Casemate: 256 books
The Tigers of Bastogne
Voices of the 10th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013
The gallant stand of the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne has long become part of historical and media legend. But how many students of the war realize there was already a U.S. unit holding the town when they arrived? And this unit—the 10th Armored Division—continued to play a major role in...
The Day the World was Shocked
The Lusitania Disaster and Its Influence on the Course of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
By far the most controversial sinking during the First World War was that of the Lusitania. As opposed to the loss of the Titanic several years earlier, which could be attributed to nature, the destruction of the passenger-liner Lusitania came at the hands of a German U-boat, one of many which infested...
The Battle of Denmark Strait
A Critical Analysis of the Bismarck’s Singular Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
To Great Britain and Germany, the Battle of the Denmark Strait came like a thunderclap in the spring of 1941. The pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, was utterly destroyed, and its newest battleship, Prince of Wales, severely damaged and forced to withdraw. This was at the hands of Germany’s huge...
by Oscar E. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
In this “compelling read,” the former Marine artilleryman examines modern tank strategies through true stories of battle in Iraq and Afghanistan (Military Modelcraft International).
In the aftermath of Vietnam a new generation of Marines was determined to wage a smarter kind of war. The...
Letters from Verdun
Frontline Experiences of an American Volunteer in World War 1 France
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2009
A beautifully written and fully illustrated experience of the Great War from a participant . . .
Though the United States was late to enter the Great War, a number of idealistic young Americans wished to take part from the beginning. One of these was Avery Royce Wolf, a highly educated scion...
When Washington Burned
An Illustrated History of the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
To commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812, this book tells the complete story of the great conflict between a young United States of America and imperial Great Britain. From the roots of the conflict, through a profile of the two armies, to descriptions of the great battles and events of...
The Campaigns for Vicksburg 1862-63
Leadership Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Long relegated to a secondary position behind Gettysburg, Vicksburg has more recently earned consideration by historians as the truly decisive battle of the Civil War. Indeed, Vicksburg is fascinating on many levels. A focal point of both western armies, the Federal campaign of maneuver that finally...
The Blue & Gray Almanac
The Civil War in Facts and Figures, Recipes and Slang
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
Albert Nofi tells the story of the American War through a range of insightful essays, anecdotes, and facts. Did you know...
• During the final days of the war, some Richmond citizens would throw “Starvation Parties,” at which elegantly attired guests would gather at soirees where the...
We Dared to Win
The SAS in Rhodesia
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Andre Scheepers grew up on a farm in Rhodesia, learning about the bush from his African childhood friends, before joining the army. A quiet, introspective thinker, Andre started out as a trooper in the SAS before being commissioned into the Rhodesian Light Infantry Commandos, where he was engaged...
The Fighting 30th Division
They Called Them Roosevelt's SS
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
In World War I the 30th Infantry Division earned more Medals of Honor than any other American division. In World War II it spent more consecutive days in combat than almost any other outfit. Recruited mainly from the Carolinas and Georgia and Tennessee, they were one of the hardest-fighting units...
Holy Wars
3000 Years of Battles in the Holy Land
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Today's Arab-Israeli conflict, ever-present in the news, is merely the latest iteration of an unending history of violence in the Holy Land—a region that is unsurpassed as witness to a kaleidoscopic military history involving forces from across the world and throughout the millennia.
Holy...
The Somme
Also Including The Coward
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Two World War I classics: The story of a British soldier enduring the battle in France and a novella starring a man who takes drastic steps to escape the Great War.
The million British dead have left no books behind. What they felt as they died hour by hour in the mud, or were choked horribly...
The Typhoon Truce, 1970
Three Days in Vietnam when Nature Intervened in the War
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
It wasn’t rockets or artillery that came through the skies one week during the war. It was the horrific force of nature that suddenly put both sides in awe. As an unofficial truce began, questions and emotions battled inside every air crewman’s mind as they faced masses of Vietnamese civilians...
Hidden Battles On Unseen Fronts Stories Of American Soldiers With Traumatic Brain Injury And Ptsd
Stories of American Soldiers with Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
This book is crafted around soldiers' stories of their war experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan that culminate in life-altering injuries to the brain and psyche along with the equally dramatic story of their recoveries. An irony of America's 21st century wars has been that while our combat medical...