Pen & Sword Military

DescriptionCrammed into cattle trucks and deported to camps, shot and buried in mass graves, or force-marched to death, over 1.5 million Armenians ...

DescriptionAntipater was a key figure in the rise of Macedon under Philip II and instrumental in the succession of Alexander III (the Great). Alexa...

DescriptionGoing into WWII, the prevailing strategy of the US command was that tanks were not to be used to engage enemy tanks in combat. Rather, t...

DescriptionIn late 1944 and 1945 the Panther tank played an important role in Germany's desperate efforts to stem the Allied advance on the Western...

Combining the destructive firepower of the 88mm gun with the outstanding mobility of the Panther series, the Jagdpanther is quite probably the best...

DescriptionThese three Battleground Europe books on Ypres 1914 mark the centenary of the final major battle of the 1914 campaign on the Western Fro...

When the world held its breath ... It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944--long be...

Martin J Smith argues that the study of human remains is the purest, most reliable and unbiased source of evidence for the reality of conflict in t...

DescriptionBefore the Great War began, Ireland had already began to take up arms. Conflict and political unrest was at the forefront of everyone's ...

DescriptionBefore the outbreak of the First World War, the Channel Islands were viewed as they are today; scenic, sunny and relaxing holiday destin...

DescriptionCharles Esdaile's new guide to the Battle of Waterloo presents the experience of the soldiers who took part in the battle in the most gr...

Reducere. DescriptionIn October 1944, the US Office of Strategic Services described the Irgun Tsvai Leumi - National Military Organization - as 'an undergrou...

DescriptionMichel Goya's Flesh and Steel during the Great War is one of the most thoughtful, stimulating and original studies of the conflict to ha...

Mick and Margery Jennings's comfortable life in Singapore ended with the Japanese invasion in late 1941. Margery was captured in Sumatra after HMV ...

Reducere. It is said that artillery won the Second World War for the Allies - that Soviet guns wore down German forces on the Eastern Front, negating their s...

The Sdkfz 251 halftrack was one of the most versatile armored vehicles produced by either side in the Second World War. Designed by the firm of Han...

Eighth Army was formed in Egypt in September 1941. A year later, under Montgomery, it defeated Rommel's Panzerarmee Afrika at El Alamein which led ...

Detailed, graphic account of the history of military parachuting. Describes how parachute landings became a standard tactic in twentieth-century wa...

Reducere. A deeply researched and engaging account of the use of U-Boats in the First World War. The focus touches on both diplomatic and economic aspects as...

The Art and Making of Fantasy Miniatures is a showcase of some of the best talent in the industry. Compiled with the cooperation of eleven of the m...

Created in 1945 when Korea was partitioned, North Korea or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea remains the world's most secretive nation. Eve...

DescriptionMore than 350 bombs fell on Wimbledon during the Second World War, killing 150 residents and injuring a further 1, 071. Around 12, 000 h...

DescriptionToday the Korean War of 1950-1953 is overshadowed by later twentieth-century conflicts in Vietnam and the Middle East, yet at the time i...

Early in 1944 the Allied advance was halted by the German defence of the Gustav Line. Even with the deployment of Eighth Army reinforcements from t...

Perhaps not in casualties but as far as prestige and standing in the world were concerned, the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 was the worst disaster ...

DescriptionIn the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took pl...

For much of the Cold War, the British Army's main battle tanks (MBT) were first the Centurion and then the Chieftain. The question of the latter's ...

DescriptionSir Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, is best known for his exceptional military career. He was one of the Duke of Wellington's ablest lieut...

DescriptionThe Deutsche Afrika Korps (best known as simply Afrika Korps) built up a well-deserved reputation as a superb fighting machine. While th...

DescriptionIt is, of course, no secret that undercover Special Forces and intelligence agencies operated in Northern Ireland and the Republic throu...

In the late 4th century, pressure from the Huns forced the Goths to cross the Danube into the Roman Empire. The resultant Battle of Adrianople in 3...

Julian Romane examines the military events behind the emergence of the Sui and Tang dynasties in the period 581-626 AD. Narrating the campaigns and...

Historian and collector Michael Green shows in this fascinating and graphically illustrated book that the two wars that engulfed Indochina and Nort...

DescriptionThe British Chieftain - designed in the late 1950s as the replacement for the Centurion - was perhaps the best main battle tank in servi...

DescriptionThe Wehrmacht used reconnaissance and support vehicles widely in the Second World War and this book sets out to show the full range of b...

