Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
The First Day of the Somme
Gommecourt to Maricourt, 1 July 1916
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Many guidebooks cover the Somme offensive in 1916, the five-month struggle that has come to be seen as one of the defining episodes in the history of the fighting on the Western Front during the First World War. But no previous guide has concentrated on t
Tiger I and Tiger II: Tanks of the German Army and Waffen-SS
Eastern Front 1944
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
In spite of the relatively small numbers produced, the Tiger I and Tiger II tanks are arguably the most famous armoured fighting vehicles of the Second World War. This book, the first in the TankCraft series, uses archive photos and extensively researched colour illustrations to examine the tanks...
A Business of Some Heat
The United Nations Force in Cyprus 1972-74
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2004
The island of Cyprus, long troubled by inter-communal strife, exploded onto the world stage with the Athens-inspired coup against President Makarios and Turkey's invasion that followed. This resulted in the partition of the Island, which was policed by UNFICYP under the most testing conditions. These...
Fighter Command’s Air War 1941
RAF Circus Operations and Fighter Sweeps Against the Luftwaffe
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Following the Battle of Britain, the RAF started taking the air war to the Germans. A small number of bombers, escorted by large numbers of fighters tried to force the Luftwaffe into battle. Much air combat ensued with RAF light bombers escorted by scores of fighters, but it was not until Germany...
Wellington's Peninsular War
Battles and Battlefields
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2005
Wellington's Peninsular War provides a concise and comprehensive account that can be enjoyed by both professional and amateur historians and which includes details of the battlefields as they are today and how to find and explore them. The Peninsular War (1808-1841) was part of the twenty year struggle...
Wellington & Napoleon
Clash of Arms
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Wellington and Napoleon tells the story of the convergence and final clash of two of the most brilliant commanders ever to meet on the field of battle. Wellington, his men said, did not know how to lose a battle. But Wellington himself admired his adversary
The Battle of Fontenoy 1745
Saxe against Cumberland in the War of the Austrian Succession
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The Battle of Fontenoy marked a turning point in the War of the Austrian Succession, yet it has rarely been analyzed in depth and the Europe-wide conflict in which it played a part is little understood. James Falkner, in this perceptive and original account, puts the record straight by describing...
Wellington's Eastern Front
The Campaign on the East Coast of Spain 1810-1814
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
At last, in this absorbing and authoritative study, the story of the epic struggle on Spain’s eastern front during the Peninsular War has been told. Often overlooked as not integral to the Duke of Wellington’s main army and their campaigns in Portugal and western Spain, they were, in point of...
by Adrian Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Alex, as he was known whether by Prime Ministers or the rank-and-file, was a legendary figure. A hero from the Great War he saw active service in Russia in 1919 – 20 and against the Pathans on the North West Frontier in 1935. By 1940 he was a divisional commander with the B.E.F. in France. His conduct...
The Great War Illustrated 1918
Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The final book in a series of five titles which graphically cover each year of the war. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to...
by Ray Westlake
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Although seventy-eight years have passed since the Battle of the Somme was fought, interest in this, the bloodiest battle of the First World War, has never waned. Ray Westlake has collated all the information so painstakingly gathered, to produce a comprehensive compendium of the exact movements of...
Brutus
Caesar's Assassin
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The extraordinary life of the “noblest Roman of them all.”
Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if not of all time, knowledge of this historical figure has principally been passed to the modern world through the literary...
by John D. Grainger
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Egypt was the last of the Macedonian Successor states to be swallowed up by Roman expansion. The Ptolemaic rulers had allied themselves to Rome while their rivals went down fighting. However, Cleopatra's famous love affair with Marc Antony ensured she was on the wrong side of the Roman civil war between...
Commando Men
The Story of A Royal Marine Commando in World War Two
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
First published in 1948 as Commando Men- The Story Of A Royal Marine Commando in North-West Europe, the book tells the story of the men of General Section 45 Royal Marine Commando in N.W. Europe. Samain was the Intelligence Officer of No. 45 Royal Marine Commando, and in this revised edition the book...