Pen Sword: 3374 books
Digging in the Dark
A History of the Yorkshire Resurrectionists
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Progress can be unstoppable at times, and not even death can prevent the desire for knowledge. A dark trade has long existed to provide fuel for the fires of research, a trade which is viewed by many as the most despicable occupation of all.
The resurrection men of Yorkshire came from all walks...
Captured at Kut, Prisoner of the Turks
The Great War Diaries of Colonel William Spackman
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
This edited diary is Colonel Bill Spackman’s extraordinary personal record of his experiences as the Medical Officer of an Indian Infantry battalion during the Mesopotamian Campaign 1914 – 1916. In particular he describes the harrowing events of the five month siege of Kut and, after the surrender...
Diary of an Old Contemptible
From Mons to Baghdad 1914-1919 Private Edward Roe, East Lancashire Regiment
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
This is a most unusual chronicle of the events of one man during the Great War. A professional soldier at the outbreak, Edward Roe was one of the first to cross over to France in 1914 and as such fought in the early battles of the war and took part in the Retreat from Mons. He was there for the crossing...
Frontier Fighters
On Active Service in Wazristan
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
These are fascinating memoirs of a British officer who fought the legendary Pathan tribesmen of the North-West Frontier, right up to the beginning of WW2. He describes desperate battles against this highly skilled and ruthless enemy. Pathan atrocities were commonplace and no prisoners were taken....
In a Guardsman’s Boots
A Boy Soldier’s Adventures from the Streets of 1920s Dublin to Buckingham Palace, WWII and the Egyptian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
When he was just eight years old, Paddy Rochford enrolled at Dublin’s Royal Hibernian Military School, where he was taught how to be a soldier with the British Army, like his father. Soon afterwards, in 1922, he and his fellow pupils were evacuated from Ireland, a land torn apart by civil war.
Across...
by John Meredith
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Personal accounts of a legendary battle seen through the eyes of Private George Teigh and Lieutenant Samuel FitzGibbon Cox amongst others. Both the Private and the Officer kept diaries, both recorded the same events, but with vastly differing views.Difficulties with boots, bullets and gunboats are...
by Barnaby Blacker
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
Stewart Blacker was a remarkable figure. His inventions were used with significant effect both in WW1 and WW2. Most notable of these was the synchronised machine gun, attached to fighter planes that could fire through the propeller. He also designed the PIAT anti tank weapon which was used with dramatic...
With SOE in Greece
The Wartime Experiences of Captain Pat Evans
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Pat Evans parachuted into German-occupied Northern Greece in September 1943. His mission as a SOE operative was to support the Greek resistance movement, carry out sabotage and commando operations and gather military intelligence.
By this time Greece was not only a country ravaged by a brutal...
Mustang the Inspiration
The Plane That Turned the Tide in World War Two
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
If it looks right, it will probably fly right—a tired old saying among airmen, but one that persists. Think if you will of the handful of airplanes that most people would probably agree are the best-looking examples of all. The list is short but distinguished and the proof is in the enthusiastic...
The Desert Air Force in World War II
Air Power in the Western Desert, 1940-1942
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This is a comprehensive reference to the structure, operation, aircraft and men of the 1st Tactical Air Force, or Desert Air Force as it became known. It was formed in North Africa to support the 8th Army and included squadrons from the RAF, SAAF, RAAF and eventually the USAAF. The book includes descriptions...
by Tucker-Jones, Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
The remarkable photographs collected together for this book show in graphic detail the role armor played in the Allied struggle to exploit the D-Day landings and liberate occupied France and the skill and tenacity of the German panzer units that confronted them. The struggle gave rise to a sequence...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This latest volume in Anthony Tucker-Jones’s series of photographic histories of armored warfare records in graphic detail the role played by tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled artillery during the decisive campaign in northwest Europe in 1944-5. In a sequence of over 200 archive...
Bastogne
Battle of the Bulge
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2011
By Christmas 1944, the Allies were on the threshold of victory, having remorselessly rolled the Germans back to the very borders of "The Fatherland". The, the shock of a massive Nazi counter-attack through the Ardennes in the depth of winter threw the Allies into confusion. Bastogne was at the very centre of this dramatic and most dangerous setback.
Armoured Warfare in the Far East 1937-1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic history is a fascinating visual introduction to the armoured battles of the Second World War in the Far East and Asia-Pacific regions, from 1937 to 1945. In contrast to the experience of the armies that fought in Europe and North Africa, in the Far East tanks remained...