Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
Awards of the George Cross
1940-2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Early in WW2, King George VI was deeply impressed by the heroic deeds of servicemen out of the front line and civilian non-combatants in acts connected with the war such as bomb disposal and rescues after air raids. So in September 1940 the King instituted the George Cross for ‘For Gallantry’...
Wearside Battalion
The 20th (Service) Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
This is the story of the 20th (Service) Battalion, from Wensleydale and Barnard Castle to the overseas service in Somme, Ypres Messines and more.
Durham Pals
18th, 19th, 20th and 22nd Battalions of the Durham Light Infantry in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
A history of four battalions of the Durham Light Infantry raised in the Country during the First World War. The 18th (Pals) were the first troops of Kitcheners new army to come under fire, when the Germans bombarded Hartlepool in December 1914. The 19th were raised as Bantams and the 20th (Wearside)...
The Battle That Won the War - Bellenglise
Breaching the Hindenburg Line 1918
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
It is no exaggeration to claim that 46th North Midland Division’s action on 29 September 1918 was the hammer blow that shattered the will of the German High Command.
Painting the strategic picture from early 1918 and the dark weeks following the German’s March offensive, the Author lays...
The Second World War Through Soldiers' Eyes
British Army Life 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
'What was it really like to serve in the British Army during the Second World War?
Discover a soldier's view of life in the British Army – from recruitment and training to the brutal realities of combat. Using first-hand sources, James Goulty reconstructs the experiences of the men and women...
The Fighting Pioneers
The Story of the 7th Battalion DLI
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Story of the 7th Battalion Durham Light Infantry. With the creation of the Territorial Force in 1908 the battalion was re-designated as the 7th Battalion. It went to France in April 1915 with the rest of the Northumbrian Division seeing action almost immediately at the Second battle of Ypres. In November...
The Complete Victoria Cross
A Full Chronological Record of All Holders of Britain's Highest Award for Gallantry
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
This fully revised paperback edition of the complete chronological record of VC holders is an essential work of reference for every student of military history. All the British and Commonwealth servicemen who have been awarded the highest honour for exceptional acts of bravery and self-sacrifice are...
by Chaz Bowyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 1996
This book examines every aspect of The Royal Air Force, including organisation, statistics and operations during World War Two.
Pontefract and Castleford in the Great War
Featherstone, Knottingley and Hemsworth
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
By the end of 1914, 15,000 Yorkshire miners had volunteered for the army, with around 1,000 from a single Castleford pit. Over the next four years these courageous men would write home from the killing fields of France, Gallipoli, Italy, Mesopotamia and Africa. As the men marched away, the families...
The Baby Killers
German Air Raids on Britain in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Just over a decade after the Wright Brothers’ triumph of powered flight, the conduct of war was changed for ever. Until the Kaiser’s Zeppelins raided British cities and towns, it had been unthinkable that civilian populations and property hundreds of miles from the battlefield could be at risk...
Without Tradition
2 para 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2004
2 Para's performance during Operation MARKET GARDEN is legendary but, as this book amply demonstrates, it was the culmination of three year's battle experience. A major factor behind the Battalion's successes was the leadership of its Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel John D Frost who never failed...
by David Bilton
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Reading were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record...
by David Millichope
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Halifax was surprised by the outbreak of war in August 1914 but within days the public mood had turned into a staggering display of unified support.
Voluntary fund raising organisations sprang up and bore witness to an incredible self-help ethic that supported the troops at the front, their...
The German Air Force I Knew 1914-1918
Memoirs of the Imperial German Air Force in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Major Georg Paul Neumann was a former German Air Force officer who had served in the Great War. He produced his outstanding survey of the German Air Force in 1920 while the events were still recent history. He was able to draw on his own experience and his contacts to compile a large number of personal...