Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
Sir John Tiptoft – 'Butcher of England'
Earl of Worcester, Edward IV's Enforcer and Humanist Scholar
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, is arguably the most intriguing, controversial and possibly misunderstood figure of the Wars of the Roses period. Politically adept, he occupied a string of important offices, first under the Lancastrian Henry VI and then the Yorkist Edward IV.
A man of action,...
Red China
Mao Crushes Chiang's Kuomintang, 1949
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
When the world held its breath …
It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 – long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe – with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are...
Total Onslaught
War and Revolution in Southern Africa Since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
The end of the Second World War may have heralded peace in Europe but conflicts in Southern Africa were about to begin. The imperial powers were weakened by the cost of war and a string of wars challenged colonial rule in countries such as Namibia, Angola and Rhodesia. Once independence was achieved,...
by Julian Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
War Behind Enemy Lines tells the unvarnished story of British Special Forces in the Second World War. While the SAS and SBS remain household names today, there were a plethora of lesser known units, large and small, that played their part before departing the scene. Of special note was the Long Range...
With the Guns 1914 – 1918
An Subaltern’s Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Acquired at a local Cheshire auction house, several personal albums of WWI photographs taken by their previous gentleman owner, an officer in the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) called Harold Cooper Bebington. He was also a member of one of the early amateur photographic societies at his home town, hence...
Death Before Glory
The British Soldier in the West Indies in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Death Before Glory! is a highly readable, thoroughly researched and comprehensive study of the British army's campaigns in the West Indies during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period and of the extraordinary experiences of the soldiers who served there. Rich in sugar, cotton, coffee and...
by Glynis Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The Great War came as a shock to the citizens of Bury St Edmunds, a rural Suffolk town. One day they were celebrating a beautiful, hot August bank holiday at a large well-attended country fête; the next they were plunged into the deadliest war in history. Men from the Suffolk Regiment, who were based...
by Julie Philips
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Wars affect everyone. Whether it is 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 living in Kidderminster through the Great War years.
Kidderminster...
The Germans in Flanders 1917-1918
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The third volume covers the battles in Flanders against the Belgians, French and British over a twenty-three month period. Written using primary and secondary sources, it covers all the engagements. The major part of the book covers the FlandernSchlacht
of July to November 1917; a battle viewed...
by David Bilton
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Badges of Kitchener's Army is based on thirty years research in museums, archives and collections. It is an exhaustive study of the development of the battalion, brigade and divisional signs of the thirty divisions raised by Kitchener's appeal for men.
While the divisional signs are well known,...
by David Bilton
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
There have been few books written in English about the French Army during the Great War. Those that have are scarcely illustrated. This book aims to provide a highly readable and succinct account of the work of the French Army on the Western Front, as well as provide the reader with a wealth of photographs...
St Valéry and Its Aftermath
The Gordon Highlanders Captured in France in 1940
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
During the German May 1940 offensive, the 51st (Highland) Division, including the 1st and 5th Battalions Gordon Highlanders, became separated from the British Expeditionary Force. After a heroic stand at St Valery-en-Caux the Division surrendered when fog thwarted efforts to evacuate them.
Within...
by Valmai Holt, Tonie Holt
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
The Somme is the epicentre for most people in the study of the First World War from a UK and Commonwealth perspective. Today the landscape and terrain are dedicated to the soldiers that fought and died there and Major and Mrs Holt's Pocket Guide to the Somme has been put together to take you around...
Till the Boys Come Home
The Picture Postcards of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
This is a new edition of this classic book which includes, in its over 700 postcards, many new, powerful propaganda images from nations on both sides of this epic conflict. Here are cards from the Queen's Collection, cards from America, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia,...