E-böcker / Historia
General Gordon Granger
This is the first full-length biography of the Civil War general who saved the Union army from catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga, and went on to play major roles in ...
Wot a Way to Run a War!
Ted Fahrenwald flew P-47s and P-51s with the famed 352nd Fighter Group out of Bodney, England, during the critical tipping-point period of the air war over Europe. A classic devil- ...
I Am Soldier of Fortune
Robert K. Brown, former Green Beret, after a bizarre military career that succeeded in getting him kicked out of Special Forces not once but twice, and completing the Command and G ...
7 Leadership Lessons of the American Revolution
This book is about leadership. It tells the dramatic story of seven defining leadership moments from the American Revolution. On these pages you learn about real people facing hi ...
Fighting Fox Company
Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division has become one of the most famous small units in U.S. history, thanks to Stephen Ambrose’s supe ...
A Few Lawless Vagabonds
A Few Lawless Vagabondsis an account of the three-way relationship between Ethan Allen, the Republic of Vermont (1777–1791) and the British in Canada during the American Revolution ...
Mercenaries
Mercenaries have been a part of warfare for centuries, and though the names have changed, continue to play a part in global military conflicts. In today’s world these "soldiers fo ...
BAC SI
During the Vietnam War, U.S. Army Special Forces A-Teams were deployed to isolated outposts or "camps” in the remote areas of South Vietnam. Their job was to recruit, train, and h ...
Strangling the Confederacy
A selection of the Military Book ClubWhile the Civil War is mainly remembered for its epic battles between the Northern and Southern armies, the Union was simultaneously waging ano ...
Jump Commander
A selection of the Military Book ClubCol. Mark James Alexander was the only airborne officer to lead three different battalions into combat in World War II, successively commanding ...
With Musket and Tomahawk
A comprehensive look at the brutal wilderness war that secured America's independence . . . With Musket and Tomahawk is a vivid account of the American and British struggles in the ...
D-Days in the Pacific With the US Coastguard
Winner of the 2008 Foundation for Coast Guard History Book AwardThe images of soldiers and marines coming ashore on hostile shores are embedded in our collective memory of World Wa ...
Roer River Battles
A selection of the Military Book ClubFollowing the Allied breakout from the Normandy beachhead in July 1944, the vaunted German Army seemed on the verge of collapse. As British and ...
The Battle for Crimea 1941-1944
The selection of over 150 rare wartime photographs in this volume in Pen & Sword’s Images of War series offers a graphic visual record of the dramatic and bloody battles fought for ...
German Armour Lost on the Eastern Front
Rare photographs from both German and Russian sources : Today there are very few surviving vehicles from the Wehrmacht. which illustrate the fate of many of the armored fighting ve ...
German Armour Lost on the Western Front
The German armored forces lost some 10,000 armored fighting vehicles. Today there are very few surviving vehicles from the Wehrmacht. We are fortunate therefore that these unique ...
Battleships of the World
The battleships of the world’s navies in the 1820s were descended directly in line from the Revenge of 1577: they were wooden-built, sail-powered and mounted guns on the broadside, ...
Tracing Your Kent Ancestors
Genealogically and historically, Kent is an important maritime county which has played a prime defensive role in English history. It is large and diverse and replete with great hou ...
Tracing Your Ancestors in County Records
For over 500 years, between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Justices of the Peace were the embodiment of government for most of our ancestors. The records they and oth ...
The London Enviro 400
Developed by Alexander Dennis in 2005 as an all-encompassing replacement for the Dennis Trident and its two bodies, the Plaxton President and Alexander ALX400, the integral Enviro4 ...
Train Doctor
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 ...
Rails Across Europe
The two volumes covering Rails Across Europe are divided into one, covering the North and West of the continent, the other dealing with the South and East.The photos were taken by ...
British Steam - Military Connections
In Great Britain there existed a practice of naming steam locomotives. The names chosen covered many and varied subjects, however a large number of those represented direct links w ...
What’s Tha Playing at Nah?
Welcome to What's Tha Playing At Nah?, the fourth volume of Martyn Johnson's acclaimed series of stories about policing during the 1960s and 1970s. Whether 'on the beat' or 'as CID ...
Poison Panic
Essex in the 1840s was notorious in the Victorian mind, a place where women stalked the winding country lanes searching for their next victim to poison with arsenic. The public wer ...