Pen Sword: 3374 books
Railway of Hell
A Japanese POW's Account of War, Capture and Forced Labour
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2010
A young captain in the Royal Norfolk Regiment, Reggie Burton was wounded in the closing stages of the disastrous defense of Malaya and Singapore. He vividly, yet calmly and with great dignity, describes the horror of captivity at the hands of the Japanese. After initial confusion, the true nature...
Secret Letters from the Railway
The Remarkable Record of a Japanese POW
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
Charles Steel took part in two military disasters - the Fall of France and the Dunkirk evacuation, and the Fall of Singapore. Shortly before the latter, he married Louise. Within days of being captured by the Japanese, he began writing a weekly letter to his new bride as means of keeping in touch...
Mist on the Rice-Fields
A Soldier's Story of the Burma Campaign 1943 - 1045 and Korean War 1950-51
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
This is the story of a young officer in the Indian Army who commanded a company in the Burma Campaign of 1943 to 1945. It covers the part played by the author and his unit in the long campaign to recover Burma, starting with the fierce close-quarter fighting in the jungles and rice-fields in the Arakan...
Life on the Death Railway
The Memoirs of a British POW
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
As a young man Stuart Young endured the horrors of the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and survived. Later in life, in graphic detail, he recorded the experience – the dreadful conditions, the brutal treatment, the sickness and starvation, the merciless routine of forced labour. Yet he also recorded...
Belisarius
The Last Roman General
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
A military history of the campaigns of Belisarius, the greatest general of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor Justinian. He twice defeated the Persians and reconquered North Africa from the Vandals in a single year at the age of 29, before going on to regain Spain and Italy, including Rome (briefly),...
by David Breeze
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
At its height, the Roman Empire was the greatest empire yet seen, its borders stretching from the rain-swept highlands of Scotland in the north to the sun-scorched Nubian desert in the south. But how were the vast and varied stretches of frontier defined and defended?
Many of Rome's frontier...
Hellenistic & Roman Naval Wars
336BC-31BC
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
The period covered in this book, is well known for its epic battles and grand campaigns of territorial conquest, but Hellenistic monarchies, Carthaginians and the rapacious Roman Republic were scarcely less active at sea. Huge resources were poured into maintaining fleets not only as symbols of prestige...
by Nic Fields
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
The third in the Roman Conquests series will briefly cover Rome's first forays into the dark continent during the First and Second Punic Wars, then cover in detail her vindictive final conquest and destruction of Carthage in the Third Punic War. The subsequent long wars against the slippery Numidian...
by English, Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Alexander the Great is one of the most famous men in history, and many believe he was the greatest military genius of all time (Julius Caesar wept at the feet of his statue in envy of his achievements). Most of his thirteen year reign as king of Macedon was spent in hard campaigning which conquered...
Fields of Battle
Retracing Ancient Battlefields
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and sieges to seek new insights. The battle narratives in ancient sources can be a thrilling read and form the basis of our knowledge of these epic events, but they can just as often provide an incomplete or obscure record....
The Roman Emperor Aurelian
Restorer of the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for 1000 years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached in the middle of the third century AD, the empire was lapsing into chaos, with seemingly interminable civil wars over the imperial succession. The western...
by Ian Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
The Final Days of the Reich is the latest in the popular Images of War series by Ian Baxter. Drawing on rare and previously unpublished photographs accompanied by in-depth captions and text, this book is a compelling account of the final weeks of the Nazis' struggle for survival against overwhelming...
The First Jet Pilot
The Story of German Test Pilot Erich Warsitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
On 27 August 1939, Flugkapitan Erich Warsitz became the first man to fly a jet aircraft, the Heinkel He 178 and in June of the same year he flew the first liquid-fuel rocket aircraft, the Heinkel He 176. His legendary flying skills enabled him to assist the pioneering German aircraft and engine design...
Flight Craft 8: Mikoyan MiG-31
Defender of the Homeland
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
The MiG-31 started life as an advanced derivative of the famous MiG-25P interceptor, becoming the first Soviet fourth-generation combat aircraft. First flown in 1975, it differed from its progenitor primarily in having a crew of two (pilot and weapons systems operator), a highly capable passive phased-array...