Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
The Welsh at War
From Mons to Loos & the Gallipoli Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Welsh at War – From Mons to Loos and the Gallipoli Tragedy is the culmination of twelve years of painstaking research by the author into the 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...
The Welsh at War
The Grinding War: The Somme and Arras
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
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...
Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide to Operation Market Garden
Leopoldsburg-Eindhoven-Nijmegen-Arnhem-Oosterbeek
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Like the other books in the Holts' acclaimed Battlefield Guide Series (see inside front cover for details) this is much more than just a guidebook. It charts in fascinating detail what happened at each recommended stop and brings alive, with cameos and personal recollections, the dramatic events of...
Lost at Sea Found at Fukushima
The Story of a Japanese POW
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
On a calm, tropical afternoon in the South Atlantic Ocean in April 1942, a British tramp steamer, the SS Willesden, was shelled, torpedoed and sunk by a German raider, the KMS Thor. The Willesden was carrying 47 officers and crew, and a cargo of vital war supplies destined for Britain’s 8th Army...
D-Day
By Those Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2004
Drawing upon a new international archive of the Second World War, the support of veterans world-wide and from archives overseas, the author uses previously unpublished letters, diaries, photographs and reminiscences to tell the story of D Day in a way which brings the reader closer to the actual experience....
Sea and Air Fighting
Those Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This is a compelling book for lovers of sea and air stories from the Great War era. In the thirteen stories told by the participants, many of whom were decorated for bravery, they describe their experiences of events: stories of luck, tenacity, courage, extreme danger, excitement and bravery. Also...
by Matthew Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
What was the soldier’s experience of the Battle of the Somme? How did the men who were there record their part in the fighting or remember it afterwards? How can we, 100 years later, gain an insight into one of the most famous – and contentious - episodes of the Great War?
Matthew Richardson’s...
The Burgoyne Diaries
The First Winter at Ypres with the Irish Rifles
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
These are the diaries of Gerald Achilles Burgoyne, wrote from the trenches just south of Ypres while he was with the Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War.
The author's daughter, Claudia Davison, was not even born when these diaries were originally written and was only 12-years-old when her father...
Battlefield Yorkshire
From the Romans to the English Civil Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
Yorkshire's past is replete with bloody battles and sieges. From the earliest times armies have marched across the Yorkshire countryside and have fought for control of the land, the towns and the cities. Roman, Viking, Norman and the Scottish invaders have all contributed ruthless episodes to the...
by John Grehan
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The Napoleonic Wars was truly a world-wide conflict and Britain found itself engaged in battles, sieges and amphibious operations around the globe. Following every battle the commanding officer submitted a report back to the Admiralty or the War Office. Presented here together for the first time are...
Western Front 1914-1916
Mons, Le Cataeu, loos, the Battle of the Somme
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914, to the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the fighting on the Western Front in France and Flanders never stopped. There were quiet periods, just as there were the most intense, savage, huge-scale battles.
The war on the...
The BEF in France 1939-1940
Manning the Front Through to the Dunkirk Evacuation
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the British force in Europe from 1939–1940 during the Second World War. Commanded by General Lord Gort, the BEF constituted one-tenth of the defending Allied force.
The British Expeditionary Force was started in 1938 in readiness for a perceived threat...
The Boer War 1899-1902
Ladysmith, Megersfontein, Spion Kop, Kimberley and Mafeking
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic, the First Boer War (1880–1881) was a rebellion by the Boers (farmers) against British rule in the Transvaal that re-established their independence. The engagements that it...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The fighting in the Gallipoli or Dardanelles campaign began in 1915 as a purely naval affair undertaken partly at the instigation of Winston Churchill, who, as First Lord of the Admiralty, had entertained plans of capturing the Dardanelles as early as September 1914. It was the Royal Navy that bore...