Pen And Sword: 3067 books
by Kirsty Gray
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
This book is an essential handbook for those researching their ancestry in the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset and the city of Bristol. It begins with an introduction to the identity of ‘The West Country’, its geography and history over the centuries. It then guides family historians...
Tracing Your East End Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
‘East Enders are a very special breed and tracing your East End ancestry is going to be tremendous fun. Everyone has got some East End ancestors - and if they haven’t they invent them, rollicking chaps, larky and resourceful, talking a funny language to keep “them” guessing, eating at eel...
Tracing Your Pauper Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
Many family historians will come across direct links to ancestors who were affected by poverty. Yet despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy, the history of pauperism and of poor relief has rarely been written about, and no previous book has provided a guide to documents and records that family...
by Stephen Wade
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Did you have a criminal in the family, an ancestor who was caught on the wrong side of the law? If you have ever had any suspicions about the illicit activities of your relatives, or are fascinated by the history of crime and punishment, this is the book for you. Stephen Wade’s useful introduction...
Baghdad Operators
Ex Special Forces in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
p across worn torn Iraq in the spring 2003. Discover how they used their unique military skills to create a successful security company with over 300 employees during the early days of the occupation. See how Iraq was torn apart from the inside from someone who was there and get an insight into what...
Mary Ann Cotton - Dark Angel
Britain's First Female Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
A female thief, with four husbands, a lover and, reportedly, over twelve children, is arrested and tried for the murder of her stepson in 1872, turning the small village of West Auckland in County Durham upside down. Other bodies are exhumed and when they are found to contain arsenic, she is suspected...
Escaping Hitler
A Jewish Boy's Quest for Freedom and His Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Escaping Hitler is the true story, covering ninety years, of a fourteen-year-old boy Günter Stern who, when Adolf Hitler threatened his family, education and future, resolved to escape from his rural village of Nickenich in the German Rhineland. In July 1939 Günter boarded a bus to the border with...
Letters from the Trenches
The First World War by Those Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
A history of the First World War told through the letters exchanged by ordinary British soldiers and their families.
Letters from the Trenches reveals how people really thought and felt during the conflict and covers all social classes and groups – from officers to conscripts and women at home...
Hurricane Squadron Ace
The Story of Battle of Britain Ace, Air Commodore Peter Brothers, CBE, DSO, DFC and Bar
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Air Commodore Peter Malam 'Pete' Brothers CBE, DSO, DFC, and Bar (1917-2008) was one of the most heroic and highly praised pilots of the Second World War. Decorated extensively, he secured a total of 16 'kills' over the course of the conflict, with 10 of these occurring during the Battle of Britain....
Ben Bennions DFC
Battle of Britain Fighter Ace
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Ben Bennion enlisted in the pre-war RAF, serving first as an 'erk' (ground crew) before being selected for pilot training. His first posting led to service in the Middle-East and Bennion's passport and other travel documents had to be rushed through. A clerical error led to his name being recorded...
Gilgit Rebelion
The Major Who Mutinied Over Partition of India
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
In 1942 William Brown was posted as a recently commissioned Indian Army Officer to the Gilgit Agency in the very north of the North West Frontier. He travelled widely, learnt the local dialects and built the Chilas Polo ground. After a brief period away from Gilgit, just prior to Partition in early...
Wakefield Then & Now
Extraordinary Tales from the Merrie City
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The escaping bear who’d had enough of being a Victorian showpiece; tragedy narrowly averted over the skies of Wakefield when an aeronaut lost control of his balloon in 1827; secret passages and hidden relics; and dark tales of determined apparitions and boggarts are among many enchanting stories...
Spy of the Century
Alfred Redl and the Betrayal of Austria-Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
‘The Redl Affair had everything: sex, espionage, betrayal, a fall from greatness and a sensational climax in which Redl went to his death like a figure of high tragedy.’ The New York Times ‘A story like that is truer than history.’ István Szabó ‘The army was shocked to the core. All knew...
S.A.S Men in the Making
An Original's Account of Operations in Sicily and Italy
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Peter Davis was the youngest officer in the SAS during World War II. In his autobiographical account, he reveals the naïve enthusiasm he felt when he joined the Unit, his fears and trepidation during training, and the horror at what he later experienced during his first operations in the liberation...