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  1. The Sword of the Republic

    McCall, Jeremiah
    Pen and Sword

    Marcellus’ military exploits were largely unmatched by any other aristocrat of Roman Middle Republic. As a young soldier in the First Punic War, he won a reputation for his skill i...

  2. The Great Boer War

    Farwell, Byron
    Pen and Sword

    The Great Boer War (1899 - 1902) – more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War – was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the i...

  3. The Urie and Maunsell Cylinder 4-6-0s

    Maidment, David
    Pen and Sword

    This book is one in the Pen & Sword Transport History imprint in the ‘Locomotive Portfolio’ series and covers the family of two-cylinder 4-6-0s designed and built by the Chief Mech...

  4. The Battle East of Elsenborn

    Cavanagh, William C.C.
    Pen and Sword

    The Battle East of Elsenborn closely examines the role of Oberstgruppenfuhrer Joseph 'Sepp' Dietrich's Sixth Panzer Army in the massive German winter counteroffensive. Hitler had t...

  5. Panzer killers

    Drabkin, Artem
    Pen and Sword

    From the cold and hunger of the Leningrad front to the clinging mud of the Korsun operation, from the gates of Moscow in 1941 to Vienna and Berlin in 1945, the recollections of the...

  6. The Battle for Crimea 1941-1944

    Tucker-Jones, Anthony
    Pen and Sword

    The selection of over 150 rare wartime photographs in this volume in Pen & Sword’s Images of War series offers a graphic visual record of the dramatic and bloody battles fought for...

  7. Saturday at M.I.9

    Neave, Airey
    Pen and Sword

    Saturday at M.I.9 is the inside story of the underground escape lines in occupied North-West Europe which brought back to Britain over 4,000 Allied servicemen during World War Two....

  8. Military History on the Web

    Fowler, Simon
    Pen and Sword

    There are thousands of websites devoted to all aspects of military history from ancient Greece to the modern Gulf. This unique book helps you find the ones that will help with your...

  9. A Visitor's Guide to Shakespeare's London

    Thomas, David
    Pen and Sword

    A fresh and colourful look at Shakespeare’s London published on the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death. Readers can explore the streets of Shakespeare’s London and see the...

  10. Comet! The World's First Jet Airliner

    Simons, Graham M.
    Pen and Sword

    This new volume from the respected and well-regarded aviation historian and author Graham Simons is sure to appeal to all aviation enthusiasts, including as it does a wide array of...

  11. The Great War Illustrated 1916

    Holroyd, Jack; Langford, William
    Pen and Sword

    With conscription introduced, Zeppelins carrying out bombing raids on key towns and cities across England, the Battle of Jutland seeing fourteen British ships sunk and the Battle o...

  12. The Waterloo Archive: Volume IV

    Glover, Gareth
    Pen and Sword

    WATERLOO ARCHIVE VOLUME IV contains letters and journals written largely in the immediate aftermath of the whirlwind campaign of 1815, both from the frontline troops and the suppor...

  13. Mercenaries to Conquerors

    Brown, Paul
    Pen and Sword

    When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in the early 1000s, few would have predicted that wit...

  14. Going to Extremes

    Wade, Stephen
    Pen and Sword

    Harry de Windt (1856–1933) was a man who, by any standards, was a personality, a marked presence in the world of Victorian and Edwardian literature and social life. He was a member...

  15. Tiger I and Tiger II: Tanks of the German Army and Waffen-SS

    Oliver, Dennis
    Pen and Sword

    In spite of the relatively small numbers produced, the Tiger I and Tiger II tanks are arguably the most famous armored fighting vehicles of the Second World War. This book, the fir...

  16. Fight Another Day

    Langley, J.M.
    Pen and Sword

    As a young subaltern in the Coldstream Guards, the author lost his arm at Dunkirk and was captured but eventually escaped via Lille, Paris, Marseilles, Spain and Gibraltar. He des...

  17. Doctors in the Great War

    Whitehead, Ian R.
    Pen and Sword

    Doctors played a bigger role in the First World War than in any other previous conflict. This reflected not only the War's unprecedented scale but a growing recognition of the need...

  18. Southend-on-Sea in the Great War

    Clamp, Frances
    Pen and Sword

    'A fortified place'. This is not the way we usually think of Southend-on-Sea but it was the description used by the Germans during the Great War. Built beside the Thames Estuary an...

  19. The Silent Attack

    González, Óscar; Steinke, Thomas; Tannahill, Ian
    Pen and Sword

    Much has been written about the capture of Fort Eben Emael Belgium by German paratroopers, on May 10, 1940. This operation marked the first use of gliders and shaped charges, while...

  20. Swords and Cinema

    McCall, Jeremiah
    Pen and Sword

    The battles and sieges of the Classical world have been a rich source of inspiration to film makers since the beginning of cinema and the 60s and 70s saw the golden age of the 'swo...