Monthly Specials - August 2025 titles

As far as is known, no-one has ever considered the Blackhorse Hill site before and it is hoped that this will inspire researchers to expand upon these findings.

Author: David John Barnby

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399049054

Weight: 673g

Original Price: £22.00

Using many startling contemporary images, this latest book in the Author's SS Division series vividly illustrates the horror of warfare on the Eastern Front.

Author: Ian Baxter

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 127pp. 19cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399062817

Weight: 420g

Original Price: £14.99

The Late L N E R and British Railways Periods, 1942-1966.

Author: Tim Hillier-Graves

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 216pp. 24cm by 25.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399073431

Weight: 1.18kg

Original Price: £30.00

The Crimean War Letters of William John Rous

Author: Ian Fletcher

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 133pp. 25cm by 18cm.

ISBN: 9781399062138

Weight: 589g

Original Price: £20.00

The book is intended as a light-hearted look-behind-the-scenes at how ‘Mother’s Ruin’ developed into rather more than just a plain old ’G & T’.

Author: Mike Rendell

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 194pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399070515

Weight: 515g

Original Price: £20.00

An Atlantic-Wide Conflict over Independence and Empire

Author: Theodore Corbett

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 267pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399040419

Weight: 608g

Original Price: £25.00

This is a vivid and powerful story of life on board the last of our great Second World War-era aircraft carriers, modernised to serve beyond their time.

Author: Simon Kershaw

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 208pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399040129

Weight: 523g

Original Price: £22.00

This is the history of Air Intercept (AI) radar and its use in night-fighters in defence of the UK and in the protection of RAF bomber forces. It is set against the political, military, economic and technological background of world events.

Author: Ian White

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 224pp. 19cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399014434

Weight: 632g

Original Price: £16.99

Men of the Fleet Air Arm and the US Navy fighter (operating bomber and torpedo carrying aircraft) describe the compelling, gripping and thought-provoking narrative of the air war in the freezing Atlantic wastes to the waters of the mighty Pacific.

Author: Martin W Bowman

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 285pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526746351

Weight: 598g

Original Price: £35.00

The Ancient Sources And Why They Can't Be Trusted

Author: David Grant

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 319pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399094719

Weight: 674g

Original Price: £25.00

History, Organization and Equipment of the British, French, Turkish, Piedmontese and Russian forces.

Author: Gabriele Esposito

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 197pp. 17.5cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399089852

Weight: 792g

Original Price: £25.00

This period saw conflicts with Carthage and Gaul plus the Helenistic Successor states. These wars, and others, made the Romans masters of all Western Europe and the whole Mediterranean basin, though failure against the Parthians limited their ambitions in the East.

Author: Gabriele Esposito

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 178pp. 17.5cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399094023

Weight: 752g

Original Price: £25.00