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Monthly Specials - August 2025 titles

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1066: The Lost Hastings Battlefield

1066: The Lost Hastings Battlefield

As far as is known, no-one has ever considered the Blackhorse Hill site before and it is hoped that this will inspire researchers to expand upon these findings.

Author: David John Barnby

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399049054

Weight: 673g

Original Price: £22.00

Price:    £9.99 

8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer

8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer

Using many startling contemporary images, this latest book in the Author's SS Division series vividly illustrates the horror of warfare on the Eastern Front.

Author: Ian Baxter

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 127pp. 19cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399062817

Weight: 420g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

A4 Pacifics After Gresley, The

A4 Pacifics After Gresley, The

The Late L N E R and British Railways Periods, 1942-1966.

Author: Tim Hillier-Graves

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 216pp. 24cm by 25.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399073431

Weight: 1.18kg

Original Price: £30.00

Price:    £9.99 

A Crimean Winter of Discontent

A Crimean Winter of Discontent

The Crimean War Letters of William John Rous

Author: Ian Fletcher

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 133pp. 25cm by 18cm.

ISBN: 9781399062138

Weight: 589g

Original Price: £20.00

Price:    £7.99 

A Dark History of Gin

A Dark History of Gin

The book is intended as a light-hearted look-behind-the-scenes at how ‘Mother’s Ruin’ developed into rather more than just a plain old ’G & T’.

Author: Mike Rendell

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 194pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399070515

Weight: 515g

Original Price: £20.00

Price:    £7.99 

A Maritime History of the American Revolutionary War

A Maritime History of the American Revolutionary War

An Atlantic-Wide Conflict over Independence and Empire

Author: Theodore Corbett

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 267pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399040419

Weight: 608g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

A Royal Navy Cold War Buccaneer Pilot

A Royal Navy Cold War Buccaneer Pilot

This is a vivid and powerful story of life on board the last of our great Second World War-era aircraft carriers, modernised to serve beyond their time.

Author: Simon Kershaw

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 208pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399040129

Weight: 523g

Original Price: £22.00

Price:    £9.99 

Air Intercept Radar and the British Nightfighter 1935-195, History of the

Air Intercept Radar and the British Nightfighter 1935-195, History of the

This is the history of Air Intercept (AI) radar and its use in night-fighters in defence of the UK and in the protection of RAF bomber forces. It is set against the political, military, economic and technological background of world events.

Author: Ian White

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 224pp. 19cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399014434

Weight: 632g

Original Price: £16.99

Price:    £6.99 

Air War at Sea in the Second World War, The

Air War at Sea in the Second World War, The

Men of the Fleet Air Arm and the US Navy fighter (operating bomber and torpedo carrying aircraft) describe the compelling, gripping and thought-provoking narrative of the air war in the freezing Atlantic wastes to the waters of the mighty Pacific.

Author: Martin W Bowman

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 285pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526746351

Weight: 598g

Original Price: £35.00

Price:    £11.99 

Alexander the Great, a Battle for Truth and Fiction

Alexander the Great, a Battle for Truth and Fiction

The Ancient Sources And Why They Can't Be Trusted

Author: David Grant

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 319pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399094719

Weight: 674g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Armies of the Crimean War, 1853 1856

Armies of the Crimean War, 1853 1856

History, Organization and Equipment of the British, French, Turkish, Piedmontese and Russian forces.

Author: Gabriele Esposito

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 197pp. 17.5cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399089852

Weight: 792g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Armies of the Roman Republic 264-30 BC

Armies of the Roman Republic 264-30 BC

This period saw conflicts with Carthage and Gaul plus the Helenistic Successor states. These wars, and others, made the Romans masters of all Western Europe and the whole Mediterranean basin, though failure against the Parthians limited their ambitions in the East.

Author: Gabriele Esposito

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 178pp. 17.5cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399094023

Weight: 752g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Armoured Warfare in the British Army 1939-1945

