Pen & Sword Military
In the Service of the Emperor: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1931–1945
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WW2 was fought as two parallel and largely unrelated wars; the German war and the Japanese war. The Japanese war is usually regarded ...Read Review
Bar Kokhba: The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome
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Part travelogue yet still solid non-fiction history, this is a story about two fascinating personalities and the doomed attempt of one, Bar Kokhba, ...Read Review
The Perdiccas Years, 323-320 BC: Alexander’s Successors at War
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Alexander the Great, a name with universal recognition; an awesome story of rapid conquest and a short life lived to the full. Every ...Read Review
The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland
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Philip Sidney, Humphrey Gilbert, Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser, the Earl of Essex, Frances Walsingham (the spymaster’s daughter) and many other illustrious Elizabethans ...Read Review
The Pope’s Army: The Papacy in Diplomacy and War
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‘How many divisions has the Pope?’ joked Stalin at the Yalta conference. By then the idea of the papacy as a military power ...Read Review
The People’s Army in the Spanish Civil War: A Military History of the Republic and International Brigades 1936-1939
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The Spanish Civil War spilled a great deal of blood at the time and still spills great quantities of ink, which is surprising ...Read Review
Disaster Before D-Day: Unravelling the Tragedy at Slapton Sands
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When the US forces went ashore on Utah Beach in Normandy on D-Day in June 1944 they won it at the cost of 197 killed. ...Read Review
Britain and Victory in the Great War
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This book is essential reading for anybody researching into or writing about WW1 and will be rewarding for all other readers. It is ...Read Review
