Pen And Sword: 3067 books
The Rigger
Operating With The SAS
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
For most people, climbing a ladder to clear the gutters is a challenge. Jack Williams and his colleagues in the specialist signals unit supporting the SAS in Northern Ireland had to climb towers and maintain vital communications - often in full view and under fire from terrorists. This is the gripping...
Fly By Nights
Navigating RAF Lancasters in 1944 -5
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
At the age of eighteen Don Feesey volunteered for pilot training with the RAF. Having almost completed his course to become a fighter pilot, an eye problem was detected and he was switched to navigational training. He completed a tour of thirty-four successful operations, the majority at night during...
by Derek Tait
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The story of Plymouth in the First World War has never been fully covered although the town played a key role in the deployment of troops to Northern Europe as well as supplying ships and vital munitions. By August 1914, the British War office had moved 120,000 men into the town. Plymouth became the...
T-54/55
The Most-Produced Tank in Military History
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
During the Cold War, the T-54/55 series of tanks represented the most serious threat to Nato land forces in Europe. Available in huge quantities, it formed the core of the Warsaw Pact armored warfare doctrine, which envisaged massed tank attacks against the weakest point in Nato’s front-line defenses.
Yet...
by Robert Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
The famous Messerschmitt Bf 109 single-seat fighter was one of the most important warplanes of the Second World War. Originally designed during the 1930s, and a contemporary of the equally-legendary Supermarine Spitfire, it was vitally important to Germany’s Luftwaffe and was flown in combat by...
T-34
Russia's Armoured Spearhead
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Von Kleist, one of Hitler’s best panzer leaders, described the T-34 as ‘The finest tank in the world’. There could have been no finer accolade from a commander whose panzer divisions experienced the full fury of its devastating attacks on the Eastern Front. Without doubt, the T-34 was one of...
Tracing Your Royal Marine Ancestors
Published in association with the Royal Marines Museum
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
Whether you are interested in the career of an individual Royal Marine or just want to know more about the part played by the Marines in a particular battle or campaign, this book will point you in the right direction. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of the Royal Marines, their history...
Phantom in the Cold War
RAF Wildenrath 1977 - 1992
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom was a true multi-role combat aircraft. Introduced into the RAF in 1968, it was employed in ground attack, air reconnaissance and air defense roles. Later, with the arrival of the Jaguar in the early 1970s, it changed over to air defense. In its heyday, it served as...
Gloucester & Newbury 1643
The Turning Point of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
The campaign that led to the first Battle of Newbury in 1643 represents a vital phase in the English Civil War, yet rarely has it received the attention it deserves. In this compelling and meticulously researched new study, Jon Day shows how the campaign was critical to the outcome of the war and...
Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders
Enforcing Abolition at Sea 1808-1898
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2008
On March 16, 1807, the British Parliament passed The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. In the following year the Royal Navys African Squadron was formed, its mission to stop and search ships at sea suspected of carrying slaves from Africa to the Americas and the Middle East.
The Wolf Packs Gather
Mayhem in the Western Approaches 1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
The capture by the German surface raider Atlantis of the British steamer City of Baghdad’s secret code books in July 1940 enabled the Nazis to de-cypher Admiralty convoy plans with deadly effect. This book describes the resulting appalling Allied losses suffered by four convoys during the Autumn...
by Tony Spagnoly, Ted Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Another group of stories in the Salient Points series. A collection of stories of men, their units and the actions they took part in during the conflict of 1914-1918, together with stories other points of interest along the old Western Front. Each story is supported with photographs and maps showing...
Section D for Destruction
Forerunner of SOE
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
When Neville Chamberlain made his famous Peace in Our Time statement in 1938, after the Munich Agreement with Hitler, he may, or may not, have been aware that the new Section D of the Secret Intelligence Service was already making plans to mount an all-out political and sabotage war against Nazi Germany....
Douglas Haig
Diaries & Letters 1861 – 1914
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
As a young officer in the prestigious 21st Lancers (motto 'Death or Glory') Douglas Haig played a leading role in Kitchener's bold expedition which ended in the defeat of the Khalifa of Sudan at Omdurman. He described the action, as he did the whole campaign, vividly in words and diagrams which survived...