Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
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...
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...
Tyneside Irish
24th, 25th, 26th and 27th (Service) Battalions of Northumberland Fusiliers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The ‘Pals” battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since. Under Lord Derby’s scheme, and in response to Kitchener’s famous call for a million volunteers, local communities raised (and initially often paid for) entire battalions for service on the Western Front. Their...
The First Blitz
The German Air Campaign Against Britain 1917–1918
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
“An interesting account of the German air raids of the First World War, with a better focus on the human face of the raids.” —HistoryOfWar.org
In 1917, the Germans launched a major air campaign against the British mainland, which shocked the whole nation and terrorized the southeast of England.
These...
by Ruth Mansergh
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Whitehaven in the Great War covers Whitehaven's immense contribution to the Great War effort; it is thought that 625 Whitehaven men – from a town that, in 1901, had a population of around 21,000 – lost their lives fighting in the war. Meanwhile, on the home front, military service deprived many...
Sparta
Rise of a Warrior Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Their contemporaries were fascinated by the Spartans and we still are. They are portrayed as the stereotypical macho heroes: noble, laconic, totally fearless and impervious to discomfort and pain. What makes the study of Sparta so interesting is that to a large extent the Spartans lived up to this...
American Expeditionary Force
France 1917-1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
When the United States entered the war in April 1917 the belligerents were approaching exhaustion. It had been hoped by the Generals in both Britain and France that untold numbers of fresh troops would be assimilated into their respective commands. However, this idea was firmly resisted, America would...
Hawker VC- The First RFC Ace
The Life of Major Lanoe Hawker VC 1890-1916
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
By the age of 25 Lanoe Hawker of the Royal Flying Corps had won the VC and DSO. He was the first pilot to record five 'kills' before being shot down and killed by Baron von Richthofen (The Red Baron).
Lanoe's biography was written by his brother Tyrrel as a tribute. The Hawkers came from a distinguished...
Aetius
Attila's Nemesis
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
“The history of Aetius’ life and his dealings with Attila . . . [and] of the (western) Roman Empire throughout the pivotal fifth century.” —Ancient Warfare Magazine
In AD 453, Attila—with a huge force composed of Huns, allies, and vassals drawn from his already-vast empire—was rampaging...
by Geoffrey Powell
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
When Men at Arnhem was first published in 1976 the author modestly concealed his identity behind a pseudonym and changed the names of his comrades in arms. But the book was at once recognised as one of the finest evocations of an infantryman’s war ever written and those in the know were quick to...
A German Deserter's War Experiences
Fighting for the Kaiser in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
In 1913 Julius Koettgen, a pacifist and a socialist, was drafted into the ranks of sapper battalion No. 30. He dutifully fought in the ranks of the Kaiser's armies during 1914 and 1915 and saw action in France and Belgium where he describes the terrible events which were to become known as 'the rape...
The Battle for Burma
Wild Green Earth
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Bernard Fergusson was one of Orde Wingate's Column Commanders in the heroic but battered Chindit expedition behind Japanese lines in Burma in 1943. By 1944 Wingate had persuaded Churchill and Roosevelt that a bigger force, on the same unorthodox lines, could make a strategic difference. Aged 32, Fergusson...
Blowing Our Bridges
A Memoir From Dunkirk To Korea Via Normandy
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2004
This action packed military memoir tells of the exploits of a young Sapper officer during both the Second World War and in Korea. Tony Younger was in the thick of the action during the German Blitzkrieg of 1940 seeing desperate fighting as the beleaguered British Expeditionary Force struggled to escape...
Marcus Agrippa
Right-hand Man of Caesar Augustus
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Marcus Agrippa personified the term 'right-hand man'. As Emperor Augustus' deputy, he waged wars, pacified provinces, beautified Rome, and played a crucial role in laying the foundations of the Pax Romana for the next two hundred years – but he served always in the knowledge he would never rule...