Format: Hardback
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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: 208
ISBN: 9781612005607
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2017
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: 40 color and b/w photos
Description:
The Frantic operations were conceived in late 1943 as Soviet advances made Soviet airfields accessible to Allied long-range aircraft. American aircraft could hit targets in central Europe, refuel and rearm at Soviet bases, then fly back to bomb additional targets. In addition to hitting Nazi war industries, the political objectives of Frantic were to build closer cooperation with the Red Army as the end of the war drew nearer.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781612005256
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2017
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Series: Casemate Illustrated
Illustrations: 100
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The 2nd SS Division, “Das Reich,” was a battlefront mainstay for Nazi Germany throughout WWII—from the invasion of Poland in 1939 to the final surrender in May 1945. In between it was switched back-and-forth between east and west depending on the crisis, and it fought in nearly every major campaign, from Barbarossa to Normandy, and from Kharkov to the Ardennes. Das Reich was the first Waffen SS division created (though the title “1st” was reserved for Hitler’s Leibstandarte).
Format: Hardback
Description:
An army marches on its stomach—so the classic saying goes. This book brings together excerpts from contemporary manuals for U.S.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9781612005560
Pub Date: 08 Dec 2017
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: highly illustrated
Description:
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Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781612005485
Pub Date: 04 Dec 2017
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Series: Die Wehrmacht im Kampf
Illustrations: 20 maps
Description:
The city of Vitebsk in Belarus was of strategic importance during the fighting on the Eastern Front, as it controlled the route to Minsk. A salient in the German lines, Vitebsk had been declared a Festerplatz—a fortress town—meaning that it must be held at all costs. a task handed to 3rd Panzer Army in 1943.
Format: Hardback
Description:
The history of the United States is peppered with extraordinary military leaders. Fate has enshrined an exceptional few in the public’s collective consciousness while sometimes ignoring others often equally as deserving, relegating them to footnotes at best. Though the nation owes them considerable debts, there are many examples of men whose singular leadership is now little remembered or forgotten completely.
Format: Hardback
Description:
Albert Nofi tells the story of the American War through a range of insightful essays, anecdotes, and facts. Did you know..
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781612005546
Pub Date: 28 Nov 2017
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: 16 pages of b/w photos
Description:
During World War II, 1,517 members of US aircrews were forced to seek asylum in Switzerland. Most neutral countries found reason to release US airmen from internment, but Switzerland took its obligations under the Hague Convention more seriously than most. The airmen were often incarcerated in local jails, and later transferred to prison camps.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9781612004471
Pub Date: 01 Nov 2017
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: 16 pages of photos
Description:
Reverend David Railton MC served as a chaplain on the Western Front during World War I. Attached to three divisions between 1916 and 1918, Railton supported the soldiers in their worst moments, he buried the fallen, comforted the wounded, wrote to the families of the missing and killed, and helped the survivors to remember and mark the loss of their comrades so that they were able to carry on. He was with his men at many battles, including High Wood, the Aisne and Passchendaele; he received the Military Cross for rescuing an officer and two men under heavy fire on the Somme.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9781612005584
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2017
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: photos and maps
Description:
George VI's biographer, Sir John Wheeler Bennett wrote “The actual turning of the tide in the 2nd World War may be accurately determined as the first week of July 1942.” This book argues that it is possible to be even more exact: the tide turned at about 21.00 hrs on 2 July 1942, when Rommel’s tanks withdrew for the first time since the fall of Tobruk on 20 June, or arguably since 14 January 1942 at El Agheila.
Format: Hardback
Description:
In the early summer of 1941 German mountain soldiers under the command of General Eduard Dietl set out in northern Norway up through Finland to the Russian border. Operation Silberfuchs was underway. The northernmost section of the Eastern Front would ensure Hitler supplies of nickel from Finnish mines, and bring the strategically important port city of Murmansk under German control.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
ISBN: 9781612005409
Pub Date: 15 Oct 2017
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Series: Past & Present
Illustrations: 130
Description:
While the 6th Airborne Division had landed in France on D-Day and covered itself in glory, its counterpart, the 1st Airborne Division, had last seen action during an amphibious assault at Taranto on September 9, 1943, as part of the invasion of Italy. Returned to the UK in December 1943, it was held in reserve during the battle of Normandy and spent three months waiting for action, as plan after plan was proposed and then discarded, such was the speed of the Allied pursuit of the Germans.In September 1944, however, 1st Airborne played a leading role in Operation Market—the air component of Operation Market Garden, an audacious attempt by the Allies to bypass the Siegfried Line and advance into the Ruhr.
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781636245263
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: 35 illustrations
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Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
ISBN: 9781612005362
Pub Date: 06 Oct 2017
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Series: Past & Present
Illustrations: 130
Description:
Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
ISBN: 9781612005423
Pub Date: 06 Oct 2017
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Series: Past & Present
Illustrations: 130
Description:
The 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler was the spearhead of the assault by Sepp Dietrich’s Sixth Panzer Armee on the northern flank of the German Ardennes offensive. Divided into Kampfgruppen, the lead was Kampfgruppe Peiper whose armored force included SS Heavy Tank Battalion 501 equipped with King Tigers.The attack was launched on a snowy, freezing December 16, but from the outset, the division lost time against schedule.