Pen And Sword: 3067 books
by Richard Van Emden
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Benjamin Clouting was just sixteen years old when he embarked with the British Expeditionary Force for France in August 1914. The youngest man in the 4th Dragoon Guards, he took part in the BEF's celebrated first action at Casteau on August 22nd, and, two days later, had his horse shot from under...
The Road to Passchendaele
The Heroic Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly regarded series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once again, using the winning formula of diaries and memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on illegally held cameras by the soldiers themselves, Richard...
by Richard Van Emden
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
1918: The Final Year of the Great War to Armistice is the next volume in the remarkable series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Revisiting the winning formula of diaries and memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on illegally-held cameras by the...
Temporary Heroes
Lieutenant Norman Cecil Down
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This is a short book based on the letters written between 1915 and 1916 by an officer serving with the 1/4th Gordon Highlanders. Second Lieutenant Down wrote regularly to his girlfriend/fiancée throughout his time in France, letters which were published in 1917 after he was wounded and discharged...
From Corunna to Waterloo
With the Hussars 1808 to 1815
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Basing his story on contemporary letters, diaries and reports and a comprehensive bibliography, John Mollo takes the reader into the heart of the Hussar Brigade in peace and war, depicting its many colourful characters with a sure hand and describing every facet of day-to-day life, in barracks and...
Dangerous Frontiers
Campaigning in Somaliland and Oman
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
In Part 1 of his book the author describes his life as a young officer in the Somaliland Scouts in the (then) British Protectorate of Somaliland. At that time tribal quarrels, generally over water, were taking place in the troubled strip of country between the Protectorate and Ethiopia; the Ogaden....
The Riddles Of Wipers
An Appreciation of the Trench Journal “The Wipers Times”
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The Wipers Times was the Private Eye of the Ypres Salient during World War One. Edited, while under bombardment, by a battalion commander in the Sherwood Foresters, written by soldiers actually in the trenches and distributed by ration-wagon and ammunition-mule. the paper bears vivid witness to the...
The Awful Killing of Sarah Watts
A Story of Confessions, Acquittals and Jailbreaks
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Before Road there was Frome . . . before Whicher there was Smith . . . before the heartless slaughter of four year old Saville Kent there was the brutal rape and murder of fourteen year old Sarah Watts.
Taking place nine years earlier than the Road Hill case, made famous by the best-selling...
Red Star Under the Baltic
A Firsthand Account of Life on board a Soviet Submarine in World War 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Red Star Under The Baltic is the graphic memoir of a Soviet submariner during his years at sea in the Baltic during the Second World War. Not only is this a superb record of the appalling conditions endured on these basic craft, but a very human account detailing the comradeship and tensions among...
Gladiators and Beast Hunts
Arena Sports of Ancient Rome
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Gladiators and Beasthunts is a comprehensive survey of arena sports in ancient Rome, focusing upon gladiatorial combat and the beast-hunts (venationes). Whilst numerous books have already been written on arena spectacles in ancient Rome, they generally neglect the venationes, despite the fact that...
by Matthew (Matt) Wharmby
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Vilified as the great failure of all London Transport bus classes, the DMS family of Daimler Fleetline was more like an unlucky victim of straitened times. Desperate to match staff shortages with falling demand for its services during the late 1960s, London Transport was just one organization to see...
Photographing the Fallen
A War Graves Photographer on the Western Front 1915–1919
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Ivan Bawtree has left behind a vast array of archives that tell the story of his work as a photographer with the Graves Registration Units on the Western Front from 1915 to 1919. He traveled to numerous parts of Northern France and Flanders most notably the Ypres Salient to photograph and record graves...
by Susan Brewer
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Part of the popular Famous series, Famous Dolls celebrates dolls in film, TV, cartoons, books, comics and comic strips, as well as toys such as Hamble in Playschool. It also explores the world of celebrity dolls including stars such as Shirley Temple and Mae West, pop star dolls including Michael...
Battleships of the United States Navy
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
From 1895 to 1944 the US Navy commissioned some 60 steel-clad battleships; the first being Indiana (BB-1) and the last USS Missouri (BB-63). After an impressive showing in the Spanish-American War and the ‘Great White Fleet’s’ circumnavigation of the world, US battleships played only a minor...