Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
Armoured Warfare and the Fall of France
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
At 21:00 on 9 May 1940 Codeword Danzig was issued alerting Adolf Hitler's airborne troops that they were about to spearhead an attack on Belgium and the Netherlands. The following day his blitzkrieg rolled forward striking the British Expeditionary Force and the French armies in Belgium and in northern...
The Panther Tank
Hitler’s T-34 Killer
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Along with the Tiger, Sherman and T-34, the Panther ranks as one of the most famous tanks of the Second World War. Anthony Tucker-Jones, in this comprehensive new study of a remarkable fighting vehicle, uses over 100 archive photographs, along with a selection of colour profiles, to describe its design,...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The Battle of the Bulge took the Allied armies by surprise in 1944. It was a result of the extraordinary recovery of Hitler’s panzer divisions following crushing defeats on the Eastern and Western fronts. In a daring offensive he hoped his panzers would unhinge the American and British push on the...
The Iraq War
Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The Iraq War is a visual record of the American-led Operation Iraqi Freedom of 2003, which resulted in the dramatic overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein. In a striking sequence of photographs Anthony Tucker-Jones shows how this was achieved by the American and British armed forces in a lightning campaign...
The Panzer IV
Hitler's Rock
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
The Panzerkampfwagen Mk IV proved to be the one constant in Hitler's Panzerwaffe throughout the Second World War - the German equivalent of the American Sherman and the Soviet T-34\. In this companion volume to his best-selling visual histories of the Tiger and Panther tanks, Anthony Tucker-Jones...
T-54/55
The Soviet Army's Cold War Main Battle Tank
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The Soviet T-54/55 is probably the best-known tank of the Cold War, and it was produced in greater numbers that any other tank in history. It first went into service just after the Second World War and over 70,000 were made, and its design was so successful that it even outlasted its successor the...
German Assault Guns and Tank Destroyers 1940 - 1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The assault guns and tank destroyers deployed by the Wehrmacht during the Second World War are not as famous as tanks like the Tiger and Panther, but they were remarkably successful, and they are the subject of Anthony Tucker-Jones's wide-ranging photographic history. As the conflict progressed, the...
Armoured Warfare in the First World War
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
A hundred years ago, on 15 September 1916, on the Western Front during the Battle of the Somme, the tank made its debut on the battlefield. The first tanks were crude, unreliable, vulnerable weapons, but they changed the character of land warfare forever, and Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic history...
Panzer III
Hitler's Beast of Burden
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The Panzerkampfwagen III Panzer III was one of the German army's principal tanks of the Second World War, yet its history is often overlooked in comparison to its more famous successors the Panzer IV, Panther and Tiger. Anthony Tucker-Jones, in this volume in the Images of War series, provides a visual...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Operation Market Garden, September 1944, the Netherlands. Three parachute drops and one armored charge. The prize was the last bridge at Arnhem over the Neder Rijn. Taken intact it would provide the Allies with a backdoor into Germany – the famous ‘Bridge Too Far.’ This was one of the most audacious...
Panzer I and II
The Birth of Hitler's Panzerwaffe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
While the Panzer I and II are not as famous as the German tanks produced later in the Second World War, they played a vital role in Hitler's early blitzkrieg campaigns and in the Nazi rearmament program pursued, at first in secret, by the Nazi regime during the 1930s. Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic...
Armoured Warfare and the Waffen-SS 1944-1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Over 150 wartime photographs give a graphic snapshot of the dramatic tank battles fought by the Waffen-SS panzer and panzergrenadier divisions during 1944-5 on both the Eastern and Western fronts. By this stage of the Second World War these formations were at the height of their powers and took part...
Daesh
Islamic State’s Holy War
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Anthony Tucker-Jones is only too familiar with the modern architects of terror. For the past decade and a half he has worked as the terrorism and security correspondent for the highly respected intersec – The Journal of International Security. During that time he has written extensively on al Qaeda...
by Basil Collier
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
In his Foreword, Professor Jones writes 'Mr Collier takes the opportunity to review the contributions of all forms of Intelligence, and the use and misuse that was made of them, in all the major phases of World War II. His task has required very wide reading of the great volume of original documents...