Military History Books
Arcturus Publishing Ltd The Art of War Book Card Deck
Book SynopsisReferenced in pop culture, and used to bolster success in business strategies, politics, football tournaments, and more, this ancient tome is a vital tool for anyone who wants to win.
£18.52
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Churchills Admiral in Two World Wars
Book SynopsisA full and detailed biography of Roger Keyes, Admiral of the Fleet and Lord of Zeebrugge and Dover.
£14.39
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Airmens Incredible Escapes
Book SynopsisAllied air power made a major, arguably decisive, contribution to victory in The Second World War both in the European and Pacific theatres.The cost in men and machines was horrific with Bomber Command suffering 50% air crew casualties. While many perished, others shot down over enemy territory or water survived only after overcoming extraordinary danger and hardship. Their experiences often remained untold not just for the duration of the War but for many years.The author has gathered together a wealth of unpublished stories from airmen of many nationalities, be they British, Commonwealth or American. Some involve avoiding or escaping from capture, others surviving against all the odds, braving extreme elements and defying death from wounds, drowning or starvation.Importantly the accounts of those who survived the battle in the skies cheating the enemy and the grim reaper give the reader a chilling insight into the fate of the many thousands of brave young men who were not so fortunat
£17.09
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Amazing Story of Lise Meitner
Book SynopsisFirst-hand information provided by Lise's nephew Philip Meitner and Philip's wife Anne.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd How the World Allowed Hitler to Proceed with the
Book SynopsisThis book is unique in that rather than describing the historical details of the Holocaust, it examines how the Holocaust was allowed to happen.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Battles of El Alamein
Book SynopsisAimed at the new or returning modeller, featuring easy to copy building, painting, weathering and detailing techniques to help bring the model to life.
£15.29
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Operation Market Garden
Book SynopsisIntroduces the modeller to the daring operation that was Market Garden.
£15.29
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Forward Air Bases in Europe from DDay to the
Book SynopsisThe largely sea-borne invasion of Northern France in June 1944, Operation Overlord, is acknowledged as one of the key actions which hastened the end of the Second World War. The RAF played a vital part in the landings. It then supported the subsequent advance of Montgomery's 21st Army, and the Allies as a whole, through France, Belgium, Holland and into Germany.Following the breakout from the Normandy bridgehead in early August 1944, the RAF's Second Tactical Air Force moved forward in support of the troops, occupying a number of temporary airfields as it went. The ground support for this operation was complex, a situation that was exacerbated by the fact that much of it had to be highly mobile. The advance, however, was rapid and soon ran into problems as the supply lines grew longer by the day.The planners had envisaged that capturing the Belgian port of Antwerp would eventually enable them to bring in vitally needed supplies much further north on the Continent. Although the city and
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Atlantic Linchpin
Book SynopsisHitherto overlooked aspect of both world wars. Spectacular collection of rare photos. Strong aviation interest.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd A Photographic History of Airborne Warfare 1939
Book SynopsisHighly illustrated history of airborne forces warfare during the Second World War.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd SS Foreign Divisions Volunteers of Lithuania
Book SynopsisLittle known and largely unrecorded contribution of the three occupied Baltic States to the Nazis' war effort.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Night Fighter Navigator
Book SynopsisOne of the top scoring night fighter navigators of WWII
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The African Wars
Book SynopsisConsiders the training, weapons and fighting methods of the African warriors.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Four Geniuses of the Battle of Britain
Book SynopsisA unique overview to the hasty preparations for the defence of Britain in World War.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Unearthing Churchills Secret Army
Book SynopsisA list of all the officially recognised SOE casualties has not been produced before. The information uncovered by the authors has never been brought together in a single publication.
£14.39
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Fortune Favours the Brave The Battles of the Hook
Book SynopsisAll too little remembered today, the Korean War was bitterly fought out under atrocious conditions of weather and terrain. Greatly outnumbered by their Communist Chinese and North Korean enemy, the United Nations forces fought with extraordinary resolve and gallantry. The Hook, the name given to a prominent ridge on the Peninsula, saw more blood spilt than any other feature in this prolonged and grisly war. Not surprisingly it became known as 'the bloody Hood'. The two costliest battles are described in detail in Fortune Favours The Brave, a classic account of the war. Both involved British infantry battalions of 29 Commonwealth Brigade. In November 1952, The Black Watch saw off a major Chinese attack against all odds. In May 1953 it was the turn of 1st Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment to face what must have seemed an overwhelming onslaught. Along a 1,000 yard front the greatest concentration of artillery fire since the Great War was brought to bear on Chinese human-wave
£11.69
Pen & Sword Books Ltd A Storm of Spears
Book SynopsisReexamines the literary, pictorial and archaeological evidence for hoplite warfare minutely, and combines this with the insights of experimental archaeology using replica weapons and equipment.
