Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
The Great War Illustrated 1918
Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The final book in a series of five titles which graphically cover each year of the war. 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...
The Russian Army in the First World War
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
For 100 years little attention has been paid to the Russian army that fought the Germans and the Austro-Hungarians in the First World War on the Eastern Front. Yet the Tsar's army played a critical part in the global conflict and was engaged in a sequence of shattering campaigns that were waged on...
Hitler versus Stalin: The Eastern Front 1942 - 1943
Stalingrad to Kharkov
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The second year of the Second World War on the Eastern Front was dominated by Stalingrad, the protracted battle for the city on the Volga, and this is the major episode in this volume of Nik Cornish’s four-volume photographic history of the conflict. Stalingrad was a turning point in the war, the...
Wellington's Brigade Commanders
Peninsula and Waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Recent research into the Duke of Wellington's armies during the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign has enhanced our understanding of the men he led, and this new biographical guide to his brigade commanders is a valuable contribution to this growing field. Ron McGuigan and Robert Burnham have...
by J.M. Langley
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
As a young subaltern in the Coldstream Guards, the author lost his arm at Dunkirk and was captured but eventually escaped via Lille, Paris, Marseilles, Spain and Gibraltar. He describes the fierce fighting outside Dunkirk, his captivity, escape and extraordinary life in Vichy France, before the Germans...
Private Lord Crawford's Great War Diaries
From Medical Orderly to Cabinet Minister
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
This unusual account is written by the 27th Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, an active Lancashire MP for 18 years until he inherited the title on his father's death in 1913. In 1915 his sense of patriotic duty drove him to join the RAMC as a Private, although he was married with 7 children, head of...
by John Sheen
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The 2nd Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry was one of only two battalions of the regiment that did not have its history published in some form after the Great War, the other was the 1/7th (Territorial) Battalion. As the regular Home Service battalion of the regiment it was brought up to strength...
The Vietnam War
The Tet Offensive 1968
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
On 30 January 1968 the North Vietnamese communists launched a coordinated surprise attack – the Tet Offensive – across South Vietnam against the South Vietnamese and American armies. Superior firepower eventually crushed the offensive, but it proved to be a major psychological victory for the...
Panzer IV
1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The Panzer IV – Panzerkampfwagen IV – was one the foremost German fighting vehicles of the Second World War, and this volume in the TankCraft series is an ideal introduction to it. With detailed captions, text and illustrations the book tells the story of the technical development of the Panzer...
Awards of the George Cross
1940-2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Early in WW2, King George VI was deeply impressed by the heroic deeds of servicemen out of the front line and civilian non-combatants in acts connected with the war such as bomb disposal and rescues after air raids. So in September 1940 the King instituted the George Cross for ‘For Gallantry’...
Durham Pals
18th, 19th, 20th and 22nd Battalions of the Durham Light Infantry in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
A history of four battalions of the Durham Light Infantry raised in the Country during the First World War. The 18th (Pals) were the first troops of Kitcheners new army to come under fire, when the Germans bombarded Hartlepool in December 1914. The 19th were raised as Bantams and the 20th (Wearside)...
The Second World War Through Soldiers' Eyes
British Army Life 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
'What was it really like to serve in the British Army during the Second World War?
Discover a soldier's view of life in the British Army – from recruitment and training to the brutal realities of combat. Using first-hand sources, James Goulty reconstructs the experiences of the men and women...
Pontefract and Castleford in the Great War
Featherstone, Knottingley and Hemsworth
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
By the end of 1914, 15,000 Yorkshire miners had volunteered for the army, with around 1,000 from a single Castleford pit. Over the next four years these courageous men would write home from the killing fields of France, Gallipoli, Italy, Mesopotamia and Africa. As the men marched away, the families...
The Baby Killers
German Air Raids on Britain in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Just over a decade after the Wright Brothers’ triumph of powered flight, the conduct of war was changed for ever. Until the Kaiser’s Zeppelins raided British cities and towns, it had been unthinkable that civilian populations and property hundreds of miles from the battlefield could be at risk...