Monthly Specials - August 2025 titles

This book looks back at the formative years to 1980 when the seeds of the preservation and rally movement of today were being sown.

Author: Malcolm Batten

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 128pp. 22cm by 28.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399087902

Weight: 892g

Original Price: £25.00

In August 1347 six bare footed men knelt before King Edward III with nooses around their necks to beg for their lives and present him with the keys to Calais. This was the dramatic beginning of Calais becoming England's first colony and an integral part of the kingdom for over two hundred years.

Author: Julian Whitehead

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 227pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399010719

Weight: 551g

Original Price: £25.00

Men's Experiences in Their Own Words.

Once liberated in 1945 returning former prisoners were required to complete liberation questionnaires. Some refused. However the questionnaires that do exist give an picture of every day experience for the 2,357 of these elite troops' time in captivity from capture to release.

Author: Peter Green

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 576pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399088374

Weight: 1.113kg

Original Price: £28.00

An original and unique work that will fill a huge gap in the field of military history, and be of interest to both scholars and general readers.

Author: Jeremy Black

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 228pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399060899

Weight: 541g

Original Price: £22.00

The skinny army of the 1940s are old now but their stories live on. Some are desperately sad, all warmly nostalgic whilst others are quite hilarious.

Author: Mike Hutton

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 196pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399049504

Weight: 516g

Original Price: £22.00

Churchill helped to shape British colonial policy in Africa from the first decade of the twentieth century through the Second World War and colonial Kenya's Mau Mau crisis of the 1950s.

Author: C Brad Faught

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 187pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526768544

Weight: 436g

Original Price: £20.00

Churchill quickly recognised Britain's survival depended on countering the U-boat threat and the strategic importance of protecting Allied merchant shipping with measures such as the convoy system.

Author: William Smith

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 270pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399050975

Weight: 554g

Original Price: £25.00

Forgotten Photographs from John Brown's Shipyard.

Between 1906 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built five battlecruisers, each one bigger than the last, culminating in the mighty Hood, the largest warship of her day.

Author: Ian Johnston

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 192pp. 13.5cm by 26cm.

ISBN: 9781399024891

Weight: 823g

Original Price: £16.99

This is the first biography of an intrepid young French woman, Lily Sergueiew, who led an adventurous life and became famous as one of the five D-Day spies.

Author: G Peter Winnington

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 182pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399045278

Weight: 653g

Original Price: £25.00

Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot 1962-1994

This is a semi-autobiographical account of a fighter pilot in the RAF from 1962 to 1994. He was both a Hunter and Harrier pilot, rose to Squadron Leader level, and commanded fighter and strategic recce units.

Author: Chris J Bain

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 318pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399074995

Weight: 851g

Original Price: £18.99

Knight's Cross Holders 1939-1942

The German fighter pilots of the Second World War are among the undoubted heroes of the conflict, their reputation for flying skill, single-minded determination and solitary courage hasn't diminished or been clouded by controversy over the years.

Author: Jeremy Dixon

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 310pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526778642

Weight: 866g

Original Price: £25.00

Operation Jubilee - A Learning Curve.

On 19 August 1942, an Allied amphibious raid took place on the coastal town of Dieppe. Whatever the reasons for the raid, it was an unmitigated failure.

Author: Stephen Wynn

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 250pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526714817

Weight: 525g

Original Price: £22.00