Pen Sword: 3374 books
The Private Diaries of Alison Uttley
Author of Little Grey Rabbit, Foreword by Ronald Blythe
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Popular childrens author, Alison Uttley (Little Grey Rabbit and Sam Pig) spent over 40 years writing diaries. Professor Denis Judd, who knew Alison and has previously written her biography, reveals a different side to the writer whose husband committed suicide and whose close relationship with her...
An Infamous Mistress
The Life, Loves and Family of the Celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
**“**Courtesan. Spy. Survivor. A gripping and meticulously researched account of the swashbuckling life of one of history’s most overlooked heroines.” —Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five
Divorced wife, infamous mistress, prisoner in France during the French Revolution, and the reputed...
Tracing Your Servant Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
While there are popular and academic books on servants and domestic service, as well as television dramas and documentaries, little attention has been paid to the sources family historians can use to explore the lives and careers of their servant ancestors. Michelle Higgss accessible and authoritative...
Winston Churchill
Portrait of an Unquiet Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Winston Churchill was an extraordinary person - a politician, a statesman, a man of letters and a soldier but it was for his wartime leadership during the Second World War that he is chiefly remembered. In a study of his life, certain bizarre character traits become discernible. He had excessive energy...
Beatrix Potter
Her Inner World
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
An insightful biography of the pioneering conservationist, illustrator, prolific author, and creator of Peter Rabbit and other legendary tales.
Beatrix Potter was born curious, with an imagination and a love of natural science and animals that would serve her well. When her self-published and...
Hitler
Dictator or Puppet?
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Written by an authority on Adolf Hitler, this book charts new ground and shows how the writings of a deluded ex-monk, Lanz von Liebenfels and the pseudo-science of Liebenfels and other writers, convinced Hitler that Germany’s destiny was to save the world from a Jewish-Bolshevik conspiracy.
It...
by Nicholas Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Engraved shell-cases, bullet-crucifixes, letter openers and cigarette lighters made of shrapnel and cartridges, miniature airplanes and tanks, talismanic jewelry, embroidery, objects carved from stone, bone and wood – all of these things are trench art, the misleading name given to the dazzling...
by Anna Selby
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Everything you need to know about opera in one handy guide. Part of our best-selling Pocket Guide series, The Pocket Guide to Opera contains A-Z synopses of operas and biographies of the characters, lyricists and composers. The book features the history of opera, setting it in the context of its day...
Women’s Lives
Researching Women’s Social History 1800-1939
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Women’s lives have traditionally gone unrecorded in history. But housewives, factory girls and servants all had their own distinctive voices, and, if you know where to look, there are plenty of sources to explore.
Jennifer Newby’s guide to women's social history between 1800 and 1939 includes...
Homefront Yorkshire
1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
No event in history had such a profound and long-term effect as World War Two, it's consequences still helping to shape the modern world. With our trade routes harassed by U-boats, our skies darkened by the Luftwaffe and our beaches imperilled by the threat of invasion, the period from 1939 to 1945...
Ashley Jackson: The Yorkshire Artist
A Lifetime of Inspiration Captured in Watercolour
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Ashley Jackson – The Yorkshire Artist' contains a collection of paintings that have been personally chosen by the artist to bring together his personal memories and intimate reflections of the emotions and atmosphere that he has captured in each watercolour painting. As he explains, 'All artists...
by James Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
A collection of Nazi propaganda shots, including “rare images of Adolf Hitler socializing with children and supporters at his notorious Alpine hideaway” (Daily Mail).
Adolf Hitler became “completely captivated” by Berchtesgaden and the Obersalzberg when he first visited the area in 1923....
by James Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
“A photographic history of the Nazi party’s building works in Munich and in the Berchtesgaden and Obersalzberg . . . These postcards are fascinating” (HistoryOfWar.org).
Hitler’s Alpine Headquarters looks at the development of the Obersalzberg from a small, long established farming...
Marie Antoinette's Confidante
The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The true story of the woman who befriended the last queen of France—and the price she paid for her devotion.
Perhaps no one knew Marie Antoinette better than one of her closest confidantes, Marie Thérèse, the Princess de Lamballe. The princess became superintendent of the queen’s household...