Monthly Specials - August 2025 titles

These are the personal stories from a group of women who deserve to be remembered.

Author: Emily Ashworth

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 208pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526785459

Weight: 626g

Original Price: £22.00

The Experiences of Captain Harry Gordon Parker.

Author: Lorraine Evans

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399041607

Weight: 465g

Original Price: £22.00

London in the 1840s was sprawling and smoke-filled, a city of extreme wealth and abject poverty. Some streets were elegant with brilliantly gas-lit shop windows full of expensive items, while others were narrow, fetid, muddy, and in many cases foul with refuse and human filth.

Author: Michael Alpert

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 214pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399060844

Weight: 478g

Original Price: £22.00

This book covers the design, construction, operation and performance of Sir William Stanier's masterpiece, the Princess Coronation pacific locomotives, better known as the Duchesses'.

Author: David Maidment

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 176pp. 25cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399085779

Weight: 1.02kg

Original Price: £30.00

This book exposes the enigmatic Dictator for what he really was - incredibly lucky and militarily incompetent.

Author: Paul Ballard-Whyte

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 320pp. 16.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399074377

Weight: 884g

Original Price: £25.00

The Rise and Fall of Erich Honecker .

Author: Nathan Morley

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 288pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399088824

Weight: 540g

Original Price: £25.00

Fifty Underrated Military Commanders from Classical Antiquity to the Cold War

Author: Eric Pinzelli

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 336pp. 16.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399070126

Weight: 884g

Original Price: £25.00

This book provides a much-needed re-evaluation of Edith/Matilda's role and place in the history of the Queens of England.

Author: Joanna Arman

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 248pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526794222

Weight: 590g

Original Price: £20.00

Author: Quentin Russell

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526715999

Weight: 690g

Original Price: £25.00

This book covers an important aspect of British bus provision that has not been fully documented before.

Author: Allan MacFarlane

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 176pp. 22cm by 28.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399023535

Weight: 992g

Original Price: £30.00

How Asia Lost Maritime Supremacy

Author: Nick Collins

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 344pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399060127

Weight: 630g

Original Price: £35.00

A Sapper's Second World War Diary

Author: Michael Moss

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399068031

Weight: 715g

Original Price: £25.00