Military History Books
Pen & Sword Books Ltd A Surgeon in Napoleons Grande Armee
Book SynopsisPierre-François Percy was Surgeon-in-Chief of Napoleon's Grande Armée. This is the first English translation of Baron Percy's notebooks, containing his interesting, revealing, and informative testimony of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns in which he played an active role, as the most senior surgeon in the French Army, from 1799-1807.In his journal, Percy writes intimately about his life on campaign. He recounts his experiences across Europe, particularly in Switzerland (Helvetia), Germany, and Poland. The journal shows Percy's delight at seeing his surgeons recognised for their work at Eylau, and his notes express his shock at the brazen corruption of military officials and the indiscriminate pillaging to which the French army frequently resorted. He recounts his audiences with Napoleon, during which his pleas for more resources and a more professional military surgical corps frequently fell on deaf ears. Details that may have seemed trivial to Percy's contemporaries about f
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Gebirgsjager
Book SynopsisAn overview of German Gebirgsj ger (Mountain Troops) from their formation in 1935 to the end of the Second World War.
£18.70
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Battle of the Little Big Horn
Book SynopsisA new perspective on the Battle of the Little Big Horn and the death of G. A. Custer. Ground breaking new history.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Burma Railway and PTSD
Book SynopsisA compelling insight into one Far East ex POW survivor's mental health and terrible suffering, long after he returned home to his loving family resulting in domestic abuse observed through the eyes of a child.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Armored Thunder
Book SynopsisThe Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment was a Canadian armoured regiment attached to the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade which landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in support of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and then fought through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany until VE-Day. As an independent armoured regiment, it was assigned to support various infantry formations. As such, it fought the first major tank battle on European soil when it went up against the panzers and panzergrenadiers of the 12.SS-Panzerdivision (Hitlerjugend) on 7 June 1944. Its tanks entered Caen on 9 July and then took part in the advance to and the clearing of the town of Falaise. From there, the regiment pursued the retreating German forces towards the Seine River at Rouen. In a subsequent book, the author will explore the regiment''s battles through Antwerp, the Scheldt, the Rhine River and the Hochwald Gap.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Hitlers Gold
Book SynopsisThe whereabouts and disposal of the remaining stolen gold has led to numerous investigations and countless conspiracy theories. In Hitler's Gold the author analyses these and uncovers many of the mysteries surrounding this continuing search for the missing millions.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd DDay to VE Day
Book SynopsisOn the evening of Monday, 5th June 1944, the people of Britain went to bed with a sense of great events impending. They knew that any day now would come news of the battle that would forever alter the course of their lives, and the lives of their children and their grandchildren. The following day's morning newspapers and early radio news bulletins were full of the fall of Rome to the Allies, which had been announced the day before. But then, at 9.33 am on that Tuesday, came the brief announcement: Allied naval forces, supported by strong air forces, had begun landing Allied armies on the coast of France.' D-Day had finally dawned. _D-Day to VE Day_ tells the story of the last year of the Second World War in Europe, from the Normandy landings and on through the hard slog to that long-awaited day 8th May 1945 when Britain broke out the bunting, rolled out the barrel, and celebrated victory over Hitler. The air-raid sirens were silenced, the lights could be switched on again, and t
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Nile Campaign 18841885
Book SynopsisRudolph de Lisle RN entered Naval College in 1868 aged 13, and was only 31 when he died, ironically for a naval officer, in the Sudanese desert at the Battle of Abu Klea, 17 January 1885.An inveterate letter writer and talented artist, he consistently documented his eventful naval career as he travelled the world. His letters home were embellished with stunning sketches and watercolours.In August 1884, Rudolph was selected to join the Naval Brigade in the Gordon Relief Expedition led by General Sir Garnet Wolseley. His principal role was to help drag troop boats over the six cataracts that blocked their way up the Nile to Khartoum.Rudolph's letters graphically describe this historic journey. We read of the struggles and ingenuity of the officers and men, the hardships and the daily dangers, and the shambolic, sometimes comic, chaos peculiar to the seemingly impossible task. His sketches, some of which were published in the Illustrated London News, vividly portray the challenges facing
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Red Army Towards the Oder
Book SynopsisThis book brings together three After the Battle stories documenting the advance on the Oder and the long-draw-out struggles for the bridgeheads over it.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer
Book SynopsisCovers the operations of a leading SS Cavalry Regiment. Latest in the Author's popular SS Divisions/ Images of War series.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Operation Hoss
Book SynopsisRecords a truly shocking episode of WW2.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Second World War Illustrated
Book SynopsisA quick, convenient visual history of the world's worst life-changing conflict.
