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Some Other and Wider Destiny Wakefield Grammar School Foundation and the Great War

Merckx Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9781912174010, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
416 pp., 24.5x18 cm, 46 colour illus., 209 black&white illus.

The First World War demanded one of the most sustained and extraordinary efforts ever made by the British people. It was made possible by a multitude of individuals and by the communities of which they were a part. This study is a celebration one of...

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History of Art

Soutine's Portraits Cooks, Waiters and Bellboys

Serres Karen, Wright Barnaby

ISBN: PB: 9781911300212, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, October 2017
144 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus.

Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) produced some of the most powerful and expressive portraits of modern times. His ability to capture in paint the character, humanity and emotion of his sitters is the hallmark of Soutine's greatest work. The major exhibition...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

SMI Library, No. 12 P-51/F-6 Mustangs with USAAF - in the MTO

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788365437112, Casemate, Kagero, July 2017
88 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 133 illus.

Not for sale in Europe! North American P-51 Mustang, famed for its service in the US Army Air Force as a long-rage escort fighter over western Europe, was no less successful in the other three major combat areas of World War Two: the Mediterranean,...

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Biography & Memoires

Stirling to Essen The Godmanchester Stirling: A Bomber Command Story of Courage and Tragedy

Leivers Roger

ISBN: HB: 9780993415289, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, July 2017
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 60 illus.

On 11 April 1942, a stricken Short Stirling Royal Air Force bomber crashes into fields to the east of Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire, England. Hours earlier the commitment and skill of the crew had been tested to the limit confronting the formidable...

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Military

Short History

Sharpshooters Marksmen through the Ages

Yee Gary

ISBN: PB: 9781612004860, Casemate, June 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

From the Middle Ages on the most precise shooters have been employed as marksmen or sharpshooters, and equipped with the best available weapons. The German states made the first serious use of sharpshooters on the battlefield during the Seven Years W...

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Political Science

Middle East

Struggle for Iraq A View from the Ground Up

Renahan Thomas M.

ISBN: HB: 9781612348827, Casemate, Potomac Books, June 2017
536 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Struggle for Iraq" is a vivid personal account of the Iraqi people's fight for democracy and justice by an American political scientist. Thomas M. Renahan arrived in southern Iraq just three days before the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003; lat...

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America

Six Days in September A Novel of the 1862 Maryland Campaign

Rossino Alexander B.

ISBN: HB: 9781611213454, Casemate, Savas Beatie, May 2017
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 maps, illus.

Alex Rossino's Six Days in September is a gripping, fast-paced account of Robert E. Lee's 1862 campaign to win Southern independence by carrying the war north into Maryland. The thrust across the Potomac River triggered a determined Federal response...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

Slybirds A Photographic Odyssey of the 353rd Fighter Group During the Second World War

Cross Graham

ISBN: HB: 9780993415265, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, May 2017
208 pp., 21x27.5 cm, 450 illus.

The distinctive black and yellow chequered markings of the 353rd Fighter Group, the "Slybirds", made them one of the USAAF 'Mighty' 8th Air Force's most colourful fighter groups. Flying P-47D Thunderbolts and later P-51D Mustangs the 353rd's appearan...

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Military

Somme Four Years of Fighting

Brown Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9782815102926, Casemate, OREP, April 2017
48 pp., 24x17 cm

Throughout the course of centuries, the Somme has been the scene of numerous battles and the passageway for armies. However, the Great War of 1914-1918 was, by far, the most murderous conflict to fall upon the region, leaving in its wake an indelible...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Scrapyard Armour Scenes from a Russian Armour Scrapyard

Parker David, Neville Mark, Taylar Andy

ISBN: PB: 9780993564604, Casemate, AFV Modeller, April 2017
116 pp., 29.7x21 cm

116 pages featuring 3 different model builds and 40 pages of walkaround images from the scrapyard Armour.

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