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Polonica

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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Aviation

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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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Military Game

Warlord Games Hail Caesar: Battles with Model Soldiers in the Ancient Era

Priestly Rick

ISBN: HB: 9780956358110, Casemate, Warlord Games, April 2011
200 pp., 30x21.5 cm, illustrated throughout in full colour

This book describes the Hail Caesar game and its various rules and procedures as played by its creators and their friends. The authors' aim is to enable and encourage the reader to relive the deeds of warriors and conquerors of an age long past with...

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Aviation

60 Years Of Combat Aircraft - from WWI to Vietnam War 1914-1974

Pautigny Bruno

ISBN: HB: 9782352501176, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, December 2010
164 pp., 32x23.5 cm, 400 profiles & illustrations

From the Battle of the Marne to the end of the Vietnam War, this "first half" of the 20th Century must undeniably be considered as the period of greatest development for aerial warfare. With the 400 profiles and illustrations contained in this book...

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Encyclopedia of Warships, No. 53 Volume 1: Yorktown, Enterprise, Hornet

Perepeczko Andrzej

ISBN: PB: 9788372372123, Casemate, AJ Press, December 2010
128 pp., 29.5x21 cm, 223 black&white photos, 12 colour photos, 42 drawings, 12 pages with 3D graphics, insert (A1 format) with 1:350 scale plans

Not for sale in Poland! The Yorktown-class aircraft carriers consisted of three carriers, Yorktown, Enterprise, and Hornet, built by the U.S. and completed shortly before World War II. They bore the brunt of early action in the Pacific, and sole su...

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Mikoyan-Gurevitch MiG 21 Fishbed 1955-2010

Paloque Gerard

ISBN: PB: 9782352501473, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, February 2010
96 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, full colour throughout

The MiG-21 originated with an official request from the Soviet authorities in 1954 for a light, high-performance (Mach 2 at 20 000 m) frontline fighter to protect military and production installations from potential raids by American bombers. Built f...

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Military

Learning from Foreign Wars Russian Military Thinking 1859-73

Persson Gudrun

ISBN: PB: 9781906033613, ISBN: HB: 9781908916983, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2010
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 illus.

"Learning from Foreign Wars" examines how the Russian army interpreted the wars in Europe between 1859 and 1871, and the American Civil War. This was a time marked by rapid change – political, social, economic and technological. By raising the questi...

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Reference

Allied and German Soldiers Normandy 1944

Pauleian Erwan

ISBN: PB: 9782915762884, Casemate, OREP, July 2009
48 pp., 24x17 cm, illustrated throughout

On the 6th of June 1944, thousands of men landed on the Normandy beaches to free Europe from the Nazi occupation. Over 2 months, soldiers of all origins were to battle in the Normandy bocage. American and British soldiers of course, but also Canadian...

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US Military Vehicles: Normandy 1944

Pauleian Erwan

ISBN: PB: 9782915762204, Casemate, OREP, July 2009
48 pp., 24x17 cm, illustrated throughout

During the Battle of Normandy, the US Army used a striking array of different vehicles for various purposes, from motorcycles to tanks. Many of them survived the war to either continue service within different armies or to become the pride of their c...

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Photography

Tunnels

Principe Andre

ISBN: PB: 9781861542762, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, October 2005
112 pp., 26x20 cm, 125 colour illus.

Through reportage photographs of people in the private and public environment, "Tunnels" explores the idea of isolation and the boundaries of knowing others and ourselves. Andre Principe's work is about emotions. In "Tunnels", the artist looks at lon...

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