Frontline Books imprint: 291 books
Escape from the Third Reich
Folke Bernadotte and the White Buses
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
The true story of a risky Swedish mission to liberate thousands of prisoners from the Nazis.
The Swedish Red Cross expedition to the German concentration camps in March–April 1945 was the largest rescue effort inside Germany during WWII. Sponsored by the Swedish government and led by Count Bernadotte...
The KGB's Poison Factory
From Lenin to Litvinenko
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
“A cracking good read” and a chilling true story of Russia’s assassination program begun more than a century ago and which continues today (Tennent H. Bagley, former CIA chief of Soviet Bloc counterintelligence).
In late November 2006, Alexander Litvinenko—a former lieutenant colonel...
I Was Hitler's Chauffeur
The Memoir of Erich Kempka
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
“An insider view of Hitler’s closest circles, providing an invaluable account of the final months of the war” (History of War).
Erich Kempka served as Adolf Hitler’s personal driver from 1934 through to the Führer’s dramatic suicide in 1945. His candid memoirs offer a unique eyewitness...
The Ulrich von Hassell Diaries
The Story of the Forces Against Hitler Inside Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
The memoir of a man who was a member of the Nazi Party—and ultimately became a martyr to the resistance.
Ulrich von Hassell began working for the German Foreign Office in 1909, then aged twenty-eight. Two years later, he married Ilse von Tirpitz, the daughter of Grand Adm. Alfred von Tirpitz....
Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs
Volume III: Wagram and Znaim
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
“A very impressive piece of work, and it is unlikely to be surpassed for many years . . . A very valuable guide to Napoleon’s last great victory” (HistoryOfWar.org).
With this third volume, John Gill brings to a close his magisterial study of the war between Napoleonic France and Habsburg...
Ivan the Terrible
A Military History
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2008
An in-depth look at the military strategy of the first Russian ruler to invade Europe.
Ivan’s campaigns against the Livonian Confederation were initially very successful. In 1558, Russian soldiers occupied Dorpat and Narva, and laid siege to Reval, creating vital trade routes over the Baltic...
Bayonets and Scimitars
Arms, Armies and Mercenaries 1700–1789
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
A look at the tumult and transformations in warfare during the eighteenth century—and the world-changing events that resulted.
The eighteenth century in Europe was a period of significant economic, political, and technological upheaval—which led to the American and French revolutions, and...
A Waterloo Hero
The Reminiscences of Friedrich Lindau
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
“A rare example of a memoir of a private soldier from the Napoleonic Wars . . . valuable insight into the daily life and preoccupations of Wellington’s men” (HistoryOfWar.org).
By all accounts, Friedrich Lindau was a remarkable soldier of the King’s German Legion. He served with distinction...
by Paul Britten Austin
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
This account of Napoleon’s disastrous invasion of Russia, in the words of those who experienced it, offers “a brilliant insight into men at war” (David G. Chandler, author of The Campaigns of Napoleon).
Hundreds of thousands of men set out on that midsummer day of 1812. None could have...
by Adrian Gilbert, Nigel West, Dan Mills
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
A fascinating look at what might have happened had historical assassination attempts succeeded.
If Hitler had died at any stage in the Second World War, would Germany have immediately sued for peace, or would the generals have taken over and fought a far more practical war than the obdurate Führer?...
U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve
'They Are Marines': Uniforms and Equipment in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
The little known story of these female reservists and the role they played in WWII, packed with photos.
When US Marine Commandant Maj. Gen. Thomas Holcomb announced the formation of what became the US Marine Corps’ Women’s Reserve, legend has it, the portrait of one of his predecessors fell...
The Hitler Conspirator
The Story of Kurt Freiherr von Plettenberg and Stauffenberg's Valkyrie Plot to Kill the Führer
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
One man’s part in the Nazi plan to assassinate Hitler during WWII—and “an interesting account of one of the key figures in the resistance movement” (Britain at War).
As the descendant of an aristocratic family from Westphalia, Germany, Kurt Baron von Plettenberg served as an officer in...
Cold War Spymaster
The Legacy of Guy Liddell, Deputy Director of MI5
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
The postwar era as seen by a master of counterespionage—with an insight into his professional downfall.
Guy Liddell was the director of MI5’s counterespionage B Division throughout the Second World War, during which he wrote a confidential personal diary, detailing virtually every important...
Fighting Napoleon
The Recollections of Lieutenant John Hildebrand 35th Foot in the Mediterranean and Waterloo Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
“These lively and entertaining memoirs provide an intriguing counterpoint to Wellington’s better-known operations in the Iberian Peninsula” (Julian Stockwin, author of the Thomas Kydd series).
It is often forgotten that Britain’s struggle against Napoleon ranged across the continents, and...