Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
From Warsaw to Rome
General Anders' Exiled Polish Army in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
In May 1944, 40,000 Polish soldiers attacked and captured the hilltops of Monte Cassino, bringing to a close the largest, bloodiest battle fought by the western Allies in the Second World War. Days later the Allied armies marched into Rome seizing the first Axis capital.
No-one in 1939 could...
My War in the Air 1916
Memoirs of a Great War Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Originally published under the title An Airman's Outing, this magnificent title chronicles the daily life of the Flying Officer during the Great War. Touchingly dedicated to 'The Fallen of Umpty Squadron R.F.C.', Bott chronicles the lives and losses of his squadron as they carried out their duties...
On the Roads of War
A Soviet Cavalryman on the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
Ivan Yakushin survived the Siege of Leningrad, fought at the Battle of Kursk and pursued the retreating German army through Russia, Belorussia, Poland and into Germany itself. This is the story of his war. He tells the tale in his own words, with remarkable clarity of recall, and gives an authentic...
Dawn of Victory, Thank You China!
Star Shell Reflections 1918–1919
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Jim Maultsaid’s third and final book, The Dawn of Victory, Thank You China! is based on his service with the 169 Chinese Labour Corps (CLC) between 1918 – 1919.
There were 96,000 Chinese volunteer in the CLC and their achievements have gone largely unrecognized for 100 years. As Jim Maultsaid’s...
A Woman Living in the Shadow of the Second World War
Helena Hall's Journal from the Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
“These previously unpublished diaries of an English woman surviving the war at home provide a fascinating insight into society and life” (Firetrench).
Helena Hall’s daily diary of the war years, from 1940 to 1945, is one of the most vivid, detailed and evocative personal records of the Second...
by Stanley Wort
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
A memoir of serving in prewar Hong Kong, being held prisoner by the Japanese, and surviving slave labor.
This is the story of a young man thrust into the Royal Navy in distant Hong Kong. With both drama and humor, he relates some of the situations in which he found himself—and provides a...
by Geoffrey Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
When Singapore fell so ignominiously to the Japanese in February 1942, many tens of thousands of men, women and children were left to their own devices. To stay in Singapore meant certain captivity. This book tells of some of the remarkable and shocking experiences that lay in store for those who...
We Fought at Kohima
At Veteran's Account
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The Japanese advance through Thailand, Malaya and Burma appeared unstoppable and the fate of India looked utterly precarious.
The garrison of the Kohima outpost numbering some 1500 British and Indian Army soldiers faced over 13,000 fanatical and previously victorious Japanese troops. The following...
The Will to Live
A japanese POWs Memoir of Captivity and The Railway
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
The Author kept a diary recording his 1,000 days of captivity at the hands of the Japanese army. The difficulties and risks involved in this task were immense, yet he persevered although it meant deliberately defacing and cutting up the small pieces of paper. As a result, his memoir is both contemporaneous...
Never Surrender
Dramatic Escapes from Japanese Prison Camps
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
While there have been many fine books covering the appalling experiences and great courage of the many thousands of POWscaptured by the victorious Japanese during late 1941 and early 1942, escape accounts are much rarer. This is due in large part tothe fact that only a comparatively small number of...
Life on the Death Railway
The Memoirs of a British POW
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
As a young man Stuart Young endured the horrors of the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and survived. Later in life, in graphic detail, he recorded the experience – the dreadful conditions, the brutal treatment, the sickness and starvation, the merciless routine of forced labour. Yet he also recorded...
Belisarius
The Last Roman General
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
A military history of the campaigns of Belisarius, the greatest general of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor Justinian. He twice defeated the Persians and reconquered North Africa from the Vandals in a single year at the age of 29, before going on to regain Spain and Italy, including Rome (briefly),...
Fields of Battle
Retracing Ancient Battlefields
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and sieges to seek new insights. The battle narratives in ancient sources can be a thrilling read and form the basis of our knowledge of these epic events, but they can just as often provide an incomplete or obscure record....
Fips
Legendary U-Boat Commander 1915-1918
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Weuner FŸrbringer (Fips) became one of the most successful U-Boat commanders in WW1 through a blend of skill, daring and, by his own typically modest admission, sheer luck. This vivid memoir, never before published in English, makes compelling reading.This is an inspiring and chivalrous story; it...