Pen And Sword: 3067 books
Crisis of Rome
The Jugurthine and Northern Wars and the Rise of Marius
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
In the later 2nd century BC, after a period of rapid expansion and conquest, the Roman Republic found itself in crisis. In North Africa her armies were already bogged down in a long difficult guerrilla war in a harsh environment when invasion by a coalition of Germanic tribes, the Cimbri, Teutones...
The Emperor Commodus
God and Gladiator
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Commodus is synonymous with debauchery and megalomania, best remembered for fighting as a gladiator. Ridiculed and maligned by historians since his own time, modern popular culture knows him as the patricidal villain in Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Much of his infamy is clearly based on fact, but is...
The RAF’s Air War In Libya
New Conflicts in the Era of Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
The uprising in Libya in the spring of 2011 took the world by surprise. The Gaddafi regime’s brutal attempts at suppressing the uprising, however, soon prompted the international community to respond. NATO agreed to impose a no-fly zone across Libya, which was led by Britain, France and the USA.
For...
Through the Eyes of the Worlds Fighter Aces
The Greatest Fighter Pilots of World War Two
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
This is the story of the fighter aces who flew throughout the war in many different operational theatres. The book opens with the first Polish Aces during the German invasion and continues with Finlands pilots in the Winter War against the Soviets. There follows the battle for France with the experiences...
The Mighty Eighth at War
USAAF 8th Air Force Bombers Versus the Luftwaffe 1943-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
From the beginning of World War Two the RAF s Bomber Command had been the only means of striking Hitler s Reich and its war machine. The entry into the war of the United States and the subsequent arrival in the UK of the Eighth Air Force was to more than double the Allied capability. The Flying Fortress...
by James Falkner
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The War of the Spanish Succession, fought between 1701 and 1714 to decide who should inherit the Spanish throne, was a conflict on an unprecedented scale, stretching across most of western Europe, the high seas and the Americas. Yet this major subject is not well known and is little understood. That...
British Battles of the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1806
Despatched from the Front
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The Napoleonic Wars was truly a world-wide conflict and Britain found itself engaged in battles, sieges and amphibious operations around the globe. Following every battle the commanding officer submitted a report back to the Admiralty or the War Office. Presented here together for the first time are...
by Geoffrey Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
For sixty years the dramatic story of the Dunkirk evacuation and the defeat of France - the story of the German conquest of northwest Europe - has been the focus of historical study and dispute, yet myths and misconceptions about this extraordinary event persist. The ruthless efficiency of the German...
Why the Germans Lost
The Rise and Fall of the Black Eagle
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This book examines the history of the German Army which, for the best part of two centuries, influenced the course of events in Continental Europe. It was an army that studied the conduct of war at the highest levels, planning for the destruction of its opponents during the early stages of a war....
by Adrian Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Field Marshal Montgomery showed great skill in choosing his subordinates, whether as staff officers or field commanders. To those he trusted he gave help and guidance as well as a kindness and concern for which he has rarely received credit. In return, they provided services of immense value not only...
The Great War on the Western Front
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
The war on Western Front from 1914 to 1918 remains one of the notoriously great tragedies of the twentieth century. Most people hold it in their minds as a milestone in modern history, yet many of them know less about this devastating clash of nations than they would like - and they would be interested...
by Barrie Pitt
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2004
This book vividly brings alive the dramatic situation facing Europe and the Allies after the loss of Dunkirk. Churchill and his generals - Alexander, Brooke, Wavell and Montgomery - were faced with many disasters that required courageous decisions in order to pursue their aim of victory. This is the...
They Have Their Exits
A Classic World War Two Memoir of Action and Escape
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
The author, who as a senior member of Mrs. Thatcher's Government was tragically assassinated by the IRA, had the most distinguished of war records. Wounded and taken prisoner in the desperate fighting at Calais in 1940, he became a compulsive escaper and the first one of the very few to make a 'home-run'...
Defeat of Rome
Crassus, Carrhae & the Invasion of the East
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2008
In 53BC the Proconsul Marcus Crassus and 36,000 of his legionaries were crushed by the Parthians at Carrhae in what is now eastern Turkey. Crassus' defeat and death and the 20,000 casualties his army suffered were an extraordinary disaster for Rome. The event intensified the bitter, destructive struggle...