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Festiniog Railway. Volume 2
From Slate Railway to Heritage Operation 1921 - 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Opened in 1836 as a horse tramway using gravity to carry slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog, by the 1920s the Festiniog Railway had left its years of technical innovation and high profits long behind. After the First World War, the railway’s path led inexorably to closure, to passengers...
4 Group Bomber Command
An Operational Record
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
During the immediate period before World War Two, the RAF modified its command structure to rationalize for rapid expansion. Bomber Command was divided into six operational groups, each flying the same type of aircraft, including Wellingtons, Sterlings, and Lancasters. Chris Ward presents us here...
British Type 3 Diesel Locomotives
Classes 33, 35, 37 and upgraded 31
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The Type 3 Diesel Locomotive album comprises over 200, mainly unpublished, full sized colour photographs of four classes of British engines, developed in the earlier years of the Modernisation Plan.
The Type 3 included four classes of locomotive of medium power output, which undertook a wide...
1 Group Bomber Command
An Operational Record
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
During the period immediately before the Second World War, the RAF modified its command structure to rationalize for rapid expansion. Bomber Command was divided into six operational groups, each flying the same type of aircraft, including Wellingtons, Sterlings, and Lancasters. Chris Ward presents...
by David Maidment
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
The German Pacific Locomotive (Its Design and Development) is David Maidments fourth book in the series of Locomotive Profiles published by Pen & Sword. It is the first in the series to tackle an important range of overseas steam locomotives, the German pacific locomotives, which, with the Paris-Orleans...
by Philip Warner
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2005
Nearly ninety years ago, on 31st July 1917, the small Belgian village of Passchendaele became the focus for one of the most gruelling, bloody and bizarre battles of World War 1. By 6th November, when Passchendaele village and the ridge were captured, over half a million British, French, Canadians,...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
The selection of over 150 rare wartime photographs in this volume in Pen & Sword’s Images of War series offers a graphic visual record of the dramatic and bloody battles fought for the Crimea during the Second World War. They show every grim aspect of the fighting and reflect in many ways the...
by Kaveh Farrokh
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Throughout most of the classical period, Persia was one of the great superpowers, placing a limit on the expansion of Western powers. It was the most formidable rival to the Roman empire for centuries, until Persia, by then under the Sassanians, was overwhelmed by the Islamic conquests in the seventh...
The Rise of Hitler
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
In 1945, amidst the ruins of a bomb-damaged German home a tattered book, Deutschland Erwache, was recovered as a souvenir by a British soldier. This rare and invaluable primary resource now forms the basis of The Rise of Hitler Illustrated, which is a photographic record of Hitlers' rise to power...
The Jeep
Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The Second World War Jeep was one of the most famous and influential military vehicles of all time, and over 600,000 were produced. It served with all the Allied forces during the war on every front and it has been the inspiration behind the design of light, versatile, rugged military and civilian...
Die Hard, Aby!
Abraham Bevistein - The Boy Soldier Shot to Encourage the Others
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Recent books, many by Pen and Sword, such as Shot At Dawn have highlighted the shocking cases of young British soldiers in the Great War being executed by their own side. All too often their trials were cursory and the evidence flimsy. This scandal has appalled right-minded people of all political...
Tracing Your Ancestors Using the Census
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
The Pen & Sword guide to the census is detailed, accessible and authoritative, and it is one of the most comprehensive on the market. It has been written with the family historian in mind, and it is packed with advice on how to explore and get the most from the census records. As well as describing...
British Steam Sunset
A Vision of the Final Years 1965–1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
In this new album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a selection of pictures he took around the country in British steam's final years.
British Railways withdrew their last steam engines with almost indecent haste in the mid- to late-1960s, many having...
Southern Railway
Maunsell Moguls and Tank Locomotive Classes
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Southern Maunsell Moguls and Tank Engines is a volume in the series of Locomotive Profiles being published by Pen & Sword. It describes the conception, design and construction of the two- and three-cylinder 2-6-0s initially the ‘Ns’ constructed at the end of the First World War, many at government...