Author: Frederick Forsyth
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Keywords: legend, african, making, story, biafra
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-04
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0850528542
ISBN-13: 9780850528541

This stunning narrative marked the turning point in the writing career of Frederick Forsyth, who subsequently wrote The Dogs of War and The Day of the Jackal. Previously, Forsyth had been a journalist but his book on Biafra marked his remarkable debut as an author. Largely forgotten today, Biafra was a break-away province of Nigeria and the scene of a bloody civil war in the 1960s. Biafra’s population largely consisted of the minority Ibo people, who were in revolt against Nigeria’s majority Hausa and Fulani people. While the world community today looks with more favor on secessio

Author: Richard Hargreave
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Keywords: normandy, germans
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1844154475
ISBN-13: 9781844154470

The Allied invasion of Northern France was the greatest combined operation in the history of warfare. Up until now it has been recorded from the attackers’ point of view whereas the defenders’ angle has been largely ignored.While the Germans knew an invasion was inevitable, no-one knew where or when it would fall. Those manning Hitler’s mighty Atlantic Wall may have felt secure in their bunkers but they had no conception of the fury and fire that was about to break.After the initial assaults of June established an Allied bridgehead, a state of stale-mate prevailed. The German

Author: John Douglas
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Keywords: history, unofficial, slim
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-08
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1844157911
ISBN-13: 9781844157914

Like most members of the professional military freemasonry, Slim came to admire "all the soldiers of different races who have fought with me and most of those who have fought against me." Among the most likable of his enemies were the Wazirs of India’s Northwest Frontier. In 1920, Slim took part in a retaliatory raid on an obscure village. It was an unusually easy victory over the canny Wazirs, whom the British took by surprise and escaped from with scant loss. Afterwards, in the casual frontier way, the British sent a message to the Wazirs, expressing surprise at the enemy’s unusu

Author: Brian Todd Carey
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Keywords: world, ancient, warfare
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1844151735
ISBN-13: 9781844151738

Warfare in the Ancient World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe between the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia in the late fourth millenium BC and the fall of Rome. Through a exploration of twenty-six selected battles, military historian Brian Todd Carey surveys the changing tactical relationships between the four weapon systems - heavy and light infantry and hevay and light cavalry - focusing on how shock and missile combat evolved from tentative beginnings in the Bronze Age to the highly developed military organization created

Author: Major Holt
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Keywords: market, garden, leopoldsville, arnhem, operation, guide, mrs, holt, battlefield, major
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-10
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0850527856
ISBN-13: 9780850527858

The airborne landing at Arnhem in October 1944, immortalized in the film A Bridge Too Far, has become one of military historys most legendary battles. The operation involved the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions in addition to the British and Polish paratroopers, and featured a British armored advance spearheaded by the Guards Armoured Division. The Arnhem-Nijmegen-Eindhoven area sees an ever-increasing number of visitors, and new memorials and exhibits are still being created. Tonie and Valmai Holt pioneered the modern battlefield tour, and have written acclaimed guides to the Somme,

Author: Martin Middlebrook
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Keywords: falklands, fight, argentine
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-04
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 1844158888
ISBN-13: 9781844158881

Martin Middlebrook is the only British historian to have been granted open access to the Argentines who planned and fought the Falklands War. It ranks with Liddell Hart’s The Other Side of the Hill in analyzing and understanding the military thinking and strategies of Britain’s sometime enemy, and is essential reading for all who wish to understand the workings of military minds.The author has managed to avoid becoming involved in the issue of sovereignty and concentrates entirely upon the military story. He has produced a genuine ’first’ with this balanced and unique

Author: Paul Moorcroft and Peter McLaughlin
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Keywords: war, rhodesian
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-06
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 184415694X
ISBN-13: 9781844156948

This book depicts the military history of Southern Rhodesia from the first resistance to colonial rule, through the period of U.D.I. (Unilateral Declaration of Independence) by the Smith government to the Lancaster House agreement that transferred power. There are vivid accounts of the operations against the "guerillas" by the security forces and the intensity of the fighting will surprise readers. Atrocities were undoubtedly committed by both sides but equally the protagonists were playing for very high stakes.This is more than just a book on military operations. It provides expert analysi