PB: 9782352503545, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, January 2014
80 pp., 24x20 cm, colour and black&white illus.
According to Pere Daniel the Dragoon corp got its origins under the reign of Henry II, with the mounted arquebusiers, created in 1554. Those were mostly small units of infantrymen, travelling on horses and firing when dismounted. The nickname 'dragoo...
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£16,00
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Officers and Soldiers Chasseurs a Cheval, Volume 2: 1779-1815
ISBN: PB: 9782352502395, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, January 2013
80 pp., 24x20 cm, colour and black&white illus.
The Chasseurs a cheval, a type of French light cavalry, date from 1743 when an independent unit (Fischer's Volunteer Company of Chasseurs) was raised during the Austrian War of Succession to counter the pandurs and Croats employed as irregulars by th...
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£13,00
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Viaz'ma Catastrophe, 1941 The Red Army's Disastrous Stand against Operation Typhoon
ISBN: HB: 9781908916501, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2012
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This book describes one of the most terrible tragedies of the Second World War and the events preceding it. The horrible miscalculations made by the Stavka of the Soviet Supreme High Command and the Front commands led in October 1941 to the deaths an...
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£55,00
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Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft
ISBN: HB: 9781597972987, Casemate, Potomac Books, September 2011
184 pp., 23x15 cm
Since Russian leader Vladimir Putin assumed power in August 1999, speculation about his character, motives, and plans for Russia's future has been rampant in the West. A portrait of Putin has emerged in the West that is one-dimensional, ill informed,...
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£15,00
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Junkers Ju-87 From 1936 to 1945
ISBN: PB: 9782913903531, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, January 2011
80 pp., 23.9x19.8 cm, fully illustrated
The symbol of Blitzkrieg in the air is detailed here in 200 colour profiles, illustrating a career which began as a terror plane in Spain and ended up as a tankbuster in the Russian sky.
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£6,00
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Great American Combat Aircraft, No. 02 Volume 1: F-16 - Fighting Falcon A + B
ISBN: PB: 9782352501299, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, January 2011
80 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, 150 photos, 56 profiles
A multirole jet fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force, the F-16 has been in service for an incredible 36 years, with no sign of retiring. At a time when other planes retire to museums, General Dynam...
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£13,00
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