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Casemate Publishers is one of the leading publishers in the fields of military history, defense studies, and military science worldwide. We are dedicated to publishing important and far-reaching military history – from ancient civilisations to modern warfare – with a growing reputation for high-quality, informative and engaging books.
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For anyone wanting an insight into the inner workings of the British political and military war effort in the Second World War, Dr Andrew Sangster’s re-appraisal of Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke in his new book Alan Brooke : Churchill’s Right-Hand ...
Simon Elliott is a busy man. When he's not appearing in documentaries, working as an archaeologist and lecturing in Pompeii, he is a prolific writer of ancient Roman history, most recently with an account of the IX Hispania (Roman Britain's Missing Legion). He's now published a new title,
Rupert Wieloch’s new book, Liberating Libya, colourfully charts the relatively underknown history of Libya and its relationship with Britain. Bringing to bear the author’s full foreign policy expertise, personal knowledge of Libya and extensive research, it is a professionally-told piece that offers both sharp ...
Appointment in Tehran is the second book in James Stejskal’s Snake Eater Chronicle series of novels which features a large cast of characters and despite the fact it doesn’t have a main protagonist to follow but several it still manages to be deeply engrossing.That is because it is set against the 1979 American ...
Capital of SpiesFor anyone who lived in West Berlin during the sixties, seventies or eighties, the very mention of the great city’s name on a news bulletin brought a frisson of excitement with memories of Russian checkpoints, the Wall and constant flow of spy stories both real and fictional.Sven Felix Kellerhoff and Bernd von Kostka have now brought us a fascinating and valuable ...
Dr Wheatley is on a mission. His mission is to disprove the long articulated Russian stance that the tank action at Prokhorovoka was an annihilation of the elite SS II Panzer Corps by the Soviet Army in the southeast corner of the Russian Front in July 1943. Whilst the tank action at Prokhorovka was a victory, the Soviet military narrative has historically placed the Battle of Prokhorovka as ...
Simon Elliott, the epic clashes of the Trojan War described by Homer are our only real literary reference to the Mycenaean period of warfare – how would you best describe this version of Greek war?In one word, confusing! Here we first have to overcome the uncertainty created by Homer most likely writing his Iliad and Odyssey in the 8th century BC at the beginning of the ...
James Stejskal, your new novel is set around the Iranian revolution and the seizure of the US Embassy – why did you pick this event to write about?It’s an event I experienced first-hand as a member of a Special Forces unit that was involved in the rescue attempt. Most of the characters in my story are based on the men ...
Bernd von Kostka, Berlin was the epicentre of the Cold War, with multiple clandestine agencies operating there. Many operations took place in the decades up to the fall of the wall, but which were the most successful?Well, usually the most successful operations are not the ones that were shouted out loud. The reason behind it: when an operation was successful then similar
I became interested in the formidable character of Alan Brooke when researching for other books, and in the Kew National Archives stumbled upon references which at first sight were totally contradictory. On the one hand there is the ornithological fanatic with close friends, a wife and family he adored, and on the other side a person whom men like Montgomery and Mountbatten were cautious ...
Never easy, the assessment of generalship becomes more difficult when you go back in time and the sources are less extensive. All-too-often the discussion becomes that of battles lost and won as in Hannibal must be good because he won at Cannae or Napoleon at Austerlitz. This can lead to an underplaying of the other levels of warfare, notably that of strategy and, related to that, the key way
The Spanish Civil War was a clear-cut revolutionary/counterrevolutionary contest between left and right, with the fascist totalitarian powers supporting the right and the Soviet totalitarian power supporting the left. At first it was never intended to be a precursor to World War II, as some historians have perpetuated. Spain, on the other hand, under the rebel Nationalists led then by General
I grew up with a passion for the worlds of ancient Greece and Rome, and fondly remember drawing my first Roman chariot with wax crayons on old computer print out paper aged about five! That love of all things ancient translated into something of an obsession as an adult, hence my son being called Alexander! Later in life I have now realized my dream of being a best selling and award-winning ...
Writing history in a post-feminist era, when readers are especially alert to issues of social and racial justice, requires a sensitive approach to modern opinions. Authors today have to accept that many influential academics are highly critical of government authority and that public organisations are responding to the so-called “culture wars” by revising attitudes to the past. For example, ...
Berlin emerged after the end of World War II as a geographically and politically ideal base of operations for secret service activities. As the point of intersection between East and West, Berlin exerted an almost magical attraction on intelligence agencies. The city was occupied by the four victorious powers Soviet Union, United States, Great Britain and France. They administrated the city ...
In his apartment several blocks from the university campus, Abdul Mezad knelt on a carpet facing the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina and prayed. He was one of the few people in the city who knew what was about to happen. Although the Shah had been overthrown and the revolutionary republic proclaimed months earlier, there was still an
