Casemate Publishers

Casemate Publishers is a global publisher in the fields of military history, aviation and intelligence studies, covering all aspects of military history, and all periods of conflict – from ancient civilisations to modern warfare.
Their diverse list includes military autobiographies and memoirs, histories of specific events, and a growing list of leadership titles. Casemate Publishers is also the home of the renowned Casemate Illustrated series – loved by general readers, modellers and specialists alike, these books bring visual detail to key elements of military history, from campaigns, units and battles, to aircraft, ships and weapons. Their global team is passionate about the subject and the authors and experts they work with, and in bringing readers the best of military history.

Lieutenant General James Longstreet Innovative Military Strategist Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9781636241173
Pub Date: 28 Jul 2022
Illustrations: 40 photographs and 5 maps
Description:
Lieutenant-General James Longstreet, commander of the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, was a brilliant tactician and strategist. Prior to the Civil War there were many technological developments, of which the rifled musket and cannon, rail transport and the telegraph were a few. In addition, the North enjoyed a great advantage in manpower and resources.
Blue and Gray Almanac Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9781636241258
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2022
Description:
Albert Nofi tells the story of the American War through a range of insightful and entertaining essays, anecdotes, and facts. Did you know..
In the Shadows of Guadalcanal Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781636241623
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2022
Description:
Twice torpedoed during the Battle of the Atlantic, LT. Tony Colombo USNR, a former merchant marine officer, is appointed to command a new Navy ship, PC-450, a 173 foot, steel-hulled and much advanced submarine chaser carrying five officers and sixty-five men. After a period of escorting convoys up and down the Atlantic coast, Tony suddenly finds himself escorting ships loaded with Marine Corps equipment all the way to Wellington, New Zealand and then to Brisbane, Australia.
RRP: £17.99
Leading Like the Swamp Fox Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781636241159
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2022
Illustrations: 10–20 photographs
Description:
Francis Marion is certainly the stuff of which legends are made. His nickname “The Swamp Fox,” bestowed upon him by one of his fiercest enemies, captures his wily approach to battle. The embellishment of his exploits in Parson Weems’ early biography make separation of fact from fiction difficult, but certainly represents the awe, loyalty, and attraction he produced in those around him.
The Lion of Round Top Cover The Lion of Round Top Cover
Format: 
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781636241111
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2022
Illustrations: 10 illustrations
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781636244891
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2024
Illustrations: 10 illustrations
Description:
Citizen-soldier Strong Vincent was many things: Harvard graduate, lawyer, political speaker, descendent of pilgrims and religious refugees, husband, father, brother. But his greatest contribution to history is as the saviour of the Federal left on the second day at Gettysburg, when he and his men held Little Round Top against overwhelming Confederate numbers. Forgotten by history in favour of his subordinate, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Vincent faded into relative obscurity in the decades following his death.
RRP: £22.50
Britain's Secret Defences Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781636241005
Pub Date: 10 Jul 2022
Illustrations: 50 photographs
Description:
The narrative surrounding Britain’s anti-invasion forces has often centred on ‘Dad’s Army’-like characters running around with pitchforks, on unpreparedness and sense of inevitability of invasion and defeat. The truth, however, is very different. Top-secret, highly trained and ruthless civilian volunteers were being recruited as early as the summer of 1940.
RRP: £19.95
A Machine Gunner's War Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9781636241043
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2022
Illustrations: Photographs and maps
Description:
Ernest ‘Andy’ Andrews began his training as a machine gunner at Fort McClellan in Alabama in July 1943. In early 1944, he arrived in the UK for further training before D-Day, ahead of the 1st Infantry Division deploying on the evening of June 5th on the USS Henrico. Due to a problem with his landing craft, Andrews only reached Omaha Beach on the early evening of June 6th, but his experience was still a harrowing one.
Dodge WC54 Ambulance Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781636242132
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2022
Series: Casemate Illustrated Special
Illustrations: Fully illustrated
Description:
In 1940, the U.S. Army began to standardize the production of vehicles it required to fight a modern war – including support and medical vehicles.
U.S. Army Diamond T Vehicles in World War II Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781636241609
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2022
Series: Casemate Illustrated Special
Illustrations: 250 illustrations
Description:
Between 1940 and 1945, the Diamond T Motor Car Company supplied just over 50,000 vehicles to the US military, and also to the Allies. Of these, just over 30,000 were heavy 4-ton 6x6 trucks of varying types: cargo, tow truck, pontoon carrier, engineer, and cartographic. The 'Diamond' would serve in all theatres of operations, wherever its robustness and reliability were necessary to complete the mission.
Maritime Strike Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781636241135
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2022
Illustrations: 20 photographs
Description:
In April 2011, the newly created Royal Navy Response Force Task Group deployed to the Mediterranean to provide a range of military options in response to the Arab Spring. For the next six months the group planned and prepared for a range of potential operations including noncombatant evacuations from Libya, Yemen and Syria, maritime interdiction operations off the Libyan coast, and amphibious landings. On 3 June the group began launching attack helicopter strikes into Libya and in the nights that followed planned 47 and executed 22 strikes destroying a range of targets including: 54 vehicles, 2 rigid hull boats, 2 BM 21 rocket launchers, 4 main battle tanks, 1 zsu antiaircraft vehicle and 3 command and control nodes.
The Good Captain Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 298
ISBN: 9781636241487
Pub Date: 05 Jun 2022
Illustrations: 20-30 photographs
Description:
R. D. Hooker, Jr.
Run Run Cricket Run Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781636240367
Pub Date: 28 May 2022
Description:
1970 - the height of the Vietnam War. A group of young Forward Air Controllers based in Thailand are assigned with supporting the Truck War and the People's War in southern Laos, where the fate of the Vietnam War, and Laos' very future, is being decided. Tasked with shutting down the Ho Chi Minh Trail - the North Vietnamese supply lines running into South Vietnam - literally stopping the constant stream of trucks in their tracks, these American airmen, call sign "Nail," fly missions 24 hours a day.
Seven Seconds to Die Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781636241234
Pub Date: 28 May 2022
Illustrations: B/w
Description:
The Second Nagorno-Karabakh war – fought between Armenia and Azerbaijan between September 24 and November 10, 2020 – was the first war in history won primarily by unmanned systems. This 44-day war resulted in a decisive military victory for Azerbaijan. Armenia was outfought, outnumbered, and outspent and lost even though they controlled the high ground in a mountainous region that favored traditional defense.
Leaving Gettysburg Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781636241708
Pub Date: 28 May 2022
Description:
Pickett's charge has just ended, the battle of Gettysburg is over. The Confederate army is defeated and must retreat to the Potomac River forty miles away with thousands of wagons full of wounded soldiers, provisions and tens of thousands of animals. Asa Helms, a private in the Twenty-Sixth North Carolina Infantry, joined the army to oppose the Yankee's invasion of his "country.
Hell in the Streets of Husaybah Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781636241500
Pub Date: 28 May 2022
Illustrations: 30 photographs
Description:
During the April 2004 fights throughout Iraq, most media attention was focused on the city of Fallujah. However, at the same time, out on the border with Syria in and around the city of Husaybah, fighting was equally intense. This book tells the story of that period through many first-person accounts of intense fighting in the town of Husaybah, Iraq, during.
Echo Among Warriors Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781636240343
Pub Date: 28 May 2022
Description:
In war, every action has a beginning and an end. Echo Among Warriors is a story of close combat between two opposing, equally committed adversaries. The powerful narrative immerses the reader in both sides of the battle, playing and replaying the same battle sequence from alternating viewpoints – through the eyes of the Marines and through the eyes of the North Vietnamese.