Monthly Specials - August 2025 titles

The second volume in Dick Taylor's three-volume illustrated history of the evolution of armoured manoeuvre warfare in the British army covers the period of the Second World War, in which the tank came of age and developed into the principal land weapon of decision.

Author: Richard Taylor

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 349pp. 17.5cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399081030

Weight: 1.118kg

Original Price: £25.00

In this, the third volume in his comprehensive, highly illustrated three-volume history of the evolution of armoured manoeuvre warfare in the British army, Dick Taylor covers the post-war period, up to the present day.

Author: Richard Taylor

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 358pp. 17.5cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399081085

Weight: 1.23kg

Original Price: £28.00

The legionary soldier of the early Empire period, with his distinctive segmented armour, is one of the images most closely associated by popular imagination with ancient Rome.

Author: Gabriele Esposito

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 160pp. 17cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781526787392

Weight: 750g

Original Price: £25.00

From the Regal Period to the Army of Julius Caesar. From the moment its last king was expelled (traditionally in 753) the Roman republic had to fight for its very survival.

Author: Michael M. Sage

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 352pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399020244

Weight: 490g

Original Price: £14.99

A superb analysis of the military power that underpinned Augustus' rise to power, his conquests, and his ability to sustain his rule. Powell's achievement is to demonstrate just how much Augustus deserved his name of Imperator.

Author: Lindsay Powell

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 452pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399023368

Weight: 678g

Original Price: £16.99

By exploring the wide range of interconnected factors that influence the results of battles, the authors broaden the study of this aspect of military history from a narrow focus on isolated episodes of conflict.

Author: Graeme Callister, Rachael Whitbread

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 279pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399080989

Weight: 620g

Original Price: £25.00

Unrest in the Industrial Revolution During the Napoleonic Wars.

Author: Paul L Dawson

Publisher: Frontline Books

Hardback. 248pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399052405

Weight: 546g

Original Price: £25.00

Regarded by some as a "blind alley" and by others as the way into Europe via the "soft underbelly", the decision to invade Sicily was and remains controversial.

Author: Ian Blackwell

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 208pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399020688

Weight: 383g

Original Price: £14.99

Dilip Sarkar examines the popular memory and myths of each of these productions and delves into the arguments between historians and the filmmakers.

Author: Dilip Sarkar

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 272pp. 14cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9781399088237

Weight: 533g

Original Price: £22.00

Urban Warfare on the Eastern Front.

The Stalingrad battle and the Leningrad siege were just two of the brutal, devastating urban conflicts that marked the awful struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War.

Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 248pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399072007

Weight: 627g

Original Price: £25.00

A compelling, gripping and thought-provoking story of the Allied bombing forces and the ordinary people on the ground, told in their own tongue and with meticulous attention to detail.

Author: Martin W Bowman

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 288pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781526705525

Weight: 780g

Original Price: £25.00

Lenin and History's Greatest Heist, 1917-1927.

Author: Boris Volodarsky

Publisher: Frontline Books

Hardback. 432pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526792259

Weight: 764g

Original Price: £25.00