Books from Pen and Sword Military
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Allied Armour, 1939–1945: British and American Tanks at War
By Anthony Tucker-JonesChampagne. Campaign. During the Allied naval build- up in the Mediterranean prior to Operation Dragoon and the landings on the French Riviera, the Luftwaffe kept General Friedrich Weise, commander of the German 19th Army, ...
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Cromwell's Convicts: The Death March from Dunbar 1650
By John Sadler, Rosie Serdiville... retrieved June 2018 Hamilton, Dan, 'You Can Go Home Again, A Guest Post by Dan Hamilton', ... retrieved June 2018 https://scottishprisonersofwar.com/david-hamilton-on-the-john-and-sarapassenger-list/, retrieved June 2018 Index ...
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England, France and Aquitaine: From Victory to Defeat in the Hundred Years War
By Richard BallardThis is a narrative history of England and France during the Hundred Years War, from the triumphs of Henry V to the defeat of the English and loss of Gascony and Bordeaux—a huge blow to English prestige and economic interest.
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Operation Totalize
By Tim SaundersAs he drove forward in the early hours of 8 August, Standartenfu ̈hrer Meyer had an advantage: A lucky coincidence was that I knew the terrain in great detail. I had been there with my old reconnaissance battalion in the autumn of 1942, ...
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12th Hitlerjugend SS Panzer Division in Normandy
By Tim Saunders, Richard Hone'Panzer' Meyer, having seen the situation at the front for himself, drove back to Bretteville to organize the main counter-stroke: While with Mohnke, I saw the commander-in-chief of the 5th Panzer Army, General der Panzertruppen ...
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Normandy 1944: The Fight for Point 103, Tilly-sur-Seulles and Vilers Bocage
By Tim Saunders... 350 130 Recce Battalion, 81, 91, 93, 101, 130, 138, 178, 184, 250, 253, 289, 292, 319, 333 12 SS Recce Battalion, 68, 91, 114 Kampfgruppe Meyer (352nd Division), 8, 44, 64, 70 German Plans (D Day), 48–51 Glenroy, HMS, 19 GOLD Beach, ...
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12th Hitlerjugend SS Panzer Division in Normandy
By Tim Saunders, Richard HoneWritten with the advantage of new materials from archives in the former Eastern Bloc, this book is no whitewash of a Waffen SS division and it does not shy away from confronting unpalatable facts or controversies.
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Operation Totalize
By Tim SaundersOperation Totalize is renowned for the death of SS panzer Ace Michael Wittmann at the hands of Trooper Joe Ekins and the destruction of Worthington Force, the result of a navigational error.
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Deserters of the First World War: The Home Front
By Andrea Hetherington'Ethel Smith' was 19-year-old William Mason, a recruit from the King's Liverpool Regiment who was currently absent without leave from his base at Canterbury. Rifleman Mason had absconded to Dover and disposed of his uniform, ...
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Religion & Classical Warfare: Archaic and Classical Greece
By Matthew Dillon, Christopher Matthew, Michael Schmitz3. Hdt. 2.3, 65; Mikalson, 2003, 131. 4. Hdt. 7.152, see also 2.123. 5. Hdt. 2.57. 6. Hdt. 2.144. For other examples, see 1.181–82, 4.105.2, 5.86.3, 8.8.2–3. Cf. Mikalson, 2003, 145–46. 7. Hdt. 6.105; Harrison, 2000 ...
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The King's Men: The Sandringham Company and Norfolk Regiment Territorial Battalions, 1914–1918
By Neil R StoreyCOX, Private, EDGAR SAMUEL, 1376 age 22. Born Wolferton, enlisted Sandringham. Son of Mrs. Sarah Cox of Wolferton. Helles Memorial, Turkey. CRAKE, Private, BERT, 2522, B Coy. Age 19. Enlisted East Dereham. Son of Thomas and Elizabeth ...
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1066: A Guide to the Battles and the Campaigns
By Michael Livingston, Kelly DeVriesThe Motte-and-Bailey Castle One of the most effective, easily and quickly built fortifications, the motte-and-bailey castle, was used by William the Conqueror during and after his invasion of England. Simply described, the motte part of ...
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Pioneers of Irregular Warfare: Secrets of the Military Intelligence Research Department of the Second World War
By Malcolm AtkinGladwyn, Baron (Gladwyn Jebb) (1972), The Memoirs of Lord Gladwyn (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London). Grehan, John and Mace, Martin (2015), The Battle for Norway 1940–1942 (Pen & Sword, Barnsley). Griffiths, Samuel (1961), Mao Tse-Tung on ...
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The Newcastle Commercials: 16th (S) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in the Great War
By Ian S JohnsonMemorial: POZIERES MEMORIAL 1911 Census aged 25 living at 23 Back Phoenix Street Newsham. Marital Status: Married Occupation: Stoneworker in Coal Mine Memorial: Pillar 1914-18 Ridley Park Place BLYTH KELTIE, GEORGE: Private, 40404, ...
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George Jellicoe: SAS and SBS Commander
By Nicholas C. JellicoeIt included Ann Getty, billionaire Gordon Getty's wife, Hans Heinrich 'Heinie' Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kaszon, Carroll Petrie and HRH Infanta Pilar de Borbón, Duchess of Badajoz. His contributions to the country, nevertheless, ...
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George Jellicoe: SAS and SBS Commander
By Nicholas C JellicoeSchurch had been with Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts in London's East End and had subsequently been recruited by Italian Intelligence. Stirling testified at Schurch's later trial and, after Joyce's ...
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Special Reconnaissance and Advanced Small Unit Patrolling: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures for Special Operations Forces
By Edward WolcoffCarry dry, smoked cigarette butts (acquired at the FOB) in a small plastic bag and drop them to convince the trackers that the Team is poorly disciplined or unprofessional. If the Team is wearing enemy clothing and equipment, ...
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Krithia: Gallipoli
By Stephen ChambersDespite the bravery of soldiers like Captain Garth Neville Walford, a brigade major of the Royal Artillery who was killed clearing Sedd-el-Bahr Castle of enemy, and of Corporal William Cosgrove, 1/RMF, who despite being wounded stood up ...
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The Charge of the Heavy Brigade: Scarlett’s 300 in the Crimea
By M J TrowThis had, more or less, been the Russian plan since the previous October and it got nowhere. 'Poor misguided people,' wrote Hodge, 'they never even got beyond the first line of our defences ...' At home, the whitewashing went on. Lewis ...
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Hitler's Sky Warriors: German Paratroopers in Action 1939–1945
By Christopher AilsbyG. Gericke, Oberst Walter, 50, 130, 137, 185,236, 241 gliders, DFS 230, 14,38, 67, 69,214, 218, 222, 225 Göring, ... FM Albert, 87, 127, 129–32, 138, 143, 150, 153, 158, 160, 162 “Knight's Move”, 217,219–20 Koch, Maj Walter, 53–4, ...