Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
Gilgit Rebelion
The Major Who Mutinied Over Partition of India
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
In 1942 William Brown was posted as a recently commissioned Indian Army Officer to the Gilgit Agency in the very north of the North West Frontier. He travelled widely, learnt the local dialects and built the Chilas Polo ground. After a brief period away from Gilgit, just prior to Partition in early...
In the Service of the Sultan: A first-hand account of the Dhofar Insurgency
A first-hand account of the Dhofar Insurgency
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2007
While the Americans were fighting in Vietnam, a struggle of even greater strategic significance was taking place in the Middle East: the Sultanate of Oman guards the entrance to the Arabian Gulf, and thus controls the movement of oil from that region. In the 1960s and 70s, the Communists tried to...
The Journey’s End Battalion
The 9th East Surrey in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
R.C. Sherriff, author of Journey’s End, the most famous play of the Great War, saw all his front line service with the 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. This intense experience profoundly affected his writing and, through his play, it continues to have a powerful influence on our understanding...
Cleanse Their Souls
Peace-Keeping in Bosnia's Civil War, 1992–1993
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2005
A memoir of the lethal conflict in the former Yugoslavia, by a British soldier who was on the front lines.
This is a young cavalry lieutenant’s moving and shocking account of front line service in the cauldron of war. His troop of Scimitar light-armored vehicles was attached to the 1 CHESHIRE...
The Somme
The Epic Battle in the Soldiers' own Words and Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The offensive on the Somme took place between July and November 1916 and is perhaps the most iconic battle of the Great War. It was there that Kitchener’s famous ‘Pals’ Battalions were first sent into action en masse and it was a battlefield where many of the dreams and aspirations of a nation,...
by Andrew Rawson
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
This is an account of the British Expeditionary Force’s battles in the summer and autumn of 1917. It begins with the Allied plan to free up the Flanders coast, to limit German naval and submarine attacks on British shipping.
The opening offensive began with the detonation of nineteen mines...
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Thirteen Days on an Atomic Knife Edge, October 1962
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
When the world held its breath …
It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 – long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe – with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are...
Accidental Agent
Behind Enemy Lines with the French Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
John Goldsmith’s wartime exploits are all the more remarkable considering that at first his services were consistently refused due to his being over 30. Not easily deterred he eventually became a tank driving instructor in the ranks.
In 1942 accidental circumstances saw his recruitment into...
by Richard Hargreaves
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
This account of the D-Day invasion—from the German point of view—includes maps and photos.
The Allied invasion of Northern France was the greatest combined operation in the history of warfare. Up until now, it has been recorded from the attackers’ point of view—whereas the defenders’...
Hitler's Final Fortress
Breslau 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
A dramatic account of how the Nazis were driven out of Breslau, drawing on the words of those who witnessed it.
In January 1945, the Red Army unleashed its long-awaited thrust into Germany with terrible fury. One by one the provinces and great cities of the German East were captured by the Soviet...
Blitzkrieg Unleashed
The German Invasion of Poland 1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Based on letters, diaries, and other sources, a detailed account of the Nazi invasion of Poland—the beginning of the Second World War.
At dawn on Friday, September 1, 1939, the Germans launched their land, sea, and air assault on Poland—and the world became aware of the awesome power of Hitler’s...
by Andrew Rawson
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Hitler's desperate last throw during the depths of winter 1944/45 came perilously close to being a major disaster for the Allies. Their offensive through the Ardennes fell on the Americans and caught them totally by surprise. Unaccustomed to setbacks, the situation was for a time extremely serious...
Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1943-1945
Red Steamroller
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
By 1943, after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, the Wehmacht’s panzer armies gradually lost the initiative on the Eastern Front. The tide of the war had turned. Their combined arms technique, which had swept Soviet forces before it during 1941 and 1942, had lost its edge. Thereafter...
The Crushing of Army Group North 1944–1945 on the Eastern Front
Images of War Series
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
The Crushing of Army Group North 1944-45 on the Eastern Front tells the story in words and images of the last bitter months fought on Russian soil and the battle of the Baltic States that ensued. Drawing on rare and unpublished photos it reveals in detail how remnants of Army Group North were driven...