Frontline: 224 books
Combat Over the Mediterranean
The RAF In Action Against the Germans and ItaliansThrough Rare Archive Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Drawing on an extremely rare collection of photographs taken by the camera guns of Bristol Beaufighters deployed on ground-attack and anti-shipping operations, this book will form a rare indeed unique view of what it was like to fly dangerous strike missions against German and Italian forces over...
Distant Thunder
The U.S. Artillery from the Spanish-American War to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2001
The twentieth century was a time of near total transformation of artillery and the U.s. Army has been at the forefront of artillery use and development throughout that century. American troops fighting the Spanish in Cuba during the Spanish-American War were equipped with the 1885-model field gun;...
The Desert VCs
Extraordinary Valour in the North African Campaign in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
It was not just the searing heat of the day, hot enough to boil an egg on the bonnet of a lorry, or the sand that nestled in every crevice of the body, or the shivering cold of the starlit nights, that the British and Commonwealth troops had to battle in the North African desert – it was also the...
A Destroyer at War
The Fighting Life and Loss of HMS Havock from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean 1939–42
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
It was headline news on 8 April 1942: ‘One of the Navy’s most famous destroyers, a ship which survived bombs, torpedoes and full scale battles, has been wrecked’. That destroyer was HMS Havock, described in another newspaper as ‘Britain’s No 2 Destroyer of this war – second only in fame...
Destructive and Formidable
British Infantry Firepower 1642-1756
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the British Army's victories over the French at battles such as Blenheim in 1704, Minden and Quebec in 1759, and over the Jacobites at Culloden in 1746, were largely credited to its infantry's particularly effective and deadly firepower. For the first time,...
SOE in France 1941-1945
An Official Account of the Special Operations Executive’s French Circuits
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
In the archives of the Special Operations Executive lay a report compiled by a staff officer and former member of SOE's French Section, Major Robert Bourne-Patterson, that until recently could not be published. Because of the highly sensitive nature of the work undertaken by the SOE, the paper was...
Beyond the Reach of Empire
Wolseley's Failed Campaign to save Gordon and Khartoum
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
In the early 1880s the Mahdi unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. Early in1884 Cairo bowed to British pressure to withdraw. Beyond the Reach of Empire describes how Major General Charles Gordon was despatched to evacuate Khartoum and turn...
Men of The Battle of Britain
A Biographical Dictionary of The Few
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Since it was first published in 1989, Men of the Battle of Britain has become a standard reference book for academics and researchers interested in the Battle of Britain. Copies are also owned by many with purely an armchair interest in the events of 1940.
The book records the service details...
The Experimental Units of Hitler's Condor Legion
German Aircraft In Action During the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
At the start of the Spanish Civil War the nationalists sought help for their cause from Germany, following which volunteers from the German Air Force and Army formed what was called the Condor Legion. This force made a significant contribution to General Franco’s eventual victory and this included...
Billy Yank
The Uniform of the Union Army, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2006
A history of the United States Army during the time it served as the vanguard of western expansion and a description of its uniforms and equipment in the late nineteenth century. Each volume in this ongoing series combines detailed and informative captions with over 100 rare and unusual images. These books are a must for anyone interested in American military uniforms.
Napoleon and Grouchy
The Last Great Waterloo Mystery Unravelled
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
One of the enduring controversies of the Waterloo campaign is the conduct of Marshal Grouchy. Given command of a third of Napoleon’s army and told to keep the Prussians from joining forces with Wellington, he failed to keep Wellington and Blücher apart with the result that Napoleon was overwhelmed...
by Emiola Opasina
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
God’s expectation on the effective management of His financial resource is very high and there is a minimum standard that must be met by leaders and others who are connected with handling’s Kingdom’s money. The Author, a Chartered Accountant and Financial Secretary for two churches for almost a...
Performance Anomalies
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Victor Robert Lee’s provocative debut spy thriller Performance Anomalies introduces a protagonist to rival the most memorable espionage heroes. Cono is a startling young man of mixed and haunting heritage who has been gifted – or cursed – with a genetic mutation that gives him a hyper-fast neurological...
by Emiola Opasina
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
It is a chilling story of a brilliant school-loving boy, Fola, whose birth holds a great promise that will mark a new epoch in his family and the entire community. However, this promise is entwined with a gale of thorny circumstances. His early education was abruptly terminated as a result of his father’s...