Pen Sword: 3374 books
Jocks in the Jungle
The Second Battalion of the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment, The Black Watch, and the First Battalion of the 26th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) as Chindits.
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
In 1943, there was no thought of good times for two battalions of Scottish soldiers. For them, India meant a new and unimaginably arduous kind of training.
Some of the Black Watch boys had seen action in Somaliland, Crete and Tobruk. Some of the Cameronians had fought the Japs in the Burma...
ARCTIC SNOW TO DUST OF NORMANDY
The Extraordinary Wartime Exploits of a Naval Special Agent
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2003
Very few men have a more exciting and dramatic story of their wartime activities to tell than Patrick Dalzel-Job. In 1940 using his special knowledge of North Norway's coast line he landed and moved over 10,000 Allied soldiers in local boats without the loss of a single life. Acting against specific...
Fight, Dig and Live
The Story of the Royal Engineers in the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
The Korean War, which began with an unprovoked attack by North Korea in 1950, went on for three long years. Over 100,000 soldiers of the United Nations forces, including those of the Republic of Korea, were killed and three times that number wounded. United Kingdom casualties amounted to some 300...
XD Operations
Secret British Missions Denying Oil to the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2006
XD Operations is the first account of the thrilling operations by the Kent Fortress Royal Engineers, a small Territorial Army Unit given the largest demolition programme ever undertaken by the Royal Engineers. These took place in May 1940 with the object of destroying all the oil reserves stored in...
Fortune Favours the Brave
The Battles of the Hook Korea 1952-53
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
All too little remembered today, the Korean War was bitterly fought out under atrocious conditions of weather and terrain. Greatly outnumbered by their Communist Chinese and North Korean enemy, the United Nations forces fought with extraordinary resolve and gallantry.
The Hook, the name given to a...
by Hill, Paul
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
In the time of the great Anglo-Saxon kings like Alfred and Athelstan, Æthelred and Edmund Ironside, what was warfare really like how were the armies organized, how and why did they fight, how were the warriors armed and trained, and what was the Anglo-Saxon experience of war? As Paul Hill demonstrates...
by Timothy Venning
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Timothy Venning's exploration of the alternative paths that British history might easily have taken moves on to the Wars of the Roses. What if Richard of York had not given battle in vain? How would a victory for Warwick the Kingmaker at the Battle of Barnet changed the course of the struggle for...
The Gulf War
Operation Desert Storm 1990-1991
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Each stage in the Gulf War, the liberation by American-led UN forces of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait in 1990-91, is vividly described in this photographic history. Over 180 photographs provide a remarkable visual account of Operation Desert Storm in the air, at sea and on land, and they show the vast array...
by Manfred Von Richthofen
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Manfred von Richthofen - the Red Baron - was the most celebrated fighter pilot of the First World War, and was holder of the Blue Max, Pour le Mérite, Germany's highest military decoration. He was credited with 80 victories in the air, before being shot down in disputed circumstances aged 26. In...
Somme Success
The Royal Flying Corps and the Battle of The Somme 1916
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
High above the blood soaked trenches of the Somme during the Summer and Autumn of 1916, the Royal Flying Corps were acting out - and winning - one of the first great aerial battles of history.
Even in those pioneering days of flying, primitive aircraft flown by brave young men were of significant...
by Hans Seidler
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
From the outset of WW2, Gőring’s Luftwaffe Flak units saw extensive fighting with their 2cm, 3.7cm and deadly 8.8cm anti-aircraft guns. By the time of Hitler’s invasion of Russia, Luftwaffe ground forces had been expanded and were being used in both the army support and air roles.
After...
Luck of a Lancaster
107 operations, 244 crew, 103 killed in action
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
No 9 Squadron of Bomber Command converted from the Wellington to the Lancaster in August 1942. W4964 was the seventieth Lanc to arrive on squadron, in mid April 1943. She flew her first op on the 20th, by which time No 9 had lost forty-one of their Lancs to enemy action and another five had been transferred...
by Ian Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2007
German Guns of the Third Reich is an illustrated record of German light and heavy artillery, heavy mortars, anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns at war. Using previously unpublished photographs, many of which have come from the albums of individuals who took part in the war, it presents a unique visual...
MIG Menace Over Korea
Nicolai Sutiagin, Top Ace Soviet of the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Nikolai Vasil'evich Sutiagin, the top-scoring Soviet air ace of the Korean War, flew his MiG-15 in lethal dogfights against American Sabres and Australian Meteors. He is credited with at 22 'kills'. Yet the full story of his extraordinary achievements has never been told. Only now, with the opening...