Biography & autobiography / Historical

A G.I. in The Ardennes

by Denis Hambucken – Pen and Sword Military (February 28, 2020)

A G.I. in the Ardennes focuses on the human experience during wartime. What was life like for a regular American soldier who gave his life to combat fascism?

By immersing himself in historical documents, hundreds...

Hitler's Housewives

by Tim Heath – Pen and Sword History (March 30, 2020)

The meteoric rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party cowed the masses into a sense of false utopia. During Hitler’s 1932 election campaign over half those who voted for Hitler were women. Germany’s women...

The Man Behind the Tudors

by Kirsten Claiden-Yardley – Pen and Sword History (March 20, 2020)

Understand how Thomas' life shaped the recovery and success of the Howard family through his military prowess and navigation of the political landscape of Tudor England.

Thomas Howard, 2nd duke of Norfolk, lived...

Children Against Hitler

by Monica Porter – Pen and Sword History (April 30, 2020)

Readers of all generations have grown up on The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier’s best-selling tale of children under wartime occupation, but few know the real life stories of the children and teenagers who...

Airmen of Arnhem

by Martin W Bowman – Pen and Sword Aviation (January 19, 2020)

Martin Bowman presents us here with an unparalleled account of events as they unfolded in the skies above Holland during Operation ‘Market-Garden’ in September 1944. ‘Market-Garden’ was a heroic failure...

Martin Bormann

by Volker Koop – Frontline Books (August 27, 2020)

Born on 17 June 1900, Martin Ludwig Bormann became one of the most powerful and most feared men in the Third Reich. An obsessive bureaucrat, it was Bormann who helped steer Hitler’s apparatus of terror so...