Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
by Geoffrey Howse
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Geoffrey Howse is well known for his books on Yorkshire subjects, including six books in the Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths series, two of which cover Barnsley and District and a third which covers South Yorkshire as a whole. In Barnsley in the Great War, he has pulled out the stops and delved...
by David A Finlayson, Michael K Cecil
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Pioneers of Armour in the Great War tells the story of the only Australian mechanized units of the Great War. The 1st Australian Armoured Car Section, later the 1st Australian Light Car Patrol, and the Special Tank Section were among the trailblazers of mechanization and represented the cutting edge...
Waterloo: Rout and Retreat
The French Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This, the fourth volume in Andrew Field's highly praised study of the Waterloo campaign from the French perspective, depicts in vivid detail the often neglected final phase – the rout and retreat of Napoleon's army. The text is based exclusively on French eyewitness accounts which give an inside...
Tracing your Great War Ancestors: Ypres
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Do you have an ancestor who served at Ypres in the First World War, during the four years in which the city was in the front line? Perhaps you have thought of visiting the battlefields nearby and the monuments that commemorate them, and want to find out exactly where your ancestor served and what...
An Anzac on the Western Front
The Personal Reflections of an Australian Infantryman from 1916 to 1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
“A remarkably candid and graphic account” of the World War I service of a member of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Britain at War Magazine).
Having enlisted in 1915 and serving in the 56th Battalion Australian Imperial Force, Harold Roy Williams arrived in France, from Egypt, on...
by Eugenia Russell, Quentin Russell
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
This book highlights the importance of Watford as a regional centre within South West Herts during the years of the Great War as well as the cohesion of the local area and the impact events and initiatives had on the entire region. The organization and presence of the Army are discussed before focusing...
Hell on Wheels
The Men of the US Armored Forces, 1918 to the end of the 20th century
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
The pictorial history of America's armored forces from the use of prototype tanks sputtering their way forward in 1918, to the complex technology of Operation Desert Storm. This book demonstrates just why these lethal troops were known as Hell On Wheels.
by Dorothy Nicolle
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Wars are not just about the people who fight. Those who wait at home suffer too. This book gives an insight into how the people of Shrewsbury lived through those years.
Chapters describe the arrival in the town of Belgian refugees and, not long afterwards, of prisoners of war and the reaction...
By Land and By Sea
The Story of the Royal Marine Commandos
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
This is the story of a fighting force. In the words of the marines themselves, Robin Neillands, formerly of 45 Commando RM, describes what it is really like to wear the legendary green beret, in peace and in war. This vivid account charts the story of the Royal Marine Commandos from their bloody baptism...
by Kristen Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
During the summer and autumn of 1940, the Germans launched their Luftwaffe campaign to gain superiority over the RAF, especially Fighter Command. They were not successful, and this defeat marked a turning point in the Allies' favour. This is the story of eight Australian fighter pilots engaged in...
From Journey's End to The Dam Busters
The Life of R.C. Sherriff, Playwright of the Trenches
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Kingston playwright R.C. Sherriff came to fame with his First World War drama Journey’s End, which was based on his own experiences as a young officer on the Western Front. Its success made him a household name and opened the door to a highly lucrative career as a novelist, playwright and screenwriter...
Fighting in Ukraine
A Photographer at War
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
The outcome of the Second World War was decided on the Eastern Front. Denied a swift victory over Stalin’s Red Army, Hitler’s Wehrmacht found itself in a bloody, protracted struggle from late 1941 that it was ill-prepared to fight.
Although many pictorial books have been published on Germany’s...
by Andrew Rawson
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book answers one of biggest unanswered questions asked by visitors to the Somme; where did my ancestor fight? The combination of First World War battle accounts and annotated trench maps throughout this book, explains exactly what happened and where, and indexed orders of battle give the reader...
The 6th Battalion the Cheshire Regiment in the Great War
A Territorial Battalion on the Western Front 1914 - 1918
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The 6th Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment, was a prewar Territorial battalion that recruited in the North Cheshire towns of Stockport, Hyde and Stalybridge, together with the Derbyshire town of Glossop. The majority of its part-time soldiers worked in the area’s cotton mills and hat making factories....