Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
by David Raw
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
In the early days of the First World War two volunteer Pals Battalions were raised in Bradford and this is their remarkable story. David Raw's account is based on memoirs, letters, diaries, contemporary newspaper reports, official records and archives, and it is illustrated with many maps and previously...
by Steven John
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
The Carmarthenshire Battalion was one of the early units raised in 1914 as a result of Lord Kitchener’s expansion of the regular army by 500,000 men for the duration of the Great War. Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, had a vision of a Welsh Army Group and massive efforts were made...
Accrington Pals
The 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment A History of the Battalion Raised from Accrington, Blackburn, Burnley and Chorley in World War One
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2008
Accrington Pals is being re-released due to popular demand after being out of stock for sometime. The first book to be published in the now highly acclaimed Pals series. The Accrington Pals were the most famous of all the battalions, based upon research in local and national archives, and interviews...
Major and Mrs Holts Pocket Battlefield Guide to Ypres and Passchendaele
1st Ypres; 2nd Ypres (Gas Attack); 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele) 4th Ypres (The Lys)
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Covering the important WW1 Battles of Ypres, including the notorious Passchendaele, this guidebook takes readers on a historic trip through some of the well-known and most important sites of the area.This book, part of a new series of guides, is designed conveniently in a small size, for those who...
Menin Gate South
In Memory and In Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
This is a comprehensive and highly emotive volume, borne of years of intensive research and many trips to the battlefields of the Great War. It seeks to humanise the Menin Gate Memorial (South), to offer the reader a chance to engage with the personal stories of the soldiers whose names have been...
Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial
In Memory and In Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This is a comprehensive and highly emotive volume, borne of years of intensive research and many trips to the battlefields of the Great War. It seeks to humanise Tyne Cot cemetery, to offer the reader a chance to engage with the personal stories of the soldiers whose names have been chiseled there...
by Jonathan Sutherland, Diane Canwell
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
The Battlefield General game books put you in command of the forces engaged in some of history's most famous battles. Your ability to make the right tactical decision will be tested at every turn of the page. The 2nd Battle of El Alamein in October 1942 was one of the crucial turning points of WWII....
by Christina Holstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This new and enthralling study is the first detailed work in English of a largely unknown period of the Battle of Verdun. It considers the background to the battle and casts light on the first three critical months of fighting there. It explains the decision to change the original German plan for...
The Underground War
Vimy Ridge to Arras
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
This is the first part of a planned four-volume series focusing on a hitherto largely neglected aspect of the Great War on the Western Front - the war underground. The subject has fascinated visitors to the battlefields from the very beginning of battlefield pilgrimages in the years immediately after...
Hitler’s Mountain Troops 1939-1945
The Gebirgsjager
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Hitler’s mountain troops or Gebirgsjager were a group of elite soldiers ready for battle, whatever the conditions. These mountain men were trained to ski, climb and endure long marches, survive appalling conditions and were given a role as crack shock troops. Yet many of the campaigns in which the...
Napoleon's Polish Gamble
Eylau & Friedland 1807 - Campaign Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Napoleon's 1807 campaign against the Russians came close to being his first defeat. At Eylau the Emperor was outnumbered by the army of the Russian commander Bennigsen, yet he accepted battle. His reputation was saved by the flamboyant Murat, who led one of the greatest cavalry charges in history....
Wellington Against Soult
The Second Invasion of Portugal 1809
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
At the heart of David Buttery’s third book on the Peninsular War lies the comparison between two great commanders of enormous experience and reputation – Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, and Jean de Dieu Soult. In Soult, Wellesley met one of his most formidable opponents and they confronted...
by Nick Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Stafford in the Great War tells the fascinating story of a county town and its people between the catastrophic years of 1914-18 . The title was written as a companion volume to the author's earlier work, Stafford at War 1939-45, and adopts the same successful formula. The book examines the work of...
Roman Empire at War
A Compendium of Roman Battles from 31 B.C. to A.D. 565
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
In a single volume, Empire at War catalogues and offers a brief description of every significant battle fought by the Roman Empire from Augustus to Justinian I (and most of the minor ones too). The information in each entry is drawn exclusively from Ancient, Late Antique, and Early Medieval texts,...