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MILITARY HISTORY • HISTORICAL FICTION • FORGOTTEN CONFLICTS

Forgotten Battles. Impossible Missions. Remarkable Stories.

Step onto the battlefields history remembers — and discover the conflicts it almost forgot.

Swan Military Books brings together gripping military history and historically grounded fiction spanning centuries of warfare. From desperate last stands and soldiers cut off behind enemy lines to secret operations, forgotten campaigns and remarkable stories of survival, every book puts the human experience of war at the heart of the story.

 

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MILITARY HISTORICAL FICTION

Real wars. Fictional characters. Gripping stories.

Experience history through the men and women caught in extraordinary circumstances.

From tank crews struggling to survive a battlefield disaster to raiders operating behind enemy lines, these novels combine fictional characters with carefully researched historical settings.

 

MILITARY HISTORY

True battles. Real soldiers. Extraordinary events.

Discover dramatic episodes from military history told as compelling narratives.

Explore desperate defences, fighting retreats, forgotten campaigns, battlefield disasters and remarkable acts of survival.

 

FORGOTTEN WARS

Not every important conflict became famous.

Discover books exploring overlooked campaigns, forgotten battlefields and the soldiers who fought in conflicts rarely featured in mainstream military history.

 

SECOND WORLD WAR

From the deserts of North Africa to occupied Europe and the battlefields of Italy, explore fiction and military history from the largest conflict of the twentieth century.

 

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THE PIRATE TRAIN

Southern Italy, September 1943.

Italy has surrendered, German forces are moving to seize the country, and the Allies are advancing from the south.

For SAS Sergeant Tom Haldane, the chaos creates an opportunity.

His mission sounds impossible.

Steal a train.

A military adventure inspired by the extraordinary operations conducted during the confused weeks following Italy's surrender.

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THE LAST STAND SERIES

When retreat is impossible, survival means fighting.

Discover extraordinary episodes from British and Commonwealth military history in a series examining soldiers facing encirclement, siege, isolation and seemingly impossible odds.

FICTION BASED ON REAL HISTORY

The characters may be fictional.

The history isn't.

Many Swan Military Books novels place fictional soldiers inside real conflicts, campaigns and historical situations.

Where appropriate, books include historical notes explaining the real events behind the story — allowing you to discover where history ends and fiction begins.

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BEHIND ENEMY LINES

Stories of raids, sabotage, escape and survival far beyond friendly lines.

FORGOTTEN BATTLES

Discover campaigns and clashes overshadowed by more famous events.

WORLD WAR II COLLECTION

Military fiction and history from one of the most dramatic periods of modern warfare.

THE MARTIN SWAN MILITARY LIBRARY

A large collection for readers who want to explore even more.

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ABOUT MARTIN SWAN

Martin Swan writes military history and historical fiction focusing on the people caught inside extraordinary events.

His books range across centuries of warfare, from major conflicts to forgotten campaigns that rarely receive the attention they deserve.

His historical fiction combines fictional protagonists with real settings, military realities and historical events, while his military history explores battles, campaigns and survival through accessible narrative storytelling.

 

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