Armoured Warfare in the British Army 1939-1945

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

Price:    £9.99 

Armoured Warfare in the British Army 1945-2020

Armoured Warfare in the British Army 1945-2020

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

Price:    £9.99 

Army of the Early Roman Empire 30 BC-AD 180, The

Army of the Early Roman Empire 30 BC-AD 180, The

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

Price:    £9.99 

Army of the Roman Republic, The

Army of the Roman Republic, The

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

Price:    £6.99 

Augustus at War: The Struggle for the Pax Augusta

Augustus at War: The Struggle for the Pax Augusta

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

Price:    £6.99 

Battle: Understanding Conflict from Hastings to Helmand

Battle: Understanding Conflict from Hastings to Helmand

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

Price:    £9.99 

Battle Against the Luddites, The

Battle Against the Luddites, The

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

Price:    £9.99 

Battle for Sicily, The

Battle for Sicily, The

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

Price:    £6.99 

Battle of Britain on the Big Screen, The

Battle of Britain on the Big Screen, The

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

Price:    £9.99 

Battle of the Cities

Battle of the Cities

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

Price:    £9.99 

Berlin Blitz By Those Who Were There, The

Berlin Blitz By Those Who Were There, The

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

Price:    £9.99 

Birth of the Soviet Secret Police, The

Birth of the Soviet Secret Police, The

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

Price:    £9.99 

Bletchley Park Codebreakers in Their Own Words, The

Bletchley Park Codebreakers in Their Own Words, The

Simultaneously intimate and comprehensive, it will interest historians, World War II researchers, and anyone who wants to learn the secrets of Britain's signal intelligence effort.

Author: Joel Greenberg

Publisher: Greenhill Books

Hardback. 352pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781784388119

Weight: 730g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Boeing B-29 Superfortress - Flight Craft 29

Boeing B-29 Superfortress - Flight Craft 29

The B-29 Superfortress was the definitive expression in piston-powered offensive air power.

Author: Ben Skipper

Publisher: Air World

Paperback. 96pp. 21cm by 29.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399040648

Weight: 500g

Original Price: £18.99

Price:    £6.99 

Borderlands

Borderlands

South Yorkshire in the Anglo-Saxon and Viking Periods. AD 450-1066

Author: Phil Sidebottom

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 198pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399065566

Weight: 621g

Original Price: £20.00

Price:    £7.99 

Bosworth

Bosworth

A vivid impression of the battle emerges from his narrative which is closely linked to the landscape that was fought over on that fateful day.

Author: Richard Mackinder

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 232pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399010528

Weight: 780g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Bounty: HM Armed Vessel, 1787

Bounty: HM Armed Vessel, 1787

The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warships.

Author: Kerry Jang

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

Paperback. 64pp. 20.5cm by 29cm.

ISBN: 9781399022897

Weight: 390g

Original Price: £16.99

Price:    £6.99 

Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker

Author of Dracula: An Illustrated Biography.

Author: Neil R Storey

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 340pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399071079

Weight: 915g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Breaking the German Dams

Breaking the German Dams

A Minute-By-Minute Account of Operation Chastise, May 1943

Author: Dr Robert Owen, James Holland

Publisher: Greenhill Books

Hardback. 210pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781784389628

Weight: 580g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Britain's Changing Train Liveries

Britain's Changing Train Liveries

Four Decades of Change.

Author: David Goodyear

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 208pp. 22.5cm by 28.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399066310

Weight: 1.061kg

Original Price: £32.00

Price:    £9.99 

British Battles of the Spanish Civil War

British Battles of the Spanish Civil War

How volunteers from Britain fought against Franco.

Author: Charles J Esdaile

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526782816

Weight: 706g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

British Coastal Forces

British Coastal Forces

This book tells the dramatic story of British coastal forces, both offensive and defensive, in both World Wars and beyond.

Author: Norman Friedman

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

Hardback. 400pp. 25cm by 29.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399018586

Weight: 2.2kg

Original Price: £50.00

Price:    £19.99 

British Escort Destroyers of the Second World War

British Escort Destroyers of the Second World War

The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types.

Author: Les Brown

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

Paperback. 64pp. 21cm by 29cm.

ISBN: 9781399081757

Weight: 384g

Original Price: £16.99

Price:    £6.99 

Burma Railway and PTSD, The

Burma Railway and PTSD, The

Written from the viewpoint of a young girl who experienced the bittersweet homecoming of her traumatised father, Jack, following the end of the war.

Author: Kim Wheeler

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399049894

Weight: 600g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Bus Preservation and Rallies

