Pen Sword: 3374 books
How Our Ancestors Died
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
What were the principal causes of death in the past? Could your ancestor have been affected? How was disease investigated and treated and what did our ancestors think about the illnesses and the accidents that might befall them? Simon Wills fascinating survey of the diseases that had an impact on...
Death, Disease & Dissection
The Life of a Surgeon-Apothecary 1750–1850
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
“A deep dive into the education and lives of a medical professional’s life over the span of 100 years . . . A good addition to any medical historian’s library” (The Lazy Historian).
Imagine performing surgery on a patient without anesthetic or administering medicine that could kill...
by Geoff Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
A new assessment of the life of one of the most famous and controversial airmen of the Second World War, this book covers Guy Gibson's sometimes troubled upbringing and the impact on him of his time at St Edward's School, Oxford. In particular, the story of his career in the RAF is relayed, including...
Cholera
The Victorian Plague
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
“[A] fusion of science, social, and medical history . . . fascinating . . . the understanding of and responses to cholera are covered in detail and with sensitivity” —The Victorian Web
Discover the story of the disease that devastated the Victorian population, and brought about major...
by Garrard, John, Garrard
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Vasily Grossman (1905-64), one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, served for over 1,000 days with the Red Army as a war correspondent on the Eastern front. He was present during the street-fighting at Stalingrad, and his 1944 report The Hell of Treblinka, was the first eyewitness account...
by Robert Kirchubel
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
An in-depth look at the role armored formations played in the struggle between the Nazis and the Soviets.
Hitler’s panzer armies spearheaded the blitzkrieg on the Eastern Front. They played a key role in every major campaign, not simply as tactical tools but also as operational weapons that shaped...
Caracalla
A Military Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Caracalla has one of the worst reputations of any Roman Emperor. Many ancient historians were very hostile and Edward Gibbon later dubbed him ‘the common enemy of mankind’. Yet his reign was considered by at least one Roman author to be the apogee of the Roman Empire. Guilty of many murders and...
Tank Commander
From the Fall of France to the Defeat of Germany - The Memoirs of Bill Close
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Bill Close had a remarkable war. In campaign after campaign, from the defense of Calais in 1940 to the defeat of Germany in 1945, he served as a tank commander in the Royal Tank Regiment - and he survived. His tanks were hit eleven times by enemy shellfire and he bailed out. He was wounded three times....
Red Army Tank Commander
At War in a T-34 on the Eastern Frount
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
What was it like to command a T-34 tank on the Eastern Front during the Second World War? How were tank operations organized and carried out, what was the actual experience of combat, and what were the qualities that made the difference between success and failure - and what were the chances of survival?...
The Hunters and the Hunted
The Elimination of German Surface Warships around the World 1914-15
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
At the start of World War One the Imperial German Navy had a large number of surface warships deployed around the world. These posed a considerable threat to British mercantile interests, particularly the import of food and fuel supplies. Their elimination was a matter of urgency.This book covers...
In Search of the Real Dad’s Army
The Home Guard and the Defence of the United Kingdom 1940-1944
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
What was the Home Guard? Who were the men and women who served in it? And what can be said of their real role and significance once the popular myths have been stripped away?
Despite the fame of the Home Guard – of Dad’s Army – the true story of this wartime organization tends to be neglected....
Hitler's Olympics
The Story of the 1936 Nazi Games
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
This “startlingly good and vividly illuminating book” sheds new light on the Fascist sports spectacle that transfixed the world (The Spectator).
For two weeks in August 1936, Nazi Germany achieved an astonishing propaganda coup when it staged the Olympic Games in Berlin. Hiding their anti-Semitism...
The Yompers
With 45 Commando in the Falklands War
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Yomping was revealed by the journalist Charles Laurence in 1982 as the word which the Royal Marines used to describe carrying heavy loads long distances on foot. Given the intense public interest in the dramatic events then unfolding in the South Atlantic, it caught on and is now in common usage....
by Baxter, Ian
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2009
The concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was the site of the single largest mass murder in history. Over one million mainly Jewish men, women, and children were murdered in its gas chambers. Countless more died as a result of disease and starvation. Auschwitz Death Camp is a chilling pictorial...