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: 256

ISBN: 9781636244839

Pub Date: 15 Feb 2025

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 40–50 illustrations

Description:

Many of the men of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, arrived in Vietnam “green as green can be” to a place “they couldn’t have found on a map.” They were largely “transported to Vietnam as individuals, rather than as units,” but, through intense fighting at places like Hamburger Hill, “a trust was developed between the men.”Decades after their service ended, many of them continue to meet.

RRP: £29.95

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636244358

Pub Date: 15 Feb 2025

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Illustrations: 150 photographs, maps and artwork

Description:

By October 1943, the German 17th Army had been forced to retreat from the Kuban bridgehead across the Kerch Strait to Crimea. During the following months, the Red Army pushed back the German forces in the southern Ukraine. In November 1943, they eventually cut off the land-based connection of 17th Army through the Perekop Isthmus.

RRP: £24.95

The First Day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863 Cover

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636244792

Pub Date: 31 Jan 2025

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Illustrations: Over 120 photographs and illustrations

Description:

The summer of 1863 started off disastrously for the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater. In early May, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia defeated and humiliated Major General Joseph Hooker’s army at the Battle of Chancellorsville.

RRP: £24.95

Format: Hardback

Pages: 320

ISBN: 9781636243276

Pub Date: 31 Jan 2025

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: B/W & colour

Description:

Africa currently faces more wars, insurgencies, army mutinies, coups d’état and rebellions than at any time since World War II. Conflict in all forms has become endemic, now accentuated by a relative newcomer: Jihadism, increasingly linked to either Islamic State or al-Qaeda. The year 2020 saw a record high in state-based conflicts on the African continent: around 22,000 incidents of armed conflict recorded.

RRP: £32.95

Format: Hardback

Pages: 224

ISBN: 9781636245003

Pub Date: 31 Jan 2025

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 10 images

Description:

A compelling novel about a young man's entry into the Vietnam War, and how that boy becomes a man under extraordinary circumstances, written by a former Green Beret. Join Garner, Dodge, and the rest of RT Iowa as they venture "across the fence" to stem the flow of the North Vietnamese on the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

RRP: £29.95

Format: Hardback

Pages: 480

ISBN: 9781636245386

Pub Date: 15 Jan 2025

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: Over 150 photographs and illustrations

Description:

Samuel H. Walker was an apprentice carpenter in Washington, DC, when the second Seminole War broke out in 1838, he enlisted in a Washington militia unit and went to Florida. Upon the expiration of the unit’s service, Walker remained in service as a scout for the U.

RRP: £34.95

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636240923

Pub Date: 31 Dec 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Illustrations: 100 photographs and illustration

Description:

The 17th and 18th centuries witnessed a period of almost constant conflict in Europe and North America. In New England, the threat of invasion from the French in the North and the Spanish in the South weighed heavily on the colonists. The Crown's solution was to send an army from Britain to help govern, organise and protect the colonies, but ultimately this was not enough to secure loyalty and quell the whispers of revolt.

RRP: £24.95

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636240787

Pub Date: 31 Dec 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Illustrations: 100 photographs and illustration

Description:

Having declared their independence, Britain's former colonies in North America would need to fight for their liberty. The response from the other side of the Atlantic was slow, but when it arrived it appeared overwhelming. Hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of troops gathered to re-establish the Crown's control.

RRP: £24.95

Format: Hardback

Pages: 256

ISBN: 9781636244754

Pub Date: 15 Dec 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 30 images

Description:

During the Iraq War, the U.S. Army found itself in a very similar situation to the 1st Air Mobile Cavalry Division during the Vietnam Conflict—facing an enemy who knew the terrain and was determined to fight for their cause.

RRP: £29.95

Format: Hardback

Pages: 288

ISBN: 9781636244433

Pub Date: 15 Dec 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 40 diagrams

Description:

The American way of war is enabled by the concept of massing all available firepower—when done correctly it makes US forces hard to beat. However improvised explosive devices have increasingly enabled a new kind of asymmetric warfare, one that conventional forces continue to struggle to counter. This book offers a “counter-IED playbook,” one based upon the author’s experiences of over 90 months of combat operations, working the problem sets of Fires, Effects, IEDs,Close Target Reconnaissance, Tracking-Tagging-Locating (TTL), and Information Operations.

RRP: £32.95

The Mighty A: The Short, Heroic Life of the USS Atlanta Cover

Format: Hardback

Pages: 288

ISBN: 9781636245027

Pub Date: 15 Dec 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 25 images

Description:

