Pen and Sword Military

The true story of a father and son who enlist in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard after the horrors of 9/11 shake the nation.Travis Harman, a young skater punk from the small farming town of Hughesville,...

This little-known yet crucial development in the Irish War of Independence is well researched and described in this over-due account.

A sequel to the same author’s Highland Battles which covered warfare in Scotland’s northern and western Highlands in the early Middle Ages.Warfare between the clans of the Highlands in the late...

Warfare was a crucial aspect of Celtic society, deeply linked to the spreading of their culture through all Europe.

The author looks at the seven Irish regiments in campaigns across the globe, at Irish soldiers across the Army, at Irish sailors from the Battle of the River Plate to the final actions against Japan, and at Irish airmen from the first bombing raids of the war to the closing days of war.

This is the story of the 'First British Empire' - in Ireland - and of the perennial Irish Question dating from the middle ages which defeated Britain at the height of her imperial power, and has reached to the present. The Tudor period is crucial and the long-simmering problem came to the boil in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

This book captures the lives and experiences of ten individuals who were caught up in the Troubles. Each has a very distinct story to tell according to their role and position.

Irish troops had fought for Louis XIV in the 1670s, under Irish officers who had little choice but to fight in foreign service, with the blessing of Charles II.

On 12 June 1922 King George V received at Windsor Castle representatives of the six disbanded Irish regiments. While five had long and distinguished service records, the South Irish Horse (SIH) had...

Justin MacCarthy (later Lord Mountcashel) was born into a notable family of Irish Jacobites, loyal to the exiled Stuarts, and grew up in France. Their Irish land was regained after the Restoration of...