Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
Witness to War Crimes
The Memoirs of a Peacekeeper in Bosnia
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
The early 1990s saw Europe’s first conflict for almost 40 years when bitter fighting broke out in the former Yugoslav republic. Colonel Colm Doyle of the Irish Army found himself in the midst of this appalling civil war when in October 1991 he became first a European Community Monitor and almost...
by Bryan Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Failure to exploit the potential of an original idea is a recurring phenomenon in our national history. Few failures, however, can have been so costly in human life as that of our military commanders early in 1916 to appreciate that the tank was a war winning weapon. The slaughter of the Somme, Passchendaele...
Great Generals of the Ancient World
The Personality, Intellectual, and Leadership Traits That Made Them Great
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Of the thousands of commanders who served in history's armies, why is it that only a few are remembered as great leaders of men in battle? What combination of personal and circumstantial influences conspire to produce great commanders? What makes a great leader great? Richard A Gabriel analyses the...
Waterloo Messenger
The Life of Henry Percy, Peninsular Soldier and French Prisoner of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Henry Percy is best known as the officer who carried the Waterloo Dispatch, the Duke of Wellingtons account of the Battle of Waterloo and the ultimate defeat of Napoleon, to London in June 1815\. This was the climax of a remarkable military career. He served in the British army throughout the Napoleonic...
by Charles Heyman
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2007
This comprehensive pocket guide includes full and up-to-date details of all British military organizations and structures. This edition includes detail regarding all of the UK MoD’s latest future force proposals.
The Armed Forces of the United Kindom 2007-2008 is an invaluable reference tool...
by Clive Dunn, Gillian Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Looks at how the Great War affected Wearsiders 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 Sunderland were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years –...
by Peter Welsh
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
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 Washington were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A...
AD69
Emperors, Armies and Anarchy
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
With the death of Nero by his own shaky hand, the ill-sorted, ill-starred Iulio-Claudian dynasty came to an ignominious end, and Rome was up for the taking. This was 9 June, AD 68. The following year, commonly known as the 'Year of the Four Emperors', was probably one of Rome's worst.
Nero's...
Burma Railway Man
Secret Letters from a Japanese Pow
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Charles Steel took part in two military disasters - the Fall of France and the Dunkirk evacuation, and the Fall of Singapore. Shortly before the latter, he married Louise. Within days of being captured by the Japanese, he began writing a weekly letter to his new bride as means of keeping in touch...
Major & Mrs Holt’s Definitive Battlefield Guide Somme: 100th Anniversary
7th Revised, Expanded GPS Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The 100th Anniversary of the most publically aware battle of WW1 - the
battle of the Somme, will be on 1 July 2016 and every media form will be
covering it from January onwards. The book has taken 20 years to mature from its first edition to this new 'Definitive' edition, the Seventh, each time being...
by Craig Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
Newcastle was a key cog in the national war effort despite its northerly location, located on the key East Coast it played a significant military and civil role in the war. Newcastle is situated on the strategically important River Tyne and was well defended against enemy attack with several forts...
by Roy Redgrave
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
Major General Sir Roy Redgrave has enjoyed an unusual, some might say eccentric, life. Born into the same family as the well known actors, he was brought up in Romania as part of a thriving international community before he joined the British Army and advanced to high rank.
Following on from...
Sniper on the Eastern Front
The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knights Cross
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Josef “Sepp” Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honored with the award of the Knights Cross.
An Austrian conscript, after qualifying as a machine gunner he was drafted to the southern sector of the Russian...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The book is skilfully abridged version of the diary of a First World War motorcycle despatch rider, Sergeant Albert Simpkin, who was attached to the HQ 37th Division. The diary entries, and some longer descriptions of the main actions of the Division, provide a fascinating record of the life of a...