Pen And Sword: 3067 books
Barbarossa Through Soviet Eyes
The First Twenty-Four Hours
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
22 June 1941 changed the direction of the Second World War. It also changed the direction of human history. Unleashing a massive, three-pronged assault into Soviet territory, the German army unwittingly created its own nemesis, forging the modern Russian state in the process. Thus, for most Russians,...
Stuka
Hitler’s Lethal Dive Bomber
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
The photographs in this collection belonged to Luftwaffe Stuka rear gunner and radio operator Erich Heine. The collection includes photographs of flights of Stukas in formation, operating training aircraft, and a selection of different Luftwaffe uniforms and flight gear. The photographer was based...
The Rhodesian War
A Military History
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
This book depicts the military history of Southern Rhodesia from the first resistance to colonial rule, through the period of UDI (unilateral declaration of independence) by the Smith government to the Lancaster House agreement that transferred power. There are vivid accounts of the operations against...
Das Reich
2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich – Drive to Normandy, June 1944
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
The infamous SS Das Reich Division was resting in Montauban, South West France when the Allies invaded Normandy in June 1944. When ordered to rush North, they ran into a series of French Resistance, SAS and SOE delaying actions. This ruthless Division reacted violently and their reprisals culminated...
Escape to Freedom
An Airman's Tale of Capture, Escape and Evasion
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
The author was shot down in his Wellington bomber on his third operational mission. Captured shortly after, he was interrogated in Dulag Luft before being sent to Stalag Luft 1 on the Baltic where he stayed from April to September 1944. As the noose tightened on Germany, Tony and his fellow kriegies...
Alarm Starboard!
A Remarkable True Story of the War at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
The Author's naval war experiences make the most exciting reading. After being mined on the battleship Nelson in 1939, he served on the Prince of Wales, during the Bismarck action, witnessing the sinking of the Hood and Churchill and Roosevelt's historic meeting. He survived the disastrous sinking...
Bomb Alley
Falkland Islands 1982 – Aboard HMS Antrim at War
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2007
This is the untold story of the Falklands War as experienced by a below-decks seaman on one of the most important ships to be despatched to the South Atlantic. It is a no-holds-barred account as seen through the eyes of a Royal Navy matelot who shared the terror of the first encounter with Argentinean...
Cockleshell Commando
The Memoirs of Bill Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
One of only two survivors of the famous Cockleshell Hero raid, Bill Sparks' war and postwar career has never before been told in full. In this gripping book, he describes not only his part in Operation FRANKTON, the daring Gironde raid, and his escape back to Britain, but how he fought with the Greek...
Tigers at Dunkirk
The Leicestershire Regiment and the Fall of France
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
In this compelling new study of the disastrous 1940 campaign in France and Flanders, Matthew Richardson reconstructs in vivid detail the British army’s defeat as it was experienced by the soldiers of a single battalion, the 2nd/5th Leicesters.
These men typified the ill-equipped, under-trained...
by Ruth Mansergh
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Whitehaven in the Great War covers Whitehaven's immense contribution to the Great War effort; it is thought that 625 Whitehaven men – from a town that, in 1901, had a population of around 21,000 – lost their lives fighting in the war. Meanwhile, on the home front, military service deprived many...
Men Who Flew the Mosquito
Compelling accounts of the 'Wooden Wonders' triumphant WW2 Career
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2004
The twin-engined Mosquito was one of the classic aircraft of the Second World War. Famously wooden-built, its graceful lines and powerful performance have made it into an airborne icon. Its operational versatility as a fighter, low level bomber and reconnaissance aircraft was unsurpassed.
In...
Admiral Lord St. Vincent – Saint or Tyrant?
The Life of Sir John Jervis, Nelson’s Patron
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
This biography of John Jervis, who became Admiral Lord Vincent, makes compelling reading. It throws an oblique light on Nelson’s personality. St Vincent, who was born twenty-three years before Nelson, and survived for eighteen years after Trafalgar, fundamentally influenced the younger man’s career...
British Warships 1860-1906
A Photographic Record
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Illustrated with 200 official admiralty photographs, many of them previously unpublished, this book traces the development of Royal Naval ship design in a period of immense change. Opening with the Crimean War, this period saw the gradual transition from sail to steam and screw propulsion; from wood...
Seven Seas, Nine Lives
The Valour of Captain A.W.F. Sutton, CBE, DSC and Bar, RN
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
Captain Alan William Frank Sutton's enthralling biography starts when, as a young midshipman he was in command of a small rowing cutter returning a potentially mutinous crew to the battle-cruiser HMS Repulse in which he served. Amazingly it ends in the open cockpit of a Fairy Swordfish torpedo bomber...