Pen Sword: 3374 books
Sniper in Helmand
Six Months on the Frontline
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Few soldiers are deemed good enough to be selected and trained as snipers and even fewer qualify. As a result, snipers are regarded as the elite of their units and their skills command the ungrudging respect of their fellows - and the enemy. The Author is one such man who recently served a full tour...
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Thirteen Days on an Atomic Knife Edge, October 1962
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
When the world held its breath …
It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 – long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe – with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are...
Last Man Standing
The Memoirs, Letters & Photographs of a Teenage Officer
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
It hardly seems credible today that a nineteenyear- old boy, just commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders, could lead a platoon of men into the carnage of the Battle of the Somme. Or that, as the machine gun bullets whistled past and shells exploded, he could maintain his own morale to lead a platoon,...
Accidental Agent
Behind Enemy Lines with the French Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
John Goldsmith’s wartime exploits are all the more remarkable considering that at first his services were consistently refused due to his being over 30. Not easily deterred he eventually became a tank driving instructor in the ranks.
In 1942 accidental circumstances saw his recruitment into...
Moonless Night
The Wartime Escape Epic
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
From the moment he was shot down to the final whistle, Jimmy James' one aim as a POW of the Germans was to escape.
The Great Escaper describes his experiences and those of his fellow prisoners in the most gripping and thrilling manner. The author made more than 12 escape attempts including...
by Richard Hargreaves
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
This account of the D-Day invasion—from the German point of view—includes maps and photos.
The Allied invasion of Northern France was the greatest combined operation in the history of warfare. Up until now, it has been recorded from the attackers’ point of view—whereas the defenders’...
Into the Gates of Hell: Stug Command '41
A Novel Based on a True Story of Combat on the Russian Front
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
03:15, 22nd June 1941 - Barbarossa is unleashed and Kampfgruppe von Schroif are right there at the cutting edge of the battle for Russia. Thrown into action against the fortress of Brest-Litovsk, von Schroif and his crew drive a new weapon into battle - the legendary Sturmgeschütz. However, even...
Hitler's Final Fortress
Breslau 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
A dramatic account of how the Nazis were driven out of Breslau, drawing on the words of those who witnessed it.
In January 1945, the Red Army unleashed its long-awaited thrust into Germany with terrible fury. One by one the provinces and great cities of the German East were captured by the Soviet...
Siege of Kustrin 1945
Gateway to Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
The unexpected arrival of Soviet troops at the end of January 1945 at the ancient fortress and garrison town of Küstrin came as a tremendous shock to the German High Command-the Soviets were now only 50 miles from Berlin itself. The Red Army needed the vital road and rail bridges passing through...
Prussian Apocalypse
The Fall of Danzig 1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Egbert Kieser’s graphic account of the Red Army’s assault on East Prussia in 1945 is one of the classic histories of the destruction of Hitler’s Germany, and it has never before been available in English. Using extensive, firsthand, unforgettable eyewitness testimony, he documents in riveting...
Blitzkrieg Unleashed
The German Invasion of Poland 1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Based on letters, diaries, and other sources, a detailed account of the Nazi invasion of Poland—the beginning of the Second World War.
At dawn on Friday, September 1, 1939, the Germans launched their land, sea, and air assault on Poland—and the world became aware of the awesome power of Hitler’s...
by Richard Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
A total of eleven British armoured divisions were formed during the 1939-1945 war but, as this highly informative book reveals, just eight saw action.
In 1940 only 1st Armoured Division faced the German blitzkrieg and it was in the North African desert that armoured divisions came into their...
Stalingrad
Victory on the Volga
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
The Soviet victory over the Germans at Stalingrad was decisive for the war on the Eastern Front and for the Second World War as a whole, and the story of the long, bitter battle on the banks of the Volga has fascinated historians ever since. While it has been the subject of countless histories, memoirs...
Operation Dragoon
The Liberation of Southern France 1944
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Operation Dragoon, the Allied landings in the south of France in August 1944, is often seen as a sideshow supporting Operation Overlord, the crucial D-Day landings in Normandy. And often the operation is criticized as an expensive diversion of men and equipment from the struggle against the German...