£16.99
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Faces of the Few
Book SynopsisA unique collection of images relating to the airmen of the RAF and the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm who fought the Battle of Britain.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Battlescapes
Book SynopsisThroughout history, nature its resources, landscape and terrain has shaped the tactics of warfare and determined its outcomes. From the medieval English Fens to the 20th century Iraqi Marsh Arabs, landscapes have fostered resistance and dissention. Harnessed by people under threat the landscape has influenced strategies and tactics.Water and wetland halted campaigns in the Florida Everglades and in the Franco-Prussian War of the late 1800s. In the Second World War the Dutch flooded the drained polders to halt the Nazi advance and in 1938 the Chinese nationalist forces breached the flood-dykes of the Yellow River to halt the Japanese advance.Mountain ranges and deserts have long provided landscapes for resistance fighters. From the former Yugoslavia to Afghanistan these gnarly battlescapes traverse time and space. Libyan fighters held off invading Italian forces by operating from the caves and valleys of the Green Mountains and the Welsh defended their mountainous principalities again
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Meon Hill Murder 1945
Book SynopsisThe first stand alone book on the Meon Hill murder. Detailed factual analysis debunking the irrelevant (and later) witchcraft angle. A study of how 'the madness of crowds' subverts justice.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Military Air Power in Europe Preparing for War
Book SynopsisThe author explores how the major European nations dealt with the development of their air forces in the lead-up to the Second World War.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd March Past
Book SynopsisThe autobiography of one of the most famous Commandos of the Second World War.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Save the Last Bullet
Book SynopsisAn exceptionally rare memoir of a boy soldier in Hitler's army.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Steep Atlantick Stream
Book SynopsisA vivid and very human account of action on an Atlantic escort.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Battle on the Aisne 1914
Book SynopsisStudies the fiercely fought battles of the British Expeditionary Force September 1914.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Greatest Escape
Book SynopsisA highly personal account of one airman's struggle for survival in the air and on the ground in the heart of the Reich during the bomber war.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Spartan Supremacy 412371 BC
Book SynopsisDetailed, insightful analysis of a neglected period. Gripping narrative full of dramatic events, battles and great figures such as Alcibiades, Lysander, Pelopidas and Epaminondas. Explains the high point and demise of Spartan power
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Skagerrak
Book SynopsisDraws on archive sources to present the battle from the German perspective.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Guy Gibson
Book SynopsisA brand new profile of one of the most controversial airmen of WWII. A lively evocation of one of the most dramatic periods of military history. Charts the life of a much decorated, highly praised young pilot, who paid the ultimate price for his heroism.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The History of 30 Assault Unit
Book SynopsisThe author has trawled archives and interviewed veterans in order to piece together the history and record of this elusive special forces unit who fought with great distinction and achieved results disproportionate to their size.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Last Stand at Le Paradis
Book SynopsisIn early September 1939, the 2nd Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment were one of the first complete infantry units of the BEF to land in France. The first months of World War Two were relatively quiet but after deploying to the Maginot Line sector during January 1940 they came into contact with those Germans manning the West Wall or Seigfried Line. A patrol led by Captain Peter Barclay entered German territory and was attacked. As a result, the first decorations of the war were awarded. Barclay received the Military Cross and Lance-Corporal Davis the Military Medal while the remaining members of the patrol were mentioned in despatches. Two days later, the battalion suffered a tragic first when Lieutenant Patrick Everitt was mortally wounded while leading a daylight patrol. Everitt was the first British officer to be killed in action in the Second World War. When the Germans launched their offensive on 10 May, the BEF advanced to the River Dyle in Belgium. Within days the Allied Armies had
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Napoleons Dragoons and Lancers
