Casemate: 256 books
“The Most Dangerous Moment of the War”
Japan’s Attack on the Indian Ocean, 1942
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
In early April 1942, a little-known episode of World War II took place, said by Sir Winston Churchill to be “the most dangerous moment of the war,” when the Japanese made their only major offensive westwards into the Indian Ocean. Historian Sir Arthur Bryant said, “A Japanese naval victory in...
Luftwaffe in Colour: The Victory Years
1939–1942
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This remarkable work pulls the lid off one of the legendary air forces in history at the very peak of its power—unveiling the men and machines as they truly existed day-to-day, underneath the propaganda of their own regime and the scare stories of their enemies. In Hitler’s Germany, color photography...
Eyes All Over the Sky
Aerial Reconnaissance in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
After the first successful flight by the Wilbur brothers in 1903, the age of aviation was born, and by 1910 army commanders in the United States and Europe began ordering aircraft and experimenting with them. But at the outbreak of World War I in 1914, no-one could yet possibly know how significant...
Ships Of The Royal Navy A Complete Record Of All Fighting Ships Of The Royal Navy From The 15th Century To The Present
The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2010
The essential work fully revised up to 2010 . . .This is the fourth fully revised edition of a book first published in 1970. This longevity is testimony to its enduring value as a reference work indeed 'Colledge' (as the book is universally known) is still the first stop for anyone wanting more information...
Pathfinder Pioneer
The Memoir of a Lead Bomber Pilot in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
In this engaging book we see how an 18-year-old miner shoveling ore from deep in the ground in Utah suddenly found himself, only two years later, 30,000 feet in the air over Nazi Germany, piloting a Flying Fortress in the first wave of America’s air counteroffensive in Europe.
Like thousands of...
by Anders Frankson, Niklas Zetterling
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
How Nazi forces were driven back by the Soviets amid mud and freezing temperatures: “Excellent . . . well researched, fast paced and enjoyable to read.” —Military Review
At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of...
Hitler's Wave-Breaker Concept
An Analysis of the German End Game in the Baltic
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Among the many controversies of World War II, prominent is the debate over Germany’s strategy in the north of the Soviet Union, as the tide of war turned, and gigantic Russian armies began to close in on Berlin. In this long-awaited work, Henrik Lunde—former U.S. Special Forces officer and author...
General Gordon Granger
The Savior of Chickamauga and the Man Behind "Juneteenth"
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
This is the first full-length biography of the Civil War general who saved the Union army from catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga, and went on to play major roles in the Chattanooga and Mobile campaigns. Immediately after the war, as commander of U.S. troops in Texas, his actions sparked...
Race to the Rhine
Liberating France and the Low Countries 1944-45
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2015
The speed of the German Blitzkrieg in 1940 and the relative ease with which they brushed aside Allied defenses meant four years of occupation. But in June 1944—this time with American forces—the Allies finally returned for a rematch. The destruction of German forces in Normandy’s Falaise pocket,...
by Christopher Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
While the past half-century has seen no diminution in the valor and fighting skill of the U.S. military and its allies, the fact remains that our wars have become more protracted, with decisive results more elusive. With only two exceptions—Panama and the Gulf War under the first President Bush—our...
Forest of the Hanged
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A World War I soldier is torn between his duty, his country, and his conscience in this work of “classic war fiction” (Books Monthly).
When the First World War broke out, Apostol Bologa left his home in Romania and joined the Austro-Hungarian army with grand visions of battle, glory, and honor....
Arms of Little Value
The Challenge of Insurgency and Global Instability in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
This book presents a former soldier and CIA officer's insight into the true nature of insurgency and how it will continue to affect the United States in the decades to come.
What we've seen in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrein, Yemen, and elsewhere is merely the beginning. We are entering an extremely...
Victory Was Beyond Their Grasp
With the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division from the Huertgen Forest to the Heart of the Reich
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
As the Allies were approaching the German frontier at the beginning of September 1944, the German Armed Forces responded with a variety of initiatives designed to regain the strategic initiative. While the "Wonder Weapons" such as the V-1 flying bomb, the V-2 missile and the Messerschmitt...
General Mark Clark
Commander of U.S. Fifth Army and Liberator of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Although not nearly as well known as other U.S. Army senior commanders, General Mark Clark is one of the four men—along with Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—who historian Martin Blumenson called “the essential quartet of American leaders who achieved victory in Europe.” Eisenhower nicknamed...