Pen And Sword: 3067 books
Welsh Yeomanry at War
A History of the 24th (Pembroke and Glamorgan) Battalion The Welsh Regiment
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Soon after the outbreak of the Great War, following many years of part-time soldiering as cavalry troops on home defense duties, the members of various British Yeomanry regiments were asked to volunteer for overseas service. In 1916, officered by well-known members of the landed gentry, two of the...
The Welsh at War
From Mons to Loos & the Gallipoli Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Welsh at War – From Mons to Loos and the Gallipoli Tragedy is the culmination of twelve years of painstaking research by the author into the the Welsh men and infantry units who fought in the Great War.
These units included the four regular regiments the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, South Wales...
The Welsh at War
The Grinding War: The Somme and Arras
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The Welsh at War trilogy is the culmination of over twelve years of painstaking research by the author into the Welsh men and infantry units who fought in the Great War.
These units included the four regular regiments – the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, South Wales Borderers Welsh Regiment and Welsh...
by John Grainger
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
By the early second century BC, Israel had long been under the rule of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. But the policy of deliberate Hellenization and suppression of Jewish religious practices by Antiochus IV, sparked a revolt in 167 BC which was led initially by Judah Maccabee and later by his brothers...
Treaty Cruisers
The First International Warship Building Competition
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
The Washington Naval Treaty of 1921 and subsequent treaties in the 1930s effectively established the size and composition of the various navies in World War II. In particular they laid down design parameters and tonnage limitations for each class of warship including battleships, aircraft carriers,...
Bombers over Sand and Snow
205 Group RAF in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
205 Group RAF provided the only mobile force of heavy night bombers in the Mediterranean theater in the Second World War. It operated mainly from bases in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Italy, with occasional excursions to Malta, Greece and Iraq, attacking tactical and strategic targets according to the...
Malta
The Last Great Siege 1940 - 1943
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2003
The strategic importance of Malta sitting astride both the Axis and Allied supply routes in the Mediterranean was obvious to both sides during WW2. As a result the Island became the focal point in a prolonged and dreadful struggle that cost the lives of thousands of servicemen and civilians. After...
Divorced, Beheaded, Sold
Ending an English Marriage 1500-1847
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
A fresh perspective on the seamy side of history. Maria Nicolaou has done considerable research into the largely unexplored area of divorce and marital separation from the Tudor period to the early Victorian era. Divorced, Beheaded, Sold is full of scandalous, little-known stories of wife sale, marital...
Thetis Down
The Slow Death of a Submarine
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
On 1 June 1939 His Majesty’s Submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay while on her diving trials. Her loss is still the worst peacetime submarine disaster the Royal Navy has yet faced when ninety-nine men drowned or slowly suffocated during their last fifty hours of life.
The disaster became...
Red Tobruk
Memoirs of a World War II Destroyer Commander
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Red Tobruk, the war memoir of the Captain of HMS Eridge from late 1940 until August 1942 is a superb account of wartime action at sea. Frank Gregory-Smith&supl;s war started on the destroyer Jaguar and he saw action off Norway and during the Dunkirk evacuation, when she was hit by enemy air attack...
Edwardian Ladies' Hat Fashions
Where Did You Get That Hat?
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Based upon the author’s large personal collection of beautiful fashion postcards from Edwardian times, this book takes the reader on a journey through that era – covering the hat fashions and social changes of the day. Delve further into the carnage that took place around the world, in which unscrupulous...
German 88
The Most Famous Gun of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
The German 88 mm guns became the most famous and feared artillery pieces of the Second World War. They appeared in a whole series of forms ranging from anti-aircraft to anti-tank and tank-guns, including several self-propelled platforms. Although primarily anti-aircraft guns they gained an awesome...
The Animal Victoria Cross
The Dickin Medal
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Sixty-three animals have won the Dickin Medal, the highest award for animal bravery. Their inspiring stories are told, for the first time in one book, The Animal Victoria Cross. Four types of animal have been honored, dogs, horses, pigeons and one cat. Simon, the feline, is credited with saving an...
Tracing Your London Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
London is a key site for family historians. Many researchers, seeking to trace their ancestry back through the generations, will find their trail leads to London or through it. Yet, despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy and the importance of London in so many life stories, few previous books...