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Military

Operation Barbarossa 1941 Hitler against Stalin

Bergstrom Christer

ISBN: HB: 9781612004013, Casemate, June 2016
300 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 300 illus.

Operation Barbarossa was the largest military campaign in history. Springing from Hitler's fanatical desire to conquer the Soviet territories, defeat Bolshevism and create "Lebensraum" for the German people, it pitted two diametrically opposed armed...

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History of Art

Dyer's Handbook Memoirs of an 18th Century Master Colourist

Cardon Dominique

ISBN: HB: 9781785702112, Casemate, Oxbow Books, June 2016
160 pp., 29.7x21 cm

Persian blue, pomegranate flower, spiny lobster, wine soup, pale flesh, dove breast, golden wax, grass green, green sand, rotten olive, modest plum, agate, rich French gray, gunpowder of the English... these are just some of the colour names of old f...

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Fiction

William the Conqueror The Last Viking

Carpentier Vincent

ISBN: PB: 9782815103176, Casemate, OREP, June 2016
96 pp., 24x19 cm

William the Conqueror's crossing of the Channel in 1066 is the stuff of legend, but can it also be seen as the last great Viking expedition? The story begins in 911 when, on the coast of the Northern France the French King gave the Viking chieftain,...

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Survival & Combat Guide

Tank Commander Pocket Manual 1939-1945

Sheppard R.

ISBN: HB: 9781910860168, Casemate, The Pool of London Press, June 2016
144 pp., 18x12 cm

From the pioneering tactics and terror of the Blitzkrieg assault, through the carnage of Barbarossa, Kursk, the Desert War, and the Normandy Bocage and the Battle of the Bulge, there were perhaps no more unsettling and merciless positions to occupy i...

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Photography

Out of Season

Havens Mark, Giovannini Joseph, Hunt Jamer

ISBN: HB: 9781861543783, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, June 2016
226 pp., 30.6x24.4 cm

Exceptional colour photographs of the mid-twentieth-century motels of Wildwood, New Jersey, USA, the largest concentration of the exuberant architectural style sometimes known as "doo wop" complete with neon signs and plastic palms. The images in thi...

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Military

Vivid Courage Victoria Crosses: Antecedent and Allied Regiments of the Staffordshire Regiment

Hope Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781911096375, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2016
232 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 75 black&white photos, 1 map, 1 regimental tree & 3 registers

In the history of the Victoria Cross, this is the first book exclusively written about the recipients of this prestigious award who were members of this famous regiment. This is the fifth book written by the author – and like his previous works, cont...

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Military

Aviation

Eyes All Over the Sky Aerial Reconnaissance in the First World War

Streckfuss James

ISBN: HB: 9781612003672, Casemate, June 2016
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

After the first successful flight by the Wright brothers in 1903, the age of aviation was born, and by 1910 army commanders in the United States and Europe began ordering aircraft and experimenting with them. But at the outbreak of World War I in 191...

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History of Art

Collecting for the Public Works That Made a Difference

Cornelis Bart, Luijten Ger, van Tilborgh Louis, Zeedijk Tim

ISBN: HB: 9781911300045, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, June 2016
240 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 90 colour illus.

There was a time when museums might have been regarded as rather forbidding and austere centres of learning, but today they are more likely to position themselves firmly within the tourism and leisure industry with all manner of food, fun and family...

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History of Art

Adriaen Van de Velde Dutch Master of Landscape

Cornelis Bart, Schapelhouman Marijn

ISBN: PB: 9781907372964, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, June 2016
200 pp., 28x24 cm, 130 colour illus.

A Dutch Italianate, Adriaen Van de Velde represents a point of artistic crosscommunication across borders, fusing agricultural landscapes in Holland with mythological Arcadian scenes in Italian settings. He died at the early age of 35, and yet he pro...

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History of Art

Art in England The Saxons to the Tudors: 600-1600

James Sara N.

ISBN: HB: 9781785702235, Casemate, Oxbow Books, June 2016
448 pp., 28x21.6 cm

"Art in England" fills a void in the scholarship of both English and medieval art by offering the first single volume overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Early Renaissance England. Grounded in history and using the chronology of the reign...

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