Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
Falaise: The Flawed Victory
The Flawed Victory - The Destruction of Panzergruppe West, August 1944
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
The destruction of the trapped German forces in the Falaise pocket in August 1944 is one of the most famous episodes of the Normandy campaign. But myths have grown up around accounts of the battle, and its impact on the course of the war is sometimes misunderstood. In this meticulously researched...
Fighting for the French Foreign Legion
Memoirs of a Scottish Legionnaire
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
A soldier’s true story of danger and adventure as a modern-day legionnaire in Kuwait, Bosnia, and beyond.
With no French language ability, Alex Lochrie approached recruiters for the French Foreign Legion in Paris and embarked on the demanding selection process that followed. When he was accepted,...
by R J Minney
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The thrilling and inspiring true story of Violette Szabo, the fearless British cloak-and-dagger agent who infiltrated Nazi occupied France.
Switchboard operator and volunteer for the Women’s Land Army, Violette Szabo was only twenty-two years old when her husband, Etienne, a captain in the French...
Over the Wire
A POW's Escape Story from the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Philip Newman, a British army doctor left behind after the evacuation from Dunkirk, spent his time as a prisoner of war in France, then Germany, treating the wounded and sick – and planning to escape.
After several failed attempts he got out over the wire and journeyed for weeks as a fugitive...
The Battle of North Cape
The Death Ride of the Scharnhorst, 1943
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
“The hunting down and sinking of the magnificent German battle cruiser Scharnhorst was one of the epic actions of World War II . . . stirring” (Work Boat).
On December 25, 1943, the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst slipped out of Altenfjord in Norway to attack Arctic convoy JW55B which...
by Robert Kirchubel
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
An in-depth look at the role armored formations played in the struggle between the Nazis and the Soviets.
Hitler’s panzer armies spearheaded the blitzkrieg on the Eastern Front. They played a key role in every major campaign, not simply as tactical tools but also as operational weapons that shaped...
Tank Commander
From the Fall of France to the Defeat of Germany - The Memoirs of Bill Close
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Bill Close had a remarkable war. In campaign after campaign, from the defense of Calais in 1940 to the defeat of Germany in 1945, he served as a tank commander in the Royal Tank Regiment - and he survived. His tanks were hit eleven times by enemy shellfire and he bailed out. He was wounded three times....
Red Army Tank Commander
At War in a T-34 on the Eastern Frount
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
What was it like to command a T-34 tank on the Eastern Front during the Second World War? How were tank operations organized and carried out, what was the actual experience of combat, and what were the qualities that made the difference between success and failure - and what were the chances of survival?...
Hitler's Olympics
The Story of the 1936 Nazi Games
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
This “startlingly good and vividly illuminating book” sheds new light on the Fascist sports spectacle that transfixed the world (The Spectator).
For two weeks in August 1936, Nazi Germany achieved an astonishing propaganda coup when it staged the Olympic Games in Berlin. Hiding their anti-Semitism...
by R E Urquhart
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Major-General Urquhart commanded the 1st British Airborne Division in Operation Market Garden, the greatest airbone assault of World War II, the struggle to capture Arnhem and win control of the bridge across the lower Rhine. The story of the 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem involved not only an Airborne...
by Pogozhev, Andrey
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
On 6 November 1942 70 captured Red Army soldiers staged an extraordinary mass escape from Auschwitz. Among these men was prisoner number 1418 Andrey Pogozhev. He survived, and this is his story. Pogozhev was caught by the Germans in 1941 and was sent to Auschwitz. The fact that Pogozhev survived the...
by James Falkner
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The War of the Spanish Succession, fought between 1701 and 1714 to decide who should inherit the Spanish throne, was a conflict on an unprecedented scale, stretching across most of western Europe, the high seas and the Americas. Yet this major subject is not well known and is little understood. That...
British Battles of the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1806
Despatched from the Front
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The Napoleonic Wars was truly a world-wide conflict and Britain found itself engaged in battles, sieges and amphibious operations around the globe. Following every battle the commanding officer submitted a report back to the Admiralty or the War Office. Presented here together for the first time are...
by Barrie Pitt
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2004
This book vividly brings alive the dramatic situation facing Europe and the Allies after the loss of Dunkirk. Churchill and his generals - Alexander, Brooke, Wavell and Montgomery - were faced with many disasters that required courageous decisions in order to pursue their aim of victory. This is the...