Casemate: 256 books
Finland's War of Choice: The Untidy Coalition of a Democracy and a Dictatorship in World War II
The Troubled German-Finnish Coalition in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2011
A selection of the Military Book Club. This book describes the odd coalition between Germany and Finland in World War II and their joint military operations from 1941 to 1945. This is a topic often missing in English though in stark contrast to the numerous books on the shorter and less bloody Winter...
Valor in Vietnam
Chronicles of Honor, Courage, and Sacrifice: 1963-1977
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
**“**A well-informed, compelling compilation of the ‘up close and personal’ side of the Vietnam War . . . [a] masterful chronicle of first person stories” (Vice Admiral David B. Robinson, USN, Ret., Navy Cross recipient).
Every war continues to dwell in the lives it touched, in the...
The Battered Bastards of Bastogne
A Chronicle of the Defense of Bastogne December 19, 1944–January 17, 1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
“Fleshes out in vivid detail the entire story of the Screaming Eagles’ valiant struggle . . . This is must reading for any student of World War II history” (Kepler’s Military History).
The Battered Bastards of Bastogne is the product of contributions by 530 soldiers who were on the...
Surrounded by Heroes
Six Campaigns with Divisional Headquarters, 82d Airborne, 1942 - 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
When the author was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1942 he had no reason to expect special treatment. Instead, because he was a typist and draftsman, he was grabbed up by an outfit desperately in need of those skills. It was the G-3 (Operations) Section of the 82nd Airborne. Len Lebenson thus gained...
Spearhead of the Fifth Army
The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Italy, from the Winter Line to Anzio
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Upon the completion of the Sicily and Salerno Campaigns in 1943, the paratroopers of Colonel Reuben Tucker’s 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment were among the first Allied troops to enter Naples. A ghost town at first sight, the residents soon expressed their joy at being liberated. Four weeks later...
Jump Commander In Combat With The 505th And 508th Parachute Infantry Regiments, 82nd Airborne Division In World War II
In Combat with the 505th and 508th Parachute Infantry Regiments, 82nd Airborne Division in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
A selection of the Military Book ClubCol. Mark James Alexander was the only airborne officer to lead three different battalions into combat in World War II, successively commanding the 2d and 1st Battalions, 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, and the 2nd Battalion, 508 PIR, of the 82nd Airborne Division....
Fighting Fox Company
The Battling Flank of the Band of Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division has become one of the most famous small units in U.S. history, thanks to Stephen Ambrose’s superb book Band of Brothers, followed by portrayals in film. However, to date little has been heard of Fox Company of that...
The American Heroes Collection
Hal Moore, Shadow Commander, and American Guerrilla
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Three stirring military portraits—including a biography of the Vietnam War hero who wrote the New York Times bestseller, We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young.
Hal Moore: A heroic commander in the Vietnam War, Harold G. Moore cowrote the New York Times–bestselling memoir of the battle at...
Crusader
General Donn Starry and the Army of His Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
Although he missed combat in World War II and Korea, Donn Starry became one of the most influential commanders of the Vietnam War, and after Vietnam was one of the “intellectual giants” who reshaped the US Army and its doctrines. Throughout his career he worked to improve training, leadership...
War Dog Fighting Other People's Wars-The Modern Mercenary In Combat
Fighting Other People's Wars -The Modern Mercenary in Combat
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Mercenaries have been with us since the dawn of civilization yet in the modern world they are little understood. While many of today's freelance fighters provide support for larger military establishments others wage war where the great powers refuse to tread. In War Dog Al Venter examines the latter...
The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War
South Africa vs. Cuba in the Angolan Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
As the Soviet Union teetered on the edge of collapse during the late 1980s, and America prepared to claim its victory, a bloody war still raged in Southern Africa, where proxy forces from both sides vied for control of Angola. The result was the largest battle on the dark continent since Al Alamein,...
The Fights on the Little Horn Companion
Gordon Harper's Full Appendices and Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
This remarkable book synthesizes a lifetime of in-depth research into one of America’s most storied disasters, the defeat of Custer’s 7th Cavalry at the hands of the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, as well as the complete annihilation of that part of the cavalry led by Custer himself.
The author,...
Bluff, Bluster, Lies and Spies
The Lincoln Foreign Policy, 1861–1865
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
An in-depth illustration of shifting Civil War alliances and strategies and of Great Britain’s behind-the-scenes role in America’s War Between the States.
In the early years of the Civil War, Southern arms won spectacular victories on the battlefield. But cooler heads in the Confederacy recognized...
by Oscar E. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Tales of tank warfare from Pusan to the Chosin Reservoir, based on interviews with the veterans who were there—from the author of Tanks in Hell.
The outbreak of the Korean conflict caught America (and the Marine Corps) unprepared. The Corps' salvation was the existence of its Organized Reserve...