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History of Art

Fogg Sam, Butler-Wheelhouse Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781911300120, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, November 2016
72 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 95 colour illus.

The rich variety of languages, religious traditions and schools of art of the Indian subcontinent are brought together in this exceptional library of Indian manuscripts. Religious and philosophical texts from Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Jain, Sikh and...

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Europe

Military

Battle of Montgomery, 1644 The English Civil War in the Welsh Borderlands

Worton Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9781911096238, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
120 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 8 maps, 8 black&white illus., 42 colour illus.

Reflecting on the Battle of Montgomery, Sir Thomas Myddelton – who had jointly commanded the victorious Parliamentarian Army – later described it as: "as great a victory as hath been gained in any part of the kingdom". Fought on 18 September 1644 in...

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Lessons Learned The Australian Military and Tropical Medicine

Quail Geoffrey

ISBN: HB: 9781925520224, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
276 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm, 50 illus. and maps

Historically, prolonged campaigns have been frequently lost or won because of the greater fitness of one of the combatant armies. In the twentieth century, infection was still a major problem, leading to withdrawal from Gallipoli, and the near defeat...

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Military

Drive on Moscow, 1941 Operation Taifun and Germany's First Great Crisis in World War II

Zetterling Niklas, Frankson Anders

ISBN: PB: 9781612004334, Casemate, November 2016
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 24 photos, 7 maps

At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well trained, confident, and had good reasons to hope that the war in the East would be over with one last offensi...

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Military

Letters From Timor

Ramsden Graeme

ISBN: PB: 9781921941009, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
250 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 50 illus. and maps

Chaplain Graeme Ramsden served in Vietnam as a soldier and subsequently studied theology and was ordained as a deacon of the Roman Catholic Church. He commenced duties as a chaplain in the Australian Regular Army and was deployed on operations to sup...

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War in the East A Military History of the Russo-Turkish War 1877-78

Barry Quintin

ISBN: PB: 9781911096696, ISBN: HB: 9781907677113, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 266 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 25 maps

When Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire in April 1877, it was the fifth time during the nineteenth century that hostilities had broken out between the two empires. On this occasion the other Great Powers had done all they could to prevent it,...

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Eureka Stockade A Ferocious and Bloody Battle

Blake Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9781922132048, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
236 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

"Eureka Stockade: A Ferocious and Bloody Battle", is the epic account of the battle for the Eureka Stockade, an iconic moment in Australian history. On the chilly dawn morning of 3 December 1854 British soldiers and police of the Victorian colonial g...

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Contemporary Art

Photography

Erwin Blumenfeld From Dada to Vogue

Blumenfeld Yorick

ISBN: PB: 9780993078682, Casemate, Osborne Samuel Gallery, October 2016
120 pp., 26.5x20.5 cm, illus.

The remarkable life and career of pioneering photographer Erwin Blumenfeld has been well documented. A pre-war visit to New York established his reputation, once he returned in 1941 he rapidly became one of the best known and most creative fashion ph...

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Military

6th Airborne Normandy 1944

Marriott Leo, Forty Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781612004211, Casemate, Past & Present, October 2016
64 pp., 23.4x18.4 cm, 140 illus.

Operation Tonga began at 22:56 on the night of 5 June, when six Halifax heavy bombers took off from Tarrant Rushton towing six Horsas carrying a coup-de-main force consisting of D Coy, Ox and Bucks LI reinforced with two extra platoons from B Coy and...

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Omaha Beach Normandy 1944

Marriott Leo, Forty Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781612004259, Casemate, Past & Present, October 2016
64 pp., 23.4x18.4 cm, 140 illus.

Of the five beaches attacked on 6 June, Omaha saw the sternest fighting. Well-placed defenders on the high ground and extensive beach defenses did their job. On top of this, so much had gone wrong with the first wave: many of the amphibious DD Sherma...

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