Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
Double Agent Celery
MI5's Crooked Hero
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon with the seemingly impossible mission of persuading the Germans he was a traitor and then extract crucial...
Yorkshire Women at War
Story of the Women's Land Army Hostels
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
In Yorkshire, 2015 marks the centenary of the founding of the first Land Girl Hostel, near Boroughbridge, by Lady Margery Lawson Tancred. Yorkshire Women at War deals with the Women's Land Army Hostel policy during the First World War and it is the first exhaustive account to examine hostel life in...
Londoners on the Western Front
The 58th (2/1st London) Division on the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
In spite of all the books written on the First World War, some remarkable stories still remain untold, and that of the 58th London Division is one of the most neglected. A territorial formation, lacking the glamour of the old army or the Kitchener Volunteers, the 58th never received an official history...
Cawnpore & Lucknow
A Tale of Two Sieges- Indian Mutiny
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
Following the May 1857 uprising by sepoys in Meerut and Delhi, the whole future of the British Raj was in the balance. Nowhere was this better demonstrated than at Lucknow and Cawnpore. At the latter a garrison of 240 with 375 British women and children battled to survive a siege by 3,000 mutineers...
Eyewitnesses at the Somme
A Muddy and Bloody Campaign 1916–1918
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In 1915, news of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landing and the slaughter at Gallipoli stirred tens of thousands of young men to go to war.
They answered the call and formed battalions of the Australian Imperial Force. By the time the new recruits were combat ready, the campaign...
The Jihadist Threat
The Re-conquest of the west?
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
This timely and controversial book examines the international and domestic threats to the West from Jihadism. It joins the dots in the Middle East, Asia and Africa and explains what it means for the home front, mainly Britain but also continental Europe and the USA. More Brits are trying to join the...
Political Wings
William Wedgwood Benn, first Viscount Stansgate
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This is the first biography of Rt. Hon. William Wedgwood Benn DSO, DFC, first Viscount Stansgate, cabinet minister under MacDonald and Attlee, Air Commodore with active service in both World Wars, defector from the Liberals to Labour over his dispute with Lloyd George, and father of Tony Benn. Benn...
British Widows of the First World War
The Forgotten Legion
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Widows of the Great War is the first major account of the experience of women who had to cope with the death of their husbands during the conflict and then rebuild their lives. It explores each stage of their bereavement, from the shock of receiving the news that their husband had been killed, through...
by David A Finlayson, Michael K Cecil
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Pioneers of Armour in the Great War tells the story of the only Australian mechanized units of the Great War. The 1st Australian Armoured Car Section, later the 1st Australian Light Car Patrol, and the Special Tank Section were among the trailblazers of mechanization and represented the cutting edge...
Waterloo: Rout and Retreat
The French Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This, the fourth volume in Andrew Field's highly praised study of the Waterloo campaign from the French perspective, depicts in vivid detail the often neglected final phase – the rout and retreat of Napoleon's army. The text is based exclusively on French eyewitness accounts which give an inside...
Tracing your Great War Ancestors: Ypres
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Do you have an ancestor who served at Ypres in the First World War, during the four years in which the city was in the front line? Perhaps you have thought of visiting the battlefields nearby and the monuments that commemorate them, and want to find out exactly where your ancestor served and what...
by Eugenia Russell, Quentin Russell
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
This book highlights the importance of Watford as a regional centre within South West Herts during the years of the Great War as well as the cohesion of the local area and the impact events and initiatives had on the entire region. The organization and presence of the Army are discussed before focusing...
by Kristen Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
During the summer and autumn of 1940, the Germans launched their Luftwaffe campaign to gain superiority over the RAF, especially Fighter Command. They were not successful, and this defeat marked a turning point in the Allies' favour. This is the story of eight Australian fighter pilots engaged in...
by Andrew Rawson
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book answers one of biggest unanswered questions asked by visitors to the Somme; where did my ancestor fight? The combination of First World War battle accounts and annotated trench maps throughout this book, explains exactly what happened and where, and indexed orders of battle give the reader...