Bus Preservation and Rallies

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

Price:    £9.99 

Calais: A History of England's First Colony

Calais: A History of England's First Colony

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

Price:    £9.99 

Captured at Arnhem

Captured at Arnhem

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

Price:    £9.99 

Cavalry: A Global History

Cavalry: A Global History

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

Price:    £9.99 

Children of the 1940s: A Social History

Children of the 1940s: A Social History

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

Price:    £9.99 

Churchill and Africa

Churchill and Africa

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

Price:    £6.99 

Churchill's Atlantic Convoys

Churchill's Atlantic Convoys

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

Price:    £9.99 

Clydebank Battlecruisers

Clydebank Battlecruisers

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

Price:    £6.99 

Codename TREASURE: The Life of D-Day Spy, Lily Sergueiew

Codename TREASURE: The Life of D-Day Spy, Lily Sergueiew

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

Price:    £9.99 

Cold War, Hot Wings

Cold War, Hot Wings

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

Price:    £6.99 

Day Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe

Day Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe

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

Price:    £9.99 

Dieppe 1942

Dieppe 1942

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

Price:    £9.99 

Dieppe Raid, The

Dieppe Raid, The

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

Price:    £7.99 

Disastrous Fall and Triumphant Rise of the Fleet Air Arm from 1912 to 1945, The

Disastrous Fall and Triumphant Rise of the Fleet Air Arm from 1912 to 1945, The

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

Price:    £6.99 

Double Agent Balloon

Double Agent Balloon

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

Price:    £9.99 

Elite Bastards

Elite Bastards

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

Price:    £9.99 

Epicurus and His Influence on History

Epicurus and His Influence on History

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

Price:    £9.99 

Expedition to Disaster: The Athenian Mission to Sicily 415 BC

Expedition to Disaster: The Athenian Mission to Sicily 415 BC

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

Price:    £6.99 

Experimental Test Pilot: Military Aircraft Research Flying

Experimental Test Pilot: Military Aircraft Research Flying

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

Price:    £9.99 

Faces of the Few: The Battle for Survival in the Summer of 1940

Faces of the Few: The Battle for Survival in the Summer of 1940

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

Price:    £9.99 

Factory Girls: The Working Lives of Women and Children

Factory Girls: The Working Lives of Women and Children

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

Price:    £9.99 

Fall of Cromwell's Republic and the Return of the King, The

Fall of Cromwell's Republic and the Return of the King, The

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

Price:    £9.99 

Feeding the Nation in World War II

Feeding the Nation in World War II

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

Price:    £7.99 

Fevered Fight, The

Fevered Fight, The

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

Price:    £9.99 

Fighting for the French Foreign Legion

Fighting for the French Foreign Legion

Americans who joined the First World War in 1914

Author: Nils Elmark

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 259pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399069151

Weight: 600g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Fighting in the Dark: Naval Combat at Night, 1904-1945

Fighting in the Dark: Naval Combat at Night, 1904-1945

The overarching theme of the book, of moving from dark to light: in short, the process of mastering technological change during war.

Author: Vincent P O'Hara, Trent Hone

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 305pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399030519

Weight: 849g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Fleet Air Arm Carrier War

Fleet Air Arm Carrier War

This is the story of British naval flying from aircraft carriers, from its conception in World War One to the present day.

Author: Kev Darling

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 352pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399075008

Weight: 830g

Original Price: £19.99

Price:    £7.99 

Flight Lieutenant Thomas 'Tommy' Rose DFC

Flight Lieutenant Thomas 'Tommy' Rose DFC

WWI Fighter Ace, Record Breaker, Chief Test Pilot - His Remarkable Life in the Air.

Author: Sarah Chambers

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 315pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526783820

Weight: 873g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Flying Sikh, The

Flying Sikh, The

The Story of a WW1 Fighter Pilot Flying Officer Hardit Singh Malik.

Author: Stephen Barker

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 224pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399083294

Weight: 583g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Forgotten Tudor Royal, The

Forgotten Tudor Royal, The

Margaret Douglas, Grandmother to King James VI & I.

Author: Beverley Adams

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399085908

Weight: 437g

Original Price: £22.00

Price:    £9.99 

Formidable: Arthur Flint's War Against Tirpitz and the Kamikazes

Formidable: Arthur Flint's War Against Tirpitz and the Kamikazes

Illustrated with almost 200 contemporary photographs throughout, Formidable is a memorial to the voyages and service of Arthur Flint and his shipmates during the war.

Author: Terry Crowdy

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 236pp. 17.5cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399087667

Weight: 829g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Free French Spitfire Hero

Free French Spitfire Hero

The Diaries of and Search For René Mouchotte

Author: Dilip Sarkar, Jan Leeming

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 257pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399040273

Weight: 641g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

French Invasions of Britain and Ireland, 1797-1798

French Invasions of Britain and Ireland, 1797-1798

The Revolutionaries and Spies who Sought to Topple the Government of King George.

Author: Paul L Dawson

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 250pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399068086

Weight: 510g

Original Price: £28.00

Price:    £9.99 

From The Battle of Britain to Bombing Hitler's Berchtesgaden

From The Battle of Britain to Bombing Hitler's Berchtesgaden

Wing Commander James Jim' Bazin, DSO, DFC

Author: Michael Bazin, Fenella Bazin

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 229pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399066907

Weight: 580g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

From the Spitfire Cockpit to the Cabinet Office

From the Spitfire Cockpit to the Cabinet Office

The Memoirs of Air Commodore J F 'Johnny' Langer CBE AFC DL.

Author: J F Langer

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 288pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399074889

Weight: 670g

Original Price: £15.99

Price:    £6.99 

Gallipoli Sniper: The Remarkable Life of Billy Sing

Gallipoli Sniper: The Remarkable Life of Billy Sing

Billy Sing was a small, dark man and a deadly killer. He became known as the Anzac Angel of Death and the Assassin of Gallipoli and was considered to be the most successful sniper and most feared man in Gallipoli.

