Casemate: 256 books
Fighting with the Filthy Thirteen: The World War II Story of Jack WomerRanger and Paratrooper
From the Dustbowl to Hitler's Eagle’s Nest
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
In 2004 the world was first introduced to The Filthy Thirteen, a book describing the most notorious squad of fighting men in the 101st Airborne Division (and the inspiration for the movie The Dirty Dozen).In this long awaited work one of the squads integral membersand probably its best soldierreveals...
Undefeated
From Basketball to Battle: West Point’s Perfect Season 1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018
In 1943, the West Point basketball team, the Cadets, had only managed a 5-10 record, and for the 1944 season coach Ed Kelleher’s hopes in reversing Army’s fortunes rested on his five starters. They consisted of three seniors – team captain “Big Ed” Christl, John “Three Star” Hennessey,...
7 Leadership Lessons of the American Revolution
The Founding Fathers, Liberty, and the Struggle for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
This book is about leadership. It tells the dramatic story of seven defining leadership moments from the American Revolution.
On these pages you learn about real people facing historic challenges and overcoming what reasonable observers believed were insurmountable odds. More reasonable people...
Behind the Lines
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
After killing a fellow officer, a British World War I fighter joins the ranks of deserters and outlaws in a suspenseful novel from the author of Bretherton.
Behind the Lines follows army man Peter Rawley, who accidentally kills an overbearing, taunting fellow officer and, terrified that he...
Second Front
The Allied Invasion of France, 1942–43 (An Alternative History)
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
What would have happened if Churchill’s Mediterranean strategy was overruled? This novel of an alternate D-Day explores this fascinating scenario.
One of the great arguments of World War II took place among Allied military leaders over when and where to launch a second front against Germany...
Pagan
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
The horrors of World War I continue to haunt two veterans on holiday in 1930s France in this “stirring” novel (Books Monthly).
In the War to End All Wars, Charles Pagan and Dick Baron fought side by side and survived the slaughter. Over a decade later, they return to France not as soldiers...
Roux the Bandit
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A Frenchman flees his small mountain village to avoid service in World War I in a thoughtful, witty novel about the conflict of patriotism and conscience.
Deep in the Cévennes Mountains of southern France, a man called Roux refuses to heed the call to duty at the outbreak of war in 1914. Instead,...
by George Koskimaki
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A collection of eyewitness accounts of the Normandy landings that “gives you the [feeling] that you are there during the frenzied first hours of the invasion” (Kepler’s Military History Book Reviews).
Many professional historians have recorded the actions of D-Day but here is an account...
Landing in Hell
The Pyrrhic Victory of the First Marine Division on Peleliu, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
On September 15, 1944, the United States, in its effort to defeat the Japanese Empire, invaded a tiny island named Peleliu, located at the southern end of the Palau Islands. This island chain lay in the main line of the American advance eastward. The Pacific High Command saw the conquering of this...
by Robert L. Tonsetic
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
When the American Revolution began, the colonial troops had little hope of matching His Majesty’s highly trained, experienced British and German legions in confrontational battle. Indeed, Washington’s army suffered defeat after defeat in the first few years of the war, fighting bravely but mainly...
Tank Killers A History Of America's World War II Tank Destroyer Force
A History of America's World War II Tank Destroyer force
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
The Tank Killers is the story of the American Tank Destroyer Force in North Africa, Italy, and the European Theater during World War II. The tank destroyer (TD) was a bold-if some would say flawed-answer to the challenge posed by the seemingly unstoppable German blitzkrieg. The TD was conceived to...
Nam Sense Surviving Vietnam With The 101st Airborne Division
Surviving Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
An honest tour of the Vietnam War from the soldier's eye view . . . Nam-Sense is the brilliantly written story of a combat squad leader in the 101st Airborne Division. Arthur Wiknik was a 19-year-old kid from New England when he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1968. After completing various NCO...
No Better Place To Die Ste-Mere Eglise, June 1944-The Battle For La Fiere Bridge
Ste-Mere Eglise, June 1944—The Battle for la Fiere Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
The you-are-there story of one of the most ferocious small-unit combats in US history . . .As part of the massive Allied invasion of Normandy, three airborne divisions were dropped behind enemy lines to sew confusion in the German rear and prevent panzer reinforcements from reaching the beaches. In...
Special Forces Berlin
Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army's Elite, 1956–1990
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two U.S. Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two detachments were highly classified secrets.
The massive armies of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact...