Monthly Specials - July 2025 titles

The Home Front has been described in many ways but this volume offers a snapshot of life in Britain during 1939 to 1945, illustrated with many `then and now’ comparison photos.

Author: Winston and Gail Ramsey

Publisher: After the Battle

Hardback. 200pp. 22cm by 30.5cm.

ISBN: 9781870067973

Weight: 1.17kg

Original Price: £29.95

The author highlights the bravery and courage of these men, as well as the terrible fate of the Hungarian armoured forces when the Soviet Army invaded Hungary.

Author: Eduardo Manuel Gil Martinez

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 112pp. 19cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526753816

Weight: 425g

Original Price: £14.99

The infantry can always be found at the sharp end of the battlefield. You may be able to crush an opponent with armour or artillery, but there's only one way to take and hold ground and that's with riflemen - the 'poor bloody infantry'.

Author: Simon & Jonathan Forty

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 240pp. 17cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526776822

Weight: 864g

Original Price: £25.00

With victory in North Africa complete, the Allies had a choice. The Americans wanted an early cross channel attack from Britain on North West Europe. Churchill favoured invading the soft under-belly of Italy to weaken the Axis forces and gain Italian surrender. With Eisenhowers army and battle-hardened Eighth Army in North Africa, Churchill prevailed.

Author: Jon Diamond

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 248pp. 18.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781473896093

Weight: 699g

Original Price: £16.99

The jungle war against the Japanese was arguably one of the worst terrors that could be inflicted upon a young soldier who had never been away from home before, let alone be faced with a brutal, sadistic and uncompromising enemy in an alien environment.

Author: Tim Heath

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 208pp. 16.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526759863

Weight: 538g

Original Price: £19.99

Arthur's Britain and Early Medieval World.

Author: Timothy Venning

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 312pp. 16.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526783905

Weight: 608g

Original Price: £25.00

This is the story of how the varying actions of two very different kings both threatened and created the English way of life, and ultimately put England on the path to its Lost Civil War.

Author: John Paul Davis

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 240pp. 16.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526750075

Weight: 650g

Original Price: £25.00

Memoirs of an RAF Fighter Pilot and Former Officer Commanding the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.

Author: Clive Rowley

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 256pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399015622

Weight: 752g

Original Price: £25.00

John Norris shows how logistics, though less glamorous than details of the fighting itself, played a decisive role in the outcome of every campaign and battle of World War Two.

Author: John Norris

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 272pp. 18.5cm by 25.5cm.

ISBN: 9781473859128

Weight: 1.327kg

Original Price: £35.00

Although only 100 examples were produced, the 155mm Gun Motor Carriage M12 served with distinction as an infantry-support weapon and in particular as a bunker-buster during the U.S. assault on the Siegfried Line in the winter of 1944-45.

Author: David Doyle

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 152pp. 19.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526743527

Weight: 493g

Original Price: £14.99

America's Cold War Warrior 1959-1997.

Author: David Grummitt

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 64pp. 21.5cm by 30.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399096454

Weight: 347g

Original Price: £16.99

William Maitland - Politician, Reformer and Conspirator.

Author: Robert Stedall

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 296pp. 16.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526787798

Weight: 655g

Original Price: £25.00