Casemate Publishing has informed Armorama about their latest additions. A wide selection of titles that will provide hours of interesting reading.

Although sometimes of limited use as modelling references, most of us enjoy also reading the History of units, persons or battles that serve as a background for our hobby.

Some of the titles have been already published but these are new editions or reprints.

Deliverance at Diepholz, by Jack Dower. The story of an American Infantry Company taken prisoners at Anzio, Italy, and spent nearly fifteen months in captivity. Jack Dower was one of them.

SS Hell on the Eastern Front by Christopher Ailsby. An account of every aspect of the Waffen-SS's war on the Eastern Front - its battles (against the Red Army and Soviet partisans), its organisation, its recruitment of non-Germans, its tactics and equipment, orders of battle and its mentality.

Personal Accounts of the Waffen-SS at War, by Gordon Williamson. Former Waffen-SS soldiers of all ranks and nationalities talk about their training, indoctrination, combat on the Eastern Front, their commanders and political masters and the question of atrocities.

Battles of the Waffen-SS by Gordon Williamson. A detailed summary of the Waffen-SS's greatest battles between 1939 and 1945.

The German Soldier in World War II, by Russell Hart and Stephen Hart. A graphic portrait of the life of the private soldier in the army of the Third Reich, containing first-hand accounts from German Army veterans who served in the war.

Hitler’s Turkestani Soldiers by Paolo A. Dossena. The story of the 162nd (Turkistan) Infantry Division, a World War II German division composed of Central Asian Turkistanis.

The King's Private Army by Andrew Stewart. An elite bodyguard to protect the British Royal Family. Led initially by Major Jimmy Coats, it was intended that this group would evacuate King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and the two princesses, Margaret and her sister Elizabeth, to a place of safety away from London.

Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941, Volumes 1 and 2 by David M. Glantz. The battles in the Smolensk region frustrated German hopes for quick victory and marked a turning point in the East campaign.

The Rzhev Slaughterhouse, by Stuart Britton and Svetlana Gerasimova. Historians consider the Battle of Rzhev "one of the bloodiest in the history of the Great Patriotic War" and "Zhukov's greatest defeat". By their territorial scale, number of participating troops, length and casualties, the military operations in the area of the Rzhev - Viaz'ma salient are not only comparable to the Stalingrad battle, but to a great extent surpass it.

The Viaz'ma Catastrophe, 1941, by Lev Lopukhovsky, Stuart Britton. This book describes one of the most terrible tragedies of the Second World War and the events preceding it. The horrible miscalculations made by the Stavka of the Soviet Supreme High Command and the Front commands led in October 1941 to the deaths and imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of their own people.

You can find more information on these and other titles at Casemate's website