Pen Sword Aviation imprint: 311 books
An Eye in the Sky
The Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force Career of Air Commodore Henry George Crowe MC, CBE, CBD (SC)
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This is the biography of Henry Crowe whose career encompassed time as an infantryman with the Royal Irish Regiment during the First World War, an observer with the RFC and fledgling RAF, a pilot in Ireland at the time of the Irish War of Independence, a photographic officer and flight commander in...
by Richard Mead
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Sam Elworthy’s career was remarkable by any standards. Born in New Zealand in 1911 and educated in England, he was called to the Bar. After learning to learning to fly he joined the RAAF. During the Second World War he won the DFC, DSO and AFC and, after commanding 82 Squadron, worked closely with...
The Royal Naval Air Service in the First World War
Aircraft and Events as Recorded in Official Documents
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
This book makes five original documents relating to the work of Britain's Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) during the First World War readily available to students and historians. To enhance visual interest a large collection of photographs, many hitherto unpublished, has been added. Some of these relate...
Silvered Wings
The Memoirs of Air Vice-Marshal Sir John Severne KCVO OBE AFC DL
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2007
John Severne joined the RAF in 1944 and gained his wings two months after World War II ended. This book captures the author’s great passion for flying, whether it be in jet-fighters, light aircraft, helicopters or making model planes and gives details of his long a illustrious career.
His...
The Secret Betrayal of Britain's Wartime Allies
The eppeasement of Stalin and its post-war consequences
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
As a British airman of the Second World War, Jim Auton dropped bombs on enemy targets all over central and eastern Europe. He was also engaged in a number of low flying operations, organised in order to drop containers of explosives and ammunition in an effort to assist groups of partisans in enemy...
Heathrow Airport
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
Love it or loathe it, Heathrow is the United Kingdom’s largest and most important airport by a distance. It currently serves over 190 routes to more than 80 countries. Over £100 billion of imports and exports are handled every year, making it the UK’s primary port by value.
This fascinating...
Hitler's Revenge Weapons
The Final Blitz of London
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
From September 1940 until May 1941, Britain - especially Greater London - suffered heavily under a barrage of day and nighttime raids by the then mighty Luftwaffe; raids which killed some 20,000 people and destroyed or damaged one million homes during what came to be known as the London Blitz. A ‘baby...
Kenneth ‘Hawkeye’ Lee DFC
Battle of Britain & Desert Air Force Fighter Ace
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Following training ‘Hawkeye’ Lee received his commission and was posted to 501 Squadron which was sent to support the Expeditionary Force in France, arriving on 10 May, only hours after the Blitzkrieg had been launched. Lee quickly opened his score, claiming several bombers during the first week...
The Mighty Eighth at War
USAAF 8th Air Force Bombers Versus the Luftwaffe 1943-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
From the beginning of World War Two the RAF s Bomber Command had been the only means of striking Hitler s Reich and its war machine. The entry into the war of the United States and the subsequent arrival in the UK of the Eighth Air Force was to more than double the Allied capability. The Flying Fortress...
by Philip Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
This book examines the reality behind the myths of the legendary German fighter aces of World War II. It explains why only a small minority of pilots - those in whom the desire for combat overrode everything - accounted for so large a proportion of the victories. It surveys the skills that a successful...
Barbarossa and the Retreat to Moscow
Recollections of Soviet Fighter Pilots on the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
The onset of war in the summer of 1941 was a disaster for the Soviet Air Force. In a few weeks, faced by the onslaught of the Luftwaffe, most of the Soviet frontline aircraft were destroyed, and the casualty rate among the pilots was cripplingly high. Yet the surviving few gained precious battle experience...
by Doug Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
This book describes how the United States Air Force tactical reconnaissance units operated from the end of World War II until the 1970s. This was an immensely active period that also included major conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. It was also a period of rapid technological development in aircraft...
by Alan W Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Over sixty years ago a battle took place that, if it had succeeded, could have shortened the Second World war by six months. The operation to take the bridges at Arnhem was given the code name 'Operation Market Garden', Market being the air side of the operation and Garden the subsequent ground operation....
Young Man You'll Never Die
A World War II Fighter Pilot In North Africa, Burma & Malaya
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2006
Merton Naydler joined the RAF at the age of nineteen and served for the next six years until May 1946. He flew Spitfires and Hurricanes during a tour of duty that took him to North Africa, Burma and Malaya. This well written and extremely entertaining memoir portrays wartime life in the desert environment...