Pen Sword: 3374 books
Stuka
Hitler’s Lethal Dive Bomber
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
The photographs in this collection belonged to Luftwaffe Stuka rear gunner and radio operator Erich Heine. The collection includes photographs of flights of Stukas in formation, operating training aircraft, and a selection of different Luftwaffe uniforms and flight gear. The photographer was based...
T-34
The Red Army's Legendary Medium Tank
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
It could be said that the T-34 was the tank that won the Second World War. In total 57,000 were produced between 1941 and 1945. Stalin's tank factories outstripped Hitler's by a factor of three to one, and production of the T-34 also exceeded that of the famed American M4 Sherman.
Not only did...
Barbarossa and the Retreat to Moscow
Recollections of Soviet Fighter Pilots on the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
The onset of war in the summer of 1941 was a disaster for the Soviet Air Force. In a few weeks, faced by the onslaught of the Luftwaffe, most of the Soviet frontline aircraft were destroyed, and the casualty rate among the pilots was cripplingly high. Yet the surviving few gained precious battle experience...
by Paul Strong, Sanders Marble
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
A year-by-year examination of key WWI battles and how the ongoing advances in artillery shaped strategy, tactics, and oprations; includes battlefield maps!
World War I is often said to have been an artillery war, yet the decisive role artillery played in shaping military decisions—and therefor...
by Fremont-Barnes, Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
The armies of the Napoleonic Wars fought in a series of devastating campaigns that disturbed the peace of Europe for twelve years, yet the composition, organization and fighting efficiency of these forces receive too little attention. Each force tends to be examined in isolation or in the context...
Sedan 1870
The Eclipse of France
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2008
The Franco-Prussian War was a turning point in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, and the Battle of Sedan was the pivotal event in that war.
For the Germans their overwhelming victory symbolized the birth of their nation, forged in steel and tempered in the blood of the common enemy....
Offa and the Mercian Wars
The Rise and Fall of the First Great English Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
In England in the eighth century, in the midst of the so-called Dark Ages, Offa ruled Mercia, one of the strongest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. For over 30 years he was the dominant warlord in the territory south of the Humber and the driving force behind the expansion of Mercias power. During that turbulent...
by Paul Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
In the spring of 878 at the Battle of Edington the tide of English history turned. Alfred's decisive defeat of Guthrum the Dane freed much of the south and west of England from Danish control and brought to a halt Guthrum's assault on Alfred's Wessex. The battle was the culmination of a long period...
Ceawlin
The Man Who Created England
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
In this book Rupert Matthews puts forward his ground breaking new theories on the collapse of the post-Roman order in Britain and the formation of England. Drawing on newly analyzed written sources and the growing mass of archaeological finds he presents a very different picture of post-Roman Britain...
King Arthur
The Mystery Unravelled
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book is the culmination of over thirty years of work and research by the author, who is a King Arthur specialist and bestseller.
The book brings new information to light by examining through a jigsaw of connections throughout Dark Age Britain, especially Wales and Cornwall, as King Arthur...
by Graham Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
On 2 August 1708 Captain Woodes Rogers set sail from Bristol with two ships, the Duke and Duchess, on an epic voyage of circumnavigation that was to make him famous. His mission was to attack, plunder and pillage Spanish ships wherever he could. And, as Graham Thomas shows in this tense and exciting...
Captain Kidd
The Hunt for the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The execution of Captain William Kidd on 23 May 1701 is one of the most controversial and revealing episodes in the long history of piracy. The legend that has grown up around Kidds final voyage, his concealed treasure and the dubious conduct of his trial, has made him into one of the most intriguing...
The Rhodesian War
A Military History
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
This book depicts the military history of Southern Rhodesia from the first resistance to colonial rule, through the period of UDI (unilateral declaration of independence) by the Smith government to the Lancaster House agreement that transferred power. There are vivid accounts of the operations against...
British Aerospace Hawk
Armed Light Attack and Multi-Combat Fighter Trainer
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
For many years the world’s finest aerobatic team, the RAF’s Red Arrows, have thrilled millions with their demonstrations of this fine aircraft's agility and maneuverability. Black Hawks can also be seen in the valleys of Wales, flying ground-hugging flight paths along the valleys. These are the...