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.

Bloody Verrieres: The I. SS-Panzerkorps' Defence of the Verrières-Bourguebus Ridges Cover

Format: Hardback

Pages: 312

ISBN: 9781636240022

Pub Date: 05 Apr 2022

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: maps and photographs

Description:

South of the Norman city of Caen, the twin features of the Verrières and Bourguebus ridges were key stepping stones for the British Second Army in late July 1944 - taking them was crucial if it was to be successful in its attempt to break out of the Normandy bridgehead. To capture this vital ground, Allied forces would have to defeat arguably the strongest German armoured formation in Normandy: the I. SS-Panzerkorps "Leibstandarte.

Format: Hardback

Pages: 192

ISBN: 9781636240800

Pub Date: 05 Apr 2022

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Die Wehrmacht im Kampf

Illustrations: 8 maps

Description:

"Die Wehrmacht im Kampf" Battles and Problems of the Second World War is a series originally edited by Hermann Teske and published in German in the 1950s and 1960s. Written by former members of the German Army in World War II, it provides valuable and historically significant information on the perspective of the German Army of many crucial campaigns and battles. Now being published in English for the first time, each volume has a modern introduction by Matthias Strohn, a lecturer at Sandhurst and The University of Buckingham and an expert on the German Army.

Format: Hardback

Pages: 144

ISBN: 9781612008066

Pub Date: 05 Apr 2022

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Die Wehrmacht im Kampf

Illustrations: 16 maps

Description:

In late November 1942, Soviet forces surrounded General Friedrich Paulus’ Sixth Army in a pocket at the Russian city of Stalingrad. In response, the Germans planned a relief operation, Operation Winter Thunderstorm, intended to break through the Soviet forces and open the pocket, releasing the encircled units. The 6th Panzer Division was the spearhead of the German relief force.

Format: Hardback

Pages: 280

ISBN: 9781636241104

Pub Date: 05 Apr 2022

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Description:

Portugal fought a bush war in Mozambique - one of the most beautiful countries in the world - for over a decade. The small European nation was ranged against formidable odds and in the end was unable to muster the resources required to effectively take on the might of the Soviet Union and its collaborators - every single communist country on the planet and almost all of sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, Al Venter argues, Portugal did not actually lose the war, and indeed fought in difficult terrain with a good degree of success over an extended period.

SOG: A Photo History of the Secret Wars Cover

Format: Hardback

Pages: 456

ISBN: 9781636240848

Pub Date: 05 Apr 2022

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 700 photographs

Description:

"The ultimate reference on Army Special Operations in Vietnam. One thing for sure, you will want to read this book." Vietnam veteran, 173rd Airborne Brigade "It's a book that any aspiring future Special Forces troop should read.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 320

ISBN: 9781636240572

Pub Date: 05 Apr 2022

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 16pp photos

Description:

When Mao Zedong proclaimed The People's Republic of China in 1949, China was a poor and wrecked society after years of continuous wars. For centuries, in fact, China had been seen as a sort of plunder-zone to be invaded, and then a backwater until the late 1980s, when domestic policy brought about monumental changes. The result was that in the past quarter-century China has grown to be the second largest economy in the world, and its military has grown proportionately.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 336

ISBN: 9781636241289

Pub Date: 15 Mar 2022

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 16pp photos

Description:

In December 1944 an enormous German army group crashed through the thin American line in the Ardennes forest. Caught by surprise, the Allies were initially only able to throw two divisions of paratroopers to buttress the collapse - the 82nd Airborne, which was rushed to the area of St. Vith, and the 101st, which was trucked to Bastogne.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 304

ISBN: 9781636241272

Pub Date: 15 Feb 2022

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: photos and maps

Description:

George VI's biographer, Sir John Wheeler Bennett wrote "The actual turning of the tide in the 2nd World War may be accurately determined as the first week of July 1942." This book argues that it is possible to be even more exact: the tide turned at about 21.00 hrs on 2 July 1942, when Rommel's tanks withdrew for the first time since the fall of Tobruk on 20 June, or arguably since 14 January 1942 at El Agheila.

