Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
Reasons in Writing
A Commando’s View of the Falklands War
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Reasons in Writing tells Southby-Tailyour's story of the Falklands War largely through the medium of diaries and letters written during his peacetime tour of duty in the seventies and the war itself. Reasons in Writing, is unlikely to be rivalled for its immediacy, insight and deep and genuine feeling...
by Martin Middlebrook
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
At 9.30am on 21 March 1918, the last great battle of the First World War commenced when three German armies struck a massive blow against the weak divisions of the British Third and Fifth Armies. It was the first day of what the Germans called the Kaiserschlacht (‘the Kaiser’s Battle’), the...
Retreat & Rearguard: Dunkirk 1940
The Evacuation of the BEF to the Channel Ports
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The dramatic story of how a quarter million men were evacuated from the coast of France—and how the British Expeditionary Force fought on.
This book, part of the Retreat and Rearguard series, covers the actions of the BEF during the retreat from the Dyle Line to the evacuation points of Dunkirk,...
by Tim Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
Previous works have concentrated on the 'Pal' in Britain's northern towns and cities. This book seeks to explore the little appreciated part in the Battle of the Somme played by the Regular and Volunteer Service battalions of two small West Country regiments; the Devonshire Regiment and the Dorset...
Operation Epsom
Over the Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2007
Before EPSOM in late June 1944 there remained the chance that a German counter-stroke might seriously threaten the bridgehead. After EPSOM, the Allies retained the strategic initiative through to the liberation of France and Belgium.This was a battle in which highly trained but largely inexperienced...
by Andrew Rawson
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Cambrai Campaign 1917 is an account of the British Expeditionary Force’s battles in November and December of 1917. It starts with the plan to carry out a tank raid on the Hindenburg Line at Cambrai. The raid grew into a full scale attack and Third Army would rely on a different style of attack....
For Love of Regiment
A History of British Infantry, Volume One, 1660-1914
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 1993
The author explains how the tradition of loyalty to the regiment has served the British Army so well over the past 350 years and, in his vivid description of some of the major campaigns in which it has fought, shows what it was like at various times to have been an officer or a soldier in the British Army.
For Love of Regiment
A History of British Infantry, Volume 2, 1915-1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 1994
The author explains how the tradition of loyalty to the regiment has served the British Army so well over the past 350 years and, in his vivid description of some of the major campaigns in which it has fought, shows what it was like at various times to have been an officer or a soldier in the British Army.
Underground Structures of the Cold War
The World Below
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Books on the history of fortifications are plentiful. Medieval castles, the defensive systems of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the trenches and bunkers of the First World War, the great citadels of the Second World War – all these have been described in depth. But the fortifications...
Mad Mike
Biography of Brigadier Michael Calvert
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
This penetrating biography tells the story of his life including his exploits in Norway and the early Commandos. It also uncovers new evidence revealing that his court martial was unjust.
Up the Micks!
An Illustrated History of the Irish Guards
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
The unique history of The Micks – the Irish Guards – is chronicled in over 1000 images, starting with their formation in 1900 and taking the reader through to the recent war in Afghanistan. It is the story of a remarkable family regiment that continues to
British Submarines at War
1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Originally published in 1970 and out of print for nearly thirty years, this book has already earned its place as a classic of submarine history by an author with an international reputation for being second-to-none in evoking the claustrophobic horror of war beneath the waves. Accurate in detail,...
Churchill's Greatest Fear
The Battle of the Atlantic 3 September 1939 to 7 May 1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The Battle of the Atlantic (Churchill's term) was arguably the pivotal campaign of the Second World War – it was certainly the longest starting with the sinking of RMS Athenia on 3 September 1939 and ending with the torpedoing of SS Avon Dale on 7 May 1945.
This superbly researched work covers...
Ultra Versus U-Boats
Enigma Decrypts in the National Archives
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
Keeping the Atlantic sea-lanes open was a vital factor in the fight against Nazi Germany. In the battle to protect merchant shipping from the menace of surface raiders and U-boats, Allied resolve and resources were tested to the utmost.
The story of the extraordinary measures that were taken...