Pen Sword: 3374 books
by Tim Travers
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
This books explains why the British Army fought the way it did in the First World War. It integrates social and military history and the impact of ideas to tell the story of how the army, especially the senior officers, adapted to the new technological warfare and asks: Was the style of warfare on...
Auchinleck
The Lonely Soldier
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck was born in India and raised in conditions of near poverty. Yet his talent ensured his career flourished despite his Indian Army background and he was the first Commander of 8th Army in North Africa. Despite great political interference, he stopped Rommel's Afrika...
Victory on the Western Front
The Development of the British Army 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Marshal Foch, the Generalissimo of the Allied Armies during the last stages of the First World War, commenting on the victories won during the Hundred Days when the Germans were driven back on the Western Front, said ‘Never at any time in history has the British army achieved greater results in...
by Ted Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
Concentrating on the Ploegsteert and Neuve Eglise sectors in Belgium, this book features stories on such well known figures as sculptor Charles Sargent Jagger, ARA ; R Poulton Palmer and 'Tanky' Turner, great friends and rugby football captains of England and Scotland respectively; as well the discovery...
Salient Points Three
Ypres & Picardy 1914-18
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
The third in the series of a collection of stories about the men the actions and the places of interest for the battlefield visitor to the old Western Front. This book features:- A Soldier for a Year (Private David Ross); - A Very British Grenadier (Captain Pixley); - An Artist at War (Ernest Carlos);...
The Great War Illustrated 1914
Archive and Colour Photographs of WW!
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
First of a series of five titles which will cover each year of the war graphically. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to become...
The Life and Campaigns of General Hughie Stockwell
From Norway Through Burma to Suez
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
The career of General Hugh Stockwell culminated in the ill-fated Suez Operation of 1956 but no stigma can attach to him for this. It was a military success but a political nightmare which resulted in the fall of Prime Minister Eden, the lowest point in relations between the Western allies, the departure...
Britain Goes to War
How the First World War Began to Reshape the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The First World War had a profound impact on British society and on British relations with continental Europe, the Dominions, the United States and the emerging Soviet Union. The pre-war world was transformed, and the world that we recognize today began to take shape. That is why, 100 years after...
Advance to Victory 1918
Somme
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
The Battleground series is designed for both the battlefield visitor and the reader at home. For the former, this book is an invaluable guide and each site is described in detail. For everyone there are graphic descriptions of action, often through first-hand accounts, supported by illustrations, diagrams and maps.
by Christopher Owen
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German Kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Wellington were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A...
by Nigel Blundell
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill is known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War Two. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, writer and...
August 1914: Surrender at St Quentin
Surrender at St Quentin
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The great retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons in August 1914 is one of the most famous in military history, and it is justly celebrated. But not all the British soldiers who were forced back by the German offensive performed well. Two colonels, Elkington and Mainwaring, tried to surrender...
Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots
A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
In the first half of the nineteenth century, treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change. No longer manacled, chained and treated like wild animals, patient care was defined in law and medical understanding, and treatment of insanity developed.
Focusing on...
Mad or Bad
Crime and Insanity in Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
In a violent 19th century, desperate attempts by the alienists - a new wave of 'mad-doctor' - brought the insanity plea into Victorian courts. Defining psychological conditions in an attempt at acquittal, they faced ridicule, obstruction - even professional ruin - as they strove for acceptance and...