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=9781848844827 In the aftermath of The Great War, which saw the introduction of the tank, the more far sighted military leaders realized that the future of warfare hinged on a balance of mobility, firepower and protection.Tanks would need to be accompanied into battle by supporting arms, specifically infantry, artillery and engineers. An all fully-tracked field army was thought to be too expensive, so the semi-... [3/15/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848844827 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781445604756 Johnnie Johnson is a character literally straight out of the pages of 'Boys Own'. By the end of the Second World War the RAF Spitfire pilot was a household name in Britain, feted by Churchill and Eisenhower. Although he missed the Battle of Britain when slow flying bombers were abundant and easy targets for fighters by 1945 he had notched up 38 enemy 'kills' . all fighters which took far more skil... [2/29/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781445604756 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782352501954 After adopting the American uniform in 1943 when the French Expeditionary Corps in North Africa were equipped by the United States, the high command and the units were constantly improving it with additions conforming to French military traditions. However, once peace had returned, its metropolitan army needed new dress and uniforms.The result of this development bore its fruit in 1954, nine years... [2/29/2012] Uniforms and Equipment http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782352501954 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782352501763 This new work dedicated to contemporary combat tanks will be appearing in two volumes. Volume one introduces about one dozen tanks from four countries: France, USA, Japan, and Germany. Among them the reader will find the famous US Abrams, the well known French Leclerc and its German equivalent the Leopard.Marc Chassillan provides a detailed analysis of each tank, including plans, supporting profil... [2/29/2012] Uniforms and Equipment http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782352501763 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782352501633 The crucial question of armored divisions initiated by Colonel de Gaulle in 1934 has overshadowed, vis-à-vis the general public, a major element of the development of the French Army during the period of rearmament: Yes, France had, prior to the war, light mechanized divisions (DLM) who had light tanks in name only and who, with their 300 armored vehicles, three dragoon battalions and their 36 gun... [2/29/2012] World War 2 / Uniforms and Equipmen http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782352501633 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9788361421443 Austrian submarines of World War I were known as "U-boot", an abbreviation of Unterseeboot. This book details the history of the development and operational use by the Austro-Hungarian navy of submarines in WWI. German use of submarines in WW1 is well known . this is the fascinating and little-known history of their major ally's activities in undersea warfare.Contains descriptions and specificatio... [2/15/2012] Naval History / World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9788361421443 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9788361421412 Information in English on Japanese WW2 transport aircraft is hard to find, and in this book the story of the Japanese experimental transport designs is told in great detail. The context is explained, with information on the low priority given to transport aircraft and the disastrous implications of that neglect for the Japanese war effort. Fully illustrated with many rare photos and excellent ar... [2/15/2012] Aviation / World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9788361421412 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781906033927 Fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) lacked innate aerobatic ability. As a tyro, he attempted to solve this problem through denial, going so far as to sneer at stunting as pointless. Great War air combat experience proved quite the reverse, and so we would anticipate a short and sad fighting life for the fellow. Yet the Red Baron became the Great War's single greatest scorer, as m... [2/19/2012] Aviation http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781906033927 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9788496935365 • Complete with comprehensive statistics and amazing color artworkIn this beautifully illustrated book, Eduardo Cea goes into fascinating detail of each of the Special Units and Special Attack Units, commonly known as kamikaze units in the Imperial Navy, or the SimBu-Tai in the Imperial Army, in turn.Complete with superb full color artwork, battle orders, lists of pilots and other essential facts ... [2/2/2012] Aviation / Modeling http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9788496935365 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9788496935372 • Complete with comprehensive statistics and amazing color artworkIn this beautifully illustrated book, Eduardo Cea goes into fascinating detail of each of the Special Units and Special Attack Units in turn.Complete with superb full color artwork, battle orders, lists of pilots and other essential facts and figures, this comprehensive history of Japanese Military Aircraft will interest modelers, e... [2/2/2012] Aviation / Modeling http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9788496935372 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848845480 During the early 1960s the Cold War reached its climax. Britain's dwindling power in the Middle East was under siege from Arab nationalism, the Communist bloc and from American designs in the region. Aden, with its strategic military base and old Protectorate buffer zone, was soon the main battleground. The 1962 Egyptian-inspired coup in the neighboring kingdom of North Yemen further tightened th... [2/2/2012] Post WW2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848845480 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848845442 Robert le Page flew with the Fleet Air Arm from 1940 to 1945, mostly in 816 Squadron flying carrier-based Fairey Swordfish. He saw action mine-laying off Cherbourg, hunting U-boats, escorting convoys in the North Atlantic and Arctic seas and covering D-Day. Much of his early war years were aboard HMS Dasher and he was lucky to be ashore when the carrier mysteriously exploded and sank in the Clyde.... [2/2/2012] Aviation http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848845442 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848845435 The landing at Suvla Bay, part of the August Offensive, commenced on the night of 6 August 1915. It was intended to support a breakout from