Frontline: 224 books
by Gareth Glover
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Much of the material available to readers in the English language interested in the exploits of the troops of Hanover, Brunswick and Nassau is in the form of dry official reports, which stick to the basic facts and avoid all sentimentality and emotion. However, unbeknown to virtually anyone in the...
Waterloo Archive Vol II
German Sources
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
German troops formed the majority of Wellington’s forces present at the Battle of Waterloo including those of Nassau, Brunswick, Hanover and the King’s German Legion, and they have left a large number of first-hand accounts of their role in the battle.
The actions of the King's German Legion...
From Corunna To Waterloo
The Letters and Journals of Two Napoleonic Hussars, 1801-1816
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
The book is a thoroughly researched and engaging history of the 15th Hussars throughout the wars, crammed full of interesting asides regarding the life and loves of a cavalryman in the Napoleonic age. As you read this book, you will learn to care passionately for these gregarious young men, partake...
With Winston Churchill at the Front
Winston on the Western Front 1916
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Following his resignation from the Government after the disastrous Gallipoli campaign, Winston Churchill’s political career stalled. Never one to give in, Churchill was determined to continue fighting the enemy.
He was already a Major in the Territorial Reserve and he was offered promotion to Lieutenant...
Last Days of the Luftwaffe
German Luftwaffe Combat Units 1944–1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
The end of the Second World War in Europe was an epoch of complete social, cultural and technological upheaval. In the realm of military and aviation history this period was revolutionary. The eclipse of the piston-engine, and the introduction of electronic detection equipment, rockets and airborne...
Day Fighters in Defence of Reich
A Way Diary, 1942-45
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Day Fighters in Defence of the Reich is a detailed, comprehensive daily reference to the air operations flown by the Luftwaffe. These operations were designed to combat the daylight strategic missions by the United States Army Air Force targeting the German Reich and the western zone occupied by Germany.
This...
Stuka Spearhead
The Lightning War from Poland to Dunkirk, 1939-1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1998
This addition to the Luftwaffe at War Series is a fully illustrated guide to the formative years of the Ju 87 dive-bomber which dominated the opening campaigns of W orld War II.
The Lines of Torres Vedras
The Cornerstone of Wellington's Strategy in the Peninsular War 1809-12
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
In 1809 French armies controlled almost every province of Spain and only Wellington's small force in Portugal stood between Napoleon and the conquest of Iberia.
The French invaded Portugal in the summer of 1810 but found their way blocked by the most extensive field fortifications the world...
by Kenneth Macksey
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Illustrated with maps and a center section of black and white photographs. Kesselring-commander, leader, administrator; the only senior German officer to start and finish the Second World War holding a high command appointment. There was scarcely a major campaign in which he was not at some time deeply...
Fighting The Bombers
The Luftwaffe's Struggle Against the Allied Bomber Offensive (World War II German Debriefs)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Fighting the Bombers is an unrivaled look at the Allied bombing campaign from the point of view of the Luftwaffe establishment and command. The contributing authors were involved in all aspects of German attempts to stem the unrelenting bombardment from the RAF and USAAF; from tactics in the sky and...
by Manfred Griehl
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 1997
Looking at Luftwaffe fighters during the campaign against the Soviet Union in WWII. Consists of many period photographs with accompanying brief explanatory text. Very largely consists of the Bf109 and Fw190 mid war variants.
Ordeal by Exocet
HMS Glamorgan and the Falklands War 1982
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
HMS Glamorgan was in the thick of the fighting throughout the war. Her role for most of the time was that of an expendable escort and she became the only ship to survive an Exocet hit. Incorporating vivid firsthand accounts and illustrated with photographs, the book also portrays the daily life of...
by Manfred Griehl
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2000
This illustrated series presents every aspect of the German Air Force in World War II, on all fronts and in widely varying conditions. Contemporary photographs from archives and private collections, many never before published, show how and where all types of German military aircraft operated, and...
Voices from the Past: The Wooden Horse of Gallipoli
The Heroic Saga of SS River Clyde, a WW1 Icon, Told Through the Accounts of Those Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
The initial Allied landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula began on 25 April 1915. Many of those who went ashore at V Beach near Cape Helles did so from the SS River Clyde.
In the first full-length study devoted entirely to River Clyde and the men who sailed in her, the author reveals a remarkable...