Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
United States Infantry Weapons of the Second World War
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
During the arduous campaigns in theatres of war from the Pacific to North West Europe, American infantry weapons played a key role in the eventual victory over the Axis forces. In so doing they earned a special reputation for ruggedness and reliability. In addition to being used by US ground forces...
Escaper’s Progress
The Remarkable POW Experiences of a Royal Naval Officer
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
David James was in Motor Gunboats (with Robert Hichens of Gunboat Command.) Captured in February 1943 after abandoning ship as a result of a fierce engagement with three German armed trawlers in the North Sea he was imprisoned in Dulag Marlag.
His first tunnel was discovered before completion....
In Action With the Sas
A Soldiers Odyssey from Dunkirk to Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
Roy Close's wartime experiences make breathtaking reading. Mobilized in 1939 he became part of the BEF and was fortunate to avoid death or captivity during the German blitzkrieg and escape through Dunkirk. Sent to North Africa, he joined the Paras and, from there, to the SAS. In 1944 he operated behind...
by Otto Schwink
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This new volume in the long-running Images of War series features the actions of the Imperial German Army at Ypres from 1914-15.
In the autumn of 1917 Captain Otto Schwink, a General Staff Officer, by order of the Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army, produced a book entitled The Germans...
by Harry Levy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1995
This book tells the story of a young Jewish airman who was shot down over Belgium and then captured by the Germans. It tells of his life as a suspected spy and POW.
Have You Forgotten Yet?
The First World War Memoirs of C.P. Blacker
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2000
The story of an infantry officer on the Western Front, of the Fourth Battalion of the Coldstream Guards who was awarded the MC. At first he had a relatively safe posting but this preyed on his conscience and asked for front-line duty. This he experiencced in large meaure and his account is hugely...
The Waffen SS on the Eastern Front
A Photographic Record of the Waffen SS in the East
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
This is the illustrated history of the Waffen SS on the Eastern Front. The life and death of the Waffen SS can be traced in the surviving photographs, and the brooding saga of the decline from triumph into disaster is told through these powerful images which clearly document the reality of combat on the Russian Front.
The British at First and Second Ypres
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This new volume in the long-running Images of War series features the actions of the British Army at Ypres from 1914-15. Rare photographs illustrating the optimistic men of the BEF in the act of mobilization and transport to France are contrasted with photographs from the battlefield during the opening...
The BEF in 1917
Arras, Vimy, Messines, Passchendaele and Cambrai
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This new volume in the long-running Images of War series features the actions of the British Army at Passchendaele. The book is comprised of rare photographs illustrating the years of fighting on the northern sector of the Ypres salient, which finally culminated in the capture of the ridge at Passchendaele,...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Rare photographs from both official and unofficial SS sources illustrate the role of the individual in this epic struggle. This is a candid and comprehensive picture of warfare on the Russian Front at the sharp end. These were the men who manned the trenches, climbed mountains and marched across the endless steppe in all seasons.
The German Army on Campaign 1914 - 1918
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This is the photographic history of the German Army on campaign throughout the First World War. The most striking images from the German perspective are gathered here and form a significant historical record of one of the most important events of modern history.
In 1914, the German war machine...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
It is an often overlooked fact that the SS Divisions included Cavalrymen, Paratroopers, Mountain and Ski Battalions and these rare photographs illustrate the unique role played by specialist units in action.
The Panther V in Combat
Guderian's Problem Child
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The Panther V evidenced a number of problems in combat, and this was the proof of the rushed development programme that
was made obvious from the events at Kursk. However, despite its disappointing battlefield debut, the Panther is frequently hailed as the best all round tank of the war.
This...
With the German Guns
four years on the western front
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
At once harrowing and light-hearted, Sulzbach’s exceptional diary has been highly praised since its orginal publication in Germany in 1935. With the reprint of this classic account of trench warfare it records the pride and exhilaration of what to him was the fight for a just cause. It is one of...