Frontline: 224 books
Hitler's Stormtroopers
The SA, The Nazis’ Brownshirts, 1922 - 1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
The Sturm Abteilung der NSDAP (SA, assault battalion of the Nazi party) – created in August 1920 – were squads of strong arms intended to protect the Nazis’ meetings, to provoke disturbance, to break up other parties’ meetings, and to attack and assault political opponents as part of a deliberate...
Churchill's Underground Army
A History of the Auxillary Units in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
‘A carefully researched book on a long-neglected subject which fills a major gap in our Second World War knowledge’ – Norman Longmate, author of If Britain Had Fallen
British Secret Intelligence Service officers and others in the War Office were never convinced that appeasement would...
Hitler’s Jet Plane
The ME 262 Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
The first operational military jet in the world, towards the end of the Second World War the ME 262 was to be the German ‘miracle weapon’. Mano Ziegler was involved from its inception and contributed to the design, testing, and training and even served in it operationally.
Could the ME...
The First Vcs
The Stories Behind the First Victoria Crosses in the Crimean War and the Definition of Courage
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Officers led and men followed; all were expected to do their duty without thought of reward. Enlisted men rarely penetrated the officer ranks and promotion owed more to money than merit. Then came the Crimean War.
The incompetence and ineffectiveness of the senior officers contrasted sharply with...
Sacred Swords
Jihad in the Holy Land, 1097–1291
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
In 1071 Muslim Turks crushed the Byzantine Emperor’s Anatolian army at Manzikert. The Crusades, the West’s response to this catastrophe, are well known as are the names of the European nobles who fought in them. The names and deeds of many of the Crusaders’ opponents in the Holy Land are often...
Twelve Days on the Somme
A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2009
A joint operation between Britain and France in 1916, the Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain territory and dent Germany’s military strength. By the end of the action, very little ground had been won: the Allied Forces had made just 12 km. For this slight gain, more than a million lives were...
Eyewitness in the Crimea
The Crimean War Letters of Lieutenant Colonel George Frederick Dallas
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2006
Provides access to the thoughts of an officer at the forefront of the fighting in the Crimea. By turns gripping and analytical, colorful and bleak, the letters of George Frederick Dallas create an honest portrait of a war fought against a backdrop of terrible neglect.
With Wellington in the peninsula
The Adventures of a Highland Soldier, 1808-1814
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Few men from the 71st Highland Light Infantry who sailed from Cork with Wellington to Portugal in 1808 returned to the Irish port six years later. The author of Vicissitudes in the Life of a Scottish Soldier was one of the survivors and claims only four other men from his company came through the...
by William Urban
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. Their history is suffused with crusading, campaigning and struggle. Feared by their enemies but respected by medieval Christendom, the knights and their Order maintained a firm hold over the Baltic and northern Germany and established...
Napoleon’s Chicken Marengo
Creating the Myth of the Emperor’s Favourite Dish
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This remarkable work tells the story of Chicken Marengo, and cuts through the tangle of myths that has sprung up around it. Supposedly created on the evening of Napoleon’s victory at Marengo, the dish rapidly conquered Paris, and became a renowned symbol of French haute cuisine.
The author...
Bayonets For Hire
The U.S. Artillery from the Civil War to the Spanish-American War, 1861-1898
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
From the Greek professional armies of Alexander, through the Hundred Years War, indeed, to today, mercenaries have been ever-present, their role constantly evolving. In this compelling new history William Urban takes up their captivating and turbulent story from 1550 to 1789: from the Wars of Religion...
The American Sharpe
The Adventures of an American Officer of the 95th Rifles in the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Sharpe and his adventures has made the 95th Foot renowned again and the discovery of an unpublished diary by an American from Charleston South Carolina who served, despite his father’s objections, as an officer in this elite regiment has caused great excitement. James Penman Gairdner was born in...
In the Words of Napoleon
The Emperor Day by Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
‘ . . . a powerful portrait of a complex individual. It uses Napoleon’s own words to show his genius, arrogance, insecurities, and frustrations. The reader will be amazed by Napoleon’s attention to detail, from those of pressing national interests to the mundane (such as the problem of heartbroken...
Crown, Covenant and Cromwell
The Civil Wars in Scotland 1639-1651
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Crown, Covenant and Cromwell is a groundbreaking military history of the Great Civil War or rather the last Anglo-Scottish War as it was fought in Scotland and by Scottish armies in England between 1639 and 1651. While the politics of the time are necessarily touched upon, it is above all the story...