Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
Vlakplaas: Apartheid Death Squads
1979–1994
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Faced with the ‘total onslaught’ by its enemies, in 1979, Apartheid South Africa established Vlakplaas – lit. ‘shallow farm’, a 100-hectare farm nestling in the hills outside Pretoria on the Hennops River – as a secret operation under the arm of C1, a counter-terrorism division of the...
Air War Over Europe
1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2003
Chaz Bowyer, arguably the most authoritative air historian of his generation, tackles the broad sweep of air operations in the European theatre in this book. Initially, the Luftwaffe attempted to dominate the skies, and very nearly succeeded. The valiant defence of the UK by the RAF in the Battle...
by Philip Matyszak
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
When, after a brutal civil war, the dictator Sulla took power in Rome (82 BC), among the many who refused to accept his rule was a young army officer called Quintus Sertorius. Sertorius fled, first to Africa and then to Spain, where he made common cause with the native people who had been savagely...
by Elizabeth Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Elizabeth Peacock served as MP for Batley and Spen for 14 years and was one of the most outspoken politicians during her time at Westminster.
Famed for her 'no nonsense, just common sense' approach, Elizabeth won many admirers along with a reputation for being difficult. Not afraid to vote against...
The Yompers
With 45 Commando in the Falklands War
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Yomping was revealed by the journalist Charles Laurence in 1982 as the word which the Royal Marines used to describe carrying heavy loads long distances on foot. Given the intense public interest in the dramatic events then unfolding in the South Atlantic, it caught on and is now in common usage....
Marshall Ney
The Bravest of the Brave
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
A.H. Atteridge's biography of Michel Ney, Napoleon's most famous marshal, is a classic work of its kind.
He describes Ney's meteoric career in vivid detail, from his enlistment as a hussar in the army of Louis XVI, his rapid promotion through the ranks of the revolutionary armies and his long...
The Emperor Commodus
God and Gladiator
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Commodus is synonymous with debauchery and megalomania, best remembered for fighting as a gladiator. Ridiculed and maligned by historians since his own time, modern popular culture knows him as the patricidal villain in Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Much of his infamy is clearly based on fact, but is...
Patricians and Emperors
The Last Rulers of the Western Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Patricians and Emperors offers concise comparative biographies of the individuals who wielded power in the final decades of the Western Roman Empire, from the assassination of Aetius in 454 to the death of Julius Nepos in 480.
The book is divided into four parts. The first sets the background...
by M.R.D. Foot
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Michael (MRD) Foot enjoys the rare distinction of being the only person referred to by his real name in a John Le Carre novel. A highly significant tribute to the man entrusted with writing the official record of the Special Operations Executive. He authored first (1966) the History of SOE in France...
Imperial Brothers
Valentinian, Valens and the Disaster at Adrianople
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
The latest of Ian Hughes' Late Roman biographies here tackles the careers of the brother emperors, Valentinian and Valens. Valentian was selected and proclaimed as emperor in AD 364, when the Empire was still reeling from the disastrous defeat and death in battle of Julian the Apostate (363) and the...
Constantius II
Usurpers, Eunuchs and the Antichrist
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
The reign of Constantius II has been overshadowed by that of his titanic father, Constantine the Great, and his cousin and successor, the pagan Julian. However, as Peter Crawford shows, Constantius deserves to be remembered as a very capable ruler in dangerous, tumultuous times.
When Constantine I...
by John D Grainger
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The concluding part of John D Grainger's history of the Seleukids traces the tumultuous last century of their empire. In this period it was riven by dynastic disputes, secessions and rebellions, the religiously-inspired insurrection of the Jewish Maccabees, civil war and external invasion from Egypt...
Wellington's Lieutenant Napoleon's Gaoler
The Peninsula Letters and St Helena Diaries of Sir George Rideout Bingham
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
The author wrote numerous letters home from the campaigns that he fought with Wellington in the Peninsular when he was commanding his Regiment. He was therefore in a senior position and privy to secrets of the war. He is often caustic regarding his superiors including The Iron Duke himself. He packs...
Sedgemoor 1685
Marlborough’s First Victory
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
A new account of Monmouth's rebellion of 1685 and the Battle of Sedgemoor. The author focuses on the confrontation between Monmouth and John Churchill, the future Duke of Marlborough, and provides a graphic reassessment of the campaign. He retraces the routes taken by the opposing armies across the...