Pen Sword: 3374 books
by Philip Matyszak
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
When, after a brutal civil war, the dictator Sulla took power in Rome (82 BC), among the many who refused to accept his rule was a young army officer called Quintus Sertorius. Sertorius fled, first to Africa and then to Spain, where he made common cause with the native people who had been savagely...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The book is skilfully abridged version of the diary of a First World War motorcycle despatch rider, Sergeant Albert Simpkin, who was attached to the HQ 37th Division. The diary entries, and some longer descriptions of the main actions of the Division, provide a fascinating record of the life of a...
Whitechapel's Sherlock Holmes
The Casebook of Fred Wensley OBE KPM, Victorian Crime Buster
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Jack the Ripper and beyond—forty-one years in the investigative career of a man hailed by many as Scotland Yard’s greatest detective of all time.
Fred Wensley was a Somerset gardener when he joined the Metropolitan Police in 1888.
His first case was to unmask Jack the Ripper. At least it familiarized...
Luck of the Devil
Flying Swordfish in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Robert le Page flew with the Fleet Air Arm from 1940 to 1945, mostly in 816 Squadron flying carrier-based Fairey Swordfish. He saw action mine-laying off Cherbourg, hunting U-boats, escorting convoys in North Atlantic and in the Arctic seas and covering D-Day. Much of his early war years were aboard...
Hobarts 79th Armoured Division at War
Invention, Innovation and Inspiration
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
This fascinating book describes how Major General Percy Hobart created, trained and commanded 79th Armoured Division, aunique formation crucial to the success of the D-Day Landings and the Allies drive through to Germany.Hobarts reputation as an armoured warfare specialist began in the pre-war era....
Lady Under Fire on the Western Front
The Great War Letters of Lady Dorothie Feilding MM
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
When Britain went to war in 1914 many people rallied to the cause, determined to join the colors or be useful in some other way. Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding was one of the latter. ‘Lady D’ spent almost three years on the Western Front in Belgium driving ambulances for the Munro Motor Ambulance...
Mithridates the Great
Rome's Indomitable Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
A military biography of Mithridates VI ‘the Great’ of Pontus, Rome’s most persistent enemy. The Mithridiatic wars stretched over half a century and two continents, and have a fascinating cast of pirates, rebels, turncoats and poisoners (though an unfortunate lack of heroes with untarnished motives)....
Eager for Glory
The Untold Story of Drusus the Elder, Conqueror of Germania
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
“The first biography of an important personality from the beginnings of Rome’s empire” (Graham Sumner, coauthor of Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier).
Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (Drusus the Elder) was the first conqueror of Germania (the Netherlands and Germany) and one...
Secret Duties of a Signals Interceptor
Working with Bletchley Park, the SDS and the OSS
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
The Second World War upended many lives, disrupting patterns and routines and bringing an array of terrifying new dangers with it. For Jenny Nater, the war brought great sadness but also opportunity. Like many women left behind on the home front during the war, she found herself in an unforeseen scenario...
Crusading General
The Life of General Sir Bernard Paget GCB DSO MC
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Bernard Paget enjoyed a hugely successful military career which culminated in his top level appointments in WW2. As C-in-C Home Forces and the C-in-C 21st Army Group he was responsible for preparing the Army for the long awaited Second Front in Europe in 1944. To his lasting chagrin he was not to...
Founder, Fighter Saxon Queen
Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
The story of the daughter of Alfred the Great, who fought against Viking invaders and ruled a kingdom in the tenth century.
Alfred the Great’s daughter defied all expectations of a well-bred Saxon princess. The first Saxon woman ever to rule a kingdom, Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, led...
Private Hitler's War
1914-1919
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
During the Great War Adolf Hitler served in the ranks of the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment from 1914 to 1918, and was awarded the Iron Cross. In later years, under the masterful control of Doctor Goebbels, Hitler was successfully portrayed by the Nazis as a valiant front-line soldier who,...
by Lucinda Hawksley
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Dickens and Christmas is an exploration of the 19th-century phenomenon that became the Christmas we know and love today – and of the writer who changed, forever, the ways in which it is celebrated. Charles Dickens was born in an age of great social change. He survived childhood poverty to become...
by Nadia Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The true story of the man who created Winnie-the-Pooh—yet struggled to enjoy the overwhelming success that it brought him.
Thanks to a phenomenally popular collection of whimsical children’s stories about a boy named Christopher Robin and his beloved teddy bear, A.A. Milne remains a household...