Casemate: 256 books
by Ira Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Ira “Taffy” Jones was a well-known air fighter during the First World War, having scored about 40 victories flying SE5 scouts in France with 74 Squadron. Well known in flying circles, Jones recorded stories drawn from his own experiences during the war and wrote of the many personalities he had...
SOG Medic
Stories from Vietnam and Over the Fence
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Elite units carried out many dangerous operations during the Vietnam War, the most secret and hazardous of which were conducted by the Studies and Observations Group, formed in 1964.
In the years since the Vietnam War, the elite unit known as SOG has spawned many myths, legends and war stories....
The Flag
Revd David Railton MC and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Reverend David Railton MC served as a chaplain on the Western Front during World War I. Attached to three divisions between 1916 and 1918, Railton supported the soldiers in their worst moments; he buried the fallen, comforted the wounded, wrote to the families of the missing and killed, and helped...
by “McScotch” Mannock
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
“McScotch” himself describes his book and pays tribute to a colleague in this note, which appears at the front of the volume:
“This book consists of the reminiscences of an ordinary fighter pilot of the R.F.C. who had the privilege of serving in one of the leading Fighter Squadrons and who had...
Jagdstaffel 356
The Story of a German Fighter Squadron
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Although the author has given this Jagdstaffel a fictitious number and changed the names of the pilots composing it, the incidents related in this book have the genuine ring of truth and will be recognized as facts by anyone who has had experience of flying on the Western Front or who has studied...
Teenage Resistance Fighter
With the Maquisards in Occupied France
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
September 5, 1944
“The Americans are approaching; we follow their progress impatiently on the radio, by intercepting messages reserved for the commandos. They cannot be beaten now. But it is up to us to do the impossible to speed up the progression of the bulk of their troops, to facilitate...
Lincoln's Bold Lion
The Life and Times of Brigadier General Martin Davis Hardin
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
**Runner-Up in the 2017 Florida Book Festival History Category
This is the first biography devoted to the life of a remarkable young man who, in the words of Civil War historian Ezra Warner, “embarked upon a combat career which has few parallels in the annals of the army for gallantry, wounds...
The Life of John André
The Redcoat Who Turned Benedict Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2019
John André was head of the British Army’s Secret Service in North America as the Revolutionary War entered its most bitter and, ultimately, decisive phase. In 1780, he masterminded the defection of a high-ranking American officer—General Benedict Arnold. Arnold—his name for ever synonymous...
Hollow Heroes
An Unvarnished Look at the Wartime Careers of Churchill, Montgomery and Mountbatten
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
The book reveals the truths behind the conventional images of three of Great Britain's primary military leaders during and immediately after the Second World War. In each case there was a totally different side to each man, which demonstrates that a great deal of their reputation was built on contrived...
by Yves Buffetaut
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
The Das Reich Division was the most infamous units of the Waffen-SS. Hitler's Schutzstaffel (SS) units were originally paramilitary formations raised to protect the members of the Nazi party, and the Waffen-SS (the armed SS) was founded in 1934 as the SS-Verfügungstruppe. In 1939 the SS-Verfügungstruppe...
by George Forty
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2015
This is the story of General George S. Patton's magnificent Third Army as it advanced across Nazi-occupied Europe and into Hitler's redoubt in the last year of World War II. As America’s own answer to Blitzkrieg, Third Army’s actions from the Normandy coast across France and Germany to Austria...
Year of Desperate Struggle
Jeb Stuart and His Cavalry, from Gettysburg to Yellow Tavern, 1863-1864
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
By the summer of 1863, following Chancellorsville, it was clear to everyone on both sides of the Civil War that the Army of Northern Virginia was the most formidable force Americans had ever put in the field. It could only be “tied” in battle, if against great odds, but would more usually vanquish...
by A.R. Kingsford
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
A.R. Kingsford flew with 100 Squadron, the unit that dropped the first bomb at night on Germany and, on November 11, 1918, the last one.
One of the many who came to Europe from all over the Commonwealth to fight in the First World War, Kingsford had sailed from New Zealand in 1914. He joined...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2019
The success of the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944 depended on thousands of troops carrying out their mission and the seamless coordination of the amphibious landings with paratrooper and glider assaults. The troops not only had to be trained up ready for their own roles, but to work alongside other...