Pen And Sword: 3067 books
The Holy Boys
A History of the Royal Norfolk Regiment and the Royal East Anglian Regiment 1685-2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The Royal Norfolk Regiment is one of the oldest and most distinguished fighting forces in the British army. Its line of descent can be traced back for over three centuries, all the way from modern Afghanistan to Monmouth’s rebellion in 1685.
Throughout these years, and many campaigns, the...
by Ted Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
Concentrating on the Ploegsteert and Neuve Eglise sectors in Belgium, this book features stories on such well known figures as sculptor Charles Sargent Jagger, ARA ; R Poulton Palmer and 'Tanky' Turner, great friends and rugby football captains of England and Scotland respectively; as well the discovery...
Salient Points Three
Ypres & Picardy 1914-18
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
The third in the series of a collection of stories about the men the actions and the places of interest for the battlefield visitor to the old Western Front. This book features:- A Soldier for a Year (Private David Ross); - A Very British Grenadier (Captain Pixley); - An Artist at War (Ernest Carlos);...
The Great War Illustrated 1914
Archive and Colour Photographs of WW!
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
First of a series of five titles which will cover each year of the war graphically. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to become...
The Life and Campaigns of General Hughie Stockwell
From Norway Through Burma to Suez
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
The career of General Hugh Stockwell culminated in the ill-fated Suez Operation of 1956 but no stigma can attach to him for this. It was a military success but a political nightmare which resulted in the fall of Prime Minister Eden, the lowest point in relations between the Western allies, the departure...
Britain Goes to War
How the First World War Began to Reshape the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The First World War had a profound impact on British society and on British relations with continental Europe, the Dominions, the United States and the emerging Soviet Union. The pre-war world was transformed, and the world that we recognize today began to take shape. That is why, 100 years after...
by Christopher Owen
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German Kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Wellington were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A...
by Nigel Blundell
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill is known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War Two. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, writer and...
Mad or Bad
Crime and Insanity in Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
In a violent 19th century, desperate attempts by the alienists - a new wave of 'mad-doctor' - brought the insanity plea into Victorian courts. Defining psychological conditions in an attempt at acquittal, they faced ridicule, obstruction - even professional ruin - as they strove for acceptance and...
Digging in the Dark
A History of the Yorkshire Resurrectionists
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Progress can be unstoppable at times, and not even death can prevent the desire for knowledge. A dark trade has long existed to provide fuel for the fires of research, a trade which is viewed by many as the most despicable occupation of all.
The resurrection men of Yorkshire came from all walks...
Captured at Kut, Prisoner of the Turks
The Great War Diaries of Colonel William Spackman
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
This edited diary is Colonel Bill Spackman’s extraordinary personal record of his experiences as the Medical Officer of an Indian Infantry battalion during the Mesopotamian Campaign 1914 – 1916. In particular he describes the harrowing events of the five month siege of Kut and, after the surrender...
Diary of an Old Contemptible
From Mons to Baghdad 1914-1919 Private Edward Roe, East Lancashire Regiment
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
This is a most unusual chronicle of the events of one man during the Great War. A professional soldier at the outbreak, Edward Roe was one of the first to cross over to France in 1914 and as such fought in the early battles of the war and took part in the Retreat from Mons. He was there for the crossing...
Frontier Fighters
On Active Service in Wazristan
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
These are fascinating memoirs of a British officer who fought the legendary Pathan tribesmen of the North-West Frontier, right up to the beginning of WW2. He describes desperate battles against this highly skilled and ruthless enemy. Pathan atrocities were commonplace and no prisoners were taken....
In a Guardsman’s Boots
A Boy Soldier’s Adventures from the Streets of 1920s Dublin to Buckingham Palace, WWII and the Egyptian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
When he was just eight years old, Paddy Rochford enrolled at Dublin’s Royal Hibernian Military School, where he was taught how to be a soldier with the British Army, like his father. Soon afterwards, in 1922, he and his fellow pupils were evacuated from Ireland, a land torn apart by civil war.
Across...