Monthly Specials - August 2025 titles

On the battlefields of Europe and North Africa during the Second World War tanks played a key role, and the intense pressure of combat drove forward tank design and tactics at an extraordinary rate.

Author: Simon Forty, Jonathan Forty

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardrback. 216pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781526767622

Weight: 780g

Original Price: £14.99

Peninsular War Battlefield Companion

Author: Tim Saunders

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 272pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399040037

Weight: 763g

Original Price: £28.00

The chosen battles span the centuries, from the disastrous battle against invading Celts at the Allia River in (387 or 386 BC) to the naval defeat by the Vandals off Cap Bon in AD 468.

Author: Ian Hughes

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 240pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526726674

Weight: 584g

Original Price: £25.00

The Story of the Disaster By Some of those Who Were There

Author: James W Bancroft

Publisher: Frontline Books

Paperback. 192pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781526797520

Weight: 350g

Original Price: £14.99

An Appreciation Over Seventy Years, 1950-2019

Author: Malcolm Batten

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 192pp. 21.5cm by 28cm.

ISBN: 9781399081672

Weight: 1.077kg

Original Price: £32.00

Dedicated to Naval History in the Nelson Era: New Series 7.

Author: The 1805 Club

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

Paperback. 304pp. 15cm by 21cm.

ISBN: 9781399090469

Weight: 430g

Original Price: £20.00

Accounts of British Soldiers and their Protectors in The Great War

Author: John Anderson, Victor Piuk

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 176pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399074797

Weight: 327g

Original Price: £14.99

This book seeks to shed new light on a forgotten aspect of what it meant to be a prisoner of war: their homecoming.

Author: Julie Cook

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399016827

Weight: 445g

Original Price: £22.00

The Life and Loss of Major Paul Harding MiD at Basra

Author: Garry McCarthy

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399089708

Weight: 573g

Original Price: £25.00

Don Gentile & John Godfrey: World War II Flying Legends

Author: Philip Kaplan

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 176pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399020749

Weight: 326g

Original Price: £14.99

Rare Photographs from Naval Archives

Author: Leo Marriott

Publisher: Air World

Paperback. 192pp. 19cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399062572

Weight: 530g

Original Price: £16.99

Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

Author: Ian Baxter

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 128pp. 18.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399087629

Weight: 470g

Original Price: £14.99