Pen Sword: 3374 books
Escaping Hitler
A Jewish Boy's Quest for Freedom and His Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Escaping Hitler is the true story, covering ninety years, of a fourteen-year-old boy Günter Stern who, when Adolf Hitler threatened his family, education and future, resolved to escape from his rural village of Nickenich in the German Rhineland. In July 1939 Günter boarded a bus to the border with...
Letters from the Trenches
The First World War by Those Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
A history of the First World War told through the letters exchanged by ordinary British soldiers and their families.
Letters from the Trenches reveals how people really thought and felt during the conflict and covers all social classes and groups – from officers to conscripts and women at home...
We Also Served
The Forgotten Women of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
A social history of British women’s brave yet forgotten service during WWI from a historian of female wartime experiences—includes photos.
At the outbreak of World War I, women looking to contribute to the Allied effort were told by the war office to “go home and sit still.” Thankfully,...
Hurricane Squadron Ace
The Story of Battle of Britain Ace, Air Commodore Peter Brothers, CBE, DSO, DFC and Bar
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Air Commodore Peter Malam 'Pete' Brothers CBE, DSO, DFC, and Bar (1917-2008) was one of the most heroic and highly praised pilots of the Second World War. Decorated extensively, he secured a total of 16 'kills' over the course of the conflict, with 10 of these occurring during the Battle of Britain....
Ben Bennions DFC
Battle of Britain Fighter Ace
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Ben Bennion enlisted in the pre-war RAF, serving first as an 'erk' (ground crew) before being selected for pilot training. His first posting led to service in the Middle-East and Bennion's passport and other travel documents had to be rushed through. A clerical error led to his name being recorded...
by John Turner
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2005
Rupert Brooke's short life was filled to brimming with drama and romance. Today he is the best known of that extraordinary collection of British Poets of the Great War. Tragically his life was cut short but not before he produced arguably the finest poetry of the 20th Century, the best examples of which are in this book.
Gilgit Rebelion
The Major Who Mutinied Over Partition of India
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
In 1942 William Brown was posted as a recently commissioned Indian Army Officer to the Gilgit Agency in the very north of the North West Frontier. He travelled widely, learnt the local dialects and built the Chilas Polo ground. After a brief period away from Gilgit, just prior to Partition in early...
by Baxter, Ian
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
This book is the most thorough study yet of the whole process of recruitment, indoctrination and performance of those responsible for the guarding of concentration camp inmates. It is not an attractive subject the conversion of human beings into murderers and individuals routinely carrying out appalling...
The Murder of Mary Ashford
The Crime that Changed English Legal History
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Historical true crime comes to life with this fictionalized account of a nineteenth-century murder that changed the course of British legal history.
England, 1817. In the small hours of May 27th, a young servant girl from the village of Erdington left a party in the company of a man with a bad...
Wakefield Then & Now
Extraordinary Tales from the Merrie City
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The escaping bear who’d had enough of being a Victorian showpiece; tragedy narrowly averted over the skies of Wakefield when an aeronaut lost control of his balloon in 1827; secret passages and hidden relics; and dark tales of determined apparitions and boggarts are among many enchanting stories...
by Derek Tait
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
From Bohemian Rhapsody and David Bowie to Star Wars and Watergate, the history of an unforgettable era that rocked (and discoed) the world.
The 1970s was one of the most exciting, innovative, and colorful decades of the twentieth century. It was ten years of major events in music (Freddie Mercury,...
Beneath the Big Top
A Social History of the Circus in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
“A valuable and illuminating read, shedding a lot of light on the political, economic and technological factors that have driven circus evolution” (The Circus Diaries).
Beneath the Big Top is a social history of the circus, from its ancient roots to the rise of the “modern” tented travelling...
by Michael Foot (Professor)
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2003
Professor Michael Foot is indisputably the greatest authority on the activities of SOE in Europe during WW2. In Six Faces of Courage he selects six of the bravest of the brave agents and describes their backgrounds, activities and characters.
Truly inspiring reading complemented by an updated...
Spy of the Century
Alfred Redl and the Betrayal of Austria-Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
‘The Redl Affair had everything: sex, espionage, betrayal, a fall from greatness and a sensational climax in which Redl went to his death like a figure of high tragedy.’ The New York Times ‘A story like that is truer than history.’ István Szabó ‘The army was shocked to the core. All knew...