Búsqueda de Editorial : CASEMATE PUBLISHERS

54 resultados

CASEMATE PUBLISHERS Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • PAGAN
    ebook
    PAGAN
    W. F. MORRIS
    The horrors of World War I continue to haunt two veterans on holiday in 1930s France in this “stirring” novel (Books Monthly).   In the War to End All Wars, Charles Pagan and Dick Baron fought side by side and survived the slaughter. Over a decade later, they return to France not as soldiers but as tourists, taking a serene walking holiday through the Vosges Mountains.   But th...

    $119.00

    Ver detalle
  • FOREST OF THE HANGED
    ebook
    FOREST OF THE HANGED
    LIVIU REBREANU
    A World War I soldier is torn between his duty, his country, and his conscience in this work of “classic war fiction” (Books Monthly).   When the First World War broke out, Apostol Bologa left his home in Romania and joined the Austro-Hungarian army with grand visions of battle, glory, and honor. Instead, the young officer finds himself serving on a near-perfunctory tribunal th...

    $119.00

    Ver detalle
  • BEHIND THE LINES
    ebook
    BEHIND THE LINES
    W. F. MORRIS
    After killing a fellow officer, a British World War I fighter joins the ranks of deserters and outlaws in a suspenseful novel from the author of Bretherton. Behind the Lines follows army man Peter Rawley, who accidentally kills an overbearing, taunting fellow officer and, terrified that he will not receive a fair hearing amid the chaos of the trenches, flees the battlefield. No...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • PASS GUARD AT YPRES
    ebook
    PASS GUARD AT YPRES
    RONALD GURNER
    From a World War I veteran: A novel of the years-long, brutal battle at Ypres, Belgium, and what it did to the city and the men who fought there. In 1915, a platoon of inexperienced British soldiers arrives in Flanders, excited and anxious for what is to come. But they soon find themselves at Ypres, where the battle-weary Allied troops have dug in and slaughter surrounds them. ...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • MR. BRITLING SEES IT THROUGH
    ebook
    MR. BRITLING SEES IT THROUGH
    H. G. WELLS
    A moving novel of one Englishman’s experience as his country goes to war, from the author of who gave us The Time Machine and The Invisible Man. Mr. Britling considers himself an optimist. But as the Great War begins, he finds himself forced to reassess many of the things he thought he was sure of. As refugees from Belgium arrive in the town of Matching’s Easy, telling frighten...

    $85.00

    Ver detalle
  • ROUX THE BANDIT
    ebook
    ROUX THE BANDIT
    ANDRÉ CHAMSON
    A Frenchman flees his small mountain village to avoid service in World War I in a thoughtful, witty novel about the conflict of patriotism and conscience. Deep in the Cévennes Mountains of southern France, a man called Roux refuses to heed the call to duty at the outbreak of war in 1914. Instead, he flees and hides in the hills, returning only occasionally to the farm where he ...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • BLUFF, BLUSTER, LIES AND SPIES
    ebook
    BLUFF, BLUSTER, LIES AND SPIES
    DAVID PERRY
    An in-depth illustration of shifting Civil War alliances and strategies and of Great Britain’s behind-the-scenes role in America’s War Between the States.   In the early years of the Civil War, Southern arms won spectacular victories on the battlefield. But cooler heads in the Confederacy recognized the demographic and industrial weight pitted against them, and they counted on ...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • PATROL
    ebook
    PATROL
    PHILIP MACDONALD
    The novel that inspired John Ford’s The Lost Patrol: A band of World War I soldiers fights to survive in the desert after their leader is shot and killed. There had been, here, eleven men. Now ten rode away. . . . In the Mesopotamian desert during the First World War, an unseen enemy guns down the leader of a British parol. The officer was the only one who knew their orders, an...

    $200.00

    Ver detalle
  • BRETHERTON
    ebook
    BRETHERTON
    W. F. MORRIS
    This World War I novel is “a mystery as exciting as a good detective story and an extraordinarily vivid account of trench-warfare” (The Sunday Times). In November 1918, as the Germans are in their final retreat, a British raiding party under fire follows the sound of piano music and stumbles across an eerie scene in a ruined chateau. A German officer lies dead at the keys, next...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE SOMME
    ebook
    THE SOMME
    A. D. GRISTWOOD
    Two World War I classics: The story of a British soldier enduring the battle in France and a novella starring a man who takes drastic steps to escape the Great War. The million British dead have left no books behind. What they felt as they died hour by hour in the mud, or were choked horribly with gas, or relinquished their reluctant lives on stretchers, no witness tells. But h...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • UNDER FIRE
    ebook
    UNDER FIRE
    HENRI BARBUSSE
    The original translation of one of the first World War I novels—at first criticized for its harsh realism but now celebrated as a classic. Set in early 1916, Under Fire follows the point of view of an unnamed foot soldier in a squad of French volunteers on the western front. It combines soaring, poetic descriptions with the mundane, messy, human reality of soldiers living in th...

