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Faces from the Front Harold Gillies, The Queen's Hospital, Sidcup and the Origins of Modern Plastic Surgery

Bamji Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781911512660, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
304 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 61 colour illus., 232 black&white illus., 2 tables

"Faces from the Front" examines the British response to the huge number of soldiers who incurred facial injuries during the First World War. These injuries were produced within a short time span, but (for the first time in a major conflict) did not n...

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Europe

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D-Day, What We Haven't Told You The Secrets of D-Day

Bauduin Philippe

ISBN: PB: 9782840484806, Casemate, Heimdal, June 2017
128 pp., 29.7x21 cm

The Normandy Landings of 6 June 1944 were a major and decisive episode of the Second World War and have been, for more than sixty years, the object of countless books, films, investigations, reports and television series. However, is it known that D-...

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Political Science

Military

Tribes and Politics in Yemen A History of the Houthi Conflict

Brandt Marieke

ISBN: HB: 9781849046466, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Tribes and Politics in Yemen" tells the story of the Houthi conflict in Sa'dah Province, Yemen, as seen through the eyes of the local tribes. In the West the Houthi conflict, which erupted in 2004, is often defined through the...

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Africa

Military

War for Africa 12 Months that Transformed a Continent

Bridgland Fred

ISBN: HB: 9781612004921, Casemate, May 2017
360 pp., 23.6x15.9 cm

The Angolan Civil War lasted over a quarter of a century, from 1975 to 2002. Beginning as a power struggle between two former liberation movements, the MPLA and UNITA, it became a Cold War struggle with involvement from the Soviet Union, Cuba, South...

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Military

Political Science

Police in Africa The Street Level View

Beek Jan, Gopfert Micro, Owen Olly, Steinberg Jonny

ISBN: PB: 9781849045773, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! State police forces in Africa are a curiously neglected subject of study, even within the framework of security issues and African states. This book brings together criminologists, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, pol...

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Military

Far Distant Ships The Blockade of Brest 1793-1815

Barry Quintin

ISBN: HB: 9781911512141, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 20 black&white illus.

Throughout the long drawn out war at sea during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, it was a cardinal principle of British naval strategy to blockade the port of Brest, the largest and most important of the French naval bases that threatene...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Australian Soldier Collection 1914-1918

Brown Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9782815103534, 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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Modelling - Military Drawings

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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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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

Military

British Cruiser Tanks A9 & A10

Brown Peter

ISBN: PB: 9788360672280, Casemate, Model Centrum Progres, April 2017
88 pp., 29x20.5 cm, 124 black&white photos, 30 colour plates of artwork, 64 line drawings

The A9 and A10 were the first of the British Cruiser tanks. They played an important part in the battles in France in 1940 and North Africa in 1941. Covering their development, production and service this book fills a long-neglected gap in the histor...

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