Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
Beyond Rome to the Alps
Across the Arno and Gothic Line, 1944–1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Rome was liberated on 5 June 1944 but the Italian campaign had another eleven gruelling months to run. The US Fifth and British Eighth Armies drove across the Arno River, capturing Florence on 5 August. Once again The Wehrmacht’s Tenth and Fourteenth Armies eluded destruction, withdrawing into the...
by Paul Reed
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The medieval city of Ypres will forever be associated with the Great War, especially by the British. From 1914 to 1918 it was the key strong point in the northern sector of the Western Front, and the epic story of its defense has taken on almost legendary status. The city and the surrounding battlefields...
by E.D Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 1983
Four regiments of Nepalese mountaineers remained with the British Army after Indian independence. They have seen a great deal of tough campaigning, particularly in Southeast Asia. This new edition updated to include Gurkha participation in the Falklands.
They Were There in 1914
Memories of the Great War 1914-1918 by those who experienced it
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
In September 1938, as Chamberlain was having discussions with Herr Hitler, and managing to secure 'Peace in our Time', a weekly magazine called I WAS THERE hit the newsagents and booksellers. Twenty years had elapsed since the Great War ended and in that period hundreds of books on the subject had...
Great Push The Battle of the Somme 1916
Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In 1916, Sir Douglas Haig, commanding the BEF, began his great offensive to drive the invaders off the ground they had been occupying for over a year and a half. The ‘Great Push’, as the offensive was advertised to the nation, began 1 July 1916. A glossy picture magazine was produced to inform...
King's African Rifles
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Whatever one may think about the rights and wrongs of colonial rule, it is hard to deny that during the first half of the this century those African countries, which then came under British administration enjoyed a period of stability which most now look back upon with a profound sense of loss. Paradoxical...
Britain's Great War Experience
Life at Home and Abroad 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Expertly written and beautifully presented, this book of outstanding photographs, documents and art work captures the spirit of the British people as they faced and successfully came through the prolonged challenge of the First World War.
Using previously unpublished material from the Liddle...
Cassel and Hazebrouck 1940
France and Flanders Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This is the first detailed account of the rearguard action that took place between 25 and 29 May 1940 at Cassel and Hazebrouck on the western perimeter of the Dunkirk Corridor. By 25 May the decision to evacuate the BEF via Dunkirk had already been taken, Lord Gort, commanding the BEF in France, had...
Of Those We Loved
A Narrative 1914-1919 Remembered and Illustrated
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
The Author was among the first to respond to Kitchener’s call for volunteers in 1914. He joined 8th Battalion, The Leicestershire Regiment at the outbreak of war as a Private and, within weeks, he and the Battalion were heading for Northern France with the British Expeditionary Force.
In...
Sailor in the Desert
The Adventures of Philip Gunn, DSM, RN in the Mesopotamia Campaign, 1915
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Sailor in the Desert is the personal account of a Royal Navy sailor's experiences during the Mesopotamian campaign of 1915. As an able seaman on an armed sloop supporting the British expedition up the River Tigris, Philip Gunn's recollections give a rare perspective of this ill-fated campaign.
At...
by Mathew Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Leicester had a strong radical tradition, and was represented in Parliament during the Great War by the outspoken Labour MP Ramsay MacDonald. MacDonald's anti-war views divided opinion in Leicester sharply, but whilst it was slow to provide troops for Kitchener's Army, this was not through lack of...
by Mathew Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2000
This is the first major history of the Leicestershire Regiment in the Great war to be published since the 1930s. Weaving personal recollections with official accounts, it brings the character of the four battalions raised in Leicestershire vividly to life. There are over 200 photographs, many from private collections, maps and several appendices.
Artillery of Words
The Writings of Sir Winston Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 1992
An analysis of the writings of the iconic twentieth-century statesman from the author of Young Winston’s Wars.
Only a part-time author, Sir Winston Churchill wrote fifty books and over eight hundred feature articles. He even received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953.
Now, Frederick...
by Jon Cooksey, Francis McKay
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
In the early hours of 15 May 1982, three Sea King helicopters carrying 42 men of 22 SAS Regiment and attachments, lifted off from the carrier HMS Hermes and headed towards the remote Pebble Island on the north coast of West Falkland. Their task? To destroy the Argentinian Pucara aircraft stationed...