Pen And Sword imprint: 2611 books
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The 1st of July 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, was the blackest day in the history of the British Army. 60,000 men became casualties on that one day alone.
In a major new documentary film premiering on the Discovery Channel next year, Emmy Award winning film maker Bob Carrruthers...
The U-Boat War in the Atlantic
Volume II: 1942-1943
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
This is the second of three volumes covering the U-boat campaign in the Atlantic during the Second World War.
This is the fascinating account, as told from the German perspective, of the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest-running, continuous military campaign in World War II, spanning from 1939...
The U-Boat War in the Atlantic
Volume III: 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
This is the third of three volumes describing U-boat operations in the Atlantic during the Second World War.
This is the fascinating account, as told from the German perspective, of the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest-running, continuous military campaign in World War II, spanning from 1939...
by Peter Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
As early as 1940 political leaders and military commanders responsible for the conduct of the Allied operations relalised that, after a string of disastrous setbacks, national morale could only be restored by taking offensive action against the enemy. With the limited resources available Churchill’s...
Silent Skies
Gliders at War 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2008
On 10 May 1940 warfare changed forever when gliders swooped down to seize the fortress of Eben Emael in Belgium ahead of the German advance. In the following five years of war, the glider evolved into a war-winning weapon capable of landing men, guns and even tanks with pinpoint precision. Across...
by Martin Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
This is the second volume of a comprehensive five part work on D-Day that includes a multitude of personal military accounts from both Allied and German Aviation personnel ‘who were there’. Overlord began with an assault by more than 23,000 airborne troops, 15,500 of them American, behind enemy...
by Kari Stennman, Kalevi Keskinen
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This superb illustrated series books charts the rise and fall of the German Air Force from 1939 to 1945. Each volume makes use of over a hundred rare photographs, many of them taken by Luftwaffe personnel, to bring history to life and record both the men and the aircraft they flew.
This title...
Napoleon’s Army in Russia
The Illustrated Memoirs of Albrecht Adam, 1812
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
In 1812 Napoleon's magnificent army invaded Russia. Among the half a million men who crossed the border was Albrecht Adam, a former baker, a soldier and, most importantly for us, a military artist of considerable talent. As the army plunged ever deeper into a devastated Russia Adam sketched and painted....
Voices in Flight: The Fleet Air Arm
Recollections from Formation to Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The author Malcolm Smith has been the Editor of Jabberwock, the bi-annual journal of the Fleet Air Arm Museum, for two years and has inherited the complete archive of editions dating back to the formation of SOFFAAM in 1979. In browsing through these, it quickly became apparent to him that they provided...
Fight for the Sea
Naval Adventures from the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
This collection of popular naval stories covers the entire span of World War II, beginning when the British Royal Navy faced fascist forces on its own until the final Allied victory over the Japanese in 1945. Fight for the Sea offers a rich mixture of accounts about such large and well-known battles...
One-hour Wargames
Practical Tabletop Battles for those with Limited Time and Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
One of the biggest problems facing wargamers is finding the time to actually play. Most commercially available sets of rules require several hours to set up and play to a conclusion; some can easily swallow up a whole day or weekend. For many gamers this means that their lavishly prepared miniature...
British Nannies and the Great War
How Norland's Regiment of Nannies Coped with Conflict and Childcare in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In 1912, Norland children’s nurse Kate Fox was travelling by train heading to the British military station at Nowshera on the Afghan border to care for the premature baby born to the base’s commanding officer. Two years later, Kate was escaping from Germany in the first days of the Great War,...
Tumult & Tears
An Anthology of Women’s First World War Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
During the First World War and its immediate aftermath, hundreds of women wrote thousands of poems on multiple themes and for many different purposes. Women’s poetry was published, sold (sometimes to raise funds for charities as diverse as ‘Beef Tea for Troops’ or ‘The Blue Cross Fund for...
by Gerry van Tonder
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
When the world held its breath …
It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944—long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe—with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines...