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Crusader Strategy Defending the Holy Land

Tibble Steve

ISBN: HB: 9780300253115, Yale University Press, August 2020
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Medieval states, and particularly crusader societies, often have been considered brutish and culturally isolated. It seems unlikely that they could develop "strategy" in any meaningful sense. However, the crusaders were actually highly organized in t...

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Fashion

Decorative Arts

Last Knight The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I

Terjanian Pierre

ISBN: HB: 9781588396747, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2019
304 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 266 colour illus.

Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) crafted a public persona and personal mythology that earned him the romantic sobriquet the "Last Knight" and that perpetuates his legend to this day. In his lifelong quest to establish himself as Europe's n...

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Technology & Engineering

Motorcycles and Motorcycling in the USSR from 1939 A Social and Technical History

Turbett Colin

ISBN: HB: 9781787113145, Bookport, Veloce Publishing, March 2019
128 pp., 25x20.7 cm

This book provides the first accessible English language account of motorcycles in the Soviet Union. Concentrating on the wartime and postwar period until 1990, prior to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, it covers the motorcycles produced, and loo...

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Military

For Queen and Company Vignettes of the Irish Soldier in the Indian Mutiny

Truesdale David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512790, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
112 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 60 illus.

This book records the actions of those Irish soldiers (and others) who were awarded the Victoria Cross in the event known to the British public in 1857 as "The Indian Mutiny". Since then, revisionist historians have applied other names to what occurr...

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Military

America

Generals of Shiloh Character in Leadership, April 6-7, 1862

Tagg Larry

ISBN: HB: 9781611213690, Casemate, Savas Beatie, April 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 6 maps, 58 images

"Character is destiny" wrote Greek Philosopher Heraclitus more than twenty-five centuries ago. Douglas Southall Freeman, the Army of Northern Virginia's preeminent historian, echoed that view when he wrote, "Further study... may prove both more profi...

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Military

Europe

Kursk 1943 The Greatest Battle of the Second World War

Toeppel Roman

ISBN: HB: 9781912390038, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2018
184 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, 8 colour maps, 1 table

The Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 was one of the greatest battles in military history involving more than 3 million soldiers, 10,000 tanks and 8,000 aircraft. While many books have been written on this allegedly most decisive battle of the Se...

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Military

Aviation

Air Battles over the Baltic 1941 The Air War on 22 June 1941 - The Battle for Stalin's Baltic Region

Timin Mikhail

ISBN: HB: 9781911512561, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
528 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 500 black&white photos, 28 tables, 14 maps, 111 colour illus.

This unique work is the first in a series of publications dedicated to the condition of the air forces of the Red Army prior to the Nazi invasion of 22 June 1941. The author describes in detail the composition and the capabilities of the Soviet avi...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Photosniper, No. 23 British Infantry Tanks in World War II

Tylor Dick

ISBN: PB: 9788365437129, Casemate, Kagero, July 2017
96 pp., 29.7x21 cm, archive photos, colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! Before the start of the Second World War, British armoured doctrine was in a terrible muddle. Opinion had been divided between the proponents of the tank who saw it as the weapon of break-in, using it as an infantry support...

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Military

Instruments of Battle The Fighting Drummers and Buglers of the British Army from the Late 17th Century to the Present Day

Tanner James

ISBN: HB: 9781612003696, Casemate, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Instruments of Battle" examines in detail the development and role of the British Army's fighting drummers and buglers, from the time of the foundation of the army up to the present day. While their principal weapon of war was the drum and bugle (an...

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Military

Gallipoli An Australian Medical Perspective

Tyquin Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781921941863, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
140 pp., 24.7x17.5 cm

To be successful, a modern army needs logistical support to survive – to arm, feed, transport, and care for its soldiers. As history shows us, the maintenance of health in any army is a key factor in warfare. In many respects the Gallipoli campaign w...

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