Pen Sword: 3374 books
by Doug Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
This book describes how the United States Air Force tactical reconnaissance units operated from the end of World War II until the 1970s. This was an immensely active period that also included major conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. It was also a period of rapid technological development in aircraft...
Das Reich
2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich – Drive to Normandy, June 1944
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
The infamous SS Das Reich Division was resting in Montauban, South West France when the Allies invaded Normandy in June 1944. When ordered to rush North, they ran into a series of French Resistance, SAS and SOE delaying actions. This ruthless Division reacted violently and their reprisals culminated...
Unearthing Churchill’s Secret Army
The Official List of SOE Casualties and Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
The Special Operations Executive was one of the most secretive organizations of the Second World War, its activities cloaked in mystery and intrigue. The fate, therefore, of many of its agents was not revealed to the general public other than the bare details carved with pride upon the headstones...
Oradour
The Massacre and Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
The destruction of the French village of Oradour and the massacre of its population in June 1944 by the SS Das Reich Division ranks as one of the most notorious atrocities of the Second World War. The scars that were left will never fully heal and there are those that would argue that they should...
Undercover Operator
An SOE Agent's Experiences in France and the Far East
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2003
Memoirs of SOE agents have always been rare - so many were either killed in action or executed - and today they are almost unheard of. But Sydney Hudson's story, which he has waited nearly sixty years to tell, is just about as dramatic and thrilling as any to have ever appeared. After volunteering...
by Stewar Kent, Nick Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The exceptional exploits, courage and leadership of British SOE Agent Trotobas have long been recognised in France but not in his own country despite being recommended for the Victoria Cross.
Captured on his first mission, Trotobas led a mass break-out from Mauzac Internment Camp and eventually...
by Dr K G Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
A collection of authoritative and often controversial essays that will hold the attention of even the most informed reader. This fascinating book covers such important and relevant topics as Churchill and the Secret Services, ULTRA codebreaking and Soviet espionage and much more.
Escape to Freedom
An Airman's Tale of Capture, Escape and Evasion
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
The author was shot down in his Wellington bomber on his third operational mission. Captured shortly after, he was interrogated in Dulag Luft before being sent to Stalag Luft 1 on the Baltic where he stayed from April to September 1944. As the noose tightened on Germany, Tony and his fellow kriegies...
Flying to Norway, Grounded in Burma
A Hudson Pilot in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Gron’ Edwards joined the RAF in 1936 on a Short Service Commission and went solo on his eighteenth birthday. After gaining his wings he joined No 233 General Reconnaissance Squadron of Coastal Command based at Thornaby in Yorkshire. The aircraft he flew was the Avro Anson, a small twin engine aircraft...
Warsaw 1944
An Insurgent's Journal of the Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
“Built around a journal written in the months just after the Warsaw uprising by . . . a teenage fighter in the Polish underground . . . a compelling account.” —HistoryOfWar.org
This remarkable journal, written shortly after the event, describes not only the author’s own experiences...
RAF Liberator Over The Eastern Front
A Bomb Aimer's Second World War & Cold War Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2008
Jim Auton was posted to 178 Squadron who were operating ex-USAAF, war-weary Liberator heavy bombers. This squadron he was based in Foggia in Italy, living under canvas without the barest of military or personal necessities. The duration of a tour at that time was 40 front-line operations over such...
Guardsman and Commando
The War Memoirs of RSM Cyril Feebery DCM
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Guardsman and Commando is Cyril Feebery's memoir of his service with the British Army between 1937 and 1945.Feebery served with the Grenadier Guards in the British Expeditionary Force, was evacuated wounded from Dunkirk, completed Commando training in Scotland an joined the Middle East Commando (Layforce).
On...
Betrayed Ally
China in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The Great War helped China emerge from humiliation and obscurity and take its first tentative steps as a full member of the global community.
In 1912 the Qing Dynasty had ended. President Yuan Shikai, who seized power in 1914, offered the British 50,000 troops to recover the German colony in Shandong...
The Build Up to the Beginning
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
This is the first volume of a most impressive tribute and accurate four part work that uniquely presents a complete account of the air operations throughout ‘Market-Garden’ in September 1944 when British, US and Polish airborne troops made a gallant attempt to seize and hold bridges across the...