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Marshal K. K. Rokossovsky The Red Army's Gentleman Commander

Sokolov Boris

ISBN: HB: 9781909982109, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2015
496 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white photos, 16 maps

The author Boris Sokolov offers this first objective and intriguing biography of Marshal Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky, who is widely considered one of the Red Army's top commanders in the Second World War. Yet even though he brilliantly ser...

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Die in Battle, Do not Despair The Indians on Gallipoli, 1915

Stanley Peter

ISBN: HB: 9781910294673, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 colour maps, 85 black&white illus.

In 1915 about 15,000 Indian troops – two or three times as many as previously thought – served in the dramatic and doomed eight-month Gallipoli campaign. Their part in the invasion of Gallipoli has lain largely unknown since the publication of long d...

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Monographs, No. 60 Dornier Do 17/Do 215

Murawski Marek J.

ISBN: PB: 9788364596339, Casemate, Kagero, May 2015
136 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 2 double A3 sheet with drawings, 24 pages A4 sheets

Not for sale in Poland! The monograph on the WW2 German bombers Dornier Do 17 and Dornier Do 215 discusses their design, development and operational history. Each variant is specified and comprehensively described with coverage of changes made in i...

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Into the Dark A Bomber Command Story of Combat and Survival, Discovery and Remembrance

Hughes Janet, Wilson Reginald

ISBN: HB: 9780992620769, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, May 2015
208 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

On 20 January 1944 Bomber Command Navigator Reginald Wilson's Halifax, LW337, comes into the sights of an ace Luftwaffe night fighter pilot, and is blown from the darkness above the German capital Berlin. Reg, yet to celebrate his twenty-first birthd...

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Monographs, No. 03 Messerschmitt Bf 109, Volume I

Murawski Marek J., Asen Atanasov

ISBN: HB: 9788364596384, Casemate, Kagero, May 2015
192 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 108 archival photographs, 103 renders, 18 paintings

Not for sale in Poland! The monograph devoted to the early versions of the Messerschmitt Bf 109, the most famous WW2 German fighter, discusses its origins and development with coverage of changes made in its first prototypes, A-D variants and their...

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Stalin's Favorite: The Combat History of the 2nd Guards Tank Army from Kursk to Berlin Volume 1: January 1943 - June 1944

Nebolsin Igor

ISBN: HB: 9781909982154, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2015
504 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 250 black&white photos, 24 colour maps, 70 tables

This is the first detailed combat history of any Soviet unit available in the English language known to the author. The 2nd Tank Army was not an ordinary force; by 1945 it was an elite Guards formation which played a decisive role in the Soviet offen...

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Super Drawings in 3D Battleship USS North Carolina

Draminski Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9788364596360, Casemate, Kagero, May 2015
80 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 100 renders

Not for sale in Poland! Launched in 1940, North Carolina was the first U.S. newly built battleship to have taken part in the war in the Pacific. During her busy combat career she demonstrated that battleships could perform very well indeed in their...

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Thunder Bird in Bomber Command The Wartime Letters and Story of Lionel Andreson, the Man Who Inspired the Thunderbirds Legend

Feast Sean

ISBN: HB: 9780992620776, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, May 2015
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Shot down and killed in April 1944, Lionel Anderson, a low flying Mosquito intruder pilot, was part way through his second tour of operations. He had survived his first tour stooging up and down the French coast in an outdated Boulton Paul Defiant to...

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Dearest Mother First World War Letters Home from a Young Sapper Officer in France and Salonika

Baines Andrew, Palmer Joanna

ISBN: PB: 9781910294574, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2015
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 100 black&white illus.

John Stanhope Baines, a Winchester classical scholar and young Royal Engineers officer, was on active service in France and Salonika during the First World War. Throughout this time he wrote to his "Dearest Mother", who had studied classics at Cambri...

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Rebuilding Britain The Aftermath of the Second World War

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781910294451, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2015
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Undoubtedly, the Second World War was one of the darkest periods of history. With untold losses and countless with physical and mental scars, there was little to celebrate except the relief of closure. Yet what happened once the noise of the shelling...

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