Books from Pen and Sword Military

Bayonet to Barrage: Weaponry on the Victorian Battlefield
By Stephen Manning
Skennerton, I. A Treatise on the Snider – The British Soldier's Firearm 1866–c.1880 (Hollingsworth & Moss, Leeds, 1977). Smith, Sir H. Autobiography (John Murray, 1901). Smith, K. Harry Smith's Last Throw – The Eighth Frontier War ...
Mountain Commandos at War in the Falklands: The Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre in Action During the 1982...
By Rodney Boswell
When the door opened in came the corporals and Marines, all stark naked with their underwear on their heads! They were on their knees mimicking the seven dwarfs but without Snow White! As they marched in each was given a can of beer and ...
Warwick at War 1939–45
By Graham Sutherland
A few days later, Private Alexander Jamieson, a Scottish pioneer, drowned on a River Avon crossing exercise in the Park. Three other men were rescued before it was realized he was missing. An unidentified 8year-old girl who fell into ...
History of the British Army, 1714–1783: An Institutional History
By Stephen Conway
Corporal William Todd, who kept a detailed – and invaluable – journal of his military life, recorded a very revealing incident in north-west Germany during the Seven Years War. He was frequently hungry, due to problems that the army's ...
Into the Valley of Death: The Light Cavalry at Balaclava
By Nick Thomas
... Amos Pte Hindley, Edward Pte Pte Holliday, Algernon Howarth, Willaim Tpt Hughes, Edwin Pte 1506 W Hunt, Henry Pte 1495 UW 288. INTO. THE. VALLEY. OF. DEATH.
Knight's Cross Winners of the Waffen SS
By Marc Rikmenspoel
Behind him are the regiment's commander, Albert Frey, and LAH commander Teddy Wisch, both wearing the Oak Leaves. On June 13, 1944 the German defenses around Caen were outflanked by a British advance through Villers-Bocage.
South Shields at War 1939–45
By Craig Armstrong
Just five days after a bomb fell in a garden at the back of Lawe Road, the Mayor of South Shields, Alderman W.L. Pearson, related how he had received a letter from the town's MP, Alderman J. ChuterEde, praising the response and spirit ...
Sunderland at War 1939–45
By Craig Armstrong
... Alice May White (née Pearson) at their family home in Sunderland. In the days following his death, several tributes were paid in the local press including one from his mother in which the family described how they were ...
Fighting for the United States, Executed in Britain: US Soldiers Court-Martialled in WWII
By Simon Webb
Following which exchange, Pearson said that he and Jones had each taken one of her arms and they had led her to the field, where she willingly had intercourse with both of them. He denied having a knife or even seeing one.
Devil’s Adjutant: Jochen Peiper, Panzer Leader
By Michael Reynolds
The 14th Tank Battalion Service Company was located just to the north-east of Brigadier Timberlake's Headquarters in the Hôtel du Moulin, in a triangle of roads to the west of the N-23. It consisted of a transport platoon, a kitchen and ...
German Military and the Weimar Republic
By Karen Schaefer
The first wave started after the Second World War with John W. Wheeler-Bennet, Harold J. Gordon, Francis L. Carsten, Samuel P. Huntington, and Jehuda Wallach.1 Hans Meier-Welcker, Klaus Jürgen Müller, and Michael Geyer as the most ...
German Military and the Weimar Republic
By Karen Schaefer
Juli 1944, Geheime Dokumente aus dem ehemaligen Reichsicherheitshauptamt, Publ. by HansAdolf Jacobsen, o.A.v.J.u.O. Paul, Wolfgang: Das Potsdamer Infanterie-Regiment 9, 1918–1945, preussische Tradition in Krieg und Frieden, Textband, ...
Waterloo Witnesses: Military and Civilian Accounts of the 1815 Campaign
By Kristine Hughes
Captain Courtenay Ilbert, Reserve Royal Artillery Company – In 1804, Ilbert had married Anne, daughter of Geoffrey Taylor of Sevenoaks, in Kent, to whom he had written so many tender letters. Ilbert died at Valenciennes France in 1816, ...
Himmler's Hostages: The Untold Story of Himmler's Special Prisoners and the End of WWII
By Tom Wall
So was his close friend Mike Casey. He had first known the Irishman Casey from 57 Squadron, which Day commanded, and they had met again in captivity.37 They had a lot in common; both were sons of the Empire. Day was born in Sarawak, ...
Public Schools and the Second World War
By David Walsh, Anthony Seldon
T. Molson, The Millionaire's Squadron, 2014, p.57. H. Dundas, Flying Start, 1988, p.3. The only awards which can be made posthumously are the VC and Mention in Dispatches. T. Molson, The Millionaire's Squadron, 2014, p.99.
Reading at War 1939–45
By David Bilton
... 223 Coal gas, xxi Coley, vii, xiv, 1, 45, 62, 94, 229 Coley Allotment Holder's, 1 Coley Avenue, 229 Coley Council School, 61 Coley Park, xiv, 62 Coley Park Farm, 229 Coley Recreational Ground, 60, 229 Combe Road, 86 Concerts, xxiv, ...
Fighting for Spain: The International Brigades in the Civil War, 19361939
By Alexander Clifford
Clark, Bob, No Boots to my Feet, Experiences of a Britisher in Spain, 1937–38 (Student Bookshops Ltd, 1984). Cooney, Bob, Proud Journey, a Spanish Civil War memoir (Marx Memorial Library/Manifesto Press, 2015). Copeman, Fred, Reason in ...
War in Greek Mythology
By Paul Chrystal
Cartledge, P., Surrender in Ancient Greece in Afflerbach: How Fighting Ends (2012) pp.15–28. Cartledge, P., Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece (London, 2020). Chavalas, M.V., Women in the Ancient Near East (London, 2013).
War in Roman Myth and Legend
By Paul Chrystal
... pp.63–85 Cartledge, Paul (2020), Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece (London) Champanis, L.A. (2012), 'Female Changes: The Violation and Violence of Women in Ovid's Metamorphoses', MA thesis, Rhodes University Chaplin, ...
Bayonet to Barrage: Weaponry on the Victorian Battlefield
By Stephen Manning
Stephen Manning, in this meticulously researched and vividly written study, describes the developments in firepower and, using the first-hand accounts of the soldiers, shows how their perception of battle changed.