Pen Sword Books: 303 books
1813: Empire at Bay
The Sixth Coalition & the Downfall of Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
A distinguished historian and British Army veteran examines the political and military alliances that led to the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars.
1813 was a critical year in the war that ended with the downfall of Napoleon—the year in which the balance of power tipped decisively against...
Retreat & Rearguard: Dunkirk 1940
The Evacuation of the BEF to the Channel Ports
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The dramatic story of how a quarter million men were evacuated from the coast of France—and how the British Expeditionary Force fought on.
This book, part of the Retreat and Rearguard series, covers the actions of the BEF during the retreat from the Dyle Line to the evacuation points of Dunkirk,...
by Sean Davies
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
A study of medieval warfare and a formative event in the history of Britain.
Edward I’s conquest of Wales has not been the subject of a scholarly book for over a century. Research has advanced since then, changing our perception of the medieval military mind and shining fresh light on the key...
Chiang Kai-shek Versus Mao Tse-tung: The Battle for China 1946–1949
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
A vivid portrait of the final years of the civil war between the Chinese Nationalists and Communists, including many previously unpublished photos.
This volume in the Images of War series is the first photographic history of the Chinese Civil War, fought between Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists...
A Vatican Lifeline '44
Allied Fugitives Aided By the Italian Resistance Foil the Gestapo in Nazi-Occupied Rome
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 1995
A memoir of an Allied soldier and former POW in Rome, and the unexpected support he received from the Italian people—and from a heroic Catholic monsignor.
It is a widely held belief that the Italians in the Second World War failed to win much in the way of martial glory. But the scoffers tend...
by Paul Chrystal
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
A look at how warfare affected—and was affected by—women in ancient times.
Although the conduct of war was generally monopolized by men in the Greco-Roman world, there were plenty of exceptions, with women directly involved in its direction and even as combatants—Artemisia, Olympias, Cleopatra,...
Beware Raiders!
German Surface Raiders in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
A British naval historian recounts the victories and defeats of two of the most infamous German Navy vessels during World War II.
Bernard Edwards’s Beware Raiders! tells the fascinating story of two German ships and the havoc they caused amongst Allied shipping in World War II. One was the...
by Maureen Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2004
A true-crime tour of this historical British coal town, with photos and illustrations.
Historically, Newcastle was a town of great wealth because of the abundance of natural resources. Certainly by the eighteenth century, Newcastle and its surrounding towns made up the most important commercial...
by David Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
A fresh and colorful look at Shakespeare’s London published on the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death.
In A Visitor’s Guide to Shakespeare’s London, readers can explore the streets of Shakespeare’s London and see the sights he saw, while learning how people ate, drank, misbehaved,...
by Derek Tait
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Houdini and beyond: a historic magical mystery tour of the great showmen who inspired the likes of David Blaine, Penn & Teller, and Siegfried & Roy.
Today, Harry Houdini stands as the most famous illusionist and escape artist in history. But from the late nineteenth century to early twentieth...
The Great Houdini
His British Tours
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
This fascinating biography “brings to life the excitement and thrills” of the master escape artist’s legendary turn-of-century tour in Great Britain (Lancashire Post).
Between 1900 and 1920, a century before endurance artist and street magician David Blaine, Hungarian-born Harry Houdini traveled...
Hitler's Munich Man
The Fall of Admiral Sir Barry Domvile
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
A “fascinating” account of the British director of Naval Intelligence who was interned during the Second World War as a Nazi sympathizer (The Armourer).
Between the First and Second World Wars, there was a growth of fascism in Britain and anxiety about revolution was in the air. Concerns of...
Who Sank the Titanic?
The Final Verdict
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
A reporter explores the role that criminal negligence may have played in history’s most famous disaster at sea.
The RMS Titanic was hailed as largest, strongest, safest ship of its time, an exemplar of British shipbuilding. But what the 1,500 victims who sailed to their watery graves never knew...
The Murder That Defeated Whitechapel's Sherlock Holmes
At Mrs Ridgley's Corner
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
A real-life murder mystery in turn-of-the-century London, and Scotland Yard’s “greatest detective of all time” who was determined to discover whodunit.
By 1919, Det. Chief Inspector Fred Wensley was already a legend, having investigated the Jack the Ripper slayings, busted crime syndicates,...