Pen Sword: 3374 books
Redcoats
The British Soldiers of the Napoleonic Wars
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
What was a British soldier’s life like during the Napoleonic Wars? How was he recruited and trained? How did he live on home service and during service abroad? And what was his experience of battle? In this landmark book Philip Haythornthwaite traces the career of a British soldier from enlistment,...
Road to St. Julien
The Letters of a Stretcher-Bearer of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2004
William St Clair is perhaps the only soldier to have left a continuous account of his experiences day by day from the moment of joining up in 1914, through the years of horror in the trenches, to the march into Germany in 1919 and the long aftermath of trying to make sense of what had happened. A...
Soldier Of The Raj
The Life of Richard Fortescue Purvis 1789-1869
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
A meticulously researched biography of a young officer in the early part of the 19th Century. The son of an admiral, Richard Purvis went to sea in Nelson's Navy at the age of 11 before being commissioned at the age of 15 into the Bengal Army, part of the great East India Company. He went on to serve...
The Rigger
Operating With The SAS
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
For most people, climbing a ladder to clear the gutters is a challenge. Jack Williams and his colleagues in the specialist signals unit supporting the SAS in Northern Ireland had to climb towers and maintain vital communications - often in full view and under fire from terrorists. This is the gripping...
Subaltern
Chronicle of the Peninsular War
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Lieutenants, or "subalterns" as they were called, were very young in the British Army of the Napoleonic Wars, so George Gleig was not unique when he joined the 85th Light Infantry at the age of 17. Thrown into action in Spain against invading French forces in the summer of 1813, Gleig fought...
Fly By Nights
Navigating RAF Lancasters in 1944 -5
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
At the age of eighteen Don Feesey volunteered for pilot training with the RAF. Having almost completed his course to become a fighter pilot, an eye problem was detected and he was switched to navigational training. He completed a tour of thirty-four successful operations, the majority at night during...
From Dogfight to Diplomacy
A Spitfire Pilot's Log 1932-1958
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2006
MacDonell's service career began in the 1920s. Shortly before the war he became a Squadron Leader and worked at the Air Ministry during the Phoney War. When hostilities commenced he became CO of No 64 Squadron, carrying out convoy support operations and eventually fighting in the Battle of Britain....
by Kieran Hughes, Maureen Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
‘Proud to be British’ is the perfect book for everyone who lives in our wonderful country. Here the British will discover what they already suspected, and that is that many of the GREAT historical figures of all time were British, many of the GREATEST inventions were British, as well as many other...
by John Wilks, Eileen Wilks
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Rommel was to become the most respected of all generals in World War Two but no-one outside of a small clique in the German Army had heard of him in 1917. His role at the Battle of Caporetto in 1917 where the Italian Army was humiliated at a catastrophic defeat has received little attention yet it...
by Stephen Wade
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Tracing Your Police Ancestors will help you locate and research officers who served in any of the police forces of England and Wales from the creation of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of how or where to look for such information,...
Tales from the Big House: Normanby Hall
400 years of its history and people
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Tales from the Big House: Normanby Hall tells the story of a place known perhaps today mainly as the home where Samantha Cameron grew up, but historically it has been the seat of the Sheffield family, whose most famous member was arguably the Duke of Buckingham in the seventeenth century. As with...
by Stephen Wade
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Leeds at War 1939-1945 is a comprehensive account of the city's experience of the war, covering in expert detail life on the Home Front set against the background of the wider theaters of war.
The narrative of that global conflict is given with a focus on the trials and ordeals that faced the...
by Stephen Wade
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Harrogate and Ripon, just a few miles apart in one of the most beautiful localities in Yorkshire, have rarely had their contributions to the Great War told all together, in one volume. Stephen Wade has written an account of their importance, from the Ripon camps, where thousands of infantrymen for...
Empire and Espionage
Spies in the Zulu War
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The Anglo-Zulu War may be best remembered for the military blundering that led to the astonishing British defeat at Isandlwana, but as Stephen Wade shows in this book, military action throughout the war was supplemented by the actions of spies and explorers in the field, and was often heavily influenced...