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William Henry Hunt Country People

Selborne Joanna, Payne Christina

ISBN: PB: 9781911300236, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, June 2017
60 pp., 21x21 cm, 25 colour illus.

Taking its lead from W. H. Hunt's watercolour The Head Gardener, c. 1825, that is part of The Courtauld Gallery's permanent collection, this focused display will be first to investigate Hunt's depiction of rural figures in his work of the 1820s and 1...

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Decorative Arts

Rothschild Renaissance A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum

Shirley Pippa, ? Thornton Dora

ISBN: PB: 9780861592128, Casemate, British Museum Press, June 2017
200 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 230 illus.

In 1898, Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild bequeathed to the British Museum the contents from the New Smoking Room at Waddesdon Manor, a collection of nearly 300 objects to be known as the Waddesdon Bequest. The Bequest contains some of the most beautifu...

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Military

Tigers of Bastogne Voices of the 10th Armored Division during the Battle of the Bulge

Collins Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781612004761, ISBN: HB: 9781612001814, Casemate, June 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The gallant stand of the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne has long become part of historical and media legend. But how many students of the war realize there was already a U.S. unit holding the town when they arrived? And this unit – the 10th Armo...

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Military

Lost Opportunity The Battle of the Ardennes 22 August 1914

House Simon J.

ISBN: HB: 9781911096429, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
256 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 50 colour maps

On 22 August 1914 – on a battlefield 100 kilometres wide stretching from Luxembourg to the River Meuse – two French and two German armies clashed in a series of encounters known collectively as the Battle of the Ardennes. On that day, 27,000 young Fr...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 2: From Glory to Defeat 1942-1945

Cony Christophe, Roba Jean-Louis

ISBN: PB: 9781612004556, Casemate, June 2017
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 400 colour illus.

Eighty years after its creation, the Luftwaffe is still one of the most fascinating forces in the history of aviation. A companion to Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 1, which covered the victory years from 1939 up to Spring 1942, this volume with nearly 4...

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Military

Meade and Lee After Gettysburg Volume 1: From Falling Waters to Culpeper Courthouse, July 14 to October 1, 1863

Hunt Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9781611213430, Casemate, Savas Beatie, June 2017
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 maps, 25 illus.

The period of the Civil War in Virginia sandwiched between the traditional ending date of the Gettysburg Campaign and the arrival of U. S. Grant is routinely overlooked. The operations conducted during that period have been overshadowed by the bloods...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Dubno 1941 The Greatest Tank Battle of the Second World War

Isaev Aleksei

ISBN: HB: 9781910777749, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
256 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 9 colour illus., 134 black&white photos, 15 maps

In June 1941 – during the first week of the Nazi invasion in the Soviet Union – the quiet cornfields and towns of Western Ukraine were awakened by the clanking of steel and thunder of explosions; this was the greatest tank battle of the Second World...

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Military

Aviation

100 Hour War The Conflict Between Honduras and El Salvador in July 1969

Overall Mario, Hagedorn Dan

ISBN: PB: 9781911096504, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
104 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 25 colour photos, 120 black&white photos

In July 1969, while the world was expectant about the upcoming first manned landing on the moon, two little-known Central American States crossed sabers in what was derogatorily coined by the media as "The Soccer War". Far from a simple out-of-hand s...

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Military

Battle of the Bridges The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Operation Market Garden

van Lunteren Frank

ISBN: PB: 9781612004778, ISBN: HB: 9781612002323, Casemate, June 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Operation Market Garden has been recorded as a complete Allied failure in World War II, an overreach that resulted in an entire airborne division being destroyed at its apex. However, within that operation were episodes of heroism that still remain u...

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Military

Short History

Big Guns Artillery on the Battlefield

Konstam Angus

ISBN: PB: 9781612004884, Casemate, June 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Ever since the first appearance of large-calibre guns in the Middle Ages, gunpowder artillery has had an enormous impact on military strategy and warfare. Cannons were initially developed to tackle fortifications, but then technology enabled the deve...

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