Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The fighting in the Gallipoli or Dardanelles campaign began in 1915 as a purely naval affair undertaken partly at the instigation of Winston Churchill, who, as First Lord of the Admiralty, had entertained plans of capturing the Dardanelles as early as September 1914. It was the Royal Navy that bore...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
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...
Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1939-1942
Tobruk, Crete, Syria and East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
The Middle East Command in the Second
World War covered a vast region, stretching
across Egypt, Libya, Malta, Palestine and
Transjordan, Cyprus, Sudan, Eritrea, most of
Syria and a small part of Iraq, and included
some forty different languages. At one point
it also oversaw operations in Greece, Kenya
and...
The Zulu War
The War Despatches Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
The events at Rorke's Drift, the iconic defence of a mission station by a small force of British and colonial troops, were immortalised in the 1964 film Zulu. In January 1879, a small garrison of just over 150 British and colonial troops successfully defended the mission against a force of 3,000 to...
The Battle for Kharkov 1941 - 1943
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The four battles fought for Kharkov during the Second World War are often overshadowed by the battles for Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad, yet they were critical stages in the struggle between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army for control of the southern Soviet Union.
Anthony Tucker-Jones, in this volume...
Viriathus
and the Lusitanian Resistance to Rome 155-139 BC
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
In the middle years of the second century BC, Rome was engaged in the conquest and pacification of what is now Spain and Portugal. They met with determined resistance from several tribes but nobody defied them with more determination and skill than Viriathus. Apparently of humble birth, he emerged...
Attack on the Scheldt
The Struggle for Antwerp 1944
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
During the Allied advance across northwest Europe in 1944, the opening up of the key port of Antwerp was a pivotal event, yet it has been neglected in histories of the conflict. The battles in Normandy and on the German frontier have been studied often and in detail, while the fight for the Scheldt...
The Burning of Moscow
Napoleon's Trail By Fire 1812
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
As soon as Napoleon and his Grand Army entered Moscow, on 14 September 1812, the capital erupted in flames that eventually engulfed and destroyed two thirds of the city. The fiery devastation had a profound effect on the Grand Army, but for thirty-five days Napoleon stayed, making increasingly desperate...
SS Das Reich At War 1939–1945
A History of the Division on the Western and Eastern Fronts
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Between 1933 and 1939, the strength and influence of the SS grew considerably with thousands of men being recruited into the new ideological armed formation, many into units known as the SS-Verfgungstruppe (Special Disposal Troop). These troops saw action in Poland before switching to the Western...
Middlebrook Guide to the Somme Battlefields
A Comprehensive Coverage from Crecy to the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2007
While best known as being the scene of the most terrible carnage in the WW1 the French department of the Somme has seen many other battles from Roman times to 1944. William the Conqueror launched his invasion from there; the French and English fought at Crecy in 1346; Henry V’s army marched through...
In Flanders Flooded Fields
Before Ypres There Was Yser
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2007
In October 1914 four armies were converging on Dunkirk. While France was preparing to defend its main Channel port, the Germans were determined to take it while the British were busy using it. Caught in the middle was the Belgian Army. Belgium was almost totally overrun, safe for a small strip of...
The German Army in the Spring Offensives 1917
Arras, Aisne, & Champagne
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
After the great battles of 1916, the Allied Armies planned to launch massive attacks North and South of the Somme. The German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line in March 1917 forced the new French CinC General Nivelle to rethink and the French embarked on a major attack in the Aisne area and along...
by Nigel Cave
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1995
This volume covers the battlefields of Arras around Vimy Ridge dealing with the activities of the French and the British and the start of the Battle of Arras. Vimy Ridge gives a balanced view of the fighting by detailed descriptions of various units and individuals.
by Ian Sumner
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The French army of the First World War withstood the main force of the German onslaught on the Western Front, but often it is neglected in English histories of the conflict. Now, though, keen interest in the war in general and in the part the French played in it has prompted a fresh appreciation of...