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Molotov Stalin's Cold Warrior

Roberts Geoffrey

ISBN: HB: 9781574889451, Casemate, Potomac Books, December 2009
254 pp., 23x15 cm

The orthodox view of Vyacheslav Molotov is that he was no more than Stalin's faithful servant; a dogmatic conservative communist of little or no imagination. Molotov was, indeed, Stalin's right-hand man while from the 1920s the two men presided over...

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Biography & Memoires

Men of Barbarossa Battles and Leaders of the German Invasion of Russia, 1941

Mitcham Jr. Samuel W.

ISBN: HB: 9781935149156, Casemate, December 2009
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This book not only tells the story of Operation Barbarossa but describes the expertise, skills, and decision-making powers of the men who directed it. The result is an illuminating look at the personalities behind the carnage, as summer triumph turne...

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Airborne 44 12 inch Allied D-Day Paratrooper Figures

Boutellier Frederic, Dupuis Pierre Andre

ISBN: HB: 9782915239966, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, October 2009
128 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm

The scenes reconstituted and revisited by Frederic Bouteiller and Pierre-Andre Dupuis, all inspired by real events and veterans' recollections, fill in a gap left by the official photographs. History is relived with these 12" figures. Action figures...

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Dismantling the West Russia's Atlantic Agenda

Bugajski Janusz

ISBN: HB: 9781597972109, Casemate, Potomac Books, October 2009
268 pp., 23x15 cm

As the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008 demonstrated in no uncertain terms, Russia has developed into a neo-imperialist power seeking to restore its spheres of dominance, to undermine the emergence of a wider Europe, and to prevent the deve...

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Military Game

Warlord Games Black Powder: Battles with Model Soldiers in the Age of the Musket

Johnson Jervis, Newman Rick

ISBN: HB: 9780956358103, Casemate, Warlord Games, September 2009
182 pp., 30x21.5 cm, 6 battle maps, full colour illustrations throughout

"Black Powder" is Warlord Games' first publication. It is a beautiful book in its own right with hundreds of colour photo of the most exquisitely painted model soldiers taken from the world's foremost collections. The rule book's intention is inspire...

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Aviation

Canadian Aircraft of WWII

Vincent Carl

ISBN: PB: 9780978069636, Casemate, Aviaeology, September 2009
80 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 120 illus.

Drawing on an immense range of archival records, memoirs, and photographs collected over decades of diligent research, author Carl Vincent provides a unique insight into some of the men and machines covered under the broad title Canadian Aircraft of...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Reference

Allied and German Soldiers Normandy 1944

Pauleian Erwan

ISBN: PB: 9782915762884, Casemate, OREP, July 2009
48 pp., 24x17 cm, illustrated throughout

On the 6th of June 1944, thousands of men landed on the Normandy beaches to free Europe from the Nazi occupation. Over 2 months, soldiers of all origins were to battle in the Normandy bocage. American and British soldiers of course, but also Canadian...

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US Military Vehicles: Normandy 1944

Pauleian Erwan

ISBN: PB: 9782915762204, Casemate, OREP, July 2009
48 pp., 24x17 cm, illustrated throughout

During the Battle of Normandy, the US Army used a striking array of different vehicles for various purposes, from motorcycles to tanks. Many of them survived the war to either continue service within different armies or to become the pride of their c...

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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

Officers and Soldiers French Army, Volume 2: 1918, 1915 to Victory

Jouineau Andre

ISBN: PB: 9782352501053, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, April 2009
68 pp., 24x20 cm, colour and black&white illus.

In January 1914 the French Army had 47 divisions (777,000 French and 46,000 colonial troops) in 21 regional corps, with attached cavalry and field-artillery units. By 1918 about 40% of all French troops on the Western Front were artillerymen. Increas...

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