Author: John Hamilton

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 255pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399075084

Weight: 458g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

Gebirgsjager: German Mountain Troops, 1935-1945

Gebirgsjager: German Mountain Troops, 1935-1945

The Gebirgsjager were officially formed in 1935 following Hitler's rejection of the Treaty of Versailles, although the required skills had been fostered in preparation through civilian climbing clubs.

Author: Jean-Denis Lepage

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 175pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399044783

Weight: 723g

Original Price: £22.00

Price:    £9.99 

Germans and the Dieppe Raid, The

Germans and the Dieppe Raid, The

How Hitler's Wehrmacht Crushed Operation Jubilee.

Author: James Shelley

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 248pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399030601

Weight: 653g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Great Battles of the Classical Greek World

Great Battles of the Classical Greek World

This book presents a selection of eighteen land battles and sieges that span the Classical Greek period, from the Persian invasions to the eclipse of the traditional hoplite heavy infantry at the hands of the Macedonians.

Author: Owen Rees

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 304pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399077088

Weight: 484g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

Greatest Escape, The

Greatest Escape, The

A Bomber Command Navigator s Story of Survival in Nazi Germany

Author: Martin Barratt

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 256pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399075275

Weight: 637g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives in the Preservation Era

Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives in the Preservation Era

Author: David Maidment

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 164pp. 25.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399022668

Weight: 968g

Original Price: £32.00

Price:    £10.99 

Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives 1923 - 1959

Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives 1923 - 1959

Author: David Maidment, Bob Meanley

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 307pp. 25.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399095303

Weight: 1.523kg

Original Price: £40.00

Price:    £12.99 

Gunners from the Sky

Gunners from the Sky

1st Air Landing Light Regiment in Italy and at Arnhem, 1942-44

Author: Paul Chrystal, David Chrystal

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 279pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399088084

Weight: 575g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Guy Gibson: Dambuster

Guy Gibson: Dambuster

The raid on the Mhne, Edersee and Sorpe dams by 617 Squadron was the most famous RAF sortie of the Second World War. Its leader, 24-years-old Wing Commander Guy Gibson, was one of the Second World Wars more enigmatic and controversial characters.

Author: Geoff Simpson

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 191pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399077354

Weight: 362g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

Healing in Hell

Healing in Hell

The Memoirs of a Far Eastern POW Medic.

Author: Ken Adams

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 179pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399030915

Weight: 356g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

Henry VIII

Henry VIII

A History of his Most Important Places and Events

Author: Andrew Beattie

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 236pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399007788

Weight: 726g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Hitler's Imperfect Victories

Hitler's Imperfect Victories

Campaigns in Western Europe 1939-1941

Author: Rex Bashford

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 250pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399070263

Weight: 635g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Hitler's Shattered Dreams of Empire

Hitler's Shattered Dreams of Empire

Crucial Battles of the Eastern and Western Front 1941-1944

Author: Rex Bashford

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 288pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399070317

Weight: 656g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Hitler's Death Trains

Hitler's Death Trains

Without the Reichsbahn (German National Railway), the industrial murder of millions of Jews, Roma and other undesirables' would not have been possible on the scale that was so tragically achieved.

Author: Ian Baxter

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 120pp. 19cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399040082

Weight: 422g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

Hitler's Last Chance: Kolberg

Hitler's Last Chance: Kolberg

Kolberg: The Propaganda Movie and the Rise and Fall of a German City

Author: Kevin Prenger

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 177pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399072977

Weight: 491g

Original Price: £22.00

Price:    £9.99 

Hitler's Spy Against Churchill

Hitler's Spy Against Churchill

The Spy Who Died Out in the Cold

Author: Jan-Willem van den Braak

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 289pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526768773

Weight: 676g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

HMS Turbulent

HMS Turbulent

HMS Turbulent was a Royal Navy T-class submarine. From its launch in May 1941 to when it was lost at sea, along with its entire crew, in March 1943, it was responsible for the sinking of nearly 100,000 tons of enemy shipping.

Author: Stephen Wynn

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 268pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526736260

Weight: 549g

Original Price: £22.00

Price:    £9.99 

How the World Allowed Hitler to Proceed with the Holocaust

How the World Allowed Hitler to Proceed with the Holocaust

In the vital conference at Evian-les-Bains, France, to discuss the persecution and possible emigration of the European Jews, most of those nations rejected the pleas then being made by the Jewish communities, thus condemning them to the Holocaust.

Author: Tony Matthews

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 480pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399006392

Weight: 1.19kg

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £7.99 

Hull Rifles

Hull Rifles

A History of the 4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 1914-1918

Author: David Bilton

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 306pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781473833654

Weight: 865g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

In the Mind of Stalin

In the Mind of Stalin

How can this paradox of a man, who on the one hand had once exhibited great tenderness and kindness to his daughter Svetlana, and on the other sent millions - including members of his own family - to their deaths, be explained?

