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Contemporary Art

Peter Coker Mind and Matter

ISBN: PB: 9781901192469, Casemate, Piano Nobile, April 2017
68 pp., 29x25 cm, 38 colour illus.

"Peter Coker: Mind and Matter" is a fully-illustrated catalogue presenting a selection of exceptional works by Peter Coker (1926-2004), bringing together pieces spanning the early 1950s through to the mid-1980s. The first publication focusing on Coke...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

Passchendaele 103 Days in Hell

Churchill Alexandra, Holmes Andrew, Dyer Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9781911512301, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
224 pp., 24.2x27.5 cm, 8 maps, 130 black&white illus.

2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the 3rd Battle of Ypres. In "Passchendaele: 103 Days in Hell", Alexandra Churchill, with Andrew Holmes and Jonathan Dyer, explains this pivotal engagement using 103 personal stories of men who fought in it. Using a...

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Military

Africa

Paras Portugal's First Elite Force in Africa, 1961-1974

Cann John P.

ISBN: PB: 9781911512486, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
72 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 27 colour illus., 73 black&white illus.

Portuguese paratroopers or "paras" began as a stepchild of the army and found a home in the Portuguese Air Force in 1955. Initially, the post-World War Two Portuguese Army seemed to have had mixed emotions about the need for elite, special-purpose fo...

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Portuguese Commandos Feared Insurgent Hunters, 1961-1974

Cann John P.

ISBN: PB: 9781911096320, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
104 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 90 black&white illus., 10 colour photos, 10 tables, 15 maps

During the 13-year insurgency (1961-74) in Portuguese Africa, more than 800,000 men and women served in the Portuguese armed forces. Of this number, about 9,000 served as commandos (or about 1 percent). Yet their combat losses ? 357 dead, 28 missing...

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Architecture

Peter Einsenman In Dialogue With Architects and Philosophers

Djokic Vladan, ? Bojanic Petar

ISBN: PB: 9788869770388, Casemate, Mimesis International, January 2017
262 pp., 21x14 cm, 30 illus.

Peter Eisenman (Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, Eisenman Architects, New York, USA) discusses with architects and philosophers: Jorg H. Gleiter (Germany), Kim Forster (Switzerland), Preston Scott Cohen (USA), Emmanuel Petit (USA), Mario Carpo...

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Military

Phantoms of Bribie The Jungles of Vietnam to Corporate Life and Everything in Between

Mackay Ian

ISBN: PB: 9781925275575, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
320 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm, 50 black&white illus. and maps

The Phantoms of Bribie is a highly readable blend of an engaging yarn and a fascinating portrayal of operational service in Vietnam as an infantry company commander, leading some 100 fine young national service and regular soldiers in close quarter j...

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Photography

Portable Studio

Appleson Trevor

ISBN: HB: 9781861543806, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2016
608 pp., 22x17.5 cm

"Portable Studio" documents contemporary British youth culture, and was created in collaboration with the young people Appleson met and photographed on the streets of Birmingham in 2014. Inspired by the way identities are now curated online, the proj...

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History of Art

People, Places & Piazzas The Life & Art of Charles Hodge Mackie

Clark Pat

ISBN: PB: 9781908326911, Casemate, Sansom & Co, October 2016
176 pp., 24.4x17.2 cm, 40 colour illus.

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Architecture

Peter Salter Drawing Walmer Yard

ISBN: PB: 9781901192445, Casemate, Piano Nobile, September 2016
42 pp., 28x24 cm, 30 illus.

Published to accompany the exhibition "Peter Salter: Drawing Walmer Yard" at Piano Nobile marking the launch of Peter Salter's first residential building in Britain, this fully illustrated catalogue presents a selection of Salter's extraordinary draw...

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Fiction

Classic War Fiction

Pass Guard at Ypres

Gurner Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9781612004112, Casemate, August 2016
242 pp., 19x13.2 cm

A platoon of inexperienced British soldiers crosses to France, in excited and nervous anticipation of what is to come; they find themselves at Ypres where the battle-weary Allied troops are dug in, and slaughter surrounds them. With their young, upri...

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