Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
From the Marne to Verdun
The War Diary of Captain Charles Delvert, 101st Infantry, 1914–1916
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Charles Delvert’s diary records his career as a front-line officer in the French army fighting the Germans during the First World War. It is one of the classic accounts of the war in French or indeed in any other language, and it has not been translated into English before. In precise, graphic detail...
The German Army on Vimy Ridge
1914/1917
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
The book starts with on the capture of Vimy Ridge and the nearly spur of Notre Dame de Lorette in October 1914. The major battles of spring and autumn 1915 is described as is the twelve month period from late autumn 1915 when British forces occupied the lines on the western Ridge. The period from...
Hitler: A Life in Pictures
The Official Third Reich Publication
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
This exceptional source is probably the best of the contemporary accounts of Hitler in power, albeit from a heavily pro-Nazi stance. The testimonies collected together were based on interviews conducted by Heinz A. Heinz in 1933 and 1934, shortly after Hitler had taken power.
Millions of ordinary...
The Gestapo on Trial
Evidence from Nuremberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
The Nuremberg Trials were held by the four victorious Allied forces of Great Britain, the USA, France and the USSR in the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg from November 1945 to October 1946. Famous for prosecuting the major German war criminals, they also tried the various groups and organisations that...
Ypres
Contemporary Combat Images from the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
This powerful collection, depicting the grim realities of the four-year struggle for the Ypres salient, showcases the work of the contemporary combat artists and illustrators from the Great War era. Included here are the works of serious artists, propagandists, illustrators and humourists. The result...
Trench Warfare
Contemporary Combat Images from the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This powerful collection, depicting the grim events of trench warfare, showcases the work of the contemporary combat artists and illustrators from the Great War era. Included here are the works of serious artists, propagandists, illustrators and humorists. The result is a stunning and vivid graphic...
Der Adler
The Official Nazi Luftwaffe Magazine- English Language edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Der Adler was the official magazine of the Luftwaffe in World War II. In the years before Hitler declared war on America an English language edition of Der Adler costing eight cents was published and widely sold in the USA. The magazine was available on American news stands and the surviving English...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The 1st of July 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, was the blackest day in the history of the British Army. 60,000 men became casualties on that one day alone.
In a major new documentary film premiering on the Discovery Channel next year, Emmy Award winning film maker Bob Carrruthers...
by Richard Van Emden
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Benjamin Clouting was just sixteen years old when he embarked with the British Expeditionary Force for France in August 1914. The youngest man in the 4th Dragoon Guards, he took part in the BEF's celebrated first action at Casteau on August 22nd, and, two days later, had his horse shot from under...
The Road to Passchendaele
The Heroic Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly regarded series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once again, using the winning formula of diaries and memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on illegally held cameras by the soldiers themselves, Richard...
by Richard Van Emden
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
1918: The Final Year of the Great War to Armistice is the next volume in the remarkable series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Revisiting the winning formula of diaries and memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on illegally-held cameras by the...
Dangerous Frontiers
Campaigning in Somaliland and Oman
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
In Part 1 of his book the author describes his life as a young officer in the Somaliland Scouts in the (then) British Protectorate of Somaliland. At that time tribal quarrels, generally over water, were taking place in the troubled strip of country between the Protectorate and Ethiopia; the Ogaden....
SS Einsatzgruppen
Nazi Death Squads, 1939–1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In June 1941, Adolf Hitler, whose loathing of Slavs and Jewish Bolsheviks knew no bounds, launched Operation Barbarossa, throwing 4 million troops, supported by tanks, artillery and aircraft into the Soviet Union. Operational groups of the German Security Service, SD, followed into the Baltic and...
The Welsh at War
Through Mud to Victory: Third Ypres and the 1918 Offensives
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
The Welsh at War trilogy is the culmination of over twelve years of painstaking research by the author into the Welsh men and infantry units who fought in the Great War.
These units included the four regular regiments – the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, South Wales Borderers Welsh Regiment and Welsh...