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In Flanders Fields The Great War Seen from the Air, 1914-1918

Stichelbaut Birger

ISBN: HB: 9780300196580, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, December 2013
396 pp., 25.4x29.8 cm, 532 black&white illus.

Aerial photography was a relatively new technology at the onset of World War I and was embraced as an indispensable tool of wartime intelligence by all nations involved in the conflict. As a result, thousands of photographs taken from the air over th...

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World

Ship of Death A Voyage that Changed the Atlantic World

Smith Billy G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300194524, Yale University Press, December 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Hankey, one small British ship that circled the Atlantic Ocean in 1792 and 1793, transformed Atlantic World history. This extraordinary book tells the just-uncovered story of the Hankey, from its altruistic begin...

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World

Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition

Blight David, Harms Robert, Freamon Bernard K.

ISBN: PB: 9780300163872, Yale University Press, December 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus., 3 maps

While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, their efforts paradoxically caused a great increase in legal and illegal slave trading in the western Indian Ocean. Bringing togethe...

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Asia

Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962 An Oral History

Xun Zhou

ISBN: HB: 9780300184044, Yale University Press, December 2013
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

In 1958, China's revered leader Mao Zedong instituted a programme designed to transform his giant nation into a Communist utopia. Called the Great Leap Forward, Mao's grand scheme – like so many other utopian dreams of the 20th century – proved a mon...

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Europe

Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944 A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives

Bidlack Richard, Lomagin Nikita, Schwartz Marian

ISBN: PB: 9780300198164, Yale University Press, December 2013
544 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 maps, 74 black&white illus.

<p>Based largely on formerly top-secret Soviet archival documents (including 66 reproduced documents and 70 illustrations), this book portrays the inner workings of the communist party and secret police during Germany's horrific 1941-1944 siege o...

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Political Science

Middle East

Struggle for Iraq's Future How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy

al-Ali Zaid

ISBN: HB: 9780300187267, Yale University Press, December 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Since the withdrawal of US occupying forces, international attention has shifted away from Iraq – but life for Iraqis has become no easier. Deadly bombings are still all too common, sectarian violence has soared and all-pervading corruption means tha...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Mini Topcolors, No. 40 Pacific Lightnings, Part 1

Goralczyk Maciej

ISBN: PB: 9788362878888, Casemate, Kagero, December 2013
16 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, highly illustrated

Not for sale in Poland! Two decal sheets with 1:72, 1:48 and 1:32 individual markings for 8 P-38 Lightnings with sexy nose art. The decal sheets were printed by Cartograf. Each painting scheme is depicted on beautifully drawn 4-view colour profiles...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

SMI Library, No. 08 The B-17 Flying Fortress in Combat Over Europe

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788362878918, Casemate, Kagero, December 2013
92 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 130 black&white illus., 11 colour photos, 4 colour profiles, decal sheets

Not for sale in Poland! The B-17 Flying Fortress epitomized the American airpower for most of the Second World War. It was by far the most effective weapon to carry out the strategic, daylight bombing campaign in Europe. The battles fought by B-17...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Top Drawings, No. 18 Battleship HMS Warspite

Koszela Witold

ISBN: PB: 9788362878925, Casemate, Kagero, December 2013
72 pp., 29.7x21 cm, drawing sheets, colour profiles, double A2 sheet with colour scheme, double B2 sheet with colour scheme

Not for sale in Poland! HMS Warspite is in the "Queen Elizabeth Class" or a superdreadnought as they became known. She saw action at Jutland and continued her career through the Second World War in action at D day before being scrapped in 1948. She...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Mini Topcolors, No. 39 Captured Panzers - German Vehicles in Allied Service

Wrobel Arkadiusz

ISBN: PB: 9788362878895, Casemate, Kagero, December 2013
16 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, highly illustrated with decal sheet

Not for sale in Poland! German armoured fighting vehicles captured by Allied troops and used against their former owners. Included in the latest Mini top colors is a decal sheet was printed by Cartograf. The authors selected the following vehicles...

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