Pen Sword: 3374 books
Famous
1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
'Famous' tells the Great War stories of twenty of Britain's most respected, best known and even notorious celebrities. They include politicians, actors, writers, an explorer, a sculptor and even a murderer. The generation that grew up in the late 19th Century enlisted enthusiastically in the defense...
Great Western Large Wheeled Outside Framed 4-4-0 Tender Locomotives
Atbara, Badminton, City and Flower Classes
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This volume covers all the large wheeled outside frame classes of 4-4-0 tender Locomotives, that once ran on the Great Western Railway.
The book has full details on each of the classes with good quality pictures, diagrams names, and number lists.
This work is also very useful to model...
by Richard Van Emden
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Benjamin Clouting was just sixteen years old when he embarked with the British Expeditionary Force for France in August 1914. The youngest man in the 4th Dragoon Guards, he took part in the BEF's celebrated first action at Casteau on August 22nd, and, two days later, had his horse shot from under...
The Road to Passchendaele
The Heroic Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly regarded series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once again, using the winning formula of diaries and memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on illegally held cameras by the soldiers themselves, Richard...
by Richard Van Emden
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
1918: The Final Year of the Great War to Armistice is the next volume in the remarkable series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Revisiting the winning formula of diaries and memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on illegally-held cameras by the...
Temporary Heroes
Lieutenant Norman Cecil Down
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This is a short book based on the letters written between 1915 and 1916 by an officer serving with the 1/4th Gordon Highlanders. Second Lieutenant Down wrote regularly to his girlfriend/fiancée throughout his time in France, letters which were published in 1917 after he was wounded and discharged...
by R.F Delderfield
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Between the years 1804 and 1815, Napoleon created twenty-six Marshals of France. These men, who held the highest positions in the Empire after Napoleon himself, came from very diverse backgrounds and ranged from a smuggler to a Prince. They acquired titles and great riches but in the end there was only one who was not corrupted by greed or ambition. This book describes their rise and fall.
From Corunna to Waterloo
With the Hussars 1808 to 1815
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Basing his story on contemporary letters, diaries and reports and a comprehensive bibliography, John Mollo takes the reader into the heart of the Hussar Brigade in peace and war, depicting its many colourful characters with a sure hand and describing every facet of day-to-day life, in barracks and...
Dangerous Frontiers
Campaigning in Somaliland and Oman
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
In Part 1 of his book the author describes his life as a young officer in the Somaliland Scouts in the (then) British Protectorate of Somaliland. At that time tribal quarrels, generally over water, were taking place in the troubled strip of country between the Protectorate and Ethiopia; the Ogaden....
The Riddles Of Wipers
An Appreciation of the Trench Journal “The Wipers Times”
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The Wipers Times was the Private Eye of the Ypres Salient during World War One. Edited, while under bombardment, by a battalion commander in the Sherwood Foresters, written by soldiers actually in the trenches and distributed by ration-wagon and ammunition-mule. the paper bears vivid witness to the...
The Awful Killing of Sarah Watts
A Story of Confessions, Acquittals and Jailbreaks
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Before Road there was Frome . . . before Whicher there was Smith . . . before the heartless slaughter of four year old Saville Kent there was the brutal rape and murder of fourteen year old Sarah Watts.
Taking place nine years earlier than the Road Hill case, made famous by the best-selling...
The Justice Women
The Female Presence in the Criminal Justice System 1800-1970
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The first policewomen were established during the Great War, but with no powers of arrest; the first women lawyers did not practise until the early twentieth century, and despite the fact that women worked as matrons in Victorian prisons, there were few professional women working as prison officers...
Red Star Under the Baltic
A Firsthand Account of Life on board a Soviet Submarine in World War 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Red Star Under The Baltic is the graphic memoir of a Soviet submariner during his years at sea in the Baltic during the Second World War. Not only is this a superb record of the appalling conditions endured on these basic craft, but a very human account detailing the comradeship and tensions among...
Gladiators and Beast Hunts
Arena Sports of Ancient Rome
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Gladiators and Beasthunts is a comprehensive survey of arena sports in ancient Rome, focusing upon gladiatorial combat and the beast-hunts (venationes). Whilst numerous books have already been written on arena spectacles in ancient Rome, they generally neglect the venationes, despite the fact that...