Casemate: 256 books
Zeebrugge
The Greatest Raid of All
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
The combined forces invasion of the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on 23 April 1918 remains one of Britain’s most glorious military undertakings; not quite as epic a failure as the charge of the Light Brigade, or as well publicized as the Dam Busters raid, but with many of the same basic ingredients.
A...
Lions of Carentan: Fallschirmjager Regiment 6, 1943-1945
Fallschirmjager Regiment 6, 1943-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Although it is known that Allied airborne forces landed into a German buzzsaw on D-Day, far less is known about the troops they encountered in the dark night of June 6, 1944. One of the formations they encountered was a similarly elite group of paratroopers, who instead of dropping from the skies...
Wellington’s Hidden Heroes
The Dutch and the Belgians at Waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
The Duke of Wellington described the Battle of Waterloo as “the most desperate business I ever was in . . . I was never so near being beat.” The courage of British troops that day has been rightly praised ever since, but the fact that one-third of the forces which gave him his narrow victory were...
The First Jihad
Khartoum, and the Dawn of Militant Islam
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2007
Before there was Osama bin Laden, Abu al-Zarqawi or Ayatollah Khomeini, there was the Mahdi—the “Expected One”—who raised the Arabs in pan-tribal revolt against infidels and apostates in the late 19th-century Sudan.
Born on the Nile in 1844, Muhammed Ahmed grew into a devout, charismatic...
Gladiators
Fighting to the Death in Ancient Rome
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The gladiator is one of the most enduring figures of Ancient Rome. Heroic, though of lowly status, they fought vicious duels in large arenas filled with baying crowds. The survivor could be either executed (the famous ‘thumbs down’ signal) or spared at the whim of the crowd or the Emperor. Few...
Merc
American Soldiers of Fortune
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
Merc is a classic; first published in 1979, its characters and stories are as vivid and worthy of retelling today. American soldiers of fortune have seen action on nearly every battlefield in history – from the Revolutionary War to modern times, men like John Early, a member of the famed Selous...
by Ian van der Waag
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Twentieth-century South Africa saw continuous, often rapid and fundamental socioeconomic and political change. The century started with a brief but total war. Less than ten years later Britain brought the conquered Boer republics and the Cape and Natal colonies together into the Union of South Africa.
The...
The Dakota Hunter
In Search of the Legendary DC-3 on the Last Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This book tells the story of a Dutch boy who grew up during the 1950s in post-war Borneo, where he had frequent encounters with an airplane, the Douglas DC-3, aka the C-47 Skytrain or Dakota of World War II fame. For a young boy living in a remote jungle community, the aircraft reached the proportions...
101st Airborne in Normandy
Militaria: The Big Battles of WWII
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
101st Airborne Division was activated in August 1942 in Louisiana, and its first combat mission was Operation Overlord. On D-Day—June 6, 1944—101st and 82nd Airborne dropped onto the Cotentin peninsula hours before the landings, tasked with capturing bridges and positions, taking out German strongpoints...
Crusader
General Donn Starry and the Army of His Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
The biography of US Army general Donn Starry, creator of the AirLand Battle doctrine that led to victory in Operation Desert Storm.
Donn Starry, one of the most influential commanders of the Vietnam War, went on to become one of the “intellectual giants” who reshaped the US Army and, throughout...
by Oscar E. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
“Together these books provide the definitive history of the USMC’s tank forces . . . Very highly recommended” (Military Modelcraft International).
Marine Corps Tank Battles in Korea: A detailed and gripping account of the little-known Marine tank engagements during the Korean War, from...
First to Fight
The U.S. Marines in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
“Retreat, hell! We just got here!” The words of Captain Lloyd Williams at Belleau Wood in June 1918 entered United States Marine Corps legend, and the Marine Brigade’s actions there—along with the censor’s failure to take out the name of the Brigade in the battle reports—made the Corps...
Battle of Britain
An Epic Conflict Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
In time for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, we now have—thanks to Swedish historian Bergström—perhaps the most thorough, expert examination of the topic ever written. Illustrated throughout with maps and rare photos, plus a color section closely depicting the aircraft, this work...
The Dragon's Teeth
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army—Its History, Traditions, and Air Sea and Land Capability in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
When Mao Zedong proclaimed The People’s Republic of China in 1949, China was a poor and wrecked society after years of continuous wars. For centuries, in fact, China had been seen as a sort of plunder-zone to be invaded, and then a backwater until the late 1980s, when domestic policy brought about...