Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
Auchinleck
The Lonely Soldier
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck was born in India and raised in conditions of near poverty. Yet his talent ensured his career flourished despite his Indian Army background and he was the first Commander of 8th Army in North Africa. Despite great political interference, he stopped Rommel's Afrika...
The Life and Campaigns of General Hughie Stockwell
From Norway Through Burma to Suez
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
The career of General Hugh Stockwell culminated in the ill-fated Suez Operation of 1956 but no stigma can attach to him for this. It was a military success but a political nightmare which resulted in the fall of Prime Minister Eden, the lowest point in relations between the Western allies, the departure...
Children of the Camps
Japan's Last Forgotten Victims
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
The author of *Guarding Hitler*tells the truly heart-rending stories of Caucasian and Eurasian children held captive inside Japanese internment camps.
The Japanese treatment of Allied children was as harsh and murderous as that of their parents and military POWs, but this whole episode has been...
The Knights Hospitaller
A Military History of the Knights of St John
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The Knights of St John evolved during the Crusades from a monastic order providing hostels for Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. The need to provide armed escorts to the pilgrims began their transformation into a Military Order. Their fervour and discipline made them an elite component of...
Cataclysm 90 BC
The Forgotten War that Almost Destroyed Rome
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
A dramatic account of a rebellion against the Roman republic—by a confederation of its Italian allies.
We know of Rome’s reputation for military success against foreign enemies. Yet at the start of the first century BC, Rome faced a hostile army less than a week’s march from the capital....
The British Field Marshals
1736-1997: A Biographical Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Whether any advantage or benefit will be drawn from the suspension – or effective abolition – of the rank of Field Marshal is debatable. What is certain, however, is that Dr. Tony Heathcote’s idea of compiling a definitive biographical dictionary of holders of this illustrious rank since its...
by John Strawson
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
John Strawson describes joining the 4th Hussars in the Middle East in 1942 and serving with them until amalgamation with the 9th Hussars in 1958 as The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars. He commanded the Regiment during the Borneo campaign and was Colonel from 1975 to 1985. His account of war in Italy...
Eastern Front
Encirclement and Escape by German Forces
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
The ferocious battles for survival fought by trapped German forces in Russia have become synonymous with that most terrible of all military campaigns. shortly after the war the personal experiences of those who had fought in the battles were collected together as the German report series. These reports...
The SS on Trial
Evidence from Nuremberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
An Emmy Award–winning author reveals the complete testimony of the most infamous war crimes trials in human history following WWII—includes photographs.
After the defeat of Nazi Germany, the Nuremberg Trials were conducted by the four victorious Allied forces of Great Britain, the United States,...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
This unique collection of contemporary combat accounts provides a primary source insight into the reality of anti-tank warfare on the Eastern Front. Both armoured and infantry based operations are considered.
This book is part of the 'Hitler's War Machine' series, a new military history range...
by Peter Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
As early as 1940 political leaders and military commanders responsible for the conduct of the Allied operations relalised that, after a string of disastrous setbacks, national morale could only be restored by taking offensive action against the enemy. With the limited resources available Churchill’s...
by Janet Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Napoleon famously said that an army marches on its stomach, but it also marches in its boots and its uniforms, carrying or driving its weapons and other equipment, and all this material has to be ordered from headquarters, produced and delivered. Janet Macdonald's detailed and scholarly new study...
1813: Empire at Bay
The Sixth Coalition & the Downfall of Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
A distinguished historian and British Army veteran examines the political and military alliances that led to the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars.
1813 was a critical year in the war that ended with the downfall of Napoleon—the year in which the balance of power tipped decisively against...
by Digby Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2005
In June 1812 500,000 men of Napoleon's army invaded Russia. Six months later barely 20,000 returned. The disastrous advance to Moscow and the subsequent retreat irreparably damaged Napoleon's military power and prestige and resulted one of the most celebrated catastrophes of in all military history....