Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
Arnhem The Fight to Sustain
The Untold Story of the Airborne Logisticians
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2000
On the ground the airborne logisticians at the battle of Arnhem fought to the bitter end, indistinguishable from their paratroop comrades. In the air, their deeds and sacrifice were shining examples of duty done under the most desperate circumstances. Witness the account of Flight Lieutenant H J King,...
Juno Beach
Canadian 3rd Infantry Division - July 1944
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
By June 1944, Juno Beach was a key part of Hitler's vaunted Atlantic Wall, with no less than four major strong points along its length. German pillboxes were sited to sweep the beaches with machine gun fire and were surrounded by belts of barbed wire and mines. Leading the attack were the 3rd Canadian...
by Bernard Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2003
Much has been written about the conduct of the land battles and the commanders who faced each other yet, as the main protagonists realised at the time, success or failure rested on the effectiveness of their seaborne supply chain. Control of the Mediterranean was therefore absolutely crucial. In the...
Sea and Air Fighting
Those Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This is a compelling book for lovers of sea and air stories from the Great War era. In the thirteen stories told by the participants, many of whom were decorated for bravery, they describe their experiences of events: stories of luck, tenacity, courage, extreme danger, excitement and bravery. Also...
by Kendal Burton, James Leasor
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
In World War II James Leasor was commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Regiment and posted to the 1st Lincolns in Burma and India, where he served for three and a half years. His experiences inspired him to write such books as Boarding Party (filmed as The Sea Wolves). He later became a feature writer...
by Matthew Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
What was the soldier’s experience of the Battle of the Somme? How did the men who were there record their part in the fighting or remember it afterwards? How can we, 100 years later, gain an insight into one of the most famous – and contentious - episodes of the Great War?
Matthew Richardson’s...
The Burgoyne Diaries
The First Winter at Ypres with the Irish Rifles
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
These are the diaries of Gerald Achilles Burgoyne, wrote from the trenches just south of Ypres while he was with the Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War.
The author's daughter, Claudia Davison, was not even born when these diaries were originally written and was only 12-years-old when her father...
by Malcolm Wanklyn
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
In this stimulating and original investigation of the decisive battles of
the English Civil War, Malcolm Wanklyn reassesses what actually happened on the battlefield and as a result sheds new light on the causes of the eventual defeat of Charles I. Taking each major battle in turn - Edgehill, Newbury...
by A.H Burne
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
England's battlefields bear witness to dramatic turning-points in the country's history. At Hastings, Bosworth Field, Flodden and Naseby, the battles fought were to have an enormous effect on English life. This double volume, containing Burne's famous "Battlefields of England" and "More...
Battlefield Yorkshire
From the Romans to the English Civil Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
Yorkshire's past is replete with bloody battles and sieges. From the earliest times armies have marched across the Yorkshire countryside and have fought for control of the land, the towns and the cities. Roman, Viking, Norman and the Scottish invaders have all contributed ruthless episodes to the...
by John Grehan
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The Napoleonic Wars was truly a world-wide conflict and Britain found itself engaged in battles, sieges and amphibious operations around the globe. Following every battle the commanding officer submitted a report back to the Admiralty or the War Office. Presented here together for the first time are...
Western Front 1914-1916
Mons, Le Cataeu, loos, the Battle of the Somme
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914, to the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the fighting on the Western Front in France and Flanders never stopped. There were quiet periods, just as there were the most intense, savage, huge-scale battles.
The war on the...
The BEF in France 1939-1940
Manning the Front Through to the Dunkirk Evacuation
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the British force in Europe from 1939–1940 during the Second World War. Commanded by General Lord Gort, the BEF constituted one-tenth of the defending Allied force.
The British Expeditionary Force was started in 1938 in readiness for a perceived threat...
The Boer War 1899-1902
Ladysmith, Megersfontein, Spion Kop, Kimberley and Mafeking
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic, the First Boer War (1880–1881) was a rebellion by the Boers (farmers) against British rule in the Transvaal that re-established their independence. The engagements that it...