Frontline: 224 books
The Napoleon Options
Alternate Decisions of the Napoleonic Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This compelling alternate history, brilliantly written by fourteen leading international authors, presents the great maybes of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars The Napoleon Options focuses on some of the pivotal episodes of these catastrophic wars, giving them a resounding twist, and explores...
Napoleon's Mercenaries
Foreign Units in the French Army Under the Consulate and Empire, 1799-1814
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2002
This superb and comprehensive book details the foreign units which formed such an important part of Napoleon's forces. It examines each non-French unit in turn, giving an overview of the unit's origins, its organizational and combat history, its uniforms and standards, and details of the unit's eventual...
by Alexander Mikaberidze
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Russia played a decisive role in the Napoleonic wars and the success in the struggle against France allowed Russian leaders to profoundly influence the course of European history. Over the last 200 years, the Napoleonic era has been discussed and analysed in numerous studies, but many fail to fully...
by Alexander Mikaberidze
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
After his crushing defeat of Prussia in 1806, Napoleon marched into Poland to forestall any Russian attempts to come to the aid of their ally. There then followed the bloody battle in a blizzard at Eylau on 8 February 1807, which decimated both armies. Operations resumed in the spring and on 14 June...
by James Douglas-Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Rudolph Hess’ flight to Britain in May 1941 stands out as one of the most intriguing and bizarre episodes of the Second World War.
In The Truth About Rudolph Hess, Lord James Douglas-Hamilton explores many of the myths which still surround the affair. He traces the developments which persuaded...
JG26
Top Guns of the Luftwaffe
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Jagdgeschwader 26, the German elite fighter unit, was more feared by the Allies than any other Luftwaffe group. Based on extensive archival research in Europe, personal combat diaries and interviews with more than 50 surviving pilots, Caldwell has assembled a superb day-to-day chronicle of JG 26 operations,...
by Kevin F. Kiley
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2004
In this detailed study Kevin Kiley looks at artillery in use throughout the Napoleonic period. He examines Napoleon’s own artillery as well as that employed by his enemies, and he evaluates the gunners’ contribution to warfare in the period. By looking at particular battles in detail, Kevin Kiley shows just how the effective employment of artillery could tip the scales of victory.
by Jac Weller
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
This classic account of Wellington&supl;s tactics and strategy in the Peninsular War is one of the best single-volume works ever written on the epic campaign.
Jac Weller covers all the battles with the French in which Wellington was involved. Talavera, Busaco, Salamanca and Vitoria are...
An Eloquent Soldier
The Peninsular War Journals of Lieutenant Charles Crowe of the Inniskillings, 1812-14
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Lieutenant Charles Crowe's journal of the 27th Foot (Inniskillings) of the final campaign of Wellington's army is
a rare work for many reasons. It is, perhaps surprisingly, the first memoir about this campaign from this famous regiment to be published.
Crowe wrote a daily journal at the time,...
The Battle of Minden 1759
The Miraculous Victory of the Seven Years War
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
The fighting in Europe during the Seven Years War hung in the balance. After initial successes the Austro-French forces had been driven back across the Rhine. With the opposing sides reinforcing their armies, the campaign of 1759 was going to prove decisive.
Britain and her German allies met...
The Art of Sword Combat
A 1568 German Treatise on Swordmanship
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Following the success of Jeffrey L. Forgeng’s translation of Joachim Meyer’s The Art of Sword Combat the author was alerted to an earlier recension of the work which was discovered in Lund University Library in Sweden.
The manuscript, produced in Strassburg around 1568, is illustrated with thirty...
by Admiral Reinhard Scheer
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Anglo-German naval rivalry before 1914 had been expected to culminate in a cataclysmic fleet action in the North Sea once war was declared, a battle upon which the outcome of the war would depend: yet the two fleets met only once, at Jutland in 1916, and the battle was far from conclusive.
In...
The Victoria Cross Wars
Battles, Campaigns and Conflicts of All the VC Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
The British Empire at its height stretched around the globe. From Asia to the Americas, scores of countries were conquered or assimilated into the greatest commonwealth of nations in history. Many of these countries were won, and held, at the point of the bayonet, and British soldiers and sailors...
The Victoria Crosses that Saved an Empire
The Story of the VCs of the Indian Mutiny
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
The Indian Mutiny struck at the very heart of the British Empire. If India was lost the whole edifice of British domination across its colonies was in jeopardy. Everything was at stake, Britain’s leading role in the word, its international commerce and the reputation of its armed forces.
Across...