Pen & Sword Military

Research from biographies, some out of print for nearly 60 years, to bring the stories of bravery in war, racing and record breaking back to the na...

Provides a new fresh analysis of the Roman Empire in the aftermath of the reconquests of Justinian I (527-65).Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAutho...

The murderous activities of Himmler's Einsatzgruppen - or death squads - rank high among the horrors of the Nazi regime during the Second World War...

By 1944 the German army was on the defensive on all fronts and Allied bombing was putting increasing pressure on the nation's industrial output. Si...

During the 1930s in the Soviet Union a remarkable range of auxiliary armoured vehicles were produced for the Red Army which have rarely had the att...

Major General Julian Thompson first wrote No Picnic when the momentous events of April - June 1982 were fresh in his mind. As Commander of 3 Comman...

An original and fascinating study of the weapon and technical developments as a result of WW2.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): David Wrag...

Reducere. BAR KOKHBA is the search for the truth of the epic struggle between two strong-willed leaders over who would rule a nation.One was Hadrian, the cos...

The first biography of the man who was Commander of the British Second Army at D-Day.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Peter RostronIllust...

Unique overview of the origins, development and significance of Military Intelligence.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Brian ParrittIllus...

Reducere. How can the truth about the devastating atrocities committed by the German army on the Eastern Front in the Second World War be reconciled with the...

The Bradley Fighting Vehicle was developed in the 1970s to counter the new Infantry Fighting Vehicles of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allie...

Using 250 photographs, this addition to the Images of War series examines Hitler's elite armored infantry: the Panzergrenadiers.The term Panzergren...

Reducere. 12 pages of full color illustrations depicting over 20 different vehicles and their markings, including the histories of the Panzer units that oper...

A richly illustrated guide to modeling the nimble M113 Armored Personnel Carrier, a Cold War veteran of the jungle and desert, filled with previous...

A realistic, in-depth review of the methods used to treat the casualties of violence in the Middle Ages.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): ...

A comprehensive, accurate, and academically-supported reference of all of the major military and paramilitary camouflage patterns that have been in...

Narrative of Rome's wars during a tumultuous period of civil war and mounting external threats. Discusses development of the Roman army and the arm...

Explores a tragic and little-known aspect of the Home Front in wartime Britain.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Johnson, PaulIllustration...

The annals of the First World War record the Argonne Forest as the epicenter of the famous Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918. The largest American op...

"We shall go out and bomb every building in Britain marked with three stars in the Baedeker Guide, " the German Foreign Office announced in April 1...

This book tells the true story of Himmler's plan to use prominent WWII concentration camp prisoners as hostages in an attempt to engage the Western...

In the spring of 1940, Stalin's NKVD executed 22, 000 Polish officers, ensigns and state officials near the Russian village of Katyn and other plac...

Plutarch described Antigonus the One Eyed (382-301 BC) 'as 'the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors.' Antigonus loyally served both Phili...

The Italian campaign was one of the most debated of the Second World War, splitting the American and British allies, and causing great disharmony. ...

The desert war in Libya and Egypt between 1940 and 1942 has deservedly attracted the attention of many historians. Fought in an unforgiving yet str...

The bloody eight-year Iran-Iraq war is now almost forgotten, overshadowed by the subsequent Gulf War and Iraq War. However, it is best remembered f...

In May 1944, 40, 000 Polish soldiers attacked and captured the hilltops of Monte Cassino, bringing to a close the largest, bloodiest battle fought ...

DescriptionDrawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord 1941 - 1945 is the 6th book in the ...

DescriptionThis book provides a complete and detailed analysis of the organization and equipment employed by the armies of the Hellenistic States. ...

Reducere. One of the biggest problems facing wargamers is finding the time to actually play. Most commercially available sets of rules require several hours ...

The Battle of Hastings, fought on 14 October 1066, changed the course of English history. This most famous moment of the Norman Conquest was record...

Stalag XXA was a Second World War German POW camp for noncommissioned officers located in Nazi occupied Torun, in northern Poland. The camp consist...

Clandestine radio operators had one of the most dangerous jobs of World War 2. Those in Nazi-occupied Europe for the SOE, MI6 and the OSS had a lif...

The history of weapons and warfare is usually written about from the point of view of the battles fought and the tactics used. In naval warfare, in...

