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Medieval

In the Skin of a Beast Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France

McCracken Peggy

ISBN: HB: 9780226458922, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates

In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet – whether as friends or foes – issues of mastery and submission are often at stake".In the Skin of a Beast" shows how the concept of sovereignty comes to the fore in such narratives, reflecting lar...

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Europe

Nazis The Hidden History

Moore Jonathon J.

ISBN: PB: 9781742579733, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, April 2017
312 pp., 24.3x15.3 cm, black&white illus.

"The Nazi's: The Hidden History" draws on the latest research to answer many of the unanswered questions about the Nazi state and provides many fascinating and original insights into the period. The book places in perspective how early racial and eug...

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Military

Enemies Known and Unknown Targeted Killings in America's Transnational War

McDonald Jack

ISBN: PB: 9781849046442, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! President Obama was elected on an anti-war platform, yet targeted killings have increased under his command of the "War on Terror". The US thinks of itself as upholding the rule of international law and spreading democracy, yet...

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Military

Camp Borden A Century of Service

March William

ISBN: PB: 9780978069629, Casemate, Aviaeology, March 2017
120 pp., 20.3x27.9 cm, 316 colour and black&white illus.

"Camp Borden: A Century of Service" is an overview of the history of this iconic institution. Over ten decades Borden has been a temporary posting, as either instructor or trainee, for countless thousands of military men and women who have served Can...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Monographs, No. 63 Focke-Wulf Ta 152

Murawski Marek J.

ISBN: HB: 9788364596933, Casemate, Kagero, March 2017
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 110 archival photos

Not for sale in Poland! The events of World War 2 proved beyond any doubt that the strategic bombing campaign greatly contributed to the Allies' ultimate victory over Nazi Germany. British night bombing raids and daylight carpet bombing missions fl...

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Asia

Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan

Marcon Federico

ISBN: PB: 9780226479033, ISBN: HB: 9780226251905, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 halftones, 2 tables

Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that questioned the traditional religious and philosophical understandings of the...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D Japanese Battleship Fuso

Mironov Dmitry

ISBN: PB: 9788365437259, Casemate, Kagero, February 2017
84 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, full colour throughout

Not for sale in Poland! Laid down at Kure on 11 March 1912, launched 28 March 1914, joined the Navy on 8 November 1915. He was the second battleship bearing the name of the first "Fuso" was one of the first ships of the Imperial Navy,participated i...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D Japanese Battleship Nagato

Mironov Dmitry

ISBN: PB: 9788365437341, Casemate, Kagero, February 2017
80 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, full colour throughout

Not for sale in Poland! Nagato, named for Nagato Province, was a super-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1910s. The lead ship of her class, she carried supplies for the survivors of the Great Kant? earthqu...

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Aviation

Military

Gator on the Rise Kamov's Hokum Attack Helicopter Story 1977-2015

Mladenov Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9781911096450, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
144 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 150 colour photos, 110 black&white photos

The Kamov Ka-50 (NATO codename Hokum) was developed as a new-generation heavily-armoured attack helicopter – originally conceived as a one-to-one replacement of the Mi-24 Hind. The programme was launched at the Moscow-based Kamov Experimental Design...

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Military

Towards a Wider War British Strategic Decision-Making and Military Effectiveness in Scandinavia, 1939-40

Moretz Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9781911096368, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
424 pp., 24.4x17 cm, 18 black&white illus.

"Towards a Wider War" examines British policy, grand strategy, military operations and tactical execution in the critical period of the "Phoney War" – culminating in Scandinavia and the forlorn campaign in Norway. Recognizing that political and milit...

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