Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
The Gulf War
Operation Desert Storm 1990-1991
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Each stage in the Gulf War, the liberation by American-led UN forces of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait in 1990-91, is vividly described in this photographic history. Over 180 photographs provide a remarkable visual account of Operation Desert Storm in the air, at sea and on land, and they show the vast array...
In the Teeth of the Wind
Memoirs of the Royal Navy Air Service in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
So rapid have been the advances in the science of aeronautics since the end of the First World War that it requires a considerable feat of imagination to cast one's mind back over the comparatively short period of seventy years to the days when Flight Commander Bartlett of the Royal Naval Air Service...
The Strike Wings
Special Anti-Shipping Squadrons 1942-45
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
In November 1942, the RAF formed special Strike Wings to attack the heavily defended and seemingly invulnerable convoys that brought Germany’s vital supplies of iron ore from Scandinavia down the coast of Europe to feed its war machine. The outcome was a series sea/air battles at close quarters,...
by Symeon Mark Waller
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Doncaster were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record...
Air Raid Shelters of the Second World War
Family Stories of Survival in the Blitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
This book features the design, creation and use of air raid shelters, including interviews with people who used them during the Second World War. The different types of bunkers/air raid shelters (both public and in people’s gardens) are covered and the strength and weakness of their designs discussed,...
Real War Horses
The Experience of the British Cavalry 1814 - 1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Many histories have been written about the conflicts the British army was involved in between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War. There are detailed studies of campaigns and battles and general accounts of the experiences of the soldiers. But this book by Anthony Dawson is the first to...
A Wander Through Wartime London
Five Walks Revisiting the Blitz
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Through a series of five walks this book discovers the sights, sounds and experience of the capital at war; it details the remaining tangible evidence of the dark days via air raid shelter signs, bomb damage on buildings and memorials detailing heroic and often tragic events. The new routes cover...
The First Day on the Somme
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
After an immense but useless bombardment, at 7.30 am. On 1 July 1916 the British Army went over the top and attacked the German trenches. It was the first day of the battle of the Somme, and on that day the British suffered nearly 60,000 casualties, two for every yard of their front. With more than...
Passchendaele in Perspective
The Third Battle of Ypres
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Passchendaele In Perspective explores the context and real nature of the participants’ experience, evaluates British and German High Command, the aerial and maritime dimensions of the battle, the politicians and manpower debates on the home front and it looks at the tactics employed, the weapons...
Victory on the Western Front
The Development of the British Army 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Marshal Foch, the Generalissimo of the Allied Armies during the last stages of the First World War, commenting on the victories won during the Hundred Days when the Germans were driven back on the Western Front, said ‘Never at any time in history has the British army achieved greater results in...
by Ted Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
Concentrating on the Ploegsteert and Neuve Eglise sectors in Belgium, this book features stories on such well known figures as sculptor Charles Sargent Jagger, ARA ; R Poulton Palmer and 'Tanky' Turner, great friends and rugby football captains of England and Scotland respectively; as well the discovery...
The Great War Illustrated 1914
Archive and Colour Photographs of WW!
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
First of a series of five titles which will cover each year of the war graphically. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to become...
Britain Goes to War
How the First World War Began to Reshape the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The First World War had a profound impact on British society and on British relations with continental Europe, the Dominions, the United States and the emerging Soviet Union. The pre-war world was transformed, and the world that we recognize today began to take shape. That is why, 100 years after...
by Barnaby Blacker
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
Stewart Blacker was a remarkable figure. His inventions were used with significant effect both in WW1 and WW2. Most notable of these was the synchronised machine gun, attached to fighter planes that could fire through the propeller. He also designed the PIAT anti tank weapon which was used with dramatic...