Pen And Sword Military imprint: 1065 books
by John Fidler
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Although Lancaster was the ancient County town, it had a population of only 40,000 in 1914. Of these, it is thought that some 5,000 men saw war service between 1914-18, and over 1,000 did not return. In consequence, the recruiting drives, the tribunals to consider exemption from 1916, and the ever-growing...
by Derek Tait
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
When news of the war broke out in 1914, nothing could prepare the citizens of Aberdeen for the changes that would envelop their city over the next four years. The story of Aberdeen in the Great War is both an interesting and intriguing one. The city played a key role in the deployment of troops to...
The Holy Boys
A History of the Royal Norfolk Regiment and the Royal East Anglian Regiment 1685-2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The Royal Norfolk Regiment is one of the oldest and most distinguished fighting forces in the British army. Its line of descent can be traced back for over three centuries, all the way from modern Afghanistan to Monmouth’s rebellion in 1685.
Throughout these years, and many campaigns, the...
Salient Points Three
Ypres & Picardy 1914-18
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
The third in the series of a collection of stories about the men the actions and the places of interest for the battlefield visitor to the old Western Front. This book features:- A Soldier for a Year (Private David Ross); - A Very British Grenadier (Captain Pixley); - An Artist at War (Ernest Carlos);...
Armoured Warfare in the Far East 1937-1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic history is a fascinating visual introduction to the armoured battles of the Second World War in the Far East and Asia-Pacific regions, from 1937 to 1945. In contrast to the experience of the armies that fought in Europe and North Africa, in the Far East tanks remained...
by Neville Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 1999
Earl Bathurst arguably exerted greater influence on the establishment and consolidation of the British Empire than any other single individual. In writing this highly authoritative work, Professor Thompson had access to the previously untapped Bathurst Family archives.This biography also throws fresh...
by John Waddy
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Although the Battle of Arnhem was fought over sixty years ago. It still evokes such interest that it would seem to rank with the great victories of Agincourt, Trafalgar, Waterloo and the Battle of Britain, all of which proved to be turning points in the history of our nation. Arnhem was not a victory,...
Ten Years at Hitler's Side
The Testimony of Wilhelm Keitel
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
In October 1946, Wilhelm Keitel was executed by hanging after being sentenced to death at the Nuremburg Trials. His road to this point was a long and controversial one, from the heady days of the surrender of France, to the eventual fall of Berlin and his subsequent arrest. There were few men better...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This new volume in the long-running Images of War series features the actions of the British Army on the Somme. Not only is the book comprised of rare photographs illustrating the actions of the British army fighting on the Somme, but it is accompanied by a powerful text written by Official War Correspondent...
In Presence of My Foes
From Calais to Colditz via the Polish Underground - The Travels and Travails of a POW
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
This is a wartime escape memoir that ranks with the finest. Seriously wounded and captured at Calais, the Author recovered to escape from his POW camp in a load of rubbish. He was on the run thanks to the Polish Underground for nine months and was recaptured within sight of the Swiss border. Interrogation...
The Kaiser's Captive
In the Claws of the German Eagle
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Albert Rhys Williams was an American journalist and author. In 1914, Williams travelled to Europe as the special war correspondent for Outlook magazine, tasked with the duty of reporting the events of the Great War.
In these early days of the conflict, Williams had the misfortune to fall into...
Cheating Death
Combat Rescues in Vietnam and Laos
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2003
The colourful characters and daring rescues of downed pilots engaged in the Secret War in North Vietnam and Laos are vividly captured by one who was there, in some of the most exciting stories ever written about aerial combat. Sandy Marrett and his squadron colleagues flew some of the most dangerous...
The Right of the Line
The Role of the RAF in WW
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Traditionally, ‘the right of the line’ is the vanguard, the place of honour and greatest danger in battle. In this history of the Royal Air Force during the European War of 1939-45, John Terraine shows how the RAF, which in 1939 was small and inadequate for the task it was called upon to perform...
Atomic Thunder
British Nuclear Testing in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
British nuclear testing took place at Maralinga, South Australia, between 1956 and 1963, after Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies had handed over 3,200 square kilometres of open desert to the British Government, without informing his own people. The atomic weapons test series wreaked havoc on...