Warfare in News

Posted on Friday 14th October

The Pen and Sword Books autumn sale is now on! Save up to 70% on a huge range of products including latest releases such as Healing in Hell - Ken Adams' memoirs of his experiences as a medic in the Far East during the Second World War.

For details of author signing events for Healing in Hell see the upcoming events calendar.

Further Reading

Healing in Hell

Only £19.99

Healing in Hell

(Hardback - 180 pages)
by Ken Adams

Like many thousands of other unsuspecting young soldiers, Ken Adams was sent out to the Far East during the Second World War. He immediately saw action on the Malay Peninsula before being captured at Singapore. As a trained medic he was initially assigned to work at Changi Hospital, where conditions were bad enough. However, this was only the start of the three-year ordeal and many moves and far worse camps in Thailand were to follow.Read more...

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Healing in Hell - Memoirs of a Far Eastern POW Medic

Wed 6th August

This article is based on extracts from Ken Adams' Second World War memoirs of life as a POW medic in the Far East. From the fall of Singapore to the difficulties of returning home. Contains graphic images. Read article...

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Peter Stone - How I wrote My Book

Mon 25th September

In writing my new book The History of the Port of London – A Vast Emporium of All Nations I could explore aspects of two of my passions: the development of London as a city, as well as waterborne transport. Read article...

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The 37th Division at Arras

Wed 5th April

A Pen and Sword title with an exceptionally vivid, first-hand account of the battle of Arras is Despatch Rider on the Western Front 1915-18, the diary of Sergeant Albert Simpkin MM, edited by his great nephew, David Venner Read article...

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The Untold Heroes of Helmand

Mon 15th August

Ten years on, and now the Heroes of Helmand are heard. Read article...

Dates in History

WWI: Germans use poison gas for the first time

22nd April 1915

German forces shock Allied soldiers along the Western Front by firing 168 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French divisions and one Canadian division at Ypres, Belgium. This was the first major gas attack by the Germans, and it devastated the Allied line. Immediately after the attack, France and Britain began developing their own chemical weapons and gas masks. With the Germans taking the lead, an extensive number of projectiles filled with deadly substances such as mustard gas polluted the trenches of World War I.

Further Reading

Magnificent But Not War
(Hardback - 224 pages)
by John Dixon

This book is a superbly researched and detailed account of the fighting around Ypres during April and May 1915. It is essentially a day-by-day record of the Second Battle of Ypres which draws heavily upon personal accounts, regimental histories and war diaries to present a comprehensive study of the battle… Read more at Pen & Sword...

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