Book SynopsisHaving their origins in the Army of Louis XIV, the dragoons were originally mounted infantry. During the wars of the 1e Empire, they became jacks of all trade' equally capable as fighting as battle cavalry, scouting or operating as infantry. Yet, precious few studies have been made of the dress of these thirty regiments or of the ten regiments of lancers which evolved from the dragoons in 1811. The dress and equipment of each regiment of dragoons and lancers in Napoleon's army is analysed and portrayed here with greater accuracy than previously possible. This is because renowned Napoleonic author, Paul Dawson has been granted access to over 1,000 archive boxes, found in the Service Historique de l'Armée de Terre in Paris and the Archives Nationales. These have enabled the author to assesses how the wide ranging 1806 uniform regulations and the more famous Bardin regulations were adopted in practice. This vast resource, as yet untapped by the majority of researchers and historians for
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Voices from the Past Channel Islands Invaded
Book SynopsisIn the summer of 1940 the British Isles stood isolated and alone facing the might of a seemingly unstoppable German war machine. Never before had the United Kingdom been in a state of such uncertainty and possible peril. Fortunately the full breadth of the English Channel held back Hitlers armies, and his ambition. Not so for the Channel Islands which stand just a few miles from the French coast. To abandon British territory to the enemy was unthinkable, yet the defence of the Channel Islands was impracticable, if not impossible. It was decided, therefore, to evacuate as many as wished to leave. This is the story of the muddled evacuation, of homes, animals and families left behind, of the German bombing of the islands, the fear of those left behind, and of those first days of German Occupation, told by the Islanders themselves through memoirs and letters, the local newspapers, and the politicians who decided the fate of tens of thousands of men women and children.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Himmlers Children
Book SynopsisThe Nazis' dream was to populate their future Greater-German Reich exclusively with racial valuable' people and Himmler became the main executor of this gruesome and unimaginable plan. For this purpose, millions of inferior' people had to be expelled or killed, while as many men, women and children of Germanic descent as possible had to be brought together in the territory of the Third Reich. Children were the key players in Himmler's sinister plans, and the Lebensborn programme exploited luxurious maternity homes, led by SS-officers, for selected women with the required Aryan features. The pregnant women, often not married, and the fathers of their future children, usually members of the SS, had to comply with very strict racial requirements: Himmler considered their offspring as the future nobility of the Germanic empire. Obsessed with racial purity and birth rates, the Lebensborn programme fell directly under Himmler's personal control, and arguably became his favourite project.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Siege of Dunkirk 1944
Book SynopsisAs the Allies broke out of Normandy in June 1944 and pushed into France and the Low Countries they soon found that their supplies lines became more and more extended. They needed a proper working port on the Channel that would enable them to bring in more men and materiel to fight the Germans in Europe and alleviate their supply issues.Antwerp was the prize they were after but the Germans had it covered so other ports needed to be captured as a matter of urgency.This is the story of the capture of Dieppe, Le Havre, Boulogne and Calais and the Siege of Dunkirk that the Allies decided to do while they concentrated on capturing and bringing only the port of Antwerp. It was a siege that was to last until the end of the war.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Strike Wings
Book SynopsisClassic account of the RAFs Strike Wings in action against German shipping in the Second World War.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Desert Air Force in World War II
Book SynopsisDocuments the first time that the RAF struck back at Hitlers Reich.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Fighting with the Long Range Desert Group
Book SynopsisResearched and written by much published author and leading LRDG expert.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Roman Empire at War
Book SynopsisCatalogues and gives a brief description of every significant battle (and most insignificant ones too) known to have been fought by the Roman Emperors.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd WaffenSS Armour on the Eastern Front 1941 1945
Book SynopsisCovers the bitter fighting on the Eastern Front.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Red Army Weapons of the Second World War
Book SynopsisComprehensive and authoritative work on the whole range of Second World War Red Army weaponry.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Band That Went to War
Book SynopsisAn unusual and never before published account of the War.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Allied Air Campaign Against Hitlers Uboats
Book SynopsisA detailed study of the Allied air campaign against Hitler's U-boats in the Second World War.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Heydrich Butcher of Prague
Book SynopsisHeydrich's shocking and leading role in the Nazi regime is graphically portrayed in this Images of War book.
