Frontline Books imprint: 291 books
Mud and Bodies
The War Diaries & Letters of Captain N A C Weir, 1914-1920
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Neil Weir died in 1967, but it was not until 2009 that his grandson, Mike Burns, discovered his diary among some boxes he had been left, and learnt that his grandfather had served as an officer in the 10th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlander throughout the First World War, seeing action at...
by Cecil Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
‘Classic . . . the definitive account of aerial combat – full of passion and poetry’ – Max Arthur, Independent ‘Magical evocation of the lonely battle fought in the clouds’ – The Daily Telegraph ‘This is a book everyone should read. It is the autobiography of an ace, and no common...
Malta Spitfire Pilot
A Personal Account of Ten Weeks of War, April-June 1942
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
‘The Germans had watched our arrival on radar and that afternoon all Hell broke loose over the Maltese airfields. In spite of strenuous efforts by the fighters and antiaircraft gun defenses, the Ju 87 and Ju 88 dive-bombers and strafing Messerschmitts managed to damage and destroy several of the...
Bader's Last Fight
An In-Depth Investigation of a Great WWII Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
On 9 August 1941, one of the greatest icons of the Second World War, Douglas Bader, was shot down, captured and later incarcerated. But by whom, and how? Was it by one of his deadly German opponents, as Douglas Bader himself maintained, or was it by one of his own side? There has been much debate...
by Helmut Mahlke
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
After recounting his early days as a naval cadet, including a voyage to the Far East aboard the cruiser Köln, and as the navigator/observer of the floatplane carried by the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer during the Spanish Civil War, the author describes his flying training as a Stuka pilot.
The...
Teddy Suhren, Ace of Aces
Memoirs of a U-Boat Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Reinhard ‘Teddy’ Suhren fired more successful torpedo shots than any other man during the war, many before he even became a U-boat commander. He was also the U-boat service’s most irreverent and rebellious commander; his lack of a military bearing was a constant source of friction with higher...
Cold War Counterfeit Spies
Tales of Espionage - Genuine or Bogus?
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The Cold War, with its air of mutual fear and distrust and the shadowy world of spies and secret agents, gave publishers the chance to produce countless stories of espionage, treachery and deception. What Nigel West has discovered is that the most egregious deceptions were in fact the stories themselves....
U-Boat War Patrol
The Hidden Photographic Diary of U-564
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This unique account charts the complete story of a single U-boat patrol through the summer of 1942 based around a remarkable collection of photographs that were ‘liberated’ from a concrete U-boat pen in Brest at the end of the war and which had, until recently, remained hidden in a shoe box. The...
Weapons of Desperation
German Frogmen and Midget Submarines of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
As the Third Reich headed for destruction, German ingenuity in the naval field turned to unconventional weapons – midget submarines, radio-controlled explosive boats, and various forms of underwater sabotage.
This is one of the last un-chronicled areas of World War II naval history and this...
Dunkirk: Nine Days That Saved An Army
A Day-by-Day Account of the Greatest Evacuation
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The epic of Dunkirk has been told many times, but the numerous accounts from surviving soldiers and sailors were often a blur of fear and fighting with the days mingling into each other, leaving what is, at times, a confusing picture. In this book, adopting a day by day approach, the author provides...
by Jim Moran
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
The United States Marine Corps was one of the phenomena of the Second World War. Greatly expanded from its prewar order of battle of scattered defense battalions, overseas garrisons and ship detachments, it became a multi-division force bearing the brunt of the hardest fighting across the whole vast...
The Battle of the Bellicourt Tunnel
Tommies, Diggers and Doughboys on the Hindenburg Line, 1918
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
In November 1918 the BEF under Field Marshal Haig fought a series of victorious battles on the Western Front that contributed mightily to the German army’s defeat. They did so as part of a coalition and the role of Australian ‘diggers’ and US ‘doughboys’ is often forgotten. The Bellicourt...
The Mafia at War
The Shocking True Story of America's Wartime Pact with Organised Crime
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
The Mafia at War is a dramatic provocative account of how a criminal organisation exploited the grim realities of World War II to revive its fortunes and dominate global crime.
The Mafia is the most powerful criminal organisation the world has ever known. This book tells the epic story of how...
Hero on the Western Front
Discovering Alvin York's WWI Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
They knew it was the end. Weakened by four years of war, the reality had finally dawned on the Germans that their armies could never stop the combined might of the Allied forces, now bolstered by the fresh, enthusiastic Americans, who were now determined to be involved in the conflict that had engulfed...