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Fearlessly into the Fight The Life and Battles of Confederate General William Barksdale from the Halls of Congress to the Fields of Gettysburg
ISBN: HB: 9781611213928, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2018
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 29 images, 9 maps
William Barksdale, a prominent Mississippi attorney and newspaper editor, won a seat in the U.S. Congress in 1853. His pro-slavery views and vocal support for states' rights earned the democrat national prominence and helped push the country closer t...
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£25,00
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Nazi Millionaires
ISBN: PB: 9781612005959, Casemate, April 2018
320 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, black&white photographs
During the final days of World War II, German SS officers crammed trains, cars, and trucks full of gold, currency, and jewels, and headed for the mountains of Austria. Fearful of arrest and determined to keep the stolen loot out of Allied hands, they...
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£9,00
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Bejewelled Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England
ISBN: PB: 9780861592098, Casemate, British Museum Press, December 2017
200 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 160 illus.
Jewellery is often viewed as a feminine preoccupation, but in Tudor and Jacobean England men wore just as much (if not more) jewellery as their female counterparts. Jewels themselves were valued not merely for their intrinsic monetary worth, but also...
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£40,00
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7 Leadership Lessons of D-Day Lessons from the Longest Day - June 6, 1944
ISBN: HB: 9781612005294, Casemate, September 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 35 illus.
The odds were against the Allies on June 6, 1944. The task ahead of the paratroopers who jumped over Normandy and the soldiers who waded ashore onto the beaches, all under fire, was colossal. In such circumstances good leadership can be the defining...
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£25,00
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Lost Idol The Life and Death of a Young Officer: Esmond Elliot 1895-1917
ISBN: HB: 9781912174027, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
248 pp., 24.5x18 cm, 100 illus. and maps
Esmond Elliot, younger son of the Earl of Minto, Viceroy of India, was killed while serving with the Scots Guards, aged 22, at the beginning of the Passchendaele Offensive. Compiled from his grieving mother's memorial of his life, together with his...
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£25,00
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In the Shadow of Bois Hugo The 8th Lincolns at the Battle of Loos
ISBN: PB: 9781911512776, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
128 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 illus., maps
This is the first book dedicated to the subject of the 8th (Service) Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment during the First World War – and this particular Kitchener battalion has been a neglected topic of study; however, there is a rich mine of informati...
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£16,00
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Duty Nobly Done The South Wales Borderers at Gallipoli 1915
ISBN: HB: 9781911512172, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
364 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 maps, 2 colour illus., 41 black&white illus.
While the main emphasis of the Great War was on the Western Front of France and Belgium, the British Army also took part in what was a lesser known conflict, but one of equal intensity and drama. This was at Gallipoli, on the shores of Turkey, betwee...
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£29,00
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Important European Sculpture Tomasso Brothers Fine Art
ISBN: HB: 9781911300151, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, January 2017
176 pp., 28x24 cm
This richly illustrated and scholarly catalogue accompanies an exhibition at Carlton Hobbs in New York, January 2017. Among the 25 beautiful works, dating from the early Renaissance to the Neoclassical period, are important statuettes by masters such...
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£30,00
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Portable Studio
ISBN: HB: 9781861543806, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2016
608 pp., 22x17.5 cm
"Portable Studio" documents contemporary British youth culture, and was created in collaboration with the young people Appleson met and photographed on the streets of Birmingham in 2014. Inspired by the way identities are now curated online, the proj...
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£35,00
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Scale Modelling WW1 Tanks
ISBN: PB: 9782352504689, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, October 2016
128 pp., 29.5x20.8 cm, 500 colour and black&white illus.
"Tank Models of the First World War" accurately describes assembly methods, painting and realization of dioramas for each of the 6 models: the Mark IV "Male" English, Mark IV "Female" and the German A7V, Schneider CA, the St. Chamond and the French R...
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£20,00
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