Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
Race for the Reichstag
The 1945 Battle for Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Tony Le Tissier’s classic account of the battle for Berlin dispels the myths created by Soviet propaganda and describes in graphic detail the Red Army’s final offensive against Nazi Germany – the race for the Reichstag.
Among the soldiers of the Red Army, Berlin – and the Reichstag...
Passchendaele
The Hollow Victory
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
Passchendaele is one of the most evocative names associated with the Great War. For over 80 years, the battle has epitomized pointless slaughter on an unimaginable scale. The bare statistics are shocking in themselves - the British, French and German armies suffered over half a million casualties...
The Dutch Resistance Revealed
The Inside Story of Courage and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The Dutch resistance movement during the Nazi occupation was bedevilled by treachery, betrayal and poor organization and support from London. Despite these serious problems, the brave men and women of the Dutch resistance who refused to accept domination by their brutal oppressors, made a significant...
Surviving the Death Railway
A POW’s Memoir and Letters from Home
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
The ordeals of the POWs put to slave labour by their Japanese masters on the ‘Burma Railway’ have been well documented yet never cease to shock. It is impossible not to be horrified and moved by their stoic courage in the face of inhuman brutality, appalling hardship and ever-present death.
While...
by Matthew Richardson, Matthew Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Isle of Man at War 1939-45 presents the remarkable story of the Manx people, and their homeland, in the most destructive conflict of the twentieth century.
Few people are now aware of the extraordinary role that this small island played in assisting the allied war effort. Yet for six years,...
In Rommel's Backyard
A memoir of the Long Range Desert Group
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Alastair Timpson belonged to that generation of young men who were propelled straight from public school into the maelstrom of the Second World War. Inured as they had become from quite an early age to discomfort, discipline, indifferent food and absence from home, many appeared to make an effortless...
Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1941-1942
Schwerpunkt
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
The German panzer armies that swept into the Soviet Union in 1941 were an undefeated force that had honed their skill in combined arms warfare to a fine edge. The Germans focused their panzers and tactical air support at points on the battlefield defined as Schwerpunkt - main effort - to smash through...
by Bryan Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
One of the major lessons of World War II was the importance of coastal waters. It was not widely recognised beforehand just how vital the control of such waters would become, both in defending essential convoys as well as attacking those of the enemy, and in paving the way for amphibious landings.
While...
The Fatal Fortress
The Guns and Fortifications of Singapore 1819 - 1953
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
The Fall of Singapore in February 1942 was arguably the greatest disaster suffered by the British Empire. Between 1923 and 1938, the Singapore naval base had been upgraded with some of the largest coast guns ever installed. The guns’ design and incorrect siting have since been blamed for the humiliating...
Soviet Cold War Weaponry
Tanks and Armoured Vehicles
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
The T-54, T-62 and T-72 main battle tanks along with the personnel carriers, assault guns, self-propelled guns and anti-tank missiles that are illustrated in this photographic history represent the high point in the design and manufacture of armoured vehicles by the Soviet Union during the Cold War....
by Wilhelm Adam, Tony Le Tissier
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
'Through his daily involvement with them, Wilhelm Adam is able to perfectly describe the characters involved, the tensions and despair amongst them and the pressure Paulus and his staff found themselves under as the Soviet pincers closed around the men of the abandoned 6th Army. The reader is presented...
by Vassili Subbotin, Tony Le Tissier
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
In 1941 when Germany invaded the Soviet Union Vassili Subbotin was caught up as an ordinary soldier in the Red Army’s great retreat. In 1945, during the final days of the war, as a war correspondent, he went into Berlin with the troops who fought the ferocious final battles in the streets and sealed...
Hitler versus Stalin
The Eastern Front 1944–1945 - Warsaw to Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In the fourth and final volume of Nik Cornish's photographic history of the Second World War on the Eastern Front the defeat of the German army, the destruction and occupation of the cities in eastern Germany and the humiliation of the German people are shown in over 150 mostly unpublished wartime...
The Great War Illustrated 1917
Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Fourth in 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...