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Mixed Martial Arts' Most Wanted The Top 10 Book of Crazy Combat, Great Grappling, and Sick Submissions
ISBN: PB: 9781597975490, Casemate, Potomac Books, December 2011
320 pp., 20.4x12.6 cm
Mixed martial arts hasn't been dubbed the world's fastest growing sport for nothing. It's noticeably rocked the sporting world since the creation of the Ultimate Fighting Championship nearly two decades ago – and has even shaken up the pop culture sc...
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£8,00
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Baptism of Fire The First Combat Experiences of the Royal Hungarian Air Force and Slovak Air Force, March 1939
ISBN: PB: 9781906033934, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2011
136 pp., 24.8x18.4 cm, 150 black&white photos, 8 colour aircraft profiles, 1 map
This story is a short but devastating episode from the turbulent history of Central Europe in the 20th Century, one that is hardly known outside the countries concerned. This short conflict was hushed up even in the German media in 1939, because the...
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£21,00
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Alexandra: Exter Paints
ISBN: PB: 9780946311200, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, December 2011
288 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 400 colour illus.
A collection of 16 essays on the artist's painting and works for the theatre between 1910 and 1924. The essays explore the colour theories that gave rise to her abstract painting and the basic laws of structure that gave order to her Cubist, Simultan...
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£35,00
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Air Battles, No. 18 Objective: the Caucasus! - The Luftwaffe Operations in the Southern Sector of the Eastern Front, May-August 1942
ISBN: PB: 9788362878031, Casemate, Kagero, November 2011
72 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, illus.
Not for sale in Poland! Located on the peripheries of Turkey, Iran, and Russia, and rich in natural resources such as oil, coal and peat, the Caucasus has been an arena for political, military, religious, and cultural rivalries and expansionism for...
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£15,00
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Gun Power, No. 26 Volume 1: Churchill
ISBN: PB: 9788372371959, Casemate, AJ Press, October 2011
176 pp., 29.5x21 cm, 190 black&white photos, 3 colour photos, scale plans, 28 colour plates
Not for sale in Poland! A fantastic new addition to the Gun Powder series, Churchill is the first of three volumes describing the British infantry tank. Production of the Churchill began in 1941 with the development of the A20 tank by Harland & Wol...
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£34,00
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Keith Vaughan Gouaches, Drawings & Prints
ISBN: HB: 9780956419958, Casemate, Osborne Samuel Gallery, October 2011
96 pp., 26.5x20.5 cm, colour illus.
John Keith Vaughan (23 August 1912 – 4 November 1977) was a British painter. Born in Selsey, Vaughan attended Christ's Hospital school. He worked in an advertising agency until the war, when as an intending conscientious objector he joined the St Joh...
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£15,00
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Crossing the Berezina
ISBN: HB: 9782352500445, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, October 2011
100 pp., 31.7x23.5 cm, fully illustrated, 10 maps
The Battle of Berezina (near Borisov, Belarus) took place on November 26-29, 1812 between the French army of Napoleon, retreating after his invasion of Russia, and the Russian armies, under Mikhail Kutuzov, Peter Wittgenstein and Admiral Pavel Chicha...
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£30,00
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Late Medieval Panel Paintings: Materials, Methods, Meanings Volume I
ISBN: PB: 9780955339349, Casemate, Sam Fogg, October 2011
298 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 440 colour illus.
These exquisite late Medieval works, often fragments of larger altarpieces designed for liturgy or devotion, can be monumental and dramatic or small and intimate, but all on close examination prove to be rich in meaning.
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£40,00
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Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft
ISBN: HB: 9781597972987, Casemate, Potomac Books, September 2011
184 pp., 23x15 cm
Since Russian leader Vladimir Putin assumed power in August 1999, speculation about his character, motives, and plans for Russia's future has been rampant in the West. A portrait of Putin has emerged in the West that is one-dimensional, ill informed,...
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£15,00
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Abdulnasser Gharem Art of Survival
ISBN: HB: 9781861543240, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, September 2011
200 pp., 38x30 cm, full-colour illus.
"Adulnasser Gharem: Art of Survival" explores the extraordinary life and work of one of the Gulf's most radical young artists. Gharem, who is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the Saudi Arabian army, is widely regarded as a pioneer in the region for his f...
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£30,00
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