Frontline Books: 219 books
by James Douglas-Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Rudolph Hess’ flight to Britain in May 1941 stands out as one of the most intriguing and bizarre episodes of the Second World War.
In The Truth About Rudolph Hess, Lord James Douglas-Hamilton explores many of the myths which still surround the affair. He traces the developments which persuaded...
JG26
Top Guns of the Luftwaffe
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Jagdgeschwader 26, the German elite fighter unit, was more feared by the Allies than any other Luftwaffe group. Based on extensive archival research in Europe, personal combat diaries and interviews with more than 50 surviving pilots, Caldwell has assembled a superb day-to-day chronicle of JG 26 operations,...
by Kevin F. Kiley
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2004
In this detailed study Kevin Kiley looks at artillery in use throughout the Napoleonic period. He examines Napoleon’s own artillery as well as that employed by his enemies, and he evaluates the gunners’ contribution to warfare in the period. By looking at particular battles in detail, Kevin Kiley shows just how the effective employment of artillery could tip the scales of victory.
by Jac Weller
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
This classic account of Wellington&supl;s tactics and strategy in the Peninsular War is one of the best single-volume works ever written on the epic campaign.
Jac Weller covers all the battles with the French in which Wellington was involved. Talavera, Busaco, Salamanca and Vitoria are...
An Eloquent Soldier
The Peninsular War Journals of Lieutenant Charles Crowe of the Inniskillings, 1812-14
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Lieutenant Charles Crowe's journal of the 27th Foot (Inniskillings) of the final campaign of Wellington's army is
a rare work for many reasons. It is, perhaps surprisingly, the first memoir about this campaign from this famous regiment to be published.
Crowe wrote a daily journal at the time,...
The Art of Sword Combat
A 1568 German Treatise on Swordmanship
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Following the success of Jeffrey L. Forgeng’s translation of Joachim Meyer’s The Art of Sword Combat the author was alerted to an earlier recension of the work which was discovered in Lund University Library in Sweden.
The manuscript, produced in Strassburg around 1568, is illustrated with thirty...
by Admiral Reinhard Scheer
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Anglo-German naval rivalry before 1914 had been expected to culminate in a cataclysmic fleet action in the North Sea once war was declared, a battle upon which the outcome of the war would depend: yet the two fleets met only once, at Jutland in 1916, and the battle was far from conclusive.
In...
The Victoria Cross Wars
Battles, Campaigns and Conflicts of All the VC Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
The British Empire at its height stretched around the globe. From Asia to the Americas, scores of countries were conquered or assimilated into the greatest commonwealth of nations in history. Many of these countries were won, and held, at the point of the bayonet, and British soldiers and sailors...
The Zeebrugge Raid 1918
A Story of Courage and Sacrifice Told Through Newspaper Reports, Official Documents and the Accounts of Those Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Approximately a third of all Allied merchant vessels sunk during the First World War were by German boats and submarines based at Bruge-Zeebrugge on the coast of Belgium. By 1918 it was feared that Britain would be starved into surrender unless the enemy raiders could be stopped.
A daring plan...
Somme 1916
Success and Failure on the first day of the Battle of the Somme
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Much controversy has surrounded the Somme offensive relating to its justification and its impact upon the course of the war. General Sir Douglas Haig's policies have been the subject of considerable debate about whether the heavy losses sustained were worth the small gains that were achieved which...
Into the Jaws of Death
British Military Blunders 1879 - 1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Between the Crimean War and the dawn of the 20th century, the British Army was almost continuously engaged in one corner of the globe or another, in military operations famously characterized by Kipling as the 'savage wars of peace'. In his new work on the most dramatic Victorian campaigns Mike Snook...
Zulu Victory
The Epic of Isandlwana and the cover-up
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The battle of Isandlwana – a great Zulu victory – was one of the worst defeats ever to befall a British Army. At noon on 22 January 1879, a British camp, garrisoned by over 1700 troops, was attacked and overwhelmed by 20,000 Zulu warriors. The defeat of the British, armed with the most modern...
The World’s First SWAT Team
W. E. Fairbairn and the Shanghai Municipal Police Reserve Unit
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
In turbulent Shanghai in the years between the World Wars, the International Settlement was a mercantile powerhouse that faced unrest from Communist labor unions, criminal gangs, spies, political agitators, armed kidnappers and assassins. Adjoining the Settlement were the French Concession and the...
America's Commandos
U.S. Special Operations Forces of World War II and Korea
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2001
America deployed a diverse group of special operations forces (SOF) throught World War II and in Korea. These elite units quickly earned a redoubtable reputation and proved themselves adept at hit-and-run raids, gathering intelligence in long range patrols, rescuing PoWs and living and fighting in...