Monthly Specials - July 2025 titles

The Division was the only Waffen-SS unit to fight in the Arctic Circle when it was stationed in Finland and northern Russia between June and November 1941.

Author: Ian Baxter

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 136pp. 19cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526721389

Weight: 450g

Original Price: £14.99

Letters from a North Africa Ace - A Tale of Triumph and Tragedy.

Author: Air Marshal 'Black' Robertson

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 224pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399099035

Weight: 700g

Original Price: £25.00

The subtly changing images of Adolf Hitler, portrayed in this book from pampered baby to bar-room rabble-rouser to ranting megalomaniac, provide a graphic insight into the mind of a monster and the instigator of history s bloodiest conflict.

Author: Nigel Blundell

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 127pp. 18.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526701992

Weight: 408g

Original Price: £14.99

Coastal Command, created in 1936 alongside Fighter and Bomber Commands in the reorganisation of the RAF in its preparations for the coming war, was Britain's mainstay in the battle against the German submarine.

Author: David Smith

Publisher: After the Battle.

Hardback. 280pp. 30cm by 22cm.

ISBN: 9781870067874

Weight: 1.5kg.

Original Price: £37.50

In this first fully illustrated history of the Kaiser's unwanted guests, the author looks at the lives of the thousands of Allied men who became PoWs during the Great War.

Author: David Bilton

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 208pp. 18.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781473867017

Weight: 590g

Original Price: £14.99

The Families that Ruled the Classical World, circa 1000 BC to AD 750

Author: John D Grainger

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 376pp. 16.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526746757

Weight: 930g

Original Price: £30.00

Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Greeks were certainly no exception.

Author: Matthew Dillon

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 320pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781473834293

Weight: 890g

Original Price: £25.00

Conflict was rife among the Greeks of the Classical period, including some of the most famous wars and battles of the whole ancient period, such as the defeat of the Persians at Marathon, the Spartans' heroic last stand at Thermopylae, the gruelling Pelopponesian War and the epic March of the Ten Thousand.

Author: Gabriele Esposito

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 18cm by 25.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526751898

Weight: 845g

Original Price: £25.00

The Italian Risorgimento was the political process that led to the unification of the Italian peninsula into a single kingdom after three bloody wars fought between Piedmont and Austria.

Author: Gabriele Esposito

Publisher: Mushroom Model Publications

Paperback. 180pp. 21cm by 29.5cm.

ISBN: 9788366549951

Weight: 432g

Original Price: £20.00

Iinspiring innumerable books - this book, however, is unique: deeply moved, the author provides a fresh narrative and approach - concentrating on the tragic stories of individual casualties.

Author: Dilip Sarkar

Publisher: Frontline Books

Hardback. 362pp. 18cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526732736

Weight: 1.2kg

Original Price: £30.00

It has been estimated that the Axis occupation of Europe cost between 20 and 25 million civilian lives, apart from the deaths of at least 16 million servicemen and women who paid the ultimate price in trying to put Europe back together again. It is a debt that can never be repaid.

Author: Gail Ramsey, Winston G Ramsey.

Publisher: After the Battle

Hardback. 368pp. 30cm by 22cm.

ISBN: 9781870067935

Weight: 2.05kg.

Original Price: £39.95

It may be a surprise to many that the Japanese Army had more tanks than Nazi Germany in 1938. Co-belligerents in the Axis Alliance that built their own tanks included Italy, Romania and Hungary.

Author: Michael Green

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 213pp. 18.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781473887008

Weight: 594g

Original Price: £15.99