Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
by Paul Chrystal, Kenneth Lesley-Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Leeds’s Military Legacy is the first fully illustrated book to give a comprehensive description of the military history of Leeds from Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Norman times to the present as home to various garrisons and military museums, not least the renowned Leeds Armouries Museum. Along the way...
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 Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
The selection of over 150 rare wartime photographs in this volume in Pen & Sword’s Images of War series offers a graphic visual record of the dramatic and bloody battles fought for the Crimea during the Second World War. They show every grim aspect of the fighting and reflect in many ways the...
The Rise of Hitler
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
In 1945, amidst the ruins of a bomb-damaged German home a tattered book, Deutschland Erwache, was recovered as a souvenir by a British soldier. This rare and invaluable primary resource now forms the basis of The Rise of Hitler Illustrated, which is a photographic record of Hitlers' rise to power...
by Paul Moorcraft
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
President Omar al-Bashir is Africa's and arguably Arabia's most controversial leader. In power since 1989, he is the first sitting head of state to be issued with an arrest warrant, for war crimes, by International Criminal Court.
He has been a central personality in Islamic and African politics,...
by Gerry van Tonder
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Two years after landing on English soil in 1066, William of Normandy erected a strategic castle at Nottingham, thereby creating an enduring military nexus through to the modern era.
On 22 August 1642, in his endeavours to quash Parliamentarian insurrection in the Midlands, King Charles raised...
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 Ian D Rotherham
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
One of the oldest settlements in Western Europe, York grew up on dry land with protective rivers and associated wetlands giving security and mobility. Early, prehistoric settlement was on nearby drier, raised areas along the flood plain. Here the Romans built a great, northern, fortified city and...
Caracalla
A Military Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Caracalla has one of the worst reputations of any Roman Emperor. Many ancient historians were very hostile and Edward Gibbon later dubbed him ‘the common enemy of mankind’. Yet his reign was considered by at least one Roman author to be the apogee of the Roman Empire. Guilty of many murders and...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The Handbook On German Military Forces is an indispensable primary reference source for historians and enthusiasts. In 1945 the Allies were still engaged in bitter fighting against stiff resistance from the German armies in the west. The US War Department was determined to do its best to equip the...
by Arthur Banks
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2000
This is a unique study of the conflict of 1914-18 on land, sea and in the air, through maps, diagrams and illustrations. Within the scope of some 250 maps, Arthur Banks has presented both broad general surveys of political and military strategy, and the most closely researched details of major individual...
British Military Medals
A Guide for the Collector and Family Historian Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
This second edition of Peter Ducker's best-selling British Military Medals traces the history of medals and gallantry awards from Elizabethan times to the modern day, and it features an expert account of their design and production. Campaign and gallantry medals are a key to understanding - and exploring...
Early Roman Warfare
From the Regal Period to the First Punic War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
While copious amounts have been written about the Roman army, most study has focussed on the later Republic or the Imperial period when the legionary system was already well-developed. Here Dr Jeremy Armstrong traces the development of Rome's military might from its earliest discernible origins down...