£14.39
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Black Space
Book SynopsisSpace-based superweapons and their architects, and the high-stakes politics that reined them in, are the subject of this brief book.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd MIG Menace Over Korea
Book SynopsisThe story of one of the great fighter pilots of the jet age.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Battle of Quiberon Bay 1759
Book SynopsisAnalysis of a crucial battle in British naval historyRe-examines a neglected moment in naval warfareGripping account of this daring attack on the French FleetPlaces the battle in the wider context of the Seven Years war, particularly upon the war in North America.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The German Army at Ypres 1914
Book SynopsisCovers the bitter fighting around Ypres as the two opposing sides attempted to bring the War to an early conclusion.
£15.29
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Themistocles
Book SynopsisBiography of Themistocles, architect of Athenian/Greek victory in the Persian Wars of 490 and 480/479 BC.
£14.39
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Firefighting the Blitz
Book SynopsisThe autobiography of the first and only person to head firefighting across the whole of Great Britain
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Other Side of the Berlin Wall
Book SynopsisAt midnight of 12 August 1961 East Germany became partitioned from the West by an ideological barrier that would remain a chancroid rash upon the political landscape of post WW2 Europe for some forty-five years. Initially little more than rolls of barbed wire, this barrier soon became the concrete monolith known the world over as the Berlin Wall. Prior to the construction of the wall an exodus of some 3.5 million East Germans circumvented the Eastern Bloc emigration restrictions in order to escape the socialist nightmare that many knew was now imminent. For those on the other side of the wall their lives would be characterized by fear, oppression, the denial of basic human rights and an abject paranoia coupled with endless ques of people outside shops with no goods to sell. This book tells the story of those who lived under the German Democratic Republic (GDR) where Marxism-Leninism and Russian language were compulsory for all schoolchildren. Although hatred and resistance towards the regime soon flourished it would take many decades for communism to choke upon its own poison, but would a re-unified Germany and the rest of Europe be any safer in the wake of its demise?
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Battle of the Reichswald Rhineland
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£15.29
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Mad Mike
Book SynopsisHighly successful when first published in 1997.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Arise to Conquer
Book SynopsisThis new edition of a classic wartime pilot's memoir is introduced by the renowned aviation historian Dilip Sarkar MBE, FRHistS.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Battle of Cambrai 1917
Book SynopsisWalking, cycling and driving guide to the First World War battlefield of Cambrai in northern France.
£14.39
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Bomber Command
Book SynopsisA uniquely personal and revealing insight in to the overall impact of the Allied bomber offensive in WW2.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Death Railway
Book SynopsisThis is Lieutenant Colonel Kappe's account of what he and the many other PoWs of F' Force endured from May to October 1943 whilst being forced to work on the infamous Burma-Thai railway -the so-called Death Railway.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Devils Workshop
Book SynopsisThe remarkable true story of Operation Bernhard - the Nazi plan to forge pound and dollar bank notes, thereby ruining the Allied economies.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Fighting the Kaisers War
Book SynopsisHighly recommended... This highly illustrated book provides a vivid picture of war at the tactical level Jack Sheldon
£15.29
Pen & Sword Books Ltd In the Ranks of Death
Book SynopsisMarks the 70th Anniversary of the outbreak of WW2.
£14.39
Pen & Sword Books Ltd End Game Burma 1945
Book SynopsisThis is an overdue study of a major campaign with huge implications for the outcome of the War.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Into Touch
Book SynopsisWritten by celebrated author and script writer (Silent Witness/All the Kings Men, Under the Guns of the Red Baron).
