Pen Sword: 3374 books
St Vith
US 106th Infantry Division
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 1999
An easy to understand account of one of the opening actions of the Battle of the Bulge. Contains detailed maps of positions and graphic first-hand accounts from veterans.
The Real Cruel Sea
The Merchant Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1943
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
For the British, the Battle of the Atlantic was a fight for survival. They depended on the safe transit of hundreds of convoys of merchant ships laden with food, raw materials and munitions from America to feed the country and to keep the war effort going, and they had to export manufactured goods...
by James Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
This book describes the background to and the development of the Nazi Party Rallies held at Nuremberg each September from 1933 to 1939. These Reichsparteitage (National Party Days) were vast and meticulously staged managed extravaganzas in which ritual and ceremony played an important part.
The...
by Stephen English
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
During his spectacular career of conquest Alexander the Great attacked many cities and fortresses, never failing to take them. Such operations occupied more of his time than his famous pitched battles and were at least as vital in securing his vast empire. Sieges provided some of the sternest tests...
Marshal of Victory
The Autobiography of General Georgy Zhukov
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
At Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin and in virtually all the principal battles on the Eastern Front during the Second World War, Georgy Zhukov played a major role. He was Stalin's pre-eminent general throughout the conflict, and in his autobiography he chronicled his brilliant career...
The Russian Revolution
World War to Civil War 1917-1921
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Often the drama of the October Revolution and the Bolshevik seizure of power overshadow the disastrous Russian-German war that preceded it and the extended, confusing, many-sided civil war between the Reds and the Whites that followed. But Nik Cornish’s vivid photographic history gives equal coverage...
Plan Z
The Nazi Bid for Naval Dominance
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Except for the strength of the U-boat fleet at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Navy, or Kriegsmarine, was never a match for the Royal Navy, even though the latter was overstretched and fighting in the Atlantic, Pacific, the Mediterranean and the Arctic. It was not meant to be...
Battle of the River Plate
A Grand Delusion
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
The Battle of the River Plate was the first major naval confrontation of the Second World War, and it is one of the most famous. The dramatic sea fight between German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the British cruisers Exeter, Ajax and Achilles off the coast of South America caught the imagination...
by Cooper, Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
The 'little ships' of the Second World War - the fast and highly manoeuvrable motor torpedo boats and gunboats which fought in coastal waters all over the world - developed a special kind of naval warfare. With their daring nightly raids against an enemy's coastal shipping - and sometimes much larger...
by Donald Macintyre
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
An eyewitness account of the fight for supremacy at sea during World War II, as told by a man who was in the thick of combat against Nazi Germany.
The Battle of the Atlantic was an unremitting assault by enemy boats and aircraft against Allied merchant ships that were the lifeline of Great...
Siege of Malta 1940-1942
A Mediterranean Leningrad Campaign Chronicles Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
The heroic defense of Malta against the Axis powers is one of the most famous episodes of the Second World War. For over two years this tiny island was the key to control of the Mediterranean and it was critical to the outcome of the North African campaign.
A legend has grown up around the...
by Geoffrey Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2003
Captain Bennett discusses the traumatic effects of the Washington and London Naval Treaties on the fleets of the principal powers between the wars, and their astonishing growth and technical progress between 1939 and 1945. He then deals with the war in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. The Battle...
In the Ranks of Death
The Irish in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
When war broke out in 1939 over 20,000 Irishmen were serving in the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force with the greatest proportion in the Army. During the war this rose to over 120,000, suggesting that about 100,000 enlisted during the war. Nine earned the Victoria Cross; three members of the Royal...
The Hidden Threat
Mines and Minesweeping in WWI
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
It is not widely remembered that mines were by far the most effective weapon deployed against the British Royal Navy in WW1, costing them 5 battleships, 3 cruisers, 22 destroyers, 4 submarines and a host of other vessels. They were in the main combated by a civilian force using fishing boats and paddle...