Military History  /  World War II
Guadalcanal's Longest Fight Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9781636245843
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2025
Illustrations: 9 maps, 1220 photographs
Description:
The Matanikau battles proved to be the critical turning points in the land campaign for Guadalcanal—the campaign's longest and bloodiest ground fight. A fivemonth conflict raged along the river and its basin. The real importance of this area has long remained unrecognized, yet the American and Japanese forces that fought over it knew that it wa the key to the ultimate prize of Henderson Airfield.
RRP: £32.95
Midget Submarines 1939–45 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781636242798
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2025
Series: Casemate Illustrated Special
Illustrations: 250+ illustrations
Description:
Some of the most daring naval raids undertaken during World War II involved the use of midget submarines — craft of under 150 tons and crewed by just a handful of men — including Japanese midget submarines deployed at Pearl Harbor, the British X-craft attack on the Tirpitz in a Norwegian fjord protected by layers of antisubmarine defenses, an Italian Maiale attaching limpet mines to the HMS Valiant, and German craft attacking Allied shipping off landing beaches.This Casemate Illustrated Special features all classes of midget subs and human torpedoes designed and used during World War II, and explores how they were used, featuring firsthand accounts from the men who operated these tiny craft. It will also feature the recovery of various wrecks of German, British, Japanese, and Italian midget submarines, including the search for the midget submarines sunk at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
RRP: £39.99
Battle Yet Unsung Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9781636245324
Pub Date: 31 May 2025
Illustrations: 16 pages b/w photos
Description:
While headline writers in the ETO were naturally focused on events in Normandy and the Bulge in the north, equally ferocious combats were taking place in southern France and Germany during 1944–45, which are now finally getting their due. The US 14th Armored Division—a late arrival to the theater—was thrust into intense combat almost the minute it arrived in Europe, as the Germans remained determined to defend their southern flank.Like other US formations, the 14th AD, after advancing through France against intermittent opposition, was hammered to a standstill at the Westwall in the fall of 1944.
RRP: £22.50
The Waffen-SS in Poland, 1939 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781636244655
Pub Date: 15 May 2025
Illustrations: More than 150 photographs and maps
Description:
During the Polish campaign, SS combat units were seconded to various formations of the Heer. Still considered more parade troops than frontline soldiers, they did not prove a decisive factor in the fighting, but the campaign was important for their transformation into real fighting units. They were criticized for their losses, and the officers were blamed, being considered poorly and inadequately trained.
RRP: £24.95
Epitaphs of Bomber Command Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781838068752
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2025
Illustrations: Approx 25 black and white photographs
Description:
During the Second World War Royal Air Force Bomber Command suffered unprecedented casualty rates. Those who served, were killed, and were found, now rest in Commonwealth War Graves Commission graves across the length and breadth of the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe. Of these, almost 30,000 headstones bear emotive and poignant epitaphs, chosen by the next of kin, which, in varied ways, express their loss.
Vickers Tanks in Poland Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 136
ISBN: 9788367227551
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2025
Imprint: MMP Books
Series: Green Series
Illustrations: 200+ B&W photos, scale plans, colour profiles
Description:
This book contains information about a tank very important in the development of Polish armored weaponry. Although only 38 of these combat vehicles were purchased in 1932, allowing for the formation of just two companies, it was significant that the Polish Army received a modern tank, whose utility and properties could be tested in daily service. Simultaneously, a license for the production of Vickers E tanks was purchased - and this was even more important than the acquisition of the equipment itself.
Cold Combat Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 340
ISBN: 9781962551786
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2025
Description:
"Engaging and readable..
The Commandos: Set Europe Ablaze Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781636240084
Pub Date: 04 Feb 2025
Description:
Summer 1942. Defeatism hangs in the air. Britain stands alone.
RRP: £17.99
Panzer Crewman Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781636244600
Pub Date: 17 Jan 2025
Illustrations: 150 photos
Description:
A fully illustrated introduction to the role, and experience, of the Panzer crewman.The German Panzerwaffe ripped up the rulebooks of war that had been laid down by the grinding slaughter of the trenches of World War I. Armored vehicles, close-air support, and bold leadership based on mission command, Auftragstaktik, cut a deadly swathe through the armies of east and west Europe.
RRP: £24.95
The East Pomeranian Offensive, 1945 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781636243887
Pub Date: 17 Jan 2025
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
The Soviet Battle for Berlin, 1945 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781636244372
Pub Date: 17 Jan 2025
Description:
In the spring of 1945, simultaneously with the battle of the Seelow Heights, powerful Red Army spearheads launched three sub-offensive operations to clear German resistance for the Berlin operation. Between April 13 and 17, 1945, elements of the 2nd Belorussian Front replaced parts of the 1st Belorussian Front and began to prepare their offensive operations. Bitter fighting ensued, as German units desperately tried to hold their positions.
RRP: £24.95
The Waffen-SS at Kharkov Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781636244396
Pub Date: 17 Jan 2025
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.
RRP: £24.95
Forgotten War Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781636243573
Pub Date: 29 Oct 2024
Illustrations: 35 photographs
Description:
The monumental struggle fought against Imperial Japan in the Asia/Pacific theater during World War II is primarily viewed as an American affair. While the United States did play a dominant role, the British and Commonwealth forces also made major contributions – on land, at sea and in the air – eventually involving over a million men and vast armadas of ships and aircraft. It was a difficult and often desperate conflict fought against a skilled and ruthless enemy that initially saw the British suffer the worst series of defeats ever to befall their armed forces.
The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision Hitlerjugend Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781636243474
Pub Date: 17 Oct 2024
Illustrations: 40 photographs and maps
Description:
Following the Normandy invasion of 6 June, 1944, Heersgruppe B under German Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel rushed reserves to the newly created bridgehead in order to crush it and drive the Allied forces into the sea. One of these armored reserves was the newly created 12. SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend.
From the Realm of a Dying Sun Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 541
ISBN: 9781636244877
Pub Date: 14 Oct 2024
Illustrations: maps and 24pp black and white photos
Description:
A detailed account of Herbert Otto Gille’s IV SS-Panzerkorps that participated in many of the key battles fought on the Eastern Front during the last year of WWII.During World War Two, the armed or Waffen-SS branch of the Third Reich’s dreaded security service expanded from two divisions in 1940 to 38 divisions by the end of the war, eventually growing to a force of over 900,000 men until Germany’s defeat in May 1945. Not satisfied with allowing his nascent force to be commanded in combat by army headquarters of the Wehrmacht, Heinrich Himmler, chief of the SS, began to create his own SS corps and army headquarters beginning with the SS-Panzerkorps in July 1942.
Panzerkampfwagen V "Panther" Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 44
ISBN: 9788367227643
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2024
Imprint: MMP Books
Series: Spotlight ON
Illustrations: Colour profiles
Description:
This meticulously crafted book showcases a captivating collection of 36 vivid color profiles featuring the iconic German “Panther “tank, a legendary tank that played a pivotal role in World War II. Each profile has been meticulously created, offering an unparalleled level of detail and precision. These profiles are specially commissioned, ensuring an extraordinary visual experience for military enthusiasts and WW2 history buffs alike.