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Samurai and the Culture of Japan's Great Peace
ISBN: PB: 9781933789033, Yale University Press, March 2015
128 pp., 25x15 cm, 150 colour illus.
Through artifacts from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and other collections at Yale University, this lavishly illustrated volume takes readers on a journey into Japan's early modern cultural and political history. It also offers tantalizi...
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£16,99
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Shadow Factories Britain's Production Facilities and the Second World War
ISBN: PB: 9781910294468, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2015
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
Wartime is costly. Whilst the human cost is a burden which remains part of our every waking thoughts for many years after the end of the conflict, the physical cost, at least in some cases, is easier to deal with. Some, if not most of the physical c...
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£19,00
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Super Drawings in 3D Varyag
ISBN: PB: 9788361220640, Casemate, Kagero, February 2015
58 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 3D colour artwork, close-up views, photos, scale line
Not for sale in Poland! In-depth look the Imperial Russian cruiser Varyag, famed for her crew's heroic defiance during the Russo-Japanese War, including design and construction notes, technical characteristics, data tables, machinery, propulsion, a...
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£18,00
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Serbian Army in the Wars for Independence Against Turkey, 1876-1878
ISBN: HB: 9781909982246, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2015
280 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
The Wars for Independence, also called the First and the Second Serbo-Turkish Wars 1876-1878, were the first military conflicts in the modern history of the Serbian state, after which the Principality of Serbia gained full independence at the Berlin...
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£35,00
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Super Drawings in 3D Heavy Cruiser Admiral Hipper
ISBN: PB: 9788364596148, Casemate, Kagero, January 2015
80 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 1x double B2 sheet with scale drawings
Not for sale in Poland! On 18 June 1935 a bilateral agreement between Great Britain and Germany, which set German naval strength at a ratio of 1/3 of the size of the Royal Navy was signed. Hence the Germans were allowed to maintain the fleet of the...
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£17,00
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Surge My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War
ISBN: PB: 9780300209372, Yale University Press, December 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus., 2 maps
In February 2007, U.S. Army General David Petraeus took command of the multinational coalition forces in Iraq, some 140,000 troops, to be joined by 20,000 additional American soldiers newly deployed to support the controversial strategy known as the...
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£15,99
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Soviet Women Snipers of the Second World War
ISBN: PB: 9782352503880, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, September 2014
145 pp., 25x21 cm, illus.
The commitment of Soviet women to their country during World War II was unprecedented, both in terms of their sheer numbers and also in terms of their unique roles. More than 100,000 of them would join the regular army, or the partisans. Of all the j...
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£21,00
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Super Drawings in 3D Heavy Cruiser Lutzow
ISBN: PB: 9788364596070, Casemate, Kagero, August 2014
80 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 140 renders
Not for sale in Poland! The text part of this book describes technical specifications of the ship and her operational history in detail. This is accompanied by more than 100 color illustrations showing Lutzow's appearance during Operation Rosselspr...
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£17,00
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Success and Failure in Limited War Information and Strategy in the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, and Iraq Wars
ISBN: PB: 9780226107714, ISBN: HB: 9780226107684, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 5 tables
Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple victory or defeat. Chief among these challenges is the risk of escalation – be it in the scale, scope, cos...
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£28,50
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£73,00
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Super Drawings in 3D Japanese Heavy Cruiser Takao, 1937-1946
ISBN: PB: 9788362878901, Casemate, Kagero, February 2014
92 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 3D colour artwork, close-up views, photographs, scale line drawings
Not for sale in Poland! Takao was the first of four Takao-class heavy cruisers designed to be an improvement over the previous Myoko-class design. The My?k? had proved to be unstable and required modifications, which were incorporated into the Taka...
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