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The Thames at War
Saving London From the Blitz
ISBN: 9781526768063
Pub Date: 2025-07-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
224 Pages
Between 1940 and 1945 London suffered 101 daylight and 253 nighttime air raids from the Luftwaffe and V1 and V2’s. There were 80,000 fatalities or serious injuries and appalling devastation. Well...
The Terror Raids of 1942
The Baedeker Blitz
ISBN: 9781526797445
Pub Date: 2024-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
240 Pages
Jan Gore’s original and painstaking research provides the fullest insight yet into the impact of this bombing campaign on Britain’s home front during the Second World War.
SOE in the Third Reich
Special Operations Executive’s German Section in WW2
ISBN: 9781399083348
Pub Date: 2024-04-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Frontline Books
224 Pages
‘X’ Section of S.O.2, part of the Ministry of Economic Warfare, was formed in November 1940. Just two months later it came under the command of Major R.H. Thornley and, eventually, part of Special Operations Executive. Its role was to establish channels of communication into Germany and Austria for subversive activities.
The Castle in the Wars of the Roses
ISBN: 9781526797476
Pub Date: 2024-03-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
256 Pages
The Wars of the Roses is one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in medieval history. Much has been written about the leading personalities, bitter dynastic rivalries, political intrigues, and the rapid change of fortune on the battlefields of England and Wales.
British Special Operations in the Second World War
By Stealth and Guile
ISBN: 9781399003834
Pub Date: 2024-03-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
256 Pages
This book does not simply record individual operations in isolation. While the skill, commitment and audacity of the men involved are not in doubt, there is a realistic assessment of their actual contribution to the Allied cause.
Cavalier and King of Man
James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby and his role in the British Civil Wars 1642-51
ISBN: 9781804510001
Pub Date: 2024-02-29
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Helion and Company
456 Pages
The first full length biography of James, 7th Earl of Derby – ‘the Great Stanley’ – as nobleman, administrator, warlord, and Royalist martyr.
Beating the Nazi Invader
Hitler’s Spies, Saboteurs and Secrets in Britain 1940
ISBN: 9781526797230
Pub Date: 2024-01-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
288 Pages
Beating the Invader is a revealing and disturbing exploration of the darker history of Nazis, spies and ‘Fifth Columnist’ saboteurs in Britain and the extensive top secret counter-measures taken before and during the real threat of invasion in 1940.
Britain's Railways in the Second World War
ISBN: 9781399003247
Pub Date: 2024-01-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
216 Pages
The outbreak of the Second World War had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. Keeping the trains running through times of conflict was not such a distant memory for the railway companies and their workers but in this second major war of the twentieth century, the task was to prove a very different one.

The Thames at War
Saving London From the Blitz
ISBN: 9781526768063
Pub Date: 2025-07-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
224 Pages
The Terror Raids of 1942
The Baedeker Blitz
ISBN: 9781526797445
Pub Date: 2024-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
240 Pages
SOE in the Third Reich
Special Operations Executive’s German Section in WW2
ISBN: 9781399083348
Pub Date: 2024-04-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Frontline Books
224 Pages
The Castle in the Wars of the Roses
ISBN: 9781526797476
Pub Date: 2024-03-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
256 Pages
British Special Operations in the Second World War
By Stealth and Guile
ISBN: 9781399003834
Pub Date: 2024-03-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
256 Pages
Cavalier and King of Man
James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby and his role in the British Civil Wars 1642-51
ISBN: 9781804510001
Pub Date: 2024-02-29
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Helion and Company
456 Pages
Beating the Nazi Invader
Hitler’s Spies, Saboteurs and Secrets in Britain 1940
ISBN: 9781526797230
Pub Date: 2024-01-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
288 Pages
Britain's Railways in the Second World War
ISBN: 9781399003247
Pub Date: 2024-01-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
216 Pages