History - Ancient & Medieval (pre-Napoleonic)

The 1066 Norman Bruisers conjures up the vanished world of England in the late Middle Ages and casts light on one of the strangest quirks in the nation’s history: how a bunch of European thugs became the quintessentially English gentry.

Author: Helen Kay

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 276pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526759382

Weight: 672

Original Price: £25.00

Why The Vikings Caused the Normqan Conquest.

Author: Martyn Whittock, Hannah Whittock

Publisher: The Crowood Press

Paperback. 160pp. 15.5cm by 23.3cm.

ISBN: 9780719819193

Weight: 258g

Original Price: £12.99

Tales from the Long Eighteenth Century

Take a romp through the long eighteenth-century in this collection of 25 short tales. Marvel at the Queen’s Ass, gaze at the celestial heavens through the eyes of the past and be amazed by the equestrian feats of the Norwich Nymph. Journey to the debauched French court at Versailles, travel to Covent Garden and take your seat in a box at the theatre and, afterwards, join the mile-high club in a new-fangled hot air balloon.

Author: Joanne Major, Sarah Murden.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 170pp. 17.3x24.5x1.2cm.

ISBN: 9781526757852

Weight: 550g.

Original Price: £16.99

Alexander the Great's regent and his successors.

Author: John D Grainger.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 271pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781526730886

Original Price: £25.00

This volume draws on Dr Evans' expertise in studying topography in relation to ancient events and specifically his original research into the battlefield of Magnesia.

Author: Dr Richard Evans

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 176pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399085212

Weight: 312g

Original Price: £14.99

The Battle of Fishguard, 1797.

Author: Phil Caradice

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 217pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526743268

Weight: 568g

Original Price: £19.99

The quest for the ancestry of the British.

Author: Anthony Adolph.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 240pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9781526781802

Original Price: £15.99

The history of the Fabii Maximii is in many ways that of the Roman Republic. In the legends and historical scraps that survived the Republic, the members of the Fabius clan were, more often than not, the hammers that forged the empire.

Author: Jeremiah McCall.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 202pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781473885615

Weight. 508g.

Original Price: £19.99

Constantius is an important, but almost forgotten, figure. He came to the fore in or around 410 when he was appointed Magister Militum (Master of Troops) to Honorius, the young Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. His predecessor, Stilicho, had been murdered by his own troops and much of Gaul and Hispania had been overrun by barbarians or usurpers.

Author: Ian Hughes

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 166pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN. 9781526700247

Weight. 0.463Kg

Original Price: £20.00

Author: Timothy Venning

Publisher: Batsford

Hardback. 362pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526764218

Weight: 737g

Original Price: £25.00

Author: Darren Baker

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 272pp. 15.9cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526745491

Weight: 600g

Original Price: £25.00

Life and Rebellion.

He was the illegitimate son of a king, a gallant and brave military hero, charming, handsome and well loved both within the court and with women; James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, had the life many would have envied in the seventeenth century.

Author: Laura Brennan

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 145pp. 15.5x23.3x1.3cm.

ISBN: 9781399075145

Weight: 300g.

Original Price: £14.99