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Charles Whiting Books in Order
Charles Whiting is a prolific British writer and military historian, renowned for his extensive body of work spanning over 350 books of fiction and non-fiction under his own name and multiple pseudonyms, including Ian Harding, Duncan Harding, K.N. Kostov, John Kerrigan, Klaus Konrad, and Leo Kessler. Born in the Bootham area of York, England, Whiting's early life took an adventurous turn when he joined the British Army at 16, after falsifying his age. As a soldier, he was attached to the 52nd Reconnaissance Regiment and served as a sergeant in France, Holland, Belgium, and Germany during the final stages of World War II. This firsthand experience of military conflicts, particularly the tensions between British and American generals, would later become a significant theme in his writing.
Bibliography verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of Charles Whiting's book series? Charles Whiting has written 25 book series. The most notable is the Assault Troop series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by Charles Whiting
- #1
Blood Beach(1983) - #2
Death In The Forest(1983) - #3
Clash on the Rhine(1984) - #4
End Run(1984)
- #1
Kursk: The Clash Of Armour (By: Geoffrey Jukes)(1969) - #2
Tarawa: A Legend is Born (By: David Mason,Barrie Pitt,Henry I. Shaw Jr.)(1969) - #3
Pearl Harbor (By: A.J. Barker)(1969) - #4
Midway: The Turning Point (By: A.J. Barker)(1970) - #5
The Defense of Moscow (By: Geoffrey Jukes)(1970) - #6
Anzio: The Bid for Rome (By: Christopher Hibbert)(1970) - #7
Leyte Gulf: Armada In The Pacific (By: Donald Macintyre)(1970) - #8
London's Burning (By: Constantine Fitzgibbon)(1970) - #9
Bir Hacheim: Desert Citadel (By: Richard Holmes)(1971) - #10
Beda Fomm: The Classic Victory (By: Kenneth John Macksey)(1971) - #11
Battle of the Ruhr Pocket(1971) - #12Ike's Last Battle: The Battle of the Ruhr Pocket April 1945(1971)
- #13
Vimy Ridge: 1914-18 (By: Kenneth John Macksey)(1972) - #14
Stalingrad: The Turning Point (By: Geoffrey Jukes)(1972) - #15
Dien Bien Phu (By: John Keegan)(1974) - #16
Ploesti: Oil Strike (By: John Sweetman)(1974)
- #1
Patton(1970) - #2
48 Hours to Hammelburg: Patton's Secret Mission(1970) - #3
Bradley(1971) - #4
Skorzeny(1972) - #5
Hitler's Werewolves: The story of the Nazi resistance movement, 1944-1945(1972) - #6
Gehlen: Germany's Master Spy(1972) - #7
The Hunt for Martin Bormann: The Truth(1972) - #8
Finale at Flensburg(1973) - #9
Hunters from the Sky: The German Parachute Corps, 1940-1945(1974) - #10
A Bridge at Arnhem(1974) - #11
The Battle For Twelveland: An Account Of Anglo American Intelligence Operations Within Nazi Germany, 1939 1945(1975) - #12Bloody Aachen(1976)
- #13
Yorkshire at War: The Story of Fighting Yorkshire at Home and Abroad, 1939-1945 (As: Leo Kessler, With: Eric Taylor)(1980) - #14Death of a Division(1981)
- #15
Siegfried: The Nazis' Last Stand(1982) - #16
SS Werewolf(1982) - #17
'44 : In Combat from Normandy to the Ardennes(1984) - #18
Ardennes: The Secret War(1985) - #19
'45: The Final Drive from the Rhine to the Baltic(1985) - #20
The Other Battle of the Bulge: Operation Northwind(1986) - #21
Patton's Last Battle(1987) - #22
The Long March on Rome: The Forgotten War(1987) - #23
