Frontline: 224 books
by Mike Spick
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The Luftwaffe excelled at ground attack and in doing so helped revolutionised modern warfare. Whether flying in support of panzer columns during the invasion of Poland and the destruction of France, deployed against British airfields and cities, sent against Soviet tanks, or thrown into the defence...
By The Orders Of The Great White Queen
An Anthology of Campaigning in Zululand, 1879
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1992
Campaigning in Zululand Through the Eyes of the British Soldier, 1879
Wellington’s Highland Warriors
From the Black Watch Mutiny to the Battle of Waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
'Wellington’s Highland Warriors' covers the early history of the British Army’s Highland regiments, from the raising of the Black Watch in 1739 to the battle of Waterloo in 1815. Stuart Reid provides an entertaining and thoroughly original study of the circumstances in which the regiments were...
The Battle of Plassey 1757
The Victory That Won an Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Britain was rapidly emerging as the most powerful European nation, a position France long believed to be her own. Yet with France still commanding the largest continental army, Britain saw its best opportunities for expansion lay in the East. Yet, as Britain’s influence increased through its official...
by Stuart Reid
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Sheriffmuir 1715 is the military history of a doomed Jacobite rising in Scotland, which enjoyed far more public support and arguably far more chance of success than Bonnie Prince Charlie's attempt 30 years later. Unlike the '45, the uprising which culminated in the brutal battle of Sheriffmuir was...
Up Close And Personal
The Reality of Close-Quarter Fighting in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
This gripping book is about what it was really like to fight at the sharp end in World War II. In 1947, US General S. L. A Marshall controversially wrote that out of every one hundred combat soldiers only fifteen to twenty-five actually fired their weapons at the enemy, because of the innate human...
Last of the Ebb
The Battle of the Aisne 1918
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
In 1918, the Germans launched the Spring Offensive. Aware that American troops would soon be arriving in Europe, the Germans saw this as their last chance to win the war. If they could overcome the Allied armies and reach Paris, victory might be possible. The German offensive was initially a great...
Redlegs
The U.S. Artillery from the Civil War to the Spanish American War, 1861–1898
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This volume in the popular G.I. series illustrates a much-neglected aspect of American military history – the U.S. Army artillerymen, named redlegs after the red stripes on their trousers. The photographs, most of them rarely seen in other sources, range from the Civil War and the campaigns against...
RAF and the SOE
Special Duty Operations in Europe During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The Special Operations Executive developed a vast network of agents across Occupied Europe which played a vital role in developing and sustaining Resistance movements that persistently sought to subvert German control of their territories. The culmination of their efforts was seen when the Allied...
The Art of Renaissance Warfare
From The Fall of Constantinople to the Thirty Years War
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The Art of Renaissance Warfare tells the story of the knight during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries – from the great victories of Edward III and the Black Prince to the fall of Richard III on Bosworth Field.
During this period, new technology on the battlefield posed deadly challenges...
The Ismaili Assassins
A History of Medieval Murder
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Few people know the truth about the enigmatic organization known as the Assassins, an underground group of political killers, they were ready to kill Christians and Muslims alike with complete disregard for the consequences of their actions. Although their empire was destroyed in the 13th Century,...
The Crimean War
Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Following repeated visits to the Crimea over a number of years, Dr David Jones, with the help of local guides, was able to identify and photograph every important location related to one of the nineteenth century’s most deadliest conflicts. These have been set besides original paintings and photographs...
Decorated Roman Armour
From the Age of the Kings to the Death of Justinian the Great
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
From the time of the Bronze Age, the warriors of all tribes and nations sought to emblazon their arms and armour with items and images to impress upon the enemy the wealth and power of the wearer. Magnificently decorated shields were as much a defensive necessity as a symbol of social status. Equally,...
Marshal Ney At Quatre Bras
New Perspectives on the Opening Battle of the Waterloo Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Fought on 16 June 1815, two days before the Battle of Waterloo, the Battle of Quatre Bras has been described as a tactical Anglo-allied victory, but a French strategic victory. The French Marshal Ney was given command of the left wing of Napoleon’s army and ordered to seize the vital crossroads...