Casemate: 256 books
1781
The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
The Treaty of Paris in 1783 formally ended the American Revolutionary War, but it was the pivotal campaigns and battles of 1781 that decided the final outcome. 1781 was one of those rare years in American history when the future of the nation hung by a thread, and only the fortitude, determination,...
War on Two Fronts: An Infantry Commander's War in Iraq and the Pentagon
An Infantry Commander's War in Iraq and the Pentagon
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Winner of The Army Historical Foundations Distinguished Writing Award for Excellence in U.S. Army History Writing- Journals, memoirs and letters, June 2008. Shortly after the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the war in Iraq became the most confusing in U.S. history, the high command not knowing...
Sustainable Rose Garden
A Reader in Rose Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2011
The Sustainable Rose Garden - A Reader in Rose Culture was awarded the World Federation of Roses Literary Award at the 16th World Federation of Rose Societies Convention, which took place October 2012 in South Africa.
The guide to creating a NEW generation of American roses . . .
This...
Swiss And The Nazis How The Alpine Republic Survived In The Shadow Of The Third Reich
How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
While surrounded by the Axis powers in World War II Switzerland remained democratic and unlike most of Europe never succumbed to the siren songs and threats of the Nazi goliath. This book tells the story with emphasis on two voices rarely heard. One voice is that of scores of Swiss who lived in those...
Kamikazes, Corsairs, and Picket Ships
Okinawa 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
This is the previously untold story of one of the most ferocious and prolonged air/naval battles ever: the battle at the radar picket stations during the American assault on Okinawa in the spring of 1945. It weaves together the experiences of the ships and their crews, in a way that no one has attempted...
by Michael Dilley
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
The array of new technologies that came on the scene in the early 20th century resulted in widely varied new forms of military special operations once civilization embarked on its greatest war. Suddenly, fighting men could be delivered by parachute, submarine, glider, jeeps, and fast amphibious craft...
Into the Dark Water
The Story of Three Officers and PT-109
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2014
Made famous by her final commanding officer, John F. Kennedy, PT-109 is one of the most celebrated warships in American history. However, a full chronicle of PT-109’s wartime story has heretofore been lacking. Behind the familiar account of the future president and the boat’s violent demise is...
The Lafayette Escadrille
A Photo History of the First American Fighter Squadron
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
The Lafayette Escadrille was an all-volunteer squadron of Americans who flew for France during World War I. One hundred years later, it is still arguably the best-known fighter squadron ever to take to the skies. In this work the entire history of these gallant volunteers—who named themselves after...
by Peter Harmsen
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
War in the Far East is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan; unlike other histories it expands the narrative beginning long before Pearl Harbor and encompasses a much wider group of actors to produce the most complete narrative yet written and the first truly international...
Hill of Squandered Valour
The Battle for Spion Kop, 1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
The Battle of Spion Kop was fought during the campaign to relieve Ladysmith, South Africa, after the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State had gotten a jump on the British Empire and besieged a British army in the town. It was the single bloodiest episode in the campaign, as well as a harbinger...
History of the Third Seminole War
1849-1858
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Spanning a period of over forty years (1817-1858), the three Seminole Wars were America’s longest, costliest, and deadliest Indian wars, surpassing the more famous ones fought in the West. After an uneasy peace following the conclusion of the second Seminole War in 1842, a series of hostile events...
Strangling the Confederacy
Coastal Operations in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
A selection of the Military Book Club
While the Civil War is mainly remembered for its epic battles between the Northern and Southern armies, the Union was simultaneously waging another campaign—dubbed “Anaconda”—that was gradually depriving the South of industry and commerce, thus rendering...
Ghost Patrol
A History of the Long Range Desert Group, 1940–1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The origins of most of the West’s Special Forces can be traced back to the Long Range Desert Group, which operated across the limitless expanses of the Libyan Desert, an area the size of India, during the whole of the Desert War from 1940 to 1943. After the defeat of the Axis in North Africa they...
Knights
Chivalry and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Originally warriors mounted on horseback, knights became associated with the concept of chivalry as it was popularised in medieval European literature. Knights were expected to fight bravely and honourably and be loyal to their lord until death if necessary. Later chivalry came to encompass activities...