Pen & Sword
Tynemouth & Wallsend at War 1939-45; From Normandy to Auschwitz; In Hitler’s Shadow: Post-War Germany and the Girls of the BDM; Escaping Has Ceased to Be a Sport: A Soldier’s Memoir of Captivity and Escape in Italy and Germany
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These four books published together by Pen & Sword explore different aspects of WW2, using original documents. Two of them are personal memoirs. ...Read Review
The Awful Killing of Sarah Watts: A Story of Confessions, Acquittals and Jailbreaks
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On 24 September 1851, 14-year old Sarah Watts was brutally murdered at a farmhouse near Frome in Somerset while her parents were at market. At ...Read Review
Against All Odds: Walter Tull the Black Lieutenant
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Walter Tull, born in Kent to West Indian parents, was the first black officer in the British army to lead white troops into ...Read Review
The Life & Legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler
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This not a book of mediaeval history. It begins with a brief account of what is known about Wat Tyler, leader of the ...Read Review
Women and the Gallows, 1797-1837: Unfortunate Wretches
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1797 to 1837 were the years of the ‘Bloody Code’, with 188 capital offences on the English statute book by 1815, most of them added since the ...Read Review
Crimes & Criminals of 17th Century Britain
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17th-century Britain was an extremely lawless place. All Europe was lawless. Some historians attribute this to climate change (‘The Little Ice Age’), others ...Read Review
Régina Diana: Seductress, Singer, Spy
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The death of Mata Hari before a firing squad in Paris in 1917 is one of the most famous events in the history of ...Read Review
The Dark Side of Samuel Pepys: Society’s First Sex Offender
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Samuel Pepys was a high-ranking, hard-working civil servant, music lover, bibliophile, theatre goer and persistent sex offender, ranging from extreme sexual harassment to ...Read Review
Voices of the Second World War: A Child’s Perspective
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There are nearly 40 authors of this book, 26 of them telling stories mainly of four to six pages, and the rest making shorter contributions, ...Read Review
Balloonomania Belles: Daredevil Divas Who First Took to the Sky
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You can’t keep a good woman down! This was certainly true of the early balloonists. The world’s first manned flight took ...Read Review
