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  1. 16 Air Assault Brigade

    Ripley, Tim
    Pen and Sword

    After the S.A.S., 16 Brigade is the most high profile formation in the British Army but to date there has been no complete history of its operations and activities. The aim of thi...

  2. The 16th Durham Light Infantry in Italy 1943-1945

    Hart, Peter
    Pen and Sword Military Classics

    The Second World War is vanishing into the pages of history. The veterans were once all around us, but their numbers are fast diminishing. While still in their prime many recorded...

  3. 17 Martin Street

    Taylor, Marilyn
    The O'Brien Press 2012

    A web of secrets can risk lives ... When Hetty's family move to Martin Street near Portobello bridge in Dublin, they're not sure of their welcome. And next door, Ben's family are n...

  4. 1781

    Tonsetic, Robert L
    Casemate

    The Treaty of Paris in 1783 formally ended the American Revolutionary War, but it was the pivotal campaigns and battles of 1781 that decided the final outcome. 1781 was one of thos...

  5. 18 Folgate Street : The Life of a House in Spitalfields

    Severs, Dennis
    Random House 2011

    Growing up in California, Dennis Severs fell in love with the England he saw in old black and white movies. At seventeen he came to London, looking for a home with a heart. In 1979...

  6. 1809 Thunder on the Danube. Volume 3

    Gill, John H.
    Pen and Sword

    With this third volume John Gill brings to a close his magisterial study of the war between Napoleonic France and Habsburg Austria. The account begins with both armies recuperating...

  7. 1812

    Britten Austin, Paul
    Pen and Sword

    1812: The Great Retreat – the third and final volume in Austin’s magisterial trilogy – concludes the story of one of history’s most disastrous campaigns. The author's previous book...

  8. 1812

    Britten Austin, Paul
    Pen and Sword

    At the gates of Moscow, Napoleon's Grand Army prepares to enter in triumphal procession. But what it finds is a city abandoned by its inhabitants – save only the men who emerge to...

  9. 1812

    Britten Austin, Paul
    Pen and Sword

    More than a third of a million men set out on that midsummer day of 1812: none can have imagined the terrors and hardships to come. They would be lured all the way to Moscow withou...

  10. 1813: Empire at Bay

    Riley, Jonathon
    Pen and Sword

    1813 was a critical year in the world war that ended with the downfall of Napoleon. In a series of major battles, the converging armies of the Sixth Coalition drove the French forc...

  11. 1815

    Britten Austin, Paul
    Pen and Sword

    This unique and atmospheric volume presents the dramatic story of Napoleon's escape from Elba and march on Paris in the words of eyewitnesses and participants. Drawing on hundreds...

  12. 1914

    Richardson, Matthew
    Pen and Sword

    The opening battles on the Western Front marked a watershed in military history. A dramatic, almost Napoleonic war of movement quickly gave way to static, attritional warfare in wh...

  13. The 1915 Campaign

    Rawson, Andrew
    Pen and Sword

    The British Expeditionary Force – The 1915 Campaign is a thorough account of the BEF's actions during the battles of 1915 and early 1916, starting with the success at Neuve Chapell...

  14. The 1916 Battle of the Somme Reconsidered

    Liddle, Peter
    Pen and Sword

    Twenty-four years after the publication of his classic study of the Somme, Peter Liddle reconsiders the battle in the light of recent scholarship. The battle still gives rise to fi...

  15. 1918 The German Offensives

    Sheen, John
    Pen and Sword

    In March 1918 the German Army launched a series of offensives that brought them very close to winning the war. Military photographers followed their advance and took many photograp...

  16. 1918 The Last Act

    Pitt, Barrie
    Pen and Sword

    By 1918, after three years of war, Europe was weary of the stalemate and the terrible slaughter on the Western Front. The Russian Front had collapsed but the United States had aban...

  17. 1940

    Peeke, Mitch
    Pen and Sword

    The epic story of 1940 is not confined to the great air battle over England that summer; The Battle of Britain. Whilst that battle was indeed a major turning point in the course of...

  18. 19th Century Barnsley Murders

    Drinkall, Margaret
    Pen and Sword

    19th Century Barnsley Murders is a telling account of crimes in the Barnsley area that have remained unpublished for more than a century. The book reveals the dark heart of the tow...

  19. 1st Air Division 8th Air Force USAAF 1942-45

    Bowman, Martin W.
    Pen and Sword

    As part of the AHT series, the airfields and interest in this book are concentrated in a particular area - in this case Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire. Constitu...

  20. 21 Days in Normandy

    Caravaggio, Angelo
    Pen and Sword

    The Canadian 4th armored division crossed the Channel in July 1944 to reinforce the invading forces and assist in the Allied attempts to breakout of the Normandy beachhead around....