Author: Jay A. Stout
Publisher: Casemate
Keywords: hitler, oil, destroy, campaign, ploesti, fortress
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1932033181
ISBN-13: 9781932033182

Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the famous big and bloody raid of August 1943 and depicts the entire 1944 strategic campaign of twenty-plus missions that all but knocked Ploesti out of the war and denied the German war machine the fuel and lubricants it so desperately needed. While Fortress Ploesti is the narrative history of the entire air campaign to deny the Ploesti oil complex to the Axis powers, it is also a launching point for the author’s inquiries into many aspects of the American strategic bombing effort in World War II. It delivers across the board.

Author: Johannes Werner
Publisher: Casemate
Keywords: german, ace, boelcke, oswald, germany, knight
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1935149113
ISBN-13: 9781935149118

The story of the fighter pilot the Red Baron himself sought to emulate . . .German air ace Oswald Boelcke was a national hero during World War I, and was the youngest captain in the German air force, decorated with the Pour Ie Merite while still only a lieutenant and with 40 aerial victories at the time of his death. He became a pilot shortly before the outbreak of the war, and when he was tragically killed in a flying accident during combat less than two-and-a-half years later not only was his name known all over the world but the whole of Germany mourned his passing. He established his reput

Author: Al Venter
Publisher: Casemate Pub
Keywords: moments, combat, misspent, correspondent, gun, war, barrel
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2010-10-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1935149253
ISBN-13: 9781935149255

"Anybody who says that the pen is mightier than the sword hasn’t spent time in Somalia, or in Beirut during its bloody heyday." So begins this fascinating memoir of a journalist, filmmaker, and just plain raconteur who has made a career of examining warfare-on the ground and as the bullets are flying. While the average citizen is aware of violent conflicts broiling all around the globe, Al J. Venter-from some strange compulsion unexplainable even by him-has felt the need to see them all in person, preferably at the center of the action.Born in South Africa, Venter has found no shortage o

Authors:Christine Alexander, Mason Kunze,
Publisher: Casemate Pub
Keywords: eastern, panzerjager, german, journals, inferno
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2010-12-07
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1935149474
ISBN-13: 9781935149477

This book presents the remarkable personal journals of a German soldier who participated in Operation Barbarossa and subsequent battles on the Eastern Front, revealing the combat experience of the German-Russian War as seldom seen before.Hans Roth was a member of the anti-tank (Panzerjager) battalion, 299th Infantry Division, attached to Sixth Army, as the invasion of Russia began. Writing as events transpired, he recorded the mystery and tension as the Germans deployed on the Soviet frontier in June 1941. Then a firestorm broke loose as the Wehrmacht tore across the front, forging into the pr

Author: Oscar Gilbert
Publisher: Casemate
Keywords: vietnam, battles, tank, corps, marine
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-03
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1932033661
ISBN-13: 9781932033663

In 1965 the large, loud, and highly visible tanks of 3rd Platoon, B Company, 3rd Tank Battalion landed across a beach near Da Nang, drawing unwelcome attention to America’s first, almost covert, commitment of ground troops in South Vietnam. As the Marine Corps presence grew inexorably, the 1st and 3rd Tank Battalions, as well as elements of the reactivated 5th Tank Battalion, were committed to the conflict.For the United States Marine Corps the protracted and bloody struggle was marked by controversy, but for Marine Corps tankers it was marked by bitter frustration as they saw their own

Author: James Wilson
Publisher: Casemate
Keywords: retreat, alpine, hitler
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-05
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1932033459
ISBN-13: 9781932033458

The Nazis had no equals at ferociously exploiting new methods of reaching the general population with their political message. The humble postcard became in the 1930’s a powerful tool for winning the hearts and minds of the German people. In this unique book James Wilson demonstrates, using 270 original German postcards from his personal collection, how Hitler’s obsession with the beautiful and normally peaceful Bavarian mountain area of Berchtesgadener Land was used to project a powerful but totally misleading image of this most evil regime.Haus Wachenfeld, the simple Alpine cotta