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

Pages: 240

ISBN: 9781636242873

Pub Date: 29 Oct 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 50–60 photographs and maps

Description:

North Africa was one of the richest parts of the Roman Empire, the agricultural powerhouse of the Mediterranean. It was also home to some of the emperor’s biggest imperial estates, and prosperous cities of all kinds. Its loss to the Vandals in the first half of the 5th century AD was the mortal blow which precipitated the fall of the western empire, and set the eastern empire back for decades.

Format: Hardback

Pages: 192

ISBN: 9781612008813

Pub Date: 23 Oct 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated Special

Illustrations: 250 photos, profiles, and diagrams

Description:

World War I witnessed unprecedented growth and innovation in aircraft design, construction, and as the war progressed - mass production. Each country generated its own innovations sometimes in surprising ways - Albatros Fokker, Pfalz, and Junkers in Germany and Nieuport, Spad, Sopwith and Bristol in France and Britain. This book focuses on the British approach to fighter design, construction, and mass production.

RRP: £35.00

The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision Hitlerjugend Cover

Format: Hardback

Pages: 288

ISBN: 9781636243474

Pub Date: 17 Oct 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 40 photographs and maps

Description:

Following the Normandy invasion of 6 June, 1944, Heersgruppe B under German Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel rushed reserves to the newly created bridgehead in order to crush it and drive the Allied forces into the sea. One of these armored reserves was the newly created 12. SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend.

Format: Hardback

Pages: 384

ISBN: 9781636244730

Pub Date: 16 Oct 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 82 photos, charts, drawings

Description:

Although Capa's Falling Soldier image from the Spanish Civil War has been definitively proven to be a staged propaganda fake, no one has applied a similarly critical eye to his later work. This book is the first effort to establish the facts behind the fables surrounding his D-Day adventures and the images he produced during that period. This book examines the fictionalized account Robert Capa penned in his pseudo biography Slightly Out of Focus.

RRP: £34.95

The Revolutionary War in South Carolina Cover

Format: Hardback

Pages: 240

ISBN: 9781636244853

Pub Date: 15 Oct 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Description:

An examination of the panorama of individuals whose leadership helped make the Patriot cause successful in South Carolina. Historians Steven D. Smith and Kevin Dougherty look beyond the towering figure of Francis Marion to profile significant personalities and actions both on and off the battlefield in this innovative approach to the Revolutionary War in South Carolina.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 541

ISBN: 9781636244877

Pub Date: 14 Oct 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: maps and 24pp black and white photos

Description:

A detailed account of Herbert Otto Gille’s IV SS-Panzerkorps that participated in many of the key battles fought on the Eastern Front during the last year of WWII.During World War Two, the armed or Waffen-SS branch of the Third Reich’s dreaded security service expanded from two divisions in 1940 to 38 divisions by the end of the war, eventually growing to a force of over 900,000 men until Germany’s defeat in May 1945. Not satisfied with allowing his nascent force to be commanded in combat by army headquarters of the Wehrmacht, Heinrich Himmler, chief of the SS, began to create his own SS corps and army headquarters beginning with the SS-Panzerkorps in July 1942.

Format: Hardback

Pages: 505

ISBN: 9781935149255

Pub Date: 06 Oct 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Description:

Anybody who says that the pen is mightier than the sword hasn't spent time in Somalia, or in Beirut during its bloody heyday. So begins this fascinating memoir of a journalist, filmmaker, and just plain raconteur who has made a career of examining warfare-on the ground as the bullets are flying. While the average citizen is aware of violent conflicts broiling all around the globe, Al J.

RRP: £25.00

Format: Hardback

Pages: 288

ISBN: 9781636244716

Pub Date: 29 Sep 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: ~50 photographs

Description:

“The Devil’s Playground” was anything south of the second canal to the men of Charlie Company’s 2nd Platoon—Two Charlie—during their 2009–2010 deployment to the Arghandab River Valley in Afghanistan. The valley had been a notorious hot spot throughout history, with the Russians unable to maintain a foothold in the 80s and Coalition forces now facing the same problem during Operation Enduring Freedom.The Two Charlie paratroopers deployed as part of the 2-508th PIR, Two Fury, of the 82nd Airborne Division, but always seemed to be on their own.

