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You Never Know Your Luck Battle of Britain to the Great Escape: The Extraordinary Life of Keith "Skeets" Ogilvie DFC

Ogilvie Keith C.

ISBN: HB: 9780993415227, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, July 2016
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 illus.

When the Royal Canadian Air Force wouldn't accept him as a pilot in the summer of 1939, Keith "Skeets" Ogilvie walked across the street in Ottawa and joined the Royal Air Force. A week later he was on a boat to England and a future he could not have...

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Normandy June 44 Utah Beach - Carentan - Sainte Mere Eglise

Djian J. B.

ISBN: PB: 9782815103305, Casemate, OREP, July 2016
64 pp., 29x21.5 cm

The date of June 6th 194 is fast approaching. In Europe, a young German and a young American are writing to their mothers. Each in his own way is preparing himself to live through tragic events. Jurgen, who is lodging in a Norman farm, senses that th...

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Normandy June 44 Gold Beach - Arromanches

Djian J. B.

ISBN: PB: 9782815103312, Casemate, OREP, July 2016
64 pp., 29x21.5 cm

The artificial port of Arromanches, codename "Mulberry B", was a great British invention designed to bring to Normandy the equipment required by the Allied armies to Normandy following the D-Day landings. Jimmy, a British engineer and specialist in d...

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Political Science

Chinese Nuclear Proliferation How Global Politics Is Transforming China's Weapons Buildup and Modernization

Turner Haynes Susan

ISBN: HB: 9781612348216, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
208 pp., 23x15 cm

While the world's attention is focused on the nuclearization of North Korea and Iran and the nuclear brinkmanship between India and Pakistan, China is believed to have doubled the size of its nuclear arsenal, making it "the forgotten nuclear power",...

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Normandy June 44 Sword Beach - Caen

Djian J. B.

ISBN: PB: 9782815103329, Casemate, OREP, July 2016
64 pp., 29x21.5 cm

On June 5th 2009, commemorating the D-Day landings in the German cemetery of La Cambe, Schaffers, the German Ambassador, gave a moving and conciliatory speech. Listening attentively were veterans from all participating countries. In the crowd, a man...

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Military

Last Road North A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign, 1863

Orrison Robert, Welch Dan

ISBN: PB: 9781611212433, Casemate, Savas Beatie, July 2016
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 14 maps, 100 illus.

A string of battlefield victories through 1862 had culminated in the spring of 1863 with Lee's greatest victory yet: the battle of Chancellorsville. Propelled by the momentum of that supreme moment, confident in the abilities of his men, Lee decided...

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Normandy June 44 Juno Beach - Dieppe

Djian J. B.

ISBN: PB: 9782815103336, Casemate, OREP, July 2016
64 pp., 29x21.5 cm

During World War Two Canada paid a heavy price for its part in the liberation of Europe. In August 1942, due to poor planning, the attack on Dieppe, codename "Operation Jubilee", resulted in a bitter defeat and great loss of life. However, much was l...

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Normandy June 44 Box Set (volumes 1-5)

Djian J. B.

ISBN: PB: 9782815103350, Casemate, OREP, July 2016
320 pp., 30.5x22 cm

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America

Biography & Memoires

Amiable Scoundrel Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War

Kahan Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781612348148, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
408 pp., 23x15 cm

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Political Science

Military

Blinking Red Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11

Allen Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781612348230, ISBN: HB: 9781612346151, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
280 pp., 23x15 cm

After the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission argued that the United States needed a powerful leader, a spymaster, to forge the scattered intelligence bureaucracies into a singular enterprise to vanquish America's new enemies – stateless intern...

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