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Penguin Books Ltd Typhoon
Book SynopsisThe thrilling account of the Typhoon FGR4s in the war against ISIS, from the RAF Wing Commander who led them into combat''Adrenaline-fuelled. A rare insight into the high-pressure, high-stakes world of an RAF fighter squadron at war'' JOHN NICHOL________''I eased the jet''s nose down and rested my index finger on the trigger. Three seconds to go. Almost 500 knots. The whole airframe pulsed as I started to fire . . .''Mike Sutton led the RAF''s premier Typhoon squadron into battle against a brutal enemy. Flying the world''s most advanced multi-role combat jet, every mission across the treacherous skies above Syria and Iraq saw him and his team tested to the limit. The threat of being shot down was a fact of life. Every split-second decision meant the difference between life and death.Typhoon brings to life the exhilarating and exacting world of a fighter squadron at war like never before.Strap in, light thTrade ReviewAn adrenaline-fuelled, gripping account that puts you right in the cockpit of one of the RAF's most modern combat aircraft. Typhoon is a rare insight into the high-pressure, high-stakes world of an RAF fighter squadron at war -- John NicholFew war memoirs achieve lasting popular acclaim . . . The exceptions are the ones that tell timeless truths about, usually men, in battle and its human costs - Stephen E. Ambrose's Band of Brothers and Paul Brickhill's Reach for the Sky spring to mind. Mike Sutton's Typhoon may well be another * RAF News *Visceral . . . Captivating * Daily Mail *A fabulous insight into the mind of an accomplished fighter pilot and leader as he takes on the biggest challenge of his career * FLYER *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Into the Arms of Strangers
Book Synopsis___________________BASED ON THE ACADEMY AWARD WINNING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY___________________''Wonderfully moving ... a noble story, beautifully told'' - Daily MailWith a preface by Lord Richard Attenborough, this is a moving collection of accounts from some of the 10,000 children rescued from the Nazi Regime and brought to the UK by the Kindertransport scheme - and an important contribution to our national conversation about how we treat refugees.In November 1938, international public opinion was shocked by the news of Kristallnacht - the anti-Jewish pogrom that led to the burning of synagogues and the first mass arrests of Jewish men. Twelve days later, the British government implemented the Kindertransport plan, which allowed many children to leave the horrors of the Nazi regime and find temporary refuge within British families and hostels. By the time war was declared in September 1939, this brave undeTrade ReviewWonderfully moving ... a noble story, beautifully told * Daily Mail *
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Hachette Children's Group War is Over
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling, award-winning author of SKELLIG comes a vivid and moving story, beautifully illustrated, which commemorates the hundred-year anniversary of the end of the First World War. I am just a child, says John. How can I be at war?It''s 1918, and war is everywhere. John''s dad is fighting in the trenches far away in France. His mum works in the munitions factory just along the road. His teacher says that John is fighting, too, that he is at war with enemy children in Germany. One day, in the wild woods outside town, John has an impossible moment: a meeting with a German boy named Jan. John catches a glimpse of a better world, in which children like Jan and himself can come together, and scatter the seeds of peace. Gorgeously illustrated by David Litchfield, this is a book to treasure. Trade ReviewProlific and talented author - The Journal (Newcastle)Winner of the Carnegie Medal 1999 for Skellig - Times Educational SupplementWinner of the Whitbread Children's Prize for Skellig 1998 - The Daily TelegraphAble to combine emotional involvement with a real skill for storytelling in a manner rare in any writer - The Times
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Amberley Publishing Lancaster Manual 1943
Book SynopsisPublication timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Dam Buster raid of 16-17 May 1943 performed by Lancaster bombers. Wartime nostalgia books republished in facsimile are hugely popular,Amberley's own bestselling Spitfire Manual and Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942 (Bodleian Library).
