In anticipation of his new book, Medieval Military Combat, author and historian Tom Lewis questions David Michôd’s 2019 film The King, asking the pertinent question: WHERE ARE THEIR HELMETS?? Movie makers featuring medieval scenes seem to think audiences lack an element of common sense. As if the earlier version of Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V (1989)… Read More »FILM REVIEW: Medieval Military Combat in David Michôd’s ‘The King’
My name is Dr Simon Elliott and I am an historian and archaeologist, with nine books currently on sale, all on themes regarding the ancient world. A number of these are with the fabulous Casemate Publishers, including Roman Legionaries and Julius Caesar: Rome’s Greatest Warlord. I have also just delivered the manuscript for Romans at… Read More »Dr Simon Elliott details his new Casemate book Old Testament Warriors
By Brian Walter In his 1990 book, Operation Pacific, author Edwyn Gray references ‘a strange quirk in the British character which prefers to dwell on failure rather than success.’ When expanding this concept further, one can find a vast host of historians that have expounded the notion that the Soviet Union was the true… Read More »Britannia’s Finest Hour
With the imminant release of our latest title The Dawn of the Drone, we present an extract written by Professor Archibald Low for his book The Submarine at War, which presents his sincere thoughts on submarines and the remarkable men who pilot them. This extract features in the recent title The Submarine Commander Pocket Manual. How… Read More »Professor Low and Submarines
In our latest CUK blog, Rupert Wieloch goes off the beaten tourist trail in St Petersburg to find the fearsome prison of the 15 British prisoners, the subjects of his latest book, and follows their journey to Finland and freedom. When staying in St Petersburg, it is very hard to resist the temptation to visit… Read More »St Petersburg – In Search of the British Colony Hospital
In the final Countdown to D-Day officer bio, Peter Margaritis brings you the story of Gerd von Rundstedt, the Field Marshal and Commander-in-chief of the Western Front whose military genius was overridden by the whims of the Führer. Generalfeldmarschall Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt by 1944 was one of the most well-known men in the… Read More »Countdown to D-Day: von Rundstedt
On the eve of D-Day, Peter Margaritis chronicles the life of Hans-Georg von Tempelhoff, a respected staff officer, family man, and a close acquaintance of Rommel himself. Hans-Georg von Tempelhoff, born March 18, 1907, grew up in Brandenburg an der Havel. In 1926, he joined the 3rd Prussian Artillery Regiment. The start of World War… Read More »Countdown to D-Day: von Tempelhoff
With just two days remaining until D-Day, Peter Margaritis writes about Generalleutnant Rudolf Stegmann, an officer who battled the US 9th Division with an understrength force on the Cotentin Peninsula. Rudolf Stegmann was born August 6, 1894, in Nilolaiken, East Prussia (now part of Poland). Enlisting in the army in 1912, he fought with the 141st Infantry… Read More »Countdown to D-Day: Stegmann
In the twelth Countdown to D-Day officer bio, Peter Margaritis writes about the defiant general Hans von Salmuth, a fierce critic of the Führer himself. Hans Eberhard Kurt von Salmuth, born in Metz on November 11, 1888, was a stocky, self-confident leader with a reputation for being outspoken and for often directly presenting his views when he felt… Read More »Countdown to D-Day: von Salmuth
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