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Canadian Soldier Collection 1914-1918

Brown Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9782815103589, Casemate, OREP, April 2017
32 pp., 24x17 cm

Almost a century has passed since the signing of the armistice on 11 November 1918. Of all the soldiers who went through that hell on earth, photographs, letters, stories and old uniforms kept in attics are all that is left. Thanks to a collection of...

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Aviation

Biography & Memoires

Chig Sky Pilot to the Glider Pilots of Arnhem

Vockins Mike

ISBN: HB: 9781911512332, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 maps, 23 illus.

New, hitherto unseen, first-hand accounts of the battle of Arnhem, the heroic Allied military operation known as "Market Garden", become rarer as time passes. "Chig: Sky Pilot to the Glider Pilots of Arnhem" is the story of a choir boy, who became a...

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Criminology

Crime in the Second World War Spivs, Scoundrels, Rogues and Worse

Legg Penny

ISBN: HB: 9781781220092, Casemate, Sabrestorm Publishing, April 2017
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, heavlly illustrated

At a time of national emergency, the average person could be forgiven for thinking that crime rates would go down as everyone tried to help the war effort. However, the reality was that criminals saw the war as an opportunity to exploit the emergency...

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Military

Camp Borden A Century of Service

March William

ISBN: PB: 9780978069629, Casemate, Aviaeology, March 2017
120 pp., 20.3x27.9 cm, 316 colour and black&white illus.

"Camp Borden: A Century of Service" is an overview of the history of this iconic institution. Over ten decades Borden has been a temporary posting, as either instructor or trainee, for countless thousands of military men and women who have served Can...

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Biography & Memoires

Cromwell's Buffoon The Life and Career of the Regicide, Thomas Pride

Hodkinson Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781911512110, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
184 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 maps, 13 black&white illus.

Colonel Thomas Pride was central to one of the English Civil War's key events: the arrest and exclusion of 140 Members of Parliament at Westminster in December 1648. Those that remained in the House of Commons – the Rump – voted to bring King Charles...

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Landscape Architecture

Creating the Countryside The Rural Idyll

Elson Verity

ISBN: PB: 9781911300106, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, March 2017
120 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 60 colour illus.

From High Art to propaganda, garden centres to air fresheners, contemporary art to computer games – a constellation of powerful images and ideas contribute to our understandings of the rural. This publication offers new ways of thinking about the rur...

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Military

Churchill's Secret War with Lenin British and Commonwealth Military Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918-20

Wright Damien

ISBN: HB: 9781911512103, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
504 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 8 maps, 8 colour illus., 198 black&white illus.

After three years of great loss and suffering on the Eastern Front, Imperial Russia was in crisis and on the verge of revolution. In November 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks (later known as "Soviets") seized power, signed a peace treaty with the Central Pow...

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Military

Confronting Case Blue Briansk Front's Attempt to Derail the German Drive to the Caucasus, July 1942

Sdvizhkov Igor'

ISBN: HB: 9781911096436, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
384 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 10 maps, 3 colour photos, 6 black&white photos

The author, Igor' Sdvizhkov, takes a close look at the attempt by the Briansk Front's Operational Group Chibisov to collapse the northern shoulder of the German drive to the Caucasus – north-west of Voronezh – in July 1942. Using both previously clas...

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Decorative Arts

Ceramics in America 2016 Ceramics in America Annual

Hunter Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780982772287, Casemate, Chipstone Foundation, January 2017
232 pp., 28.6x21.3 cm, 280 colour illus.

Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technol...

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Military

Crete: The Battle for Heraklion 1941 The Campaign Revealed through Allied and Axis Accounts

Prekatsounakis Yannis

ISBN: HB: 9781911096337, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
352 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 400 black&white illus., 28 maps

Crete, 20 May 1941: the first campaign-sized airborne assault is launched. Many books have been written about this famous invasion, with the emphasis mainly on the battles for Maleme and Chania. The Battle for Heraklion – an epic struggle – remained...

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