Casemate: 256 books
Or Go Down in Flame
A Navigator's Death Over Schweinfurt
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Though Anglo-American air power may be unrivaled in today’s world, this was certainly not the case during Europe’s last great war. Decades ago, when our airmen flew against Germany, horrific casualties resulted on both sides, and certain battles fought by the Allied powers can be termed nothing...
Vikings
Raiders from the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
From the 9th to the 11th century, Viking ships landed on almost every shore in the Western world. Viking ravages united the Spanish kingdoms and stopped Charlemagne and the Franks' advance in Europe. Wherever Viking ships roamed, enormous suffering followed in their wake, but the encounter between...
by Philip MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
The novel that inspired John Ford’s The Lost Patrol: A band of World War I soldiers fights to survive in the desert after their leader is shot and killed.
There had been, here, eleven men. Now ten rode away. . . .
In the Mesopotamian desert during the First World War, an unseen enemy...
Caesar’s Greatest Victory
The Battle of Alesia, Gaul 52 BC
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
The Battle for Alesia was a decisive moment in world history. It determined whether Rome would finally conquer Gaul or whether Celtic chieftain Vercingetorix would throw off the yoke and consequently whether a number of independent Celtic tribal kingdoms could resist the might of Rome. Failure would...
Armies of Bismarck's Wars
Prussia, 1860–67
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
On July 3rd, 1866 a Prussian army overwhelmed and defeated an Austrian army near the fortress city of Königgrätz in a bloody battle that lasted all day. At a stroke, the foremost power in Germany and central Europe had been reduced to a second rate player. The event caused anxiety and alarm in the...
War's Nomads
A Mobile Radar Unit in Pursuit of Rommel during the Western Desert Campaign, 1942-3
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
War’s Nomads is an evocative account of one man’s experience of life in a mobile radar unit after the battle of El Alamein as Rommel’s AfrikaKorps was relentlessly pursued across the desert through Egypt, Libya and Tunisia by the Eighth Army. It is the only known detailed account in existence...
Perilous Moon
Occupied France, 1944The End Game
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Perilous Moon is a lavishly illustrated book that observes Occupied France during World War II through the eyes of British bomber pilot Neil Nimmo and newly discovered period photographs. Shot down by Luftwaffe nightfighter pilot Helmut Bergmann, Nimmo and his crew were the Germans sixth of seven...
The Normandy Battlefields
D-Day and the Bridgehead
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
With their 70th anniversary just around the corner, the D-Day landings have lost none of their impact. Even today the vestiges of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall speak of the huge undertaking necessary for the Allies to gain a foothold in Normandy. In this beautiful new full-color book, the reader goes “on-site”...
True for the Cause of Liberty
The Second Spartan Regiment in the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Following their defeat at Saratoga in upstate New York in 1777, the British decided to implement a Southern Strategy against the American insurgents, a plan to “roll up” the rebellious colonies from Georgia through the Carolinas to Virginia. Instead, they triggered a savage partisan war of raids,...
Free France's Lion
The Life of Philippe Leclerc, de Gaulle’s Greatest General
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
But for his early death, many Frenchmen believe Leclerc would have been their greatest figure to emerge from World War II. De Gaulle himself admitted to his son-in-law that he gave up smoking when Leclerc died, in order to retain his health in case France needed him, because Leclerc was no longer...
Paris '44
The City of Light Redeemed
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
During the fall of 1944, once the Western Allies had gained military advantage over the Nazis, the crown jewel of Allied strategy became the liberation of Paris—the capital of France so long held in captivity.
This event, however, was steeped in more complexity when the Allies returned than...
The Red Army's Do-it-Yourself, Nazi-Bashing Guerrilla Warfare Manual
The Partizan's Companion, Updated and Revised Edition 1942
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2011
A selection of the Military Book Club.
This third edition of the The Partisan’s Companion is the last-and-best Red Army manual used to train partisans to fight the Nazi invader. Its usefulness outlived World War II. It was later used to train “third-world” guerrillas in their wars of...
by Chris McNab
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
Aviation was still in its infancy when World War I broke out. The first men to take to the skies above the battlefield undertook reconnaissance. Pilots and observers soon branched out into primitive bombing attempts, and attacking enemy aircraft when they came into contact. Nascent air forces produced...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
"He is usually dressed rather like a tramp. His sweater is worn, his trousers frayed, while what was once a cap is perched askew on his tanned face. He wears no gold braid or gold buttons: neither does he jump to the salute briskly. Nobody goes out of his way to call him a 'hero', or pin medals...