Pen Sword Books: 303 books
The Defense of Moscow 1941
The Northern Flank
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
The little-known story of the Battle of Kalinin on the eastern front, and how it shaped the course of WWII—based on archival records from both sides.
There was only one point in the Second World War when Nazi Germany had a chance of winning. That point was October 1941, when most of the Red Army’s...
by Sue Wilkes
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
**“**Wilkes makes the world of Jane Austen come to life . . . from travel to fashion, shopping, leisure, and, of course, finding a mate” (Britain Express).
Immerse yourself in the vanished world inhabited by Austen’s contemporaries. Packed with detail and anecdotes, this is an intimate...
by Philip Warner
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
The story of the shadowy special reconnaissance unit whose intelligence helped the Allies win World War II.
It operated in Italy, Sicily, Austria, France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. It was at Dieppe with the Commandos, in France with the SAS, at Arnhem with Airborne, and in Germany until the...
Hitler's Violent Youth
How Trench Warfare and Street Fighting Moulded Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
An Emmy Award–winning author and historian delves into the brutal early life of the man who would become Nazi Germany’s maniacal dictator.
Between 1889 and 1924, Adolph Hitler’s political outlook was borne out of vicious incidents that heralded the formation of the Sturmabteilung—the notorious...
Hitler's Wartime Conversations
His Personal Thoughts as Recorded by Martin Bormann
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
A rare glimpse into the mind of the Nazi leader, as recorded by his personal secretary.
Much of the documentation surrounding Adolf Hitler was lost or deliberately destroyed in the chaos of World War II’s end. Yet some records were preserved for history. After dinner at the Wolf’s Lair, it...
by Catherine Curzon
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This royal historian’s “lively study of the four Georges who sat on the English throne for over a century is a joy” (Jane Austen’s Regency World).
For over one hundred years of turmoil, upheaval, and scandal, Great Britain was a Georgian land. From the day the German-speaking George I stepped...
Bligh
Master Mariner
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Beyond the Bounty: A biography of the Royal Navy officer from “a master of the maritime narrative” (The Sydney Morning Herald).
The eighteenth century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these expeditions were...
Burned at the Stake
The Life and Death of Mary Channing
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
A true story of crime and punishment in eighteenth-century England, and the first trial in recorded history to employ forensic evidence.
In 1706, nineteen-year-old Mary Channing was convicted of poisoning her husband and became the last woman to be burned at the stake in Dorset. Despite the likely...
The Real Tenko
Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The author of Children of the Camps delves into the harrowing true stories behind the TV drama: the fate of women held in Japanese captivity during WWII.
This book details the treatment of Allied servicewomen, female civilians, and local women by the Japanese occupation forces, including the...
by John Randle
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
A collection of autobiographical stories from an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II.
John Randle served with the greatly respected Baluch Regiment of the former Indian Army right through the fiercely fought Burma Campaign, winning a Military Cross, yet on VJ Day he was only...
by Mallory James
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
“A scholarly guide to etiquette as entertaining and amusing as a work of fiction” (Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine).
Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to live in the nineteenth century? How would you have gotten a partner in a ballroom? What would you have done...
Crime, Clemency & Consequence in Britain 1821–39
A Slice of Criminal Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
A history of criminal justice—from bigamy and body snatching to fraud and murder. “Offers a fascinating insight into the social conditions of the time” (Crime Review).
From the woman who steals a cloak, to the highwayman and the middle-class forger, this book allows us a glimpse of the rich...
Operation Lusty
The Race for Hitler's Secret Technology
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
A fascinating overview of the Allies’ post-WWII program to gain access to advanced Nazi war machines and the technology they ultimately recovered.
Prior to the Allied D-Day assault on Normandy, France, rumors had already been circulating that high-tech Nazi super-weapons (wunderwaffe) had reached...
Hitler's Gulf War
The Fight for Iraq 1941
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
This military history of the Iraqi revolt in WWII, told from the point of view of the men who were there, is “a fantastic and enjoyable book” (Col. Tim Collins, OBE).
In the spring of 1941, on an airfield fifty-five miles from Baghdad, a group of RAF airmen and soldiers were outnumbered by...