Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
by Clayton Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
What was it like as a French soldier to defend the Maginot Line when the Germans invaded in 1940, and was the line really a strategic and tactical disaster a massive waste of resources? Clayton Donnell's expert, finely detailed and graphic account of the role of the Maginot Line in the defense of...
Salerno 1943
The Allied Invasion of Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
In September 1943, in the first weeks of the Allied campaign to liberate Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force of over 80,000 men was nearly beaten back into the sea by the German defenders in a ferocious ten-day battle at Salerno, south of Naples. This is the story of the tense, bitter struggle...
D-Day Cover Up at Pointe du Hoc
The History of the 2nd & 5th US Army Rangers, 1st May – 10th June 1944
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
Gary Sterne, a keen collector of militaria and co-founder of The Armourer and Skirmish magazines, has always been fascinated by the D-Day landings. In particular he was intrigued by the lack of precise information relating to the mystery of the ‘missing guns’ of Pointe du Hoc.His research led...
by M.J. Trow
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
The Isle of Wight went to war in August 1914 along with the rest of Britain. German waiters were arrested. The tourist trade slumped. Foreigners were denounced and lads from all walks of life flocked to the Colours. Then came privations, losses, hospitals full of the sick and crippled. After conscription...
The Price of Victory
The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The Red Army's casualties during the Second World War and the casualties sustained by the German army they fought are a key element in any assessment of the conflict on the Eastern Front. Since the war ended over seventy years ago, the statistics have been a source of bitter controversy, of claim...
Fighting Mad
One Man's Guerrilla War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2004
Michael Calvert was one of the legendary figures of the Second World War. He hit the headlines as 'Mad Mike' after the first Chindit campaign in 1943, with a reputation as a tough and daring leader of guerrilla troops. He was one of the first men selected for the Chindits by the controversial General...
Rome Spreads Her Wings
Territorial Expansion Between the Punic Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
The two decades between the end of the First Punic War and the beginning of the Second represent a key period in the development of Rome’s imperial ambitions, both within Italy and beyond. Within Italy, Rome faced an invasion of Gauls from Northern Italy, which threatened the very existence of the...
A Battle Too Far
The True Story of Rifleman Henry Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Port Said September 1st 1945
"As the ship pulled into Alex, the dockside was a hive of activity. The captain had radioed ahead and so there was a battalion of the Kings' African Rifles (KAR)waiting to disarm us as we disembarked. All these KAR's were standing at the order as a staff officer...
When the Moon Rises
Escape and Evasion Through War-torn Italy
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
In the face of the advancing Allied forces, Italy capitulated in September 1943, leaving thousands of Allied prisoners of war held in camps around the country to fend for themselves. Amongst those prisoners was Tony Davis who had been captured in North Africa. Determined to make the most of the opportunity,...
Beyond Endurance
An Epic of Whitehall and the South Atlantic Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
An Epic of Whitehall and the South Atlantic Conflict. This is the story of HMS Endurance before, during and after the Falklands conflict.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Shadow of Terror over The Sahel, from 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Insurgencies in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere – the majority linked to al Qaeda – are in the news on an almost daily basis. But very little surfaces about a festering insurgency that has been on the go for six years in West Africa under the acronym of AQIM, or al Qaeda in the Islamic...
Recollections of the Great War
Three Years on Campaign in France and Flanders with the Northumberland Fusiliers
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
This rare primary source account is the story of the hard fighting battalion of the 7th Northumberland Fusiliers, which saw action on the Somme, Passchendaele and in the Battle of Arras. This wonderfully detailed account provides a rare insight into the experiences of the common soldier on the front...
by David Buttery
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
The defeat of Napoleon’s French army by the combined forces of Wellington and Blücher at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 was a turning point in world history. This was the climax of the Napoleonic Wars, and the outcome had a major influence on the shape of Europe for the next century and beyond. The battle...
Waterloo General
The Life, Letters and Mysterious Death of Major General Sir William Ponsonby 1772 - 1815
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
At the Battle of Waterloo Sir William Ponsonby, a man who the Duke of Wellington stated had ‘rendered very brilliant and important services and was an ornament to his profession’, was killed by French lancers after leading the Union Brigade (the three Dragoon Regiments of the Royals, Iniskillings...