Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
by Stephen English
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
During his spectacular career of conquest Alexander the Great attacked many cities and fortresses, never failing to take them. Such operations occupied more of his time than his famous pitched battles and were at least as vital in securing his vast empire. Sieges provided some of the sternest tests...
Marshal of Victory
The Autobiography of General Georgy Zhukov
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
At Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin and in virtually all the principal battles on the Eastern Front during the Second World War, Georgy Zhukov played a major role. He was Stalin's pre-eminent general throughout the conflict, and in his autobiography he chronicled his brilliant career...
by Donald Macintyre
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
An eyewitness account of the fight for supremacy at sea during World War II, as told by a man who was in the thick of combat against Nazi Germany.
The Battle of the Atlantic was an unremitting assault by enemy boats and aircraft against Allied merchant ships that were the lifeline of Great...
by Geoffrey Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2003
Captain Bennett discusses the traumatic effects of the Washington and London Naval Treaties on the fleets of the principal powers between the wars, and their astonishing growth and technical progress between 1939 and 1945. He then deals with the war in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. The Battle...
Hitler's Violent Youth
How Trench Warfare and Street Fighting Moulded Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
An Emmy Award–winning author and historian delves into the brutal early life of the man who would become Nazi Germany’s maniacal dictator.
Between 1889 and 1924, Adolph Hitler’s political outlook was borne out of vicious incidents that heralded the formation of the Sturmabteilung—the notorious...
Ten Years at Hitler's Side
The Testimony of Wilhelm Keitel
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
In October 1946, Wilhelm Keitel was executed by hanging after being sentenced to death at the Nuremburg Trials. His road to this point was a long and controversial one, from the heady days of the surrender of France, to the eventual fall of Berlin and his subsequent arrest. There were few men better...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This new volume in the long-running Images of War series features the actions of the British Army on the Somme. Not only is the book comprised of rare photographs illustrating the actions of the British army fighting on the Somme, but it is accompanied by a powerful text written by Official War Correspondent...
Hitler's Wartime Conversations
His Personal Thoughts as Recorded by Martin Bormann
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
A rare glimpse into the mind of the Nazi leader, as recorded by his personal secretary.
Much of the documentation surrounding Adolf Hitler was lost or deliberately destroyed in the chaos of World War II’s end. Yet some records were preserved for history. After dinner at the Wolf’s Lair, it...
In Presence of My Foes
From Calais to Colditz via the Polish Underground - The Travels and Travails of a POW
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
This is a wartime escape memoir that ranks with the finest. Seriously wounded and captured at Calais, the Author recovered to escape from his POW camp in a load of rubbish. He was on the run thanks to the Polish Underground for nine months and was recaptured within sight of the Swiss border. Interrogation...
The Kaiser's Captive
In the Claws of the German Eagle
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Albert Rhys Williams was an American journalist and author. In 1914, Williams travelled to Europe as the special war correspondent for Outlook magazine, tasked with the duty of reporting the events of the Great War.
In these early days of the conflict, Williams had the misfortune to fall into...
The Real Tenko
Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The author of Children of the Camps delves into the harrowing true stories behind the TV drama: the fate of women held in Japanese captivity during WWII.
This book details the treatment of Allied servicewomen, female civilians, and local women by the Japanese occupation forces, including the...
Rommel
A Reappraisal
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
How should history judge the life and career of Erwin Rommel, the most famous German general of the Second World War, seventy years after his death on 14 October 1944? In his own time and in the years immediately after the war his reputation as a great and chivalrous commander grew to the point where...
Cheating Death
Combat Rescues in Vietnam and Laos
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2003
The colourful characters and daring rescues of downed pilots engaged in the Secret War in North Vietnam and Laos are vividly captured by one who was there, in some of the most exciting stories ever written about aerial combat. Sandy Marrett and his squadron colleagues flew some of the most dangerous...
The Right of the Line
The Role of the RAF in WW
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Traditionally, ‘the right of the line’ is the vanguard, the place of honour and greatest danger in battle. In this history of the Royal Air Force during the European War of 1939-45, John Terraine shows how the RAF, which in 1939 was small and inadequate for the task it was called upon to perform...