Our wonderful Senior Marketing Executive shares two uplifting tales from WWII – one about a near-miss that saved thousands of lives and the other about the simple joy of bananas. I: During “My grandmother and[…]

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This Remembrance Day, we’ve collected a series of WWII stories from the (grand)parents of our team here at Casemate. Our Production Manager shares an exclusive, previously unpublished letter from her great-grandparents on the day Denmark[…]

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This Remembrance Day, we’ve collected a series of WWII stories from the (grand)parents of our team here at Casemate. Our Publisher Ruth derives from a long lineage of military MacGyvers. Here, she tells the tale[…]

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An insight into Cold War espionage through the life of Hüseyin Yildirim, a mechanic turned Stasi spy handler. Written by Bernd von Kostka, expert and author of Capital of Spies, we’re given front-row seats to[…]

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An insight into Cold War espionage through the life and career of Karl-Heinz Kurras, a notorious Stasi spy. Written by expert Sven Felix Kellerhoff, this is was one of the GDR’s best kept secrets…until now.[…]

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Simon Forty, author of ‘Red Army Into The Reich’, provides a visual explanation of the formation of the Volksstrum in WWII, with direct quotes from history’s most reviled figure. As the Russian and Western forces[…]

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In anticipation of his new book, Red Army Into The Reich, author and historian Simon Forty gives us an in-depth, visual tour of the last days of WWII on the Eastern Front – a perspective[…]

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