Author: James Greensmith

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 227pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399063579

Weight: 560g

Original Price: £20.00

Price:    £7.99 

Italian Campaign, 1943 1945, The

Italian Campaign, 1943 1945, The

As this book demonstrates in over 300 photographs, the Italian peninsula was a major theatre of the war in itself.

Author: Philip Jowett

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 240pp. 18.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399073110

Weight: 685g

Original Price: £18.99

Price:    £6.99 

Jane Seymour: An Illustrated Life

Jane Seymour: An Illustrated Life

Who was Jane Seymour? Throughout this illustrated book we will find a woman who was neither saint or sinner, but a human being with her own beliefs and causes.

Author: Carol-Ann Johnston

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 181pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399071611

Weight: 622g

Original Price: £22.00

Price:    £10.99 

Julius Caesar in Egypt

Julius Caesar in Egypt

Cleopatra and the War in Alexandria

Author: Philip Matyszak

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 176pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399097369

Weight: 454g

Original Price: £20.00

Price:    £7.99 

Julius Caesar's Civil War

Julius Caesar's Civil War

Tactics, Strategies and Logistics

Author: Julian Romane

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 310pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399089425

Weight: 684g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Kingmaker's Women, The

Kingmaker's Women, The

Anne Beauchamp and Her Daughters, Isabel and Anne Neville.

Author: Julia A Hickey

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 248pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399064859

Weight: 513g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Land Army's Lost Women, The

Land Army's Lost Women, The

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

Price:    £9.99 

Life of a Medical Officer in WWI, The

Life of a Medical Officer in WWI, The

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

Price:    £9.99 

Living in Early Victorian London

Living in Early Victorian London

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

Price:    £9.99 

LMS Princess Coronation Pacifics, 1937-1956, The

LMS Princess Coronation Pacifics, 1937-1956, The

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

Price:    £9.99 

Lucky Hitler's Big Mistakes

Lucky Hitler's Big Mistakes

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

Price:    £9.99 

Man Who Built the Berlin Wall, The

Man Who Built the Berlin Wall, The

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

Price:    £9.99 

Masters of Warfare

Masters of Warfare

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

Price:    £9.99 

Matilda II: The Forgotten Queen

Matilda II: The Forgotten Queen

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

Price:    £7.99 

Mediterranean Naval Battles That Changed the World

Mediterranean Naval Battles That Changed the World

Author: Quentin Russell

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526715999

Weight: 690g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £7.99 

Mercedes Benz Midibus, The

Mercedes Benz Midibus, The

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

Price:    £9.99 

Millennium Maritime Trade Revolution, 700-1700, The

Millennium Maritime Trade Revolution, 700-1700, The

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

Price:    £10.99 

Mines, Bombs, Bullets and Bridges

Mines, Bombs, Bullets and Bridges

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

Price:    £9.99 

Mosquito Night Intruder Ace

Mosquito Night Intruder Ace

Wing Commander Bertie Rex O'Bryen Hoare DFC & Bar, DSO & Bar

Despite his restricted night vision and depth perception, Bertie went on to became one of the RAF’s leading advocates in the art of what was known as ‘intruder operations’.

Author: Danny Burt

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 240pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399017862

Weight: 717g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Napoleonic Britain

Napoleonic Britain

A Guide to Fortresses, Statues and Memorials of the French Wars 1792-1815

Author: David Buttery

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399084376

Weight: 731g

Original Price: £18.00

Price:    £9.99 

Napoleon's Cavalry, Artillery and Technical Corps 1799-1815

Napoleon's Cavalry, Artillery and Technical Corps 1799-1815

All are beautifully illustrated by the many colour plates in this book, and their organization, equipment and tactics described.

Author: Gabriele Esposito

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 168pp. 17.5cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399089807

Weight: 984g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Norway Campaign and the Rise of Churchill 1940, The

Norway Campaign and the Rise of Churchill 1940, The

While the campaign in Norway (April to June 1940) was a depressing opening to active hostilities between Britain and Nazi Germany, it led directly to Churchills war leadership and The Coalition.

Author: Anthony Dix

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 272pp. 16cm by 22.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399022705

Weight: 450g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

On Tour For Steam

On Tour For Steam

A Pictorial Railway Journey Across Britain in the 1960s

Author: Howard Routledge

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 112pp. 21.5cm by 28cm.

ISBN: 9781399083928

Weight: 823g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Operation Hoss

Operation Hoss

The Deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, May-July 1944

Author: Ian Baxter

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 144pp. 19cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399062909

Weight: 415g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

Operation Tonga

Operation Tonga

Pegasus Bridge and the Merville Battery.

