Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
by Richard Van Emden
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
1918: The Final Year of the Great War to Armistice is the next volume in the remarkable series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Revisiting the winning formula of diaries and memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on illegally-held cameras by the...
Temporary Heroes
Lieutenant Norman Cecil Down
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This is a short book based on the letters written between 1915 and 1916 by an officer serving with the 1/4th Gordon Highlanders. Second Lieutenant Down wrote regularly to his girlfriend/fiancée throughout his time in France, letters which were published in 1917 after he was wounded and discharged...
by R.F Delderfield
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Between the years 1804 and 1815, Napoleon created twenty-six Marshals of France. These men, who held the highest positions in the Empire after Napoleon himself, came from very diverse backgrounds and ranged from a smuggler to a Prince. They acquired titles and great riches but in the end there was only one who was not corrupted by greed or ambition. This book describes their rise and fall.
Dangerous Frontiers
Campaigning in Somaliland and Oman
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
In Part 1 of his book the author describes his life as a young officer in the Somaliland Scouts in the (then) British Protectorate of Somaliland. At that time tribal quarrels, generally over water, were taking place in the troubled strip of country between the Protectorate and Ethiopia; the Ogaden....
SS Einsatzgruppen
Nazi Death Squads, 1939–1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In June 1941, Adolf Hitler, whose loathing of Slavs and Jewish Bolsheviks knew no bounds, launched Operation Barbarossa, throwing 4 million troops, supported by tanks, artillery and aircraft into the Soviet Union. Operational groups of the German Security Service, SD, followed into the Baltic and...
The Welsh at War
Through Mud to Victory: Third Ypres and the 1918 Offensives
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
The Welsh at War trilogy is the culmination of over twelve years of painstaking research by the author into the Welsh men and infantry units who fought in the Great War.
These units included the four regular regiments – the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, South Wales Borderers Welsh Regiment and Welsh...
Welsh Yeomanry at War
A History of the 24th (Pembroke and Glamorgan) Battalion The Welsh Regiment
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Soon after the outbreak of the Great War, following many years of part-time soldiering as cavalry troops on home defense duties, the members of various British Yeomanry regiments were asked to volunteer for overseas service. In 1916, officered by well-known members of the landed gentry, two of the...
The Welsh at War
From Mons to Loos & the Gallipoli Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Welsh at War – From Mons to Loos and the Gallipoli Tragedy is the culmination of twelve years of painstaking research by the author into the the Welsh men and infantry units who fought in the Great War.
These units included the four regular regiments the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, South Wales...
The Welsh at War
The Grinding War: The Somme and Arras
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The Welsh at War trilogy is the culmination of over twelve years of painstaking research by the author into the Welsh men and infantry units who fought in the Great War.
These units included the four regular regiments – the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, South Wales Borderers Welsh Regiment and Welsh...
Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide to Operation Market Garden
Leopoldsburg-Eindhoven-Nijmegen-Arnhem-Oosterbeek
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Like the other books in the Holts' acclaimed Battlefield Guide Series (see inside front cover for details) this is much more than just a guidebook. It charts in fascinating detail what happened at each recommended stop and brings alive, with cameos and personal recollections, the dramatic events of...
Special Operations South-East Asia 1942-1945
Minerva, Baldhead & Longshank/Creek
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Many books have been written about Second World War special forces operations in Europe and the Middle East. Much less has been said about such operations in South-East Asia – those launched against the Japanese in Sumatra and the Andaman Islands, and the Germans in Goa. These operations, and the...
Lost at Sea Found at Fukushima
The Story of a Japanese POW
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
On a calm, tropical afternoon in the South Atlantic Ocean in April 1942, a British tramp steamer, the SS Willesden, was shelled, torpedoed and sunk by a German raider, the KMS Thor. The Willesden was carrying 47 officers and crew, and a cargo of vital war supplies destined for Britain’s 8th Army...
D-Day
By Those Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2004
Drawing upon a new international archive of the Second World War, the support of veterans world-wide and from archives overseas, the author uses previously unpublished letters, diaries, photographs and reminiscences to tell the story of D Day in a way which brings the reader closer to the actual experience....
D-Day
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2004
Personal accounts of D-Day drawn from newly available WWII archives share the experiences of aerial, land, and naval troops—includes photos.
On June 6, 1944, an Allied force of American, British, and Canadian troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, and turned the tide against the...