£16.19
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Covert Radar and Signals Interception
Book SynopsisThe enthralling biography of Wing Commander Eric Ackermann, a man who, according to R.V. Jones, the Scientific Advisor to Winston Churchill, 'made the world tick a little faster'.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Invasion Scare 1940
Book SynopsisThis is by no means a work of chauvinistic self-congratulations; it is rather a distinguished historian's assessment of the last great invasion scare the British Isles have endured since the Martello towers were built in 1805.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd JG 26
Book SynopsisAll aviation and World War II buffs will want this book. Library Journal
£15.29
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Battle for Sicily
Book SynopsisThe successes and failures of Operation HUSKY.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Petlyakov Pe2
Book SynopsisDuring the Second World War, the Soviet Union's Petlyakov Pe-2 Peshka dive-bomber was unique in that it was as fast as most fighter aircraft. This was in a period when it was considered by the RAF that it was impossible for monoplane aircraft to conduct vertical bombing with any degree of success. During the war the Pe-2 was the principal dive- and light-bomber of Russia's air power across the vast Eastern Front and it continued in service until the early 1950s with the air forces of the Warsaw Pact countries and Yugoslavia. Conceived by a team of top aircraft designers whom Stalin had incarcerated in a prison camp on trumped-up political charges, the Pe-2 had originally been designed as a high-altitude twin-engine fighter plane, but, due to the outstanding success of the German Stukas in the Blitzkrieg, its role was quickly changed to that of a fast dive-bomber. The Pe-2 arrived in service around the time of the German attack on its hitherto ally. Although only a handful had reach
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Carthages Other Wars
Book SynopsisCarthage was the western Mediterranean's first superpower, long before Rome, and her military history was powerful, eventful, and chequered even before her Punic Wars' against Rome. Although characterized in the surviving sources and modern studies as a predominantly mercantile state, Carthage fought many wars, both aggressive and defensive, before and in between the contests with the Roman parvenus. The Greek states of Sicily, above all Syracuse under its tyrants Dionysius the Great and then Agathocles, were her most resolute opponents, but in North Africa itself, in Sardinia, and later on in Spain she wonand sometimes lostmajor wars. This is the first full-length study dedicated to these other wars which furthered Carthage's interests for over half a millennium. The book is based firmly and analytically on the ancient sources, and among many insights is that Carthage, though usually considered a naval power, did more fighting on land than at sea and with more success.
£999.99
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Warships of the Soviet Fleets 19391945
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive listing of Soviet warships of this era in English.
£36.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Military Archaeology
Book SynopsisMilitary and battlefield archaeology has always beenviewed as a sub-discipline to that oftraditional historical archaeology. Onceconsidered the pursuit of learned historyprofessors and their disciples today, military archaeology has flourished around theworld into what can only best be describedas a hugely popular pastime, and in someinstances a multi-million-pound business.With technologies available today, eventhe student on the most modest of budgetscan become an archaeologist (if only in thelayman's term).Yet despite it's popularity in unearthinganswers to the questions of our turbulentpast, there are surprisingly few textsavailable on what is arguably a fascinatingand historically important subject. Theobjective herein is to present an analysisof various battles fought around the worldfrom medieval times to the present, and thearchaeology recovered from investigationscarried out by professionally sanctionedgroups and hobbyists. The context hereincludes general battlefield recovere
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd A Fighter Command Station at War
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive visual history of this key RAF fighter station throughout the Second World War.
£14.39
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Fighting Emperors of Byzantium
Book SynopsisAssesses the contribution of those Emperors whose military leadership determined the survival of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire for a thousand years after the fall of Rome. Concise biographies full of human interest: heroism, tragedy, brutality and an epic struggle for survival.
£14.39
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Return via Rangoon
Book SynopsisReturn via Rangoon is the story of a young officer who took part in Wingate's Chindit campaign during the Second World War. I found the Prologue and Epilogue - unchanged since the first edition was written in 1945 - quite the most poignant writing I have read for many years.' Ewen Southby-Tailyour
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Battles for the Channel Ports
Book SynopsisA blow-by-blow analysis of the operations to to secure suitable docks to supply the immense needs of the Allied armies on Northwest Europe, 1944.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Siege of Leningrad
Book SynopsisThe longest and most harrowing siege of the war on the Eastern Front, Leningrad is the epitome of endurance and fortitude in a battle of both arms and ideology.
£17.00
