Pen Sword: 3374 books
Towton: The Battle of Palm Sunday Field
The Battle of Palm Sunday Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
The battle at Towton in Yorkshire on 29 March 1461 was the largest, longest fought and bloodiest day in English medieval history. In terms of the number of troops involved, the ruthlessness of the fighting, the quantity of casualties and the decisive nature of its outcome, Towton stands out from the...
In Bed with the Georgians
Sex, Scandal and Satire in the 18th Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
In Bed with the Georgians provides a fascinating insight into life under the bed-clothes in Georgian England, where the Madams and pimps were able to thrive in the eighteenth century like never before. It looks at high-class seraglios as well as the brothels, jelly-houses and bagnios which flourished...
In Presence of My Foes
From Calais to Colditz via the Polish Underground - The Travels and Travails of a POW
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
This is a wartime escape memoir that ranks with the finest. Seriously wounded and captured at Calais, the Author recovered to escape from his POW camp in a load of rubbish. He was on the run thanks to the Polish Underground for nine months and was recaptured within sight of the Swiss border. Interrogation...
by Stefan Terlezki
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2005
Born in the Ukraine in the 1930's Stefan was taken from his family and sold by the Nazis into slavery in Austria. After many adventures and misadventures, he made his way to the UK, and eventually was elected as Member of Parliament for Cardiff, becoming a close friend of Margaret Thatcher and other...
The Lengthening War
The Great War Diary of Mabel Goode
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This is a strong narrative of the war, easy to read, mixing news with personal feelings and events (often revealing gap between official news and reality).
The diary captures the authors' growing disillusionment with the war, as it gradually encroaches on her life. The diary starts with great excitement,...
Churchill and the Mad Mullah of Somaliland
Betrayal and Redemption 1899-1921
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
In the late nineteenth century, the British Empire commanded the seas and possessed a vast Indian Empire, as well as other extensive dominions in South East Asia, Australasia, America and Africa.
To secure the trade route to the glittering riches of the orient, the port of Berbera in Somaliland...
The Kaiser's Captive
In the Claws of the German Eagle
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Albert Rhys Williams was an American journalist and author. In 1914, Williams travelled to Europe as the special war correspondent for Outlook magazine, tasked with the duty of reporting the events of the Great War.
In these early days of the conflict, Williams had the misfortune to fall into...
Bligh
Master Mariner
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Beyond the Bounty: A biography of the Royal Navy officer from “a master of the maritime narrative” (The Sydney Morning Herald).
The eighteenth century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these expeditions were...
Burned at the Stake
The Life and Death of Mary Channing
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
A true story of crime and punishment in eighteenth-century England, and the first trial in recorded history to employ forensic evidence.
In 1706, nineteen-year-old Mary Channing was convicted of poisoning her husband and became the last woman to be burned at the stake in Dorset. Despite the likely...
Tales from the Big House: Temple Newsam
The Hampton Court of the North, 1,000 years of its history and people
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Situated only 4 miles southeast of the bustling cosmopolitan city of Leeds lies a jewel in the crown of British stately homes. Set in 1,200 acres of rolling parkland and woods is Temple Newsam House, once described as the Hampton Court of the North.
The estate has survived almost 900 years...
The Real Tenko
Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The author of Children of the Camps delves into the harrowing true stories behind the TV drama: the fate of women held in Japanese captivity during WWII.
This book details the treatment of Allied servicewomen, female civilians, and local women by the Japanese occupation forces, including the...
Children of the Camps
Japan's Last Forgotten Victims
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
The author of *Guarding Hitler*tells the truly heart-rending stories of Caucasian and Eurasian children held captive inside Japanese internment camps.
The Japanese treatment of Allied children was as harsh and murderous as that of their parents and military POWs, but this whole episode has been...
by John Randle
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
A collection of autobiographical stories from an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II.
John Randle served with the greatly respected Baluch Regiment of the former Indian Army right through the fiercely fought Burma Campaign, winning a Military Cross, yet on VJ Day he was only...
Not Ordinary Men
The Story of the Battle of Kohima
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Having driven the British and Indian Forces out of Burma in 1942, General Mutaguchi, Commanding the 15th Japanese Army, was obsessed by the conquest of India. In 1944 the British 14th Army, under its commander General Slim, drew back to the Imphal Plain, before Mutaguchi’s impending offensive.
To...