Pen Sword: 3374 books
Stalingrad
How the Red Army Triumphed
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Michael K. Jones's new history of Stalingrad offers a radical reinterpretation of the most famous battle of the WW2. Combining eyewitness testimony of Red Army fighters with fresh archive material, the book gives a dramatic insight into the thinking of the Russian command and the mood of the ordinary...
Leningrad Under Siege
First-hand Accounts of the Ordeal
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
Leningrad was under siege for almost three years, and the first winter of that siege was one of the coldest on record. The Russians had been taken by surprise by the Germans' sudden onslaught in June 1941.
This book tells the story of that long, bitter siege in the words of those who were there....
Freely I Served
The Memoir of the Commander, 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade 1941-1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Freely I Served is the gripping memoir of Stanislaw Sosabowski who became one of the most senior Polish commanders during the Second World War.
After seeing service with the Austrian Army in World War I, the author joined the newly created Polish Army in 1918. By September 1939 he was commanding...
Poland Betrayed
The Nazi-Soviet Invasions of 1939
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
An in-depth history of the attack that began World War II, and one country’s courageous fight against two unstoppable forces.
Hitler’s military offensive against Poland on September 1, 1939 was the brutal act that triggered the start of World War II, wreaking six years of death and bloodshed...
by Martin Pegler
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Military snipers are highly trained marksmen who target individual enemy soldiers. They are regarded as vital specialists in modern warfare, and their role evolved throughout the Great War. As Martin Pegler shows in this wide-ranging, authoritative study, the technique of sniping adapted rapidly to...
Sir John Hawkwood
Chivalry and the Art of War
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
In Florence cathedral hangs a remarkable portrait by Uccello of Sir John Hawkwood, the English soldier of fortune who commanded the Florentine army at the age of 70 and earned a formidable reputation as one of the foremost mercenaries of the late middle ages. His life is an amazing story. He rose...
Mercenaries and their Masters
Warfare in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Michael Mallett’s classic study of Renaissance warfare in Italy is as relevant today as it was when it was first published a generation ago. His lucid account of the age of the condottieri - the mercenary captains of fortune - and of the soldiers who fought under them is set in the wider context...
No Mercy from the Japanese
A Survivors Account of the Burma Railway and the Hellships 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
By the laws of statistics John Lowry should not be here today to tell his story. He firmly believes that someone somewhere was looking after him during those four years. Examine the odds stacked against him and his readers will understand why he hold this view. During the conflict in Malaya and Singapore...
Alarm Starboard!
A Remarkable True Story of the War at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
The Author's naval war experiences make the most exciting reading. After being mined on the battleship Nelson in 1939, he served on the Prince of Wales, during the Bismarck action, witnessing the sinking of the Hood and Churchill and Roosevelt's historic meeting. He survived the disastrous sinking...
Bomb Alley
Falkland Islands 1982 – Aboard HMS Antrim at War
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2007
This is the untold story of the Falklands War as experienced by a below-decks seaman on one of the most important ships to be despatched to the South Atlantic. It is a no-holds-barred account as seen through the eyes of a Royal Navy matelot who shared the terror of the first encounter with Argentinean...
Cockleshell Commando
The Memoirs of Bill Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
One of only two survivors of the famous Cockleshell Hero raid, Bill Sparks' war and postwar career has never before been told in full. In this gripping book, he describes not only his part in Operation FRANKTON, the daring Gironde raid, and his escape back to Britain, but how he fought with the Greek...
Lost Souls of the River Kwai
Experiences of a British Soldier on the Railway of Death
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
This is the moving story of a young man who found himself along with thousands of his comrades in the nightmare of Japanese captivity. Unlike so many (it is said that one Commonwealth POW died for every sleeper laid) Bill lived to tell the tale. Indeed it is remarkable that this story has not been...
Periscope Patrol
The Saga of the Malta Force Submarines
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2008
The Malta Force submarines had the vital task of interrupting German and Italian convoys crossing the Mediterranean to resupply Rommel and his Army in North Africa. The outcome of the Desert War depended on this.
Operations from the beleaguered island were hazardous both at sea and in port....
Testimony to Courage
The History of the Ulster Defence Regiment 1969-1992
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
The outbreak of "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland in 1968 found many of the local police and army auxiliary units outmoded or discredited. A new and unique force of part-time soldiers was created: The Ulster Defence Regiment.
A Testimony to Courage vividly describes the threat under...