Pen Sword: 3374 books
A Bearskins Crimea
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Percy VC and his Brother Officers
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Using much previously untapped source material A Bearskin's Crimea is a blow-by-blow account of the Grenadier Guards' experiences in the Crimean War. The principal character, The Honourable Henry Percy, a member of the distiguished and powerful Northumberland family (known as 'The Kings of the North'),...
Fighting with the Commandos
The Recollections of Stan Scott No3 Commando
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
Fighting With The Commandos tells what the Second World War was like for a fighting soldier. After enlisting under-age, he was 'found out', joined the Home Guard and then a Young Soldiers Unit (for those too young to serve overseas). He managed to get out to Iraq but was again sent home. He then joined...
Menus, Munitions and Keeping the Peace
The Home Front Diaries of Gabrielle West 1914 - 1917
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
When Gabrielle West wrote diaries about her war to send to her much missed favorite brother in India she had no idea that a hundred years later they would be of interest to anyone. Soon after the outbreak of the First World War, Vicar’s daughter Gabrielle joined the Red Cross and worked as a volunteer...
Culloden
The History and Archaeology of the Last Clan Battle
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
In battle at Culloden Moor on 16 April 1746 the Jacobite cause was dealt a mortal blow. The power of the Highland clans was broken. And the image of sword-wielding Highlanders charging into a hail of lead delivered by the red-coated battalions of the Hanoverian army has passed into legend. The battle...
by Adrian Carton de Wiart
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Adrian Carton de Wiart’s autobiography is one of the most remarkable of military memoirs. He was intended for the law, but abandoned his studies at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1899 to serve as a trooper in the South African War. Carton de Wiart’s extraordinary military career embraced service...
Sailor
Battle Of Britain Legend: Adolph Malan
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
I do not think that Malan could join a squadron without improving it, however good it was. Not by sword waving, but by a strength of mind and integrity that are at once recognizable and effective...he was the best pilot of the War' – Air Commodore Al Deere, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C.
Malan was...
Battle Lines: Ypres
Nieuwpoort to Ploegsteert
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Battle Lines Ypres, the first volume in Pen & Swords new series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor to the Ypres Salient and the battlefields of Belgium. Many of the most famous - and most memorable - Great War sites are featured...
by Philip Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril - Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Churchill, as a former First Lord of the Admiralty, was well versed in the importance of Britain protecting itself at sea. In the opening years of the Second World War, Germany’s...
The Millionaires' Squadron
The Remarkable Story of 601 Squadron and the Flying Sword
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Imagined by an aristocrat in White's Club, London in 1925, a part-time squadron of wealthy young men with their own private aircraft was incorporated into a newly-established combat-ready Auxiliary Air Force, first as bombers, then fighters. The pre-war years combined serious training with frivolity...
Joseph Locke
Civil Engineer and Railway Builder 1805 - 1860
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Most historians recognize the work of three engineers as being the men who developed the railways from slow, lumbering colliery lines into fast, inter-city routes. Two are very well known: Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The third was Joseph Locke, who should be recognized for having...
Colours in the Sky
The History of Autair and Court Line Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
It's impossible to tell the story of Court Line without telling that of Autair, founded by helicopter pioneer William 'Bill' Armstrong. Autair itself was an offshoot of his global helicopter operation, but Bill also had his finger in many aviation 'pies' including a multitude of operations in Africa,...
Sniper on the Eastern Front
The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knights Cross
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Josef “Sepp” Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honored with the award of the Knights Cross.
An Austrian conscript, after qualifying as a machine gunner he was drafted to the southern sector of the Russian...
Flying Start
A Fighter Pilot's War Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
This is the autobiography of Group Captain Sir Hugh Dundas CBE, DSO, DFC, who was one of the most distinguished fighter pilots of World War II. He writes of his wartime experiences, and particularly of his period as Squadron Leader and Wing Commander and his involvement in the Battle of Britain.
Red Sniper on the Eastern Front
The Memoirs of Joseph Pilyushin
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Joseph Pilyushin, a top Red Army sniper in the ruthless fight against the Germans on the Eastern Front, was an exceptional soldier and he has a remarkable story to tell. His first-hand account of his wartime service gives a graphic insight into his lethal skill with a rifle and into the desperate...