Monthly Specials - August 2025 titles

This book gives a rare insight into the life inside the tanker squadrons of the Royal Air Force, viewed through the eyes of Tony Golds, one of the RAF tanker fleet's longest serving Navigator/Plotters.

Author: Peter Bodle, Tony Golds

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 224pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399074971

Weight: 350g

Original Price: £14.99

By focussing on the rebellions against Henry VIII, we cast new eyes on his character and gain a fascinating insight into the lives of Tudor men and women during the turbulent thirty-nine years of his reign.

Author: Phil Carradice

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399071765

Weight: 480g

Original Price: £20.00

Kevin Turton re-examines the facts behind the Coles murder case and the potential links with the unsolved Whitechapel murders of the 1880s.

Author: Kevin Turton

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 208pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399064705

Weight: 522g

Original Price: £20.00

This is the story of how some Roman aristocrats grew so competitive in their political rivalries that they destroyed their Republic, in the late second to mid-first century BCE.

Author: Jeremiah McCall

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 272pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526733177

Weight: 590g

Original Price: £25.00

It covers his life from childhood to death, looking at the political, social and military life of Scotland before, during and after the time of Robert the Bruce.

Author: Phil Carradice

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 232pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399002608

Weight: 460g

Original Price: £20.00

Ever since their sack of Rome in the early fourth century BC, the tribes of Gauls were among the Roman Republic's most feared and respected foes. This book describes how Roman armies eventually carried war into their enemies' homelands and brought them into their expanding empire.

Author: Michael Sage

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 208pp. 16.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399077323

Weight: 385g

Original Price: £14.99

A concise chronological guide to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire.

Author: Mario Bartolini

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 208pp. 17cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399063661

Weight: 646g

Original Price: £20.00

The legends survived because they reminded the Romans who they were, what modest beginnings they came from, how on many occasions their city nearly imploded, and what type of men and women shaped their story.

Author: Robert Garland

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 232pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399098526

Weight: 673g

Original Price: £20.00

Brought over from Germany in 122 to assist in the building of Hadrian's Wall the Sixth Legion remained in Britain until the end of Roman rule.

Author: Tony Sullivan

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399088572

Weight: 710g

Original Price: £22.00

Commemorating 100 Years of Service.

Author: Frances Louise Wilkinson, Squadron Leader Tony Freeman RAuxaF (Retd)

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 256pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399062183

Weight: 600g

Original Price: £25.00

Memoir of a Boy Soldier in Hitler's Army.

Author: Heidi Langbein-Allen

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 192pp. 16.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399072397

Weight: 540g

Original Price: £20.00

British Footballers Killed in the Second World War.

Author: Nigel McCrery

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781473827134

Weight: 610g

Original Price: £25.00