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.

Format: Hardback

Pages: 192

ISBN: 9781636245584

Pub Date: 15 Mar 2025

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 30 photographs

Description:

The temperature was 40 degrees below zero when fighter planes screamed out of the clouds, puncturing the fuselage with a spray of machinegun fire and sending the bomber beside them into a death spin. This was followed by intense flak, as a hundred cannons on the ground tried to blow them out of the sky.When they finally made it back to the base, another enemy awaited them: homesickness, crushing boredom, relentless cold, and more mud than they could imagine.

RRP: £29.95

Night Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe 1943-45 Cover

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636245546

Pub Date: 15 Mar 2025

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Illustrations: 100+ photographs and artwork profiles

Description:

The week-long Allied bombing campaign against Hamburg in late July 1943 was not only hugely destructive but also had a significant impact on the German night fighter arm. From now on, the “boxes” of Kammhuber’s “Raumnachtjagd” would be the starting point from which fighters would be led into the bomber stream as early as possible, a tactic dubbed “Zahme Sau.” The night fighters had to quickly adopt new “freelance” procedures, and also found themselves increasingly engaged in daylight operations.

RRP: £24.95

The Overland Campaign for Richmond Cover

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636243924

Pub Date: 15 Mar 2025

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Description:

A full account of the Wilderness to the James River, including Grant's rise to high command, the condition of the armies going into the critical 1864 campaign, a deep look at the commanders on both sides, and the strategy of the campaign from both perspectives. The study is combat, strategy, and tactics from the first day of action until the last, when Grant—unable to capture Richmond, but now south and east of the capital—builds a long bridge and crosses the James River to attack Petersburg. Illustrated by photographs and excellent maps, it will conclude with a note about visiting the battlefields, the casualties, the treatment of wounded, and the burial of the dead.

RRP: £24.95

Format: Paperback

Pages: 96

ISBN: 9781636245522

Pub Date: 15 Mar 2025

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Illustrations: 80+ photographs, illustrations and maps

Description:

From the closing days of the Revolutionary War in 1783 to the beginning of the War of 1812, the United States Army faced one of its most challenging periods. During this era, American soldiers confronted threats from Great Britain, France, and Spain. On the western frontier, hostile warriors from American Indian nations battled U.

RRP: £22.95

Format: Hardback

Pages: 352

ISBN: 9781636244679

Pub Date: 15 Mar 2025

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 25 photographs

Description:

Visual Friendlies, Tally Target: Surges continues the story of the role of forward air controllers (JTACs) and Close Air Support (CAS), picking up in 2006 and continuing through 2013. This volume covers the evolution of Joint Fires through the colloquial "second phase" of the War on Terror—the "surges" of Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan in 2010–2011. The narrative is supported by the individual accounts of US Air Force, Army, Marine close air support specialists, as well as UK, Canadian, Danish and German coalition forward air controllers.

RRP: £32.95

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636244358

Pub Date: 15 Feb 2025

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Illustrations: 150 photographs, maps and artwork

Description:

By October 1943, the German 17th Army had been forced to retreat from the Kuban bridgehead across the Kerch Strait to Crimea. During the following months, the Red Army pushed back the German forces in the southern Ukraine. In November 1943, they eventually cut off the land-based connection of 17th Army through the Perekop Isthmus.

RRP: £24.95

Format: Hardback

Pages: 256

ISBN: 9781636244839

Pub Date: 15 Feb 2025

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 40–50 illustrations

Description:

The “Battlin’ Bastards” of B Company, 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, fought daily against a numerically superior and well-trained enemy during their tours in Vietnam, 1968–71. Before the war, these men were brothers, sons, sweethearts, husbands, and fathers. Some were athletes, some musicians.

RRP: £29.95

Format: Hardback

Pages: 272

ISBN: 9781636245140

Pub Date: 15 Feb 2025

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: pick of 80 personal photos

Description:

Patrick Naughton’s father barely spoke of his time in Vietnam to his family, yet his service was the sole reason Patrick joined the U.S. Army as a teenager.

RRP: £29.95

Format: Hardback

Pages: 264

ISBN: 9781636245607

Pub Date: 01 Feb 2025

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 26 photos and 3 maps

Description:

In Vietnam, in 1967, William Chickering commanded a Mike Force battalion of Montagnards, highland tribesmen who were also members of a secret army, FULRO. Some senior American commanders worried that FULRO was communist, but those who fought with them understood that the goal of the United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races was to drive all Vietnamese—including communists—from the highlands. For a while, FULRO appeared capable of changing the course of the war in Vietnam.

