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History of Art

Condition The Ageing of Art

Taylor Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781907372797, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, September 2015
264 pp., 24.2x16.8 cm, 140 colour illus.

Anyone writing about a work of art needs to establish at the outset how much it has changed since it was first made. This simple, informative and pracrical book, full of fascinating and revelatory photography, will take the reader through both the te...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D Light Cruiser SMS Emden

Karmieh Samir

ISBN: PB: 9788364596674, Casemate, Kagero, September 2015
80 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 116 renders, 16 anaglyphs 3D, 3D glasses

Not for sale in Poland! SMS Emden light cruiser was built by Kaiserliche Werft Danzig dockyard (nowadays Gdaٌsk in Poland). The construction process began in 1906, the launching of the ship took place on 26 May 1908. Together with SMS Dresden, she...

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Military

Hold at All Costs! The Epic Battle of Delville Wood 1916

Uys Ian

ISBN: HB: 9781910294376, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 colour maps, 200 black&white illus.

Delville Wood in the Somme was the most famous battle ever fought by South Africans. Through this action other nations learnt to respect the fighting qualities of the men from the fledgling Union of South Africa. Erstwhile foes, Boer and Briton, foug...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Sybil Andrews and the Grosvenor School Linocuts

Leaper Hana

ISBN: HB: 9780993078644, Casemate, Osborne Samuel Gallery, September 2015
90 pp., 24.5x19.5 cm, colour illus.

Sybil Andrews was a printmaker first and foremost and, like her Grosvenor School colleagues, was encouraged by their mentor and teacher Claude Flight (1881-1955). They adopted a Cubist-Futurist-Vorticist pictorial language that discarded the outrageo...

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Biography & Memoires

Washingtons: A Family History Volume Three: Royal Descents of the Presidential Branch

Glenn Justin

ISBN: HB: 9781611212358, Casemate, Savas Beatie, August 2015
238 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, illus.

The Royal Descents comprises Volume Three of Dr. Justin Glenn's "The Washingtons: A Family History", a comprehensive multi-volume work covering fifteen generations of the "Presidential Branch" of the Washingtons. This study includes more than 63,000...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Japanese Aircraft Carriers Soryu and Hiryu

Skwiot Miroslaw

ISBN: HB: 9788364596520, Casemate, Kagero, August 2015
100 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 82 archive photos, 30 drawings, 16 colour profiles, 1 map

Not for sale in Poland! Soryu meaning "Blue (or Green) Dragon") was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the mid-1930s. A sister ship, Hiryu, was intended to follow Soryu, but Hiryu's design was heavily modified and...

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Military

Fighting 30th Division They Called Them "Roosevelt's SS"

Hilborn David, King Martin, Collins Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781612003016, Casemate, August 2015
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In World War I the 30th Infantry Division earned more Medals of Honor than any other American division. In World War II it spent more consecutive days in combat than almost any other outfit. Recruited mainly from the Carolinas and George and Tennesse...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D SMS Viribus Unitis Austro-Hungarian Battleship

Wilkie Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9788364596643, Casemate, Kagero, August 2015
72 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 123 renders

Not for sale in Poland! In 1907 the navy of the dualist, multinational Austro-Hungarian Empire placed an order for a new class of warships, whose design was based on the "all big gun" concept pioneered by HMS Dreadnought. Eventually four Tegetthoff...

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Biography & Memoires

Cushing's Coup The True Story of How Lt. Col. James Cushing and His Filipino Guerrillas Captured a Japanese Admiral and Changed the Course of the Pacific War

Barreveld Dirk Jan

ISBN: HB: 9781612003078, Casemate, August 2015
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This work reveals one of the most important intelligence triumphs of World War II. It was no less than the capture of Japan's "Plan Z" – the Empire's fully detailed strategy for prosecuting the last stages of the Pacific War. It's a story of happenst...

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History of Art

Missionaries and Idols in Polynesia

Shaw King David

ISBN: PB: 9781907372834, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, July 2015
176 pp., 28x20 cm, 100 colour illus.

The first Europeans to follow the explorers of the eighteenth century into the South Pacific were missionaries. They were sent by an Evangelical Christian organization called The London Missionary Society, whose aim was to bring the word of the Bible...

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