Anzac Beach. Despite early hopes from a largely unopposed landing, Suvla was a mismanaged affair that quickly became a stalemate. The newly formed IX Corps, commanded by Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stopford, failed, not for lack of sacrifice by its New A... [2/2/2012] World War 1 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848845435 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848845404 In 1939 Dick Gorle was already a professional soldier but stationed in India. After the Dunkirk disaster he was recalled and initially involved in training recruits at Plymouth before going north to form the Highland Division Gunners.We hear of the journey to Egypt and thereafter it is intense action at El Alamein under Monty and the long grueling advance to Tripoli. The invasion of Sicily follo... [2/2/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848845404 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848845343 Blood, Bilge and Iron Balls is a set of wargame rules for naval battles in the age of sail. With them you can recreate the triumphs of Nelson or Hawke or tackle pirates on the Spanish Main. The rules themselves are very simple and easy to learn. Each player can easily command a single ship or several, the rules working equally well for a single frigate chasing down a privateer, or a large-scale fl... [2/2/2012] Napoleonic http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848845343 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848845329 The story of the mighty imperial British army's defeat at Iswandlwana in 1879 has been much written about, but never with the detail and insight revealed by Dr Adrian Greaves' research. In reconstructing the dramatic and fateful events, the Author draws on recently discovered letters, diaries and papers of survivors and other contemporaries such as Henry Harford, Lt Henry Carling of the Royal Art... [2/2/2012] Other http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848845329 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848844841 This is the first in a series of game books which put you in command of the forces in engaged in some of history's most famous battles. Your tactical skill and ability to make the right command decision will be tested at every turn of the page. Operation Market Garden in September 1944 was one of the most daring Allied plans of the Second World War. An audacious surprise assault from the air, it ... [2/2/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848844841 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848844834 The British Army was shocked by three military defeats during one week in South Africa in late 1900. The commanding General Sir Redvers Buller lost his nerve. 'Something must be done' was the cry across the Empire. Britain sent forth not one, but two military heroes. Field Marshal Lord Roberts and Major General Lord Kitchener spent their first five weeks in South Africa restoring morale, reorga... [2/2/2012] Other http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848844834 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848844100 Mugabe's dictatorship had survived due to the vicious military oppression of the population and the ruthless suppression of opposition. At the same time Mugabe has indulged in numerous military interventions outside his borders regardless of the cost in terms of regional stability, lives and money.The authors examine the background to Mugabe's accession to power through the black nationalist insu... [2/2/2012] Post WW2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848844100 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848842977 Until now Hugh Butterworth was just one of the millions of lost soldiers of the Great War, and the extraordinary letters he sent home from the Western Front have been forgotten. But after more than ninety years of obscurity, these letters, which describe his experience of war in poignant detail, have been rediscovered, and they are published here in full. They are a moving, intensely personal and ... [2/2/2012] World War 1 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848842977 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781611210880 Many readers of Civil War history have been led to believe the battle of South Mountain (September 14, 1862) was but a trifling skirmish, a preliminary engagement of little strategic or tactical consequence overshadowed by Antietam's horrific carnage just three days later. In fact, the fight was a decisive Federal victory and important turning point in the campaign, as historian Brian Matthew Jord... [1/27/2012] American Civil War http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781611210880 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781611210927 A small library could be stocked with books written about Napoleon Bonaparte the general, whose battles and campaigns have been studied extensively. Warriors, however, are not generally known for their diplomatic skills and Napoleon is no exception. After all, conquerors are accustomed to imposing rather than negotiating terms. For Napoleon, however, the arts of war and diplomacy meshed. Napoleon ... [1/27/2012] Napoleonic http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781611210927 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781611210965 Are you or is someone you know interested in Army ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps)? People join ROTC for many reasons. Some want a guaranteed job once school is finished. Others need help paying for college, want a challenge, or feel a special calling to be a leader in the most powerful military in history. For anyone interested in this topic, The Ultimate ROTC Guidebook: Tips, Tricks, and ... [1/27/2012] Military Reference / Recruit Traini http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781611210965 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781611211139 Indian War Veterans: Memories of Army Life and Campaigns in the West, 1864-1898 presents the first comprehensive collection of veteran (primarily former enlisted soldiers') reminiscences. The vast majority of these writings have never before seen wide circulation.Now in paperback, Indian War Veterans addresses soldiers' experiences throughout the area of the trans-Mississippi West. As readers will... [1/27/2012] 19th Century / Native American Hist http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781611211139 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782352502074 Created by SNASCO (Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du sud-ouest, more commonly known as Sud-Ouest) in response to a program established by the French Air Force General Staff in 1951, the Vautour is a turbojet shoulder-wing monoplane with a swept wing and flying tail. Three versions have been built since its inception: version A, the ground attack monoplane; B, a