Pen And Sword imprint: 2611 books
Die Hard, Aby!
Abraham Bevistein - The Boy Soldier Shot to Encourage the Others
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Recent books, many by Pen and Sword, such as Shot At Dawn have highlighted the shocking cases of young British soldiers in the Great War being executed by their own side. All too often their trials were cursory and the evidence flimsy. This scandal has appalled right-minded people of all political...
British Steam Sunset
A Vision of the Final Years 1965–1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
In this new album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a selection of pictures he took around the country in British steam's final years.
British Railways withdrew their last steam engines with almost indecent haste in the mid- to late-1960s, many having...
The Retreat from Mons 1914: South
The Western Front by Car, by bike and on Foot
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
The Retreat from Mons 1914: South is the second volume in Pen & Sword's Battle Lines series to cover the opening campaign of the Great War. It is the essential companion for every visitor who is keen to retrace the path taken by the British Expeditionary Force immediately after the outbreak of...
The Retreat from Mons 1914: North
Casteau to Le Cateau, The Western Front by Car by Bike and on Foot
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Mons to the Marne, the latest volume in Pen & Sword's Battle Lines series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor who is keen to retrace the path taken by the British Expeditionary Force immediately after the outbreak of the First...
by Anthony Leask
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
The Sword of Scotland is the story of Scotland's military heritage. Scotland's fighting men have played a part in shaping the history of our world, and many of the individual countries in it. Its contribution and its sacrifices have been out of all proportion to the size of the Country. The skirl...
Great Western, Grange Class Locomotives
Their Design and Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
Churchward proposed a 5ft 8in wheeled 4-6-0 for mixed traffic duties in 1901 and it was seriously considered in 1905, but it took until 1936 before his successor, Charles Collett, realized the plan by persuading the GWR Board to replace many of the 43XX moguls with modern standard mixed traffic engines...
by Byron Farwell
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
The Great Boer War (1899 - 1902) – more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War – was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It was fought...
Tracing Your Glasgow Ancestors
A Guide for Family and Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Tracing Your Glasgow Ancestors is a volume in the series of city ancestral guides published by Pen & Sword for readers and researchers who want to find out about life in Glasgow in the past and to know where the key sources for its history can be found. In vivid detail it describes the rise of...
by William Cavanagh
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2005
The Battle East of Elsenborn closely examines the role of Oberstgruppenfuhrer Joseph 'Sepp' Dietrich's Sixth Panzer Army in the massive German winter counteroffensive. Hitler had tasked Dietrich with making the main effort east of the Elsenborn Ridge and against the positions of the US 99th Infantry...
Joseph Stalin
Images of War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Joseph Stalin was a monster. He sacrificed his friends and allies in pursuit of power, murdered thousands with sadistic brutality to maintain it and callously obliterated millions more of his own people over a quarter century of his leadership. Yet almost as frightening as the horrendous crimes he...
by Carl Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013
Based on contemporary records and paintings, this book identifies each cavalry and infantry regiment and illustrates changes in uniforms, their facing colors and the nature and shape of lace worn by officers, NCOs and private soldiers from 1751 to 1783. Regiments that served in the American War of...
M2/M3
American Half-tracks of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Among the most successful armored vehicles produced by American industry – known as the Arsenal of Democracy – during the Second World War were the M2 and M3 half-tracks. They served on every battlefront and were as recognizable as other famous American wartime vehicles like the Sherman and the...
by Malcolm Hobart
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Throughout the relatively short yet highly distinguished history of the Royal Air Force there has been a tendency for the men and women of the Service to be overshadowed by the glamour of the aircraft.
Nonetheless it is surprising that there has never before been a complete record of the uniforms...
Festiniog Railway. Volume 2
From Slate Railway to Heritage Operation 1921 - 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Opened in 1836 as a horse tramway using gravity to carry slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog, by the 1920s the Festiniog Railway had left its years of technical innovation and high profits long behind. After the First World War, the railway’s path led inexorably to closure, to passengers...