Frontline Books: 219 books
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 –...
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...
Dog Fight
Aerial Tactics of the Aces of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2003
The history of WWI aviation is a rich and varied story marked by the evolution of aircraft from slow moving, fragile, and unreliable powered kites, into quick, agile, sturdy fighter craft. At the same time there emerged a new kind of 'soldier', the fighter pilots whose individual cunning and bravery...
London: Bombed Blitzed and Blown Up
The British Capital Under Attack Since 1867
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
When it comes to being bombed, London is unique. Although it cannot claim to be the most bombed capital city in terms of the weight of explosive detonated it has endured the most varied and unrelenting attack since the discovery of explosives.
From the first Irish Republican bomb in 1867, London...
Luftwaffe Over America
The Secret Plans to Bomb the United States in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
The plans that Nazi Germany had to raid – and bomb – New York and the eastern seabord are revealed in this book. They depended upon the use of transoceanic aircraft, such as the six-engined Ju 390, Me 264 or Ta 400, but the Third Reich was unable to produce these machines in sufficient numbers.
X-Planes
German Luftwaffe Prototypes 1930-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Renowned German aviation specialist Manfred Griehl has collected a unique and valuable selection of photographs of Luftwaffe projects that never made it into battle. They remained on the drawing board or at prototype stage either because they were deemed unsuitable or the developers simply ran out...
Aces of the Reich
The Making of a Luftwaffe Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
In 1939, the Luftwaffe was arguably the world's best-equipped and best-trained air force. Its fighters were second to none, and their pilots had a tactical system superior to any other in the world. In campaigns over Poland, Norway, the Low Countries and France, they carried all before them. Only...
The Watery Grave
The Life and Death of HMS Manchester
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
In 2002 the wreck of a British cruiser was located by divers off the coast of Tunisia. The stunning photographs of the wreck inspired Dr Richard Osborne to delve into the controversy surrounding the loss of one of the Royal Navy's proudest ships – HMS Manchester.
After taking part in the...
Hitler’s Commanders
German Bravery in the Field, 1939–1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
As absolute as Hitler's control over the German war machine was, it depended on the ability, judgment and unquestioning loyalty of the senior officers charged with putting his ideas, however difficult, into effect.
Top military historian James Lucas examines the stories of fourteen of these...