RRP: £32.95

Format: Hardback

Pages: 224

ISBN: 9781636245003

Pub Date: 31 Jan 2025

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 10 images

Description:

Join Garner, Dodge, and the rest of RT Iowa as they venture “across the fence” to help stem the flow of the North Vietnamese on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Tense hours of moving in areas “denied” to the U.S.

RRP: £29.95

The First Day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863 Cover

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636244792

Pub Date: 31 Jan 2025

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Illustrations: Over 120 photographs and illustrations

Description:

The summer of 1863 started off disastrously for the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater. In early May, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia defeated and humiliated Major General Joseph Hooker’s army at the Battle of Chancellorsville.

RRP: £24.95

Format: Hardback

Pages: 256

ISBN: 9781636245621

Pub Date: 15 Jan 2025

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 16 pages of photographs

Description:

A photo in the New York Times on June 10, 1942 depicted a young naval officer, John Duncan Bulkeley, and his wife in the back of an open touring car as they were being treated to a New York ticker tape parade. Hundreds of thousands of people were cheering him in a hero’s welcome not seen since Charles Lindbergh returned from his solo flight across the Atlantic. The 30-year-old Bulkeley was just back from the Philippines, where he had pulled off one of the most spectacular rescues in U.

RRP: £29.95

Format: Hardback

Pages: 480

ISBN: 9781636245386

Pub Date: 15 Jan 2025

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: Over 150 photographs and illustrations

Description:

Samuel H. Walker was an apprentice carpenter in Washington, D.C.

RRP: £34.95

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636244396

Pub Date: 31 Dec 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Illustrations: photographs, maps and artwork

Description:

At the beginning of 1943, the German armed forces were in crisis on the southern front in Russia. The Soviets had launched a series of offensives from November 1942 that pushed the Germans back hundreds of kilometers. The Germans had no more significant reserves available, and enormous breaches had opened between defensive lines. In early January 1943, the Soviets attacked again, with the aim of reconquering the industrial city of Kharkov and destroying the remaining German and Axis troops in southern Ukraine, including the 4. Panzerarmee, 1. Panzerarmee, Armeeabteilung Hollidt and Armeeabteilung Fretter‐Pico.After the encirclement of 6. Armee at Stalingrad and the destruction of the Axis forces there, the loss of these four armies would certainly have led to German defeat on the Eastern Front. Believing victory was near, Stalin and his generals decided to launch their new offensives even before the garrison of Stalingrad surrendered. The main effort fell on Army Group Don, newly formed and with little forces available. Facing a massive offensive, Commander Erich von Manstein was ordered to hold the city at any cost, risking the destruction of two divisions of the Waffen‐SS and the “Grossdeutschland” army division. SS Panzer Corps commander Paul Hausser disobeyed Hitler’s order and ordered the retreat from Kharkov, saving the two SS divisions. This meant that Manstein had at his disposal forces needed to launch his counteroffensive.The subsequent battles for Kharkov saw the three divisions of the Waffen‐SS—Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, Das Reich and Totenkopf— fighting together for the first time. In the first phase of the offensive, the SS Das Reich and Totenkopf marched 100 kilometers south of Kharkov, blocking the Soviet army from capturing the bridges over the Dnieper River, while the Leibstandarte successfully defended the corps supply base in Krasnograd. After protecting the bridges over the Dnepr, the Das Reich and Totenkopf units headed north and regained control of the vital railway network south of Kharkov. The Soviet 3rd Tank Army was forced to abandon its attack against Krasnograd to regroup south of Kharkov and protect the city from Hausser’s divisions. At that point the Leibstandarte joined the other divisions of the corps SS to eliminate Soviet forces and recapture Kharkov. With its reconquest, Southern Ukraine returned firmly under German control.This is a fully illustrated account of the decisive victory attained by the SS Panzer Corps divisions at a time of serious crisis for the Axis forces.

RRP: £24.95

The Soviet Battle for Berlin, 1945 Cover

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636244372

Pub Date: 31 Dec 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Description:

In the spring of 1945, simultaneously with the battle of the Seelow Heights, powerful Red Army spearheads launched three sub-offensive operations to clear German resistance for the Berlin operation. Between April 13 and 17, 1945, elements of the 2nd Belorussian Front replaced parts of the 1st Belorussian Front and began to prepare their offensive operations. Bitter fighting ensued, as German units desperately tried to hold their positions.

RRP: £24.95

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636240787

Pub Date: 31 Dec 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Illustrations: 100 photographs and illustration

Description:

Having declared their independence, Britain's former colonies in North America would need to fight for their liberty. The response from the other side of the Atlantic was slow, but when it arrived it appeared overwhelming. Hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of troops gathered to re-establish the Crown's control.

RRP: £24.95