Frontline: 224 books
Donitz, U-Boats, Convoys
The British Version of His Memoirs from the Admiralty’s Secret Anti-Submarine Reports
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The memoirs of Admiral Karl Dönitz, Ten Years and Twenty Days, are a fascinating first-hand account of the Battle of the Atlantic as seen from the headquarters of the U-boat fleet. Now, for the first time noted naval historian Jak P. Mallmann Showell has combined Dönitz's memoirs in a parallel text...
by Ian Knight
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
The forces of the independent Zulu kingdom inflicted a crushing defeat on British imperial forces at Isandlwana in January 1879. The Zulu army was not, however, a professional force, unlike its British counterpart, but was the mobilised manpower of the Zulu state. In this ground-breaking study, Ian...
Luftwaffe X-Planes
German Experimental Aircraft of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
From jet planes and high altitude aircraft to radar-equipped fighters configured to deliver chemical weapons, numerous Luftwaffe planes were designed and reached prototype stage but never made it into mass production or battle. Luftwaffe X Planes is a def
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...
Man of War
The Fighting Life of Admiral James Saumarez: From The American Revolution to the Defeat of Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The career of Guernsey-born Admiral James Saumarez reads like an early history of the Royal Navy. His first battle was against the American revolutionaries in 1775, but thereafter his main opponents were the French and the Spanish, and the first fighting ship he commanded, the eight-gun galley Spitfire,...
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...