Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
Sniper on the Eastern Front
The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knights Cross
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Josef “Sepp” Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honored with the award of the Knights Cross.
An Austrian conscript, after qualifying as a machine gunner he was drafted to the southern sector of the Russian...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The book is skilfully abridged version of the diary of a First World War motorcycle despatch rider, Sergeant Albert Simpkin, who was attached to the HQ 37th Division. The diary entries, and some longer descriptions of the main actions of the Division, provide a fascinating record of the life of a...
Private Hitler's War
1914-1919
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
During the Great War Adolf Hitler served in the ranks of the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment from 1914 to 1918, and was awarded the Iron Cross. In later years, under the masterful control of Doctor Goebbels, Hitler was successfully portrayed by the Nazis as a valiant front-line soldier who,...
The Extinguished Flame
Olympians Killed in The Great War
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
In August 2016 the world will be spellbound by the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro as 10,500 athletes from 206 countries compete in 306 events. Tracing their origins back to the Greeks in 776 BC, the history of the Olympics is a glorious one but it has had its darker moments.
During the First...
1000 Days on the River Kwai
The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Memoirs by former prisoners of war of the Japanese invariably make for moving reading but Colonel Owtrams account of his years of captivity has a special significance.
After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway he was appointed the British Camp Commandant...
The Sterling Years
Small Arms and the Men
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
This is the story of the manufacture, development and usage of one of the most famous submachine Guns ever produced by a British Firm Designed at the end of WW2 it saw limited use on a trial basis, carried by paratroopers during the battle of Arnhem, but since the British Forces had plenty of Sten...
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Thirteen Days on an Atomic Knife Edge, October 1962
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...
Accidental Agent
Behind Enemy Lines with the French Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
John Goldsmith’s wartime exploits are all the more remarkable considering that at first his services were consistently refused due to his being over 30. Not easily deterred he eventually became a tank driving instructor in the ranks.
In 1942 accidental circumstances saw his recruitment into...
by Andrew Rawson
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Hitler's desperate last throw during the depths of winter 1944/45 came perilously close to being a major disaster for the Allies. Their offensive through the Ardennes fell on the Americans and caught them totally by surprise. Unaccustomed to setbacks, the situation was for a time extremely serious...
Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1943-1945
Red Steamroller
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
By 1943, after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, the Wehmacht’s panzer armies gradually lost the initiative on the Eastern Front. The tide of the war had turned. Their combined arms technique, which had swept Soviet forces before it during 1941 and 1942, had lost its edge. Thereafter...
Falaise: The Flawed Victory
The Flawed Victory - The Destruction of Panzergruppe West, August 1944
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
The destruction of the trapped German forces in the Falaise pocket in August 1944 is one of the most famous episodes of the Normandy campaign. But myths have grown up around accounts of the battle, and its impact on the course of the war is sometimes misunderstood. In this meticulously researched...
Tank Commander
From the Fall of France to the Defeat of Germany - The Memoirs of Bill Close
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Bill Close had a remarkable war. In campaign after campaign, from the defense of Calais in 1940 to the defeat of Germany in 1945, he served as a tank commander in the Royal Tank Regiment - and he survived. His tanks were hit eleven times by enemy shellfire and he bailed out. He was wounded three times....
by R E Urquhart
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Major-General Urquhart commanded the 1st British Airborne Division in Operation Market Garden, the greatest airbone assault of World War II, the struggle to capture Arnhem and win control of the bridge across the lower Rhine. The story of the 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem involved not only an Airborne...
by Pogozhev, Andrey
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
On 6 November 1942 70 captured Red Army soldiers staged an extraordinary mass escape from Auschwitz. Among these men was prisoner number 1418 Andrey Pogozhev. He survived, and this is his story. Pogozhev was caught by the Germans in 1941 and was sent to Auschwitz. The fact that Pogozhev survived the...