Pen Sword: 3374 books
S.A.S Men in the Making
An Original's Account of Operations in Sicily and Italy
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Peter Davis was the youngest officer in the SAS during World War II. In his autobiographical account, he reveals the naïve enthusiasm he felt when he joined the Unit, his fears and trepidation during training, and the horror at what he later experienced during his first operations in the liberation...
by Craig Cabell
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
While his extravagant and glamorous lifestyle is well known, little has been published concerning Ian Fleming's contribution during the Second World War.
In the very early days of the War, Fleming was earmarked by the Director of Naval Intelligence as his 'right hand man'. From the outset he...
Blackbeard
The Hunt for the World's Most Notorious Pirate
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Edward Teach – ‘Blackbeard’-is one of the legends of the so-called ‘golden age of piracy’. There have been so many accounts of his short, bloody career that it is hard to see him and his times in a clear historical light. This new study looks for the man behind the legend, and it gives a...
In the Service of the Sultan: A first-hand account of the Dhofar Insurgency
A first-hand account of the Dhofar Insurgency
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2007
While the Americans were fighting in Vietnam, a struggle of even greater strategic significance was taking place in the Middle East: the Sultanate of Oman guards the entrance to the Arabian Gulf, and thus controls the movement of oil from that region. In the 1960s and 70s, the Communists tried to...
Cold War, Hot Wings
Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot 1962 - 1994
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
This is a semi-autobiographical account of a fighter pilot in the RAF from 1962 to 1994. He was both a Hunter and Harrier pilot, rose to Squadron Leader level, and commanded fighter and strategic reconnaissance units. He was CO of the Desert Rescue Team, flew Dakotas on desert supply running, and...
The Journey’s End Battalion
The 9th East Surrey in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
R.C. Sherriff, author of Journey’s End, the most famous play of the Great War, saw all his front line service with the 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. This intense experience profoundly affected his writing and, through his play, it continues to have a powerful influence on our understanding...
Night Fighter over Germany
Flying Beaufighters and Mosquitoes in World War 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
These are the highly evocative wartime memoirs of a young NCO pilot whose operational experience was with Beaufighters and Mosquitoes flying in the long-range night-fighter role. It is not a gung-ho account of daring-do, but a 'warts and all' story of what life was really like in that time of international...
Japan's Gestapo
Murder, Mayhem and Torture in Wartime Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
This disturbing book reveals the extent of the truly shocking activities of the Kempeitai, Japans feared military and secret police. The book opens by explaining the origins, organization and roles of the Kempeitai apparatus, which exercised virtually unlimited power throughout the Japanese Empire....
by Wragg, David
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
The Pacific Naval War 1941-1945 is an account of the war between the Allies and the Japanese. This was primarily a naval war as sea power allowed the Japanese to mount their attack on Pearl Harbor and then advance westwards and southwards, and it was sea power that enabled the Allies to strike back...
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...
Cleanse Their Souls
Peace-Keeping in Bosnia's Civil War, 1992–1993
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2005
A memoir of the lethal conflict in the former Yugoslavia, by a British soldier who was on the front lines.
This is a young cavalry lieutenant’s moving and shocking account of front line service in the cauldron of war. His troop of Scimitar light-armored vehicles was attached to the 1 CHESHIRE...
The Somme
The Epic Battle in the Soldiers' own Words and Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The offensive on the Somme took place between July and November 1916 and is perhaps the most iconic battle of the Great War. It was there that Kitchener’s famous ‘Pals’ Battalions were first sent into action en masse and it was a battlefield where many of the dreams and aspirations of a nation,...
by Andrew Rawson
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
This is an account of the British Expeditionary Force’s battles in the summer and autumn of 1917. It begins with the Allied plan to free up the Flanders coast, to limit German naval and submarine attacks on British shipping.
The opening offensive began with the detonation of nineteen mines...
SS Charlemagne
The 33rd Waffen-Grenadier Division of the SS
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
In May 1945, as the triumphant Red Army crushed the last pockets of German resistance in central Berlin, French soldiers fought back. They were the last surviving members of SS Charlemagne, the Waffen SS division made up of French volunteers. They were among the final defenders of the city and of...