Britain Under Fire: The Blitz on Britain in World War Two(1987) - #24
The Poor Bloody Infantry: 1939-45(1987) - #25
The Three Star Blitz: The Baedeker Raids And The Start Of Total War, 1942 1943(1987) - #26Jochen Peiper: Battle Commander SS Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler(1988)
- #27
Hero: The Life and Death of Audie Murphy(1990) - #28
Warriors of Death. The Final Battles of Hitler's Private Bodyguard 1944-45(1991) - #29
Papa Goes to War: Ernest Hemingway in Europe 1944-45(1991) - #30Bounce the Rhine(1992)
- #31
March on London(1992) - #32
Slaughter Over Sicily: The Airborne Massacre(1992) - #33
The Battle of the Bulge: The Untold Story(1994) - #34
Last Assault: 1944 - The Battle of the Bulge Reassessed(1994) - #35
Death On A Distant Frontier: A Lost Victory, 1944(1996) - #36
Massacre at Malmedy(1996) - #37
Paths of Death and Glory: The Last Days of the Third Reich(1997) - #38
America's Forgotten Army: The True Story of the U.S. Seventh Army in WWII - And An Unknown Battle that Changed History(1999) - #39
West Wall: The Battle for Hitler's Siegfried Line September 1944-March 1945(1999) - #40
A Travellers Guide to the Battle for the German Frontier(1999) - #41
Heydrich: Henchman Of Death(1999) - #42Battleground Korea(2000)
- #43
Hitler's Secret War: The Nazi Espionage Campaigns Against the Allies(2000) - #44
American Hero. the Life and Death of Audie Murphy(2000) - #45Search for Gestapo Muller(2001)
- #46
Ghost Front: The Ardennes Before The Battle Of The Bulge(2002) - #47
Disaster at Kasserine: Ike and the 1stArmy in North Africa 1943(2003) - #48
American Deserter. General Eisenhower and the Execution of Eddie Slovik(2004) - #49
Hitler's Warriors: The final Battles of Hitler's Private Bodyguard, 1944-1945(2004) - #50
The Great German Escape: Covert Operations in the Battle of the Bulge December 1944(2009) - #51SS Kommando(2010)
- #1
Ottos Phoney War(1981) - #2
Otto's Blitzkrieg!(1982) - #3
Otto and the Reds(1982) - #4
Otto And The Yanks(1983) - #5
Otto and the S.S.(1983) - #6
Otto and the Himmler loveletters(1984)
- #1
Cannon Fodder(1987) - #2
The Die-hards(1987) - #3
Breakout(1988) - #4Death Match(1988)
- #1
Ghost Division(1979) - #2
Massacre(1979)
- #1
First Blood(1980) - #2March On Moscow(1981)
- #3Front Swine(1982)
- #1
Sink the "Scharnhorst"!(1981) - #2
Death to the Deutschland(1982)
- #1
Operation Stormwind(1996) - #2
The Finland Mission(1999) - #3
The Normandie Mission(2018)
- #1
Decision at St.Vith(1969) - #2The Battle of Hurtgen Forest(1988)
- #1
Wolf Hunt(1976) - #2
Double Cross(1977)
- #1
SS Panzer Battalion(1974) - #2
Death's Head(1974) - #3
Claws of Steel(1974) - #4
Guns at Cassino(1975) - #5
Devil's Shield(1975) - #6
Hammer Of The Gods(1975) - #7
Forced March(1976) - #8
Blood and Ice / Frozen Mountain(1977) - #9
The Sand Panthers(1977) - #10
Counter Attack(1978) - #11
Hellfire.(1978) - #12
Panzer Hunt(1979) - #13
Slaughter Ground(1980) - #14
Flashpoint(1980) - #15
Cauldron Of Blood(1981) - #16
Schirmer's Headhunters(1981) - #17
Whores of War(1982) - #18
Schirmer's Death Legion(1983) - #19
Death Ride(1985) - #20
Slaughter at Salerno(1985) - #21
March or Die(1985) - #22
The Outcasts(1986) - #23
The Hess Assault(1987) - #24
The March on Warsaw(1988) - #25
Assault on Baghdad(1992) - #26
Flight from Berlin(1992) - #27
Flight from Moscow(1992) - #28
Fire Over Serbia(1993) - #29
