Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
The German armoured forces lost some 10,000 armoured fighting vehicles. Today there are very few surviving vehicles from the Wehrmacht. We are fortunate therefore that these unique photographs detail the fate of the Panzers destroyed in action in the west.
Trench Warfare
Contemporary Combat Images from the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This powerful collection, depicting the grim events of trench warfare, showcases the work of the contemporary combat artists and illustrators from the Great War era. Included here are the works of serious artists, propagandists, illustrators and humorists. The result is a stunning and vivid graphic...
The BEF in 1917
Arras, Vimy, Messines, Passchendaele and Cambrai
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This new volume in the long-running Images of War series features the actions of the British Army at Passchendaele. The book is comprised of rare photographs illustrating the years of fighting on the northern sector of the Ypres salient, which finally culminated in the capture of the ridge at Passchendaele,...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Rare photographs from both official and unofficial SS sources illustrate the role of the individual in this epic struggle. This is a candid and comprehensive picture of warfare on the Russian Front at the sharp end. These were the men who manned the trenches, climbed mountains and marched across the endless steppe in all seasons.
Der Adler
The Official Nazi Luftwaffe Magazine- English Language edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Der Adler was the official magazine of the Luftwaffe in World War II. In the years before Hitler declared war on America an English language edition of Der Adler costing eight cents was published and widely sold in the USA. The magazine was available on American news stands and the surviving English...
German Armour Lost on the Eastern Front
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Rare photographs from both German and Russian sources : Today there are very few surviving vehicles from the Wehrmacht. which illustrate the fate of many of the armoured fighting vehicles of Hitler’s much vaunted Panzerwaffe-
The German Army on Campaign 1914 - 1918
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This is the photographic history of the German Army on campaign throughout the First World War. The most striking images from the German perspective are gathered here and form a significant historical record of one of the most important events of modern history.
In 1914, the German war machine...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
It is an often overlooked fact that the SS Divisions included Cavalrymen, Paratroopers, Mountain and Ski Battalions and these rare photographs illustrate the unique role played by specialist units in action.
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The 1st of July 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, was the blackest day in the history of the British Army. 60,000 men became casualties on that one day alone.
In a major new documentary film premiering on the Discovery Channel next year, Emmy Award winning film maker Bob Carrruthers...
The Panther V in Combat
Guderian's Problem Child
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The Panther V evidenced a number of problems in combat, and this was the proof of the rushed development programme that
was made obvious from the events at Kursk. However, despite its disappointing battlefield debut, the Panther is frequently hailed as the best all round tank of the war.
This...
21 Days in Normandy
Maj. Gen. George Kitching & the 4th Canadian Armoured Division
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
“Right[s] some of the injustices done to the Canadians” on their maligned actions during the Invasion of Normandy. “An absorbing account” (Firetrench).
The Canadian Fourth Armoured Division crossed the Channel in July 1944 to support the invading forces and assist in the Allied attempts...
With the German Guns
four years on the western front
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
At once harrowing and light-hearted, Sulzbach’s exceptional diary has been highly praised since its orginal publication in Germany in 1935. With the reprint of this classic account of trench warfare it records the pride and exhilaration of what to him was the fight for a just cause. It is one of...
by Richard Van Emden
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Benjamin Clouting was just sixteen years old when he embarked with the British Expeditionary Force for France in August 1914. The youngest man in the 4th Dragoon Guards, he took part in the BEF's celebrated first action at Casteau on August 22nd, and, two days later, had his horse shot from under...
The Road to Passchendaele
The Heroic Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly regarded series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once again, using the winning formula of diaries and memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on illegally held cameras by the soldiers themselves, Richard...