Books from Pen and Sword Military

  • Victoria Crosses on the Western Front – Battle of Albert: 21-27 August 1918
    Victoria Crosses on the Western Front – Battle of Albert: 21-27 August 1918
    By Paul Oldfield

    There was an intermediate objective (Brown Line) on the way to the second objective, as this was some 6,400m from the start line. ... D, A and C Companies, 1/5th Lancashire Fusiliers, led, with B Company in support.

  • Special Forces Hero: Anders Lassen VC MC*
    Special Forces Hero: Anders Lassen VC MC*
    By Thomas Harder

    Lassen gave Dodson an escort of six LRDG men, under the command of a Lieutenant Barker. At 15:00, Dodson and his group left Nea Poteidaia in a commandeered bus. After taking a winding route, they arrived in the village of Mantzarides, ...

  • A History of the Small Arms Made by the Sterling Armament Company: Excellence in Adversity
    A History of the Small Arms Made by the Sterling Armament Company: Excellence in Adversity
    By Peter Laidler, James Edmiston, David Howroyd

    Curry. Favour. The “Indian” Mk4 and the SAF Machine Carbine 1A Number produced: 51,000 Sterling commercial Mk4s: SAF Cawnpore 1A Machine Carbines: restricted; probably over still in production 1,000,000 Date discontinued: First ...

  • Brighton at War 1939–45
    Brighton at War 1939–45
    By Douglas d’Enno

    Many mines laid in enemy waters and parachute mines were of Allen West manufacture. The company also made equipment for the control of the mine network protecting ports at home and abroad. Midget submarines and 'human torpedoes' (which ...

  • A History of the Small Arms made by the Sterling Armament Company: Excellence in Adversity
    A History of the Small Arms made by the Sterling Armament Company: Excellence in Adversity
    By Peter Laidler, James Edmiston

    An in-depth history of the small arms made by the Sterling Company of Dagenham, Essex, England, from 1940 until Sterling was purchase by British Aerospace in 1989 and closed.

  • Boy Soldiers of the Great War
    Boy Soldiers of the Great War
    By Richard van Emden

    ... 354–5 amputation, 68, 172–3, 184, 202, 203, 288, 335, 338 Anderson, Alfred, xx, 16–17, 32, 34, 64 Andrews, Ethel, 144 son, Alfred Andrews, 144 Andrews, William, 98–9 Antrobus, Percy, 373 Appleyard, Rachel, 242 son, Albert Appleyard, ...

  • Frome at War 1939–45
    Frome at War 1939–45
    By David Lassman

    These included Sergeant E. Lloyd, Lance Corporals H. Adams and F. Collier, and Privates W. Button, A. Edwards, W. Oakes and W. Snell. The 5th Dorsets had been disbanded after the armistice but re-formed, under the command of Colonel Sir ...

  • The Anglo-Soviet Alliance: Comrades and Allies during WW2
    The Anglo-Soviet Alliance: Comrades and Allies during WW2
    By Colin Turbett

    Seventeen-year-old Lanarkshire miner Alex Clark's gradual conversion to communist politics was spurred by the death of his 16-year-old brother in a pit explosion in 1939. When Alex went to his brother's wages for the family (they were ...

  • The Band That Went to War: The Royal Marine Band in the Falklands War
    The Band That Went to War: The Royal Marine Band in the Falklands War
    By Brian Short

    During peacetime training in full protective gear and gas masks, some unlucky recipient was always nominated as a casualty and placed upon a stretcher, which might sound like being the cushy number. However, in a flurry of medical ...

  • Robert Craufurd: The Man and the Myth: The Life and Times of Wellington's Wayward Martinet
    Robert Craufurd: The Man and the Myth: The Life and Times of Wellington's Wayward Martinet
    By Ian Fletcher

    The original entry for Robert Craufurd was written by the Anglo-American historian, Henry Morse Stephens (1857–1919) in the 1888 edition of the DNB 1 When Stephens wrote the original entry he did not give a place of birth, only a date.

