Casemate: 256 books
by Charles J. Biddle
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In The Way of the Eagle, Philadelphia native Charles Biddle’s account of flying in World War I, we have a classic aviation memoir, long out of print, that provides new insights into America’s participation in the Great War.
Biddle volunteered and was active in France from 1917, where he...
Sixty Squadron RAF
A History of the Squadron from Its Formation
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Sixty Squadron RAF, which covers the period from the disastrous maelstrom of the Somme offensive to final victory, 1916–1919, is one of the classic histories of the Great War. It is the story of a squadron whose members were awarded 1 Victoria Cross, 5 Distinguished Service Orders, 1 Bar to the...
The Burden of Guilt
How Germany Shattered the Last Days of Peace, Summer 1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A military historian’s “thought-provoking” examination of Germany’s role in the outbreak of the First World War (Soldier Magazine).
The conflagration that consumed Europe in August 1914 had been a long time in coming—and yet it need never have happened at all. For though all the European...
Bacteria and Bayonets
The Impact of Disease in American Military History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
For hundreds of years men have fought and died to expand and protect the United States relying on martial skill and patriotism. Various powerful enemies, from the British to the Nazis, and legendary individuals including Tecumseh and Robert E. Lee have all fallen before the arms of the American soldier....
Jungle Survival Manual 1944
Instructions on Warfare, Terrain, Endurance and the Dangers of the Tropics
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
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 to fight the Japanese meant soldiers had to learn...
by Peter G. Tsouras
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The vital role of the military all-source intelligence in the eastern theater of operations during the U.S. Civil War is told through the biography of its creator, George H. Sharpe. Renowned historian Peter Tsouras contends that this creation under Sharpe’s leadership was the combat multiplier that...
Malloch's Spitfire
The Story and Restoration of PK350
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2014
This is the story of the pursuit of a dream. Spitfire PK350 is the only late-mark Spitfire, an F Mk 22, to have ever been restored to full flying status. She had no restrictions on her airframe and with four fully serviceable 20mm cannons, she was as good as the day she came off the production line...
Vitebsk
The Fight and Destruction of Third Panzer Army
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
The city of Vitebsk in Belarus was of strategic importance during the fighting on the Eastern Front, as it controlled the route to Minsk. A salient in the German lines, Vitebsk had been declared a Festerplatz—a fortress town—meaning that it must be held at all costs. A task handed to 3rd Panzer...
A Few Lawless Vagabonds
Ethan Allen, the Republic of Vermont, and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
A Few Lawless Vagabondsis an account of the three-way relationship between Ethan Allen, the Republic of Vermont (1777–1791) and the British in Canada during the American Revolution, a work of political and military history. Ethan Allen was a prime mover in the establishment of the Republic (though...
Fortress Ploesti
The Campaign to Destroy Hitler's Oil
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2003
Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the famous big and bloody raid of August 1943 and depicts the entire 1944 strategic campaign of twenty-plus missions that all but knocked Ploesti out of the war and denied the German war machine the fuel and lubricants it so desperately...
Vanished Hero
The Life, War and Mysterious Disappearance of America’s WWII Strafing King
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
A hell-bent-for-leather fighter pilot, Elwyn G. Righetti remains one of the most unknown, yet compelling, colorful and controversial commanders of World War II.
Arriving late to the war, he led the England-based 55th Fighter Group against the Nazis during the closing months of the fight with...
Roer River Battles Germany's Stand At The Westwall. 1944-45
Germany’s Stand at the Westwall, 1944–45
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Following the Allied breakout from the Normandy beachhead in July 1944 the vaunted German Army seemed on the verge of collapse. As British and US forces fanned out across northwestern France enemy resistance unexpectedly dissolved into a headlong retreat to the German and Belgian borders. In early...
Battle Yet Unsung: The Fighting Men of the 14th Armored Division in World War II
The Fighting Men of the 14th Armored Division in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
While headline writers in the ETO were naturally focused on events in Normandy and the Bulge in the north equally ferocious combats were taking place in southern France and Germany during 194445 which are now finally getting their due. The US 14th Armored Divisiona late arrival to the theaterwas thrust...
Under a Blood Red Sun
The remarkable story of PT boats in the Philippines and the rescue of General MacArthur
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
During the opening days of World War II in the Pacific, a small group of American sailors in the Philippines were propelled into the forefront of the fighting. They were manned with six small wooden torpedo (PT) boats and led by a courageous, larger-than-life character in Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley....