Pen Sword Military imprint: 1157 books
Armageddon's Walls
British Pill Boxes 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The British Army and her commonwealth Allies went to war in 1914 with little knowledge and experience of constructing permanent, shell proof protective structures. Some masonry fortifications, such as defensive blockhouses in South Africa, had been built but the Royal Engineers of the Army were more...
A Reluctant Hero
The Life of Captain Robert Ryder VC
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
A biography of one of the greatest naval heroes of World War II.
This is the first biography of Cpt. Robert Ryder VC, Royal Navy, one of the greatest naval heroes of the Second World War. Ryder led the audacious raid on St Nazaire in March 1942, which completely destroyed the port’s dry dock—depriving...
Letters from a Soldier of France 1914-1915
Wartime Letters from France
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
In March 1915, a young French artist-turned soldier went missing in action. He left behind a remarkable series of letters which, due to wartime security, had to be edited and published anonymously under the title Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915. This powerful volume was for many years out of print,...
Escaping Has Ceased to be a Sport
A Soldier's Memoir of Captivity and Escape in Italy and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
After being taken prisoner at Tobruk and transported to Italy, the author was determined to escape and learnt Italian by talking to the sentries. His first escape lasted just one week. He then joined a tunnel party and escaped again. After six weeks on the run he was offered shelter in a Tuscan hilltop...
by Julie Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Wars affect everyone. Whether they are fought on the battlefields or on the home front, by the armed forces or civilians, sacrifices have to be made, and everyone suffers one way or another. This book gives a flavour of what it was like to live in Ludlow through the Great War years.
Ludlow...
by Paul Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
The Wehrmacht used reconnaissance and support vehicles widely in the Second World War and this book sets out to show the full range of both categories using over 200 rare images and descriptive text and captions in true Images of War Series fashion.
Both tracked and wheeled vehicles were employed...
Hitler's Tank Destroyers
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Dedicated German antitank vehicles made their first major appearance in the Second World War as combatants developed effective armored vehicles and tactics. Some were little more than stopgap solutions, mounting an antitank gun on a tracked vehicle to give mobility, while others were more sophisticated...
Hitler's Light Panzers at War
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Hitler's Light Panzers at War is a highly illustrated record of the German light tank from its beginnings in the 1930s to the key battles it fought in Poland, France, North Africa, Russia and North Western Europe. The book analyses the development of the light Panzer, which ranged from the Panzer...
Challenger 2
The British Main Battle Tank
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
For much of the Cold War, the British Army's main battle tanks (MBT) were first the Centurion and then the Chieftain. The question of the latter's replacement became urgent when in 1980 MBT80 was canceled. While the Royal Ordnance Challenger (originally the Shir 2) was acquired as a stop gap its design...
Ebony and Scarlet
Poems of the Anglo-Zulu War
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The nineteenth century saw the British army engaged in a series of conflicts around the globe. Iin almost every continent the redcoats of British soldiers seemed to be in perpetual action against enemies of the Crown. The Anglo-Zulu War, fought in southern Africa in 1879, was one of the bloodiest...
The Forts and Fortifications of Europe 1815-1945: The Central States
Germany, Austria-Hungry and Czechoslovakia
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
After the Napoleonic Wars the borders of Central Europe were redrawn and relative peace endured across the region, but the volatile politics of the late nineteenth century generated an atmosphere of fear and distrust, and it gave rise to a new era of fortress building, and this is the subject of this...
The Forts and Fortifications of Europe 1815- 1945: The Neutral States
The Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
After the Napoleonic Wars the borders of Europe were redrawn and relative peace endured across the region, but the volatile politics of the late nineteenth century generated an atmosphere of fear and distrust, and it gave rise to a new era of fortress building. In the neutral states situated between...
Sir John Tiptoft – 'Butcher of England'
Earl of Worcester, Edward IV's Enforcer and Humanist Scholar
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, is arguably the most intriguing, controversial and possibly misunderstood figure of the Wars of the Roses period. Politically adept, he occupied a string of important offices, first under the Lancastrian Henry VI and then the Yorkist Edward IV.
A man of action,...
Red China
Mao Crushes Chiang's Kuomintang, 1949
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
When the world held its breath …
It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 – long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe – with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are...