Frontline Books imprint: 291 books
Battle Group!
German Kamfgruppen Action in World War Two
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The author of War on the Eastern Front offers an in-depth analysis of Nazi Germany’s shock troop tactics in every theater of WWII.
The German army in the Second World War sought to fight and win swift, decisive victories in a succession of short campaigns known as blitzkrieg, or “lightning...
Seizing the Enigma
The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1939–1943
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
“An absorbing and thoroughly well documented account” of WWII naval intelligence and the Allied hunt for the Nazi code machine known as the Enigma (Warship).
From the start of World War II to mid-1943, British and American naval forces fought a desperate battle against German submarine...
by David Nash
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
An exact reproduction of the landmark British assessment of German military capability in the final months of World War I.
Compiled by British Intelligence, for restricted official issue by the General Staff, The German Army Handbook of April 1918 is a comprehensive assessment of the German Army...
Ninja
Unmasking the Myth
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The ninja is a well-known phenomenon in Japanese military culture, a fighter who is widely regarded as the world’s greatest exponent of secret warfare. He infiltrates castles, gathers vital intelligence and wields a deadly knife in the dark. His easily recognizable image is that of a secret agent...
Hitler Strikes North
The Nazi Invasion of Norway and Denmark, 9 April 1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A detailed account of Germany’s groundbreaking Operation Weserübung, the first three dimensional—land, sea, air—strategic invasion in history.
The German invasion of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 brought a sudden and shocking end to the “Phoney War” in the West. In a single day, multiple...
Fighting for the News
The Adventures of the First War Correspondents from Bonaparte to the Boers
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
The incredible true stories of the first reporters from the battlefield—from Europe’s Napoleonic era to the Boer Wars of South Africa.
Over two centuries ago, newspapers first considered sending a reporter overseas to observe, gather information, and write about war. With no experience to draw...
by Paul Britten Austin
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2002
The dramatic story of Napoleon’s escape from Elba and march on Paris—in the words of eyewitnesses and participants.
Drawing on hundreds of firsthand accounts by Napoleon’s supporters and opponents, Paul Britten Austin recreates the drama of those tumultuous days of the spring of 1815...
by Paul L Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
From its origins as the Consular Guard of the French Republic, and as Napoleon’s personal bodyguard, the Imperial Guard developed into a force of all arms numbering almost 100,000 men. Used by Napoleon as his principal tactical reserve, the Guard was engaged only sparingly, being deployed at the...
Stopping Hitler
An Official Account of How Britain Planned to Defend Itself in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
“[A] unique account of British threat responses to potential German conflict . . . Strongly recommended” (Firetrench).
In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, it was expected that international disputes could be settled by arbitration through the creation of the League of Nations....
Armistice 1918
The Last Days of The First World War Told Through Newspaper Reports, Official Documents and the Accounts of Those Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
At 11.00 hours on 11 November 1918, the guns fell silent across the battlefields of Europe. After the deadliest conflict the world had ever seen, peace had finally arrived.
Since the withdrawal from the Somme and the repulse at Verdun, the Germans knew they could not win the war and had sought...
A Spitfire Girl
One of the World's Greatest Female ATA Ferry Pilots Tells Her Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
We visualize dashing and daring young men as the epitome of the pilots of the Second World War, yet amongst that elite corps was one person who flew no less than 400 Spitfires and seventy-six different types of aircraft – and that person was Mary Wilkins.
Her story is one of the most remarkable...
Falklands Gunner
A Day-by-Day Personal Account of the Royal Artillery in the Falklands War
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The Royal Artillery played an absolutely vital, though often forgotten, part in the British armed forces’ successful operation to recapture the Falkland Islands in 1982. The actions of the artillery were recorded by one young officer in a journal which he kept before, during and after the conflict.
Second...
by Graham Colbeck
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
On Friday, April 9, 1982, a British task force set sail for the Falkland Islands. Three months later, after a short but brutal campaign, it had successfully completed its mission of ejecting the Argentinean occupying forces from the islands.
With 3 Para to the Falklands is the full story of...
Blood Red Snow
The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Günter Koschorrek wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on, storing them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. The diary went missing, and it was not until he was reunited with his daughter in America some forty years later that it came to light and became...