Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
Major and Mrs Holts Pocket Battlefield Guide to Ypres and Passchendaele
1st Ypres; 2nd Ypres (Gas Attack); 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele) 4th Ypres (The Lys)
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Covering the important WW1 Battles of Ypres, including the notorious Passchendaele, this guidebook takes readers on a historic trip through some of the well-known and most important sites of the area.This book, part of a new series of guides, is designed conveniently in a small size, for those who...
Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial
In Memory and In Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This is a comprehensive and highly emotive volume, borne of years of intensive research and many trips to the battlefields of the Great War. It seeks to humanise Tyne Cot cemetery, to offer the reader a chance to engage with the personal stories of the soldiers whose names have been chiseled there...
by Christina Holstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This new and enthralling study is the first detailed work in English of a largely unknown period of the Battle of Verdun. It considers the background to the battle and casts light on the first three critical months of fighting there. It explains the decision to change the original German plan for...
The Underground War
Vimy Ridge to Arras
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
This is the first part of a planned four-volume series focusing on a hitherto largely neglected aspect of the Great War on the Western Front - the war underground. The subject has fascinated visitors to the battlefields from the very beginning of battlefield pilgrimages in the years immediately after...
Wellington Against Soult
The Second Invasion of Portugal 1809
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
At the heart of David Buttery’s third book on the Peninsular War lies the comparison between two great commanders of enormous experience and reputation – Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, and Jean de Dieu Soult. In Soult, Wellesley met one of his most formidable opponents and they confronted...
by Nick Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Stafford in the Great War tells the fascinating story of a county town and its people between the catastrophic years of 1914-18 . The title was written as a companion volume to the author's earlier work, Stafford at War 1939-45, and adopts the same successful formula. The book examines the work of...
Sherman Tanks of the British Army and Royal Marines
Normandy Campaign 1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
With production in excess of 55,000 the Sherman tank was eventually in service with most Allied armies of the Second World War and by the time of the Normandy landings was the mainstay of Britain's armored battalions. In his second book in the TankCraft series, Dennis Oliver uses wartime photos...
Investigating Organised Crime and War Crimes
A Personal Account of a Senior Detective in Kosovo, Iraq and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Tony Nott retired from the Dorset Police in 2002 at the rank of superintendent. He had spent most of his service as a detective, and had been involved in the investigation of a number of murder cases and other serious crimes.
In 2000 he led the British forensic team on exhumations in Kosovo...
by Holt, Tonie,
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
This guide book covers the present-day battlefield, and the actions that took place on and immediately behind the D-Day beaches, and Major and Mrs Holt's Pocket Guide to Normandy has been put together to take you around the area.This book, part of a new series of guides, is designed conveniently in...
by David Carter
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 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 Carlisle were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record...
Light Dragoons
The Making of a Regiment
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Although only formed in December 1992, The Light Dragoons look back to a history that began in the days of the first Jacobite rebellion. In 1922 a reduction in the Army’s strength saw the amalgamation of four regiments of Hussars into the 13th/18th Hussars and the 15th/19th Hussars. Now they too...
by Charles Carrington
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Soldier from the Wars Returning is one of the truest, most profound and readable personal accounts of the Great War. The author waited nearly fifty years before writing it, and the perspective of history enhances its value.
He writes only of the battles in which he participated (including the...
by Daniel Mersey
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
The Roman army of the early empire is one of the most instantly recognizable armies and enjoys a reputation for excellence. This and their many famous campaigns against a wide range of colorful foes makes this one of the most popular periods for wargamers. Covering the period from 27BC to AD284, Daniel...
Peninsular Eyewitnesses
The Experience of War in Spain and Portugal 1808-1813
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Many books have been written about the British struggle against Napoleon in the Peninsula. A few recent studies have given a broader view of the ebb and flow of a long war that had a shattering impact on Spain and Portugal and marked the history of all the nations involved. But none of these books...