RRP: £17.99

Format: Hardback

Pages: 208

ISBN: 9781636241401

Pub Date: 15 Feb 2022

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 35 photographs

Description:

Derek Wright learnt about small boats from his father, who tragically died when Derek was just 14 years old. Sent away from his family to finish his education, he left school at 16 to join the global tea trade. Soon after he finished his training with Brooke Bond, famous for their 'Dividend' tea, Hitler invaded Poland and Britain was at war.

RRP: £17.99

Format: Hardback

Pages: 240

ISBN: 9781636241425

Pub Date: 15 Feb 2022

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 20 illustrations and photographs

Description:

James Montgomery was a leader of the free-state movement in pre-Civil War Kansas and Missouri, associated with its direct-action military wing. He then joined the Union Army and fought through most of the war. A close associate and ally of other abolitionists including John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Colonels Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Robert G.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636240329

Pub Date: 15 Jan 2022

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Illustrations: 150 photographs and illustration

Description:

September 1944: With the Allies closing in on the Rhine, Adolf Hitler orders a counterattack on General Patton's Third Army in France. Near the small town of Arracourt, France, elements of the US 4th Armored Division met the grizzled veterans of the 5th Panzer Army in combat. Atop their M4 Shermans, American tank crews squared off against the technologically superior Mark V Panther tanks of the Wermacht.

Format: Hardback

Pages: 240

ISBN: 9781636240961

Pub Date: 15 Jan 2022

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 50 photographs and 12 maps

Description:

From December 1943 to August 1944, Allied and Japanese forces fought the decisive battles of World War II in Southeast Asia. Fighting centered around North Burma, Imphal, Kohima and the Arakan, involving troops from all over the world along a battlefront the combined size of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The campaigns brought nations into collision for the highest stakes: British and Indian troops fighting for Empire, the Indo-Japanese forces seeking a prestige victory with an invasion of India and the Americans and Chinese focused on helping China and reopening the Burma Road.

Format: Hardback

Pages: 304

ISBN: 9781612009667

Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: The Snake Eater Chronicles

Description:

When radical Iranian students seize the U.S. Embassy compound in Tehran and take over fifty diplomats hostage the U.

Format: Hardback

Pages: 200

ISBN: 9781636240763

Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 350 photographs

Description:

The borders of the Roman Empire were frontiers that were often wild and dangerous. The expansion of the empire after the Punic Wars saw the Roman Republic become the dominant force in the Mediterranean as it first took Carthaginian territories in Gaul, Spain and north Africa and then moved into Greece with purpose, subjugating the area and creating two provinces, Achaea and Macedonia. The growth of the territories under Roman control continued through the rise of Julius Caesar - who conquered the rest of Gaul - and the establishment of the empire: each of the emperors could point to territories annexed and lands won.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 416

ISBN: 9781636240541

Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: photos throughout

Description:

As the Allies were approaching the German frontier at the beginning of September 1944, the German Armed Forces responded with a variety of initiatives designed to regain the strategic initiative. While the "Wonder Weapons" such as the V-1 flying bomb, the V-2 missile and the Messerschmitt Me-262 jet fighter are widely recognized as being the most prominent of these initiatives upon which Germany pinned so much hope, the Volks-Grenadier Divisions (VGDs) are practically unknown. Often confused with the Volkssturm, the Home Guard militia, VGDs have suffered the undeserved reputation as second-rate formations, filled with young boys and old men suited to serve only as cannon fodder.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 288

ISBN: 9781636240589

Pub Date: 15 Dec 2021

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Description:

August 1990, 30,000 Iraqi troops have invaded Kuwait and are in a position to influence nearly half of the world's oil supply. The United Nations condemn the aggression but it is clear that only military intervention is going to displace Saddam Hussein. Captain Joseph 'Quarry' Samuels and the Marines of Scout Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Division are tasked with discovering the strength and deployment of Iraqi troops.

RRP: £17.99