Monthly Specials - August 2025 titles

With over 1,000 original photographs, this is a true labour of love and an ideal purchase for anyone interested in the history of the Second World War in a more accessible form.

Author: Jack Holroyd

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 320pp. 17cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399063043

Weight: 850g

Original Price: £19.99

Written by Olivia Serres under the pseudonym of 'Lady Anne Hamilton,' this was a sensational chronicle of the crime, vice, and debauchery designed to shock and titillate its reader. It contained a number of accusations against establishment figures.

Author: Stephen Basdeo

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 360pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399015820

Weight: 922g

Original Price: £25.00

This book allows the reader a peek beneath the bedsheets of our medieval ancestors, in an informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality in England from 1250 to 1450.

Author: Kathryn Warner

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 208pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399098328

Weight: 480g

Original Price: £20.00

Author of Stratagems, Advisor to Emperors, Governor of Britain, Pacifier of Wales.

Author: John D Grainger

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 320pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399051224

Weight: 600g

Original Price: £25.00

The Life and Times of General Lord Chelmsford and his Disaster in Zululand

Author: John Laband, Ian Knight

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 550pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781784387709

Weight: 1.111kg

Original Price: £34.99

The stories of thirteen pilots who failed to return.

Author: Dilip Sarkar

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 272pp. 16.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399089470

Weight: 780g

Original Price: £25.00

Concentrating on the stories of not only those who flew the Spitfire into battle, but also the men and women who maintained and built it.

Author: Dilip Sarkar

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 208pp. 17cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399065313

Weight: 813g

Original Price: £22.00

While the myth of Soviet benevolence has now largely been discredited, the idea that Stalin's Soviet Union was a peaceful power that sought to prevent the war, remains popular to this day.

Author: Bogdan Musial

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 352pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399068130

Weight: 754g

Original Price: £25.00

First published in 1946, this atmospheric memoir of the battle of the Atlantic offers one of the most original accounts of war at sea aboard a corvette, escorting convoys in both the North and South Atlantic.

Author: Robert Harling

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

Hardback. 232pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399072885

Weight: 420g

Original Price: £14.99

The Commando Raids on the Channel Islands in World War II.

Author: Simon Hamon, John Grehan

Publisher: Frontline Books

Hardback. 240pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781473893771

Weight: 730g

Original Price: £22.00

The Ordeal of a Japanese Prisoner of War and His Family.

Author: Ian Roberts

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 184pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399049559

Weight: 480g

Original Price: £20.00

The First Thirty Years, 1916 1945.

Author: William Andrews

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 576pp. 18.5cm by 25.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399042352

Weight: 1.62kg

Original Price: £35.00