Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
British Military Operations in Aden and Radfan
100 Years of British Colonial Rule
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The book examines the military history of Aden Colony from 1839 including the fractious turn of the century Border Commissions with Turkey and the defeat of British forces near Aden by the Turks in 1915. Great Britain successfully defended the base for the rest of The Great War and throughout the...
Napoleon's Commentaries on the Wars of Julius Caesar
A New English Translation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
While in exile on St Helena, Napoleon dictated a commentary on the wars of Julius Caesar, later published in 1836. In each chapter he summarized the events of one campaign, then added comments from the standpoint of his own military knowledge. Over the nearly two millennia between Caesar and Napoleon...
Roman Military Disasters
Dark Days & Lost Legions
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Over some 1200 years, the Romans proved adept at learning from military disaster and this was key to their eventual success and hegemony. Roman Military Disasters covers the most pivotal and decisive defeats, from the Celtic invasion of 390 BC to Alaric's sack of Rome in AD 410. Paul Chrystal details...
The Norman Commanders
Masters of Warfare 911-1135
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Robert Guiscard, William the Conqueror, Roger I of Sicily and Bohemond Prince of Antioch are just four of the exceptional Norman commanders who not only led their armies to victory in battle but also, through military force, created their own kingdoms in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Their single-minded...
by Paul Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 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 Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, to offer the reader a chance to engage with the personal stories of the soldiers whose names have been...
Lucullus
The Life and Campaigns of a Roman Conqueror
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
The military achievements of Lucius Licinius Lucullus (118-57/56 B.C.) have been the subject of admiration and great respect throughout the history of the study of warfare. Yet there have been few studies dedicated to a comprehensive examination of exactly how Lucullus conquered the Roman East and...
Waterloo 1815
Captain Mercers Journal
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Originally published in 1900, this book features excerpts from Alexander Cavalié Mercer's account of the battle of Waterloo. As an artillery officer at the sharp end, this is his eye-witness account of the events that lead to Napoleon's final defeat in June 1815. This is the contemporary view of...
Hitler's Wartime Orders
The Complete Führer Directives, 1939–1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
An Emmy Award–winning author presents the history of WWII through the military strategies, tactics, and decisions of the infamous Nazi dictator.
Edited by Bob Carruthers, Hitler’s Wartime Orders is an important historical record of Adolf Hitler’s war directives for the armies of Nazi Germany....
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Despatches in this volume include that on the first and second battles of Narvik in 1940; the despatch on operations in central Norway 1940, by Lieutenant General H.R.S. Massy, Commander-in-Chief, North West Expeditionary Force; Despatch on operations in Northern Norway between April and June 1940;...
by Michael Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Originally a town that was built of wood by the Anglo-Saxons, it was later burned down and then rebuilt as England’s second city, after London, by William the Conqueror. Riots between the church and the citizens saw Norwich at war with the Pope in 1272 when a gate was constructed as a penance. The...
French Tanks of the Great War
Development, Tactics and Operations
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
The French tank corps was an essential part of the French army from 1917 onwards, yet its history has been strangely neglected in English accounts of the Western Front – and that is why Tim Gale's meticulously researched history is such a timely addition to the literature on the First World War....
Hannibal's Last Battle
Zama & the Fall of Carthage
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
A “crisply written, well researched . . . superb piece of scholarship about one of the most dramatic and decisive battles in the ancient world” (Journal of Military History).
At Zama (in what is now Tunisia) in 202 BC, the armies of two great empires clashed: the Romans under Scipio Africanus...
Dervish
The Rise and Fall of an African Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Dervish is the vivid and colourful story of one of the more remarkable episodes in the ‘high Empire’ period of British history. The Mahdi’s rising in the Sudan in the 1880s starting as a localized Holy War against the ‘decadent’ Turkish/Egyptian overlords, engulfed a million square miles...
A Storm of Spears
Understanding the Greek Hoplite at War
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
A “practical and thought provoking” study of the ancient military tactic known as the phalanx—the classic battle formation used in historic Greek warfare (The Historian).
In ancient Greece, warfare was a fact of life, with every city brandishing its own fighting force. And the backbone...