Pen Sword Books: 303 books
by Caroline Maxton
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
True crime stories that span more than 200 years in south London history—from poisonings to passion killings.
We are all drawn to understand the circumstances that lead others to commit unforgivable acts of violence—the moment that turns a caring human being into a killer, the series of events...
by Geoffrey Sadler
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Midlands murders take center stage in a “gripping” book that “chronicles some of Mansfield’s most gruesome deaths over the past two centuries” (Mansfield Chad).
A young girl waylaid and battered with a hedge stake while returning home from Mansfield on a warm summer evening. Four family...
Fighting Napoleon
The Recollections of Lieutenant John Hildebrand 35th Foot in the Mediterranean and Waterloo Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
“These lively and entertaining memoirs provide an intriguing counterpoint to Wellington’s better-known operations in the Iberian Peninsula” (Julian Stockwin, author of the Thomas Kydd series).
It is often forgotten that Britain’s struggle against Napoleon ranged across the continents, and...
by Nick Billingham
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
True stories and photos revealing more than a century of murder and mayhem in England’s second-biggest city.
Starting with the mysterious murder of Mary Ashford in 1817 and following a trail of blood through the Victorian and Edwardian eras—up to the controversial execution of the young James...
Battle Group!
German Kamfgruppen Action in World War Two
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The author of War on the Eastern Front offers an in-depth analysis of Nazi Germany’s shock troop tactics in every theater of WWII.
The German army in the Second World War sought to fight and win swift, decisive victories in a succession of short campaigns known as blitzkrieg, or “lightning...
Seizing the Enigma
The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1939–1943
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
“An absorbing and thoroughly well documented account” of WWII naval intelligence and the Allied hunt for the Nazi code machine known as the Enigma (Warship).
From the start of World War II to mid-1943, British and American naval forces fought a desperate battle against German submarine...
by David Nash
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
An exact reproduction of the landmark British assessment of German military capability in the final months of World War I.
Compiled by British Intelligence, for restricted official issue by the General Staff, The German Army Handbook of April 1918 is a comprehensive assessment of the German Army...
by Sarah Quail
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
More than five hundred years of British true crime stories—from mutinies and murders to duels and executions.
This collection of historical true crime tales includes more than twenty notorious episodes that range from medieval times to the modern era, and offers a fascinating insight into criminal...
Hitler Strikes North
The Nazi Invasion of Norway and Denmark, 9 April 1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A detailed account of Germany’s groundbreaking Operation Weserübung, the first three dimensional—land, sea, air—strategic invasion in history.
The German invasion of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 brought a sudden and shocking end to the “Phoney War” in the West. In a single day, multiple...
Breach of Promise to Marry
A History of How Jilted Brides Settled Scores
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
A look back through the history of women who were about to be married only to be left at the altar—and left with no choice but to take their revenge.
A wedding day is supposed to be the happiest, most special and blessed event in a bride’s life. And most of the time, it is. But sometimes,...
Fighting for the News
The Adventures of the First War Correspondents from Bonaparte to the Boers
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
The incredible true stories of the first reporters from the battlefield—from Europe’s Napoleonic era to the Boer Wars of South Africa.
Over two centuries ago, newspapers first considered sending a reporter overseas to observe, gather information, and write about war. With no experience to draw...
Fool Britannia
Headline Making Stories from Jobsworth Britain
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
From annoying work speak to bureaucratic blunders, a hilarious account of political correctness and pedantry run amok across the pond.
Shoppers barred because they don’t fit the bill, motorists targeted while real villains win the day, health and safety becoming a sick joke, and Big Brother putting...
Agincourt, 1415
Field of Blood
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
A gripping fictionalized account of the landmark battle that turned the tide of history.
On October 25, 1415, a trapped and vastly outnumbered force of exhausted and demoralized English archers and men-at-arms faced a colossal army of French knights on a desolate field in northern France. What...
by Paul Britten Austin
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2002
The dramatic story of Napoleon’s escape from Elba and march on Paris—in the words of eyewitnesses and participants.
Drawing on hundreds of firsthand accounts by Napoleon’s supporters and opponents, Paul Britten Austin recreates the drama of those tumultuous days of the spring of 1815...