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John André The Spy Who Turned Benedict Arnold

Ronald D. A. B.

ISBN: HB: 9781612005218, Casemate, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 black&white & 15 colour illus.

John André was head of the British Army's Secret Service in North America as the Revolutionary War entered its most bitter and, ultimately, decisive phase. In 1780, he masterminded the defection of a high-ranking American officer – General Benedict A...

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Jack and Hopit, Comrades in Arms An Officer of the 9th Lancers in the Great War and his War Horse

Merton Serena

ISBN: PB: 9781911512806, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
120 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 125 black&white photos and maps

A chance discovery of the existence of the gravestone carved with the battle honours of Hopit – the Tipperary-foaled hunter – led the author to research the Great War relationship of Hopit and 19-year-old Second Lieutenant John (Jack) Forrester Colvi...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Japanese Battleships 1905-1942

Skwiot Miroslaw

ISBN: HB: 9788365437280, Casemate, Kagero, July 2017
392 pp., 29.7x21.1 cm, 100 illus.

Not for sale in Poland! This book of "The Japanese Battleships" is devoted to a technical description of the vessels built between 1911 (Kong?) and 1942 (Musashi) and their upgrades. But before we commence we must go back to the Washington Conferen...

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Survival & Combat Guide

Jungle Survival Pocket Manual 1939-1945 Instructions on Warfare, Terrain, Endurance and the Dangers of the Tropics

Jeffreys Alan

ISBN: HB: 9781910860212, Casemate, The Pool of London Press, July 2017
144 pp., 18x12 cm, 20 line illus.

During the Second World War, British and American soldiers were sent to new and challenging theatres, fighting to survive not only encounters with the enemy but the landscape they found themselves in. Being posted to South-East Asia and the Pacific t...

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Fiction

Joan of Arc Of Fire and of Blood

Eho Jerome

ISBN: PB: 9782815102971, Casemate, OREP, April 2017
72 pp., 33x24 cm

The kingdom of France was plunged into darkness. Weakened by war and famine, the country risked falling into English hands. As the dauphin Charles desperately aspired to one day become king, a young girl from Domremy, guided by mysterious voices, eme...

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Juno Beach Port-Juno Normandy 44

Benamou Jean-Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9782815103367, Casemate, OREP, July 2016
40 pp., 20x20 cm

The use of images is a device used by war correspondents to recall the actions of the armed forces of their countries. This book looks back to June 6th 1944 and the landings by the Canadians on Juno Beach, immortalised by these images of the tense fi...

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Biography & Memoires

John Bell Hood The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General

Hood Stephen M.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213300, Casemate, Savas Beatie, May 2016
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 images, 3 maps

John Bell Hood was one of the Confederacy's most enigmatic generals. He died at 48 after a brief illness in August of 1879, leaving behind the first draft of his memoirs Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate S...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Japanese Aircraft Carriers Soryu and Hiryu

Skwiot Miroslaw

ISBN: HB: 9788364596520, Casemate, Kagero, August 2015
100 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 82 archive photos, 30 drawings, 16 colour profiles, 1 map

Not for sale in Poland! Soryu meaning "Blue (or Green) Dragon") was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the mid-1930s. A sister ship, Hiryu, was intended to follow Soryu, but Hiryu's design was heavily modified and...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Junkers Ju-87 From 1936 to 1945

Leonard Herbert, Journeau Andre

ISBN: PB: 9782913903531, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, January 2011
80 pp., 23.9x19.8 cm, fully illustrated

The symbol of Blitzkrieg in the air is detailed here in 200 colour profiles, illustrating a career which began as a terror plane in Spain and ended up as a tankbuster in the Russian sky.

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Biography & Memoires

Performing Arts

Jerome Robbins That Broadway Man, That Ballet Man

Contrad Christine

ISBN: HB: 9781861541734, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2002
304 pp., 25.5x17 cm, full-colour illus.

In this first illustrated book of the celebrated choreographer's life and work, extracts from personal journals and letters with photographs from his own collection reveal how some of the masterpieces of 20th century musical theatre and dance came ab...

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