Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
VCs of the North
Cumbria, Durham & Northumberland
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Today the Victoria Cross remains the supreme British award for bravery. It takes precedence over all other awards and decorations. During its 160-year history, since the first medals were given for gallantry during the Crimean War in the 1850s, 1,357 of these medals have been won, and almost fifty...
China Station
The British Militry in the Middle Kingdom 1839-1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The Author, who lives in Shanghai, sets out to demonstrate that the British military has been at the forefront of many of the great changes that have swept China over the last two centuries.
He devotes chapters to the various wars, military adventures and rebellions that regularly punctuated...
by Kenneth L. Privratsky
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
While many books have been written on the Falklands War, this is the first to focus on the vital aspect of logistics. The challenges were huge; the lack of preparation time; the urgency; the huge distances involved; the need to requisition ships from trade to name but four.
After a brief discussion...
by Michael Carver
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
In THE WAR LORDS, Field Marshal Lord Carver has assembled an engrossing series of short, detailed biographies of forty-three of the dominant military commanders of the twentieth century century, American, British, German and French: Field-Marshal the Earl Alexander, E.H.H. Allenby, Claude Auchinleck,...
Waffen SS on the Western Front
Rare photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book in the popular Images of War series covers the deeds of the Waffen-SS on the Western Front during the Second World War. With extensive text and in-depth captions with many rare and unpublished photographs it describes the fighting tactics, the uniforms, the battles and the different elements...
Dervish
The Rise and Fall of an African Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Dervish is the vivid and colourful story of one of the more remarkable episodes in the ‘high Empire’ period of British history. The Mahdi’s rising in the Sudan in the 1880s starting as a localized Holy War against the ‘decadent’ Turkish/Egyptian overlords, engulfed a million square miles...
King Stephen and The Anarchy
Civil War and Military Tactics in Twelfth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The Anarchy, the protracted struggle between Stephen of Blois and the Empress Matilda for the English crown between 1135 and 1154, is often seen as a disastrous breakdown in one of the best-governed kingdoms of medieval Europe. But perhaps the impact of the conflict has been overstated, and its effect...
Sharing the Secret
The History of the Intelligence Corps 1940-2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
While written under the auspices of the Trustees of the Military Intelligence Museum, Sharing the Secret is not an academic regimental history. Rather it gives a privileged glimpse into a necessarily publicity-shy organization that has been deeply involved in military intelligence operations since...
Commando to Captain-Generall
The Life of Brigadier Peter Young
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
This is the story of Brigadier Peter Young (1915-1988), a highly decorated soldier who was one of the founding members of 3 Commando, rising during WWII from 2 Lt to Brigadier in the space of 6 years. His battle honours include Vaagso, Dieppe, Sicily, Italy, Normandy and Burma. A career soldier, he...
by Roy Fullick, Geoffrey Powell
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2006
The events that followed President Nasser of Egypts nationalisation of the Suez Canal on 26 July 1956 were as dramatic as they were painful to Britains standing in the world. The authors of this fascinating book describe the unfolding disaster in detail and explain why lack of success was almost inevitable....
by Craig Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Morpeth played a key role in Northumberland's war effort. As a market town and the seat of government of the county authority, the town was significant in the coordination of Northumberland’s war effort. With a wide rural hinterland, it played a huge part in the production and dispersal of vital...
by Stephen John Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Throughout the First World War, London played a major part in Great Britain's war effort, both at home and abroad. A far as Germany was concerned, the city was their ultimate goal – the ultimate target that would bring them the sought-after victory they so desired.
With the British Royal...
Armies of Early Colonial North America 1607–1713
History, Organization and Uniforms
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Gabriele Esposito presents a detailed overview of the military history of Colonial North America during its earliest period, from the first colonial settlement in Jamestown to the end of the first continental war fought in the Americas. He follows the development of organization and uniforms not only...
Armies of the Hellenistic States 323 BC - AD 30
History, Organization and Equipment
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
This book provides a complete and detailed analysis of the organization and equipment employed by the armies of the Hellenistic States. After Alexander the Great’s death in 323 BC, his immense Macedonian empire was divided between his ambitious generals, who in turn formed their own monarchies across...