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War in the North Sea The Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy 1914-1918

Barry Quintin

ISBN: HB: 9781911096382, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
456 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 100 black&white illus., 15 maps

For years before the outbreak of the First World War, it was the expectation of most officers of the Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy that very shortly thereafter, a decisive fleet action would be fought. This had a major impact on the strateg...

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Arte Militaire The Application of 17th Century Military Manuals to Conflict Archaeology

Louth Warwick

ISBN: PB: 9781911096221, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
88 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 25 black&white illus., 19 diagramss, 15 photos

Military manuals have been used as a source through a range of historical studies, but only recently has their potential to Conflict Archaeology truly been recognised. Military manuals allowed the progression of the Military Revolution from the infor...

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Phantoms of Bribie The Jungles of Vietnam to Corporate Life and Everything in Between

Mackay Ian

ISBN: PB: 9781925275575, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
320 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm, 50 black&white illus. and maps

The Phantoms of Bribie is a highly readable blend of an engaging yarn and a fascinating portrayal of operational service in Vietnam as an infantry company commander, leading some 100 fine young national service and regular soldiers in close quarter j...

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History of Art

William Coldstream | Euan Uglow Daisies and Nudes

ISBN: PB: 9781901192452, Casemate, Piano Nobile, November 2016
68 pp., 29x25 cm, 37 colour illus.

Published to accompany the exhibition at Piano Nobile, "William Coldstream | Euan Uglow: Daisies and Nudes" is a fully illustrated publication examining for the first time the unique relationship between William Coldstream and Euan Uglow. Uglow stu...

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Criminology

Murder at the Fort A Double Homicide Cold Case and Cover Up!

Marmion Bob

ISBN: PB: 9781925520118, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
324 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm, 50 black&white illus. and maps

Early one cold, wintry morning in late May 1942, the bullet-ridden body of Driver Roy Willis was found on the side of the road. He had been shot a number of times with a military revolver. Despite extensive enquiries by some of the Victoria Police's...

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Biography & Memoires

General and the President MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War

Brands H. W.

ISBN: HB: 9780385540575, Casemate, Presidio Press, November 2016
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, illus.

From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the post-World War II order....

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Military

White Sniper Simo Hayha

Saarelainen Tapio

ISBN: HB: 9781612004297, Casemate, November 2016
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Simo Hنyhن (1905-2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought between Russia and Finland in 1939-1940 he had 542 confirmed kills with iron sights, a record that still stands today. He has been a role model for snipers al...

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History of Art

Sovereign Artist Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV

Burchard Wolf, Le Brun Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781911300052, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, November 2016
272 pp., 28x24 cm, 200 colour illus.

In his joint capacities of Premier peintre du roi, director of the Gobelins manufactory and rector of the Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Le Brun exercised a previously unprecedented influence on the production of the visual arts – so mu...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Tigers in Combat, Volume III Operation, Training, Tactics

Schneider Wolfgang

ISBN: HB: 9781910777978, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
520 pp., 30.5x21.8 cm, 1200 photos

"Tigers in Combat, Volume 3" closes the gap between the unit histories of volumes 1 and 2 and the technical descriptions in the Jentz and Spielberger books. For the first time, efforts are described in detail of what was taken to create units and wha...

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Decorative Arts

Bringing Heaven to Earth Silver Jewellery and Ornament in the Late Qing Dynasty

Herridge Elizabeth, Wood Francis

ISBN: PB: 9780995557703, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, November 2016
200 pp., 28x24 cm, 150 illus.

The prowess of Chinese creative abilities in the decorative arts in the 19th and early 20th centuries was well known globally, but, while much has been written about Chinese textiles and on the influence of the East on European styles of the time, th...

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