Pen Sword Maritime imprint: 71 books
The Lusitania Saga & Myth
100 Years On
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
An account of one of the greatest maritime disasters in history—the Lusitania’s proud service, its sinking by a German U-Boat, and the tragic aftermath.
When the RMS Lusitania entered service in 1907, she was the pride of the Cunard fleet. The first transatlantic express liner powered by marine...
The Real Cruel Sea
The Merchant Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1943
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
For the British, the Battle of the Atlantic was a fight for survival. They depended on the safe transit of hundreds of convoys of merchant ships laden with food, raw materials and munitions from America to feed the country and to keep the war effort going, and they had to export manufactured goods...
Taming the Atlantic
The History of Man's Battle With the World's Toughest Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The Atlantic Ocean has been and remains an often deadly challenge to mankind. This delightful and informative book chronicles the history of attempt to cross its hostile surface from the early days of sail to the most recent record breaking attempts in small ultra-fast craft. In between there have...
Cruise Ships
The World’s Most Luxurious Vessels
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
The stunning elegance and luxurious interiors of today’s vast fleet of cruise liners remains unrecorded in all but holiday brochures. This book gives a complete overview of the cream of these ships, today’s queens of the sea.
Each liner is illustrated and described with color illustrations...
Who Sank the Titanic?
The Final Verdict
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
A reporter explores the role that criminal negligence may have played in history’s most famous disaster at sea.
The RMS Titanic was hailed as largest, strongest, safest ship of its time, an exemplar of British shipbuilding. But what the 1,500 victims who sailed to their watery graves never knew...
Cruise Ships The Small Scale Fleet
A Visiual Showcase
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Peter C. Smith presents us here with the second release in his visually splendid Cruise Ships series. Whilst his first book concerned itself with the large-scale ships currently cruising through our seas (those weighing 40,000 GT and more) this volume focusses on the other end of the market; the ships...
Bismarck
The Epic Chase
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
When the German Battleship Bismarck was commissioned in 1940 she was one of the fastest and most powerful ships afloat. To the Royal Navy and the security of Allied shipping in the Atlantic she posed an enormous threat – she must be destroyed. When she broke out into the Atlantic in 1941, some of...
by David Wragg
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Seapower was a crucial element in the outcome of the Second World War. The U-Boat campaign almost brought Britain to her knees; the Arctic convoys were crucial to keeping Russia in the War; Pearl Harbor brought America into the conflict with massive repercussions; allied naval supremacy made the D-Day...
Killing the Bismarck
Destroying the Pride of Hitler's Fleet
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
“An excellent account . . . A suspenseful narrative that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.” —WWII History Magazine
In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy’s...
HMS Rodney
Slayer of the Bismarck and D-Day Saviour
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
The Second World War battleship HMS Rodney achieved lasting fame for her role in destroying the pride of Hitlers navy, the mighty Bismarck in a thrilling duel. The Rodney carrying the largest guns ever mounted in a British warship finally succeeded in turning her adversary into twisted metal and so...
by Ballantyne , Iain
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
No warship name in British naval history has more battle honours than Warspite. While this book looks at the lives of all eight vessels to bear the name (between 1596 and the 1990s), it concentrates on the truly epic story of the seventh vessel, a super-dreadnought battleship, conceived as the ultimate...
Alarm Starboard!
A Remarkable True Story of the War at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
The Author's naval war experiences make the most exciting reading. After being mined on the battleship Nelson in 1939, he served on the Prince of Wales, during the Bismarck action, witnessing the sinking of the Hood and Churchill and Roosevelt's historic meeting. He survived the disastrous sinking...
Bomb Alley
Falkland Islands 1982 – Aboard HMS Antrim at War
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2007
This is the untold story of the Falklands War as experienced by a below-decks seaman on one of the most important ships to be despatched to the South Atlantic. It is a no-holds-barred account as seen through the eyes of a Royal Navy matelot who shared the terror of the first encounter with Argentinean...
Periscope Patrol
The Saga of the Malta Force Submarines
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2008
The Malta Force submarines had the vital task of interrupting German and Italian convoys crossing the Mediterranean to resupply Rommel and his Army in North Africa. The outcome of the Desert War depended on this.
Operations from the beleaguered island were hazardous both at sea and in port....