Frontline imprint: 328 books

Royal Observer Corps

The ‘Eyes and Ears’ of the RAF in WWII

by An Official History
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018

The key roles played by the Royal Observer Corps in the Second World War have, all too often, been overshadowed by more glamourous arms of the defense forces. The teams in the Sector Stations, plotting the battles raging above, and the Spitfires and Hurricanes swooping upon the formations of enemy...

Combat Over the Mediterranean

The RAF In Action Against the Germans and ItaliansThrough Rare Archive Photographs

by Chris Goss
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017

Drawing on an extremely rare collection of photographs taken by the camera guns of Bristol Beaufighters deployed on ground-attack and anti-shipping operations, this book will form a rare indeed unique view of what it was like to fly dangerous strike missions against German and Italian forces over...

Distant Thunder

The U.S. Artillery from the Spanish-American War to the Present

by Alejandro M. de Quesada
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2001

The twentieth century was a time of near total transformation of artillery and the U.s. Army has been at the forefront of artillery use and development throughout that century. American troops fighting the Spanish in Cuba during the Spanish-American War were equipped with the 1885-model field gun;...

The Desert VCs

Extraordinary Valour in the North African Campaign in WWII

by Brian Best
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018

It was not just the searing heat of the day, hot enough to boil an egg on the bonnet of a lorry, or the sand that nestled in every crevice of the body, or the shivering cold of the starlit nights, that the British and Commonwealth troops had to battle in the North African desert – it was also the...

A Destroyer at War

The Fighting Life and Loss of HMS Havock from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean 1939–42

by Richard H Osborne, David Goodey
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017

It was headline news on 8 April 1942: ‘One of the Navy’s most famous destroyers, a ship which survived bombs, torpedoes and full scale battles, has been wrecked’. That destroyer was HMS Havock, described in another newspaper as ‘Britain’s No 2 Destroyer of this war – second only in fame...

Destructive and Formidable

British Infantry Firepower 1642-1756

by David Blackmore
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the British Army's victories over the French at battles such as Blenheim in 1704, Minden and Quebec in 1759, and over the Jacobites at Culloden in 1746, were largely credited to its infantry's particularly effective and deadly firepower. For the first time,...

SOE in France 1941-1945

An Official Account of the Special Operations Executive’s French Circuits

by Robert Bourne-Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016

In the archives of the Special Operations Executive lay a report compiled by a staff officer and former member of SOE's French Section, Major Robert Bourne-Patterson, that until recently could not be published. Because of the highly sensitive nature of the work undertaken by the SOE, the paper was...

Beyond the Reach of Empire

Wolseley's Failed Campaign to save Gordon and Khartoum

by Colonel Mike Snook
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013

In the early 1880s the Mahdi unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. Early in1884 Cairo bowed to British pressure to withdraw. Beyond the Reach of Empire describes how Major General Charles Gordon was despatched to evacuate Khartoum and turn...

Men of The Battle of Britain

A Biographical Dictionary of The Few

by Kenneth G. Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015

Since it was first published in 1989, Men of the Battle of Britain has become a standard reference book for academics and researchers interested in the Battle of Britain. Copies are also owned by many with purely an armchair interest in the events of 1940. The book records the service details...

The Experimental Units of Hitler's Condor Legion

German Aircraft In Action During the Spanish Civil War

by Rafael A. Permuy Lpez, Lucas Molina Franco
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017

At the start of the Spanish Civil War the nationalists sought help for their cause from Germany, following which volunteers from the German Air Force and Army formed what was called the Condor Legion. This force made a significant contribution to General Franco’s eventual victory and this included...

Billy Yank

The Uniform of the Union Army, 1861-1865

by Michael J. McAfee, John P. Langellier
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2006

A history of the United States Army during the time it served as the vanguard of western expansion and a description of its uniforms and equipment in the late nineteenth century. Each volume in this ongoing series combines detailed and informative captions with over 100 rare and unusual images. These books are a must for anyone interested in American military uniforms.

Napoleon and Grouchy

The Last Great Waterloo Mystery Unravelled

by Paul L Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017

One of the enduring controversies of the Waterloo campaign is the conduct of Marshal Grouchy. Given command of a third of Napoleon’s army and told to keep the Prussians from joining forces with Wellington, he failed to keep Wellington and Blücher apart with the result that Napoleon was overwhelmed...

DORNIER Do 17 - The Luftwaffe's 'Flying Pencil'

Rare Luftwaffe Photographs From Wartime Collections

by Chris Goss
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018

For the first three years of the Second World War, the Dornier Do 17 was the Luftwaffe’s principal light bomber. Designed to be fast enough to outrun contemporary fighter aircraft, the Dornier helped to spearhead Germany’s Blitzkrieg as Hitler’s armies raced through Poland and then France and...

HEINKEL He 111

The Latter Years - The Blitz and War in the East to the Fall of Germany

by Chris Goss
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018

The Heinkel He 111 was the main workhorse of the Luftwaffe’s bomber force throughout much of the Second World War. Consequently, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, three entire Kampfgeschwader consisted of He 111s. Initially used as direct support for the German ground forces,...
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