Pen And Sword imprint: 2611 books
1000 Days on the River Kwai
The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Memoirs by former prisoners of war of the Japanese invariably make for moving reading but Colonel Owtrams account of his years of captivity has a special significance.
After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway he was appointed the British Camp Commandant...
Infamous Aircraft
Dangerous designs and their vices
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
Many aircraft, some famous and some rare, gained a reputation for being difficult to fly and sometimes downright dangerous. This book looks at some of the worst culprits over a period spanning World War One to the age of supersonic flight. The following aircraft are included.
BE.2 - The RFC...
Mosquito Mayhem
de Havilland's Wooden Wonder in Action in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
“The flak started about four or five minutes before the target and immediately it was apparent that it was intense and extremely accurate. Oboe entailed the pilot flying dead straight and level for ten minutes on the attack run. Suddenly a tremendous flash lit up the sky about 50 yards ahead of...
by Geoffrey Higgs
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2010
The spectacle of Alan Cobham’s Flying Circus and the Fleet at anchor in Weymouth inspired the author’s lifelong passion for aeroplanes, flying and the Royal Navy. World War Two provided the opportunity to fulfill his ambition and at eighteen he volunteered for the Fleet Air Arm as a pilot. Training...
Mosquito: Menacing the Reich
Combat Action in the Twin-engine Wooden Wonder of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
'On 15 November it came suddenly out of nowhere inches above the hangars with a crackling thunderclap of twin Merlins. As we watched, bewitched, it was flung about the sky in a beyond belief display for a bomber that could out perform any fighter. Well-bred whisper of a touch down, a door opened and...
On and Off the Flight Deck
Reflections of a Naval Fighter Pilot in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Hank Adlam began his naval flying career in 1941, his first operational posting was to the newly-formed No. 890 Squadron. The squadrons first operational role was to protect a convoy sailing from New York and bound for Greenock. Their major task was to protect the ships squadron of Fairey Swordfish...
Lightning from the Cockpit
Flying the Supesonic Legend
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
The English Electric Lightning was the only single-seat supersonic interceptor fighter designed and manufactured in the UK. It saw service with the RAF in the sixties and seventies and gained a worthy reputation for its speed ( in excess of Mach 2 ) and phenomenal rate of climb. It was, however, a...
On the Deck or in the Drink
Flying with the Royal Navy 1952-1964
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Brian Allen first went to sea as a naval aviation officer cadet aboard HMS Indefatigable in 1952 , bound for Gibraltar. In 1954 he was appointed to Lossiemouth for fighter training and flew the Vampire T22. In December 1955 Brian joined 737 Squadron where he was attached to the Anti-Submarine Training...
by John Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Deborah is a British First World War tank that rose from the grave after taking part in one of the most momentous battles in history. In November 1917 she played a leading role in the first successful massed tank attack at Cambrai. Eighty years later, in a remarkable feat of archaeology, the tank’s...
by Ballantyne , Iain
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
No warship name in British naval history has more battle honours than Warspite. While this book looks at the lives of all eight vessels to bear the name (between 1596 and the 1990s), it concentrates on the truly epic story of the seventh vessel, a super-dreadnought battleship, conceived as the ultimate...
by Graham Simons
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Jack Northrop’s flying wings - or to give them their more correct title, all wing aircraft - were some of the most spectacular, graceful and elegant flying machines ever to grace the skies. A design as aeronautically pure as a flying wing had huge advantages over conventional aircraft design. This...
by Richard Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
They could arrest and imprison anyone at any time. They murdered civilians. They wore a strange mixture of dark green tunics, khaki rousers, black belts and odd headgear, including civilian felt hats. The Irish named them after a famous pack of wild dogs on County Limerick – The Black and Tans.
Although...
Who’s Who in the Anglo Zulu War 1879
Vol 2 - The Colonials and The Zulus
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2007
The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 has a character that inspires and fascinates readers and increasing numbers of visitors to South Africa. The two volume biographical dictionary of the participants is a unique venture and this second volume reveals much about the formidable Zulu nation which so nearly humbled...
Train Doctor
Trouble Shooting with Diesel and Electric Traction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Train Doctor is the story of Roger Senior's career in the railway industry, from 1968 when the author joined British Railways, until his retirement from Great North Eastern Railway.
The book takes you from the 1970’s period, with its first generation Diesels, through to privatisation in 1994...