Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
by Graham Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Warwick in the Great War is a detailed account of how the experiences of war impacted on the garrison town from the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, to the long-awaited Armistice in 1918, and its immediate aftermath.
The troops went off to war, cheered and supported by their friends and family,...
by Philip Warner
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2004
In the Middle Ages the castle was an important military and administrative centre, essentially utilitarian in its design and in the purposes it served. Because it played so central a role in medieval history, and because the wealth of material is so great, the author has concentrated on English seiges...
by H. C. B. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Many books have been written about Napoleon and his campaigns, but very little about the soldiers of his armies and of the organization and conditions under which they lived and served. In this classic study, now reissued in paperback, H.C.B. Rogers examines Napoleon's army in terms of its staff systems,...
Law and War
Magistrates in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
The office of justice of the peace has existed since the twelfth century, when ‘good and lawful men’ were first appointed to sit in judgment of their peers. Unpaid and untrained, these lay magistrates were the backbone of the English judicial system, dealing with the vast majority of criminal...
Hell on Wheels
The Men of the US Armored Forces, 1918 to the end of the 20th century
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
The pictorial history of America's armored forces from the use of prototype tanks sputtering their way forward in 1918, to the complex technology of Operation Desert Storm. This book demonstrates just why these lethal troops were known as Hell On Wheels.
Gladstone, Gordon and the Sudan Wars
The Battle over Imperial Invention in the Victorian Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
General Gordon’s death in Khartoum on 26 January 1885 – and the fall of the besieged city to the forces of the Mahdi – was a crucial episode in British imperial history. It was deeply controversial at the time, and it still is today. Gordon has routinely been depicted as the hero of the story,...
by Torie Holt, Valmai Holt
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
This is the most complete guide to the First World War Battlefield of Ypres that has ever been published. Tonie and Valmai Holt, have condensed the knowledge gained from almost a quarter of a century of researching, writing about, visiting and conducting groups around Ypres into this remarkable book....
The Fall of Malaya and Singapore
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
In just 10 weeks from 8 December 1941 to mid February 1942, British and Imperial forces were utterly defeated by the numerically inferior Japanese under General Yamashita.
British units fought hard on the Malayan mainland but the Japanese showed greater mobility, cunning and tactical superiority....
The Royal Air Force in the Cold War 1950-1970
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Soon after the Second world War, wartime allies became Cold War adversaries, and by 1950 the perceived threat of a Soviet strike on Western Europe or Britain dominated military planning. For the next forty years, the Royal Air Force was in the front-line of the Cold War. In Britain and Germany, light...
by James Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Propaganda Postcards of the Luftwaffe focuses on the efforts of the powerful Nazi propaganda machine to promote the technical achievements and might of the then newly created German airforce. The Luftwaffe had been announced to the world in March 1935, despite the restrictions contained in the Versailles...
Fire Power
The British Army Weapons & Theories of War 1904-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
The great siege of Gibraltar was the longest recorded in the annals of the British army. Between 1779 and 1783 a small British force defended the Rock against the Spanish and the French who were determined take this strategically vital point guarding the entrance to the Mediterranean. The tenacity...
The Blood Tub
General Gough and the Battle of Bullecourt 1917
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
This controversial and stirring account of one of the bloodiest battles of the Great War recounts a heroic but disastrous engagement which left a lasting rift between the British and Australians. Drawing from a wealth of unpublished sources and eyewitness accounts, Jonathan Walker's study of the Battle...
British Army Aviation in Action
Kosovo to Helmand
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
The British Army is the UK’s second largest operator of military aircraft, fielding more than 300 armed helicopters, fixed wing surveillance aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles. Its aviation units have been in the forefront of UK combat air operations in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan between 1999...
The Charging Buffalo
A History of the Kenya Regiment 1937 – 1963
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 1986
This title gives a complete history of the Kenya Regiment from 1937-1963.