Casemate: 256 books
Other Side Of Night The Carpathia, The Californian And The Night The Titanic Was Lost
The Carpathia, the Californian and the Night the Titanic was Lost
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
After every disaster, someone has something to hide . . . A few minutes before midnight on April 14, 1912, the "unsinkable" RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage to New York, struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. While the world has remained...
The Spy in Hitler’s Inner Circle
Hans-Thilo Schmidt and the Allied Intelligence Network that Decoded Germany’s Enigma
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2016
Ten years after the publication of his Services Spéciaux (1935-1945), Paillole took up his pen once again in order to shed further light on the critical role that the French Secret Service played in the infiltration of German agencies. In this first English edition of The Spy in Hitler’s Inner...
Shanghai 1937
Stalingrad on the Yangtze
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The New York Times bestseller that inspired the documentary Shanghai 1937: Where World War II Began on Public Television.
At its height, the Battle of Shanghai involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators—and often...
How Carriers Fought
Carrier Operations in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
In November 1921 the first purpose-built aircraft carrier was launched by the Japanese, followed a year later by the launch of the British Hermes. The conversion of battlecruisers into aircraft carriers after World War I required the consideration of issues including handling aircraft on the flight...
Prisoner of the Samurai
Surviving the Sinking of the USS Houston and the Death Railway
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
During World War II, Lt. Rosalie Hamric was an R.N., serving as Charge Nurse in the Psychiatric Ward of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Hospital. At the end of the war, a group of liberated prisoners of war from Southeast Asia, survivors of the sinking of the USS Houston in 1942, was sent to the ward for...
Sharks of the Air Willy Messerschmitt and How He Built the World's First Operational Jet Fighter
Willy Messerschmitt and How He Built the World’s First Operational Jet Fighter
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
In July 1944 the Allies were stunned by the appearance of the Messerschmitt Me-262 the worlds first operational jet warplane. This new German fighter was more than 100 mph faster than any other aircraft in the skies. Although always greatly outnumbered the Me-262 gained scores of victories over Allied...
by Martin King, David Hilborn, Jason Nulton
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
The 4th Infantry Division has always been there in America’s modern wars. On 14 September 1918 the men of the “Ivy” Division stood up in their trenches and prepared to attack. It would be one of the first times that American troops would operate autonomously, aside from Anglo-Franco command....
Mercenaries
Putting the World to Rights with Hired Guns
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Mercenaries have been a part warfare for centuries, and though the names have changed, continue to play a part in global military conflicts. In today’s world these "soldiers for hire" are an attractive alternative when Western governments are reluctant to put their militaries at risk for...
Fights on the Little Horn
Unveiling the Myths of Custer's Last Stand
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Winner of the 2014 John Carroll Award, presented annually by The Little Big Horn Associates, as their Literary Award for the best book/monograph during the preceding year.
Winner 2014 G. Joseph Sills Jr. Book Award
This remarkable book synthesizes a lifetime of in-depth research into...
A Handful of Hard Men
The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
During the West’s great transition into the post-Colonial age, the country of Rhodesia refused to succumb quietly, and throughout the 1970s fought back almost alone against Communist-supported elements that it did not believe would deliver proper governance.
During this long war many heroes...
Gunship Ace: The Wars of Neall Ellis, Helicopter Pilot and Mercenary
The Wars of Neall Ellis, Helicopter Pilot and Mercenary
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
A former South African Air Force pilot who saw action throughout the region from the 1970s on, Neall Ellis is the best-known mercenary combat aviator alive. Apart from flying Alouette helicopter gunships in Angola, he has fought in the Balkan War (for Islamic forces), tried to resuscitate Mobutus...
by Koos Stadler
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
A gripping first-hand account of the combat operations and life of a member of the secretive and elite South African Special Forces, known as ‘Recces’.
South African Special Forces, known as the ‘Recces’, are an elite group of soldiers that few can aspire to join. Shrouded in secrecy...
Bismarck The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship
The Final Days of Germany’s Greatest Battleship
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A gripping tale of heroism and doomon the high seas . . . The sinking of the German battleship Bismarcka masterpiece of engineering well-armored with a main artillery of eight 15-inch gunswas one of the most dramatic events of World War II. She left the port of Gotenhafen for her first operation on...
D-Days in the Pacific With the US Coastguard
The Story of Lucky Thirteen
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Winner of the 2008 Foundation for Coast Guard History Book Award
The images of soldiers and marines coming ashore on hostile shores are embedded in our collective memory of World War II. But what of the sailors who manned the landing craft, going back and forth under fire with nowhere to take cover,...