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Surge My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War

Mansoor Peter R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300209372, Yale University Press, December 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus., 2 maps

In February 2007, U.S. Army General David Petraeus took command of the multinational coalition forces in Iraq, some 140,000 troops, to be joined by 20,000 additional American soldiers newly deployed to support the controversial strategy known as the...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Top Drawings, No. 21 Battlecruiser Haruna

Goralski Waldemar

ISBN: PB: 9788364596216, Casemate, Kagero, December 2014
24 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 22 A4 sheets of technical drawings, 10 colour images, the scales of the drawings are: 1: 100, 1: 200, 1: 250, 1: 400

Not for sale in Poland! The book contains 3D drawingsof the battleship Haruna as she appeared in 1944. They represent the individual items of equipment and parts of the battleship construction including illustrations of the command tower divided in...

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Photosniper, No. 15 Konigstiger

Szafranski Jacek, Koening Mike, Gladysiak Lukasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596230, Casemate, Kagero, December 2014
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, archive photos, colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! Weighing in at nearly 70 tons the Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf. B, now known as Konigstiger was the largest mass-produced tracked combat vehicle, which was sent to the units of the Third Reich. Armed with a 88 mm caliber gun, th...

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Photosniper, No. 14 Volume 1: Panzerjager 38 (t) Hetzer & G13

Michalski Hubert

ISBN: PB: 9788364596131, 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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Photosniper, No. 13 Sturmgeschutz IV

Jaszczolt Marek, Idzikowski Tomasz, Gladysiak Lukasz

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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Europe

Military

Disease, War, and the Imperial State The Welfare of the British Armed Forces during the Seven Years' War

Charters Erica

ISBN: HB: 9780226180007, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 map, 1 table

The Seven Years' War, often called the first global war, spanned North America, the West Indies, Europe, and India. In these locations diseases such as scurvy, smallpox, and yellow fever killed far more than combat did, stretching the resources of Eu...

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Wellington's Wars The Making of a Military Genius

Davies Huw

ISBN: PB: 9780300208658, ISBN: HB: 9780300164176, Yale University Press, October 2014
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington lives on in popular memory as the 'Invincible General', loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This incisive book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate – and controversial – n...

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Current Affairs

Military

Useful Enemies When Waging Wars is More Important Than Winning Them

Keen David

ISBN: PB: 9780300205435, Yale University Press, October 2014
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm

There are currently between twenty and thirty civil wars worldwide, while at a global level the Cold War has been succeeded by a "war on drugs" and a "war on terror" that continues to rage a decade after 9/11. Why is this, when we know how destructiv...

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Festung Guernsey, Volumes 2.1 & 2.2 Weapons Deployed and Mirus Battery

ISBN: PB: 9780992667139, Casemate, Clear Vue Publishing, October 2014
102 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 218 illus.

This book is unique amongst all volumes on German fortifications of the Second World War, in that it was written by the German forces themselves. It is the ultimate guide to their defensive planning and mindset. The Channel Islands of Guernsey and J...

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Festung Guernsey, Volumes 1.3 & 1.4 Tactical Review of the Fortified Areas and Fortified Structures

ISBN: PB: 9780992667122, Casemate, Clear Vue Publishing, October 2014
114 pp., 29.7x21 cm, approx. 200 illus.

This book is unique amongst all volumes on German fortifications of the Second World War, in that it was written by the German forces themselves. It is the ultimate guide to their defensive planning and mindset. The Channel Islands of Guernsey and J...

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