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Russia's Path Toward Enlightenment Faith, Politics, and Reason, 1500-1801

Hamburg Gary M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300113136, Yale University Press, July 2016
864 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This book, focusing on the history of religious and political thinking in early modern Russia, demonstrates that Russia's path toward enlightenment began long before Peter the Great's opening to the West. Examining a broad range of writings, G. M. Ha...

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Biography & Memoires

Military

March By Moonlight A Bomber Command Story of Ops and Evasion, Captivity and Friendship

Love Barry, Love Jack

ISBN: HB: 9780993415210, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, July 2016
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 illus.

In May 1942 RAF Bomber Command observer Jack Love's world comes crashing down, literally. His aircraft sustains flak damage and a catastrophic engine failure forces a crash-landing in Northern France. The pilot manages a safe belly-landing in a ploug...

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Military

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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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D Japanese Aircraft Carrier Taiho

Goralski Waldemar

ISBN: PB: 9788364596759, Casemate, Kagero, July 2016
92 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, full colour throughout

Not for sale in Poland! The design work on the new carrier commenced as early as 1937 and the initial design was unveiled on 27 November and received the number "02". On 21 July 1938 corrections were done to the design and it was approved. The ship...

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Military

Medieval

Battle of Val Es Dunes Summer 1047, when the "Batard" became the Duke

Hauguel Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9782815102995, Casemate, OREP, July 2016
48 pp., 24x17 cm

Duke William of Normandy (1027-1087) is best known for his conquest of England but his eventful and chaotic youth is often forgotten. William inherited the Dukedom at the age of eight when his father, Robert the Magnificent, died in 1035 on his retur...

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Military

Mobility Conquers The Story of 61 Mechanised Battalion Group 1978-2005

Steenkamp Willem, Heitman Helmoed-Romer

ISBN: HB: 9781911096528, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2016
1152 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 61 maps, 400 photos, 2 pp of colour badges & insignia

More than two years in the writing, this book is the warts-and-all story of the birth, career and death of the South African Defence Force's 61 Mechanised Battalion Group (1979-2005) – generally acknowledged as the best fighting unit in Africa in its...

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Biography & Memoires

Military

You Never Know Your Luck Battle of Britain to the Great Escape: The Extraordinary Life of Keith "Skeets" Ogilvie DFC

Ogilvie Keith C.

ISBN: HB: 9780993415227, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, July 2016
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 illus.

When the Royal Canadian Air Force wouldn't accept him as a pilot in the summer of 1939, Keith "Skeets" Ogilvie walked across the street in Ottawa and joined the Royal Air Force. A week later he was on a boat to England and a future he could not have...

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Military

Last Road North A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign, 1863

Orrison Robert, Welch Dan

ISBN: PB: 9781611212433, Casemate, Savas Beatie, July 2016
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 14 maps, 100 illus.

A string of battlefield victories through 1862 had culminated in the spring of 1863 with Lee's greatest victory yet: the battle of Chancellorsville. Propelled by the momentum of that supreme moment, confident in the abilities of his men, Lee decided...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Amiable Scoundrel Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War

Kahan Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781612348148, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
408 pp., 23x15 cm

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Political Science

Military

Blinking Red Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11

Allen Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781612348230, ISBN: HB: 9781612346151, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
280 pp., 23x15 cm

After the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission argued that the United States needed a powerful leader, a spymaster, to forge the scattered intelligence bureaucracies into a singular enterprise to vanquish America's new enemies – stateless intern...

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