Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
by Michael Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Bois de Fourcaux, a luxuriant woodland covering 75 acres, set in the area of the battlefields of the Somme, dominates the surrounding landscape today, as it did in the summer of the year 1916. Known to the British Army as ‘High Wood’, the invading Germans had occupied the wood as it proved to...
by Brian Harding
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
For the millions who had fought in the Great War, and for their families, the 'land fit for heroes' turned out to be an illusion; instead there was suffering and deprivation. Out of this, on 1 July 1921 was born the British Legion. In the years that followed the Legion fought for justice for the ex-service...
Disasters of the Deep
A Comprehensive Survey of Submarine Accidents & Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
This is the fully revised and updated edition of the first comprehensive account of every peacetime submarine disaster from 1774 to the present day. By examining many of the sinkings in considerable detail, analysing what went wrong and describing attempts made to rescue the crew and vessel, Edwyn Gray traces the development of the submarine.
Emperors of Rome: The Monsters
From Tiberius to Theodora, AD 14–548
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
As with everything else, there were good and bad Roman emperors. The good, like Trajan (98–117), Hadrian (117–138), Antoninus Pius (138–161) and Marcus Aurelius (161–180) were largely civilized and civilizing. The bad, on the other hand, were sometimes nothing less than monsters, exhibiting...
Battleground Sussex
A Military History of Sussex From the Iron Age to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
From its south-eastern tip Sussex is little more than sixty miles from continental Europe and the county’s coastline, some seventy-six miles long, occupies a large part of Britain’s southern frontier. Before the days of Macadam and the Turnpike, water travel could prove more certain than land...
by Philip Jowett
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
The 1937-1945 war between China and Japan was one of the most bitter conflicts of the twentieth century. It was a struggle between the two dominant peoples of Asia. Millions of soldiers fought on each side and millions of soldiers and civilians died. Philip Jowett's book is one of the first photographic...
by Richard Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
They could arrest and imprison anyone at any time. They murdered civilians. They wore a strange mixture of dark green tunics, khaki rousers, black belts and odd headgear, including civilian felt hats. The Irish named them after a famous pack of wild dogs on County Limerick – The Black and Tans.
Although...
by Burton, Pierre
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
On Easter Monday 1917 with a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France seized and held the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front - the muddy scarp of Vimy Ridge. The British had failed to take the Ridge, and so had the French who had lost 150,000...
by Nicholas Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Engraved shell-cases, bullet-crucifixes, letter openers and cigarette lighters made of shrapnel and cartridges, miniature airplanes and tanks, talismanic jewelry, embroidery, objects carved from stone, bone and wood – all of these things are trench art, the misleading name given to the dazzling...
Letters from the Trenches
The First World War by Those Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
A history of the First World War told through the letters exchanged by ordinary British soldiers and their families.
Letters from the Trenches reveals how people really thought and felt during the conflict and covers all social classes and groups – from officers to conscripts and women at home...
Gilgit Rebelion
The Major Who Mutinied Over Partition of India
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
In 1942 William Brown was posted as a recently commissioned Indian Army Officer to the Gilgit Agency in the very north of the North West Frontier. He travelled widely, learnt the local dialects and built the Chilas Polo ground. After a brief period away from Gilgit, just prior to Partition in early...
In the Service of the Sultan: A first-hand account of the Dhofar Insurgency
A first-hand account of the Dhofar Insurgency
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2007
While the Americans were fighting in Vietnam, a struggle of even greater strategic significance was taking place in the Middle East: the Sultanate of Oman guards the entrance to the Arabian Gulf, and thus controls the movement of oil from that region. In the 1960s and 70s, the Communists tried to...
The Journey’s End Battalion
The 9th East Surrey in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
R.C. Sherriff, author of Journey’s End, the most famous play of the Great War, saw all his front line service with the 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. This intense experience profoundly affected his writing and, through his play, it continues to have a powerful influence on our understanding...
The Somme
The Epic Battle in the Soldiers' own Words and Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The offensive on the Somme took place between July and November 1916 and is perhaps the most iconic battle of the Great War. It was there that Kitchener’s famous ‘Pals’ Battalions were first sent into action en masse and it was a battlefield where many of the dreams and aspirations of a nation,...