To celebrate the release of The Tank Commander Pocket Manual 1939-1945, we at Casemate want to challenge you to a quiz on tank strategy. Could you have been a great WWII tank commander? The Tank Commander Pocket Manual 1939-1945
World renowned historian David Stone gives his thoughts on one of our recent titles Kleinkrieg. A REVIEW OF KLEINKRIEG THE GERMAN EXPERIENCE WITH GUERILLA WARFARE, FROM CLAUSEWITZ TO HITLER by Charles D. Melson, including a translation of the 1935 work by Arthur Ehrhardt In this new work Kleinkrieg Charles Melson has carried out a particularly… Read More »Kleinkrieg Review by Historian David Stone
To celebrate the release of Christer Bergström’s new definitive work on Operation Barbarossa, we at Casemate challenge you to a quiz.
Sabrestorm Publishing produce fantastic books looking at life during the war and throughout the 20th Century. Author Twigs Way has compiled two fascinating books which focus on the ‘Dig for Victory’ gardening campaigns that were put together by the government in Britain and demonstrate how the tips that they gave back then are still helpful… Read More »Get in the garden with Sabrestorm Publishing!
This Christmas, we are opening up the Casemate Advent Calendar! Follow us, retweet and reply to our giveaway post on twitter @casemate_uk to be entered into a daily drawing, with a free book being given away every day! The winner will be randomly selected by the Casemate team and will be announced and contacted on Twitter for mailing… Read More »The Casemate Advent Calendar
What made me want to write a new history of the Long Range Desert Group? Well, I’m of that generation, born in the ‘fifties, who grew up on a diet of Ealing/Pinewood war films, Desert Rats, LRDG, Ice Cold in Alex, mostly black and white, latterly in colour, then it was Tobruk, Raid on Rommel… Read More »Ghost Patrol – LRDG on paper
The 70th Anniversary of V-J Day, which commemorates the victory over the Japanese Empire after a nearly four-year brutal struggle, has recently occurred. With the passage of this event, it is quite sobering upon gazing at a map of the Pacific Ocean to contemplate how the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN)… Read More »The Road to V-J Day Began in Mid-1942
Between 1914 and 1918 Britain’s cities, towns, villages and countryside were transformed by war. For the first time in generations her population was directly threatened by conflict. Coastal towns were bombarded by German warships and submarines, while airships and aircraft brought death and destruction from above. Across the country thousands of factories were turned over… Read More »Discovering Britain’s Home Front 1914-18
Christer Bergstrom’s book The Battle of Britain: an Epic Conflict Revisited builds upon many hitherto unknown first-hand sources and facts. In this book, Bergström dispels many myths that still surround this epic battle. Here Christer Bergström describes some of them in brief. Many of the myths regarding the Battle of Britain involve the commander of… Read More »Myths and Misconceptions of The Battle of Britain
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