Pen Sword: 3374 books
by Andrew Rawson
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Hitler's desperate last throw during the depths of winter 1944/45 came perilously close to being a major disaster for the Allies. Their offensive through the Ardennes fell on the Americans and caught them totally by surprise. Unaccustomed to setbacks, the situation was for a time extremely serious...
Hitler’s Boy Soldiers
The Hitler Jugend Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Founded in 1922 the Hitler Youth movement was the second oldest Nazi group. Comprising male youths aged 14 – 18, by December 1936 membership stood at over 5 million. During the Second World War, the role of Hitlerjugend evolved from assisting with the postal, train and fire services into full war...
Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1943-1945
Red Steamroller
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
By 1943, after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, the Wehmacht’s panzer armies gradually lost the initiative on the Eastern Front. The tide of the war had turned. Their combined arms technique, which had swept Soviet forces before it during 1941 and 1942, had lost its edge. Thereafter...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
On the Eastern Front during the Second World War massive Soviet and German tank armies clashed in a series of battles that were unmatched in their scale and ferocity. Several of them have attained almost legendary status. But epic encounters such as these were only part of a broader story, as Anthony...
The Crushing of Army Group North 1944–1945 on the Eastern Front
Images of War Series
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
The Crushing of Army Group North 1944-45 on the Eastern Front tells the story in words and images of the last bitter months fought on Russian soil and the battle of the Baltic States that ensued. Drawing on rare and unpublished photos it reveals in detail how remnants of Army Group North were driven...
Hitler's Arctic War
The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland and the USSR 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
‘In the past the German General Staff had taken no interest in the military history of wars in the north and east of Europe. Nobody had ever taken into account the possibility that some day German divisions would have to fight and to winter in northern Karelia and on the Murmansk coast.’ (Lieutenant-General...
Lifeline in Helmand
RAF Front-Line Air Supply in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Lifeline in Helmand tells the story of the Royal Air Force tactical transport force operating in one of the most dangerous regions in the Afghanistan campaign Helmand province. The Chinook helicopters of 1310 Flight fly heavy-lift and trooping missions to remote Forward Operating Bases and in direct...
Magnum! The Wild Weasels in Desert Storm
The Elimination of Iraq's Air Defence
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
his book is based upon a journal Jim Schreiner kept during his deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM. Building upon that record and the recollections of other F-4G Wild Weasel aircrew, the authors show a slice of what life and war was like during that...
Cold War Jet Combat
Air-to-Air Jet Fighter Operations 1950-1972
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Recounted here are nine of the earliest wars involving jet aircraft. From the Korean War and beyond, it comprises a wealth of gripping insight. Many of the jet-to-jet dogfights that spanned these jet-powered wars are enlivened to thrilling effect, including those engaged in during the two Indo-Pak...
by Tim Ripley
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2004
The book is a photo-journalistic record of the vitally important role that aviation played in the recent liberation of Iraq. It follows the part that American, British and Australian airpower played in each theatre of the campaign. It includes the many different missions that aircraft were tasked...
Stormtrooper on the Eastern Front
Fighting with Hitler's Latvian SS
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2008
Following the conquest of his native Latvia by the Nazis, the author was given the stark choice: service in the SS or forced labour in a slave camp. So he 'volunteered' to fight for the Nazis. He describes his training and how he became an instructor before being sent into Russia. He nearly perished...
Falaise: The Flawed Victory
The Flawed Victory - The Destruction of Panzergruppe West, August 1944
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
The destruction of the trapped German forces in the Falaise pocket in August 1944 is one of the most famous episodes of the Normandy campaign. But myths have grown up around accounts of the battle, and its impact on the course of the war is sometimes misunderstood. In this meticulously researched...
Fighting for the French Foreign Legion
Memoirs of a Scottish Legionnaire
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
A soldier’s true story of danger and adventure as a modern-day legionnaire in Kuwait, Bosnia, and beyond.
With no French language ability, Alex Lochrie approached recruiters for the French Foreign Legion in Paris and embarked on the demanding selection process that followed. When he was accepted,...
by May, Timothy
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
The Mongol armies that established the largest land empire in history, stretching across Asia and into eastern Europe, are imperfectly understood. Often they are viewed as screaming throngs of horsemen who swept over opponents by sheer force of numbers rather than as disciplined regiments that carried...