Pen Sword: 3374 books
Surgeon at Arms
Parachuting into Arnhem with the First Airbornes
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Surgeon at Arms is without doubt one of the most interesting and dramatic personal memoirs to come out of the Second World War. The author, a surgeon, was parachuted into Arnhem with the First Airborne Division. His professional skill was at once tested to the limit and the modest detachment with...
by Jack Holroyd
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
By the end of the Second World War the reputation of Hitler's Schutzstaffel (SS) had become so heavily sullied that the organization was branded criminal and banned in postwar Germany. It's authority in Nazi Germany had been enormous having been made responsible for Reich internal security, it implemented...
Tales from the Rifle Brigade
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade Random Shots From a Rifleman
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
To Napoleon's troops, the sharp shooters of the 95th (Rifle) Regiment were 'the rascals in green', famed throughout Europe for their bravery, skill, and dash. Kincaid's Adventures in the Rifle Brigade was the first book to be published by a veteran, recounting the amazing escapades of this legendary...
Wellington’s Worst Scrape
The Burgos Campaign 1812
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
The disastrous retreat and near disintegration of Sir John Moore’s army on the road to Corunna in 1809 is traditionally regarded as the low point in the history of the British intervention in the Peninsular War. Yet under the Duke of Wellington, the British and their allies suffered defeats and...
Peninsular Eyewitnesses
The Experience of War in Spain and Portugal 1808-1813
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Many books have been written about the British struggle against Napoleon in the Peninsula. A few recent studies have given a broader view of the ebb and flow of a long war that had a shattering impact on Spain and Portugal and marked the history of all the nations involved. But none of these books...
Fort Vaux
Verdun
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
The bitter fight for Fort Vaux is one of the most famous episodes in the Battle of Verdun - it has achieved almost legendary status in French military history. The heroic resistance put up by the fort’s commander, Major Raynal, and his small, isolated garrison in the face of repeated German assaults...
From the Marne to Verdun
The War Diary of Captain Charles Delvert, 101st Infantry, 1914–1916
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Charles Delvert’s diary records his career as a front-line officer in the French army fighting the Germans during the First World War. It is one of the classic accounts of the war in French or indeed in any other language, and it has not been translated into English before. In precise, graphic detail...
by Harry Levy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1995
This book tells the story of a young Jewish airman who was shot down over Belgium and then captured by the Germans. It tells of his life as a suspected spy and POW.
by Paul le Goupil
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The unforgettable memoir of a WWII French Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
Paul le Goupil was about to take his first job as a teacher when Germany invaded France in May of 1940. Soon after, he joined the Front National and found his life irreversibly...
Alone I Fly
A Wellington Pilot’s Desert War
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
After several years at sea, Sgt Bill Bailey arrived in Cairo in 1942 as a new recruit to the RAF, hoping to fulfill his ambition to fly bombers. Within hours of his arrival he is sent on his first bombing mission as second pilot in a 104 Squadron Wellington. The aircraft was hit by enemy gunfire and...
by John Strawson
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
John Strawson describes joining the 4th Hussars in the Middle East in 1942 and serving with them until amalgamation with the 9th Hussars in 1958 as The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars. He commanded the Regiment during the Borneo campaign and was Colonel from 1975 to 1985. His account of war in Italy...
Flying in Defiance of the Reich
A Lancaster Pilots Rites of Passage
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
This is the vivid memoir of a man who was twenty-one at the outbreak of World War II. Having joined the RAFVR before the war, he was mobilized in August 1939 and after training became operational on 233 Squadron Coastal Command flying Hudsons from Leuchars, Aldergrove and St Eval. After fourteen months...
German Army on the Somme
1914-1916
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2005
By drawing on a very large number of German sources, many of them previously unpublished, Jack Sheldon throws new light on a familiar story. In an account filled with graphic descriptions of life and death in the trenches, the author demonstrates that the dreadful losses of 1st July were a direct...
The German Army on Vimy Ridge
1914/1917
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
The book starts with on the capture of Vimy Ridge and the nearly spur of Notre Dame de Lorette in October 1914. The major battles of spring and autumn 1915 is described as is the twelve month period from late autumn 1915 when British forces occupied the lines on the western Ridge. The period from...