Frontline Books imprint: 291 books
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...
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...
HEINKEL He 111
The Early Years - Fall of France, Battle of Britain and the Blitz
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Considered to be the best known German bomber of the Second Wold War, the Heinkel He 111 served in every military front in the European theater, having first being deployed in the Spanish Civil War in 1936. It then saw extensive service in the invasion of Poland, the Norweigan campaign and the invasion...
Tobruk Commando
The Raid to Destroy Rommel's Base
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
"Gentlemen, we are going to capture Tobruk and destroy it."
'Operation Agreement' started as a fairly simple plan to destroy Rommel's bomb-proof oil-storage tanks at Tobruk on the eve of Alamein. But, catching the imagination of GHQ, the plan snowballed alarmingly. As well as a commando...
A Bold and Ambitious Enterprise
The British Army in the Low Countries, 1813-1814
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
The British campaign in the Low Countries in 1813-14 in support of the Dutch revolt against the French is one of the lesser-known campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars, but one, which the great historian of the British Army Sir John Fortescue wrote that it was impossible to understand the Waterloo campaign...
Gallantry and Discipline
The 12th Light Dragoons at War with Wellington
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
The 12th Light Dragoons served throughout Wellington's campaigns in the Peninsula, most notably at the Battle of Salamanca in 1812, and later at Waterloo where they suffered heavy casualties supporting the Union Brigade's famous charge. The principal source for this book are the papers of Sir James...
With Wellington's Outposts
The Peninsular and Waterloo Letters of John Vandeleur
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
'The author has done a quite outstanding job of editing and footnoting this rare memoir . . . this will be of genuine interest to the Peninsular War historian or enthusiast.' Philip Haythornthwaite
John Vandeleur's letters home to his mother are a lively and engaging account of active service...
The Samurai in 100 Objects
The Fascinating World of the Samurai as Seen Through Arms and Armour, Places and Images
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
From lowly attendants (samurai literally means ‘those who serve’) to members one of the world’s most powerful military organizations, the samurai underwent a progression of changes to reach a preeminent position in Japanese society and culture. Even their eventual eclipse did not diminish their...
A Matter of Honour
The Life, Campaigns and Generalship of Isaac Brock
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The monument to Isaac Brock (1769–1812) on Queenston Heights in Canada, as high as Nelson’s column in London, pays tribute to the military commander of all troops opposing the American invasion of Canada during the War of 1812.
Brock’s service during the War of 1812 includes leading the...
Blood and Steel 2
The Wehrmacht Archive: Retreat to the Reich, September to December 1944
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Overwhelmed by the strength of the Allied air and ground forces, following the D-Day landings and subsequent bitter fighting in Normandy, the Germans were compelled to abandon their efforts to hold France and much of the Low Countries and retreat to the Rhine.
The Wehrmacht Archive helps reveal...
The Crecy War
A Military History of the Hundred Years War from 1337 to the Peace of Bretigny in 1360
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Crecy, the Black Prince’s most famous victory, was the first of two major victories during the first part of the Hundred Years War. This was followed ten years later by his second great success at the Battle of Poitiers. The subsequent Treaty of Bretigny established the rights of the King of England...
When Shall Their Glory Fade?
The Stories of the Thirty-Eight Battle Honours of the Army Commandos
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Written by a Commando veteran of World War II, this is a remarkable, vivid and honest account of the battles and actions behind the award of the thirty eight Battle Honours that were awarded to the Army Commandos by Her Majesty the Queen in 1958.
These Battle Honours are emblazoned on the Commando...