Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
M2/M3
American Half-tracks of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Among the most successful armored vehicles produced by American industry – known as the Arsenal of Democracy – during the Second World War were the M2 and M3 half-tracks. They served on every battlefront and were as recognizable as other famous American wartime vehicles like the Sherman and the...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
The selection of over 150 rare wartime photographs in this volume in Pen & Sword’s Images of War series offers a graphic visual record of the dramatic and bloody battles fought for the Crimea during the Second World War. They show every grim aspect of the fighting and reflect in many ways the...
The Rise of Hitler
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
In 1945, amidst the ruins of a bomb-damaged German home a tattered book, Deutschland Erwache, was recovered as a souvenir by a British soldier. This rare and invaluable primary resource now forms the basis of The Rise of Hitler Illustrated, which is a photographic record of Hitlers' rise to power...
by Gerry van Tonder
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Two years after landing on English soil in 1066, William of Normandy erected a strategic castle at Nottingham, thereby creating an enduring military nexus through to the modern era.
On 22 August 1642, in his endeavours to quash Parliamentarian insurrection in the Midlands, King Charles raised...
The Retreat from Mons 1914: South
The Western Front by Car, by bike and on Foot
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
The Retreat from Mons 1914: South is the second volume in Pen & Sword's Battle Lines series to cover the opening campaign of the Great War. It is the essential companion for every visitor who is keen to retrace the path taken by the British Expeditionary Force immediately after the outbreak of...
The Retreat from Mons 1914: North
Casteau to Le Cateau, The Western Front by Car by Bike and on Foot
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Mons to the Marne, the latest volume in Pen & Sword's Battle Lines series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor who is keen to retrace the path taken by the British Expeditionary Force immediately after the outbreak of the First...
by Ian D Rotherham
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
One of the oldest settlements in Western Europe, York grew up on dry land with protective rivers and associated wetlands giving security and mobility. Early, prehistoric settlement was on nearby drier, raised areas along the flood plain. Here the Romans built a great, northern, fortified city and...
Rise of the Tang Dynasty
The Reunification of China and the Military Response to the Steppe Nomads (AD581-626)
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Julian Romane examines the military events behind the emergence of the Sui and Tang dynasties in the period 581-626 AD. Narrating the campaigns and battles, he analyses in detail the strategy and tactics employed, a central theme being the collision of the steppe cavalry with Chinese infantry armies.
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by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The Handbook On German Military Forces is an indispensable primary reference source for historians and enthusiasts. In 1945 the Allies were still engaged in bitter fighting against stiff resistance from the German armies in the west. The US War Department was determined to do its best to equip the...
British Military Medals
A Guide for the Collector and Family Historian Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
This second edition of Peter Ducker's best-selling British Military Medals traces the history of medals and gallantry awards from Elizabethan times to the modern day, and it features an expert account of their design and production. Campaign and gallantry medals are a key to understanding - and exploring...
Fighting for Napoleon
French Soldiers' Letters, 1799–1815
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
True, first-hand accounts of combat and soldiering from the men who fought for Napoleon Bonparte and the First French Empire: “Fascinating stuff” (Stuart Asquith, author of Military Modelling).
The French side of the Napoleonic Wars is often presented from a strategic point of view, or in terms...
by Craig Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
As a market town and one of the seats of government of the county authority, Alnwick played a key role in the coordination of Northumberland’s war effort. With a wide rural hinterland, the town was considerably important in the production and dispersal of food, which was vital to the war effort....
by Paul Moorcraft
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
President Omar al-Bashir is Africa's and arguably Arabia's most controversial leader. In power since 1989, he is the first sitting head of state to be issued with an arrest warrant, for war crimes, by International Criminal Court.
He has been a central personality in Islamic and African politics,...
Caligula
An Unexpected General
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Gaius Caligula reigned for four short years from 37 to 41 CE before his infamous tenure came to a violent end. While much has been written about Caligula’s notorious excesses and court life, relatively little of his military and foreign policy has been seriously studied.
This is a military...