Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
Britains Toy Soldiers
The History and Handbook 1893-2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
This is the first full-colour history of the world-famous toy soldiers to chart the whole story of their development from Victorian table toy to 21st Century collectable. Prior to 1893 the family toy business of the Britain family was struggling as the toy industry was dominated by German manufacturers...
by Peter Wilkinson, Joan Astley
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
General Colin Gubbins was in charge of SOE during World War Two. This is the first biography of a man who was destined to live his life in the shadows. A biography of General Colin Gubbins, who was in charge of SOE during World War II. Gubbins was destined, by the nature of his profession, to live...
The Yompers
With 45 Commando in the Falklands War
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Yomping was revealed by the journalist Charles Laurence in 1982 as the word which the Royal Marines used to describe carrying heavy loads long distances on foot. Given the intense public interest in the dramatic events then unfolding in the South Atlantic, it caught on and is now in common usage....
Marshall Ney
The Bravest of the Brave
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
A.H. Atteridge's biography of Michel Ney, Napoleon's most famous marshal, is a classic work of its kind.
He describes Ney's meteoric career in vivid detail, from his enlistment as a hussar in the army of Louis XVI, his rapid promotion through the ranks of the revolutionary armies and his long...
The Emperor Commodus
God and Gladiator
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Commodus is synonymous with debauchery and megalomania, best remembered for fighting as a gladiator. Ridiculed and maligned by historians since his own time, modern popular culture knows him as the patricidal villain in Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Much of his infamy is clearly based on fact, but is...
Patricians and Emperors
The Last Rulers of the Western Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Patricians and Emperors offers concise comparative biographies of the individuals who wielded power in the final decades of the Western Roman Empire, from the assassination of Aetius in 454 to the death of Julius Nepos in 480.
The book is divided into four parts. The first sets the background...
The Roman Emperor Aurelian
Restorer of the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for 1000 years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached in the middle of the third century AD, the empire was lapsing into chaos, with seemingly interminable civil wars over the imperial succession. The western...
Germanicus
The Magnificent Life and Mysterious Death of Rome's Most Popular General
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
“The story of a Roman Emperor that might have been” (Fighting Times).
Germanicus was regarded by many Romans as a hero in the mold of Alexander the Great. His untimely death, in suspicious circumstances, ended the possibility of a return to a more open republic. This, the first modern biography...
by M.R.D. Foot
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Michael (MRD) Foot enjoys the rare distinction of being the only person referred to by his real name in a John Le Carre novel. A highly significant tribute to the man entrusted with writing the official record of the Special Operations Executive. He authored first (1966) the History of SOE in France...
Imperial Brothers
Valentinian, Valens and the Disaster at Adrianople
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
The latest of Ian Hughes' Late Roman biographies here tackles the careers of the brother emperors, Valentinian and Valens. Valentian was selected and proclaimed as emperor in AD 364, when the Empire was still reeling from the disastrous defeat and death in battle of Julian the Apostate (363) and the...
by John Meredith
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Personal accounts of a legendary battle seen through the eyes of Private George Teigh and Lieutenant Samuel FitzGibbon Cox amongst others. Both the Private and the Officer kept diaries, both recorded the same events, but with vastly differing views.Difficulties with boots, bullets and gunboats are...
Constantius II
Usurpers, Eunuchs and the Antichrist
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
The reign of Constantius II has been overshadowed by that of his titanic father, Constantine the Great, and his cousin and successor, the pagan Julian. However, as Peter Crawford shows, Constantius deserves to be remembered as a very capable ruler in dangerous, tumultuous times.
When Constantine I...
by John D Grainger
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The concluding part of John D Grainger's history of the Seleukids traces the tumultuous last century of their empire. In this period it was riven by dynastic disputes, secessions and rebellions, the religiously-inspired insurrection of the Jewish Maccabees, civil war and external invasion from Egypt...
Wellington's Lieutenant Napoleon's Gaoler
The Peninsula Letters and St Helena Diaries of Sir George Rideout Bingham
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
The author wrote numerous letters home from the campaigns that he fought with Wellington in the Peninsular when he was commanding his Regiment. He was therefore in a senior position and privy to secrets of the war. He is often caustic regarding his superiors including The Iron Duke himself. He packs...