Casemate: 256 books
Secret Channel to Berlin
The Masson-Schellenberg Connection and Swiss Intelligence in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
This book focuses on the delicate connection between the head of Swiss Intelligence, Colonel Roger Masson, and the German Chief of Espionage, SS General Walter Schellenberg. The author had access to hitherto inaccessible documents, including newly discovered material in American archives, to fully...
by Eric Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
During the Cold War, nuclear submarines performed the greatest public service of all: prevention of a third world war. History shows that they succeeded; the Cold War ended peacefully, but for security reasons, only now can this story be told.
Eric Thompson is a career nuclear submarine officer...
7 Leadership Lessons of D-Day
Lessons from the Longest Day—June 6, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
The odds were against the Allies on June 6, 1944. The task ahead of the paratroopers who jumped over Normandy and the soldiers who waded ashore onto the beaches, all under fire, was colossal. In such circumstances good leadership can be the defining factor in victory or defeat. This book is about...
Exodus from the Alamo
The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
A Selection of the Military and History Book Clubs
A startling new analysis of one of America’s most glorious battles . . .
Contrary to movie and legend, we now know that the defenders of the Alamo in the war for Texan independence—including Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and William B....
Jungvolk The Story Of A Boy Defending Hitler's Reich
The Story of a Boy Defending Hitler's Reich
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2008
This is the wartime memoir of a boy named Will, who happened to be the nephew of the head of Nazi Germany's intelligence agency, Foreign Armies East. After reading this book, the reader will wonder who had the most exciting time during World War II.Will Gehlen's father, a trolley driver, was drafted...
The Laughing Soldier
The British Armed Forces Jokebook
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
• Collection of jokes compiled by Project 65 – The Veteran’s Charity in support of the British Armed Forces
Our armed forces have a legendary sense of humor, dating back over generations of servicemen and women. The Laughing Soldier: The British Forces Jokebook, in aid of Project 65 –...
We Few
U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A Green Beret’s gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.
In 1970, on his second tour to Vietnam, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. Officially, it was known as the Studies and Observations group. In fact, this Special Forces squad, which...
Wot a Way to Run a War!
The World War II Exploits and Escapades of a Pilot in the 352nd Fighter Group
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Ted Fahrenwald flew P-47s and P-51s with the famed 352nd Fighter Group out of Bodney, England, during the critical tipping-point period of the air war over Europe. A classic devil-may-care fighter pilot, he was also a distinctively talented writer and correspondent. After a typical day of aerial combat...
Bretherton
Khaki or Field Grey?
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
This World War I novel is “a mystery as exciting as a good detective story and an extraordinarily vivid account of trench-warfare” (The Sunday Times).
In November 1918, as the Germans are in their final retreat, a British raiding party under fire follows the sound of piano music and stumbles...
by Kim Hjardar, Vegard Vike
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Vikings at War presents a sumptuous depiction of how the Vikings waged war; their weapons technology, offensive and defensive warfare, military traditions and tactics, their fortifications, ships and command structure. It also portrays the Viking raids and conquest campaigns that brought the Vikings...
Barksdale's Charge
The True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
On the third day of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee launched a magnificent attack. For pure pageantry it was unsurpassed, and it also marked the centerpiece of the war, both time-wise and in terms of how the conflict had turned a corner—from persistent Confederate hopes to impending Rebel despair. But...
War Bonds
Love Stories from the Greatest Generation
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
A look at love during World War II that “celebrates not only the personal sacrifices these couples made to serve their country, but also their devotion to one another” (San Francisco Book Review).
America’s World War II is most often told through the stories of its great battles, when...
Pass Guard at Ypres
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
From a World War I veteran: A novel of the years-long, brutal battle at Ypres, Belgium, and what it did to the city and the men who fought there.
In 1915, a platoon of inexperienced British soldiers arrives in Flanders, excited and anxious for what is to come. But they soon find themselves...
Day of the Panzer
A Story of American Heroism and Sacrifice in Southern France
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2008
This is a rarely detailed “you are there” account of World War II combat, describing a brief but bloody tank/infantry action in August 1944. Based on six years of research—drawing from interviews, primary documents, and visits to the battlefield—”The Day of the Panzer” transports the reader...