Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
Conflict in the Crimea
British Redcoats on Russian Soil
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2006
The author relies to a great extent on contemporary accounts of a large number of British men - and women - who were unwittingly caught up in this appalling war. As well as surviving the efforts of their determined enemy, the Russians, they had to overcome the harshest weather, rampant disease and...
The Forgotten War Against Napoleon
Conflict in the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The campaigns fought against Napoleon in the Iberian peninsula, in France, Germany, Italy and Russia and across the rest of Europe have been described and analyzed in exhaustive detail, yet the history of the fighting in the Mediterranean has rarely been studied as a separate theater of the conflict....
The Two Battles of Copenhagen 1801 and 1807
Britain and Denmark in the Napoleonic Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
The Danish capital of Copenhagen was the site of two major battles during the Napoleonic Wars, but the significance of the fighting there, and the key role the country played in the conflict in northern Europe, has rarely been examined in detail. In this absorbing and original study Gareth Glover...
Coastal Command's Air War Against the German U-Boats
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
This book summarises the story of how RAF Coastal Command overcame the German U-boat danger during the Second World War and how the escalation of the U-boat war promoted the development of anti-submarine warfare, leading to victory over this menace in the Atlantic.
At the start of the war, RAF...
Desert Warfare
From Its Roman Origins to the Gulf Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Approximately one-fifth of the earth's surface consists of desert, and throughout history these arid regions have witnessed some of the world's most decisive battles. Here, Bryan Perrett gives an absorbing account of desert conflicts from the first century BC to more contemporary conflicts such as...
by Roy Conyers Nesbit
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
The struggle of British, Commonwealth and American-Chinese troops against the Japanese in Burma was one of the decisive campaigns of the Second World War. British India was threatened by the Japanese advance, the fate of the British Empire in the East hung in the balance. The tropical climate –...
World War Two at Sea
The Last Battleships
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The big-gun battleship served as a symbol of the ultimate power of the world's greatest navies beginning late in the nineteenth century and continuing into the Second World War. So historically important was this vessel that the arms race between Britain and Germany to build navies with larger, more...
U-boat Prey: Merchant Sailors at War, 1939-1942
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
“The Merchant Seaman never faltered. To him we owe our preservation and our very lives” - The Right Hon. Alfred Barnes, Minister of War Transport.
During the first stages of the Second World War, all forces were rallied in an attempt to support the Allied effort. With trade and supply routes...
The Fighting Cocks
43 (Fighter) Squadron
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
In April 1916, a group of early aviators gathered in the fields beneath the crags and ramparts of Stirling Castle to form what was to become one of the Royal Air Force’s most distinguished fighter squadrons.
Few squadrons can match the history of 43 Squadron which has included being the first...
Fleet Air Arm Carrier War
The History of British Naval Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
This is the story of British naval flying from aircraft carriers, from its conception in World War One to the present day. It includes the types of aircraft and the men who flew them, the carriers and the evolution of their designs, the theatres of war in which they served and their notable achievements...
Roman Republic at War
A Compendium of Roman Battles from 502 to 31 BC
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
In a single volume, Roman Republic at War catalogues and offers a brief description of every significant battle fought by the Roman Republic between 480 and 31 BC (and most of the minor ones too). The information in each entry is drawn exclusively from Ancient texts, in order to offer a brief description...
Sparta
Fall of a Warrior Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Universally admired in 479 BC, the Spartans were masters of the Greek world by 402 BC, only for their state to collapse in the next generation. What went wrong? Was the fall of Sparta inevitable? Philip Matyszak examines the political blunders and failures of leadership which combined with unresolved...
Eagles in the Dust
The Roman Defeat at Adrianopolis AD 378
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
In AD376 large groups of Goths, seeking refuge from the Huns, sought admittance to the Eastern Roman Empire. Emperor Valens took the strategic decision to grant them entry, hoping to utilize them as a source of manpower for his campaigns against Persia. The Goths had been providing good warriors to...
by Owen Rees
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This book presents a selection of eighteen land battles and sieges that span the Classical Greek period, from the Persian invasions to the eclipse of the traditional hoplite heavy infantry at the hands of the Macedonians. This of course is the golden age of the hoplite phalanx but Owen Rees is keen...