The attack on Pearl Harbor shocked the nation. With the declaration of war, lines formed outside of recruiting stations as Americans desired to don the uniform and go after the Japanese aggressors. With Margaret Mitchell serving as the ship’s sponsor, Atlanta’s Christmas Eve commissioning in December 1941, served as a rallying point for a country weary of bad news overseas. Some of those new recruits who signed on to fight the Axis after December 7, would find their way to Atlanta’s quarterdeck. For the capital of the Peachtree State, the ship was not only a source of civic pride, but a reason for many young men to join the Navy with the promise of assignment. The Mighty A will be the first book to tell their collective story.Prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent loss of the British battleships Repulse and Prince of Wales off Malaysia, the U.S. Navy’s leadership discovered that the surface fleet was highly vulnerable to air attack, thanks to the introduction of drone aircraft that could simulate attacks on its warships. The Navy’s gunners simply did not have the coordinated firepower to knock them down. Hence the development of 1.1 inch, 20 mm, and 5 inch 38 caliber guns married with fire-control radar technology that could rapidly expend ordnance against incoming aircraft. The result of this vulnerability recognition is a new class of warship led by USS Atlanta. Unfortunately, not all of the Navy’s sea commanders will have a full appreciation of the light cruiser designed mission. Lieutenant Commander Mustin terms these tactically inept officers as “Jugheads.”This story reinforces the notion that American military officers during this era are unafraid of taking their own initiatives without the permission of superiors in combating the enemy. Lieutenant Commander Wade McClusky typifies this breed of independent thinkers, who played a hunch to follow the wake of a speeding Japanese destroyer at the Battle of Midway with his bomber squadron that led him and his compatriots to the Japanese carriers.The narrative also covers a part of the war that even the U.S. Navy overlooks. In elevating the Battle of Midway anniversary to join the Navy’s Birthday as an official annual Navy commemoration in 1998, the Chief of Naval Operations Jay Johnson unintentionally slighted the importance of subsequent actions in the southwest Pacific. The Guadalcanal campaign has been a narrative long owned by the Marine Corps who complain they were abandoned by the Navy to forage for themselves against a determined Japanese foe. This storyline has served to build up the lore and enhance the reputation of the Corps. However, not to denigrate the Marines' struggle ashore, the battle for Guadalcanal was predominantly naval. The Navy’s casualties during the six-month campaign were triple that of the Marine Corps.

RRP: £29.95

Luftwaffe Night Fighter Aces 1940–43 Cover

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636244907

Pub Date: 21 Nov 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Illustrations: 100+ photographs and artwork

Description:

On 10 May 1940, the Wehrmacht launched its assault on the West. One element of the West’s response was the dispatch of RAF Bomber Command ‘heavy’ bombers at night over German industrial centers. These raids had only limited effectiveness, but so annoyed the enemy that he decided to create a credible night fighter force.

RRP: £24.95

The East Pomeranian Offensive, 1945 Cover

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636243887

Pub Date: 21 Nov 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Illustrations: 120–150 illustrations

Description:

In early 1945, the Red Army marched into East Prussia. Having advanced across Poland, relentlessly pushing back German forces, the Red Army built up forces along the Oder River, preparing for the final push towards Berlin. But before that battle could take place, it was necessary to clear and destroy German forces in Pomerania and West Prussia.

RRP: £24.95

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636244396

Pub Date: 21 Nov 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Illustrations: photographs, maps and artwork

Description:

At the beginning of 1943, the German armed forces were in crisis on the southern front in Russia. The Soviets had launched a series of offensives from November 1942 that pushed the Germans back hundreds of kilometers. The Germans had no more significant reserves available, and enormous breaches had opened between defensive lines. In early January 1943, the Soviets attacked again, with the aim of reconquering the industrial city of Kharkov and destroying the remaining German and Axis troops in southern Ukraine, including the 4. Panzerarmee, 1. Panzerarmee, Armeeabteilung Hollidt and Armeeabteilung Fretter‐Pico.After the encirclement of 6. Armee at Stalingrad and the destruction of the Axis forces there, the loss of these four armies would certainly have led to German defeat on the Eastern Front. Believing victory was near, Stalin and his generals decided to launch their new offensives even before the garrison of Stalingrad surrendered. The main effort fell on Army Group Don, newly formed and with little forces available. Facing a massive offensive, Commander Erich von Manstein was ordered to hold the city at any cost, risking the destruction of two divisions of the Waffen‐SS and the “Grossdeutschland” army division. SS Panzer Corps commander Paul Hausser disobeyed Hitler’s order and ordered the retreat from Kharkov, saving the two SS divisions. This meant that Manstein had at his disposal forces needed to launch his counteroffensive.The subsequent battles for Kharkov saw the three divisions of the Waffen‐SS—Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, Das Reich and Totenkopf— fighting together for the first time. In the first phase of the offensive, the SS Das Reich and Totenkopf marched 100 kilometers south of Kharkov, blocking the Soviet army from capturing the bridges over the Dnieper River, while the Leibstandarte successfully defended the corps supply base in Krasnograd. After protecting the bridges over the Dnepr, the Das Reich and Totenkopf units headed north and regained control of the vital railway network south of Kharkov. The Soviet 3rd Tank Army was forced to abandon its attack against Krasnograd to regroup south of Kharkov and protect the city from Hausser’s divisions. At that point the Leibstandarte joined the other divisions of the corps SS to eliminate Soviet forces and recapture Kharkov. With its reconquest, Southern Ukraine returned firmly under German control.This is a fully illustrated account of the decisive victory attained by the SS Panzer Corps divisions at a time of serious crisis for the Axis forces.

RRP: £24.95

Format: Hardback

Pages: 336

ISBN: 9781636244815

Pub Date: 21 Nov 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Illustrations: 20–30 colour photographs

Description:

In 2004, most areas of Al Anbar province in Iraq exploded into widescale insurgencies and attacks on US and allied forces. In both Fallujah and throughout Al Anbar province, elements of the 1st Marine Division engaged in a wide range of operations, ranging from control of border crossings in Western Iraq, to infantrycentered urban combat in Ramadi, the provincial capital.Unique to many of these actions was the use of the Marine Corps’ Light Armored Vehicle, the LAV 25.

RRP: £34.95

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

ISBN: 9781636243696

Pub Date: 15 Nov 2024

Imprint: Casemate Publishers

Series: Casemate Illustrated

Illustrations: 100-120 photographs, artworks and maps

Description:

After taking Forts Henry and Donelson, the Union army prepared to try and take the vital rail hub of Corinth, Mississippi. To facilitate this, Major General H. Halleck planned to combine Grant’s Army of West Tennessee with Buell’s Army of the Ohio.

RRP: £24.95