SS Attacks(1994) - #30
Breakout from Stalingrad(1996) - #31
March of Death(1996) - #32
The Wotan Mission(1996) - #33
Operation Fury(1997) - #34
Death from Arctic Skies(1997) - #35
Death's Eagles(1998) - #36
The Churchill Papers(1998) - #37
Patton's Wall(1999) - #38
Stalag Assault(2000) - #39
Operation Glenn Miller(2001) - #40
Operation Iraq(2005) - #41
Operation Leningrad(2005) - #42
The Reich Flies the Flag(2005) - #43
Rommel's Last Battle(2006) - #44
From Tyranny to Freedom(2008) - #45
Some Desperate Glory(2014)
- #1
The Frat Wagon(1954) - #2
Kill Patton(1974) - #3
Tug of War (As: Duncan Harding)(1976) - #4
Torpedo Boat (As: Duncan Harding)(1976) - #5
Iron Fist (As: Leo Kessler)(1977) - #6
Orders To Kill(1978) - #7
Great York Air Raid (As: Leo Kessler)(1979) - #8
Breakthrough (As: Leo Kessler)(1979) - #9
The Phoenix Assault (By: John Kerrigan)(1980) - #10
S. S. Peiper: Life and Death of Jochen Peiper (As: Leo Kessler)(1986) - #11Bugles at Dawn(1990)
- #12
Sabres in the Sun(1991) - #13
Attack New York! (As: Duncan Harding)(1994) - #14
Come Hell Or Highwater! (As: Duncan Harding)(1994) - #15
The Hitler Werewolf Murders (As: Leo Kessler)(1994) - #16
Tobruk Rescue (As: Duncan Harding)(1995) - #17
Kommando: Hitler's Special Forces in the Second World War (As: Leo Kessler)(1995) - #18
Sink the Tirpitz (As: Duncan Harding)(1996) - #19
The Bormann Mission (As: Leo Kessler)(1997) - #20
Assault on St Nazaire (As: Duncan Harding)(1997) - #21
Sink the Ark Royal (As: Duncan Harding)(1997) - #22
Sink the Graf Spee (As: Duncan Harding)(1998) - #23
Sink the Prince of Wales (As: Duncan Harding)(1999) - #24
The Balkan Chase(1999) - #25
Battle for Hitler's Eagle's Nest (As: Leo Kessler)(2000) - #26
Sink the Hood (As: Duncan Harding)(2000) - #27
Sink the Bismarck (As: Duncan Harding)(2001) - #28
The Screaming Eagles (As: Leo Kessler)(2001) - #29
Sink the Cossack (As: Duncan Harding)(2001) - #30
Sink HMS Kelly (As: Duncan Harding)(2002) - #31
Murder at Colditz (As: Leo Kessler)(2002) - #32
The Great Escape (As: Leo Kessler)(2002) - #33
Monty's Greatest Victory: The Drive for the Baltic April - May 1945(2002) - #34
Sink the Warspite (As: Duncan Harding)(2002) - #35
Sirens of Dunkirk (As: Leo Kessler)(2003) - #36
Operation Long Jump (As: Leo Kessler)(2004) - #37
The Blackout Murders (As: Leo Kessler)(2004) - #38The Field Marshal's Revenge: The Breakdown of a Special Relationship(2004)
- #39
Hitler Youth Attacks! (As: Leo Kessler)(2004) - #40
Clash In The Baltic: Ian Fleming's Secret Mission (As: Duncan Harding)(2005) - #41
Convoy of Death (As: Duncan Harding)(2005) - #42
Massacre at Jutland (As: Duncan Harding)(2006) - #43
Assault on the Rock (As: Duncan Harding)(2006) - #44
Prepared to Die (As: Duncan Harding, With: Leo Kesseler)(2007) - #45
Journey to No End(2010) - #46
Death Comes to a Deserter (As: Duncan Harding)(2010) - #47
Ramps Down, Troops Away! (As: Duncan Harding)(2018) - #48
The Mighty Fallen(2020)
- #1
Storm Troop(1977) - #2
Blood Mountain(1978) - #3
Valley of the Assassins(1979) - #4
Red Assault(1979) - #5
Himmler's Gold(1980) - #6
Fire Over Kabul(1982) - #7
Wave of Terror(1983) - #8
Eagles In The Snow(1983) - #9
Fire over Africa(1984)
- #1
The Black Knights(1983) - #2
Hawks of Death(1983) - #3
Tank-busters!(1984) - #4
Blood Mission(1984)
- #1
The Wolf Pack(1985) - #2
