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Known Unknowns

Saatchi Charles

ISBN: HB: 9781861543608, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, September 2014
480 pp., 23x18 cm, 198 colour illus.

An insightful, enlightening and frequently challenging critique of contemporary culture delivered through 100 individual essays and 198 astonishing, disconcerting and truly unforgettable images. Written from the perspective of one of the most signifi...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

SMI Library, No. 09 Grumman F6F Hellcat, Volume I

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596056, Casemate, Kagero, September 2014
96 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 135 photos, 5 colour photos, 4 colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! Grumman F6F Hellcat was one of the best fighter aircraft of the World War Two era and the most effective fighter of the US Navy. There is no doubt that Hellcats won complete air superiority for the Americans over the vast ar...

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Monographs, No. 56 Vought F4U Corsair, Volume II

Szlagor Tomasz, Wieliczko Leszek A.

ISBN: PB: 9788364596087, Casemate, Kagero, September 2014
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 18 scale drawings, 112 black&white photos, 5 paintings

Not for sale in Poland! The second volume carries on the story of the F4U Corsair by examining its development and operational service in later stages of the World War Two. By early 1944 the Corsair well proved its worth in combat. Finally qualifie...

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Contemporary Art

Reality Modern and Contemporary British Painting

Stevens Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780946009640, Casemate, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, June 2014
149 pp., 33x25.2 cm, 94 illus.

In a world saturated with polychrome printed media and ephemeral digital images, painting has a particular power. It requires a direct experience of the work as a physical object; it offers an encounter with the scale of the canvas and the texture of...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D Japanese Heavy Cruiser Takao, 1937-1946

Skulski Janusz

ISBN: PB: 9788362878901, Casemate, Kagero, February 2014
92 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 3D colour artwork, close-up views, photographs, scale line drawings

Not for sale in Poland! Takao was the first of four Takao-class heavy cruisers designed to be an improvement over the previous Myoko-class design. The My?k? had proved to be unstable and required modifications, which were incorporated into the Taka...

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Contemporary Art

Babble

Saatchi Charles

ISBN: HB: 9781861543370, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, January 2014
310 pp., 21.1x16.3 cm, full-colour illus.

Charles Saatchi – famously – refuses to be interviewed, but his 60+ essays in "Babble" give a revealing insight into his forthright and often controversial views on a wide-ranging number of topics. Saatchi has been one of the moving forces of the mod...

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SMI Library, No. 08 The B-17 Flying Fortress in Combat Over Europe

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788362878918, Casemate, Kagero, December 2013
92 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 130 black&white illus., 11 colour photos, 4 colour profiles, decal sheets

Not for sale in Poland! The B-17 Flying Fortress epitomized the American airpower for most of the Second World War. It was by far the most effective weapon to carry out the strategic, daylight bombing campaign in Europe. The battles fought by B-17...

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Photography

Naked Eye

Saatchi Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781861543400, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2013
252 pp., 21.6x16.5 cm, 112 colour and black&white illus.

A new book by Charles Saatchi based on extraordinary – and amazingly – un-photoshopped images, all the more extraordinary for being real, all the more fascinating for existing without computer manipulation. Some of the 112 images are the works of art...

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Monographs, No. 52 Vought F4U Corsair, Volume I

Szlagor Tomasz, Wieliczko Leszek A.

ISBN: PB: 9788362878734, Casemate, Kagero, September 2013
104 pp., 29.5x21 cm, highly illustrated

Not for sale in Poland! Vought F4U Corsair was one of the best and most famous fighters of World War Two era. Developed since 1938, it didn't see serial production until mid-1942. Initially disqualified for carrier operations, it was handed over to...

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Military

Thunder at Prokhorovka A Combat History of Operation Citadel, Kursk, July 1943

Schranck David

ISBN: HB: 9781909384545, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2013
612 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 colour maps, 7 fold-out colour maps, 9 tables

After the defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler had lost his momentum and was looking for a way to regain it. Operation Citadel was the intended means to fulfil that objective. If successful a number of Soviet armies would be destroyed and the front line shor...

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