This is a dual biography of the emperors Marcus Antonius Gordianus ('Gordian III', reigned 238-244) and Marcus Julius Philippus Augustus ('Philip t...

The Third Armored Division, famously known as the "Spearhead Division, " had an illustrious combat career in WW2. One of only two "heavy armored" d...

To most students of the Peninsular War the name Robert Craufurd evokes images of a battle-hardened martinet, flogging his men across Portugal and S...

'Napoo', 'compray', 'san fairy ann', 'toot sweet' are anglicized French phrases that came into use on the Western Front during the First World War ...

The German Army lost two consecutive wars and the conclusion is often drawn that it simply wasn't able to cope with its opponents. This image is co...

Bohemond of Taranto, Lord of Antioch, unofficial leader of the First Crusade, was a man of boundless ambition and inexhaustible energy - he was, in...

In Munich in 1920, just after the end of the First World War, German officers who had been prisoners of war in England published a book they had wr...

Andrew Field, who has published four best-selling books on the Battle of Waterloo, has established himself as one of the leading experts on the Fre...

In just 10 weeks from 8 December 1941 to mid February 1942, British and Imperial forces were utterly defeated by the numerically inferior Japanese ...

Engraved shell-cases, bullet-crucifixes, letter openers and cigarette lighters made of shrapnel and cartridges, miniature airplanes and tanks, tali...

The latest volume in Anthony Tucker-Jones's series of books on armored warfare in the Images of War series is a graphic account of the development ...

Before becoming the masters of the Mediterranean world, the Romans had first to conquer the Italian peninsula in a series of harsh conflicts agains...

"An army may march on its stomach but it leans on its funny bone." So says Brigadier Charles Ritchie, and he should know. Postings to the Yemen, No...

Detailed graphic account of the three great offensives launched by the Republican People's Army in 1937-38.

This edition includes an excellent bibliographical essay which surveys the latest works on Frederician Prussia and eighteenth-century warfare. Clas...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The Great War helped China emerge from humiliation and obscurity and take its first tentative steps as a full member of the global community. In 19...

Step into the world of domestic service and discover what life was really like for these unsung heroines (and heroes) of society. Between 1800 and ...

This is the story of the 'failed' British Empire in Ireland and the sad end of the Tudor reign.The relationship between England and Ireland has bee...

This book reassesses the earliest evidence afresh from the perspective of a military historian.

DescriptionConceived as part of a Top Secret project to disrupt Nazi Germany's atomic bomb program, the hastily developed Studebaker Weasel went on...

DescriptionAs with everything else, there were good and bad Roman emperors. The good, like Trajan (98-117), Hadrian (117-138), Antoninus Pius (138-...

Naval warfare is the unsung hero of ancient Greek military history, often overshadowed by the more glorified land battles. Owen Rees looks to redre...

George Jellicoe, son of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, commander of the British Grand Fleet at Jutland, was never compromised by his privileged upbring...

A detailed analysis of the organization, uniforms and weapons of the French Imperial Guard created by Napoleon I. The author describes how this lar...

General Douglas A MacArthur, Commander of the Southwest Pacific Area, saw the liberation of the Philippines Archipelago as the launching board for ...

How can we attempt to understand the experience of those involved in ancient battles, sieges and campaigns? What was the visual impact of seeing th...

Over 60, 000, 000 people died worldwide during the course of the Second World War and, in contrast to those slaughtered in The Great War, it was ci...

Contains 80 detailed photographs and illustrations of equipment used by these warring armies who dominated the ancient world.The Thracians are ment...

James Henry Banton was born in Burton on Trent in 1920. He worked as a driver of a steam locomotive used to used to transport beer and supplies to ...

Of the one million British and Empire military personnel who were killed in action; died of wounds, disease, or injury; or were missing presumed de...

In September 1944, to prevent Japanese air interdiction against General MacArthur's planned invasion of the Southern Philippines, the Americans att...

DescriptionWhen the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire, he supposedly replied "to the strongest". There ensu...

Although the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, which began in late September 1918 and continued through to the Armistice, was not the first major action fou...

DescriptionHans Sch ufler fought as the commander of a Jagdpanther tank destroyer in rearguard actions against the Red Army in East Prussia in 1945...