Operation Deathwatch(1986) - #3
Fire in the West(1986) - #4
Convoy to Catastrophe(1986) - #5
Flight to the Reich(1987)
- #1
Big Breakout(1976) - #2
Massacre at Metz(1976) - #3
Highway Through Hell(1976) - #4
The Last Mission(2007)
- #1
The Black Cossacks(1975) - #2
Sabres of the Reich(1976) - #3
Mountain of Skulls(1977) - #4
The Traitors(1977) - #5
Wolf(1978)
- #1
The Baltic Run(1993) - #2
In Turkish Waters(1994) - #3
Passage to Petrograd(1995) - #4
Death on the Rhine(1995) - #5
The Japanese Princess(1996) - #6
Death Trap(1996) - #7
Hell's Angels(1997)
- #1
Flotilla Attack(2004) - #2
Operation Chariot(2004)
- #1
Operation Fox Hunt(1974) - #2
Operation Stalag(1974) - #3
Operation Afrika(1975) - #4
Operation Werewolf(1975) - #5
Operation Caucasian Fox(1975) - #6
Operation Kill Ike(1975) - #7
Operation Northwind(1986) - #8
Operation Judgment (As: Duncan Harding)(1998) - #9
Operation Il Duce(2003) - #10
Operation Torch (As: Duncan Harding)(2005)
- #1
Baptism of Blood(2024) - #2
Cossack Attack(2024) - #3
The Steppe Wolves(2024) - #4
The Gulag Rats(2024) - #5
Blood on the Baltic(2024)
- #1
Ultra in the Pacific (By: John Winton)(1993) - #2
Ultra at Sea (By: John Winton)(2022) - #3
The War in the Shadows(2023)
- #1
The Battle of Britain(1969) - #2
The Home Front: U.S.A.(1977) - #3
Blitzkrieg(1977) - #4
The Battle of the Atlantic(1977) - #5
Russia Besieged(1977) - #6
The War In the Desert(1977) - #7
The Rising Sun(1977) - #8
The Second Front(1978) - #9
Island Fighting(1978) - #10
Partisans and Guerillas(1978) - #11
Liberation(1978) - #12
China-Burma-India(1978) - #13
The Italian Campaign(1978) - #14
The Resistance(1979) - #15
The Battle of the Bulge(1979) - #16
Return to the Philippines(1979) - #17
Red Army Resurgent(1979) - #18
The Air War in Europe(1979) - #19
The Nazis(1979) - #20
The Soviet Juggernaut(1980) - #21
Road to Tokyo(1980) - #22
Across the Rhine(1980) - #23
War Under the Pacific(1980) - #24
Japan at War(1980) - #25
War in the Outposts(1980) - #26
The Commandos(1981) - #27
Prisoners of War(1981) - #28
The Secret War(1981) - #29
Battles for Scandinavia(1981) - #30
The Mediterranean(1981) - #31
Victory In Europe(1982) - #32
Italy at War(1982) - #33
Bombers over Japan(1982) - #34
The Neutrals(1982) - #35
The Home Front:Germany(1982) - #36
The Aftermath: Asia(1983) - #37
The Fall of Japan(1983) - #38
The Aftermath: Europe(1983) - #39
Prelude to War(1984)
- #1
Slaughter in Singapore(2003) - #2
Hell on the Rhine(2003)
About Charles Whiting
Charles Whiting is a prolific British writer and military historian, renowned for his extensive body of work spanning over 350 books of fiction and non-fiction under his own name and multiple pseudonyms, including Ian Harding, Duncan Harding, K.N. Kostov, John Kerrigan, Klaus Konrad, and Leo Kessler. Born in the Bootham area of York, England, Whiting's early life took an adventurous turn when he joined the British Army at 16, after falsifying his age. As a soldier, he was attached to the 52nd Reconnaissance Regiment and served as a sergeant in France, Holland, Belgium, and Germany during the final stages of World War II. This firsthand experience of military conflicts, particularly the tensions between British and American generals, would later become a significant theme in his writing.
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