Author: Jon Cooksey

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 144pp. 17cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781844152032

Weight: 356g

Original Price: £16.99

Price:    £6.99 

Petrol Navy, The

Petrol Navy, The

British, American and Other Naval Motor Boats at War 1914-1920.

Author: Steve Dunn

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

Hardback. 320pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399062855

Weight: 850g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Pioneers of Aerial Combat

Pioneers of Aerial Combat

Air Battles of the First World War.

Author: Michael Foley

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 192pp. 14cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9781399074957

Weight: 463g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

POW on the Sumatra Railway

POW on the Sumatra Railway

The Ministry of Defence, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and The Imperial War Museum had no records of POW's building a railway in Sumatra. So began Geoff's journey, his aim to prove to the establishment what he already knew to be true. This is Geoff's story of his captivity, release, and subsequent efforts in achieving his aim.

Author: Christine Bridges

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399015257

Weight: 514g

Original Price: £20.00

Price:    £7.99 

Queen Elizabeth I

Queen Elizabeth I

Life and Legacy of the Virgin Queen.

Author: Paul Kendall

Publisher: Frontline Books

Hardback. 216pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399018357

Weight: 780g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Race for the Atom Bomb, The

Race for the Atom Bomb, The

How Soviet Russia Stole the Secrets of the Manhattan Project.

Author: John Harte

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399049108

Weight: 628g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

RAF Tanker Navigator

RAF Tanker Navigator

This book gives a rare insight into the life inside the tanker squadrons of the Royal Air Force, viewed through the eyes of Tony Golds, one of the RAF tanker fleet's longest serving Navigator/Plotters.

Author: Peter Bodle, Tony Golds

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 224pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399074971

Weight: 350g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

Rebellion Against Henry VIII

Rebellion Against Henry VIII

By focussing on the rebellions against Henry VIII, we cast new eyes on his character and gain a fascinating insight into the lives of Tudor men and women during the turbulent thirty-nine years of his reign.

Author: Phil Carradice

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399071765

Weight: 480g

Original Price: £20.00

Price:    £7.99 

Return of the Ripper?, The

Return of the Ripper?, The

Kevin Turton re-examines the facts behind the Coles murder case and the potential links with the unsolved Whitechapel murders of the 1880s.

Author: Kevin Turton

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 208pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399064705

Weight: 522g

Original Price: £20.00

Price:    £7.99 

Rivalries that Destroyed the Roman Republic

Rivalries that Destroyed the Roman Republic

This is the story of how some Roman aristocrats grew so competitive in their political rivalries that they destroyed their Republic, in the late second to mid-first century BCE.

Author: Jeremiah McCall

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 272pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526733177

Weight: 590g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Robert the Bruce

Robert the Bruce

It covers his life from childhood to death, looking at the political, social and military life of Scotland before, during and after the time of Robert the Bruce.

Author: Phil Carradice

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 232pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399002608

Weight: 460g

Original Price: £20.00

Price:    £7.99 

Roman Conquests: Gaul

Roman Conquests: Gaul

Ever since their sack of Rome in the early fourth century BC, the tribes of Gauls were among the Roman Republic's most feared and respected foes. This book describes how Roman armies eventually carried war into their enemies' homelands and brought them into their expanding empire.

Author: Michael Sage

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 208pp. 16.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399077323

Weight: 385g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

Roman Emperors

Roman Emperors

A concise chronological guide to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire.

Author: Mario Bartolini

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 208pp. 17cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399063661

Weight: 646g

Original Price: £20.00

Price:    £7.99 

Roman Legends Brought to Life

Roman Legends Brought to Life

The legends survived because they reminded the Romans who they were, what modest beginnings they came from, how on many occasions their city nearly imploded, and what type of men and women shaped their story.

Author: Robert Garland

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 232pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399098526

Weight: 673g

Original Price: £20.00

Price:    £7.99 

Roman Legion VI Victrix, The History of

Roman Legion VI Victrix, The History of

Brought over from Germany in 122 to assist in the building of Hadrian's Wall the Sixth Legion remained in Britain until the end of Roman rule.

Author: Tony Sullivan

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399088572

Weight: 710g

Original Price: £22.00

Price:    £9.99 

Royal Auxiliary Air Force, The

Royal Auxiliary Air Force, The

Commemorating 100 Years of Service.

Author: Frances Louise Wilkinson, Squadron Leader Tony Freeman RAuxaF (Retd)

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 256pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399062183

Weight: 600g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Save the Last Bullet

Save the Last Bullet

Memoir of a Boy Soldier in Hitler's Army.

Author: Heidi Langbein-Allen

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 192pp. 16.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399072397

Weight: 540g

Original Price: £20.00

Price:    £7.99 

Season in Hell

Season in Hell

British Footballers Killed in the Second World War.

