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.

Nam-Sense Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781612006529
Pub Date: 20 Sep 2018
Illustrations: 16 pages b/w illustrations
Description:
An honest tour of the Vietnam War from the soldier's eye view . .
RRP: £11.99
Alpha One Sixteen Cover Alpha One Sixteen Cover
Format: 
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781612005997
Pub Date: 20 Sep 2018
Illustrations: 5 b/w photos and 5 b/w illustrations
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781636240565
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2022
Illustrations: 5 b/w photos and 5 b/w illustrations
Description:
Peter Clark's year in Vietnam began in July 1966, when he was shipped out with hundreds of other young recruits, as a replacement in the 1st Infantry Division. Clark was assigned to the Alpha Company. Clark gives a visceral, vivid and immediate account of life in the platoon, as he progresses from green recruit to seasoned soldier over the course of a year in the complexities of the Vietnamese conflict.
RRP: £25.00
RRP: £17.99
Ardennes 1944 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781612006697
Pub Date: 18 Sep 2018
Illustrations: 108 black and white photos, 24 color profiles and 3 maps
Description:
German army deficiencies are often cited as the reason for the failure of the German counteroffensive in the Ardennes region of France, Belgium and Luxembourg in December of 1944 to January 1945 which the Germans called Operation Wacht am Rhein, the Allies named the Ardennes Counteroffensive, and was also commonly known as the Battle of the Bulge. It is certainly true that the three German armies regrouped for the offensive were in differing states; only the 5th Panzer Army was in something resembling good condition, with the 6th and the 7th mediocre at best. The divisions were also often not mobile enough because of the lack of automotive equipment and were short on tanks and artillery.
RRP: £19.99
German Armor in Normandy Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781612006437
Pub Date: 18 Sep 2018
Illustrations: 153 b/w photos, colour profiles and maps
Description:
Throughout the Second World War, a shift occurred in the composition of the large armored units of armies which lead to an increase in the power of their tanks in particular. The Germans were no exception. Many of its recently formed Panzer divisions, from the 12th SS-Panzerdivision Hitlerjugend to the 2nd SS-Panzerdivision Das Reich, were thrust into the effort to repel the Allies from June to August 1944 in Normandy.
RRP: £19.99
Erich Raeder Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 326
ISBN: 9781612006635
Pub Date: 23 Aug 2018
Illustrations: 42 b/w photos
Description:
Erich Raeder led the German navy from 1928 to 1943, a period that included the last turbulent years of the Weimar Republic, the rise of Hitler, and World War II. Yet until now, no full-length biography has been written about this extraordinary naval figure. While most historians have viewed Raeder as a product of the Wilhelmian era and heir to Admiral von Tirpitz’s sea power ideology, this work clearly demonstrates Raeder’s affinity with Hitler’s fascism.
RRP: £14.99
How Carriers Fought Cover How Carriers Fought Cover
Format: 
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9781612006215
Pub Date: 19 Aug 2018
Illustrations: 21 b/w photos 7 b/w illus, 5 maps
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9781612008530
Pub Date: 01 Aug 2020
Illustrations: 21 b/w photos, 7 b/w illustrations, and 5 maps
Description:
In November 1921 the first purpose-built carrier was launched by the Japanese, followed a year later by the British launch of the Hermes. After WWI, battlecruisers were readily converted into aircraft carriers, with questions on how to handle the aircraft on the flight deck beginning to be raised and techniques of how to attack enemy ships beginning to develop. How Carriers Fought focuses on the HOW, not the what, when, or the by whom.
RRP: £27.50
RRP: £14.99
Masters of Mayhem Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9781612005744
Pub Date: 08 Aug 2018
Illustrations: 16 pages of b/w photos
Description:
Second place in the Military History Monthly Book of the Year Award 2018 Striking where the enemy is weakest and melting away into the darkness before he can react. Never confronting a stronger force directly, but willing to use audacity and surprise to confound and demoralize an opponent. Operations driven by good intelligence, area knowledge, mobility, speed, firepower, and detailed planning and executed by a few specialists with indigenous warriors - this is unconventional warfare.
RRP: £19.99
Operation Market Garden Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781612005867
Pub Date: 06 Aug 2018
Series: WWII Historic Battlefields
Illustrations: 500 color and b/w photos throughout
Description:
The battle of Normandy ended as the Allied armies crossed the Seine at the end of August 1944, a month after Operation Cobra had broken the stalemate. The Allies harried the retreating Germans, who left their tanks and heavy weapons south of the Seine, and by mid-September the Allies were coming up against the defences of Germany itself, the impressive Westwall.As far as the Allies were concerned, the Germans were beaten.
