Casemate: 256 books
Tanks
A Century of Tank Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
The Casemate Short History Series presents readable and entertaining introductions to military history topics.
Today tanks are synonymous with the modern army; imposing, essential pieces of high-technology equipment, seemingly impregnable. But how did the tank come into being, and how did it...
Two Soldiers, Two Lost Fronts German War Diaries Of The Stalingrad And North Africa Campaigns
German War Diaries of the Stalingrad and North Africa Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2009
On sand and snow for Hitler . . .This book is built around two recently discovered war diaries one by a member of the 23rd Panzer Division which served under Manstein in Russia, and the other by a member of Rommel's AfrikaKorps. Together, along with detailed timelines and brief overviews, they comprise...
King Of Airfighters The Biography Of Major "Mick" Mannock Vc Dso MC
The Biography of Major "Mick" Mannock, VC, DSO MC
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
A penetrating study of Britain's top fighter ace in the Great War . . .Ira Jones' biography of Britain's top scoring ace of World War I has become the subject of some controversy over the last few years most notably as it is the source of the claim of 73 "kills" for Mannock thereby making...
by Frantz Immelmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
The story of one of Germany’s pioneers in aerial combat . . .
Max Immelmann was born in Dresden, the son of a container factory owner. When World War I started, Immelmann was recalled to active service, transferred to the Luftstreitkäfte and was sent for pilot training in November 1914....
Ghosts of the ETO
American Tactical Deception Units in the European Theater, 1944 - 1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
No history of the war in Europe has ever taken into account the actions of the men of the US 23rd Special Troops. These men took part in over 22 deception operations against the German Army. Some of these operations had tremendous impact upon how the battles in Europe were fought. The men who participated...
Sharpshooters
Marksmen through the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
The Casemate Short History Series presents readable and entertaining introductions to military history topics.
Throughout history, the best marksmen in any military force have been employed as marksmen or sharpshooters, and equipped with the best available weapons. The German states made the...
Big Guns
Artillery on the Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
The Casemate Short History Series presents readable and entertaining introductions to military history topics.
Over seven centuries the artillery piece has evolved from a status symbol to one of the most deadly weapons wielded by man. Using gunpowder weapons was initially something of a black...
The Waffen-SS in Normandy. June 1944
The Caen Sector
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
For many, the Waffen-SS soldier represents the archetype of the combatant, if not the warrior: well-armed, well-trained, possessing intelligence in combat, imbued with political and ideological fanaticism, he is an elite soldier par excellence, even if a lack of scruples casts a long shadow. However,...
by Yves Buffetaut
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Tanks were the beasts of the Second World War, machines designed to destroy anything and anyone in their path. Throughout the summer of 1944, the Allied forces readily employed tanks and armored vehicles to gain ground in the bloody campaign of Normandy. Heavily armed, they provided a kind of support...
From Moscow to Stalingrad
The Eastern Front, 1941-1942
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The path from Moscow to Stalingrad was littered with successes and losses for both the Red Army and the Wehrmacht, with tensions remaining high and culminating in one of the harshest battles of the Second World War. Part of the Casemate Illustrated series, this volume outlines how it was that, less...
Operation Typhoon
The German Assault on Moscow, 1941
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2018
After the initial successes of Operation Barbarossa, at the end of September 1941 Hitler turned his focus to Moscow, with the unshakable belief that capturing the capital would knock the Soviets out of the war. On the face of it, it was an unequal struggle; Field Marshall Fedor von Bock had at his...
General Fox Conner
Pershing’s Chief of Operations and Eisenhower’s Mentor
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
**Winner of the 2016 Army Historical Society Distinguished Writing Award.
Fox Conner presents the portrait of the quintessential man behind the scenes in U.S. military history. John J. Pershing considered Fox Conner to have been “a brilliant solider” and “one of the finest characters...
Check Six!
A Thunderbolt Pilot's War Across the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
There were no mission limits for a pilot in the Pacific during World War II; unlike in Europe, you flew until it was time to go home. So it was for James “Jug” Curran, all the way from New Guinea to the Philippines with the 348th Fighter Group, the first P-47 Thunderbolt outfit in the Pacific.
After...
Bailout Over Normandy
A Flyboy’s Adventures with the French Resistance and Other Escapades in Occupied France
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The thrilling memoir of a WWII fighter pilot’s fight for survival in Occupied France, working with the French Resistance and escaping Nazi capture.
A daredevil aviator in the famed 352nd Fighter Squadron, Ted Fahrenwald bailed out of his burning P-51 Mustang two days after D-day and was launched...