Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
by Susan Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
At the outbreak of the Great War, Chester was transformed from a county market town with some nice shops and lots of day-trippers, to a bustling, frantically busy military centre with men and horses everywhere. As they left for the war zones, or to go to other parts of the country for training, the...
by Judy Middleton
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 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 Hove and Portslade were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years....
by Michael Green
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The routing of the British and French Armies in May and June 1940 by the Wehrmacht’s armored divisions caused a major rethink by the US Army’s senior leadership. The result was the formation of the two armored divisions in July 1940; the first named ‘Old Ironside’ and second designated ‘Hell...
Strafer Desert General
The Life and Killing of Lieutenant General WHE Gott CB CBE DSO MC
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Unexpectedly selected by Churchill to command 8th Army in 1942 in place of the sacked Auchinleck, 'Strafer' Gott was targeted by German intelligence as he flew to Cairo to take up his new post. Six ME109s intercepted his aircraft and, after shooting it down, deliberately machine-gunned the crash scene....
by Stephen Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The book looks at the military aspect of the war, from the town's perspective, looking at such matters as how many men from the town had become casualties, year by year, and the knock on effect that had on their families. It looks closely at those mentioned on the towns War Memorial, and where relevant,...
by Stephen Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
With the outbreak of the First World War, it was not surprising that a number of individuals who were of German decent, and who lived in Hartlepool and its surrounding areas, were rounded up and detained by the British military authorities, in the interests of both national security and for their...
by Bruce Collins
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Bruce Collins's in-depth reassessment of the Duke of Wellington's siege of San Sebastian during the Peninsular War is a fascinating reconstruction of one of the most challenging siege operations Wellington's army undertook, and it is an important contribution to the history of siege warfare during...
Victoria Crosses on the Western Front – Cambrai to the Battle of St Quentin
20 November 1917 – 23 March 1918
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army career, research for this book commenced and over the years numerous sources have been consulted.
Victoria...
Hamilton and Gallipoli
British Command in the Age of Military Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
This is a study of Sir Ian Hamilton VCs command of the Gallipoli campaign. Appointed by Kitchener after the failure of the initial Allied naval offensive in the Dardanelles, Hamilton was to lead the ambitious amphibious landings that were intended to open the way to Constantinople. In the event, however,...
Witness to War Crimes
The Memoirs of a Peacekeeper in Bosnia
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
The early 1990s saw Europe’s first conflict for almost 40 years when bitter fighting broke out in the former Yugoslav republic. Colonel Colm Doyle of the Irish Army found himself in the midst of this appalling civil war when in October 1991 he became first a European Community Monitor and almost...
by Bryan Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Failure to exploit the potential of an original idea is a recurring phenomenon in our national history. Few failures, however, can have been so costly in human life as that of our military commanders early in 1916 to appreciate that the tank was a war winning weapon. The slaughter of the Somme, Passchendaele...
Great Generals of the Ancient World
The Personality, Intellectual, and Leadership Traits That Made Them Great
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Of the thousands of commanders who served in history's armies, why is it that only a few are remembered as great leaders of men in battle? What combination of personal and circumstantial influences conspire to produce great commanders? What makes a great leader great? Richard A Gabriel analyses the...
Waterloo Messenger
The Life of Henry Percy, Peninsular Soldier and French Prisoner of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Henry Percy is best known as the officer who carried the Waterloo Dispatch, the Duke of Wellingtons account of the Battle of Waterloo and the ultimate defeat of Napoleon, to London in June 1815\. This was the climax of a remarkable military career. He served in the British army throughout the Napoleonic...
by Clive Dunn, Gillian Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Looks at how the Great War affected Wearsiders 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 Sunderland were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years –...