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Joseph Stalin
Images of War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Joseph Stalin was a monster. He sacrificed his friends and allies in pursuit of power, murdered thousands with sadistic brutality to maintain it and callously obliterated millions more of his own people over a quarter century of his leadership. Yet almost as frightening as the horrendous crimes he...
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...
Menus, Munitions and Keeping the Peace
The Home Front Diaries of Gabrielle West 1914 - 1917
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
When Gabrielle West wrote diaries about her war to send to her much missed favorite brother in India she had no idea that a hundred years later they would be of interest to anyone. Soon after the outbreak of the First World War, Vicar’s daughter Gabrielle joined the Red Cross and worked as a volunteer...
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 Silver Pen Writers
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The Write Well Award and Silver Pen Writers pride themselves in finding the conflict that engages us, the characters that provoke us, the emotional impact that awes us. In other words, we look for the perfect story.This first anthology, with thirty-six stories collected from twenty-five magazines,...
by Carl Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013
Based on contemporary records and paintings, this book identifies each cavalry and infantry regiment and illustrates changes in uniforms, their facing colors and the nature and shape of lace worn by officers, NCOs and private soldiers from 1751 to 1783. Regiments that served in the American War of...
M2/M3
American Half-tracks of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Among the most successful armored vehicles produced by American industry – known as the Arsenal of Democracy – during the Second World War were the M2 and M3 half-tracks. They served on every battlefront and were as recognizable as other famous American wartime vehicles like the Sherman and the...
by Malcolm Hobart
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Throughout the relatively short yet highly distinguished history of the Royal Air Force there has been a tendency for the men and women of the Service to be overshadowed by the glamour of the aircraft.
Nonetheless it is surprising that there has never before been a complete record of the uniforms...
Festiniog Railway. Volume 2
From Slate Railway to Heritage Operation 1921 - 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Opened in 1836 as a horse tramway using gravity to carry slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog, by the 1920s the Festiniog Railway had left its years of technical innovation and high profits long behind. After the First World War, the railway’s path led inexorably to closure, to passengers...
Battle Lines: Ypres
Nieuwpoort to Ploegsteert
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Battle Lines Ypres, the first volume in Pen & Swords new series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor to the Ypres Salient and the battlefields of Belgium. Many of the most famous - and most memorable - Great War sites are featured...
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...