Author: Nigel McCrery

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781473827134

Weight: 610g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Second World War Illustrated, The - The Fifth Year

Second World War Illustrated, The - The Fifth Year

With over 1,000 original photographs, this is a true labour of love and an ideal purchase for anyone interested in the history of the Second World War in a more accessible form.

Author: Jack Holroyd

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 320pp. 17cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399063043

Weight: 850g

Original Price: £19.99

Price:    £7.99 

Secret History of the Court of England, The

Secret History of the Court of England, The

Written by Olivia Serres under the pseudonym of 'Lady Anne Hamilton,' this was a sensational chronicle of the crime, vice, and debauchery designed to shock and titillate its reader. It contained a number of accusations against establishment figures.

Author: Stephen Basdeo

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 360pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399015820

Weight: 922g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England

Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England

This book allows the reader a peek beneath the bedsheets of our medieval ancestors, in an informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality in England from 1250 to 1450.

Author: Kathryn Warner

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 208pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399098328

Weight: 480g

Original Price: £20.00

Price:    £7.99 

Sextus Julius Frontinus and the Roman Empire

Sextus Julius Frontinus and the Roman Empire

Author of Stratagems, Advisor to Emperors, Governor of Britain, Pacifier of Wales.

Author: John D Grainger

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 320pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399051224

Weight: 600g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Shadow of Isandlwana, The

Shadow of Isandlwana, The

The Life and Times of General Lord Chelmsford and his Disaster in Zululand

Author: John Laband, Ian Knight

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 550pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781784387709

Weight: 1.111kg

Original Price: £34.99

Price:    £11.99 

Spitfire Down

Spitfire Down

The stories of thirteen pilots who failed to return.

Author: Dilip Sarkar

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 272pp. 16.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399089470

Weight: 780g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Spitfire Faces

Spitfire Faces

Concentrating on the stories of not only those who flew the Spitfire into battle, but also the men and women who maintained and built it.

Author: Dilip Sarkar

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 208pp. 17cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399065313

Weight: 813g

Original Price: £22.00

Price:    £9.99 

Stalin's Plans for Capturing Germany

Stalin's Plans for Capturing Germany

While the myth of Soviet benevolence has now largely been discredited, the idea that Stalin's Soviet Union was a peaceful power that sought to prevent the war, remains popular to this day.

Author: Bogdan Musial

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 352pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399068130

Weight: 754g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Steep Atlantick Stream, The

Steep Atlantick Stream, The

First published in 1946, this atmospheric memoir of the battle of the Atlantic offers one of the most original accounts of war at sea aboard a corvette, escorting convoys in both the North and South Atlantic.

Author: Robert Harling

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

Hardback. 232pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399072885

Weight: 420g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

Storming Hitler's British Fortress

Storming Hitler's British Fortress

The Commando Raids on the Channel Islands in World War II.

Author: Simon Hamon, John Grehan

Publisher: Frontline Books

Hardback. 240pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781473893771

Weight: 730g

Original Price: £22.00

Price:    £9.99 

Survival and Separation on the River Kwai

Survival and Separation on the River Kwai

The Ordeal of a Japanese Prisoner of War and His Family.

Author: Ian Roberts

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 184pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399049559

Weight: 480g

Original Price: £20.00

Price:    £7.99 

Tank Gun Systems

Tank Gun Systems

The First Thirty Years, 1916 1945.

Author: William Andrews

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 576pp. 18.5cm by 25.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399042352

Weight: 1.62kg

Original Price: £35.00

Price:    £11.99 

Tank Warfare 1939-1945

Tank Warfare 1939-1945

On the battlefields of Europe and North Africa during the Second World War tanks played a key role, and the intense pressure of combat drove forward tank design and tactics at an extraordinary rate.

Author: Simon Forty, Jonathan Forty

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardrback. 216pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781526767622

Weight: 780g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £7.99 

Talavera Campaign 1809, The

Talavera Campaign 1809, The

Peninsular War Battlefield Companion

Author: Tim Saunders

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 272pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399040037

Weight: 763g

Original Price: £28.00

Price:    £9.99 

Thirteen Roman Defeats

Thirteen Roman Defeats

The chosen battles span the centuries, from the disastrous battle against invading Celts at the Allia River in (387 or 386 BC) to the naval defeat by the Vandals off Cap Bon in AD 468.

Author: Ian Hughes

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 240pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526726674

Weight: 584g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Titanic: 'Iceberg Ahead'

Titanic: 'Iceberg Ahead'

The Story of the Disaster By Some of those Who Were There

Author: James W Bancroft

Publisher: Frontline Books

Paperback. 192pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781526797520

Weight: 350g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

Traction Engine Rallies

Traction Engine Rallies

An Appreciation Over Seventy Years, 1950-2019

Author: Malcolm Batten

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 192pp. 21.5cm by 28cm.

