Pen And Sword imprint: 2611 books
by Symeon Mark Waller
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Doncaster were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record...
Air Raid Shelters of the Second World War
Family Stories of Survival in the Blitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
This book features the design, creation and use of air raid shelters, including interviews with people who used them during the Second World War. The different types of bunkers/air raid shelters (both public and in people’s gardens) are covered and the strength and weakness of their designs discussed,...
Real War Horses
The Experience of the British Cavalry 1814 - 1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Many histories have been written about the conflicts the British army was involved in between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War. There are detailed studies of campaigns and battles and general accounts of the experiences of the soldiers. But this book by Anthony Dawson is the first to...
War of the White Death
Finland Against the Soviet Union 1939-40
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
On 30 November 1939 Stalins Red Army attacked Finland, expecting to crush the outnumbered, ill-equipped Finnish forces in a matter of days. But, in one of the most astonishing upsets in modern military history, the Finnish defenders broke the Red Armys advance, inflicting devastating casualties and...
by Hans Seidler
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
The greatest tank battle in world history, known as Operation CITADEL, opened during the early hours of 5 July 1943, and its outcome was to decide the eventual outcome of the war on the Eastern Front. Images of War - Battle of Kursk 1943, is an illustrated account of this pivotal battle of the war...
by Ian Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
From the beginning in 1935 this attractive book describes the different elements that went into the Panzer-Divisions. It describes how the Germans carefully built up their assault forces utilizing all available reserves and resources into making an effective fighting machine. It depicts how these...
by Ian Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Hitler’s decision to invade Poland in August 1939 triggered the start of the Second World War. It was also the first demonstration of Blitzkrieg tactics – the ruthless use of armor, mobile infantry and air support.
The brave Polish army, inadequately equipped and inferior in numbers, was...
Stalin's Revenge
Operation Bagration and the Annihilation of Army Group Centre
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2009
In the summer of 1944 the Red Army crushed Army Group Centre in one of the largest offensives in military history. Operation Bagration - launched almost exactly three years after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union - was Stalin's retribution for Hitler's Operation Barbarossa.
Earlier battles...
A Century of Remembrance
One Hundred Outstanding British War Memorials
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2006
A Century of Remembrance is a study of one hundred outstanding United Kingdom war memorials which commemorate 20th century conflicts from the Boer War to the Falklands and Gulf wars. The first described is a Boer War memorial unveiled on 5 November 1904, and the last is the Animals in War memorial...
A Wander Through Wartime London
Five Walks Revisiting the Blitz
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Through a series of five walks this book discovers the sights, sounds and experience of the capital at war; it details the remaining tangible evidence of the dark days via air raid shelter signs, bomb damage on buildings and memorials detailing heroic and often tragic events. The new routes cover...
by Dawyck Haig
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2003
Dawyck Haig, the only son of the great Field Marshal, was born in 1918, the year of his father's victory. His life has been hugely influenced by the legendary status accorded to his father and, after 1932, to himself. This unique memoir reveals a side of the Field Marshal that has never been seen...
Wavell
Soldier and Statesman
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Archibald Wavell’s life and career makes a marvelous subject. Not only did he reach the highest rank (Field Marshal) and become an Earl and Viceroy of India but his character was complex. He joined the Black Watch in 1901. He stood out during the Great War, quickly earning the Military Cross but...
The First Day on the Somme
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
After an immense but useless bombardment, at 7.30 am. On 1 July 1916 the British Army went over the top and attacked the German trenches. It was the first day of the battle of the Somme, and on that day the British suffered nearly 60,000 casualties, two for every yard of their front. With more than...
Passchendaele in Perspective
The Third Battle of Ypres
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Passchendaele In Perspective explores the context and real nature of the participants’ experience, evaluates British and German High Command, the aerial and maritime dimensions of the battle, the politicians and manpower debates on the home front and it looks at the tactics employed, the weapons...