Pen and Sword Books is one of the leading publishers of historical titles and non-fiction in the UK, with over 6000 titles currently in print and available in ebook format and an additional 500 new titles published per year across a range of subject areas. Founded 25 years ago, Pen and Sword has continued to grow and has added new imprints and subject areas to its list, including family, social and local history, general history and true crime, aviation and maritime history together with ancient and medieval history.
Flers is of course best remembered for the first use of tanks in modern war. But the battles at Flers and Gueudecourt were also memorable as forming part of the last great advance of the British Army...
After the First World War, how many thousands of British families would have proud or bitter reason to remember the name St Quentin? At least eight Divisions, 23 Brigades, 74 Battalions an enormous...
Hancock's Assault on the Mule Shoe Salient May 12, 1864
by John Cannon
Price: $13.99
ISBN: 9781473812499
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2000-09-12
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword
144 Pages
Dawn was breaking in the hard rain on the morning of 12 May 1864. It was then that tired Union soldiers under General Hancock's command launched a daring assault on the apex of heavily defended Confederate...
Burnside's Assault on the Confederate Trenches June 30, 1864
by John Cannon
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 9781473819153
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2000-09-12
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword
144 Pages
It seemed like a good idea to frustrate Union commanders: dig a 500-foot long mine underground to reach the fortifications of the long-besieged Confederates at Petersburg, Virginia, and set off a powerful...
The stone bridge on the southern flank of the Antietam battlefield became one of the Civil War's most powerful symbols of courage and sacrifice. Each stage of the battle is described by extracts from...
This is the story of the Battle of Calais, a short but bloody struggle to delay the German advance in May 1940. It is a story of uncertainty, of taut nerves, of heat, dust, raging thirst and hand-to-hand...
An easy to understand account of one of the opening actions of the Battle of the Bulge. Contains detailed maps of positions and graphic first-hand accounts from veterans.
Follow the footsteps of the Pals in their journey from Lancashire to their training camps in England and Wales and to the villages and battlefields of France. A comprehensive account, with maps and...
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Pen and Sword Books is one of the leading publishers of historical titles and non-fiction in the UK, with over 6000 titles currently in print and available in ebook format and an additional 500 new titles published per year across a range of subject areas. Founded 25 years ago, Pen and Sword has continued to grow and has added new imprints and subject areas to its list, including family, social and local history, general history and true crime, aviation and maritime history together with ancient and medieval history. 
