Books from Pen and Sword Military

Battle: Understanding Conflict from Hastings to Helmand
By Graeme Callister, Rachael Whitbread
... Russian Eyewitness Accounts of the Campaign of 1814 (London, 2013) Möbius Katrin & Sascha Möbius, Prussian Army Soldiers and the Seven Years' War (London, 2019) Mortimer, Geoff (ed.), Early Modern Military History (Basingstoke, 2004) ...
Hitler's Panzers: The Complete History 1933–1945
By Anthony Tucker-Jones
This is the story Anthony Tucker-Jones relates as he traces the evolution of the panzers from the modest beginnings in the 1930s to the Panzer IVs, Panthers and Tigers which were the most formidable German tanks of the war.
St Nazaire Raid, 1942
By Stephen Wynn
The raid on St Nazaire has gone down in history as one of the most daring commando raids of all time.
Sci-fi Skirmish Scenarios: Small-unit Missions For Use With Your Favourite Wargaming Rules
By John Lambshead
... SKIRMISH WARGAMING ' - RICK PRIESTLEY , CREATOR OF WARHAMMER 40K AND BEYOND THE GATES OF ANTARES WELCOME TO THE SPRAWL ... Sci - fi skirmishes are an increasingly popular genre of war game but they are more dependent than most on good ...
A Champion Cyclist Against the Nazis: The Incredible Life of Gino Bartali
By Alberto Toscano
In this book, Alberto Toscano shares the incredible story of this great sportsman, recognized as one of the “Righteous Among the Nations” by Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Memorial after his death in Florence in 2000, and recounts a story of ...
Clem Beckett: Motorcycle Legend and War Hero
By Rob Hargreaves
... life in Oldham. His wife, Elsie (a niece of Clem's mother), responded to an appeal by Edmund and Ruth Frow, founders ... lives toiling in smoky Lancashire mill towns by retiring to a newly built detached house in Blackpool. Elder, James ...
Great Battles of the Early Roman Empire
By Simon Elliott
... Sea Eagles of Empire : The Classis Britannica and the Battles for Britain ( Stroud : The History Press , 2016 ) Elliott , S. , Empire State : How the Roman Military Built an Empire ( Oxford : Oxbow Books , 2017 ) Elliott , S ...
The SAS in Occupied France: 1 SAS Operations, June to October 1944
By Gavin Mortimer
In this volume, historian Gavin Mortimer focuses on 1 SAS, describing operations Titanic, Houndsworth, Bulbasket, Gain, Haggard and Kipling in graphic detail.
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine, February - December 2022
By John S Harrel
... the 'curse of Snake Island' soon took its toll. On 13 April 2022 Moskva was patrolling off Snake Island while providing anti- aircraft missile support to the ground attack toward Kherson, when two Neptune anti-ship missiles slammed into ...
Military History of Late Rome 602–641
By Ilkka Syvänne
... Desperta Ferro Article in 2014 (after Tabari i.2213ff.). Note, however, that I date the events differently here and that a fuller study of the Muslim conquest of Persia with the new dating scheme will be published later. The sources ...
Military History of Late Rome 361–395
By Ilkka Syvänne
... Desperta Ferro 12 , 32–39 ( the text has one mistake namely that there would not have been a period illustration of Mongol battle array ; author has sent correction and additional material in June 2012 due to be published later ) ...
Allied Armour, 1939–1945: British and American Tanks at War
By Anthony Tucker-Jones
... Krinkelt-Rocherath the 12th Volksgrenadiers, supported by 12th SS tanks, set about the 99th Infantry. Even in the face of five Tigers the Americans fell back grudgingly on the twin villages. In front of Rocherath the ground was littered ...
Save the Last Bullet: Memoir of a Boy Soldier in Hitler's Army
By Heidi Langbein-Allen, Wilhelm Langbein
Willi Langbein was just thirteen when the Nazis took him away from his parents under the pretense of protecting him.
Save the Last Bullet: Memoir of a Boy Soldier in Hitler's Army
By Heidi Langbein-Allen, Wilhelm Langbein
... final destination, had suffered the same fate. As we slowly approached the almost completely destroyed central station we saw the scarred remains of many structures. The buildings' gaping wounds exposed what once had been ... the Last Bullet.
A Falkland Islander’s Wartime Journal: Surviving the Siege
By Graham Bound
Some of these never-before seen photos are published in this book. This is a detailed account of the Falklands war, in particular the siege of Stanley, from an islander's point of view.
Germany in the Great War: Verdun & Somme
By Joshua Bilton
Germany in the Great War: Verdun & Somme is the third publication in a five-part series.
Hunger: Food Deprivation as a Military Weapon
By N S Nash
... South but, to put that into con- text, the Army of North Virginia consumed 1,000 of these a month and so they were a diminishing asset. By 1864, there were only 6,000 beasts left. There were practical difficulties. For example, the South ...
Hitler's Air Defences
By Stephen Wynn
The first Allied bombing raid on Berlin during the course of the Second World War, took place on 7 June 1940, when a French naval aircraft dropped 8 bombs on the German capital, but the first British raid on German soil took place on the ...
Áedán of the Gaels: King of the Scots
By Keith Coleman
This is the first full-length work devoted to Áedán mac Gabráin, 6th century king of Dál Riata in Scotland.
The British Army, 1783–1815
By Kevin Linch
... The Beneficent Usurpers : A History of the British in Madeira ( Rutherford , N.J : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press , 1988 ) . Sicily : The Insecure Base : A History of the British Occupation of Sicily , 1806-1815 ( London ...