Pen And Sword: 3067 books
Jocks in the Jungle
The Second Battalion of the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment, The Black Watch, and the First Battalion of the 26th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) as Chindits.
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
In 1943, there was no thought of good times for two battalions of Scottish soldiers. For them, India meant a new and unimaginably arduous kind of training.
Some of the Black Watch boys had seen action in Somaliland, Crete and Tobruk. Some of the Cameronians had fought the Japs in the Burma...
Fight, Dig and Live
The Story of the Royal Engineers in the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
The Korean War, which began with an unprovoked attack by North Korea in 1950, went on for three long years. Over 100,000 soldiers of the United Nations forces, including those of the Republic of Korea, were killed and three times that number wounded. United Kingdom casualties amounted to some 300...
Fortune Favours the Brave
The Battles of the Hook Korea 1952-53
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
All too little remembered today, the Korean War was bitterly fought out under atrocious conditions of weather and terrain. Greatly outnumbered by their Communist Chinese and North Korean enemy, the United Nations forces fought with extraordinary resolve and gallantry.
The Hook, the name given to a...
The Gulf War
Operation Desert Storm 1990-1991
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Each stage in the Gulf War, the liberation by American-led UN forces of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait in 1990-91, is vividly described in this photographic history. Over 180 photographs provide a remarkable visual account of Operation Desert Storm in the air, at sea and on land, and they show the vast array...
Somme Success
The Royal Flying Corps and the Battle of The Somme 1916
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
High above the blood soaked trenches of the Somme during the Summer and Autumn of 1916, the Royal Flying Corps were acting out - and winning - one of the first great aerial battles of history.
Even in those pioneering days of flying, primitive aircraft flown by brave young men were of significant...
by Hans Seidler
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
From the outset of WW2, Gőring’s Luftwaffe Flak units saw extensive fighting with their 2cm, 3.7cm and deadly 8.8cm anti-aircraft guns. By the time of Hitler’s invasion of Russia, Luftwaffe ground forces had been expanded and were being used in both the army support and air roles.
After...
Luck of a Lancaster
107 operations, 244 crew, 103 killed in action
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
No 9 Squadron of Bomber Command converted from the Wellington to the Lancaster in August 1942. W4964 was the seventieth Lanc to arrive on squadron, in mid April 1943. She flew her first op on the 20th, by which time No 9 had lost forty-one of their Lancs to enemy action and another five had been transferred...
by Ian Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2007
German Guns of the Third Reich is an illustrated record of German light and heavy artillery, heavy mortars, anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns at war. Using previously unpublished photographs, many of which have come from the albums of individuals who took part in the war, it presents a unique visual...
Lightning Eject
The Dubious Safety Record of Britain’s Only Supersonic Fighter
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
The English Electric Lightning entered RAF squadron service in 1960 and continued flying in the interceptor role until 1988. It had a stunning world-beating performance with a top speed in excess of Mach 2 and a climb rate that would take it to 40,000 feet in a little over 3 minutes. The aircraft’s...
A Century of Air Power
The Changing Face of Warfare 1912-2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
No other technical development since the introduction of gunpowder has had as great an influence on warfare as the aircraft. From its early beginnings as simply a means of aerial reconnaissance to its utter supremacy on the battlefield, the aircraft has evolved into the most versatile and precise...
In the Teeth of the Wind
Memoirs of the Royal Navy Air Service in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
So rapid have been the advances in the science of aeronautics since the end of the First World War that it requires a considerable feat of imagination to cast one's mind back over the comparatively short period of seventy years to the days when Flight Commander Bartlett of the Royal Naval Air Service...
Eagles Over North Africa and the Mediterranean
1940 – 1943
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Although the Luftwaffe achieved a great deal of success in North Africa between 1940 and 1943, it was hampered by the constant demand for men and machines elsewhere, logistical problems, such as a crippling lack of fuel, and the harsh desert conditions.
An impressive selection of photographs...
The Strike Wings
Special Anti-Shipping Squadrons 1942-45
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
In November 1942, the RAF formed special Strike Wings to attack the heavily defended and seemingly invulnerable convoys that brought Germany’s vital supplies of iron ore from Scandinavia down the coast of Europe to feed its war machine. The outcome was a series sea/air battles at close quarters,...
by Hamish Ross, Fred Marafono
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Even by SAS standards this is the story of an outstanding warrior.
On the point of being demobbed from the SAS, Fred Marafono was recruited by David Stirling for his private security company. After Stirling’s death, Fred found himself in the midst of Sierra Leone’s Blood Diamond wars, and...