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Diversifying Diplomacy My Journey from Roxbury to Dakar

Elam-Thomas Harriet L.

ISBN: HB: 9781612349503, Casemate, Potomac Books, February 2018
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 photos, 6 illus.

Today, diverse women of all hues represent this country overseas and elsewhere. Some have called this development the "Hillary Effect." But well before Hillary Clinton, our most recent female secretary of state, there was Madeleine Albright, the firs...

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Marine Corps Way of War The Evolution of the U.S. Marine Corps from Attrition to Maneuver Warfare in the Post-Vietnam Era

Piscitelli Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9781611213607, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 images, 2 charts, 2 maps

The Marine Corps Way of War examines the evolving doctrine, weapons, and capability of the United States Marine Corps during the four decades since our last great conflict in Asia. As author Anthony Piscitelli demonstrates, the USMC has maintained it...

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Other Side of the Wire Volume 3: With the XIV Reserve Corps - The Period of Transition 2 July 1916 - August 1917

Whitehead Ralph

ISBN: HB: 9781911512479, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
656 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 maps, 160 black&white illus.

Volume 3 carries the story of the XIV Reserve Corps through the momentous Battle of the Somme and into 1917, a period of transition for the German Army. The old tactics and strategy of trench warfare would undergo great changes as the German Army was...

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Pouring with Rain - Troops Fed Up British Second Army and the Liberation Offensive in Flanders 1918

Williams Dennis

ISBN: HB: 9781911096559, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
288 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 60 maps

A lost story now told – of a forgotten British Army in a forgotten campaign achieving against the odds... During the final months of the war, the British Second Army fought a successful War of Liberation alongside French and Belgian forces in the Gro...

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Polonica

Frantic 7 The American Effort to Aid the Warsaw Uprising and the Origins of the Cold War, 1944

Radzilowski John, Szczesniak Jerzy

ISBN: HB: 9781612005607, Casemate, February 2018
224 pp., 21x15 cm, 40 colour and black&white illus.

The Frantic operations were conceived in late 1943 as Soviet advances made Soviet airfields accessible to Allied long-range aircraft. American aircraft could hit targets in central Europe, refuel and rearm at Soviet bases, then fly back to bomb addit...

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Criminology

Spies, Lies, and Citizenship The Hunt for Nazi Criminals

Barbier Mary K.

ISBN: HB: 9781612347271, Casemate, Potomac Books, February 2018
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 photographs, 1 drawing

In the 1970s, news broke that former Nazis had escaped prosecution and were living the good life in the United States. Outrage swept the nation, and the public outcry put extreme pressure on the U.S. government to investigate these claims and to depo...

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History of Art

16th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311132, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm

Three texts by two Italian Renaissance painters – Leonardo da Vinci and Gian Paolo Lomazzo – and a compendium of the 53 standard pigments commonly found on artists' palettes for painting in oil on panel and on canvas as outlined by the writer, Raffae...

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History of Art

17th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311101, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 16 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

Ten 17th century writers described the pigments in use in their countries – England, Sweden, Flanders, France, Spain, and Italy. The theme of their treatises was studio practice and the pigments were discussed as they were set on the palette. Surpris...

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History of Art

18th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311019, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm

Pigments described by the English chemist, Robert Dossie, the French artists' colourman, Jean Felix Watin, and the London-based pigment maker, Constant de Massoul. 18th century European painting saw the introduction of new pigments to the painters' p...

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History of Art

1st Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311149, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
88 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 12 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.

The sources of pigments used in European painting are found in classical antiquity, 1st. century B.C. to 1st century A.D. The over 40 pigments in use were described by Vitruvius, Pliny the Elder and Dioscorides, complemented by 3rd century B.C. Theop...

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