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: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636240923

Pub Date: 31 Dec 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Illustrations: 100 photographs and illustration

Description:

The 17th and 18th centuries witnessed a period of almost constant conflict in Europe and North America. In New England, the threat of invasion from the French in the North and the Spanish in the South weighed heavily on the colonists. The Crown's solution was to send an army from Britain to help govern, organise and protect the colonies, but ultimately this was not enough to secure loyalty and quell the whispers of revolt.

RRP: £24.95

The East Pomeranian Offensive, 1945 Cover

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636243887

Pub Date: 31 Dec 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Illustrations: 120–150 illustrations

Description:

In early 1945, the Red Army marched into East Prussia. Having advanced across Poland, relentlessly pushing back German forces, the Red Army built up forces along the Oder River, preparing for the final push towards Berlin. But before that battle could take place, it was necessary to clear and destroy German forces in Pomerania and West Prussia.

RRP: £24.95

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636244600

Pub Date: 31 Dec 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Illustrations: 150 photos

Description:

A fully illustrated introduction to the role, and experience, of the Panzer crewman.The German Panzerwaffe ripped up the rulebooks of war that had been laid down by the grinding slaughter of the trenches of World War I. Armored vehicles, close-air support, and bold leadership based on mission command, Auftragstaktik, cut a deadly swathe through the armies of east and west Europe.

RRP: £24.95

Luftwaffe Night Fighter Aces 1940–43 Cover

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636244907

Pub Date: 31 Dec 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Illustrations: 100+ photographs and artwork

Description:

On 10 May 1940, the Wehrmacht launched its assault on the West. One element of the West’s response was the dispatch of RAF Bomber Command ‘heavy’ bombers at night over German industrial centers. These raids had only limited effectiveness, but the inability of the Luftwaffe to chase down RAF bombers at night so annoyed Wolfgang Falck that it swiftly resulted in the creation of a credible night fighter force.

RRP: £24.95

Format: Hardback

Pages: 320

ISBN: 9781636244983

Pub Date: 15 Nov 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 20-40 photographs

Description:

The inspiring life story of a young boy stricken with polio who, through sheer grit, the drive to achieve, and love of the military, overcomes childhood paralysis, takes up the physical challenges of an infantry career and joins the elite airborne forces. Bill Matz earns his Ranger Tab and Master Parachute Badge, and rises to the highest levels of achievement in the U.S.

RRP: £32.95

Format: Hardback

Pages: 240

ISBN: 9781636244952

Pub Date: 15 Nov 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 40 photographs

Description:

Raised on a farm in Montana, Vernon Drake enlisted in the Army Air Corp in the spring of 1942. Assigned to the 493rd Bomb Squadron, 7th Bomb Group of the 10th Air Force stationed in India, he piloted B-24 bombers into Burma in a fight to prevent the Japanese from advancing north to China, then flew C-108 gas-hauling tankers across the formidable Himalayas to support the U.S.

RRP: £29.95

Format: Hardback

Pages: 336

ISBN: 9781636244815

Pub Date: 14 Nov 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 20–30 colour photographs

Description:

In 2006, the shock and awe campaign of securing the major cities had ended, and the Iraq War had moved into an alien phase for the operators of Black Flag One. With their motto “swift, silent, deadly,” the Marine operators of 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion were trained for unconventional warfare but they were tasked with holding and securing swathes of the country, facing Insurgents who were adapting their tactics to kill as many Coalition soldiers as possible using IEDs. It was a terrifying new phase of the war where every disturbed patch of dirt, every piece of rubbish, every civilian acting oddly could mean instant death.

RRP: £29.95

Format: Hardback

Pages: 360

ISBN: 9781612004921

Pub Date: 31 Oct 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 40

Description:

The Angolan Civil War lasted over a quarter of a century, from 1975 to 2002. Beginning as a power struggle between two former liberation movements, the MPLA and UNITA, it became a Cold War struggle with involvement from the Soviet Union, Cuba, South Africa and the USA. This book examines the height of the Cuban-South African fighting in Angola in 1987–88, when 3,000 South African soldiers and about 8,000 UNITA guerrilla fighters fought in alliance against the Cubans and the armed forces of the Marxist MPLA government, a force of over 50,000 men.