£10.44
Amberley Publishing Cockleshell Heroes
Book SynopsisThe definitive book on the Cockleshell Heroes, and one of the most famous Marine raids of World War Two.Trade ReviewThere is no-one better to write a major new work on the famous "Cockleshell Heroes" raid Professor Eric Grove Extensive research and thoughtful analysis reveals many new insights about the most outstanding commando raid of the War Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope GCB OBE ADC, First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff
£12.34
Amberley Publishing Boulton Paul Defiant
Book SynopsisOver 200 rare and previously unpublished illustrations of this iconic aircraft - the Boulton Paul Defiant.
£15.29
Amberley Publishing Photographers of the Third Reich
Book SynopsisWith a wealth of rare and previously unseen images, Paul Garson showcases a fascinating collection of photographs captured by Nazi soldiers.
£13.49
Amberley Publishing Womens Experiences in the Holocaust
Book SynopsisNew paperback edition - A moving and detailed portrait of women in the most terrible circumstances, by a respected author and Holocaust survivor.Trade Review‘Agnes Grunwald-Spier examines comprehensively the experiences and contributions of women in the many roles and guises in which they acted. Her book preserves a record of suffering, endurance, courage and achievement without which no-one can hope to understand the totality of the Holocaust as a historical reality.’ -- Ben Barkow, Director of the Wiener Library‘In recent years we have seen many fine books on the Holocaust, among them works from Agnes Grunwald-Spier. Few have looked at the experience of women. As a writer and a doughty campaigner Agnes’s clear eye and wonderful prose have made the Holocaust accessible to a new generation. This new book will, I am certain, give a neglected part of the most shameful act of the twentieth century the scrutiny it deserves.’ -- Rt Hon Sir Eric Pickles, UK Special Envoy On Post-Holocaust Issues‘Agnes Grunwald-Spier's books are always very well researched and her convincing arguments are deployed against the background of her own history as a child survivor. What is more, her books are very well written and make fantastic reading.’ -- Sascha Feuchert, Professor of Holocaust Literature at Giessen University, Hesse, Germany‘A woman protects her children. Now that is true for any woman anywhere. She pushes others, she fights for them. This is not specific to Jews. But in this extreme circumstance it changes a Jewish tradition. She draws strength from certain types of Jewish traditions, and opposes others in order to fight. Jewish women (for the first time for thousands of years in Jewish communities) assumed leadership positions. Politically, Jewish women had always been disenfranchised, but in the Holocaust, there was no room for this disenfranchisement. They became leaders of political and social groups in France, Holland, Bohemia and Slovakia, as well as the underground groups in Eastern Europe.’ -- Professor Yehuda Bauer
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Little, Brown Book Group Strategy and the Second World War
Book SynopsisA concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor; and Germany declared war on the United States.In this timely book, which fills a real gap, Black engages with the strategic issues of the time - as they developed chronologically, and interacted - and relates these to subsequent debates about the choices made, revealing their continued political resonances.Beginning with Appeasement and the Soviet-German pact as key strategic means, Black examines the consequences of the fall of France for the strategies of all the powers. He shows how Allied strategy-making was more effective at the Anglo-American level than with the Soviet Union, not only for ideological and political reasons, but also because the Americans and British had a better grasp of the global dimension
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