Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The latest volume in Anthony Tucker-Jones’s series of books on armoured warfare in the Images of War series is a graphic account of the development of armoured forces in the Arab and Israeli armies from 1948 to the present day. In a sequence of over 200 archive photographs he tells the story of...
Gaius Marius
The Rise and Fall of Rome's Saviour
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Gaius Marius was one of the most remarkable and significant figures of the late Roman Republic. At a time when power tended to be restricted to a clique of influential families, he rose from relatively humble origins to attain the top office of consul. He even went on to hold the post an unprecedented...
by Jonathan Swan
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Almost 400 men from the Chelmsford were lost in the Great War. This book explores 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...
Missing But Not Forgotten
Men of the Thiepval Memorial-Somme
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The Thiepval Memorial commemorates over 72,000 men who have no known grave; all went missing in the Somme sector during the three years of conflict that finally ended on 20 March 1918.
The book is not a military history of the Battle of the Somme, it is about personal remembrance, and features...
Major & Mrs. Holt’s Concise Illustrated Battlefield Guide - The Western Front - North
100th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Following in their best-selling series of Battlefield Guides this is a companion volume to the Holts’ Western Front – South Guide. Between the two, they cover the main WW1 Western Front battlefields. This book covers 15 of the most significant battles of the northern area from Nieuwport to just...
Final Scrum
Rugby Internationals Killed in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
After the terrible losses of The Great War, twenty years later the Second World War resulted in the death of some of the finest sporting icons. This book honors the ninety International Rugby players who lost their lives. Fifteen were Scottish, fourteen English, eleven Welsh and eight Irish. Australia...
Dying for the Truth
The Concise History of Frontline War Reporting
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
The role of war correspondents is crucial to democracy and the publics discovery of the truth. Without them, the temptation to manipulate events with propaganda would be irresistible to politicians of all hues.
It starts by examining how journalists have plied their trade over the years most...
Four Days in September
The Battle of Teutoburg
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
For twenty years, the Roman Empire conquered its way through modern-day Germany, claiming all lands from the Rhine to the Elbe. However, when at last all appeared to be under control, a catastrophe erupted that claimed the lives of 10,000 legionnaires and laid Rome’s imperial ambitions for Germania...
Marengo and Hohenlinden
Napoleon's Rise to Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
In a tense, crowded thirty-three days in the autumn of 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte organized a coup and made himself dictator of France. Yet his position was precarious. He knew that France would accept his rule only if he gained military victories that brought peace. James Arnold, in this detailed and...
Brothers In Arms
The Unique Collection of Letters and Photographs of Two Brothers from the Front
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Hidden away in the back of an old desk drawer was a dusty pile of school-style exercise books. In them were the recollections of a young officer who had fought with the Essex Regiment in the First World War from the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915, through the mud and misery of Ypres, to see victory...
Fire Over the Rock
The Great Siege of Gibraltar, 1779–1783
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
**“**This book does a wonderful job in describing a portion of [the Rock of Gibraltar’s] history during the Napoleonic Wars” (The Past in Review).
The great siege of Gibraltar was the longest recorded in the annals of the British army. Between 1779 and 1783, a small British force defended...
Impossible Victories
Ten Unlikely Battlefield Successes
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Victory on the battlefield is sometimes achieved against the odds – victory snatched from the jaws of apparently inevitable defeat. A daring counter attack, an unexpected manoeuvre, a stubborn refusal to be beaten and the impossible victory is won. In the ten dramatic episodes in this book, military...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
The Panzer III was designed to be the backbone of the Panzer force and was deployed on every front. However, due to its deficient armament and poor armour, and despite its outstanding reliability, it was obsolete by 1942.
This comprehensive overview of the Panzer III in action was compiled by...
Panzers I & II
Germany's Light Tanks
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
The first vehicle to be produced in any numbers for the Panzerwaffe was the tiny Panzer I known as the MG Panzerwagen. Almost from the outset the limitations of the design for the Panzer I were obvious. It was essentially a training vehicle which was only pressed into service as a last resort. It...