Pen And Sword: 3067 books
by Ian White
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
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“an outstanding combination of the many aspects involved with air intercept radar… the author is very successful in blending technical, operational and military aspects of the subjects into a very interesting book.” Air Power History, Winter 2008
by Robert Grolley
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
During the summer of 1944, the US Eighth Air Force was engaged in a ferocious daytime bombing campaign over Europe. This book is the memoir of a B-17 navigator who found himself far from his American home, based in the English countryside of Northamptonshire. His war in the air, flying deep into enemy...
Crecy 1346
A Tourists’ Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
On 26 August 1346, near the village of Crécy in northern France, Edward III’s outnumbered English army confronted the French forces of Philip VI and won one of the most remarkable battles of the Hundred Years War. Edward’s victory had a major impact on th
Confessions of Custard
A Military Mule
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
This book is based on a collection of letter s about army life, written by Custard, a British Army mule working with a Royal Signal regiment between 1929 and 1932. Custard was actually Colonel V.R. Burkhardt, writing to his 2 nieces. '
by David Cable
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The railways of Canada, like the network in the U.S.A, have a fascination to many people, both in North America and those who live elsewhere.
Sinews of War
The Logistical Battle to Keep the 53rd Welsh Division on the Move During Operation Overlord
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
A fascinating account of the feat of logistics which it took to supply of the hard fighting 53rd Welsh division from Normandy to Hamburg. A limited run Divisional publication out of print since the ’50s with a new introduction and overview of the actions of the Division.
The British Army
A Pocket Guide 2002-2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Since its inception in 1984, The British Army: A Pocket Guide has established itself as the market leader in this particular sphere of defense publishing.
This the eighth edition has been brought completely up to date to reflect the current situation of the British Army and all the changes...
Flers & Gueudecourt
Somme
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2000
Flers is of course best remembered for the first use of tanks in modern war. But the battles at Flers and Gueudecourt were also memorable as forming part of the last great advance of the British Army in this slogging match that was the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
Captains Of War
They Fought Beneath the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 1988
This book tells the story of captains of submarines and their experiences at war.
Reporting from the Front
War Reporters During the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
When the war was declared in August 1914, one of the first acts to be implemented by the politicians and military was a strict censorship on the newspapers. As the poacher turned gamekeeper, Winston Churchill said: The war is going to be fought in a fog a
Entertaining the Braganzas
When Queen Maria of Portugal visited William Stephens in 1788
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Maria I of Portugal was a monarch with absolute power. William Stephens was the illegitimate son of a Cornish servant girl; he sailed for Lisbon at the age of fifteen to become one of the richest industrialists in Europe. The contrast between these two people could not have been greater – they were...
by Graham Keech
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
The village sits on top of the ridge that bears its name, a ridge that was an objective on the 1st July 1916. As it was, the whole position was not finally cleared until early September 1916 as German, Australian and British troops fought tenaciously over it.
by D J Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 1998
The first ever published comprehensive history of the Royal Corps of Transport and its Predecessors, relating the proud part played in helping to develop the highly successful logistic system that the British Army now possesses.
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...