Casemate: 256 books
Tanks in Hell
A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
An extraordinary slice of untold WWII history: how unproven Marines driving untested Sherman tanks turned the tide against Japan in the Battle of Tarawa.
In May 1943, a self-described “really young, green, ignorant lieutenant” assumed command of a new US Marine Corps company. His even younger...
Awakening Victory
How Iraqi Tribes and American Troops Reclaimed Al Anbar and Defeated Al Qaeda in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
In August 2006, many senior U.S. officials thought America had lost the war in Iraq, as the senior U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer there wrote that control of al Anbar Province, the seat of the raging Sunni insurgency, was irrevocably lost to the insurgents. During that time, there were over...
The Battle for Tinian
Vital Stepping Stone in America’s War Against Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
In July 1944, the 9,000-man Japanese garrison on the island of Tinian listened warily as the thunder of the United States Navy and Marine Corps, Army and Air Corps, descended on their neighboring island, Saipan, just three miles away. There were 20,000 Japanese troops on Saipan, but the US obliterated...
Leyte, 1944
The Soldiers' Battle
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
When General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia in March 1942, having successfully left the Philippines to organize a new American army, he vowed, "I shall return!" More than two years later he did return, at the head of a large U.S. army to retake the Philippines from the Japanese....
by Oscar E. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
The author of Tanks in Hell tracks ten years of tank warfare in Vietnam, combining firsthand accounts from veterans with analysis of tactics and strategy.
In 1965 the large, loud, and highly visible tanks of 3rd Platoon, B Company, 3rd Tank Battalion landed across a beach near Da Nang, drawing...
BAC SI
A Green Beret Medic's War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
During the Vietnam War, U.S. Army Special Forces A-Teams were deployed to isolated outposts or "camps” in the remote areas of South Vietnam. Their job was to recruit, train, and house members of the indigenous population while molding them into combat-ready fighting units. A-Teams consisted...
With Musket and Tomahawk
The Saratoga Campaign and the Wilderness War of 1777
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
A comprehensive look at the brutal wilderness war that secured America's independence . . .
With Musket and Tomahawk is a vivid account of the American and British struggles in the sprawling wilderness region of the northeast during the Revolutionary War. Combining strategic, tactical, and...
Filthy Thirteen From The Dustbowl To Hitler's Eagle's Nest-The True Story Of The 101st Airborne's Most Legendary Squad Of Combat Paratroopers
From the Dustbowl to Hitler's Eagle’s Nest - The True Story of the 101st Airborne's Most Legendary Squad of Combat Paratroopers
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2003
Since World War II the American public has become fully aware of the exploits of the 101st Airborne Division the paratroopers who led the Allied invasions into Nazi-held Europe. But within the ranks of the 101st a sub-unit attained legendary status at the time its reputation persisting among veterans...
A Warrior Dynasty
The Rise and Decline of Sweden as a Military Superpower
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
There has been a recent trend in history to interpret the rise and fall of great powers in terms of economics, or demographics, or geography. This is not always true, as this book proves, because sometimes pure military skill can propel a nation to prominence, if it is simply able to crush all its...
Through Blue Skies to Hell America's "Bloody 100th" in the Air War over Germany
America's "Bloody 100th" in the Air War over Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2008
This book provides a comprehensive look at air war over Europe during the climactic year of World War II combining firsthand experience with expert analysis. The centerpiece is a mission-by-mission diary of 1st Lieutenant Richard R. Ayesh bombardier on a B-17 Flying Fortress who flew with the 100th...
Taking Fire
Saving Captain Aikman: A Story of the Vietnam Air War
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
American military special operations forces—Rangers, SEALs, and others—have become a well-recognized and highly respected part of our popular culture. But whom do these elite warriors look to in their times of greatest need: when wounded on the battlefield, cut off deep behind enemy lines, or...
Flying Fury Five Years In The Royal Flying Corps
Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
The day-to-day insights of a brilliantly daring World War I ace that only ends with his death at the age of 23 . . .James McCudden was an outstanding British fighter ace of World War I, whose daring exploits earned him a tremendous reputation and, ultimately, an untimely end. Here, in this unique...
Wings of War
An Airman's Diary of the Last Year of the War
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
This is a rare day-to-day account by a young German squadron leader in Jagdstaffel 35 during the grim last year of the war. Originally published in 1933, it provides minute descriptions of kills, losses, and the Germans’ step-by-step retreat in the face of increasingly overwhelming Allied forces...
by Claude "Vigilant" Sykes
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
This book, originally written in 1931 by “Vigilant” (the pen name for Claude Sykes), tells the dramatic tales of air combat as fought by the best German pilots of the First World War. Manfred von Richthofen, Max Immelmann, Oswald Boelcke and other famous daredevil flyers are joined by the lesser-known...