Frontline: 224 books
The Zeebrugge Raid 1918
A Story of Courage and Sacrifice Told Through Newspaper Reports, Official Documents and the Accounts of Those Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Approximately a third of all Allied merchant vessels sunk during the First World War were by German boats and submarines based at Bruge-Zeebrugge on the coast of Belgium. By 1918 it was feared that Britain would be starved into surrender unless the enemy raiders could be stopped.
A daring plan...
Somme 1916
Success and Failure on the first day of the Battle of the Somme
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Much controversy has surrounded the Somme offensive relating to its justification and its impact upon the course of the war. General Sir Douglas Haig's policies have been the subject of considerable debate about whether the heavy losses sustained were worth the small gains that were achieved which...
Into the Jaws of Death
British Military Blunders 1879 - 1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Between the Crimean War and the dawn of the 20th century, the British Army was almost continuously engaged in one corner of the globe or another, in military operations famously characterized by Kipling as the 'savage wars of peace'. In his new work on the most dramatic Victorian campaigns Mike Snook...
Zulu Victory
The Epic of Isandlwana and the cover-up
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The battle of Isandlwana – a great Zulu victory – was one of the worst defeats ever to befall a British Army. At noon on 22 January 1879, a British camp, garrisoned by over 1700 troops, was attacked and overwhelmed by 20,000 Zulu warriors. The defeat of the British, armed with the most modern...
The World’s First SWAT Team
W. E. Fairbairn and the Shanghai Municipal Police Reserve Unit
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
In turbulent Shanghai in the years between the World Wars, the International Settlement was a mercantile powerhouse that faced unrest from Communist labor unions, criminal gangs, spies, political agitators, armed kidnappers and assassins. Adjoining the Settlement were the French Concession and the...
America's Commandos
U.S. Special Operations Forces of World War II and Korea
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2001
America deployed a diverse group of special operations forces (SOF) throught World War II and in Korea. These elite units quickly earned a redoubtable reputation and proved themselves adept at hit-and-run raids, gathering intelligence in long range patrols, rescuing PoWs and living and fighting in...
Focke Wulf 190
The Birth of the Butcher Bird, 1939-43
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1998
This addition to the Luftwaffe at War Series illustrates the different versions of the plane to see serv ice, the diversity of theatres in which the plane served and the pilots who carved a name for themselves with the Butche r Bird.
Like Wolves on the Fold
The Defence of Rorke’s Drift
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2010
Wednesday 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic days in the annals of military history. In the morning, a modern British army was swept aside by the onset of a seemingly unstoppable host at Isandlwana. Nearby, at a remote border outpost on the Buffalo River, a single company of the 24th Regiment...
Wellington's Redjackets
The 45h (Nottinghamshire) Regiment on Campaign in South America and the Peninsula, 1805-14
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The assault was failing. Wellington's men had stormed the walls of the great frontier fortress of Badajoz only to be beaten back with terrible losses. Then on the keep of the old castle the French flag was torn down and a British officer's red jacket was hauled up the flagpole. It was the signal –...
The Charge of the Light Brigade
History's Most Famous Cavalry Charge Told Through Eye Witness Accounts, Newspaper Reports, Memoirs and Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
The most notorious, and most contentious, cavalry charge in history still remains an enigma. Though numerous books have been written about the charge, all claiming to ‘reveal the truth’ or to understand ‘the reason why’; exactly what happened at Balaklava on 25 October 1854 continues to be...
Harry Smith’s Last Throw
The Eight Cape Frontier War 1850-1853
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
The War of Mlanjeni was the longest conflict in South African history until the second Anglo-Boer War. The loss of life was substantially heavier than that of the Zulu War of 1879 and the political after-effects of it were significantly greater than those that followed the Zulu War.
The Zulu...
by Jac Weller
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
The third book in Jac Weller’s trilogy concerns the period before the future Duke of Wellington faced Napoleon’s armies, but during which he earned his spurs as a military commander. It was in India that he gained his experience of strategy and tactics which he would put to masterly effect against...
by Major C. G. Dennison
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
It was said of George Dennison that he had seen more active service in southern Africa than any other living man. An eminent soldier cast from a colonial mold of bitter experience, rather than of a formal military education, he was also a frontiersman equal in standing to any legendary figure of the...
War Birds
The Diary of a Great War Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Following the declaration of war by the United States, more than 200 American men, unwilling to wait until US squadrons could be raised, volunteered to join the Royal Flying Corps in the summer of 1917. Amongst these men was John MacGavock Grider and Elliott White Springs who both joined 85 Squadron...