Pen And Sword: 3067 books
by Michael Green
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2019
In 1900 the US Navy took into its first submarine, the Holland VI, into service. With a single torpedo tube, it had a crew of six, weighed 82 tons and traveled submerged at 6.2mph at a depth of up to 75 feet.
Contrast this to the 18 Ohio Class nuclear-powered submarines which entered service...
Joseph Locke
Civil Engineer and Railway Builder 1805 - 1860
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Most historians recognize the work of three engineers as being the men who developed the railways from slow, lumbering colliery lines into fast, inter-city routes. Two are very well known: Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The third was Joseph Locke, who should be recognized for having...
Colours in the Sky
The History of Autair and Court Line Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
It's impossible to tell the story of Court Line without telling that of Autair, founded by helicopter pioneer William 'Bill' Armstrong. Autair itself was an offshoot of his global helicopter operation, but Bill also had his finger in many aviation 'pies' including a multitude of operations in Africa,...
Red Sniper on the Eastern Front
The Memoirs of Joseph Pilyushin
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Joseph Pilyushin, a top Red Army sniper in the ruthless fight against the Germans on the Eastern Front, was an exceptional soldier and he has a remarkable story to tell. His first-hand account of his wartime service gives a graphic insight into his lethal skill with a rifle and into the desperate...
by Philip Matyszak
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
When, after a brutal civil war, the dictator Sulla took power in Rome (82 BC), among the many who refused to accept his rule was a young army officer called Quintus Sertorius. Sertorius fled, first to Africa and then to Spain, where he made common cause with the native people who had been savagely...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The book is skilfully abridged version of the diary of a First World War motorcycle despatch rider, Sergeant Albert Simpkin, who was attached to the HQ 37th Division. The diary entries, and some longer descriptions of the main actions of the Division, provide a fascinating record of the life of a...
Luck of the Devil
Flying Swordfish in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Robert le Page flew with the Fleet Air Arm from 1940 to 1945, mostly in 816 Squadron flying carrier-based Fairey Swordfish. He saw action mine-laying off Cherbourg, hunting U-boats, escorting convoys in North Atlantic and in the Arctic seas and covering D-Day. Much of his early war years were aboard...
Hobarts 79th Armoured Division at War
Invention, Innovation and Inspiration
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
This fascinating book describes how Major General Percy Hobart created, trained and commanded 79th Armoured Division, aunique formation crucial to the success of the D-Day Landings and the Allies drive through to Germany.Hobarts reputation as an armoured warfare specialist began in the pre-war era....
Lady Under Fire on the Western Front
The Great War Letters of Lady Dorothie Feilding MM
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
When Britain went to war in 1914 many people rallied to the cause, determined to join the colors or be useful in some other way. Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding was one of the latter. ‘Lady D’ spent almost three years on the Western Front in Belgium driving ambulances for the Munro Motor Ambulance...
Mithridates the Great
Rome's Indomitable Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
A military biography of Mithridates VI ‘the Great’ of Pontus, Rome’s most persistent enemy. The Mithridiatic wars stretched over half a century and two continents, and have a fascinating cast of pirates, rebels, turncoats and poisoners (though an unfortunate lack of heroes with untarnished motives)....
Secret Duties of a Signals Interceptor
Working with Bletchley Park, the SDS and the OSS
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
The Second World War upended many lives, disrupting patterns and routines and bringing an array of terrifying new dangers with it. For Jenny Nater, the war brought great sadness but also opportunity. Like many women left behind on the home front during the war, she found herself in an unforeseen scenario...
Crusading General
The Life of General Sir Bernard Paget GCB DSO MC
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Bernard Paget enjoyed a hugely successful military career which culminated in his top level appointments in WW2. As C-in-C Home Forces and the C-in-C 21st Army Group he was responsible for preparing the Army for the long awaited Second Front in Europe in 1944. To his lasting chagrin he was not to...
Private Hitler's War
1914-1919
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
During the Great War Adolf Hitler served in the ranks of the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment from 1914 to 1918, and was awarded the Iron Cross. In later years, under the masterful control of Doctor Goebbels, Hitler was successfully portrayed by the Nazis as a valiant front-line soldier who,...
by Lucinda Hawksley
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Dickens and Christmas is an exploration of the 19th-century phenomenon that became the Christmas we know and love today – and of the writer who changed, forever, the ways in which it is celebrated. Charles Dickens was born in an age of great social change. He survived childhood poverty to become...