THE WORLD OF MILITARY HISTORY ACCORDING TO CASEMATE

Casemate, the fastest-growing military history publisher and distributor in America, returns to HISTORICON. This year, they will now be selling books in the Vendor Hall, and you will also be able to find the following at their booth at Valley Forge:

• Free catalogues, offering detailed previews of new titles by Casemate and their 40+ military history publishers, due in Fall 2010
• Daily competitions with prizes including; advance copies of new books, painting guide DVDs, signed copies of books by Prof. Jack Gill, Dr Phillip Tucker, Mike Guardia, and Bruce Bassett-Powell, as well as the chance to win an exclusive artwork print from Bruce’s new book on the Armies of Prussia during Bismarck’s Wars, a selection of Histoire & Collections books, Foundry rulebooks, and Casemate bestsellers
• Author signings and ‘Meet and Greets’ by Prof. Jack Gill, Dr Phillip Tucker, Bruce Bassett-Powell, and Mike Guardia
• The chance to talk to someone about getting a book on your favourite subject, or indeed your own literary masterpiece published
• Find out more about Casemate’s forthcoming new website, suggest ideas and sign up to be a tester or e-mail casemate@casematepublishing.com, with the subject “Website Testing”
• Find out more about Casemate’s new blog http://thecasemateblog.wordpress.com where you can gain access to exclusive advance information on new books, TV, film and games in the world of military history, previews of all things related to Casemate, and discuss becoming a guest blogger, review and promotion opportunities

Casemate have gathered together an incredible selection of books from some of the best military book publishers in the world, including Casemate, Histoire & Collections, Pen & Sword, Heimdal, Warlord Games, Foundry, Helion & Company and more, and provides a single, accessible source for all your military history book needs.

For more information on Casemate and their range of military history books and DVDs, please visit www.casematepublishing.com.

CASEMATE ACROSS THE POND

Casemate, those of you based outside the US will be pleased to know, also has offices in the UK. Casemate UK is very much the place for all your military history needs, with a vast selection of books from publishers such as Casemate, Andrea Press, Brookhurst Press, Concord Publications, Foundry, Kagero, Ken Trotman Books, Naval Institute Press and Warlord Games, amongst others. For more information on Casemate UK and their range of publications, please visit www.casematepublishing.co.uk

CASEMATE SEMINAR:

EXCLUSIVE INSIGHTS INTO THE MILITARY BOOK WORLD

Simone Drinkwater is Business Development Director for Casemate, the fastest-growing military history publisher and distributor. Simone will be hosting her regular seminar at HISTORICON (Sat. 11:30 AM) to talk about Casemate in more detail and provide you with exclusive highlights of future publications and other projects.

As Casemate are also distributors for a number of other military publishers, including Histoire & Collections, Pen and Sword, Foundry, Andrea Press, Warlord Games and Heimdal, amongst others, you can be sure to find out everything there is to know about the developments of the military book world!

If this wasn’t enough, there will also be the chance to find out more about becoming an author, being a military artist and researcher with a guest spot by Bruce Bassett-Powell, and the opportunity to suggest ideas for new titles, become a guest blogger, and even put in your request for any out-of-print books you would like to see reprinted.

THERE WILL ALSO BE SEMINARS BY CASEMATE AUTHORS

The following Casemate authors will be presenting seminars are part of the HMGS War College.

The Armies of Bismarck’s Wars, by author and artist Thursday 11 AM, 1 hr Bruce Bassett-Powell, who will be talking about his detailed and definitive uniform research for Bismarck’s Wars, writing his forthcoming series of illustrated histories with Casemate on the various armies who would change the history of the world forever, and his own career as a military artist and author. With useful insight into creating detailed artwork plates from little or no reference, finding your way through the maze of historical source material and the military actions of Europe in the 19th Century, Bruce Bassett-Powell provides many answers for military enthusiast.

Prof. John Gill: Will be presenting the following two Napoleonic era seminars: Massena's Last Fight: The Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, 3-5 May 1811 Friday 1 PM, 1 hr This seminar will focus on French Marshal Massena's last battle, a three day struggle that his opponent, the Viscount Wellington, called "the most difficult battle I was ever concerned in." In addition to a thorough campaign overview and combat narrative, materials presented will include terrain, orders of battle (hand-outs), leadership assessments, and other scenario-related data based on John Gill's research and a recent trip to the battlefield. Transition from War to Peace after Wagram: The Battle of Znaim 10-11 July 1809 Friday 4 PM, 1 hr This little-known final engagement between the main armies of Napoleon and the Austrian Archduke Charles, was a cornucopia of daring, caution, drama, and tempting what-if's as the pursuing French caught up with their Habsburg foes in the wake of Wagram. Based on the recently-published third volume of his Thunder on the Danube study of 1809 (Frontline, 2010), Prof. John Gill will discuss the chronology of the battle and the transition to ceasefire and armistice, including details on terrain, orders of battle (hand-outs), leadership and tactical assessments, as well as other scenario-related data.

Exodus from The Alamo: Exploding the Last Stand Myth Friday 1 PM, 1 hr For the first time, Dr. Phillip Thomas Tucker's Exodus from the Alamo, the Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth tells the true story of what actually happened at the Alamo on the morning of March 6, 1836. The truth of what really occurred at the Alamo contradicts almost everything that we have been told, especially in regard to the fabled last stand. Quite simply, the mythmakers created the legend of the tenacious last stand in which thousands of attackers were killed and wounded. In truth, the battle was little more than a mere skirmish, with the defenders caught by surprise by a predawn attack and routed before they could galvanize an organized and effective defence of the lengthy perimeter, because the attackers gained the walls before the garrison was awakened. In the confusion and darkness, most Mexican casualties resulted from fratricide instead of defender's bullets. When the walls were easily breached, garrison members fled the doomed Alamo by way of three exit points. They wisely decided that it was better to live and fight another day rather than attempt to defend a position already compromised. Therefore, and as revealed by new sources and evidence, most garrison members were killed not inside but outside the Alamo on the open prairie by Mexican lancers and dragoons. This seminar presents a controversial new viewpoint on the legendary stand of Davy Crockett and his men at the Alamo, and what really happened – not to be missed!

A Forgotten Hero of the Pacific War...the Harrowing Tale of Russell Volckmann Saturday 2 PM, 1 hr Mike Guardia, author of American Guerrilla by Casemate Publishing, will be talking about his experiences writing and researching the epic story of Russell W. Volckmann. Abandoned by his leaders on Bataan and ordered to surrender, Volckmann refused, disappeared into the jungles, and raised a guerrilla Filipino army of over 22,000. For the next three years he led a guerrilla war against the Japanese in the Pacific – killing over 50,000 enemy troops. Aside from his decisive role in the outcome of the Pacific campaign, Guardia declares Volckmann the progenitor of modern counterinsurgency the “Father of Army Special Forces”.