Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
Hitler's Munich Man
The Fall of Admiral Sir Barry Domvile
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
A “fascinating” account of the British director of Naval Intelligence who was interned during the Second World War as a Nazi sympathizer (The Armourer).
Between the First and Second World Wars, there was a growth of fascism in Britain and anxiety about revolution was in the air. Concerns of...
Wargaming on a Budget
Gaming Constrained by Money or Space
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Wargaming can be a very expensive hobby, but it needn't be. Iain Dickie, one of the best-known names in the hobby shares dozens of hints and tips on how to cut the cost of your gaming and get 'more bang for your buck'. He offers sound practical advice on buying and building your armies (should you...
by Malcolm Atkin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2004
The Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651 was the final decisive engagement of the English Civil Wars. In this fascinating guide, Malcolm Atkin sets out in a graphic and easily understood way the movements of the opposing armies of Cromwell and Charles II as they approached Worcester and gives a...
Section D for Destruction
Forerunner of SOE
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
When Neville Chamberlain made his famous Peace in Our Time statement in 1938, after the Munich Agreement with Hitler, he may, or may not, have been aware that the new Section D of the Secret Intelligence Service was already making plans to mount an all-out political and sabotage war against Nazi Germany....
by Peter Liddle
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Twenty-four years after the publication of his classic study of the Somme, Peter Liddle reconsiders the battle in the light of recent scholarship. The battle still gives rise to fierce debate and, with Passchendaele, it is often seen as the epitome of the tragic folly of the First World War. But is...
by Mark Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2000
For two centuries the officers and men of the London Scottish have faithfully served their country, never more so than during the terrible years of the Great War. Initially with the 1st Guards Brigade, and later with the 56th (London) Division, the 1st Battalion was so committed to the prosecution...
Douglas Haig
Diaries & Letters 1861 – 1914
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
As a young officer in the prestigious 21st Lancers (motto 'Death or Glory') Douglas Haig played a leading role in Kitchener's bold expedition which ended in the defeat of the Khalifa of Sudan at Omdurman. He described the action, as he did the whole campaign, vividly in words and diagrams which survived...
Absent-Minded Beggars
Yeomanry and Volunteers in the Boer War
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1999
The British Army suffered one of its greatest crises when in December 1899 the Boer irregulars inflicted three reverses in South Africa in 'Black Week'. A nation grown accustomed to success was stunned. Part of the answer was a very British blend of patriotism and pragmatism. For the first time civilian...
Double Agent Celery
MI5's Crooked Hero
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon with the seemingly impossible mission of persuading the Germans he was a traitor and then extract crucial...
Yorkshire Women at War
Story of the Women's Land Army Hostels
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
In Yorkshire, 2015 marks the centenary of the founding of the first Land Girl Hostel, near Boroughbridge, by Lady Margery Lawson Tancred. Yorkshire Women at War deals with the Women's Land Army Hostel policy during the First World War and it is the first exhaustive account to examine hostel life in...
Londoners on the Western Front
The 58th (2/1st London) Division on the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
In spite of all the books written on the First World War, some remarkable stories still remain untold, and that of the 58th London Division is one of the most neglected. A territorial formation, lacking the glamour of the old army or the Kitchener Volunteers, the 58th never received an official history...
Disarming Hitler’s V Weapons
Bomb Disposal, the V1 and V2 rockets
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
"In 1944, the V-1s and V-2s, Hitler's 'vengeance' weapons, were regarded by the British as the single greatest threat of the war. It was the job of the specialist bomb disposal teams to render the V-weapons safe and uncover their secrets. This is their story. In this unique book Chris has investigated...
by Major General John Frost
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
One of the British Army’s first paratroopers recounts in vivid detail his service in the 2nd Parachute Battalion during the Battle of Arnhem and beyond . . .
No one who has read of Arnhem can fail to be inspired by gallantry of the 2nd Parachute Regiment, which held the north end of the key...
The Red Baron
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
Beginning his wartime career on the Western Front in August 1916, Manfred von Richthofen, or the Red Baron as he became known, had shot down an impressive total of fifteen aircraft by January 1917, as well as being appointed commander of his own unit. By the time of his death in 1918, he had destroyed...