RRP: £25.00
Treat 'Em Rough Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781612006673
Pub Date: 06 Aug 2018
Illustrations: 16 photos and 10 diagrams and maps
Description:
Tanks caused a havoc amon the Germans when they first appeared on the battlefields of Europe in 1917. These metal monsters broke up the trench warfare stalemate and thus hastened the armistic. This is the first full study of the U.
RRP: £25.00
Team Yankee Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781612006499
Pub Date: 01 Aug 2018
Description:
This revised and updated edition of the classic Cold War novel Team Yankee reminds us once again might have occurred had the United States and its Allies taken on the Russians in Europe, had cooler geopolitical heads not prevailed. For 45 years after World War II, East and West stood on the brink of war. When Nazi Germany was destroyed, it was evident that Russian tank armies had become supreme in Europe, but only in counterpart to US air power.
RRP: £11.99
Roman Legionaries Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781612006116
Pub Date: 25 Jul 2018
Series: Casemate Short History
Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations
Description:
The might of Rome rested on the back of its legions; the superbly trained and equipped fighting force with which the imperial Roman army conquered, subdued and ruled an empire for centuries. The legionary soldier served for 20 years, was rigorously trained, highly equipped, and motivated by pay, bonuses and a strong sense of identity and camaraderie. Legionaries wore full body-armour, carried a shield which could be used defensively to form a shield wall or a tortoise, or it could be used offensively to punch at opponents and throw them off-balance in close-quarters fighting, as well as two javelins, a sword, and a dagger.
RRP: £7.99
Castles Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781612006130
Pub Date: 25 Jul 2018
Series: Casemate Short History
Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations
Description:
Fortified structures have been in existence for thousands of years. In ancient and medieval times castles were the ultimate symbol of power, dominating their surroundings, and marking the landscape with their imposing size and impregnable designs. After the Norman conquest of England, castles exploded in popularity amongst the nobility, with William the Conqueror building an impressive thirty-six castles between 1066-1087, including Windsor Castle is one example of such a castle which survives today, a monument of the remarkable architecture designed and developed in medieval England.
RRP: £7.99
Amphibious Warfare Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781612006154
Pub Date: 25 Jul 2018
Series: Casemate Short History
Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations
Description:
One of the most difficult types of warfare to master, landing on a hostile beach requires scrupulous planning and intense coordination between the forces in the air, sea and land. With a history reaching back to the Persians landing on the Greek shores at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, it was the First World War that marked the beginning of modern amphibious warfare, with the Royal Marines combining their efforts with the Royal Navy. Despite the disastrous Gallipoli amphibious operation to seize the Dardanelles Straits in 1915, the Royal Navy and US Marine Corps continued to develop new landing crafts throughout the inter-war years.
RRP: £7.99
The Last Siege Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9781612006314
Pub Date: 19 Jul 2018
Illustrations: 28 maps, b/w illus.
Description:
It has long been acknowledged that General Robert E. Lee’s surrender of the Army Northern Virginia ended the Civil War at the battle of Appomattox in April 1865. But even after that battle, Union leaders were not certain the rest of the Southern armies would lay down their arms.
RRP: £25.00
Operation Typhoon Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781612006710
Pub Date: 18 Jul 2018
Illustrations: 150 black and white photos, 12 color profiles and 2 maps
Description:
After the initial successes of Operation Barbarossa, at the end of September 1941 Hitler turned his focus to Moscow, with the unshakeable belief that capturing the capital would knock the Soviets out of the war. On the face of it, it was an unequal struggle; Field Marshall Fedor von Bock had at his command disposal 1 million men, 1,700 tanks, 19,500 artillery guns and 950 combat aircraft – 50% of all the German men in Russia, 75% of all the tanks and 33% of all the planes. To defend Moscow, the Russians had under 500,000 men, fewer than 900 tanks and just over 300 combat planes.
RRP: £19.99
The Waffen-SS in Normandy Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781612006055
Pub Date: 18 Jul 2018
Illustrations: Black and white photos, colour profiles and maps
Description:
For many, the Waffen-SS soldier represents the archetype of the combatant, if not the warrior: well-armed, well-trained, possessing intelligence in combat, imbued with political and ideological fanaticism, he is an elite soldier par excellence, even if a lack of scruples casts a long shadow. However, is this picture true? In the case of the Battle of Normandy, opinions diverged, not only among today's historians, but also amongst the German generals at the time.
RRP: £19.99