Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
Atomic Thunder
British Nuclear Testing in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
British nuclear testing took place at Maralinga, South Australia, between 1956 and 1963, after Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies had handed over 3,200 square kilometres of open desert to the British Government, without informing his own people. The atomic weapons test series wreaked havoc on...
by Lucinda Moore
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Animals in the Great War throws a spot light on the experience of creatures great and small during the First World War, vividly telling their stories through the incredible archival images of the Mary Evans Picture Library. The enduring public interest in Michael Morpurgos tale of the war horse reveals...
by Charles Evans
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 1997
Charles Evans records his passage from idyllic youth, fresh from Oxford in 1939, into the harsh reality of a junior doctor in Burma. Beautifully written and elegantly vivid, his diaries illuminate the progress of this ugly campaign while his post-war life saw ground-breaking work as a mountaineer, eventually rewarded by a knighthood.
British Battles of the Crimean Wars 1854-1856
Despatches from the Front
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
The Crimean War was the most destructive armed conflict of the Victorian era. It is remembered for the unreasoning courage of the Charge of the Light Brigade, for the precise volleys of the Thin Red Line and the impossible assaults upon Sevastopol's Redan. It also demonstrated the inefficiency and...
Lieutenant General Sir Samuel Auchmuty 1756–1822
The Military Life of an American Loyalist and Imperial General
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Samuel Auchmuty was born in New York in 1756\. During the American Revolution his remained loyal to King George and he joined the British 45th Foot in 1777. After the war he remained in British service, campaigned in many parts of the world and rose through the ranks. Despite a varied and distinguished...
Masada
Mass Suicide in the First Jewish-Roman War, c. AD 73
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
In the spring of 73 AD the rock fortress of Masada on the western shore of the Dead Sea was the site of an event that was breathtaking in its courage and self-sacrifice. Here the last of the Jewish Zealots who, for nearly eight years, had waged war against the Roman occupiers of their country made...
Heroic Option
The Irish in the British Army
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
It is a curious paradox that, while for many centuries there has been deep antagonism between the British and the Irish, the latter have fought the former's wars with exemplary courage and tenacity. This has never been better demonstrated than when, as a result of the Irish regiments' superb service...
The Home Front in the Great War
Aspects of the Conflicts 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2003
In an overdue attempt to portray the real effect of the war on life at home, David Bilton examines all the major events of the period and charts their effect on everyday life for those trying to live a normal existence. Extensive use is made of personal accounts and the author draws on many photographs,...
The Last Prussian
A Biography of Field Marshal Gerd Von Rundstedt
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953) was one of the foremost German commanders of the Second World War. After service on both the Western and Eastern Fronts during 1914-1918 he rose steadily through the ranks before retiring in 1938. Recalled to plan the attack on Poland, he played a leading...
Into Touch
Rugby Internationals Killed in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Many thousands of men died during the Great War. They came from every place and class. The very cream of the Nation joined up thinking it a great adventure but, all too often, never returned. This book is dedicated to the memory of an elite few of such men – the Rugby Internationals who fell in...
by Terry Carter
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
In the summer of 1914, our finest young men flocked to the colors in Northern towns and cities to answer Lord Kitchener’s ‘Call to Arms’ in a spontaneous burst of enthusiasm and patriotism. The Call appealed to their sense of adventure and offered an escape from the humdrum life of office, factory...
by John Harley
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The 6th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment, was a prewar Territorial unit. Many of its members held “white collar” positions employed by the City’s legal, financial and stockbroking practices or worked for the major commercial organizations trading and manufacturing cotton goods. It went overseas...
Somme 1916
And Other Experiences of the Salford Pals
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
Salford was late in recruiting for its Pals battalions, with many of its men already joining Territorial units and a new Pals battalion in Manchester. Yet within a year it had raised four Pals battalions and a reserve battalion. Raised mainly from Lancashire’s most notorious slums, the men trained...
The Kensington Battalion
‘Never Lost a Yard of Trench’
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Raised by the Mayor of Kensington, the 22nd Royal Fusiliers (the Kensington Battalion) were a strange mixture of social classes (bankers and stevedores, writers and laborers) with a strong sprinkling of irreverent colonials thrown in. Such a disparate group needed a strong leader and, luckily, in...