Pen And Sword: 3067 books
by Nigel Cave, Richard van Emden, Tonie Holt
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
This publication, SOMME – THE BATTLE 100 YEARS ON, has been published by Pen & Sword Books Ltd, with the purpose of creating an awareness and an interest in the
Somme battles of 1916. For nearly thirty years, Pen & Sword Books Ltd has published numerous titles covering various Pals battalions...
by Don Berliner
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Don Berliner, a prolific aviation author, puts pen to paper once again to provide us with a definitive overview of the most important, influential, and iconic racing aircraft of the last century. The book looks at the incredible variety, growth, and rapid expansion of this area of aviation design...
Trolleybus Twilight
Britain's Last Trolleybus Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
In this new photographic album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a fascinating selection of pictures of a form of public transport now sadly missing from Britain's streets – trolleybuses.
by Simon Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
There are thousands of websites devoted to all aspects of military history from ancient Greece to the modern Gulf. This unique book helps you find the ones that will help with your research whether you are checking out a soldier ancestor or an airman or researching a naval campaign. It also features...
Saturday at M.I.9
The Classic Account of the WW2 Allied Escape Organisation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Saturday at M.I.9 is the inside story of the underground escape lines in occupied North-West Europe which brought back to Britain over 4,000 Allied servicemen during World War Two.
Airey Neave, who in the last two years of the war was the chief organiser at M.I.9 gives his own unique account....
Panzer killers
Anti-tank Warfare on the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
From the cold and hunger of the Leningrad front to the clinging mud of the Korsun operation, from the gates of Moscow in 1941 to Vienna and Berlin in 1945, the recollections of these anti-tank gunners cover the vast expanses of the Eastern Front. The vivid personal narratives selected for this book...
Fight for the Sky
The Story of the Spitfire and Hurricane
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Pen and Sword Books are proud to be re-issuing this the only book that the legendary 'legless' ace Douglas Bader (immortalised by the film Reach For The Sky) wrote. He tells the inspiring story of the Battle of Britain from the viewpoint of 'The Few'. Using superb illustrations he traces the development...
Sword Beach
3rd British Division/27th Armoured Brigade
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
As the left most inland flank of the D-Day landings, Sword Beach was thought most likely to receive the first German counterattacks. The British troops selected for the assault had the tasks of securing the beach and advancing on the heavily defended medieval town of Caen. The troops also were determined...
4 Group Bomber Command
An Operational Record
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
During the immediate period before World War Two, the RAF modified its command structure to rationalize for rapid expansion. Bomber Command was divided into six operational groups, each flying the same type of aircraft, including Wellingtons, Sterlings, and Lancasters. Chris Ward presents us here...
British Type 3 Diesel Locomotives
Classes 33, 35, 37 and upgraded 31
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The Type 3 Diesel Locomotive album comprises over 200, mainly unpublished, full sized colour photographs of four classes of British engines, developed in the earlier years of the Modernisation Plan.
The Type 3 included four classes of locomotive of medium power output, which undertook a wide...
1 Group Bomber Command
An Operational Record
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
During the period immediately before the Second World War, the RAF modified its command structure to rationalize for rapid expansion. Bomber Command was divided into six operational groups, each flying the same type of aircraft, including Wellingtons, Sterlings, and Lancasters. Chris Ward presents...
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...
by Kaveh Farrokh
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Throughout most of the classical period, Persia was one of the great superpowers, placing a limit on the expansion of Western powers. It was the most formidable rival to the Roman empire for centuries, until Persia, by then under the Sassanians, was overwhelmed by the Islamic conquests in the seventh...
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...