Frontline Books: 219 books
Thunder on the Danube
Napoleon’s Defeat of the Habsburgs, Vol. II: The Fall of Vienna and the Battle of Aspern
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
In the second volume of this epic work, John H. Gill traces Napoleon’s progress as he sought to complete his victory over the Habsburgs. The war had erupted on April 10th with Austria’s invasion of Germany and Italy. After just two weeks, Napoleon had battered the Habsburg Archduke Charles in...
Unconditional Surrender
the Memoir of the Last Days of the Third Reich and the Donitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
This is the first English-language translation of a crucial memoir of the dying days of Hitler’s Third Reich.
Walter Ludde-Neurath was an accomplished officer, who served with a variety of torpedo boats and destroyers, slowly rising through the ranks. In September 1944 he was selected to...
Matchlocks to Flintlocks
Warfare in Europe and Beyond 1500–1700
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
In the early modern world three dominant cultures of war were shaped by a synergy of their internal and external interactions. One was Latin Christian western Europe. Another was Ottoman Islam. The third, no less vital for so often being overlooked, was east–central Europe: Poland/Lithuania, Livonia,...
Over the Top
Alternative Histories of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Although separated from the modern reader by a full century, the First World War continues to generate controversy and interest as the great event upon which modern history pivoted. Not only did the war cull the European peoples of some of their best and brightest, it also led to the destruction of...
The Moscow Option
An Alternative Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
This provocative alternative history looks at the Second World War from a new angle - what might have happened had the Germans taken Moscow in 1941. Based on authentic history and real possibilities, this unique speculative narrative plays out the dramatic consequences of opportunities taken and examines...
Zulu Conquered
The March of the Red Soldiers, 1822–1888
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
The first Britons to reach Zululand were a handful of shipwrecked traders. They found themselves completely at the mercy of a nation whose name would become a byword for ferocity and courage. The castaways were fearful of their lives but, to their surprise, were well treated and prospered.
At...
Report on Experience
The Memoir of the Allies War
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
Common men no longer start wars: they take part in them when someone else has started them. War nowadays is a major accident and calamity, it is a storm that is seen a long way off’
Report on Experience is an incisive and compelling memoir, written by a quietly heroic author. This brilliantly-written...
Gallipoli Sniper
The Remarkable Life of Billy Sing
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
'This is a well-researched, detailed and compelling story.'
Defender Magazine
Billy Sing was a small, dark man – and a deadly killer. When, as a member of the Australian Imperial Force 5th Light Horse, he was thrust onto the narrow strip of land held by the Australians on Gallipoli, he witnessed...
No Cloak, No Dagger
Allied Spycraft in Occupied France
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
The memoir of SOE agent Benjamin Cowburn is rightly regarded as a classic of wartime literature. In simple, gripping detail Cowburn explains the methods of special agents who were dropped into France during the war and the ways that agents would set about establishing secure networks with the French...
by Park Yunnie
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This is the story of Popski’s famous fighting unit, in the words of his second-in-command.
‘Captain Bob Yunnie, MC’, aka Park Yunnie, became the first recruit to the special unit founded in Cairo by Major Vladimir Peniakoff (‘Popski’). As the Eighth Army advances towards Tripoli,...
Best Foot Forward
The Autobiography of the RAF's Other Legless Fighter Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
In the whole of the Second World War, only two men succeeded as operational fighter pilots in the RAF after losing both legs. Douglas Bader was one, and his story is well-known indeed, he has been described as one of the Royal Air Forces most famous pilots. The other was Colin Hodgkinson.
Colin...
Donitz, U-Boats, Convoys
The British Version of His Memoirs from the Admiralty’s Secret Anti-Submarine Reports
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The memoirs of Admiral Karl Dönitz, Ten Years and Twenty Days, are a fascinating first-hand account of the Battle of the Atlantic as seen from the headquarters of the U-boat fleet. Now, for the first time noted naval historian Jak P. Mallmann Showell has combined Dönitz's memoirs in a parallel text...
by Ian Knight
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
The 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 mobilised manpower of the Zulu state. In this ground-breaking study, Ian...
Luftwaffe X-Planes
German Experimental Aircraft of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
From jet planes and high altitude aircraft to radar-equipped fighters configured to deliver chemical weapons, numerous Luftwaffe planes were designed and reached prototype stage but never made it into mass production or battle. Luftwaffe X Planes is a def