Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
by Artem Drabkin
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
The Soviet T-34 medium tank was one of the most famous and effective fighting vehicles of the Second World War. Along with the German Tiger and the American Sherman, it was a milestone in tank design that changed the course of the conflict. Much has been written about the technical history of the...
Das Reich
2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich – Drive to Normandy, June 1944
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
The infamous SS Das Reich Division was resting in Montauban, South West France when the Allies invaded Normandy in June 1944. When ordered to rush North, they ran into a series of French Resistance, SAS and SOE delaying actions. This ruthless Division reacted violently and their reprisals culminated...
Stalingrad
How the Red Army Triumphed
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Michael K. Jones's new history of Stalingrad offers a radical reinterpretation of the most famous battle of the WW2. Combining eyewitness testimony of Red Army fighters with fresh archive material, the book gives a dramatic insight into the thinking of the Russian command and the mood of the ordinary...
Freely I Served
The Memoir of the Commander, 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade 1941-1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Freely I Served is the gripping memoir of Stanislaw Sosabowski who became one of the most senior Polish commanders during the Second World War.
After seeing service with the Austrian Army in World War I, the author joined the newly created Polish Army in 1918. By September 1939 he was commanding...
The Escape From Elba
The Fall & Flight of Napoleon 1814-1815
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
The year is 1814. The Allies have driven Napoleon's once-mighty armies back to Paris. Trapped, forced to abdicate after two decades of triumphant rule, the Emperor takes leave of his comrades-in-arms and sets sail for his new domain - the tiny, poverty-stricken, pestilential island of Elba. Yet within...
Massacre on the Marne
The Life and Death of the 2/5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
Massacre on the Marne is a graphic reconstruction of the experiences of a small closely knit group of fighting men - the 2/5th Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment - in the Great War.
These men were not elite regular troops or Kitcheners' Men - they were Territorials. In many ways they...
by Derek Tait
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
When news of the war broke out in 1914, nothing could prepare the citizens of Edinburgh for the changes that would envelop their city over the next four years. The story of Edinburgh in the Great War is both an interesting and intriguing one. This book covers this historic city's involvement from...
Once a Hussar
A Memoir of Battle, Capture and Escape in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Once a Hussar is a vivid account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis, a gunner who in later life recorded in this well-written, candid and perceptive memoir the conflict he knew as a young man seventy years ago. As an impressionable teenager, fired with national pride, he was eager to join the...
From Calais to Colditz
A Rifleman’s Memoir of Captivity and Escape
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
From Calais to Colditz has never been published before but readers will surely agree that the wait has been worthwhile.
The author was a young platoon commander when his battalion were ordered by Prime Minister Winston Churchill to defend Calais to the last man and so distract German attention...
The Frigates
An Account of the Lighter Warships of the Napoleonic Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1994
A naval history of the ships and personalities of the Nelson period. The sources used include accounts of the Napoleonic Wars, ships' logs, Admiralty documents, private and official reports, letters and contemporary descriptions.
My War in the Air 1916
Memoirs of a Great War Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Originally published under the title An Airman's Outing, this magnificent title chronicles the daily life of the Flying Officer during the Great War. Touchingly dedicated to 'The Fallen of Umpty Squadron R.F.C.', Bott chronicles the lives and losses of his squadron as they carried out their duties...
by Geoffrey Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
When Singapore fell so ignominiously to the Japanese in February 1942, many tens of thousands of men, women and children were left to their own devices. To stay in Singapore meant certain captivity. This book tells of some of the remarkable and shocking experiences that lay in store for those who...
Fips
Legendary U-Boat Commander 1915-1918
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Weuner FŸrbringer (Fips) became one of the most successful U-Boat commanders in WW1 through a blend of skill, daring and, by his own typically modest admission, sheer luck. This vivid memoir, never before published in English, makes compelling reading.This is an inspiring and chivalrous story; it...
Fortune Favours the Brave
The Battles of the Hook Korea 1952-53
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
All too little remembered today, the Korean War was bitterly fought out under atrocious conditions of weather and terrain. Greatly outnumbered by their Communist Chinese and North Korean enemy, the United Nations forces fought with extraordinary resolve and gallantry.
The Hook, the name given to a...