Pre WW1 inc Napoleonic & Ancient

Written with the most up-to-date archaeological and documentary research, and including many images of the main protagonists, battle sites, maps and genealogical charts, this is a fascinating new insight into the Wars of the Roses.

Author: David Cohen

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 208pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399083102

Weight: 694g

Original Price: £22.00

King Arthur is one of the most controversial topics of early British history. Are the legends based on a real historical figure or pure mythological invention?

Author: Ilkka Syvanne

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 16.3cm by 23.6cm.

ISBN: 9781473895201

Weight: 821g

Original Price: £25.00

This book is a fascinating discussion of the development of the military equipment of the earliest organized armies.

Author: Dan Howard

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 192pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399023375

Weight: 326g

Original Price: £14.99

Caracalla has one of the worst reputations of any Roman Emperor. Many ancient historians were very hostile and Edward Gibbon later dubbed him the common enemy of mankind. Yet his reign was considered by at least one Roman author to be the apogee of the Roman Empire.

Author: Ilkka Syvänne

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 368pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399074827

Weight: 635g

Original Price: £16.99

Across western Europe the long tradition of castle-building took on its most sophisticated form in the later medieval period and then, in response to the development of gunpowder weapons, it underwent a fundamental change – from castle to fortress. This, the second volume of a highly illustrated new study of medieval fortification, gives a fascinating insight into the last great age of castles and the centuries of violence and conflict they were part of.

Author: J.E. Kaufmann & H.W Kaufmann

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 18cm by 25.5cm.

ISBN 9781526736871

Weight. 0.822Kg

Original Price: £25.00

The Civil Wars of the seventeenth century had a devastating effect upon Wales and the Marches, stripping the country of its human resources and ruining whole communities.

Author: Terry John

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 16.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399004763

Weight: 568g

Original Price: £25.00

Part of: Conquerors of the Roman Empire (3 books).

Author: Simon MacDowall

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 208pp. 16.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399020848

Weight: 365g

Original Price: £15.99

Dr David Jones, with the help of local guides, was able to identify and photograph every important location related to one of the nineteenth century's most deadliest conflicts.

Author: Dr David R Jones

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 18cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781848324916

Weight: 1.18kg

Original Price: £35.00

The Jugurthine & Northern Wars & the rise of Marius.

Author: Gareth C Sampson.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback.288 pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781526781772

Weight: 484

Original Price: £14.99

For half a millennium, throughout almost the entire medieval period, the Catholic church sanctioned military campaigns against what it perceived as its enemies. The rise of Islam and its spread across large parts of the Middle East, Asia, North Africa and even the peripheries of Europe, saw Muslim warriors seize the Holy Land, occupy Jerusalem and threaten Constantinople.

Author: James Waterson

Publisher: Frontline Books

Hardback. 251pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN 9781526795304

Weight. 838g

Original Price: £25.00

An unfussy yet accurate history, each chapter presents a controversy in itself and sets about dispelling commonly held myths about the Civil War.

Author: James Hobson

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 135pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781526734877

Weight: 374g

Original Price: £12.99

Paul Coby here proposes a new system for the recording and mapping of Roman forts and fortifications that integrates all the data, including size, dating and identification of occupying units. Application of these methods allows analysis that brings new insights into the placement of these forts, the units garrisoning them and the strategy of conquest and defence they underpinned.

Author: Paul Coby.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 257pp. 17.5x25x2cm.

ISBN: 9781526772107

Weight: 1kg.

Original Price: £30.00