Pen And Sword imprint: 2611 books
by Ian Fletcher, Natalia Ishchenko
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
On 20 September 1854 the combined British and French armies confronted the Russians at the river Alma in the critical opening encounter of the Crimean War. This was the first major battle the British had fought on European soil since Waterloo almost 40 years before.
In this compelling and meticulously...
Life of Sir John Moore
Not a Drum Was Heard
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Sir John Moore organized and trained the British light infantry during the Napoleonic wars, and thus is regarded as the father of all subseqent British special warfare units. This biography is the first to draw on papers in the archives of the Dukes of Hamilton and Argyll which shed new light on Moore's...
Lost to the Sea
Britain's Vanished Coastal Communities: The Yorkshire Coast & Holderness
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Once there was a Roman settlement on what is now Filey Brig. In Holderness, a prosperous town called Ravenser saw kings and princes on its soil, and its progress threatened the good people of Grimsby. But the Romans and the Ravenser folk are long gone, as are their streets and buildings – sunk beneath...
Servants' Stories
Life Below Stairs in their Own Words 1800-1950
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Step into the world of domestic service and discover what life was really like for these unsung heroines (and heroes) of society. Between 1800 and 1950, the role of servants changed dramatically but they remained the people without whom the upper and middle classes could not function.
Through oral...
Rise of the Tang Dynasty
The Reunification of China and the Military Response to the Steppe Nomads (AD581-626)
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Julian Romane examines the military events behind the emergence of the Sui and Tang dynasties in the period 581-626 AD. Narrating the campaigns and battles, he analyses in detail the strategy and tactics employed, a central theme being the collision of the steppe cavalry with Chinese infantry armies.
By...
In Action With the Sas
A Soldiers Odyssey from Dunkirk to Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
Roy Close's wartime experiences make breathtaking reading. Mobilized in 1939 he became part of the BEF and was fortunate to avoid death or captivity during the German blitzkrieg and escape through Dunkirk. Sent to North Africa, he joined the Paras and, from there, to the SAS. In 1944 he operated behind...
Free to Fight Again
RAF Escapes and Evasions 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
To survive baling out from a doomed aircraft or a crash-landing in enemy occupied territory certainly required a large element of luck. To then manage to return to Allied shores inevitably needed considerably more good fortune and often the assistance of local patriots and resistance workers.
This...
From Coastal Command to Captivity
The Memoir of a Second World War Airman
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2003
Thanks to the perseverance and editorial effort of his son Allan, Jim Hunter's splendid war memoirs of flying and captivity can now be enjoyed by a wider audience. In the first part there is the account of his flying career in RAF Coastal Command, culminating in an extraordinarily brave attack by...
by Michael O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2006
In this latest addition to the Airfields and Airmen Series, Mike O’Connor describes the dramatic air actions that took place along the Belgian and North France coastline during The Great War.
In addition to the Royal Fighting Corps and RAF aspect this volume covers the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and Belgian Air Service (AMB) as well as the German Naval Air Service.
Shot Down
The Secret Diary of One POW's Long March to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Alex Kerr's Wellington, a twin-engine bomber, was shot down over Germany in 1941. At first hospitalised with hopes of repatriation, he unexpectedly found himself a prisoner in a German POW camp. Throughout those trying four years he was held captive, Alex kept a secret diary. This book reproduces...
Beyond the Gates of Fire
New Perspectives on the Battle of Thermopylae
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013
The Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC is one of the most famous battles in history. The heroism of the 300 Spartans who opted to remain behind to face the full might of the Persian host while their Greek allies made good their escape has become the stuff of legend. The story still inspires novelists...
by Charles Carrington
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Soldier from the Wars Returning is one of the truest, most profound and readable personal accounts of the Great War. The author waited nearly fifty years before writing it, and the perspective of history enhances its value.
He writes only of the battles in which he participated (including the...
Waterloo 1815
Captain Mercers Journal
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Originally published in 1900, this book features excerpts from Alexander Cavalié Mercer's account of the battle of Waterloo. As an artillery officer at the sharp end, this is his eye-witness account of the events that lead to Napoleon's final defeat in June 1815. This is the contemporary view of...
Into Battle
A Seventeen-Year-Old Joins Kitcheners Army
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Written well over 90 years ago while the experiences of youth were still fresh in the authors mind, this is the story of a seventeen-year-old boy from the time he joined Kitcheners Army, as one of the first hundred thousand in 1914, until he found himself in hospital - an officer with the Military...