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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

Military

Photosniper, No. 10 AMX-30, Volume 1: Char de Bataille 1966-2006

Robinson M. P.

ISBN: PB: 9788362878994, Casemate, Kagero, May 2014
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 110 colour and black&white illus., 8 colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! The AMX-30 was France's principal battle tank for over 30 years and continues to serve the French Army in later forms even to this day. In this first work of a two volume study examining the history of the AMX-30 battle tank...

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Military

Photosniper, No. 11 Volume 2: Challenger 1 - Main Battle Tank

Griffin Robert

ISBN: PB: 9788364596001, Casemate, Kagero, May 2014
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 185 archive photos, 10 colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! In Challenger 1 Volume 2 Robert Griffin outlines the service career of the Challenger 1 Main Battle Tank and Challenger Repair and Recovery Vehicle. This exciting Photosniper title includes numerous period photographs in col...

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Military

Polonica

Armoured Hussars Volume 1: Images of the 1st Polish Armoured Division, 1939-47

Jarzembowski Janusz

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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Modelling - Military Drawings

Top Drawings, No. 19 Battleship HMS Duke of York

Koszela Witold

ISBN: PB: 9788364596025, Casemate, Kagero, May 2014
32 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 4 double A2 sheet with colour schem, colour profiles, drawings sheets

Not for sale in Poland! HMS Duke of York was the third of the King George V class battleships to be built after a lull in battleship design and construction following the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty. The battleship was laid down on May 5...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Generalissimo Stalin The Myth of Stalin as a Great Military Strategist

Gorbachevsky Boris

ISBN: PB: 9781909384255, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2014
350 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus, maps

This new book from the author of Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front reveals a bitter truth about that war, which has thrown neo-Stalinists in Russia today into a fury. A frontline veteran who survived the most savage...

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Military

Aviation

Henry Maudslay Dam Buster

Owen Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780992620707, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, April 2014
400 pp., 27.3x21 cm, black&white illus.

The Dam Buster raid, Operation Chastise, has gone down in history as one of the greatest feats of arms executed by the Royal Air Force. Extraordinary demands were placed upon the airmen who took part in the raid, one of whom was the particularly acco...

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Fashion

Tokyo Adorned

Card Thomas C.

ISBN: HB: 9781861543479, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, March 2014
132 pp., 38x30.5 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

A celebration of Tokyo and its thriving fashion subculture, this book takes its subjects off the city streets to focus on the personalities behind the clothing and capturing the magnetic culture of the city's fashion tribes. Included are Kumamiki –...

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Military

Zhitomir-Berdichev Volume 2: German Operations West of Kiev 24 December 1943 - 31 January 1944

Barratt Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9781909384101, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2014
616 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white photos, 253 colour maps in separately-bound mapbook

This is the second volume of a two-volume set which together comprise a detailed and well-researched history of the important but neglected operation that was to be the beginning of the liberation of western Ukraine. On 24 December 1943, the Red Army...

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Military

Festung Guernsey, Volume 1.1 The English Garrisons on Guernsey

ISBN: PB: 9780992667108, Casemate, Clear Vue Publishing, March 2014
84 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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