    $85.00

    Ver detalle
  • A SHAU VALOR
    ebook
    A SHAU VALOR
    THOMAS R. YARBOROUGH
    From the author of Da Nang Diary: A military history of the Battle of Hamburger Hill and other fights between the NVA and the US and its Vietnamese allies. Throughout the Vietnam War, one focal point persisted where the Viet Cong guerrillas and Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) were not a major factor, but where the trained professionals of the North Vietnamese and US arm...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • MARINE CORPS TANK BATTLES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
    ebook
    MARINE CORPS TANK BATTLES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
    OSCAR E. GILBERT
    In this “compelling read,” the former Marine artilleryman examines modern tank strategies through true stories of battle in Iraq and Afghanistan (Military Modelcraft International). In the aftermath of Vietnam a new generation of Marines was determined to wage a smarter kind of war. The tank, the very symbol of power and violence, would play a key role in a new concept of mobil...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • SHADOW COMMANDER
    ebook
    SHADOW COMMANDER
    MIKE GUARDIA
    The true story of the US Army legend who organized “Blackburn’s Headhunters” against Japan in WWII and went on to initiate Special Forces operations in Vietnam. The fires on Bataan burned on the evening of April 9, 1942—illuminating the white flags of surrender against the dark sky. Outnumbered and outgunned, remnants of the American-Philippine army surrendered to the forces of...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • MARINE CORPS TANK BATTLES IN KOREA
    ebook
    MARINE CORPS TANK BATTLES IN KOREA
    OSCAR E. GILBERT
    An award-winning military historian delivers “an excellent read” on tank combat in the Forgotten War based on interviews with veterans who were there (MAFVA.org). The outbreak of the Korean conflict caught America (and the Marine Corps) unprepared. The Corps' salvation was the existence of its Organized Reserve (an organization rich in veterans of the fighting in World War II),...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • NANJING 1937
    ebook
    NANJING 1937
    PETER HARMSEN
    A true story of the Sino-Japanese conflict: A “valuable account of a little-known event [and] a grim reminder of the darker side of war” (Military History Monthly). The infamous Rape of Nanjing looms like a dark shadow over the history of Asia in the twentieth century, and is among the most widely recognized chapters of World War II in China. By contrast, the story of the month...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • SHANGHAI 1937
    ebook
    SHANGHAI 1937
    PETER HARMSEN
    The New York Times bestseller that inspired the documentary Shanghai 1937: Where World War II Began on Public Television. At its height, the Battle of Shanghai involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators—and often victims. It turned what had been a Japanese imperialist adventure in China into a general...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • SHANGHAI 1937
    ebook
    SHANGHAI 1937
    PETER HARMSEN
    The New York Times bestseller that inspired the documentary Shanghai 1937: Where World War II Began on Public Television. At its height, the Battle of Shanghai involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators—and often victims. It turned what had been a Japanese imperialist adventure in China into a general...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • TANKS IN HELL
    ebook
    TANKS IN HELL
    OSCAR E. GILBERT
    An extraordinary slice of untold WWII history: how unproven Marines driving untested Sherman tanks turned the tide against Japan in the Battle of Tarawa. In May 1943, a self-described “really young, green, ignorant lieutenant” assumed command of a new US Marine Corps company. His even younger Marines were learning to operate an untested weapon, the M4A2 “Sherman” medium tank. J...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE FIRES OF BABYLON
    ebook
    THE FIRES OF BABYLON
    MIKE GUARDIA
    A riveting true story of tank warfare in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm under the command of Captain H. R. McMaster. As a new generation of main battle tanks came onto the line during the 1980s, neither the United States nor the USSR had the chance to pit them in combat. But once the Cold War between the superpowers waned, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein provided the chance with his ...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • TANKS IN HELL
    ebook
    TANKS IN HELL
    OSCAR E. GILBERT