two-seat bomber; ... [11/19/2011] Post WW2 / Aviation / Modeling http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782352502074 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782352502081 The Mirage 2000N program was launched in 1978 to accomplish intercept missions and medium-range air to surface nuclear attacks in order to eventually replace the Mirage IVP which was terminated in 1990. Based on the Mirage 2000B, it is equipped with a weapons system organized around an Antelope radar system, enabling automatic navigation and field monitoring, all while maintaining its in-flight au... [11/19/2011] Post WW2 / Aviation / Modeling http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9782352502081 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848841192 Petilius Cerealis is one of the few Imperial Roman officers, below the level of Emperor, whose career it is possible to follow in sufficient detail to write a coherent biography. Fortunately his career was a remarkably eventful and colorful one. With a knack for being caught up in big events and emerging unscathed despite some hairy adventures (and scandal, usually involving some local wench) he a... [2/2/2012] Ancient History http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848841192 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848841444 This latest volume in the Roman Conquests series deals with some of the best known Roman campaigns of all. Indeed, due to the involvement of Julius Caesar and the commentaries he wrote upon them, these are some of the most studied of any ancient campaigns. Before Caesar, however, Rome had already established a foothold across the Alps in Gaul (the Province, modern Provence) and Michael M Sage st... [2/2/2012] Ancient History http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848841444 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781844159710 While conquering Greece and Macedonia the Romans defeated an intervention by the Seleucid Empire, the most powerful of the Hellenistic states founded by Alexander the Great's successors. Soon Roman armies crossed to Asia for the first time to carry the war to the Seleucids. Here they faced one of the most sophisticated armies of the ancient world, evolved from Alexander's all-conquering war machi... [1/11/2012] Ancient History http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781844159710 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781907677205 With heightened tensions mounting in the Cold War, President Dwight Eisenhower's request for more accurate intelligence information on the Soviet Union was the spark that ignited the U-2 project. Modified USAF bombers began overflights of the Soviet Union in 1951, but existing lower flying aircraft in the US inventory were vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire and a number of cross-border flights were ... [1/11/2012] Aviation http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781907677205 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9788361421429 Pictorial history of the two "Victory Air Displays" in Prague, Czechoslovakia after WW2. They included aircraft from Allied counties such as the USA, UK and France, with many WW2 aircraft. The range of aircraft on display included the P-51D Mustang, P-47 Thunderbolt, B-17, B-29, A-26B Invader, F-80A Shooting Star, Spitfire, Meteor Mk. IV, Vampire, Lincoln, Anson and Avro York.A fascinating and unu... [12/19/2011] Aviation / World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9788361421429 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781908117106 The logical successor to the highly acclaimed Finding the Few and Finding the Foe, this new work covers a selection of similar mysteries involving missing aircrew and spanning almost the entire twentieth century.Starting with a reappraisal of the Mannock affair, the author highlights the fates variously of RAF, USAF, Luftwaffe personnel from bomber, reconnaissance and fighter crews. Each case is e... [12/27/2011] Aviation http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781908117106 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781908117137 This is the captivating story of the four Raw brothers, all of whom served with the Royal Air Force. The eldest three flew during WW2 and all three died.The youngest, not old enough to see wartime flying, flew night-fighters in the postwar years, ending up flying Spitfires with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. The eldest brother, John, was killed in a flying accident just as he was startin... [12/27/2011] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781908117137 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781908117144 The work of the RAF's 100 Group remains one of the least known aspects of the 1939-45 war. Even less has been written about the specifics of day-to-day electronic warfare operations and the countermeasures employed. This book, the result of many years meticulous research by Squadron Leader Richard Forder RAF (Ret'd) redresses the balance by focussing on one the heavy units, 223, and its sister uni... [12/27/2011] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781908117144 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781908117083 'Nothing to touch the glory of the great cartoonists!...they teach the historians their trade' said the former Labor Party leader Michael Foot, a view also held by Winston Churchill. However, though many of the cartoons of international conflicts from the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars until the end of the Second World War have become iconic, very little is known about their creators. This book... [12/27/2011] Military Reference http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781908117083 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848326088 Heinrich Hoffman was a key part in the making of the Hitler legend, the photographer who carefully crafted the image of the Führer as a godlike figure. Hoffmann published his first book of photographs in 1919, following his work as an official photographer for the German army. In 1920 he joined the Nazi Party, and his association with Hitler began. He became Hitler's official photographer and tra... [1/11/2012] World War 2 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781848326088 http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781612000756 A gripping tale of heroism -and doom-on the high seas . . .The sinking of the German battleship Bismarck-a masterpiece of engineering, well-armored with a main artillery of eight 15-inch guns-was one of the most dramatic events of World War II. She left the port of Gotenhafen for her first operation on the night of 18 May 1941, yet was almost immediately discovered by Norwegian resistance and Alli... [1/19/2012] World War 2 / Naval History http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781612000756