Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
War! Hellish War! Star Shell Reflections 1916–1918
The Illustrated Diaries of Jim Maultsaid
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Jim Maultsaid’s illustrated diaries of his Great War service offer a unique and completely original perspective of a fighting man’s experiences.
Although an American citizen Jim was living in Donegal in 1914 and first joined the Young Citizens Volunteers and then the British Army.
On...
Fighting with the Fourteenth Army in Burma
Original War Summaries of the Battle Against Japan 1943-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
The Fourteenth Army was one of the most successful British and Commonwealth forces of the Second World War. It was not only the largest of the Commonwealth armies but was also the largest single army in the world with around half a million men under its command. Operating in the most inhospitable...
by Brian Best
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
After a slow start, the Second World War produced an enormous number of war correspondents. Correspondents like Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos and George Orwell were all inspired to put their experiences on the printed page. Hemingway and his wife, Martha Gellhorn, went on to cover the D-Day Landings...
by David Bilton
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Reading in the Great War 1917-1919 looks at life in an important industrial and agricultural town in the south of England. The book charts the changes that occurred in ordinary people's lives, some caused by the war, some of their own doing.
On the surface, Reading was a calm town that got on with...
by Frances Clamp
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Although much maligned, Essex is a vibrant county with a long and exciting history. Being close to the Continent and with one of Britain’s longest coastlines, it was an obvious target for invasion as the threat of war grew. Many defensive structures were built by the sea and to protect major routes...
by Adrian Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
For many years the importance and contribution of the Hawker Hurricane was eclipsed by the Spitfire but statistically the Hurricane was superior in the majority of cases. Thanks to Tommy Sopwith’s initiative and gamble the Hurricane was ready at the outbreak of the Second World War and in service...
Rendezvous With Death
Artists & Writers in the Thick of It 1914–1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This book sheds new light on the colorful personalities including Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Alan Seeger, Ivor Gurney, Edward Thomas, Isaac Rosenberg, Ralph Vaughan Williams and George Butterworth, all major figures among England's creative artists during the First World War.
Thanks to the...
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A History of the 10th (Service) Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
In the 1930s five men wrote a history of the battalion they had proudly served with: the 1st Hull Battalion, known today as the 10th East Yorkshire Regiment or The Commercials. The book is the story of a happy family, men drawn together to fight for justice. There is no attempt to look at the bigger...
Stilwell and the Chindits: The Allies Campaign in Northern Burma 1943-1944
Rare photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This latest book in the highly successful Images of War series covers the dramatic events that saw ultimate Allied victory over the Japanese in remote Northern Burma on the Chinese border. The plan involved two separate but concurrent operations. US Army General Joseph Stilwell was ordered to train...
On to Rome: Anzio and Victory at Cassino, 1944
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Early in 1944 the Allied advance was halted by the German defence of the Gustav Line. Even with the deployment of Eighth Army reinforcements from the Adriatic, every effort to capture Monte Cassino failed.
Fifth Army’s VI Corps’ amphibious landing at Anzio in January, while initially successful...
Salerno to the Gustav Line 1943–1944
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
In September 1943, shortly after the conquest of Sicily, the Allied armies made amphibious assaults on the Italian Mainland at Calabria, Taranto and along the Gulf of Salerno beaches. The Italian Government quickly capitulated but the Germans fought on. Although the British XIII Corps and 1st Airborne’s...
Beyond Rome to the Alps
Across the Arno and Gothic Line, 1944–1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Rome was liberated on 5 June 1944 but the Italian campaign had another eleven gruelling months to run. The US Fifth and British Eighth Armies drove across the Arno River, capturing Florence on 5 August. Once again The Wehrmacht’s Tenth and Fourteenth Armies eluded destruction, withdrawing into the...
by Paul Reed
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The medieval city of Ypres will forever be associated with the Great War, especially by the British. From 1914 to 1918 it was the key strong point in the northern sector of the Western Front, and the epic story of its defense has taken on almost legendary status. The city and the surrounding battlefields...
They Were There in 1914
Memories of the Great War 1914-1918 by those who experienced it
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
In September 1938, as Chamberlain was having discussions with Herr Hitler, and managing to secure 'Peace in our Time', a weekly magazine called I WAS THERE hit the newsagents and booksellers. Twenty years had elapsed since the Great War ended and in that period hundreds of books on the subject had...