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
Description:
The book challenges the preconceptions behind three of Great Britain’s primary military leaders: Churchill, Montgomery and Mountbatten. Although their achievements during and immediately after the Second World War are widely celebrated, this book offers a new perspective, suggesting that most accounts ignore the darker side of each of these wartime leaders. It makes the case that a great deal of Churchill’s, Montgomery’s, and Mountbatten’s reputation was built on contrived results, deception and dishonesty.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781612002941
Pub Date: 19 Mar 2015
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Series: WWII Historic Battlefields
Illustrations: 300, colour throughout
Description:
The speed of the German Blitzkrieg in 1940 and the relative ease with which they brushed aside Allied defenses meant four years of occupation. But in June 1944—this time with American forces—the Allies finally returned for a rematch. The destruction of German forces in Normandy’s Falaise pocket, on August 14,was as quick as the Blitzkrieg had been: by September British troops were in Ghent and Liege; Canadian forces liberated Ostend, and in northeast France Patton's Third Army was moving rapidly to the German border, taking Rheims on August 29 and Verdun on the 30th.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781612002903
Pub Date: 19 Mar 2015
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: photos throughout
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America’s World War II is most often told through the stories of its great battles, when an entire generation of our young men was suddenly thrust across the oceans to represent the New World in deadly combat against the great powers of the Old. On sea, in the air, and on land our boys fought against totalitarian powers that threatened to overturn the American ideal of liberty for every individual, even civilization itself. But while often forgotten, America’s women were there too.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781612002880
Pub Date: 01 Mar 2015
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: 25 b/w photos; 10 maps
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War’s Nomads is an evocative account of one man’s experience of life in a mobile radar unit after the battle of El Alamein as Rommel’s AfrikaKorps was relentlessly pursued across the desert through Egypt, Libya and Tunisia by the Eighth Army. It is the only known detailed account in existence of the small radar units who played a key part in the Western Desert Campaign. A budding professional writer and grammar school master, Fred Grice had a keen eye for detail and ear for language, which he assiduously employed after he was called up in 1941, keeping two journals of his experiences.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781612002750
Pub Date: 26 Jan 2015
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: 27 b/w
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Thrilling helicopter exploits with the Royal Navy.Sometimes you do everything right, but it just isn’t your day. A part fails and your helicopter comes apart in flight, or, another aircraft runs into you and the pieces of both fall to the ground below, or the enemy gunner pulls the trigger at just the right moment and his rounds find your aircraft in exactly the right spot to take it out of the sky.
Format: Hardback
Description:
The soldiers of World War I are often referred to as the “Lost Generation”; this book is an intimate look at some U.S. soldiers’ experiences after being thrust into the centre of the Great War and enduring some of its most gruelling battles.
Format: Hardback
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In February 1945, the Allies launched Operation Thunderclap, a series of maximum efforts against cities in eastern Germany, partly to pave the way for the Red Army that would soon be overrunning that territory. These deep-penetration raids would tax the bomber crews immensely, as well as bring new devastation to cities yet untouched by U.S.
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The record of Carrier Air Group 15 in World War II is astonishing by any measure: it scored 312 enemy aircraft destroyed, 33 probably destroyed, and 65 damaged in aerial combat, plus 348 destroyed, 161 probably destroyed, and 129 damaged in ground attacks. Twenty-six Fighting 15 pilots became aces, including their leader, Commander David McCampbell, who became the U.S.
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781612002422
Pub Date: 10 Oct 2014
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: 16pp illustrations
Pages: 328
ISBN: 9781612009315
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2021
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: 8pp illustrations
Description:
There has been a recent trend in history to interpret the rise and fall of great powers in terms of economics, or demographics, or geography. This is not always true, as this book proves, because sometimes pure military skill can propel a nation to prominence, if it is simply able to crush all its opponents on a battlefield. No better example arises than that of Sweden beginning in the 17th century, which held supremacy over northern Europe for 100 years without any technological, geographic or demographic advantages at all.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9781612002507
Pub Date: 19 Sep 2014
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: b/w photographs throughout
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No history of the war in Europe has ever taken into account the actions of the men of the US 23rd Special Troops. These men took part in over 22 deception operations against the German Army. Some of these operations had tremendous impact upon how the battles in Europe were fought.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781612002309
Pub Date: 19 Aug 2014
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Series: WWII Historic Battlefields
Illustrations: b/w and colour illustrations throughout
Description:
Now that the last veterans are gone, the First World War is now a completely historical subject—governed by archaeology and genealogy, battlefield tourism and military history. The anguish and privations are a bit further away, but there is still huge interest in the awful conditions and carnage endured by a generation of youth who sacrificed their lives for their country.“The Old Front Line” is a phrase first coined by the poet John Masefield when he looked back on the battle of the Somme from a distance of just one year, in 1917, and speculated how the Western Front might look in the future.
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781612002323
Pub Date: 08 Aug 2014
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: 16pp photos
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Operation Market Garden has been recorded as a complete Allied failure in World War II, an overreach that resulted in an entire airborne division being destroyed at its apex. However, within that operation were episodes of heroism that still remain unsung.On September, 17, 1944, the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, floated down across the Dutch countryside, in the midst of German forces, and proceeded to fight their way to vital bridges to enable the Allied offensive to go forward.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781612002460
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: 16pp photos
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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781612002521
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: 8-page photo section
Description:
This is the story of the pursuit of a dream. Spitfire PK350 is the only late-mark Spitfire, an F Mk 22, to have ever been restored to full flying status. She had no restrictions on her airframe and with four fully serviceable 20mm cannons, she was as good as the day she came off the production line in July 1945 near Birmingham, England.
