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French Fighter Aircraft in World War I Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781636241449
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2025
Series: Casemate Illustrated Special
Illustrations: B/W and colour
Description:
During the first decade of the 20th century, France led the way in aircraft design and achievements. After the outbreak of World War I, France produced trailblazing designs early – the Morane Saulnier monoplanes, Nieuport fighters, and then the Spads – clearly leading the way in terms of trends in aviation. Although the Fokker Eindeckers were the first 'point and shoot' aircraft, the Nieuport 11, while lacking interrupter gear, was the first maneuverable and cleanly designed fighter that featured ailerons and responsive controls on all axes.
RRP: £39.95
Midget Submarines 1939–45 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781636242798
Pub Date: 15 Apr 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
The Waffen-SS in Poland, 1939 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781636244655
Pub Date: 15 Apr 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
The Crimean Offensive, 1944 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781636244358
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2025
Illustrations: 150 photographs, maps and artwork
Description:
By October 1943, the German 17th Army had been forced to retreat from the Kuban bridgehead across the Kerch Strait to Crimea. During the following months, the Red Army pushed back the German forces in the southern Ukraine. In November 1943, they eventually cut off the land-based connection of 17th Army through the Perekop Isthmus.
RRP: £24.95
Break Contact—Continue Mission Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781636245003
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2025
Illustrations: 10 images
Description:
Join Garner, Dodge, and the rest of RT Iowa as they venture “across the fence” to help stem the flow of the North Vietnamese on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Tense hours of moving in areas “denied” to the U.S.
RRP: £29.95
The First Day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781636244792
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2025
Illustrations: Over 120 photographs and illustrations
Description:
The summer of 1863 started off disastrously for the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater. In early May, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia defeated and humiliated Major General Joseph Hooker’s army at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
RRP: £24.95
A Grand Opening Squandered Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781611217216
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2025
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Series: Emerging Civil War Series
Illustrations: 100 images, 10 maps
Description:
May and June 1864 in Virginia witnessed some of the most brutal and bloody fighting of the Civil War. After the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, North Anna, and Cold Harbor, combined losses for the two armies exceeded 80,000 men killed, wounded, and captured. And the result after all that carnage was a stalemate outside the gates of Richmond.
The Revolutionary War Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781636240923
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2024
Illustrations: 100 photographs and illustration
Description:
The 17th and 18th centuries witnessed a period of almost constant conflict in Europe and North America. In New England, the threat of invasion from the French in the North and the Spanish in the South weighed heavily on the colonists. The Crown's solution was to send an army from Britain to help govern, organise and protect the colonies, but ultimately this was not enough to secure loyalty and quell the whispers of revolt.
RRP: £24.95
The Revolutionary War Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781636240787
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2024
Illustrations: 100 photographs and illustration
Description:
Having declared their independence, Britain's former colonies in North America would need to fight for their liberty. The response from the other side of the Atlantic was slow, but when it arrived it appeared overwhelming. Hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of troops gathered to re-establish the Crown's control.
RRP: £24.95
The Campaign for Atlanta & Sherman’s March to the Sea Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781611216974
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2024
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Illustrations: 12 images, 6 maps
Description:
By the time Albert Castel’s Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 appeared in 1992, Savas Woodbury Publishers had already made important contributions to the campaign scholarship by publishing a collection of original essays by some of the field’s most noted authors, including Steven Woodworth, writing about the Confederacy’s command options in the Winter of 1863-64. Editors Theodore P. Savas and David A.
The East Pomeranian Offensive, 1945 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781636243887
Pub Date: 21 Nov 2024
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 Waffen-SS at Kharkov Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781636244396
Pub Date: 21 Nov 2024
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
Hell by the Acre Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 640
ISBN: 9781611217124
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2024
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Illustrations: 25 images, 17 maps
Description:
The waning days of 1862 marked a nadir in the fortunes of the Union. After major defeats at Fredericksburg in Virginia and Chickasaw Bayou in Mississippi, it fell to Maj. Gen.
Panzer Crewman Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781636244600
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2024
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 Maps of Second Bull Run Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9781611217087
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2024
Imprint: Savas Beatie
Series: Savas Beatie Military Atlas Series
Illustrations: 2 images, 122 maps
Description:
The Maps of Second Bull Run: An Atlas of the Second Bull Run/Manassas Campaign from the Formation of the Army of Virginia Through the Battle of Chantilly, June 26 – September 1, 1862, continues Bradley M. Gottfried’s efforts to study and illustrate the major campaigns of the Civil War’s Eastern Theater. This is his tenth book in the ongoing Savas Beatie Military Atlas Series.
RRP: £31.95
The Overland Campaign for Richmond Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781636243924
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2024
Description:
A full account of the Wilderness to the James River, including Grant's rise to high command, the condition of the armies going into the critical 1864 campaign, a deep look at the commanders on both sides, and the strategy of the campaign from both perspectives. The study is combat, strategy, and tactics from the first day of action until the last, when Grant—unable to capture Richmond, but now south and east of the capital—builds a long bridge and crosses the James River to attack Petersburg. Illustrated by photographs and excellent maps, it will conclude with a note about visiting the battlefields, the casualties, the treatment of wounded, and the burial of the dead.
RRP: £24.95