DescriptionThe story of the Battle of Waterloo - of the ultimate defeat of Napoleon and the French, the triumph of Wellington, Bl cher and their al...

DescriptionThe Allied invasion of Northern France was the greatest combined operation in the history of warfare. Up until now it has been recorded ...

DescriptionThe Russian Revolution is remembered as the catalyst for the bloody conflict between the Reds and the Whites as each side tried to gain ...

One of the bloodiest European battles of the Second World War was that from January to June 1944 for the Gustav Line, anchored on Monte Cassino, fa...

DescriptionField Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953) was one of the foremost German commanders of the Second World War. After service on both th...

DescriptionThis book details the treatment of Allied service-women, female civilians and local women by the Japanese occupation forces. While a num...

DescriptionIn the last years of the Second World War the Sturmgesch tz III (StuG III) and Sturmgesch tz IV (StuG IV) played a vital role as assault...

Designed as a heavily armored tank which could accompany infantry formations, the Churchill's ability to cross rough ground and climb seemingly una...

In June 1941, Adolf Hitler, whose loathing of Slavs and Jewish Bolsheviks knew no bounds, launched Operation Barbarossa, throwing 4 million troops,...

DescriptionThe two-handed swords found in modern museums are often so large and elaborately decorated that the onlooker might question whether such...

Auschwitz and Birkenau were separated from each other by about a 45-minute walk. Auschwitz was adapted to hold political prisoners in 1940 and evol...

Contributor(s): Author: M. P. RobinsonOther: Peter LauOther: Guy GibeauThe AMX 13 was originally designed in the immediate aftermath of the Second ...

Contributor(s): Author: Gerry Van TonderWhen the world held its breath ... It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75...

DescriptionAny miniature wargame is greatly enhanced by realistic and evocative scenery and buildings, but commercial ready-made pieces can be expe...

DescriptionAcross western Europe the long tradition of castle-building took on its most sophisticated form in the later Medieval period and then, i...

DescriptionIn the spring of 73 AD the rock fortress of Masada on the western shore of the Dead Sea was the site of an event that was breathtaking i...

DescriptionAmong the most successful armored vehicles produced by American industry - known as the Arsenal of Democracy - during the Second World W...

DescriptionThe Second World War Jeep was one of the most famous and influential military vehicles of all time, and over 600, 000 were produced. It ...

DescriptionFor all its successes, the future of the Special Air Service was uncertain after the Second World War. Resurrected as 22 SAS Regiment fo...

DescriptionVery few British soldiers could lay claim to such a full war as Leslie Young. Having survived the retreat to and evacuation from Dunkirk...

DescriptionBy early August 1944 the Germans fighting in Normandy had been worn down by the battles around Caen, while to the west, the American bre...

DescriptionPoland was re-created as an independent nation at the end of the First World War, but it soon faced problems as Nazi Germany set about e...

DescriptionVolume 1 of this two-part work puts the reader firmly into the footsteps of the 2nd and 5th Rangers as they arrive in England in 1943. I...

DescriptionWhen A Passionate Prodigality was first published in 1933 it was hailed as one of the finest English works to have come out of the First...

DescriptionCold War nadir: January 1968 and in Czechoslovakia the new Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek has made it clear that this is the op...

Marcus Agrippa personified the term 'right-hand man'. As Emperor Augustus' deputy, he waged wars, pacified provinces, beautified Rome, and played a...

The Roman conquests of Macedonia in the 2nd century BC led directly to the extension of their authority over the troublesome tribes of Thrace to th...

Steel Inferno provides a unique insight into the experiences of 1st SS Panzer Corps, one of only two units in the German Army which bore Hitler's n...

In-depth new study of Military Intelligence. An authoritative account of a little-known and often misunderstood organization and its contribution t...

Aden was a key British base East of Suez for over 100 years. The story of the British occupation and withdrawal has not been told in detail until n...

Comprehensive account of US military helicopters in war and peace up the present day.

A new and overdue definitive study of the British involvement in the (largely ignored) Salonika Campaign from the military angle.

There can be few technologies in the history of the modern world that have progressed so rapidly, and have seen so much change in such a short time...

DescriptionIn 1793 France was facing foreign invasion along its borders and a fierce political war was raging in Paris when a large-scale revolt, c...

From May 1915 to October 1917 the armies of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian empire were locked into a series of twelve battles along the River Isonz...