Pen And Sword: 3067 books
Vought F4 Corsair
Carrier and Land-based Fighter
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
The Vought F4U was the best carrier based fighter of WW2. 12,571 aircraft were built and downed 2,140 enemy aircraft for the loss of only 189 Corsairs. It was developed early in 1938 for the US Navy. The designer, Tex Beisel, worked on the principle of the largest engine in the smallest airframe....
Fighter! Fighter! Corkscrew Port!
Vivid Memories of Bomber Aircrew in World War Two
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
The young men who flew with RAF Bomber Command in World War Two were a complex mixture of individuals but they all shared the gift of teamwork. A crew of seven may have comprised all non-commissioned men and some crews included commissioned officers but not always flying as pilots. The outstanding...
by John Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Like most members of the professional military freemasonry, Slim came to admire "all the soldiers of different races who have fought with me and most of those who have fought against me." Among the most likable of his enemies were the Wazirs of India's Northwest Frontier. In 1920, Slim took...
The Frigates
An Account of the Lighter Warships of the Napoleonic Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1994
A naval history of the ships and personalities of the Nelson period. The sources used include accounts of the Napoleonic Wars, ships' logs, Admiralty documents, private and official reports, letters and contemporary descriptions.
Anzio
Italy 1944
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2007
In an attempt to outflank the German Gustav Line running across Italy, Operation SHINGLE was launched on January 22nd 1944. Achieving complete surprise, the Allies made a successful landing at Anzio, but paused rather than pushing quickly inland, a delay which gave the Germans time to seal off the...
by Geoffrey Powell
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
When Men at Arnhem was first published in 1976 the author modestly concealed his identity behind a pseudonym and changed the names of his comrades in arms. But the book was at once recognised as one of the finest evocations of an infantryman’s war ever written and those in the know were quick to...
Captured at the Imjin River
The Korean War Memoirs of a Gloster
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2003
The author, a young conscript, fought with The Glorious Glosters at the legendary Imjin River battle. Heavily outnumbered by the Chinese and subjected to 'human-wave' infantry attacks, he and his colleagues suffered the trauma of being overrun and the vast majority of those who were not killed became...
by Geoffrey Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
When Singapore fell so ignominiously to the Japanese in February 1942, many tens of thousands of men, women and children were left to their own devices. To stay in Singapore meant certain captivity. This book tells of some of the remarkable and shocking experiences that lay in store for those who...
Blowing Our Bridges
A Memoir From Dunkirk To Korea Via Normandy
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2004
This action packed military memoir tells of the exploits of a young Sapper officer during both the Second World War and in Korea. Tony Younger was in the thick of the action during the German Blitzkrieg of 1940 seeing desperate fighting as the beleaguered British Expeditionary Force struggled to escape...
by English, Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Alexander the Great is one of the most famous men in history, and many believe he was the greatest military genius of all time (Julius Caesar wept at the feet of his statue in envy of his achievements). Most of his thirteen year reign as king of Macedon was spent in hard campaigning which conquered...
The Roman Emperor Aurelian
Restorer of the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for 1000 years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached in the middle of the third century AD, the empire was lapsing into chaos, with seemingly interminable civil wars over the imperial succession. The western...
Fighting Through to Kohima
A Memoir of War in India and Burma
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2004
Lt. Col. Michael Lowry MC MBE, was awarded the Military Cross for his role in the desperate defensive action at Kohima, rated the worst of the campaign in Burma. After joining up in 1939 with the Queen's Royal Regiment, the Author was posted to the North West Frontier of India where he cut his teeth...
Commando Despatch Rider
From D-Day to Deutschland 1944-45
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
After 41 Royal Marine Commando had cleared the Normandy beaches they faced a long overland campaign to reach the German border. The commandos developed an elite force of motorcycle dispatch riders as part of this effort. Raymond Mitchell's vivid memoirs of life and war on the road will be of interest to both military and motorcycling enthusiasts.
In the Face of the Enemy
A Battery Sergeant Major in Action in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
In Part One Powdrill describes his experiences in France during ‘the Phoney War’ and then their baptism by fire in May 1940, culminating in the evacuation from Dunkirk having left their disabled guns behind. Ernest was wounded but many of his colleagues were killed by ferocious German counter-battery...