Pen Sword Books: 303 books
Criminal Children
Researching Juvenile Offenders, 1820–1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
A history of juvenile crime, punishment, and reform in England in the years before, during, and after the era of Charles Dickens.
How were juvenile delinquents dealt with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? What dire circumstances led to their behavior? Were the efforts to curb...
Conscientious Objectors of the Second World War
Refusing to Fight
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
“Drawing on extensive primary sources, Kramer describes the inter-war peace movement that gave birth to many conscientious objectors” (Military History Monthly).
Even today, most histories of the world wars focus on those who fought. Those who refused to do so are often overlooked. It is perhaps...
by Major General John Frost
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
One of the British Army’s first paratroopers recounts in vivid detail his service in the 2nd Parachute Battalion during the Battle of Arnhem and beyond . . .
No one who has read of Arnhem can fail to be inspired by gallantry of the 2nd Parachute Regiment, which held the north end of the key...
1919
Britain's Year of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The little-known true story of rioting and rebellion among British veterans and workers after the end of World War I.
On the August Bank Holiday of 1919, the government in London dispatched warships to the northern city of Liverpool in an overwhelming show of force. Thousands of troops, backed...
A Bomber Crew Mystery
The Forgotten Heroes of 388th Bombardment Group
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
An antique trophy inspires a quest to uncover the history of an outstanding crew of WWII airmen who first flew into combat on D-Day.
After discovering a discarded trophy in an Edinburgh antique shop, author David Price endeavored to tell the stories of the men whose names had been engraved...
An Anzac on the Western Front
The Personal Reflections of an Australian Infantryman from 1916 to 1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
“A remarkably candid and graphic account” of the World War I service of a member of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Britain at War Magazine).
Having enlisted in 1915 and serving in the 56th Battalion Australian Imperial Force, Harold Roy Williams arrived in France, from Egypt, on...
Bully Beef & Biscuits
Food in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
A “well-researched, well-written, humorous and engaging” exploration of soldiers’ rations during World War I (Destructive Music).
Napoleon Bonaparte is often credited with saying that “an army marches on its stomach.” A hundred years after his time, the soldiers of the Great War would...
Accused
British Witches throughout History
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
The true stories of eleven notorious women, across five centuries, who were feared, victimized, and condemned for witchcraft in the British Isles.
Beginning with the late Middle Ages—from Ireland to Hampshire—hundreds of women were accused of spellcasting, wicked seduction, murder, and...
by Roy Berkeley
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 1994
A historical tour of London landmarks for anyone fascinated by intrigue and espionage . . . Includes maps and photos.
James Bond may be fictional—but London is indeed the espionage capital of the world. This book takes us through the city’s espionage history, with evocative photos and compelling...
by Margaret Drinkall
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Discover the darker history of this South Yorkshire town with these true crime stories and photos.
This book takes you on a journey into England’s past, and into the gritty industrial town of Barnsley. With a variety of true-crime tales, it reveals not only the poverty and squalor in which...
Fighting for Napoleon
French Soldiers' Letters, 1799–1815
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
True, first-hand accounts of combat and soldiering from the men who fought for Napoleon Bonparte and the First French Empire: “Fascinating stuff” (Stuart Asquith, author of Military Modelling).
The French side of the Napoleonic Wars is often presented from a strategic point of view, or in terms...
Guarding Hitler
The Secret World of the Führer
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
“A hive of interesting facts and almost unbelievable stories about Adolf Hitler . . . Well worth a look. Well worth a read.” —War History Online
Based on intelligence documents, personal testimonies, memoirs, and official histories, including material only declassified in 2010, Guarding...
by Timothy Venning
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
This helpful reference offers a timeline of ancient Greece’s political and military history.
This chronological history begins with the necessarily approximate course of events in Bronze and early Iron Age, as estimated by the most reliable scholarship and the legendary accounts of this period....
The Lusitania Saga & Myth
100 Years On
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
An account of one of the greatest maritime disasters in history—the Lusitania’s proud service, its sinking by a German U-Boat, and the tragic aftermath.
When the RMS Lusitania entered service in 1907, she was the pride of the Cunard fleet. The first transatlantic express liner powered by marine...