Visual Friendlies, Tally Target: How Close Air Support in the War on Terror Changed the Way America Made War Cover

Format: Hardback

Pages: 256

ISBN: 9781636244228

Pub Date: 24 Sep 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Description:

With a new century and a new enemy came a new kind of war: low intensity and civilian-dominated, blending austere rural and dense urban environments alike. Into this new kind of war, the American military launched two invasions against terrorist networks and military rivals, relying on airpower—close air support (CAS)—at a scale never before seen in combat.The Global War on Terror was the “CAS war.

Format: Hardback

Pages: 362

ISBN: 9781636244693

Pub Date: 23 Sep 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 60-80 photographs

Description:

An American of Japanese ancestry is born in Hawaii just prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. He learns the value of an extended family and mentorship and applies those lessons throughout life. He joins the Army where he is drawn into intelligence and Special Forces where he embodies the life of a quiet professional and his watchword is “Intoku,” a Japanese word that means doing good in secret.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 208

ISBN: 9781636244334

Pub Date: 20 Aug 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Description:

After decades in the Royal Marines, Andrew Canning spent four years working for coalition forces in Afghanistan as a civilian. During his time there, he met extraordinarily committed and brave civilians, not only on the program he was delivering but involved in supporting military forces in many other areas of the conflict. Coming to Afghanistan from across the globe, these civilians were making varied, crucial contributions to the conflict, much of it unseen to external observers.

Format: Hardback

Pages: 304

ISBN: 9781636244150

Pub Date: 06 Aug 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Description:

In September 1943, as America began advancing from its foothold on Guadalcanal, a young American airman was lost in heavy weather over the South Pacific on what was expected to be a routine flight. In examining that loss and the events leading up to a rescue attempt on an island in the South Pacific, and bringing together societies utterly alien to each other, Survival in the South Pacific brings together the big themes of the Pacific War.Lieutenant Leonard Richardson and his comrades had been swept from their homes across America, trained at speed for war, and dispatched to one of the remotest places on the globe.

Format: Hardback

Pages: 256

ISBN: 9781636243719

Pub Date: 31 Jul 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 30+ b&w photographs

Description:

The wartime interest in Greenland was a direct result of its vital strategic position—if you wanted to predict the weather in Europe, you had to have men in place on the vast, frozen island. The most celebrated example of Greenland’s crucial contribution to Allied meteorological services is the correct weather forecast in June 1944 leading to the decision to launch the invasion of Normandy. In addition, both before and after D-Day a stream of weather reports from Greenland was essential for the Allied ability to carry out the bombing offensive against Germany.

Format: Hardback

Pages: 224

ISBN: 9781636244198

Pub Date: 31 Jul 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Description:

An all-round account of the actions of Company G of the 163rd Infantry Regiment, 41st Division, U.S. Army, during World War II in the Pacific.

Format: Hardback

Pages: 240

ISBN: 9781636240060

Pub Date: 31 Jul 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 30 photos

Description:

Most modern books and films glamorize World War II airborne soldiers as troopers leaping into the night to descend by parachute into combat. Much less often considered is the role of glider forces. Glider troops lacked the panache and special distinctions of paratroopers, despite their critical role in airborne warfare.

Format: Hardback

Pages: 200

ISBN: 9781636244471

Pub Date: 31 Jul 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Description:

“The entry of daggers into the Forum” is an expression that identifies two precise historical moments: when two tribunes of the plebs—brothers Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and Caius Sempronius Gracchus—were murdered in Rome in 133 and 122 BC amidst bloody riots. These deaths and subsequent events marked the rupture of the constitutional order in the Roman Republic and the beginning of a political crisis. Thus began a political process that would lead, over the span of three generations, to the end of the res publica, a transition of endless violence, ransacking, and destruction, including three bitter and bloody civil wars.