http://www.casematepublishers.com http://www.casematepublishers.com http://www.casematepublishing.com/images/rss.png Casemate Publishers Logo 29 144 michael.harter@casematepublishing.com (Michael Harter) michael.harter@casematepublishing.com (Michael Harter) Sign up for this RSS to receive updates on new books as they arrive to our warehouse. http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781612000923 While the Civil War is mainly remembered for its epic battles between the Northern and Southern armies, the Union was simultaneously waging another campaign-dubbed "Anaconda"-that was gradually depriving the South of industry and commerce, thus rendering the exploits of its field armies moot. When an independent Dixie finally met the dustbin of history, it was the North's coastal campaign, as much... [4/20/2012] American Civil War / Naval History http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781612000923 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781612000916 Col. Mark James Alexander was the only airborne officer to lead three different battalions into combat in World War II, successively commanding the 2d and 1st Battalions, 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, and the 2nd Battalion, 508 PIR, of the 82nd Airborne Division. A legend in his own time, he fought in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France, and even after being seriously wounded in Normandy, i... [4/20/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781612000916 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781612000909 A brutally honest depiction of day-to-day combat in World War II . . .A rarely frank account of the U.S. infantry experience in northern Europe, A Foot Soldier for Patton takes the reader from the beaches of Normandy through the giddy drive across France, to the brutal battles on the Westwall, in the Ardennes, and finally to the conquest of Germany itself.Patton's army is best known for dashing ar... [4/20/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781612000909 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781612000893 With his parting words "I shall return," General Douglas MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan. Yet one young Army Captain named Russell Volckmann refused to surrender. He disappeared into the jungles of north Luzon where he raised a Filipino army of over 22,000 men. For the next three years he led a guerrilla war against the Japanese, killing over 50,000 enemy soldiers.... [4/20/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781612000893 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781908273178 Illustrated with outstanding color profile artworks, The Essential Identification Guide: Small Arms 1945.Present is the definitive study of the small arms equipment of warring nations from the end of World War II, through the Cold War to the current conflict in Afghanistan. Arranged chronologically and by theater of war, the book describes in depth the various models in service with each force, no... [3/19/2012] Military Reference http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781908273178 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781908273758 Illustrated with outstanding color profile artworks, The Essential Identification Guide: Small Arms 1914.45 is the definitive study of the small arms equipment of warring nations across both world wars. Organized by conflict and within each war by front, the book describes in depth the various models in service with each force. All the key small arms are featured, such as handguns, machine guns a... [3/19/2012] Military Reference http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781908273758 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781908273765 In the days following the Allied D-Day landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944, the German forces rapidly established strong defenses in front of the city of Caen. On 9 June a two-pronged British attempt to surround and capture the city was defeated, but on the British forces' right flank, neighboring American units had forced open a wide gap in the German front line. Seizing the opportunity to bypass... [5/19/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781908273765 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781906033903 At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the Führer of Germany's Third Reich, and most German officers and soldiers believed would be a triumphal march on Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union. Less than three weeks before, on 22 June Hitler h... [4/10/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781906033903 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782352501923 In this very beginning of the 21st century, it is within BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) and other emerging countries where the latest combat tanks are being created, and more precisely to the east of a line that passes through Istanbul. In this second volume, the history of these new participants is recounted within the context of the long lineage of the Russian tanks.Numerous tech... [3/26/2012] Uniforms and Equipment http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782352501923 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782352502326 The Panther battalion of the 116. Panzer Division, during the Battle of Normandy. During the night of 19-20 July 1944, the I./Pz.Rgt. 24's 76 Panthers set off in a one kilometer column, four yards between each tank. There would now be new battles for the veteran Panzerschützen; for the recruits, this would be their baptism of fire.This book by Didier Lodieu . one of France's foremost specialists ... [3/19/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782352502326 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9789078521051 The FG42 Fallschirmjägergewehr is Vol. VIII in the Propaganda Photo Series, a unique series of books on German small arms of World War II. This book gives a detailed description of the origin and history of the enigmatic Fallschirmjägergewehr (paratrooper's rifle), Germany's most famous, but also most mysterious small arm of World War II. Although only some thousands were produced, many postwar de... [6/19/2011] Firearms / World War 2 / Uniforms a http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9789078521051 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781907677212 An hour and a half before sunup, nine B-29s of the 307th Bombardment Wing lifted off from Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa on a bombing mission against Namsi, a North Korean airfield under construction in the heart of MiG Alley. Five and a half hours later they would engage in an air battle that would forever change the conduct of strategic aerial bombardment. Six of the nine would not return, the... [4/10/2012] Aviation http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781907677212 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848841369 This book recounts and analyzes the complex series of conflicts between the Hellenistic Successor states in the generation before the Romans intervened in, and ultimately conquered, the region. This period is rarely treated in any depth, usually warranting little more than a summary as context for a discussion of the Roman conquests. The authors demonstrate that this period of almost-constant conf... [4/19/2012] Ancient History http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848841369 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781445600222 Geoffrey's memoir opens in May 1940, when he was eighteen years old and his grammar school in Kent was being evacuated to Staffordshire, away from the danger of German invasion. The station platform was crowded with hordes of exhausted soldiers rescued from Dunkirk, and the skies alive with the aircraft which would soon be fighting the Battle of Britain. In the autumn Geoffrey went up to Brasenose... [3/13/2012] World War 2 / Memoir http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781445600222 