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Blinking Red Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11

Allen Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781612348230, ISBN: HB: 9781612346151, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
280 pp., 23x15 cm

After the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission argued that the United States needed a powerful leader, a spymaster, to forge the scattered intelligence bureaucracies into a singular enterprise to vanquish America's new enemies – stateless intern...

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Military

Selling War A Critical Look at the Military's PR Machine

Alvarez Steven J.

ISBN: HB: 9781612347721, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2016
384 pp., 23x15 cm

In the spring of 2004, army reservist and public affairs officer Steven J. Alvarez waited to be called up as the U.S. military stormed Baghdad and deposed Saddam Hussein. But soon after President Bush's famous PR stunt in which an aircraft carrier di...

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History of Art

Endeavouring Banks Exploring the Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771

Attenborough David, Agnarsdottir Anna, Coote Jeremy, Hatfield Phillip J., Gascoigne John

ISBN: HB: 9781907372902, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, May 2016
235 pp., 28x24 cm, 150 colour illus.

When English naturalist Joseph Banks (1743-1820) accompanied Captain James Cook (1728-1779) on his historic mission into the Pacific, the Endeavour voyage of 1768-1771, he took with him a team of collectors and illustrators. Banks and his team return...

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Fiction

Classic War Fiction

Whistlers' Room

Alverdes Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781612004662, Casemate, April 2016
128 pp., 19x13.2 cm

"The Whistlers' Room" is the surprisingly gentle, sensitive story of a section in a German hospital where three soldiers try to recover from battle injuries. They are known as the Whistlers, as all were shot in the throat and their breathing results...

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Military

You Can't Get Much Closer Than This Combat with the 80th "Blue Ridge" Division in World War II Europe

Adkins Andrew Z.

ISBN: PB: 9781612003108, Casemate, March 2015
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In 1943, Andrew Z. Adkins, Jr. joined the 80th Infantry Division, then undergoing its final training cycle in the California-Arizona desert. Upon reaching the division, 2nd Lieutenant Adkins was assigned as an 81 mm mortar section leader in Company H...

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History of Art

Art, Artisans and Apprentices Apprentice Painters and Sculptors in the Early Modern British Tradition

Ayres James

ISBN: HB: 9781782977421, Casemate, Oxbow Books, June 2014
536 pp., 23.8x16.6 cm

Before the foundation of academies of art in London in 1768 and Philadelphia in 1805, most individuals who were to emerge as artists trained in workshops of varying degrees of relevance. Easel painters began their careers apprenticed to carriage, hou...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

F/Rf-4e Phantom II

Anestis Alexandros, Papadimitriou George

ISBN: PB: 9789606740756, Casemate, Periscopio Publications, March 2010
128 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 400 colour photos, 30 colour profiles, 8 scale plans

We are glad to introduce to you the third volume of Periscopio's series of modelling and historical reference publications under the title "PHOTO GALLERY & PROFILES". This volume covers in 140 pages the most successful versions of an aeroplane that r...

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Fiction

Told The Art of Story

Aboud Simon, Wilson Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781861543042, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, June 2009
192 pp., 27.4x20 cm, full-colour illus.

Told is about the art of story, not the science. It defines the twenty great principles of storytelling and then shows how they work by weaving them into 30 illustrated short stories that vary in format from poetry to screenplay. From genre to premi...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Reference

Marine Corps Uniforms & Equipment, 1941-45

Alberti Bruno

ISBN: HB: 9782915239997, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, May 2007
144 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, full colour throughout

Bruno Alberti and Laurent Pradier have been collecting and writing about U S Marine Corps gear for more than a decade and, in that time, have contributed complete series of articles on the topic in the French Militaria Magazine. That sequence of arti...

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Aviation

Dragons on Bird Wings The Combat History of the 812th Fighter Air Regiment, Volume 1: Liberation of the Motherland

Antipov Vlad, Utkin Igor

ISBN: PB: 9780978069605, Casemate, Aviaeology, October 2006
160 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 black&white illus.

Follow the 3rd Fighter Aviation Corps along its Combat Path during the Liberation of the Motherland through the experiences of one of its units – the 812th. The first volume in this series, "Dragons on Bird Wings" is illustrated throughout with photo...

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