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13th Century Colour Palettes
ISBN: PB: 9780946311255, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, September 2018
88 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm
A French collection of recipes for painting on parchment, On Making Colours, by a painter, Peter of St. Audemar, possibly of the Benedictine Abbey of St Bertin at St. Omer in northern France. St. Omer was an active centre of painters and scribes from...
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£12,00
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14th Century Colour Palettes
ISBN: PB: 9780946311248, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, September 2018
88 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm
From Italy to France to Flanders, the arts of painting in the 14th century were practised in manuscript illumination, on panel, and in fresco. Recipes for pigments appropriate to all these arts are included in this collection. "Experiments upon Colou...
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£12,00
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50th at Bay - The Years of Defeat A History of the 50th Northumbrian Division 1939 to September 1942
ISBN: HB: 9781912174829, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
208 pp., 24.5x17 cm, c 90 black&white photos, maps
The book begins when war is declared and the Territorials of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division are mobilised before their move to France. Many of these men joined the territorials in the 1930s because they could find no work in the depression and the...
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£19,00
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Stars in a Dark Night Hornsea and the Great War
ISBN: HB: 9781912174997, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
208 pp., 24.5x17 cm, c 175 black&white photos, maps
This is the story of the small east coast town of Hornsea during and after the Great War. The war touched every aspect of life on the home Front and those who were left behind suffered terribly as the war dragged on. This study meticulously explores...
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£16,00
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1st to 19th Century Pigments
ISBN: PB: 9780946311262, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, September 2018
288 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm
A collection of all the historical pigments mentioned in the treatises included in the series, Colour Palettes, by century, complemented by recipes from other contemporary sources. The entries define the pigment – colour, its source (animal, plant, m...
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£25,00
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Gallipoli New Perspectives on the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 1915-16
ISBN: HB: 9781911512189, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
656 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 maps, 50 black&white illus.
Generally conceded to be doomed from the outset by the most recent historiography, the Gallipoli campaign still arouses heated controversy. In a new compendium of original research by an impressive array of established and up-and-coming scholars, Gal...
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£45,00
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First Bridge Too Far The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943
ISBN: HB: 9781612006895, Casemate, July 2018
256 pp., 22.9x15 cm
The full story of the British airborne forces attempt to take the strategically important Primosole Bridge, published for the 75th anniversary of the battle Shows how this battle was a precursor to the Battle of Arnhem – and the lessons that were and...
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£22,00
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Castles Fortresses of Power
ISBN: PB: 9781612006130, Casemate, June 2018
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.
Fortified structures have been in existence for thousands of years. In ancient and medieval times castles were the ultimate symbol of power, dominating their surroundings, and marking the landscape with their imposing size and impregnable designs. Af...
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£7,00
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Days of Battle Armoured Operations North of the River Danube, Hungary 1944-45
ISBN: PB: 9781912174263, ISBN: HB: 9781907677649, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2018
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, 16 maps
"Days of Battle" describes a hitherto neglected part of the military history of Hungary during World War II. In three separate studies, Dr Norbert Szamveber, drawing from files and documentation from German, Hungarian and Soviet sources, presents det...
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£25,00
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£35,00
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Roman Legionary Soldiers of Empire
ISBN: PB: 9781612006116, Casemate, June 2018
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.
The might of Rome rested on the back of its legions; the superbly trained and equipped fighting force with which the imperial Roman army conquered, subdued and ruled an empire for centuries. The legionary soldier served for 20 years, was rigorously t...
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