Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
by Peter Hart
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
The Second World War is vanishing into the pages of history. The veterans were once all around us, but their numbers are fast diminishing. While still in their prime many recorded their memories with Peter Hart for the Imperial War Museum. As these old soldiers now fade away their voices from the...
The 2nd Norfolk Regiment
From Le Paradis to Kohima
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
The Second World War is vanishing into the pages of history. The veterans were once all around us, but their numbers are fast diminishing. While still in their prime many recorded their memories with Peter Hart for the Imperial War Museum. As these old soldiers now fade away their voices from the...
The Army of the Roman Republic
From the Regal Period to the Army of Julius Caesar
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
From the moment its last king was expelled (traditionally in 753) the Roman republic had to fight for its very survival. Centuries of almost continuous warfare saw Romes armies evolve in response to a wide variety of threats which were met with mixed fortunes though always with ultimate success. As...
by Brian Tilley
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Barawling Australians, Polish pilots burning to avenge themselves on Germany for the invasion of their country, the German officer who drowned while trying to escape from a South Tyne PoW camp, and the pub landlady who watered down her gin in order, she claimed, to prevent naive Land Army girls getting...
by David Bilton
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Reading in the Great War 1917-1919 looks at life in an important industrial and agricultural town in the south of England. The book charts the changes that occurred in ordinary people's lives, some caused by the war, some of their own doing.
On the surface, Reading was a calm town that got on with...
by Frances Clamp
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Although much maligned, Essex is a vibrant county with a long and exciting history. Being close to the Continent and with one of Britain’s longest coastlines, it was an obvious target for invasion as the threat of war grew. Many defensive structures were built by the sea and to protect major routes...
by Adrian Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
For many years the importance and contribution of the Hawker Hurricane was eclipsed by the Spitfire but statistically the Hurricane was superior in the majority of cases. Thanks to Tommy Sopwith’s initiative and gamble the Hurricane was ready at the outbreak of the Second World War and in service...
Rendezvous With Death
Artists & Writers in the Thick of It 1914–1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This book sheds new light on the colorful personalities including Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Alan Seeger, Ivor Gurney, Edward Thomas, Isaac Rosenberg, Ralph Vaughan Williams and George Butterworth, all major figures among England's creative artists during the First World War.
Thanks to the...
Hull Commercials
A History of the 10th (Service) Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
In the 1930s five men wrote a history of the battalion they had proudly served with: the 1st Hull Battalion, known today as the 10th East Yorkshire Regiment or The Commercials. The book is the story of a happy family, men drawn together to fight for justice. There is no attempt to look at the bigger...
The Greater Game
Sporting Icons Who Fell in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
From the athletic fields to the fields of battle—these great sportsmen gave their all and sacrificed their lives for their countries in World War I.
As the First World War swept across Europe, millions of eager and idealistic volunteers lined up to serve in what was to be the War to End All Wars....
Stilwell and the Chindits: The Allies Campaign in Northern Burma 1943-1944
Rare photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This latest book in the highly successful Images of War series covers the dramatic events that saw ultimate Allied victory over the Japanese in remote Northern Burma on the Chinese border. The plan involved two separate but concurrent operations. US Army General Joseph Stilwell was ordered to train...
by Jon Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
With victory in North Africa complete, the Allies had a choice. The Americans wanted an early cross channel attack from Britain on North West Europe. Churchill favored invading the soft underbelly of Italy to weaken the Axis forces and gain Italian surrender. With Eisenhowers army and battle-hardened...
On to Rome: Anzio and Victory at Cassino, 1944
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Early in 1944 the Allied advance was halted by the German defence of the Gustav Line. Even with the deployment of Eighth Army reinforcements from the Adriatic, every effort to capture Monte Cassino failed.
Fifth Army’s VI Corps’ amphibious landing at Anzio in January, while initially successful...
Salerno to the Gustav Line 1943–1944
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
In September 1943, shortly after the conquest of Sicily, the Allied armies made amphibious assaults on the Italian Mainland at Calabria, Taranto and along the Gulf of Salerno beaches. The Italian Government quickly capitulated but the Germans fought on. Although the British XIII Corps and 1st Airborne’s...