From award-winning crime fiction to cutting-edge non-fiction, Liberties Press is our brand new independent publisher from Ireland. Read on to find out more about this excellent publisher and put in your orders for their books! Liberties Press was founded in 2003 and has, over the course of almost twenty years, become one of Ireland’s leading… Read More »New Distributed Publisher – LIBERTIES PRESS
A Sneak Peak of Spain in Arms The Spanish Civil War was a conflict that defined the Interwar Period. On one side stood the left-leaning Republicans, the supporters of the Second Spanish Republic, who prized freedom of speech and the removal of the Spanish nobility. They found support in the Soviet Union, who provided… Read More »The Nationalist Drive on Madrid
The word Viking was used in the Viking Age, but not as the name of a nation. Probably the word emerged as the name of a sea warrior or member of a warrior brotherhood, with its broader meaning developing later. The Vikings were a proud and productive group who sailed across East and West in… Read More »8 Facts you Probably Don’t Know About the Vikings
The ‘Tommies’ of World War One was a nickname given to the British soldiers who fought in the trenches of the Western Front. What had started as a relatively small army in 1914 had soon increased to well over a million men from all walks of life. Their bravery and sacrifice in this war has… Read More »The Lost Generation of 1914-1918: 9 Facts you (Probably) Don’t Know About Tommies
During both world wars, the devastating firepower of artillery resulted in a huge number of casualties, killing and maiming hundreds of thousands of people. How did the gun become such a powerful weapon of war? Here are ten facts about the origin of guns you (probably) didn’t know, taken from the Casemate Short History book Big… Read More »From Firecrackers to Mortars: 10 Facts you (Probably) Don’t Know About the Development of Artillery
Here we reveal one of the often hidden experiences of war revealed by William Earl in his honest memoir ‘Blood and Bandages’. We have a very nostalgic view of wartime relationships. We think of the heartwarming love letters from a guy to his gal, with his thoughts of her waiting at home in Blighty to keep his spirits high.… Read More »Sex and Soldiering
To celebrate the release of The Tank Commander Pocket Manual 1939-1945, we at Casemate want to challenge you to a quiz on tank strategy. Could you have been a great WWII tank commander? The Tank Commander Pocket Manual 1939-1945
World renowned historian David Stone gives his thoughts on one of our recent titles Kleinkrieg. A REVIEW OF KLEINKRIEG THE GERMAN EXPERIENCE WITH GUERILLA WARFARE, FROM CLAUSEWITZ TO HITLER by Charles D. Melson, including a translation of the 1935 work by Arthur Ehrhardt In this new work Kleinkrieg Charles Melson has carried out a particularly… Read More »Kleinkrieg Review by Historian David Stone
To celebrate the release of Christer Bergström’s new definitive work on Operation Barbarossa, we at Casemate challenge you to a quiz.
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