Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
Waterloo General
The Life, Letters and Mysterious Death of Major General Sir William Ponsonby 1772 - 1815
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
At the Battle of Waterloo Sir William Ponsonby, a man who the Duke of Wellington stated had ‘rendered very brilliant and important services and was an ornament to his profession’, was killed by French lancers after leading the Union Brigade (the three Dragoon Regiments of the Royals, Iniskillings...
The Two Battles of Copenhagen 1801 and 1807
Britain and Denmark in the Napoleonic Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
The Danish capital of Copenhagen was the site of two major battles during the Napoleonic Wars, but the significance of the fighting there, and the key role the country played in the conflict in northern Europe, has rarely been examined in detail. In this absorbing and original study Gareth Glover...
Coastal Command's Air War Against the German U-Boats
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
This book summarises the story of how RAF Coastal Command overcame the German U-boat danger during the Second World War and how the escalation of the U-boat war promoted the development of anti-submarine warfare, leading to victory over this menace in the Atlantic.
At the start of the war, RAF...
by Roy Conyers Nesbit
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
The struggle of British, Commonwealth and American-Chinese troops against the Japanese in Burma was one of the decisive campaigns of the Second World War. British India was threatened by the Japanese advance, the fate of the British Empire in the East hung in the balance. The tropical climate –...
World War Two at Sea
The Last Battleships
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The big-gun battleship served as a symbol of the ultimate power of the world's greatest navies beginning late in the nineteenth century and continuing into the Second World War. So historically important was this vessel that the arms race between Britain and Germany to build navies with larger, more...
U-boat Prey: Merchant Sailors at War, 1939-1942
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
“The Merchant Seaman never faltered. To him we owe our preservation and our very lives” - The Right Hon. Alfred Barnes, Minister of War Transport.
During the first stages of the Second World War, all forces were rallied in an attempt to support the Allied effort. With trade and supply routes...
The Fighting Cocks
43 (Fighter) Squadron
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
In April 1916, a group of early aviators gathered in the fields beneath the crags and ramparts of Stirling Castle to form what was to become one of the Royal Air Force’s most distinguished fighter squadrons.
Few squadrons can match the history of 43 Squadron which has included being the first...
Fleet Air Arm Carrier War
The History of British Naval Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
This is the story of British naval flying from aircraft carriers, from its conception in World War One to the present day. It includes the types of aircraft and the men who flew them, the carriers and the evolution of their designs, the theatres of war in which they served and their notable achievements...
Sparta
Fall of a Warrior Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Universally admired in 479 BC, the Spartans were masters of the Greek world by 402 BC, only for their state to collapse in the next generation. What went wrong? Was the fall of Sparta inevitable? Philip Matyszak examines the political blunders and failures of leadership which combined with unresolved...
by Owen Rees
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This book presents a selection of eighteen land battles and sieges that span the Classical Greek period, from the Persian invasions to the eclipse of the traditional hoplite heavy infantry at the hands of the Macedonians. This of course is the golden age of the hoplite phalanx but Owen Rees is keen...
Tiger I and Tiger II: Tanks of the German Army and Waffen-SS
Eastern Front 1944
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
In spite of the relatively small numbers produced, the Tiger I and Tiger II tanks are arguably the most famous armoured fighting vehicles of the Second World War. This book, the first in the TankCraft series, uses archive photos and extensively researched colour illustrations to examine the tanks...
Wellington's Peninsular War
Battles and Battlefields
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2005
Wellington's Peninsular War provides a concise and comprehensive account that can be enjoyed by both professional and amateur historians and which includes details of the battlefields as they are today and how to find and explore them. The Peninsular War (1808-1841) was part of the twenty year struggle...
Wellington's Eastern Front
The Campaign on the East Coast of Spain 1810-1814
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
At last, in this absorbing and authoritative study, the story of the epic struggle on Spain’s eastern front during the Peninsular War has been told. Often overlooked as not integral to the Duke of Wellington’s main army and their campaigns in Portugal and western Spain, they were, in point of...
by Adrian Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Alex, as he was known whether by Prime Ministers or the rank-and-file, was a legendary figure. A hero from the Great War he saw active service in Russia in 1919 – 20 and against the Pathans on the North West Frontier in 1935. By 1940 he was a divisional commander with the B.E.F. in France. His conduct...