Pen And Sword: 3067 books
by James Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
This book describes the background to and the development of the Nazi Party Rallies held at Nuremberg each September from 1933 to 1939. These Reichsparteitage (National Party Days) were vast and meticulously staged managed extravaganzas in which ritual and ceremony played an important part.
The...
by Stephen English
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
During his spectacular career of conquest Alexander the Great attacked many cities and fortresses, never failing to take them. Such operations occupied more of his time than his famous pitched battles and were at least as vital in securing his vast empire. Sieges provided some of the sternest tests...
Marshal of Victory
The Autobiography of General Georgy Zhukov
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
At Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin and in virtually all the principal battles on the Eastern Front during the Second World War, Georgy Zhukov played a major role. He was Stalin's pre-eminent general throughout the conflict, and in his autobiography he chronicled his brilliant career...
The Russian Revolution
World War to Civil War 1917-1921
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Often the drama of the October Revolution and the Bolshevik seizure of power overshadow the disastrous Russian-German war that preceded it and the extended, confusing, many-sided civil war between the Reds and the Whites that followed. But Nik Cornish’s vivid photographic history gives equal coverage...
Plan Z
The Nazi Bid for Naval Dominance
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Except for the strength of the U-boat fleet at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Navy, or Kriegsmarine, was never a match for the Royal Navy, even though the latter was overstretched and fighting in the Atlantic, Pacific, the Mediterranean and the Arctic. It was not meant to be...
Battle of the River Plate
A Grand Delusion
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
The Battle of the River Plate was the first major naval confrontation of the Second World War, and it is one of the most famous. The dramatic sea fight between German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the British cruisers Exeter, Ajax and Achilles off the coast of South America caught the imagination...
by Cooper, Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
The 'little ships' of the Second World War - the fast and highly manoeuvrable motor torpedo boats and gunboats which fought in coastal waters all over the world - developed a special kind of naval warfare. With their daring nightly raids against an enemy's coastal shipping - and sometimes much larger...
Siege of Malta 1940-1942
A Mediterranean Leningrad Campaign Chronicles Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
The heroic defense of Malta against the Axis powers is one of the most famous episodes of the Second World War. For over two years this tiny island was the key to control of the Mediterranean and it was critical to the outcome of the North African campaign.
A legend has grown up around the...
by Geoffrey Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2003
Captain Bennett discusses the traumatic effects of the Washington and London Naval Treaties on the fleets of the principal powers between the wars, and their astonishing growth and technical progress between 1939 and 1945. He then deals with the war in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. The Battle...
In the Ranks of Death
The Irish in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
When war broke out in 1939 over 20,000 Irishmen were serving in the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force with the greatest proportion in the Army. During the war this rose to over 120,000, suggesting that about 100,000 enlisted during the war. Nine earned the Victoria Cross; three members of the Royal...
The Hidden Threat
Mines and Minesweeping in WWI
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
It is not widely remembered that mines were by far the most effective weapon deployed against the British Royal Navy in WW1, costing them 5 battleships, 3 cruisers, 22 destroyers, 4 submarines and a host of other vessels. They were in the main combated by a civilian force using fishing boats and paddle...
Code Wars
How ‘Ultra’ and ‘Magic’ Led to Allied Victory
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
When the top secret code breaking activities at Bletchley Park were revealed in the 1970s, much of the history of the Second World War had to be rewritten. Code Wars examines the role of ULTRA (the intelligence derived from breaking secret enemy signals) on major events of the Second World War. It...
North Sea Battleground
The War and Sea 1914 - 1918
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
During WW1 the North Sea became the principal battleground for the navies of Britain and Germany. This book explains in chronological order the major encounters between Kaiser Wilhelm II’s High Seas Fleet and the Royal Navy. It also includes other important operations such as mine-laying and sweeping,...
U-Boats at War in World War I and II
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
U Boats were the scourge of the seas for Allied shipping during both World Wars – almost bringing Britain to the brink of starvation on several occasions. This book contains unseen photographs taken by German submarine crew and captains during each war.
The World War One selection features...