Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
This unique collection of contemporary combat accounts provides a primary source insight into the reality of artillery operations on the Eastern Front. Mobile, rail and towed artillery are all considered in this fascinating compilation.
This book is part of the 'Hitler's War Machine' series,...
Tiger I
The Official Wartime Crew Manual
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
During the Second World War Tiger tank crews had to be trained as quickly and effectively as possible. To assist in this process General Heinz Guderian authorised the publication of the Tigerfibel, the illustrated manual which was issued to Tiger I crews from 1943 onwards. This highly unorthodox publication...
Napoleon’s Army in Russia
The Illustrated Memoirs of Albrecht Adam, 1812
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
In 1812 Napoleon's magnificent army invaded Russia. Among the half a million men who crossed the border was Albrecht Adam, a former baker, a soldier and, most importantly for us, a military artist of considerable talent. As the army plunged ever deeper into a devastated Russia Adam sketched and painted....
From Corunna to Waterloo
With the Hussars 1808 to 1815
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Basing his story on contemporary letters, diaries and reports and a comprehensive bibliography, John Mollo takes the reader into the heart of the Hussar Brigade in peace and war, depicting its many colourful characters with a sure hand and describing every facet of day-to-day life, in barracks and...
Photographing the Fallen
A War Graves Photographer on the Western Front 1915–1919
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Ivan Bawtree has left behind a vast array of archives that tell the story of his work as a photographer with the Graves Registration Units on the Western Front from 1915 to 1919. He traveled to numerous parts of Northern France and Flanders most notably the Ypres Salient to photograph and record graves...
Operation Mercury
The Fall of Crete 1941
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Unlike the few other books written on the catastrophic fall of Crete in May 1941, this book concentrates on the military actions between the first German paratroop landing on 20 May and the final defeat and evacuation on 30 May. As well as studying the strengths, tactics, leadership and weapons of...
Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1942-1944
El Alamein, Tunisia, Algeria and Operation Torch
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Despatches in this volume include the despatch fo the campaign from Alamein to Tunis, by Field Marshal the Viscount Alexander of Tunis. Deputy Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces North Africa; despatch on operation in the Western Desert December 1940 to February 1941, by General Sir Archibald P. Wavell,...
The Nisibis War
The Defence of the Roman East AD 337-363
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
The war of 337-363 (which the author dubs the ‘Nisibis War’), was an exception to the traditional Roman reliance on a strategic offensive to bring about a decisive battle. Instead, the Emperor Constantius II adopted a defensive strategy and conducted a mobile defence based upon small frontier...
by Donald Featherstone
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
The centuries-long history of the legendary and deadly English longbow is explored and explained in a “classic work . . . an engaging, enjoyable read” (De Re Military).
From the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, the longbow was the weapon that changed European history more than any other....
by Christopher Scott
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
This paperback edition of this seminal new study of a key battle of the Civil Wars re-examines one of England's most mysterious battlefields at Edgehill, and it combines the work of three outstanding military historians. Each is an expert in the areas of battlefield interpretation, military equipment...
The Battle for Burma 1943-1945
From Kohima & Imphal Through to Victory
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Despatches in this volume include that on operations in Burma and North-East India between November 1943 and June 1944, by General Sir George J. Giffard; the despatch on operations in Assam and Burma between June 1944 June and November 1944, by General Sir George J. Giffard, Commander-in-Chief; the...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Despatches in this volume include that on the Conquest of Sicily from 10 July 1942 to 17 August 1943 by Field-Marshall Viscount Alexander of Tunis; the despatch on the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean; despatch on...
Churchill's Secret Invasion
Britain’s First Large Scale Combined Offensive 1942
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
In the spring of 1942 Britain's far-flung empire was in the greatest peril. North Africa was being overrun by the German Afrika Korps and in south-east Asia the forces of Imperial Japan had captured Singapore and were threatening India. Only the most urgent reinforcement of both war fronts could prevent...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Despatches in this volume include that on the Far East between October 1940 and December 1941, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham; the despatch on operations in Hong Kong between 8 and 25 December 1941, by Major-General C.M. Maltby, General Officer Commanding British Troops in China; the...