Pen Sword: 3374 books
Tracing your Channel Island Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Tracing Your Channel Islands Ancestors is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in libraries and archives in Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark. Full information is given on how to access the civil birth, marriage and death records which...
Caribbean Volunteers at War
The Forgotten Story of the RAF's 'Tuskegee Airmen'
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
All of a sudden there was the rush of an immense shadow coming towards him at terrific speed. It was the ground reaching up to gather him. The date was 26 June, 1943 and Cy Grant was the rarest of things - a black West Indian RAF crew member, blown out of his exploding Lancaster bomber.
The...
by Kevin McCormack
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This remarkable colour album of 1950’s and 1960’s images covers non-express trains working in and out of London termini, along with a selection of feeder services operating in roughly a 40 mile radius of the Capital. The trains featured are therefore semi-fast passenger, suburban passenger and...
by Keith Langston
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
The 'Castle' class 4-6-0 locomotives designed by Charles Collett and built at Swindon Works were the principal passenger locomotives of the Great Western Railway. The 4-cylinder locomotives were built in batches between 1923 and 1950, the later examples being constructed after nationalisation by British...
Surviving Fighter Aircraft of World War Two
Fighters: A Globel Guide to Location and Types
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
This is a guide to the existing WWII aircraft to be found in aviation museums throughout the world. Each DPS contains a colour photo of an example of the aircraft as viewed in an aviation museum, examples of different marks (wartime shots in mono) and a textual resume of the type with statistics.
The...
Surviving Bomber Aircraft of World War Two
A Global Guide to Location and Types
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
This is a guide to the existing WWII aircraft in aviation museums throughout the world. Each double page spread contains a color photo of an example of the aircraft as viewed in an aviation museum, examples of different marks (wartime shots in mono) and a textual resume of the type with statistics.
The...
Air War Over North Vietnam
Operation Rolling Thunder, 1965–1968
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
In early 1965 the United States unleashed the largest sustained aerial bombing campaign since World War II, against North Vietnam. Through an ever escalating onslaught of destruction, Operation Rolling Thunder intended to signal America’s unwavering commitment to its South Vietnamese ally in the...
by Rupert Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2003
Today the rivalry between St. Andrew and St. George may be fierce but at least it is limited to the sporting field. This was by no means always the case, before the Act of Settlement in the Eighteenth Century (400th Anniversary in March 2003). Author Rupert Matthews has researched more than twenty...
Early Roman Warfare
From the Regal Period to the First Punic War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
While copious amounts have been written about the Roman army, most study has focussed on the later Republic or the Imperial period when the legionary system was already well-developed. Here Dr Jeremy Armstrong traces the development of Rome's military might from its earliest discernible origins down...
British Special Forces
The Story of Britain's Undercover Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
This is the first comprehensive history of all the British Special Forces, from their beginnings during the Second World War to the Falklands War.
The birth of many of the Special Forces was controversial - they were accused of being 'private armies' and a waste of valuable manpower that could...
by Denise Bates
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Thanks to digitisation, newspapers from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century have become an indispensable and accessible source for researchers. Through their pages, historians with a passion for a person or a place or a time or a topic can rediscover forgotten details and gain new insights...
Bicycles, Bloomers and Great War Rationing Recipes
The Life and Times of Dorothy Peel OBE
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
The remarkable life and culinary career of the Martha Stewart of World War–era Britain.
Dorothy Peel played a key role in creating wartime recipes for householders and was awarded an OBE in 1918 for services to the Ministry of Food. In this fascinating book, Vicky Straker explores the social...
Battlefields in Miniature
Making Realistic and Effective Terrain for Wargames
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
Like a good general, a good wargamer should have an eye for the ground. Just as the nature of the battlefield plays a central role in real warfare, so miniature wargames are greatly enhanced by realistic terrain. Besides, when you've spent hundreds of hours collecting and painting your miniature armies,...
Holding the Home Front
The Women's Land Army in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
An “insightful and extensive” history of the women who took over agricultural duties in England during World War I (Sussex Living Magazine).
One could be forgiven for supposing that the story of the Women’s Land Army starts in 1939 during World War II. But it’s a much older and more complicated...