Frontline Books: 219 books
Hirschfeld
The Secret Diary of a U-Boat NCO, 1940-1946
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Whilst there have been many memoirs written by U-boat commanders of the Second World War, a book such as this, based upon the diaries of a senior Petty Officer telegraphist, written in 'real time' is something very special. Wolfgang Hirschfeld, whose diaries Geoffrey Brooks has translated is a born...
The Counter Terrorist Manual
A Practical Guide to Elite International Units
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
In the past thirty-five years, counter-terrorist units have been deployed to deal with airplane, ship, train, and bus hijackings. They have rescued hostages in various types of buildings and have dealt with barricaded bank robbers, prison rioters, and assorted dangerous criminals. Thousands have been...
From Boiled Beef to Chicken Tikka
500 Years of Feeding the British Army
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Janet Macdonald, author of the acclaimed Feeding Nelson's Navy, now turns her attention to food in the British Army over the past two centuries. Napoleon's remark 'an army marches on its stomach' has become an over-used cliche. It is a simple statement and undoubtedly true, but like many such simple...
by Erwin Rommel
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army in the Second World War. Even when the legend surrounding his invincibility was overturned at El Alamein, the aura surrounding Rommel himself remained unsullied....
by Karl Doenitz, R. H. Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
The story of the last world war, as told by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz himself. His memoir covers his early career with submarines in the First World War and follows both his successes and failures through the Second World War, with great detail on the way the U-boat campaign was waged, as told by...
Warrior of God
Jan Zizka and the Hussite Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
Jan Zizka (1370–1424) was a formidable figure whose life and military career was set amidst the whirlwind of monumental revolutions – military, religious, political and social – that engulfed medieval Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. The leader of Bohemia's Hussite Revolution – the first...
The Dunkirk Evacuation in 100 Objects
The Story Behind Operation Dynamo in 1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
At 18.57 hours on Sunday, 26 May 1940, the Admiralty issued the directive which instigated the start of Operation Dynamo. This was the order to rescue the British Expeditionary Force from the French port of Dunkirk and the beaches surrounding it. The Admiralty believed that it would only be able to...
Voices from the Past: Waterloo 1815
History's most famous battle told through eyewitness accounts, newspaper reports, parliamentary debate, memoirs and diaries.
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
For more than twenty years Europe had been torn apart by war. Dynasties had crumbled, new states had been created and a generation had lost its young men. When it seemed that peace might at last settle across Europe, terrible news was received – Napoleon had escaped from exile and was marching upon...
Bringers of War
The Portugese in Africa during the Age of Gunpowder & Sail from the 15th to 18th Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Long before coal-fuelled ships and machine-tooled firearms, in the age of sail and black powder, the Portuguese were engaged all around the coasts of Africa in capturing trading towns, seizing slaves and searching for mineral riches. They fought their ancient Muslim foes wherever they encountered...
Flight from Colditz
Would the Second World War’s Most Audacious Escape Plan Have Succeeded?
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Colditz Castle was one of the most famous Prisoner of War camps of the Second World War. It was there that the Germans interred their most troublesome or important prisoners. Hundreds of ingenious escape attempts were made but the most ambitious of all was to build a glider and fly to freedom.
Though...
The Napoleon Options
Alternate Decisions of the Napoleonic Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This compelling alternate history, brilliantly written by fourteen leading international authors, presents the great maybes of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars The Napoleon Options focuses on some of the pivotal episodes of these catastrophic wars, giving them a resounding twist, and explores...
Napoleon's Mercenaries
Foreign Units in the French Army Under the Consulate and Empire, 1799-1814
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2002
This superb and comprehensive book details the foreign units which formed such an important part of Napoleon's forces. It examines each non-French unit in turn, giving an overview of the unit's origins, its organizational and combat history, its uniforms and standards, and details of the unit's eventual...
by Alexander Mikaberidze
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Russia played a decisive role in the Napoleonic wars and the success in the struggle against France allowed Russian leaders to profoundly influence the course of European history. Over the last 200 years, the Napoleonic era has been discussed and analysed in numerous studies, but many fail to fully...
by Alexander Mikaberidze
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
After his crushing defeat of Prussia in 1806, Napoleon marched into Poland to forestall any Russian attempts to come to the aid of their ally. There then followed the bloody battle in a blizzard at Eylau on 8 February 1807, which decimated both armies. Operations resumed in the spring and on 14 June...