Frontline Books imprint: 291 books

Focke Wulf 190

The Birth of the Butcher Bird, 1939-43

by Morten Jessen
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1998

This addition to the Luftwaffe at War Series illustrates the different versions of the plane to see serv ice, the diversity of theatres in which the plane served and the pilots who carved a name for themselves with the Butche r Bird.

Like Wolves on the Fold

The Defence of Rorke’s Drift

by Mike Snook
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2010

Wednesday 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic days in the annals of military history. In the morning, a modern British army was swept aside by the onset of a seemingly unstoppable host at Isandlwana. Nearby, at a remote border outpost on the Buffalo River, a single company of the 24th Regiment...

Wellington's Redjackets

The 45h (Nottinghamshire) Regiment on Campaign in South America and the Peninsula, 1805-14

by Steve Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015

The assault was failing. Wellington's men had stormed the walls of the great frontier fortress of Badajoz only to be beaten back with terrible losses. Then on the keep of the old castle the French flag was torn down and a British officer's red jacket was hauled up the flagpole. It was the signal –...

Harry Smith’s Last Throw

The Eight Cape Frontier War 1850-1853

by Keith Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012

The War of Mlanjeni was the longest conflict in South African history until the second Anglo-Boer War. The loss of life was substantially heavier than that of the Zulu War of 1879 and the political after-effects of it were significantly greater than those that followed the Zulu War. The Zulu...
by Jac Weller
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013

The third book in Jac Weller’s trilogy concerns the period before the future Duke of Wellington faced Napoleon’s armies, but during which he earned his spurs as a military commander. It was in India that he gained his experience of strategy and tactics which he would put to masterly effect against...
by Major C. G. Dennison
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008

It was said of George Dennison that he had seen more active service in southern Africa than any other living man. An eminent soldier cast from a colonial mold of bitter experience, rather than of a formal military education, he was also a frontiersman equal in standing to any legendary figure of the...

War Birds

The Diary of a Great War Pilot

by Elliott White Springs, Lieutenant Horace Fulford
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016

Following the declaration of war by the United States, more than 200 American men, unwilling to wait until US squadrons could be raised, volunteered to join the Royal Flying Corps in the summer of 1917. Amongst these men was John MacGavock Grider and Elliott White Springs who both joined 85 Squadron...

Dog Fight

Aerial Tactics of the Aces of World War I

by Norman Franks
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2003

The history of WWI aviation is a rich and varied story marked by the evolution of aircraft from slow moving, fragile, and unreliable powered kites, into quick, agile, sturdy fighter craft. At the same time there emerged a new kind of 'soldier', the fighter pilots whose individual cunning and bravery...

London: Bombed Blitzed and Blown Up

The British Capital Under Attack Since 1867

by Ian Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016

When it comes to being bombed, London is unique. Although it cannot claim to be the most bombed capital city in terms of the weight of explosive detonated it has endured the most varied and unrelenting attack since the discovery of explosives. From the first Irish Republican bomb in 1867, London...

Luftwaffe Over America

The Secret Plans to Bomb the United States in World War II

by Manfred Griehl
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004

The plans that Nazi Germany had to raid – and bomb – New York and the eastern seabord are revealed in this book. They depended upon the use of transoceanic aircraft, such as the six-engined Ju 390, Me 264 or Ta 400, but the Third Reich was unable to produce these machines in sufficient numbers.

X-Planes

German Luftwaffe Prototypes 1930-1945

by Manfred Griehl
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012

Renowned German aviation specialist Manfred Griehl has collected a unique and valuable selection of photographs of Luftwaffe projects that never made it into battle. They remained on the drawing board or at prototype stage either because they were deemed unsuitable or the developers simply ran out...

Aces of the Reich

The Making of a Luftwaffe Pilot

by Mike Spick
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013

In 1939, the Luftwaffe was arguably the world's best-equipped and best-trained air force. Its fighters were second to none, and their pilots had a tactical system superior to any other in the world. In campaigns over Poland, Norway, the Low Countries and France, they carried all before them. Only...

The Watery Grave

The Life and Death of HMS Manchester

by Richard H Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015

In 2002 the wreck of a British cruiser was located by divers off the coast of Tunisia. The stunning photographs of the wreck inspired Dr Richard Osborne to delve into the controversy surrounding the loss of one of the Royal Navy's proudest ships – HMS Manchester. After taking part in the...

Hitler’s Commanders

German Bravery in the Field, 1939–1945

by James Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014

As absolute as Hitler's control over the German war machine was, it depended on the ability, judgment and unquestioning loyalty of the senior officers charged with putting his ideas, however difficult, into effect. Top military historian James Lucas examines the stories of fourteen of these...
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