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840483229 Le Couloir de la Mort represents a crucial new work about the final moments of the Battle of Normandy. The Germans leave 40,000 prisoners in the pocket, but 50,000 extract themselves from it, from Mortain to Mont-Ormel. Bernage describes the apocalyptic vision of the Battle of Normandy and takes the reader right to the heart of the inferno of the Falaise-Argentan pocket.... [3/26/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840483229 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840483144 Georges Bernage and Harald Mourreau present the history of this magnificent castle originally restored by William II and describe the daily life of those who inhabited it. Also detailed is the famous Saint-Georges company.... [3/26/2012] Medieval History http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840483144 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9788361421160 The B-24 Liberator was built in greater numbers than any other US WW2 aircraft, and served in every theater of WW2, as heavy bomber, anti-submarine aircraft, reconnaissance and transport. Produced in several factories, there were many variations, both minor and major, and existing literature is confusing and inaccurate.This book describes the development of nose-turreted versions of the B-24 as u... [3/26/2012] Modeling / World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9788361421160 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9788361421368 The Valentine was unusual, as unlike most British tanks to see service during WW2 it began life as a private venture. That is, it was not designed to a General Staff (GS) specification, but came off the drawing-board with the intention of exciting enough interest within the military establishment to secure an order.The Valentine had the highest production numbers of any wartime British tank, and ... [3/13/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9788361421368 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9788361421498 The book continues the story of Spitfire IXs used by Polish pilots in Britain, covering the years 1944-1946, both in Polish squadrons and in RAF and auxiliary units. It includes listings of losses and officially credited victories. There are over 200 photographs (about half of which have not been published before) and about 30 color profiles (plus top and bottom views for two representative aircra... [2/19/2012] World War 2 / Aviation http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9788361421498 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840482833 This new work on the Waffen-SS continues the series with the presentation of the 14th through the 33rd divisions, often referred to as the "national" divisions. Included are detailed descriptions and accompanying photographs of the following voluntary divisions: the Flemish, Dutch, Latvian, Estonian, in addition to the French, Walloons, Hungarian, Albanian, Italian, and Ukrainian. More than 650 ph... [3/26/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840482833 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840482864 Well known author George Bernage presents the difficult and challenging battles lead by the US Army south of the Cotentin Peninsula, from July 2 to July 15, 1944. Forced to fight in the marshes, and suffering initial losses during their confrontation of the determined Germans, Bernage describes the resulting preparation of Operation Cobra which resulted in the carpet bombing of July 25 and 26, 194... [3/26/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840482864 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840482901 After the success of Corridor des Panzers and Zur Küste, both recognized for their superior quality and precise detailing of operations and battlefields in addition to their stunning comparative photographs, this new volume takes us directly into the Dunkerque arena, and concludes the suite of works on this dramatic period of history.... [3/26/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840482901 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840482963 Objectif Saint-Lô details "Hedgerow Hell"-the area from Omaha Beach to Saint-Lô-through the eyes of Lieutenant Allsup of the 29th and Edwin Schmieger, a German paratrooper. Through these first-hand accounts we are taken through this blood-filled battle all the way to Saint-Lô.... [3/26/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840482963 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840482970 Here is the most up-to-date guide, in full color, describing the history of the Atlantic Wall which the July 6, 1944, landing was forced to confront. From the battery at Merville to that of Saint-Marcouf, Georges Bernage provides a detailed overview of the Wall and those who occupied the positions. This is an indispensable guide for anyone wishing to gain a more in-depth understanding of a critica... [3/26/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840482970 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840482987 Following on the success of the two preceding volumes dedicated to the German heavy tanks, here is a new work on the Tiger panzers of the SS-Panzer-Abteilung 103/503. Illustrated with over 450 photographs, maps, and original documents, as well as 20 color profiles, this work is a must-have for both the enthusiast and historian.... [3/26/2012] Uniforms and Equipment / World War http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840482987 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840483076 Heimdal offers here another well-researched work in similar style to the Kriegsmarine. La Légion Étrangère en Indochine 1946-1956 details the history and uniforms of the Foreign Legion, presenting rare and previously unseen documentation and images. Over 650 images are included, of which 400 are of color objects.... [3/26/2012] Uniforms and Equipment http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840483076 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840483083 On the night of June 5-6, the Pathfinders are the first Allied soldiers to land at Normandy. The paratroopers of the 82nd and the 101st Airborne Divisions will fight the entire night, joined by the 4th Infantry Division, who landed on Utah Beach. Georges Bernage and Dominique François present the German troops and their defenses, eyewitness accounts from the paratroopers, as well as previously unp... [3/26/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840483083 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840483106 Embellished with a wide variety of illustrations, and based on documents and monuments from the period, this innovative biography focuses on the chronicles of the 11th and 12th centuries.Through his sharp and accessible narration, the author recounts a saga that places the reader in the very heart of the character, all while remaining loyal to the reality of the facts.... [3/26/2012] Medieval http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840483106 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840483120 Georges Bernage focuses on the Canadian effort from August 14-16, 1944 and their attempt to break the lines of the Hitlerjugend Division to the south of Caen through Operation Tractable. Despite the Canadian's determination, the German's put forth a bitter resistance, even with Wittmann's death, the Tiger ace.... [3/26/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782840483120 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781843410553 Acclaimed military historian Trevor Royle examines Scotland's role in the Second World War. The country's geographical position gave it great strategic importance for importing war material and reinforcements, for conducting naval and aerial operations against the enemy and for training regular and specialist SOE and commando forces. Scotland also became a social melting pot with the arrival of Po... [1/11/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781843410553