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Looking Forward Looking Back Customs and Traditions of the Australian Army
ISBN: HB: 9780980325164, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
288 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm
"Looking Forward, Looking Back" explores the Australian Army's rich and proud history. The Australian Army boasts a broad variety of traditions, some of which belong the the Service as a whole, others to a particular corps, regiment or rank. Some are...
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£14,00
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Lusitania The Cultural History of a Catastrophe
ISBN: HB: 9780300221381, Yale University Press, September 2016
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 35 black&white illus.
A fascinating reassessment of a turning point in the First World War, revealing its role in shaping the German psyche On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, a large British luxury liner, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast. Nearly 1,200 people...
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£18,99
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Dazzle Disguise and Disruption in War and Art
ISBN: HB: 9781910860144, Casemate, The Pool of London Press, September 2016
128 pp., 26.4x21 cm
In 1917 Dazzle painting, also known as Dazzle camouflage, was conceived and developed by the celebrated marine artist and then naval commander Norman Wilkinson. Dazzle rejected concealment in favour of disruption. It seeks to break up a ship's silhou...
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£20,00
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Armoured Hussars Volume 2: Images of the 1st Polish Armoured Division, Normandy, August 1944
ISBN: PB: 9781910777237, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2015
184 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 250 photos, 8 colour profiles
"Armoured Hussars 2" provides a highly-illustrated account of the 1st Polish Armoured Division's baptism of fire in Normandy in August 1944, from Operations Totalise and Tractable to the victory at Falaise, culminating at the climactic battle on Mont...
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£25,00
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Hitler's Last Levy in East Prussia Volkssturm Einsatz Batallion Goldap (25/235), 1944-45
ISBN: PB: 9781909982727, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2015
72 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 black&white photos, 1 map
On 16 October, 1944, the 3rd White Russian Front launched its massive offensive against Heeresgruppe Mitte. The German 4th Armee, whose line of defense stretched from Nowograd on the Narew to Memel, was quickly broken through. This is the very pers...
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£16,00
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Photosniper, No. 13 Sturmgeschutz IV
ISBN: PB: 9788364596209, Casemate, Kagero, November 2014
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, archive photos, colour profiles
Not for sale in Poland! The new format of the book – A4 80 pages archive photos color profiles matte coated paper soft cover binding
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£16,00
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WWII A Chronicle of Soldiering
ISBN: PB: 9780226180939, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 3 maps, 1 line drawing
In 1975, James Jones – the American author whose novels "From Here to Eternity" and "The Thin Red Line" had made him the preeminent voice of the enlisted man in World War II – was chosen to write the text for an oversized coffee table book edited by...
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£13,00
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Armoured Hussars Volume 1: Images of the 1st Polish Armoured Division, 1939-47
ISBN: PB: 9781909384439, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2014
148 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 250 black&white illus.
This wonderful album is a brilliant pictorial history of the 1st Polish Armoured Division composed of about 250 photographs, documents and publications largely collected by WO1 Alexander Leon "Manka" Jarzembowski, a veteran of 2nd Armoured Regiment,...
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£19,00
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Afghan Way of War Culture and Pragmatism: A Critical History
ISBN: PB: 9781849043762, ISBN: HB: 9781849041065, Hurst Publishers, April 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Included in the narrative are the wider Pashtun population that lived astride the British Imperial/Pakistan border, not just those Pashtuns resident in the modern state of Afghanistan. The literature on the Afghan wars and fro...
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£18,99
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£30,00
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Great Agnostic Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
ISBN: PB: 9780300205787, ISBN: HB: 9780300137255, Yale University Press, March 2014
192 pp., 21x14 cm
During the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America's enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersoll was known as "the Great Agnostic". The nation's most famous orator, he raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separa...
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