Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books

by Tony Rea
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016

South Devon in the Great War provides the first definitive history of events in this part of Devon during the First World War, with more than fifty pictures, some unpublished for 100 years. The author's succinct and engaging text is further enhanced by a unique set of then and now photographs, and...
by Ruth Mansergh
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

This book is about how Barrow's output of war materials was vital to the Great War effort, and it is about the Barrovians and men from the surrounding south Lakeland area - from all walks of life - who fought abroad, and the area's women war heroes. It includes background information on the history...

The Phantom Major

The Story of David Stirling and the SAS Regiment

by Virginia Cowles
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011

In the dark and uncertain days of 1941 and 1942, when Rommel’s Afrika Korps was sweeping towards Egypt and the Suez Canal, a small group of daring raiders made history for the Allies. They operated deep behind the German lines, driving hundreds of miles through the deserts of North Africa. They...

Secret SAS Missions in Africa

C Squadron’s Counter-Terrorist Operations 1968–1980

by Michael Graham
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017

This fascinating book is the first to cover the little known C Squadron of the Special Air Service. Operating in East Africa, the Squadron was involved in almost continuous counter communist terrorist operations over the period 1968 to 1980. In the unstable final stages of British colonial...

The Roman Barbarian Wars

The Era of Roman Conquest

by Ludwig Heinrich Dyck
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015

The history of the 'barbarian' peoples of Europe is filled with dramatic wars and migrations along with charismatic and often farsighted leaders. Inevitably, their greatest challenge was their struggle with the renowned military might of Rome. Even when outnumbered and faced by better equipped and...

From Warsaw to Rome

General Anders' Exiled Polish Army in the Second World War

by Martin Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017

In May 1944, 40,000 Polish soldiers attacked and captured the hilltops of Monte Cassino, bringing to a close the largest, bloodiest battle fought by the western Allies in the Second World War. Days later the Allied armies marched into Rome seizing the first Axis capital. No-one in 1939 could...

On the Roads of War

A Soviet Cavalryman on the Eastern Front

by Yakushin, Ivan
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005

Ivan Yakushin survived the Siege of Leningrad, fought at the Battle of Kursk and pursued the retreating German army through Russia, Belorussia, Poland and into Germany itself. This is the story of his war. He tells the tale in his own words, with remarkable clarity of recall, and gives an authentic...

Dawn of Victory, Thank You China!

Star Shell Reflections 1918–1919

by Jim Maultsaid
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017

Jim Maultsaid’s third and final book, The Dawn of Victory, Thank You China! is based on his service with the 169 Chinese Labour Corps (CLC) between 1918 – 1919. There were 96,000 Chinese volunteer in the CLC and their achievements have gone largely unrecognized for 100 years. As Jim Maultsaid’s...

We Fought at Kohima

At Veteran's Account

by Raymond Street
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015

The Japanese advance through Thailand, Malaya and Burma appeared unstoppable and the fate of India looked utterly precarious. The garrison of the Kohima outpost numbering some 1500 British and Indian Army soldiers faced over 13,000 fanatical and previously victorious Japanese troops. The following...

The Will to Live

A japanese POWs Memoir of Captivity and The Railway

by Len Baynes
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013

The Author kept a diary recording his 1,000 days of captivity at the hands of the Japanese army. The difficulties and risks involved in this task were immense, yet he persevered although it meant deliberately defacing and cutting up the small pieces of paper. As a result, his memoir is both contemporaneous...

Never Surrender

Dramatic Escapes from Japanese Prison Camps

by Felton, Mark
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013

While there have been many fine books covering the appalling experiences and great courage of the many thousands of POWscaptured by the victorious Japanese during late 1941 and early 1942, escape accounts are much rarer. This is due in large part tothe fact that only a comparatively small number of...

Life on the Death Railway

The Memoirs of a British POW

by Stuart Young
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013

As a young man Stuart Young endured the horrors of the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and survived. Later in life, in graphic detail, he recorded the experience – the dreadful conditions, the brutal treatment, the sickness and starvation, the merciless routine of forced labour. Yet he also recorded...

Belisarius

The Last Roman General

by Hughes, Ian
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009

A military history of the campaigns of Belisarius, the greatest general of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor Justinian. He twice defeated the Persians and reconquered North Africa from the Vandals in a single year at the age of 29, before going on to regain Spain and Italy, including Rome (briefly),...

Fields of Battle

Retracing Ancient Battlefields

by Richard Evans
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015

Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and sieges to seek new insights. The battle narratives in ancient sources can be a thrilling read and form the basis of our knowledge of these epic events, but they can just as often provide an incomplete or obscure record....
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