Greenhill imprint: 35 books
by Frantz Immelmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
The story of one of Germany’s pioneers in aerial combat . . .
Max Immelmann was born in Dresden, the son of a container factory owner. When World War I started, Immelmann was recalled to active service, transferred to the Luftstreitkäfte and was sent for pilot training in November 1914....
Eastern Front Sniper
The Life of Matthäus Hetzenauer
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Eastern Front Sniper is a long overdue and comprehensive biography of one of World War II’s most accomplished snipers.
Mathäus Hetzenauer, the son of a Tyrolean peasant family, was born in December 1924\. He was drafted into the Mountain Reserve Battalian 140 at the age of 18 but discharged...
by Jonathan Bastable
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
D-Day - June 6, 1944 - was a pivotal day in human history. This was the great turning point of the Second World War, when the largest armada ever assembled took a third of a million Allied men across the English Channel.The invasion force of 150,000 troops from Britain, the United States, Canada and...
King Of Airfighters The Biography Of Major "Mick" Mannock Vc Dso MC
The Biography of Major "Mick" Mannock, VC, DSO MC
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
A penetrating study of Britain's top fighter ace in the Great War . . .Ira Jones' biography of Britain's top scoring ace of World War I has become the subject of some controversy over the last few years most notably as it is the source of the claim of 73 "kills" for Mannock thereby making...
Wings of War
An Airman's Diary of the Last Year of the War
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
This is a rare day-to-day account by a young German squadron leader in Jagdstaffel 35 during the grim last year of the war. Originally published in 1933, it provides minute descriptions of kills, losses, and the Germans’ step-by-step retreat in the face of increasingly overwhelming Allied forces...
by Claude "Vigilant" Sykes
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
This book, originally written in 1931 by “Vigilant” (the pen name for Claude Sykes), tells the dramatic tales of air combat as fought by the best German pilots of the First World War. Manfred von Richthofen, Max Immelmann, Oswald Boelcke and other famous daredevil flyers are joined by the lesser-known...
Duel Under the Stars
The Memoir of a Luftwaffe Night Pilot in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
"The enemy bomber grew larger in my sights and the rear gunner was sprayed by my guns just as he opened fire. The rest was merely a matter of seconds. The bomber fell like a stone out of the sky and exploded on the ground. The nightmare came to an end."
In this enthralling memoir,...
Voices of the Codebreakers
Personal accounts of the secret heroes of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Alongside the open conflict of World War II there were other, hidden wars - the wars of communication, in which success depended on a flow of concealed and closely guarded information.
Smuggled written messages, secretly transmitted wireless signals, or months of eavesdropping on radio traffic...
Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815
Volume I: From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1931
The first of two groundbreaking volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this book is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and new in four languages. It highlights the political stresses between the Allies, and their resolution; it studies the problems of feeding and paying for 250,000 Allied forces...
Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815
Volume II: From Waterloo to the Restoration of Peace in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
The concluding volume of this work provides a fresh description of the climatic battle of Waterloo placed in the context of the whole campaign. It discusses several vexed questions: Blücher’s intentions for the battle, Wellington’s choice of site, his reasons for placing substantial forces at...
by Peter Young
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2012
This classic account is a dynamic and vivid record of what it was like to fight with Britain's Commandos across wartime. Peter Young, who joined 3 Commando in June 1940 and went into action with them in July of that year, sets down a spirited tale of adventure, heroism and ever-present danger in this...
Once There Were Titans
Napoleon's Generals and Their Battles, 1800-1815
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
The first serious investigation of Napoleon's generals
Covers the well known to the relatively obscure
Provides a fresh insight into the period
This is a masterly study of generalship in Napoleon's Grande Armèe. Napoleon arguably had the greatest collection of military talent to ever serve...
First In, Last Out
An Unconventional British Officer in Indo-China
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
This is the astonishing tale of two episodes in the life of Colonel J P Cross, jungle fighter and linguist extraordinaire.
As a young officer at the end of the war against Japan in 1945, he took part in counterinsurgency operations against the Vietminh at a time of chaos and confusion. Sent...
Letters from the Battle of Waterloo
Unpublished Correspondence by Allied Officers from the Siborne Papers
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Waterloo is probably the most famous battle in military history. Thousands of books have been written on the subject but mysteries remain and controversy abounds.
By presenting more than 200 previously unpublished accounts by Allied officers who fought at the battle, this collection goes right...