Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
by Manfred Von Richthofen
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Manfred von Richthofen - the Red Baron - was the most celebrated fighter pilot of the First World War, and was holder of the Blue Max, Pour le Mérite, Germany's highest military decoration. He was credited with 80 victories in the air, before being shot down in disputed circumstances aged 26. In...
by Mike Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
This sensational book reveals the true and compelling story of the Special Force units of the Coalition, such as the SAS, SBS and Delta Force who worked in the shadows, often unseen, unheard and unsung. It describes their missions behind the lines from the early days, well before hostilities opened...
by Jacqueline Wadsworth
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
When war was declared in 1914, the people of South Dorset were taken by surprise. Initially, there was excitement as the garrison town of Dorchester sprang to life, and Britain's Grand Fleet steamed from Portland Harbour to its war stations in the North Sea. But when the fervour subsided, what was...
by Christopher Owen
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German Kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Wellington were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A...
In a Guardsman’s Boots
A Boy Soldier’s Adventures from the Streets of 1920s Dublin to Buckingham Palace, WWII and the Egyptian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
When he was just eight years old, Paddy Rochford enrolled at Dublin’s Royal Hibernian Military School, where he was taught how to be a soldier with the British Army, like his father. Soon afterwards, in 1922, he and his fellow pupils were evacuated from Ireland, a land torn apart by civil war.
Across...
With SOE in Greece
The Wartime Experiences of Captain Pat Evans
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Pat Evans parachuted into German-occupied Northern Greece in September 1943. His mission as a SOE operative was to support the Greek resistance movement, carry out sabotage and commando operations and gather military intelligence.
By this time Greece was not only a country ravaged by a brutal...
by Anthony Seldon, David Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
In this pioneering and original book, Anthony Seldon and David Walsh study the impact that the public schools had on the conduct of the Great War, and vice versa. Drawing on fresh evidence from 200 leading public schools and other archives, they challenge the conventional wisdom that it was the public...
Business in Great Waters
The U-Boat Wars 1916-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Twice within 25 years Britain was threatened with starvation by the menace of the U-Boat. In this study of submarine warfare, the author explains why Winston Churchill wrote "the only thing that ever frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril". Until it had been overcome, the Anglo-American...
Churchill and the Mad Mullah of Somaliland
Betrayal and Redemption 1899-1921
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
In the late nineteenth century, the British Empire commanded the seas and possessed a vast Indian Empire, as well as other extensive dominions in South East Asia, Australasia, America and Africa.
To secure the trade route to the glittering riches of the orient, the port of Berbera in Somaliland...
by John Randle
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
A collection of autobiographical stories from an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II.
John Randle served with the greatly respected Baluch Regiment of the former Indian Army right through the fiercely fought Burma Campaign, winning a Military Cross, yet on VJ Day he was only...
by Brian Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein has attracted the attention of countless historians over the last 70 years but, despite this coverage, views of his character remain controversial and contradictory. His younger brother Brian, himself a successful soldier, enters the fray with this charming...
Malayan Emergency
Triumph of the Running Dogs 1948-1960
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
When the world held its breath …
It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. 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...
Women in War
From Home Front to Front Line
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
The changing role of women in warfare, a neglected aspect of military history, is the subject of this collection of perceptive, thought-provoking essays. By looking at the wide range of ways in which women have become involved in all the aspects of war, the authors open up this fascinating topic to...
Churchill's Last Wartime Secret
The 1943 German Raid Airbrushed from History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
It’s been a State secret for more than 70 years: The official line in the UK has always been that it never happened – but this new work challenges the assertion that no German force set foot on British soil during World War Two (the Channel Islands excepted), on active military service.
Churchill’s...