Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
by Clayton Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Breaking the Fortress Line 1914 offers a fascinating new perspective on the German offensive against France and Belgium in 1914. In graphic detail it describes the intense fighting that took place around the forts and fortified cities that stood in the path of the German invasion. The ordeal began...
Betrayal of an Army
Mesopotamia 1914-1916
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The British invasion of Mesopotamia was initially successful in securing the oil fields around Basra by November 1914.
Despite evidence of stiffening Turkish resistance and inadequate supply lines which relied solely on the River Tigris, the Expeditionary Force was disastrously ordered to advance...
by Christopher Herold
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Originally published in 1962, J. Christopher Herold's Bonaparte in Egypt is the best modern account of this extraordinary campaign. In a detailed study, elegantly written, Herold covers all aspects of Bonaparte's expedition: military, political, and cultural. It was a bold adventure, full of drama,...
In the Name of Lykourgos
The Rise and fall of the Spartan Revolutionary Movement (243-146BC)
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
In the middle of the 3rd century B.C. Sparta was a shadow of its glorious past. Politically and militarily weakened and with huge inner social problems, she seemed to have followed the fate of most contemporary city- states and fallen on the fringe of the political developments of her time. The 3rd...
The Tanks of Operation Barbarossa
Soviet versus German Armour on the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 the Red Army had four times as many tanks as the Wehrmacht and their tanks were seemingly superior, yet the Wehrmacht won the border battles with extraordinary ease the Red Armys tank force was pushed aside and for the most part annihilated. How was...
by Christopher Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
This illustrated series presents the uniforms and equipment of the United States Army from the nineteenth century to the present day. Each volume combines detailed and informative captions with over 100 rare and unusual images. These books are a must for anyone interested in American military uniforms...
The British Army Guide
2016-2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
In 1984 the first edition of the British Army Guide was published and in September 2015 the 13th edition will be on sale. This invaluable information resource which deals with all aspects of British Army organisation, recruitment and training has been extremely popular with service personnel, the...
Wellington's Engineers
Military Engineering on the Peninsular War 1808-1814
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
The role of the Royal Engineers in the Peninsular War has long been neglected and often misunderstood, and Mark Thompson's history is the first full account of their work and of the contribution they made throughout the conflict. He draws on his unrivalled collection of the engineers' letters and...
Waterloo
In the Footsteps of the Commanders
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2003
What better way to 'read' the momentous Battle of Waterloo than to follow the movements of the main military commanders on that fateful day (18 June 1815). For the British side of the action, we dog the footsteps, and learn about the decisions and actions of The Duke of Wellington. For the French...
Why the Japanese Lost
The Red Sun's Setting
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
This book tells the story of a war unlike any other in history, fought between a nation that believed itself to be invincible, even when its strength was being systematically destroyed by the greatest industrial power in the world.
Prior to the middle of the nineteenth century, the Empire of...
1918
The Last Act
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
This vividly detailed history examines the battles and politics in the final year of WWI—includes trench diagrams, photographs, and maps of battles.
Three years into the Great War, Europe found itself in a stalemate on the Western Front. The Russian Front had collapsed and the United States had...
The Battle of Albuera 1811
Glorious Fields of Grief'
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
On 16 May 1811 a combined British, Portuguese and Spanish force commanded by the British general Beresford met the French army under Soult at Albuera in southern Spain. What followed was one of the bloodiest and most controversial battles of the Peninsular War. Yet despite the battle's significance...
Hitler versus Stalin: The Eastern Front 1943 - 1944
Kursk to Bagration
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
The third volume in Nik Cornish’s photographic history of the Second World War on the Eastern Front records in vivid visual detail the sequence of Red Army offensives that pushed the Wehrmacht back across Russia after the failure of Operation Citadel, the German attack at Kursk. Previously unpublished...
Verdun 1916
The Renaissance of the Fortress
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Wrapped in myth and distortion, the Battle of Verdun is one of the most enigmatic battles of the Great War, and the controversy continues a century later. Before the battle the Germans believed they had selected one of the strongest points in the French defences in the hope that, if they smashed through...