Pen Sword Books: 303 books
1918
The Last Act
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
This vividly detailed history examines the battles and politics in the final year of WWI—includes trench diagrams, photographs, and maps of battles.
Three years into the Great War, Europe found itself in a stalemate on the Western Front. The Russian Front had collapsed and the United States had...
Brutus
Caesar's Assassin
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The extraordinary life of the “noblest Roman of them all.”
Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if not of all time, knowledge of this historical figure has principally been passed to the modern world through the literary...
by Richard Woodman
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The story of Allied merchant ships and crews who braved the frigid far north to extend a lifeline to Russia, filled with “sheer heroism and brazen drama” (Literary Review).
During the last four years of the Second World War, the Western Allies secured Russian defenses against Germany by...
Adolf Hitler
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
A rare, revealing, and chilling photographic history of Adolf Hitler—from mollycoddled child to vile propagandist to despotic madman.
One of the most intriguing mysteries about the rise of history’s most despised dictator is just how utterly ordinary he once seemed. A chubby child, a mama’s...
A New Excalibur
The Development of the Tank 1909–1939
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1986
The story of the inventors, engineers, soldiers, and politicians behind the emergence of the armored fighting vehicle.
The birth and infancy of the tank had an enormous number of technical problems to be solved—but the issues with its construction paled in comparison to the endless squabbles...
Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation POSTMASTER
The Top Secret Story Behind 007
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
The true story of the force of “licensed to kill” secret agents who became the basis for the James Bond spy series.
Brigadier Colin Gubbins was M. The Special Operations Executive was his Secret Service. Professor Dudley Newitt was Q. Capt. Gus March-Phillips commanded “Maid of Honor Force,”...
A Salute to One of 'the Few'
The Life of Flying Officer Peter Cape Beauchamp St John RAF
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
A poignant biography of a pilot who made the ultimate sacrifice in World War II.
In a quiet churchyard is the grave of an airman who lost his life fighting in the skies over southern England in October 1940. The author happened to come across this grave, and after some initial inquiries discovered...
by Simon MacDowall
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
How a relatively small group of Germans came to be overlords of all of the former Roman province of Gaul—giving their name to France in the process.
Simon MacDowall studies the Frankish way of warfare and assesses its effectiveness, from their earliest incursions into the Empire, down to the...
Augustus at War
The Struggle for the Pax Augusta
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
A penetrating assessment of Augustus as ancient Rome’s military commander-in-chief.
The words Pax Augusta—or Pax Romana—evoke a period of uninterrupted peace across the vast Roman Empire. Lindsay Powell exposes this as a fallacy. Almost every year between 31 BC and AD 14 the Roman Army was...
by Geoffrey Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1992
The author of Hitler’s Terror Weapons digs deep into the history of Nazi Germany’s atomic research and development, separating fact from fiction.
What were Hitler’s fabled “miracle weapons” with which he promised to win the war for Germany at the last gasp? This book resolves the mystery...
The Greater Game
Sporting Icons Who Fell in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
From the athletic fields to the fields of battle—these great sportsmen gave their all and sacrificed their lives for their countries in World War I.
As the First World War swept across Europe, millions of eager and idealistic volunteers lined up to serve in what was to be the War to End All Wars....
A Reluctant Hero
The Life of Captain Robert Ryder VC
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
A biography of one of the greatest naval heroes of World War II.
This is the first biography of Cpt. Robert Ryder VC, Royal Navy, one of the greatest naval heroes of the Second World War. Ryder led the audacious raid on St Nazaire in March 1942, which completely destroyed the port’s dry dock—depriving...
A German Tommy
The Secret of a War Hero
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
“How a soldier of German ancestry hid his identity to serve with the British Army . . . [Anderson] has pieced together Schwarz’s remarkable story” (The Daily Telegraph).
It was a time of misguided loyalties. The First World War British Army, in a shameful act of patriotism, was withdrawing...
Historical Heroines
One Hundred Women You Should Know About
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
From Mata Hari and Pocahontas to Lucrezia Borgia and Hedy Lamarr—fascinating portraits of history’s most unforgettable, and some unjustly forgotten, women.
Cleopatra. Audrey Hepburn. Sappho. Calamity Jane. Marie Antoinette. Lilith. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Dame Emma Hamilton. Mary Shelley....