    An extraordinary slice of untold WWII history: how unproven Marines driving untested Sherman tanks turned the tide against Japan in the Battle of Tarawa. In May 1943, a self-described “really young, green, ignorant lieutenant” assumed command of a new US Marine Corps company. His even younger Marines were learning to operate an untested weapon, the M4A2 “Sherman” medium tank. J...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • WAR BONDS
    ebook
    WAR BONDS
    CINDY HVAL
    A look at love during World War II that “celebrates not only the personal sacrifices these couples made to serve their country, but also their devotion to one another” (San Francisco Book Review). America’s World War II is most often told through the stories of its great battles, when an entire generation of our young men was suddenly thrust across the oceans to represent the N...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • SECOND FRONT
    ebook
    SECOND FRONT
    ALEXANDER M. GRACE
    What would have happened if Churchill’s Mediterranean strategy was overruled? This novel of an alternate D-Day explores this fascinating scenario. One of the great arguments of World War II took place among Allied military leaders over when and where to launch a second front against Germany in Europe. Stalin, holding on by his teeth in Russia, urged a major invasion from the we...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • AXIS SALLY
    ebook
    AXIS SALLY
    RICHARD LUCAS
    A “fascinating, well-researched account” of Mildred Gillars, the failed actress who turned on her country and became a Nazi propagandist during WWII (Publishers Weekly). One of the most notorious Americans of the twentieth century was a failed Broadway actress turned radio announcer named Mildred Gillars (1900–1988), better known to American GIs as “Axis Sally.” Despite the ric...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE BATTERED BASTARDS OF BASTOGNE
    ebook
    THE BATTERED BASTARDS OF BASTOGNE
    GEORGE KOSKIMAKI
    “Fleshes out in vivid detail the entire story of the Screaming Eagles’ valiant struggle . . . This is must reading for any student of World War II history” (Kepler’s Military History). The Battered Bastards of Bastogne is the product of contributions by 530 soldiers who were on the ground or in the air over Bastogne. They lived and made this history, and much of it is told in t...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE BURDEN OF GUILT
    ebook
    THE BURDEN OF GUILT
    DANIEL ALLEN BUTLER
    A military historian’s “thought-provoking” examination of Germany’s role in the outbreak of the First World War (Soldier Magazine).   The conflagration that consumed Europe in August 1914 had been a long time in coming—and yet it need never have happened at all. For though all the European powers were prepared to accept a war as a resolution to the tensions which were fermentin...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • D-DAY WITH THE SCREAMING EAGLES
    ebook
    D-DAY WITH THE SCREAMING EAGLES
    GEORGE KOSKIMAKI
    A collection of eyewitness accounts of the Normandy landings that “gives you the [feeling] that you are there during the frenzied first hours of the invasion” (Kepler’s Military History Book Reviews).  Many professional historians have recorded the actions of D-Day but here is an account of the airborne actions as described by the actual men themselves, in eyewitness detail.   ...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • IF CHAOS REIGNS
    ebook
    IF CHAOS REIGNS
    FLINT WHITLOCK
    “A gem of a book that highlights the ‘fog of war’ as seen by American, British, and Canadian airborne units when they parachuted behind enemy lines.” —WWII History Magazine   “Gentlemen, do not be daunted if chaos reigns; it undoubtedly will.” So said Brigadier S. James Hill, commanding officer of the British 3rd Parachute Brigade, in an address to his troops shortly before the...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • GUARDIAN ANGEL
    ebook
    GUARDIAN ANGEL
    WILLIAM F. SINE
    “A fabulous read, filled with heroism, history, and hi-jinks, as author William F. Sine recounts his life as an Air Force Pararescue Jumper” (Readers’ Favorite). US Air Force Pararescue is the most skillful and capable rescue force in the world, taking on some of the most dangerous rescue missions imaginable. PJs (short for para-jumpers), are members of an elite unit whose comm...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • SHADE IT BLACK
    ebook
    SHADE IT BLACK
    JESS GOODELL / JOHN HEARN
    A female marine’s “absorbing memoir” recounting her work with the remains and personal effects of fallen soldiers and her battle with PTSD (Publishers Weekly). In 2008, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan candidly speculated about the human side of the war in Iraq: “Tell me the last time you saw the body of a dead American soldier. What does that look like? Who in Americ...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle

01 02 »