  • For King and Kaiser: Scenes from Saxony's War in Flanders 1914–1918
    For King and Kaiser: Scenes from Saxony's War in Flanders 1914–1918
    By Andrew Lucas, Jürgen Schmieschek

    Hptm. Richter suspected a ruse and ordered his men to fire a volley, which went well over the enemy's heads (probably on purpose). This failed to deter the Scots, and eventually the Englishspeaking Oberjäger Echte met them at the wire ...

  • South Shields at War 1939–45
    South Shields at War 1939–45
    By Craig Armstrong

    The crew consisted of Sgt Royal George 'Ginger' Heron (25), RAAF (pilot); Sgt Walter Chantler Williams, RAAF (observer/navigator); Sgt Sydney Albert 'Boy' Peters, RAF (wireless operator/air gunner); and Sgt William Thomas Tromans (29), ...

  • Devil’s Adjutant: Jochen Peiper, Panzer Leader
    Devil’s Adjutant: Jochen Peiper, Panzer Leader
    By Michael Reynolds

    Pfeifer took up a position opposite the Tanneries, downstream from the bridge. ... 30th Division by William J. Lyman: The first attack that day came early in the morning from across the river in the vicinity of the bridge.

  • Septimius Severus and the Roman Army
    Septimius Severus and the Roman Army
    By Michael Sage

    J. Bennett, Trajan, Optimus Princeps, Routledge (London and New York, 1997) pp. 201–203. 7. A.R. Birley, Marcus Aurelius: A Biography rev. ed., Routledge (London and New York, 1987) p. 140. 8. For Hatra, see below pp. 84–5.

  • Archaic and Classical Greece
    Archaic and Classical Greece
    By Matthew Dillon, Christopher Matthew, Michael Schmitz

    Bassett, S., 2002 ... Cawkwell, G., 2005, The Greek Wars: The Failure of Persia, Oxford. Connor, W.R., 1984, Thucydides, Princeton. Danzig, G. 2007, 'Xenophon's Wicked Persian or, What's Wrong with Tissaphernes?

  • Victoria Crosses on the Western Front – Battle of Amiens: 8-13 August 1918
    Victoria Crosses on the Western Front – Battle of Amiens: 8-13 August 1918
    By Paul Oldfield

    They had four children: • Mary Ann Whiteway (3rd June 1839–14th March 1912) married Simon George Arnett (1st March 1837–13th January 1898) on 13th June 1857. He was born at Liverpool, Lancashire, England. They had twelve children – Mary ...

  • Stalin's War on Japan: The Red Army's 'Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation', 1945
    Stalin's War on Japan: The Red Army's 'Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation', 1945
    By Charles Stephenson

    The military side of the story is explored in fascinating detail – the invasion of Manchukuo itself where the Soviet ‘Deep Battle’ concept was employed with shattering results, and secondary actions in Korea, Sakhalin and the Kuril ...

  • United States Tanks and Tank Destroyers of the Second World War
    United States Tanks and Tank Destroyers of the Second World War
    By Michael Green

    The first big order in May 1940 was for 365 M2A4 light tanks, the initial iteration of the Stuart series, with almost 24,000 constructed. The Stuart series was supplemented by almost 5,000 units of the M24 Chaffee light tank.

  • Hitler's Fortresses in the East: The Sieges of Ternopol', Kovel', Poznan and Breslau, 1944–1945
    Hitler's Fortresses in the East: The Sieges of Ternopol', Kovel', Poznan and Breslau, 1944–1945
    By Alexey Isaev

    After getting across the anti-tank ditch undetected, Andreev and his troops made their way to the gates of the fort. The scouts blew up an armoured door with eight anti-tank grenades and broke into the barracks.

  • Victoria Crosses on the Western Front – Battle of Amiens: 8-13 August 1918
    Victoria Crosses on the Western Front – Battle of Amiens: 8-13 August 1918
    By Paul Oldfield

    Kenneth William Harris (1924–95) served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He married Iris Piddington (born 1930), born at West Ham, London, in 1951 at Dartford, Kent. They were living at 27 Lime Tree Avenue, Bilton, ...