ISBN: 9781399081672

Weight: 1.077kg

Original Price: £32.00

Price:    £10.99 

Trafalgar Chronicle, The

Trafalgar Chronicle, The

Dedicated to Naval History in the Nelson Era: New Series 7.

Author: The 1805 Club

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

Paperback. 304pp. 15cm by 21cm.

ISBN: 9781399090469

Weight: 430g

Original Price: £20.00

Price:    £7.99 

Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Accounts of British Soldiers and their Protectors in The Great War

Author: John Anderson, Victor Piuk

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 176pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399074797

Weight: 327g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

Trauma of Captivity, The - PoW Mental Heath

Trauma of Captivity, The - PoW Mental Heath

This book seeks to shed new light on a forgotten aspect of what it meant to be a prisoner of war: their homecoming.

Author: Julie Cook

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399016827

Weight: 445g

Original Price: £22.00

Price:    £9.99 

Tribute to a Hero

Tribute to a Hero

The Life and Loss of Major Paul Harding MiD at Basra

Author: Garry McCarthy

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399089708

Weight: 573g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Two-Man Air Force

Two-Man Air Force

Don Gentile & John Godfrey: World War II Flying Legends

Author: Philip Kaplan

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 176pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399020749

Weight: 326g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

US Naval Aviation, 1945-2003

US Naval Aviation, 1945-2003

Rare Photographs from Naval Archives

Author: Leo Marriott

Publisher: Air World

Paperback. 192pp. 19cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399062572

Weight: 530g

Original Price: £16.99

Price:    £6.99 

Waffen-SS Dutch, Belgian & Danish Volunteers

Waffen-SS Dutch, Belgian & Danish Volunteers

Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

Author: Ian Baxter

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 128pp. 18.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399087629

Weight: 470g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

Warships of the Soviet Fleets, 1939-1945

Warships of the Soviet Fleets, 1939-1945

Volume III Naval Auxiliaries

Author: Przemyslaw Budzbon, Jan Radziemski

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

Hardback. 320pp. 25.5cm by 30cm.

ISBN: 9781399022811

Weight: 1.85kg

Original Price: £45.00

Price:    £14.99 

Walking Waterloo

Walking Waterloo

Presenting the experience of the soldiers who took part in the battle in the most graphic and direct way possible - through their own words.

Author: Charles J. Esdaile

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 320pp. 14cm by 22cm.

ISBN: 9781526740786

Weight: 570g

Original Price: £16.99

Price:    £8.99 

William IV: The Last Hanoverian King of Britain

William IV: The Last Hanoverian King of Britain

An affable character of straightforward honesty and common sense, an occasionally tactless, blundering character with an instinctive dislike of pomp and ceremony but with the common touch, he was arguably the most human, down-to-earth of the Hanoverians.

Author: John Van der Kiste

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 272pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399098571

Weight: 500g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Wings Over the Waves

Wings Over the Waves

Fleet Air Arm Strike Leader against Tirpitz - The Biography of Lt Cdr Roy Baker-Falkner DSO DSC RN.

Author: Graham Drucker

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 400pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399075046

Weight: 710g

Original Price: £19.99

Price:    £7.99 

With Napoleon's Guard in Russia

With Napoleon's Guard in Russia

The Memoirs of Major Vionnet, 1812

Author: Louis Joseph Vionnet

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 224pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399020824

Weight: 510g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

With the Paras in Helmand: A Photographic Diary

With the Paras in Helmand: A Photographic Diary

Craig Allen, a Paratrooper for 29 years, returned to 2 PARA as a reservist and unofficial photographer for the Battlegroups dramatic 2008 Tour in Helmand. As both a respected soldier and photographer he had unrivalled access to the fighting and moved from area to area following the action.

Author: Craig Allen

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 304pp. 19.5cm by 25.4cm.

ISBN: 9781399020886

Weight: 884g

Original Price: £18.99

Price:    £6.99 

Women in the Second World War

Women in the Second World War

The huge variety of services and experiences featured in the book reflect how widely spread the womens contribution to the war effort was, from tilling the soil below, to servicing the engines of aircraft about to take off to the sky above, and everything in between.

Author: Collette Drifte

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 224pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399019477

Weight: 506g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

Wrightbus, StreetDeck, The

Wrightbus, StreetDeck, The

The origins of Wrightbus can be traced back to just after the Second World War in 1946 when the company was founded as Robert Wright & Son Coachbuilders in Ballymena Northern Ireland.

Author: David Barrow

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 120pp. 21.5cm by 28cm.

ISBN: 9781399081634

Weight: 787g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

'Young Man - You'll Never Die'

'Young Man - You'll Never Die'

A World War II Fighter Pilot in North Africa, Burma & Malaya

Author: Merton Naydler

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 224pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399020329

Weight: 356g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

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