Frontline Books imprint: 291 books

by Ridolfo Capo Ferro
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012

This beautifully illustrated and detailed book presents one of the world’s most influential fencing treatises. Ridolfo Capo Ferro was a legend in his own lifetime and his intricate and exact instructions were copied and emulated throughout a Europe bewitched by this Italian’s grace and style....

Wellington’s Voice

The Candid Letters of Lieutenant Colonel John Fremantle, Coldstream Guards, 1808–1821

by Gareth Glover
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012

John Fremantle was on Wellington's personal staff through the later years of the Peninsular War and Waterloo campaigns. He had a uniquely privileged view of the general and tells of his exploits – good and bad. The letters were written to his uncle, who was effectively his guardian, an army...

Stay the Distance

The Life and Times of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael Beetham

by Peter Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011

Sir Michael Beetham enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the Royal Air Force. He joined the RAF as a pilot in 1941 and was awarded the DFC whilst serving with Bomber Command during 1943/44. Remaining in the post-war RAF, a number of flying and staff appointments followed, notably he drafted...

Cracking the Luftwaffe Codes

The Secrets of Bletchley Park

by Gwen Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013

’An intriguing page-turning and personal account of that most secretive of wartime institutions, Bletchley Park, and of the often eccentric people who helped to win the war’ – Beryl Bainbridge Bletchley Park, or 'Station X', was home to the most famous code breakers of the Second World...

The Battle of the River Plate

The First Naval Battle of the Second World War 

by Gordon Landsborough
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016

At dawn on 13 December 1939, smoke was seen on the horizon; HMS Exeter was told to close in and investigate. Two minutes later a dramatic signal was sent from the British cruiser – ‘I think it is a pocket battleship.’ It was. The Deutschland-class heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, marauder...
by C Shore
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012

Captain C Shore's enthusiasm for firearms led him to take every possible opportunity to try out different weapons, ammunition and methods of shooting. The result of all his investigations is this practical guide to the sniper&supl;s art in World War II. His interest was combined with sound...

The Secret Army

The Memoirs of General Bor-Komorowski

by Tadeusz Bor-komorowski
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011

Tadeusz Komorowski was born in 1895 in Galicia, a region then ruled by the Austrians, and he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in the First World War. Poland regained its independence in 1918, and Komorowski fought against the Russians in the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–21. When Germany invaded...

By The Orders Of The Great White Queen

An Anthology of Campaigning in Zululand, 1879

by Ian Knight
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1992

Campaigning in Zululand Through the Eyes of the British Soldier, 1879

Wellington’s Highland Warriors

From the Black Watch Mutiny to the Battle of Waterloo

by Stuart Reid
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010

'Wellington’s Highland Warriors' covers the early history of the British Army’s Highland regiments, from the raising of the Black Watch in 1739 to the battle of Waterloo in 1815. Stuart Reid provides an entertaining and thoroughly original study of the circumstances in which the regiments were...

The Battle of Plassey 1757

The Victory That Won an Empire

by Stuart Reid
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017

Britain was rapidly emerging as the most powerful European nation, a position France long believed to be her own. Yet with France still commanding the largest continental army, Britain saw its best opportunities for expansion lay in the East. Yet, as Britain’s influence increased through its official...
by Stuart Reid
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014

Sheriffmuir 1715 is the military history of a doomed Jacobite rising in Scotland, which enjoyed far more public support and arguably far more chance of success than Bonnie Prince Charlie's attempt 30 years later. Unlike the '45, the uprising which culminated in the brutal battle of Sheriffmuir was...

Up Close And Personal

The Reality of Close-Quarter Fighting in World War II

by David Lee
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006

This gripping book is about what it was really like to fight at the sharp end in World War II. In 1947, US General S. L. A Marshall controversially wrote that out of every one hundred combat soldiers only fifteen to twenty-five actually fired their weapons at the enemy, because of the innate human...

Last of the Ebb

The Battle of the Aisne 1918

by Sidney Rogerson
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012

In 1918, the Germans launched the Spring Offensive. Aware that American troops would soon be arriving in Europe, the Germans saw this as their last chance to win the war. If they could overcome the Allied armies and reach Paris, victory might be possible. The German offensive was initially a great...

Redlegs

The U.S. Artillery from the Civil War to the Spanish American War, 1861–1898

by John P. Langellier
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016

This volume in the popular G.I. series illustrates a much-neglected aspect of American military history – the U.S. Army artillerymen, named redlegs after the red stripes on their trousers. The photographs, most of them rarely seen in other sources, range from the Civil War and the campaigns against...
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