Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
T-54/55
The Soviet Army's Cold War Main Battle Tank
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The Soviet T-54/55 is probably the best-known tank of the Cold War, and it was produced in greater numbers that any other tank in history. It first went into service just after the Second World War and over 70,000 were made, and its design was so successful that it even outlasted its successor the...
German Assault Guns and Tank Destroyers 1940 - 1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The assault guns and tank destroyers deployed by the Wehrmacht during the Second World War are not as famous as tanks like the Tiger and Panther, but they were remarkably successful, and they are the subject of Anthony Tucker-Jones's wide-ranging photographic history. As the conflict progressed, the...
Armoured Warfare in the First World War
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
A hundred years ago, on 15 September 1916, on the Western Front during the Battle of the Somme, the tank made its debut on the battlefield. The first tanks were crude, unreliable, vulnerable weapons, but they changed the character of land warfare forever, and Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic history...
Panzer III
Hitler's Beast of Burden
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The Panzerkampfwagen III Panzer III was one of the German army's principal tanks of the Second World War, yet its history is often overlooked in comparison to its more famous successors the Panzer IV, Panther and Tiger. Anthony Tucker-Jones, in this volume in the Images of War series, provides a visual...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Operation Market Garden, September 1944, the Netherlands. Three parachute drops and one armored charge. The prize was the last bridge at Arnhem over the Neder Rijn. Taken intact it would provide the Allies with a backdoor into Germany – the famous ‘Bridge Too Far.’ This was one of the most audacious...
Panzer I and II
The Birth of Hitler's Panzerwaffe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
While the Panzer I and II are not as famous as the German tanks produced later in the Second World War, they played a vital role in Hitler's early blitzkrieg campaigns and in the Nazi rearmament program pursued, at first in secret, by the Nazi regime during the 1930s. Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic...
Armoured Warfare and the Waffen-SS 1944-1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Over 150 wartime photographs give a graphic snapshot of the dramatic tank battles fought by the Waffen-SS panzer and panzergrenadier divisions during 1944-5 on both the Eastern and Western fronts. By this stage of the Second World War these formations were at the height of their powers and took part...
Daesh
Islamic State’s Holy War
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Anthony Tucker-Jones is only too familiar with the modern architects of terror. For the past decade and a half he has worked as the terrorism and security correspondent for the highly respected intersec – The Journal of International Security. During that time he has written extensively on al Qaeda...
by Basil Collier
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
In his Foreword, Professor Jones writes 'Mr Collier takes the opportunity to review the contributions of all forms of Intelligence, and the use and misuse that was made of them, in all the major phases of World War II. His task has required very wide reading of the great volume of original documents...
The Defence of Sevastopol 1941-1942
The Soviet Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In December 1941, while America was reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor and the offensives of the German Army Groups North and Centre were stalled in the mud and cold of the Russian winter, the German Eleventh Army encircled the vast fortress of Sevastopol in the Crimea, launching massive combined...
SS Polizei at War 1940–1945
A History of the Division
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Formed in 1939 SS-Polizei Division were not considered initially as an SS fighting force, and this status was reflected in the quality of the equipment they were issued. Following operations in France, Greece and then Russia, it was not until 1942 the division was transferred to the Waffen-SS, and...
SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) at War 1939 - 1945
A History of the Division on the Western and Eastern Fronts
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
With extensive text and many unpublished photographs with in-depth captions - the successful Images of War format - this book describes the Division’s fighting tactics, weapons and uniforms. It traces how the Division became an elite fighting unit both in offensive and defensive battles.
The...
Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1941-1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
This book in the popular Images of War series covers the deeds of the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. With extensive text and in-depth captions with many rare and unpublished photographs it is an absorbing analysis of the part they played on the Eastern Front. It reveals...
Nazi Concentration Camp Commandants 1933-1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Using many rare and unpublished images this book identifies and delves into the characters of the notorious men who were instrumental in one of the greatest crimes against humanity in World history.
Through words and pictures the chilling truth emerges. In many respects these monsters were all...