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Into the Dark A Bomber Command Story of Combat and Survival, Discovery and Remembrance
ISBN: HB: 9780992620769, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, May 2015
208 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.
On 20 January 1944 Bomber Command Navigator Reginald Wilson's Halifax, LW337, comes into the sights of an ace Luftwaffe night fighter pilot, and is blown from the darkness above the German capital Berlin. Reg, yet to celebrate his twenty-first birthd...
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£19,00
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Monographs, No. 03 Messerschmitt Bf 109, Volume I
ISBN: HB: 9788364596384, Casemate, Kagero, May 2015
192 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 108 archival photographs, 103 renders, 18 paintings
Not for sale in Poland! The monograph devoted to the early versions of the Messerschmitt Bf 109, the most famous WW2 German fighter, discusses its origins and development with coverage of changes made in its first prototypes, A-D variants and their...
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£25,00
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Stalin's Favorite: The Combat History of the 2nd Guards Tank Army from Kursk to Berlin Volume 1: January 1943 - June 1944
ISBN: HB: 9781909982154, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2015
504 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 250 black&white photos, 24 colour maps, 70 tables
This is the first detailed combat history of any Soviet unit available in the English language known to the author. The 2nd Tank Army was not an ordinary force; by 1945 it was an elite Guards formation which played a decisive role in the Soviet offen...
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£45,00
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Super Drawings in 3D Battleship USS North Carolina
ISBN: PB: 9788364596360, Casemate, Kagero, May 2015
80 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 100 renders
Not for sale in Poland! Launched in 1940, North Carolina was the first U.S. newly built battleship to have taken part in the war in the Pacific. During her busy combat career she demonstrated that battleships could perform very well indeed in their...
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£18,00
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Thunder Bird in Bomber Command The Wartime Letters and Story of Lionel Andreson, the Man Who Inspired the Thunderbirds Legend
ISBN: HB: 9780992620776, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, May 2015
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Shot down and killed in April 1944, Lionel Anderson, a low flying Mosquito intruder pilot, was part way through his second tour of operations. He had survived his first tour stooging up and down the French coast in an outdated Boulton Paul Defiant to...
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£19,00
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Dearest Mother First World War Letters Home from a Young Sapper Officer in France and Salonika
ISBN: PB: 9781910294574, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2015
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 100 black&white illus.
John Stanhope Baines, a Winchester classical scholar and young Royal Engineers officer, was on active service in France and Salonika during the First World War. Throughout this time he wrote to his "Dearest Mother", who had studied classics at Cambri...
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£16,00
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Pox of Liberty How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection
ISBN: HB: 9780226922171, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 7 tables
The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world. But that wealth hasn't translated to a higher life expectancy, an area where the United States still ranks thirty-eighth – behind Cuba, Chile, Costa Rica, and Greece, among many others....
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£32,00
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In the Watches of the Night Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930
ISBN: PB: 9780226269542, ISBN: HB: 9780226036021, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones
Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks,...
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£22,00
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£42,00
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Asia First China and the Making of Modern American Conservatism
ISBN: HB: 9780226252711, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
After Japanese bombs hit Pearl Harbor, the American right stood at a crossroads. Generally isolationist, conservatives needed to forge their own foreign policy agenda if they wanted to remain politically viable. When Mao Zedong established the People...
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£32,00
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Attu Boy A Young Alaskan's WWII Memoir
ISBN: PB: 9781602232495, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2015
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 photos, 2 maps, 2 charts
In the quiet of morning, exactly six months after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese touched down on American soil. Landing on the remote Alaska island of Attu, they assailed an entire village, holding the Alaskan villagers for two months and eventually corr...
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£17,50
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