Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
S.A.S Men in the Making
An Original's Account of Operations in Sicily and Italy
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Peter Davis was the youngest officer in the SAS during World War II. In his autobiographical account, he reveals the naïve enthusiasm he felt when he joined the Unit, his fears and trepidation during training, and the horror at what he later experienced during his first operations in the liberation...
Prussian Apocalypse
The Fall of Danzig 1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Egbert Kieser’s graphic account of the Red Army’s assault on East Prussia in 1945 is one of the classic histories of the destruction of Hitler’s Germany, and it has never before been available in English. Using extensive, firsthand, unforgettable eyewitness testimony, he documents in riveting...
by Richard Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
A total of eleven British armoured divisions were formed during the 1939-1945 war but, as this highly informative book reveals, just eight saw action.
In 1940 only 1st Armoured Division faced the German blitzkrieg and it was in the North African desert that armoured divisions came into their...
Hitler's Arctic War
The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland and the USSR 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
‘In the past the German General Staff had taken no interest in the military history of wars in the north and east of Europe. Nobody had ever taken into account the possibility that some day German divisions would have to fight and to winter in northern Karelia and on the Murmansk coast.’ (Lieutenant-General...
El Salvador
Dance of the Death Squads, 1980–1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
When the world held its breath …
It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. 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 are...
Bay of Pigs
CIA's Cuban Disaster, April 1961
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Perhaps not in casualties but as far as prestige and standing in the world were concerned, the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 was the worst disaster to befall the USA since the War of 1812 when British forces burned the White House. Badly planned, badly organized, the affair was littered with mistakes...
Antigonus the One-Eyed
Greatest of the Successors
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Plutarch described Antigonus the One Eyed (382-301 BC) 'as 'the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors,' Antigonus loyally served both Philip II and Alexander the Great as they converted his native Macedonia into an empire stretching from India to Greece. After Alexander's death, Antigonus,...
Why the Germans Lost
The Rise and Fall of the Black Eagle
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This book examines the history of the German Army which, for the best part of two centuries, influenced the course of events in Continental Europe. It was an army that studied the conduct of war at the highest levels, planning for the destruction of its opponents during the early stages of a war....
by Martin Pegler
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Military snipers are highly trained marksmen who target individual enemy soldiers. They are regarded as vital specialists in modern warfare, and their role evolved throughout the Great War. As Martin Pegler shows in this wide-ranging, authoritative study, the technique of sniping adapted rapidly to...
No Mercy from the Japanese
A Survivors Account of the Burma Railway and the Hellships 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
By the laws of statistics John Lowry should not be here today to tell his story. He firmly believes that someone somewhere was looking after him during those four years. Examine the odds stacked against him and his readers will understand why he hold this view. During the conflict in Malaya and Singapore...
Tyneside Irish
24th, 25th, 26th and 27th (Service) Battalions of Northumberland Fusiliers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The ‘Pals” battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since. Under Lord Derby’s scheme, and in response to Kitchener’s famous call for a million volunteers, local communities raised (and initially often paid for) entire battalions for service on the Western Front. Their...
Sparta
Rise of a Warrior Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Their contemporaries were fascinated by the Spartans and we still are. They are portrayed as the stereotypical macho heroes: noble, laconic, totally fearless and impervious to discomfort and pain. What makes the study of Sparta so interesting is that to a large extent the Spartans lived up to this...
American Expeditionary Force
France 1917-1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
When the United States entered the war in April 1917 the belligerents were approaching exhaustion. It had been hoped by the Generals in both Britain and France that untold numbers of fresh troops would be assimilated into their respective commands. However, this idea was firmly resisted, America would...
Hawker VC- The First RFC Ace
The Life of Major Lanoe Hawker VC 1890-1916
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
By the age of 25 Lanoe Hawker of the Royal Flying Corps had won the VC and DSO. He was the first pilot to record five 'kills' before being shot down and killed by Baron von Richthofen (The Red Baron).
Lanoe's biography was written by his brother Tyrrel as a tribute. The Hawkers came from a distinguished...