RRP: £25.00

Format: Hardback

Pages: 336

ISBN: 9781636243573

Pub Date: 29 Oct 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 35 photographs

Description:

The monumental struggle fought against Imperial Japan in the Asia/Pacific theater during World War II is primarily viewed as an American affair. While the United States did play a dominant role, the British and Commonwealth forces also made major contributions – on land, at sea and in the air – eventually involving over a million men and vast armadas of ships and aircraft. It was a difficult and often desperate conflict fought against a skilled and ruthless enemy that initially saw the British suffer the worst series of defeats ever to befall their armed forces.

Format: Hardback

Pages: 240

ISBN: 9781636242873

Pub Date: 29 Oct 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 50–60 photographs and maps

Description:

North Africa was one of the richest parts of the Roman Empire, the agricultural powerhouse of the Mediterranean. It was also home to some of the emperor’s biggest imperial estates, and prosperous cities of all kinds. Its loss to the Vandals in the first half of the 5th century AD was the mortal blow which precipitated the fall of the western empire, and set the eastern empire back for decades.

RRP: £29.95

Format: Hardback

Pages: 192

ISBN: 9781612008813

Pub Date: 23 Oct 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated Special

Illustrations: 250 photos, profiles, and diagrams

Description:

World War I witnessed unprecedented growth and innovation in aircraft design, construction, and as the war progressed - mass production. Each country generated its own innovations sometimes in surprising ways - Albatros Fokker, Pfalz, and Junkers in Germany and Nieuport, Spad, Sopwith and Bristol in France and Britain. This book focuses on the British approach to fighter design, construction, and mass production.

RRP: £35.00

The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision Hitlerjugend Cover

Format: Hardback

Pages: 288

ISBN: 9781636243474

Pub Date: 17 Oct 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 40 photographs and maps

Description:

Following the Normandy invasion of 6 June, 1944, Heersgruppe B under German Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel rushed reserves to the newly created bridgehead in order to crush it and drive the Allied forces into the sea. One of these armored reserves was the newly created 12. SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend.

RRP: £32.95

Format: Hardback

Pages: 384

ISBN: 9781636244730

Pub Date: 16 Oct 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 82 photos, charts, drawings

Description:

Although Capa's Falling Soldier image from the Spanish Civil War has been definitively proven to be a staged propaganda fake, no one has applied a similarly critical eye to his later work. This book is the first effort to establish the facts behind the fables surrounding his D-Day adventures and the images he produced during that period. This book examines the fictionalized account Robert Capa penned in his pseudo biography Slightly Out of Focus.

RRP: £34.95

Format: Paperback

Pages: 541

ISBN: 9781636244877

Pub Date: 14 Oct 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: maps and 24pp black and white photos

Description:

A detailed account of Herbert Otto Gille’s IV SS-Panzerkorps that participated in many of the key battles fought on the Eastern Front during the last year of WWII.During World War Two, the armed or Waffen-SS branch of the Third Reich’s dreaded security service expanded from two divisions in 1940 to 38 divisions by the end of the war, eventually growing to a force of over 900,000 men until Germany’s defeat in May 1945. Not satisfied with allowing his nascent force to be commanded in combat by army headquarters of the Wehrmacht, Heinrich Himmler, chief of the SS, began to create his own SS corps and army headquarters beginning with the SS-Panzerkorps in July 1942.

Format: Hardback

Pages: 505

ISBN: 9781935149255

Pub Date: 06 Oct 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Description:

Anybody who says that the pen is mightier than the sword hasn't spent time in Somalia, or in Beirut during its bloody heyday. So begins this fascinating memoir of a journalist, filmmaker, and just plain raconteur who has made a career of examining warfare-on the ground as the bullets are flying. While the average citizen is aware of violent conflicts broiling all around the globe, Al J.

RRP: £25.00

Format: Hardback

Pages: 288

ISBN: 9781636244716

Pub Date: 29 Sep 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: ~50 photographs

Description:

“The Devil’s Playground” was anything south of the second canal to the men of Charlie Company’s 2nd Platoon—Two Charlie—during their 2009–2010 deployment to the Arghandab River Valley in Afghanistan. The valley had been a notorious hot spot throughout history, with the Russians unable to maintain a foothold in the 80s and Coalition forces now facing the same problem during Operation Enduring Freedom.The Two Charlie paratroopers deployed as part of the 2-508th PIR, Two Fury, of the 82nd Airborne Division, but always seemed to be on their own.

RRP: £29.95