Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
King's African Rifles
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Whatever one may think about the rights and wrongs of colonial rule, it is hard to deny that during the first half of the this century those African countries, which then came under British administration enjoyed a period of stability which most now look back upon with a profound sense of loss. Paradoxical...
Britain's Great War Experience
Life at Home and Abroad 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Expertly written and beautifully presented, this book of outstanding photographs, documents and art work captures the spirit of the British people as they faced and successfully came through the prolonged challenge of the First World War.
Using previously unpublished material from the Liddle...
Cassel and Hazebrouck 1940
France and Flanders Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This is the first detailed account of the rearguard action that took place between 25 and 29 May 1940 at Cassel and Hazebrouck on the western perimeter of the Dunkirk Corridor. By 25 May the decision to evacuate the BEF via Dunkirk had already been taken, Lord Gort, commanding the BEF in France, had...
Of Those We Loved
A Narrative 1914-1919 Remembered and Illustrated
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
The Author was among the first to respond to Kitchener’s call for volunteers in 1914. He joined 8th Battalion, The Leicestershire Regiment at the outbreak of war as a Private and, within weeks, he and the Battalion were heading for Northern France with the British Expeditionary Force.
In...
by Mathew Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Leicester had a strong radical tradition, and was represented in Parliament during the Great War by the outspoken Labour MP Ramsay MacDonald. MacDonald's anti-war views divided opinion in Leicester sharply, but whilst it was slow to provide troops for Kitchener's Army, this was not through lack of...
by Jon Cooksey, Francis McKay
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
In the early hours of 15 May 1982, three Sea King helicopters carrying 42 men of 22 SAS Regiment and attachments, lifted off from the carrier HMS Hermes and headed towards the remote Pebble Island on the north coast of West Falkland. Their task? To destroy the Argentinian Pucara aircraft stationed...
Armageddon's Walls
British Pill Boxes 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The British Army and her commonwealth Allies went to war in 1914 with little knowledge and experience of constructing permanent, shell proof protective structures. Some masonry fortifications, such as defensive blockhouses in South Africa, had been built but the Royal Engineers of the Army were more...
Escaping Has Ceased to be a Sport
A Soldier's Memoir of Captivity and Escape in Italy and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
After being taken prisoner at Tobruk and transported to Italy, the author was determined to escape and learnt Italian by talking to the sentries. His first escape lasted just one week. He then joined a tunnel party and escaped again. After six weeks on the run he was offered shelter in a Tuscan hilltop...
by Julie Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Wars affect everyone. Whether they are fought on the battlefields or on the home front, by the armed forces or civilians, sacrifices have to be made, and everyone suffers one way or another. This book gives a flavour of what it was like to live in Ludlow through the Great War years.
Ludlow...
by Paul Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
The Wehrmacht used reconnaissance and support vehicles widely in the Second World War and this book sets out to show the full range of both categories using over 200 rare images and descriptive text and captions in true Images of War Series fashion.
Both tracked and wheeled vehicles were employed...
Challenger 2
The British Main Battle Tank
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
For much of the Cold War, the British Army's main battle tanks (MBT) were first the Centurion and then the Chieftain. The question of the latter's replacement became urgent when in 1980 MBT80 was canceled. While the Royal Ordnance Challenger (originally the Shir 2) was acquired as a stop gap its design...
Ebony and Scarlet
Poems of the Anglo-Zulu War
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The nineteenth century saw the British army engaged in a series of conflicts around the globe. Iin almost every continent the redcoats of British soldiers seemed to be in perpetual action against enemies of the Crown. The Anglo-Zulu War, fought in southern Africa in 1879, was one of the bloodiest...
The Forts and Fortifications of Europe 1815-1945: The Central States
Germany, Austria-Hungry and Czechoslovakia
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
After the Napoleonic Wars the borders of Central Europe were redrawn and relative peace endured across the region, but the volatile politics of the late nineteenth century generated an atmosphere of fear and distrust, and it gave rise to a new era of fortress building, and this is the subject of this...
The Forts and Fortifications of Europe 1815- 1945: The Neutral States
The Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
After the Napoleonic Wars the borders of Europe were redrawn and relative peace endured across the region, but the volatile politics of the late nineteenth century generated an atmosphere of fear and distrust, and it gave rise to a new era of fortress building. In the neutral states situated between...