Pen Sword: 3374 books
With the German Guns
four years on the western front
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
At once harrowing and light-hearted, Sulzbach’s exceptional diary has been highly praised since its orginal publication in Germany in 1935. With the reprint of this classic account of trench warfare it records the pride and exhilaration of what to him was the fight for a just cause. It is one of...
Napoleon’s Army in Russia
The Illustrated Memoirs of Albrecht Adam, 1812
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
In 1812 Napoleon's magnificent army invaded Russia. Among the half a million men who crossed the border was Albrecht Adam, a former baker, a soldier and, most importantly for us, a military artist of considerable talent. As the army plunged ever deeper into a devastated Russia Adam sketched and painted....
With Napoleons Guard in Russia
The Memoirs of Major Vionnet, 1812
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Major Louis Joseph Vionnets memoirs of Napoleons disastrous 1812 campaign in Russia are readable, detailed, and full of personal anecdote and vivid glimpses into the life of the nineteenth-century soldier. His account concentrates in particular on the retreat from Moscow, but he was present at all...
Hurricane over the Jungle
120 Days Fighting the Japanese Onslaught in 1942
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
This is the author's personal account of how the 22 pilots of No 258 Squadron RAF left Scotland in late October 1941 until 120 days later when all those who had not been killed became prisoners of the Japanese. The story takes us to the final defense of Singapore and then on to Sumatra and Java where...
Voices in Flight: The Fleet Air Arm
Recollections from Formation to Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The author Malcolm Smith has been the Editor of Jabberwock, the bi-annual journal of the Fleet Air Arm Museum, for two years and has inherited the complete archive of editions dating back to the formation of SOFFAAM in 1979. In browsing through these, it quickly became apparent to him that they provided...
With the SAS and Other Animals
A Vet's Experiences during the Dhofar War 1974
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
In 1970 at the height of the Cold War, the young Sandhurst-trained Sultan Qaboos of Oman, with secret British military backing, took on the communist rebels in a fierce but little known war. Along with regular British Army and contract officers, the SAS played a key role in this bitterly fought but...
Fight for the Sea
Naval Adventures from the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
This collection of popular naval stories covers the entire span of World War II, beginning when the British Royal Navy faced fascist forces on its own until the final Allied victory over the Japanese in 1945. Fight for the Sea offers a rich mixture of accounts about such large and well-known battles...
by Colin Roderick Fulton
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Historical fact meets heart-stopping action in a World War II thriller full of “intrigue and fast paced action . . . sure to appeal to fans of wartime fiction” (Heritage and History).
In February 1945, the US Air Force launched the largest daytime bombing offensive against Berlin, dropping...
One-hour Wargames
Practical Tabletop Battles for those with Limited Time and Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
One of the biggest problems facing wargamers is finding the time to actually play. Most commercially available sets of rules require several hours to set up and play to a conclusion; some can easily swallow up a whole day or weekend. For many gamers this means that their lavishly prepared miniature...
British Nannies and the Great War
How Norland's Regiment of Nannies Coped with Conflict and Childcare in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In 1912, Norland children’s nurse Kate Fox was travelling by train heading to the British military station at Nowshera on the Afghan border to care for the premature baby born to the base’s commanding officer. Two years later, Kate was escaping from Germany in the first days of the Great War,...
Spartacus
Talons of an Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
What if Spartacus survived the slave rebellion? An enthralling, action-packed alternate-history novel of ancient Rome.
What path might history have taken if Spartacus had made it through the slave rebellion in 73 BC alive? What might he have achieved—and what blows might he have rained upon...
Tumult & Tears
An Anthology of Women’s First World War Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
During the First World War and its immediate aftermath, hundreds of women wrote thousands of poems on multiple themes and for many different purposes. Women’s poetry was published, sold (sometimes to raise funds for charities as diverse as ‘Beef Tea for Troops’ or ‘The Blue Cross Fund for...
by Gerry van Tonder
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
When the world held its breath …
It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944—long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe—with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines...
Brutus of Troy
And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
A “fascinating [and] unique exploration” of the mythological founder of Britain, divine ancestor of King Arthur, and symbol of British identity (Your Family History).
Believed to be a great-great-great grandson of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, Brutus of Troy led a voyage from Greece to Britain....