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Top Drawings, No. 22 German Pocket Battleship Admiral Graf Spee

Draminski Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9788364596308, Casemate, Kagero, April 2015
24 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 23 drawings sheets, A4 colour profiles, 2 double B

Not for sale in Poland! The Deutschland-class ships were the first heavy vessels of the German Navy after the First World War. In Germany they were classified as "Panzerschiffe", but in other countries the term "pocket battleships" was very popular...

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German Railway Gun: Leopold 28 cm K5 (E)

Wijnstok Jan Coen

ISBN: PB: 9788360672242, Casemate, Model Centrum Progres, April 2015
56 pp., 29x20.5 cm

Technical/historical background by the Dutch expert, illustrated with 31 b&w period photos and a selection of 224 detailed walkaround photographs highlighting in color all exterior and interior details of the World's only preserved K5(E) railway guns...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Working in the Killing Fields Forensic Science in Bosnia

Ball Howard

ISBN: HB: 9781612347189, Casemate, Potomac Books, April 2015
232 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 illus.

While the specificities of individual wars vary, they share a ubiquitous aftermath: the task of finding and identifying the "disappeared". The Bosnian war of the early 1990s that destroyed the sovereign state of Yugoslavia is no exception. In Working...

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Officers and Soldiers French Dragoons, Volume 2: 1750-1792

Letrun Ludovic, Letrun Veronique

ISBN: PB: 9782352504238, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, April 2015
90 pp., 24x20 cm, colour and black&white illus.

In this second half of the 18th century, military tactics changed, going from static siege tactics to rapid manoeuvres, giving the cavalry a predominant role again on the fi eld of battle. The changes in uniform, organisation and tactics of the Drago...

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Shadow Factories Britain's Production Facilities and the Second World War

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781910294468, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2015
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

Wartime is costly. Whilst the human cost is a burden which remains part of our every waking thoughts for many years after the end of the conflict, the physical cost, at least in some cases, is easier to deal with. Some, if not most of the physical c...

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Race to the Rhine Liberating France and the Low Countries, 1944-1945

Marriott Leo, Forty Simon

ISBN: HB: 9781612002941, Casemate, March 2015
192 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

The speed of the German Blitzkrieg in 1940 and the relative ease with which they brushed aside Allied defenses meant four years of occupation. But in June 1944 – this time with American forces – the Allies finally returned for a rematch. The destruct...

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War's Nomads A Mobile Radar Unit in Pursuit of Rommel during the Western Desert Campaign, 1942-1943

Grice Frederick

ISBN: HB: 9781612002880, Casemate, March 2015
240 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 25 black&white illus.

"War's Nomads" is an evocative account of one man's experience of life in a mobile radar unit after the battle of El Alamein as Rommel's AfrikaKorps was relentlessly pursued across the desert through Egypt, Libya and Tunisia by the Eighth Army. It is...

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Graphic Design by Iain Cadby for Elms Lesters Painting Rooms

Cadby Iain

ISBN: PB: 9781861543684, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, March 2015
288 pp., 24x19 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.

This book is about the subtle relationship of Graphic Design and Art, their collision and their mutual compliment.

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Battle of Moscow 1941-1942 The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counter Offensive Along the Moscow Strategic Direction

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9781910294642, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2015
528 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 55 maps

"The Battle of Moscow, 1941-1942: The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counteroffensive Along the Moscow Strategic Direction" is a detailed examination of one of the major turning points of World War II, as seen from the Soviet side. The Battle of...

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Playing the Game The British Junior Infantry Officer on the Western Front 1914-1918

Moore-Bick Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781910294758, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2015
312 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The British Army expanded significantly during the First World War, creating a huge demand for new officers to lead the infantry through the horrors and privations of trench warfare. Thousands of civilians accepted commissions with little or no previ...

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