Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Shadow of Terror over The Sahel, from 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Insurgencies in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere – the majority linked to al Qaeda – are in the news on an almost daily basis. But very little surfaces about a festering insurgency that has been on the go for six years in West Africa under the acronym of AQIM, or al Qaeda in the Islamic...
Recollections of the Great War
Three Years on Campaign in France and Flanders with the Northumberland Fusiliers
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
This rare primary source account is the story of the hard fighting battalion of the 7th Northumberland Fusiliers, which saw action on the Somme, Passchendaele and in the Battle of Arras. This wonderfully detailed account provides a rare insight into the experiences of the common soldier on the front...
by David Buttery
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
The defeat of Napoleon’s French army by the combined forces of Wellington and Blücher at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 was a turning point in world history. This was the climax of the Napoleonic Wars, and the outcome had a major influence on the shape of Europe for the next century and beyond. The battle...
Conflict in the Crimea
British Redcoats on Russian Soil
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2006
The author relies to a great extent on contemporary accounts of a large number of British men - and women - who were unwittingly caught up in this appalling war. As well as surviving the efforts of their determined enemy, the Russians, they had to overcome the harshest weather, rampant disease and...
The Forgotten War Against Napoleon
Conflict in the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The campaigns fought against Napoleon in the Iberian peninsula, in France, Germany, Italy and Russia and across the rest of Europe have been described and analyzed in exhaustive detail, yet the history of the fighting in the Mediterranean has rarely been studied as a separate theater of the conflict....
Desert Warfare
From Its Roman Origins to the Gulf Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Approximately one-fifth of the earth's surface consists of desert, and throughout history these arid regions have witnessed some of the world's most decisive battles. Here, Bryan Perrett gives an absorbing account of desert conflicts from the first century BC to more contemporary conflicts such as...
Roman Republic at War
A Compendium of Roman Battles from 502 to 31 BC
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
In a single volume, Roman Republic at War catalogues and offers a brief description of every significant battle fought by the Roman Republic between 480 and 31 BC (and most of the minor ones too). The information in each entry is drawn exclusively from Ancient texts, in order to offer a brief description...
A Business of Some Heat
The United Nations Force in Cyprus 1972-74
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2004
The island of Cyprus, long troubled by inter-communal strife, exploded onto the world stage with the Athens-inspired coup against President Makarios and Turkey's invasion that followed. This resulted in the partition of the Island, which was policed by UNFICYP under the most testing conditions. These...
Fighter Command’s Air War 1941
RAF Circus Operations and Fighter Sweeps Against the Luftwaffe
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Following the Battle of Britain, the RAF started taking the air war to the Germans. A small number of bombers, escorted by large numbers of fighters tried to force the Luftwaffe into battle. Much air combat ensued with RAF light bombers escorted by scores of fighters, but it was not until Germany...
Wellington & Napoleon
Clash of Arms
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Wellington and Napoleon tells the story of the convergence and final clash of two of the most brilliant commanders ever to meet on the field of battle. Wellington, his men said, did not know how to lose a battle. But Wellington himself admired his adversary
The Battle of Fontenoy 1745
Saxe against Cumberland in the War of the Austrian Succession
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The Battle of Fontenoy marked a turning point in the War of the Austrian Succession, yet it has rarely been analyzed in depth and the Europe-wide conflict in which it played a part is little understood. James Falkner, in this perceptive and original account, puts the record straight by describing...
by John D. Grainger
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Egypt was the last of the Macedonian Successor states to be swallowed up by Roman expansion. The Ptolemaic rulers had allied themselves to Rome while their rivals went down fighting. However, Cleopatra's famous love affair with Marc Antony ensured she was on the wrong side of the Roman civil war between...
Waves of Hate
Naval Atrocities of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
Whilst researching his earlier book Sea Killers in Disguise, the author unearthed a rich stem of incidents at sea which happened during the two World Wars that shocked and surprised him. This book is the result of further in-depth study covering the Second World War. It reveals a long catalogue of...
Escape Artist
The Incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
The never-before-told story of World War II escape artist extraordinaire, Johnny Peck.
In August 1941, an eighteen-year-old Australian soldier made his first prison break – an audacious night-time escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp in Crete. Astoundingly, this was only the first of...