Books from Pen and Sword Military
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Britain and Rome: Caesar to Claudius: The Exposure of a Renaissance Fraud
By P J O'GormanThis is a bold reassessment of one of the pivotal points in British history.
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Frank Pantridge MC: Japanese Prisoner of War and Inventor of the Portable Defibrillator
By Cecil LowryThis stirring biography reveals the full story of a remarkable man who survived against the odds to save countless lives. Praise for Frank Pantridge MC “Cecil Lowry's book describes a man who...survived against all the odds. . .
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Aurelian and Probus: The Soldier Emperors Who Saved Rome
By Ilkka SyvännePrimary sources online: Ammianus, Anonymous Continuator of Cassius Dio/Peter the Patrician, Arrian, Cedrenus, ... Banchich, Thomas M. (2015), The Lost History of Peter the Patrician, Routledge, Abingdon-on- Thames (2015).
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Gordian III and Philip the Arab: The Roman Empire at a Crossroads
By Ilkka SyvännePrimary sources: Ammianus, Anonymous Continuator of Cassius Dio/Peter the Patrician, Arrian, Cedrenus, Chronicon Paschale, Dio, Epitome de Caesaribus ... Banchich, Thomas M. (2015), The Lost History of Peter the Patrician.
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A Military Life of Constantine the Great
By Ian Hugheshttps://archive.org/details/oxyrhynchuspapy05huntgoog/page/n4 Petrus Patricius: The Lost History of Peter the Patrician: An Account of Rome's Imperial Past from the Age of Justinian Banchich, T.M. (Routledge, 2015) Philostorgius: Church ...
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The Rise of Persia and the First Greco-Persian Wars: The Expansion of the Achaemenid Empire and the Battle of Marathon
By Manousos E Kambouris... Chians and the Phocaeans after the battle (red star) Blue star: the slaying of shipwrecked Chian crews by the Ephesians some revenge by sailing off Phoenicia, boarding and commandeering vessels and supplies necessary for the trip, ...
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Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus & Salvius, 136–132 & 105–100 BC
By Natale BarcaNatale Barca narrates and analyses these events in unprecedented detail, with thorough research into the surviving ancient sources.
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Roman Britain's Pirate King: Carausius, Constantius Chlorus and the Fourth Roman Invasion of Britain
By Simon ElliottCarausius, Constantius Chlorus and the Fourth Roman Invasion of Britain Simon Elliott. Britain's Lost Legion: What Really Happened to IX Hispana? and Roman Conquests: Britain. To these we can add the various works of Anthony R. Birley, ...
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The Kaiser's U-Boat Assault on America: Germany's Great War Gamble in the First World War
By Hans Joachim KoerverThe book also examines the role played by US president Woodrow Wilson and his response to American shipping being sunk by U-boats and how that ultimately forced his hand to declare war on Germany.
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Panther Tanks - German Army Panzer Brigades: Western and Eastern Fronts, 1944–1945
By Dennis OliverIn Dennis Oliver's latest volume in the TankCraft series he uses archive photos and extensively researched color illustrations to examine the Panther battalions of the Panzer brigades that fought to hold back the Allied advance during the ...
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Stryker Interim Combat Vehicle: The Stryker and LAV III in US and Canadian Service, 1999–2020
By David GrummittThis illustrated modeling guide reviews the full range of kits and accessories available to model the Stryker and LAV III in all the major scales.
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City of London at War 193945
By Stephen WynnThomas Arthur Randall, BEM, served as a Yeoman Warder between 1945–1970. His time in the regular Army was spent in the service of Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. He finished his service as the Chief Yeoman Warder.
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Warwick at War 1939–45
By Graham SutherlandRoyal Navy HMS Warwick was sunk off Trevose Head, Cornwall, losing more than half her crew. Able Seaman Norman Mancini (17), Lyttleton Road, enjoyed life in Canada after ... (Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum Trust). 180 WarWICK at War 1939-45.
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Byzantine Fortifications: Protecting the Roman Empire in the East
By Nikos D Kontogiannisand the 12th Century According to Archaeological Sources], in Philippes, de la préhistoire à Byzance: études d'archéologie et ... in Archaeology and History in Roman, Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece, edited by William Caraher, ...
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Covert Radio Agents, 1939–1945: Signals From Behind Enemy Lines
By David HebditchWho were they? How were they trained? How did they survive against the odds? This is a highly informative and uplifting history of World War II’s unsung heroes.
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Masséna at Bay 1811: The Lines of Torres Vedras to Funtes de Oñoro
By Tim SaundersThis book, starting with the occupation of the Lines of Torres Vedras, which were at the heart of Wellington’s Peninsular strategy from October 1809-1812, is the story of Wellington’s pursuit of Masséna back to Spain.
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The Mountain War: A Doctor's Diary of the Italian Campaign 1914-1918
By Isaak BaraschThe diary Dr Isaak Barasch kept while serving in the Austro-Hungarian army on the Italian front during the First World War gives the reader a remarkable insight into the conflict and into the man himself.
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Bay of Pigs: Cia's Cuban Disaster, April 1961
By Phil CarradicePerhaps 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 to befall the USA since the War of 1812 when British forces burned the White House.
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Korean War - Allied Surge: Pyongyang Falls, UN Sweep to the Yalu, October 1950
By Gerry van TonderThey banned universal education from this land of culture. ... Russian and American armies became the two new masters in place of the old one. ... After this war nothing will be left of Korea but blood and dust, said Dr Koh.
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Citroën DS: French Design Classic
By Lance ColeThe American Wright brothers resided in Paris to promote their new aeroplane – not London, not Berlin, not Turin, nor Vienna. Paris was, from the 1890s to the late 1930s, the crucible of the aeronautical and the automobile design and ...