Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
A German Deserter's War Experiences
Fighting for the Kaiser in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
In 1913 Julius Koettgen, a pacifist and a socialist, was drafted into the ranks of sapper battalion No. 30. He dutifully fought in the ranks of the Kaiser's armies during 1914 and 1915 and saw action in France and Belgium where he describes the terrible events which were to become known as 'the rape...
The Battle for Burma
Wild Green Earth
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Bernard Fergusson was one of Orde Wingate's Column Commanders in the heroic but battered Chindit expedition behind Japanese lines in Burma in 1943. By 1944 Wingate had persuaded Churchill and Roosevelt that a bigger force, on the same unorthodox lines, could make a strategic difference. Aged 32, Fergusson...
Marcus Agrippa
Right-hand Man of Caesar Augustus
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Marcus Agrippa personified the term 'right-hand man'. As Emperor Augustus' deputy, he waged wars, pacified provinces, beautified Rome, and played a crucial role in laying the foundations of the Pax Romana for the next two hundred years – but he served always in the knowledge he would never rule...
by Mike Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
This sensational book reveals the true and compelling story of the Special Force units of the Coalition, such as the SAS, SBS and Delta Force who worked in the shadows, often unseen, unheard and unsung. It describes their missions behind the lines from the early days, well before hostilities opened...
by Jacqueline Wadsworth
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
When war was declared in 1914, the people of South Dorset were taken by surprise. Initially, there was excitement as the garrison town of Dorchester sprang to life, and Britain's Grand Fleet steamed from Portland Harbour to its war stations in the North Sea. But when the fervour subsided, what was...
by Douglas d'Enno
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
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 Brighton were committed to as the war s
by Christopher Owen
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
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 Wellington were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A...
In a Guardsman’s Boots
A Boy Soldier’s Adventures from the Streets of 1920s Dublin to Buckingham Palace, WWII and the Egyptian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
When he was just eight years old, Paddy Rochford enrolled at Dublin’s Royal Hibernian Military School, where he was taught how to be a soldier with the British Army, like his father. Soon afterwards, in 1922, he and his fellow pupils were evacuated from Ireland, a land torn apart by civil war.
Across...
With SOE in Greece
The Wartime Experiences of Captain Pat Evans
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Pat Evans parachuted into German-occupied Northern Greece in September 1943. His mission as a SOE operative was to support the Greek resistance movement, carry out sabotage and commando operations and gather military intelligence.
By this time Greece was not only a country ravaged by a brutal...
Churchill and the Mad Mullah of Somaliland
Betrayal and Redemption 1899-1921
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
In the late nineteenth century, the British Empire commanded the seas and possessed a vast Indian Empire, as well as other extensive dominions in South East Asia, Australasia, America and Africa.
To secure the trade route to the glittering riches of the orient, the port of Berbera in Somaliland...
by Brian Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein has attracted the attention of countless historians over the last 70 years but, despite this coverage, views of his character remain controversial and contradictory. His younger brother Brian, himself a successful soldier, enters the fray with this charming...
Malayan Emergency
Triumph of the Running Dogs 1948-1960
Language: English
Release Date: June 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 are...
Churchill's Last Wartime Secret
The 1943 German Raid Airbrushed from History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
It’s been a State secret for more than 70 years: The official line in the UK has always been that it never happened – but this new work challenges the assertion that no German force set foot on British soil during World War Two (the Channel Islands excepted), on active military service.
Churchill’s...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The latest volume in Anthony Tucker-Jones’s series of books on armoured warfare in the Images of War series is a graphic account of the development of armoured forces in the Arab and Israeli armies from 1948 to the present day. In a sequence of over 200 archive photographs he tells the story of...