Frontline Books imprint: 291 books
A Fighter Command Station at War
A Photographic Record of RAF Westhampnett from the Battle of Britain to D-Day and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Situated close to the South Coast, on flat land to the north of Chichester in West Sussex, lies Goodwood Aerodrome. This pleasant rural airfield was once home to squadrons of Hurricanes, Spitfires and later Typhoons. RAF Westhampnett was at the forefront of the Battle of Britain as a satellite to...
The Battle of Neuve Chapelle
Britain’s Forgotten Offensive of 1915
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
After the reverses of 1914, the French and British commanders were determined to turn the tables on the Germans and take the war to the enemy. A major combined offensive was planned in the Artois region of France but the French had to cancel their part in the operation. This did not deter the commander...
Memoirs of a French Napoleonic Officer
Jean-Baptiste Barres, Chasseur of the Imperial Guard
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
These lively memoirs date from the time of Barrès’ entry into the Chasseurs Velites (skirmishers, or light infantry) of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard in 1804. Always modest in recounting his own exploits, Barrès was not only at the cannon’s mouth, but also a participant at such spectacular events...
At Rommel's Side
The Lost Letters of Hans Joachim Schraepler
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Erwin Rommel, Hitler's so-called 'Desert Fox', is possibly the most famous German Field-Marshal of WWII. He is widely regarded as the one of the most skilled commanders of desert warfare and, in contrast to other leaders of Nazi Germany, is considered to have been a chivalrous and humane officer.
The...
The RAF Battle of Britain Fighter Pilots' Kitbag
Uniforms & Equipment from the Summer of 1940 and the Human Stories Behind Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The scenes are familiar ones; the young ‘Brylcream Boys’ sat at dispersal waiting for the haunting call of ‘Scramble’, lounging in their shirt sleeves and fur-lined boots, their leather flying helmets lying limp by their side. But what did the RAF fighter pilots of the Battle of Britain really...
Small Wars and their Influence on Nation States
1500 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
After 1500, European warfare was repeatedly revolutionized by new weapons, new methods for supplying armies in the field, improved fortifications and new tactics for taking fortifications. This allowed empires to grow, with, for example, the Ottomans expanding into the Middle East and Africa, Britain...
by Ian V Hogg
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
The complete story of German Artillery during World War Two, this illustrated volume is divided into sections according to the weapon classes: Infantry, Mountain and Field Artillery, Heavy Field Artillery, Heavy Artillery, Railway Artillery, Anti-Aircraft
A Scots Grey at Waterloo
The Remarkable Story of Sergeant William Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
William Clarke of Prestonpans, Scotland, joined the 2nd Royal North British Dragoons, the Scots Greys, in 1803. Clarke had risen to the rank of sergeant by the time the regiment was ordered to Belgium on the news that Napoleon had escaped from Elba. Forming part of what became known as the ‘Union’...
Dead Was Everything
Studies in the Anglo-Zulu War
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 still intrigues both scholars and enthusiasts alike more than 130 years after it was fought. Its story contains tragedy, high drama and the heavy loss of human life; it involved five major battles and two lesser fights; and led to the snuffing out of the direct male Napoleonic...
The Anatomy of the Zulu Army
From Shaka to Cetshwayo 1818-1879
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
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 mobilized manpower of the Zulu state. Ian Knight details how the Zulu...
The Battle of Jutland
History’s Greatest Sea Battle Told Through Newspaper Reports, Official Documents and the Accounts of Those Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Since the days of the Battle of Trafalgar, the Royal Navy had been the acknowledged as the most powerful maritime force on the planet. Britain could boast more warships, and particularly more Dreadnoughts and battle-cruisers than any other nation. But the Germans had undertaken an enormously-expensive...
Escape from the Japanese
The Amazing Tale of a PoWs Journey from Hong Kong to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Trapped in the depths of Japanese-held territory, it was rare for Allied prisoners of war to attempt escape. There was little chance of making contact with anti-guerrilla or underground organisations and no possibility of Europeans blending in with the local Asian populations. Failure, and recapture,...
Voices from the Peninsula
Eyewitness Accounts by Soldiers of Wellington's Army, 1808-1814
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
The Peninsular War was one of the most successful campaigns ever fought by the British Army. Between 1808, when British troops landed in Portugal, and 1814, when Wellington's Army advanced into the south of France, British soldiers were involved in countless battles and sieges against Napoleon's vaunted...
With Wellington's Hussars in the Peninsula and Waterloo
The Journal of Lieutenant George Woodberry, 18th Hussars
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
George Woodberry was commissioned into the 18th Light Dragoons (Hussars) as a cornet on 16 Jan 1812, and joined Wellington’s army as a lieutenant, seeing action in the key battles of 1813 and 14 – Moralles, Vittoria, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Croix d’Orade and the final battle of the war at Toulouse....