Monthly Specials - August 2025 titles

The Allies Assault Upon Hitlers Fortress Europe, August 1942.

Operation Jubilee, the Allies' most ambitious assault upon Hitler's so-called Fortress Europe, quickly became a bloodbath.

Author: John Grehan, Alexander Nicoll

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 194pp. 19cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399067201

Weight: 583g

Original Price: £19.99

This book offers engaging new insights and a degree of critical candour that set it apart from other Fleet Air Arm histories currently available on the market.

Author: Henry 'Hank' Adlam

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 272pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399074902

Weight: 464g

Original Price: £15.99

Dickie Metcalfe's Espionage Career for MI5 and the Nazis.

His success as a double-cross agent in the eyes of both his masters - British and German - is examined in this book, using official documents as a primary source.

Author: David Tremain

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 246pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399061094

Weight: 594g

Original Price: £25.00

The Combat Missions of Company F, LRP Teams in Vietnam.

This is the quintessential first-person combat memoir of a special forces soldier at war. Edward Dvorak joined the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam in the summer of 1967.

Author: Edward L Dvorak

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 283pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526789655

Weight: 574g

Original Price: £25.00

For hundreds of years Epicureanism was one of the dominant schools of philosophy. But by the 6th century it had all but disappeared. Discovering how and why Epicureanism was driven from philosophy and public discourse reveals much about how Western thought developed.

Author: Ben Gazur

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 216pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399073523

Weight: 555g

Original Price: £22.00

Athens was locked in a decades-long struggle with Sparta for mastery of the Greek world. The expedition to Sicily was intended to give Athens the extra money and resources to crush the Spartans.

Author: Philip Matyszak

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 167pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399024846

Weight: 322g

Original Price: £14.99

This book is Chris' account of his ten years' service as an experimental test pilot, from 1994 until 2004, at MoD Boscombe Down.

Author: Chris Taylor

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 274pp.16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399048859

Weight: 869g

Original Price: £30.00

The photographs presented here, some for the first time, provide the reader with a fascinating window on the past, through which we get an authentic glimpse of the summer of 1940 and The Few themselves.

Author: Dilip Sarkar

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 210pp. 17.5cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399065368

Weight: 819g

Original Price: £22.00

This book charts the unhappy but aspirational story of women and children at work through the Industrial Revolution to the beginning of the 20th century.

Author: Paul Chrystal

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 249pp. 16cm by24 cm.

ISBN: 9781399011921

Weight: 543g

Original Price: £25.00

From Commonwealth to Stuart Monarchy, 1657-1670.

Author: Timothy Venning

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 288pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526789396

Weight: 684g

Original Price: £25.00

Rationing, Digging for Victory and Unusual Food

Author: Craig Armstrong

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 166pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526725172

Weight: 453g

Original Price: £20.00

Medical History of the American Revolution.

Author: Martin R Howard

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 272pp. 15..5cm by 22.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399084826

Weight: 650g

Original Price: £25.00