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The 1066 Norman Bruisers conjures up the vanished world of England in the late Middle Ages and casts light on one of the strangest quirks in the nation’s history: how a bunch of European thugs became the quintessentially English gentry.

Author: Helen Kay

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 276pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526759382

Weight: 672

Original Price: £25.00

The Boer War unit that inspired the Scouts

This work begins in August 1900 during the war in South Africa, when mounted Boer commandos ranging across the veldt superseded pitched battles of massed armies and heavy weaponry. Thanks to his flair for organisation, Baden-Powell is asked to create a mounted force with a combined military and police role.

Author: Hamish Ross.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 214pp. 16x24x2.3cm.

ISBN: 9781399083621

Weight: 550g.

Original Price: £25.00

100 Years of Metropolitan Police Gallantry.

Author: Dick Kirby

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 198pp. 15.5cm by 23.3cm.

ISBN: 9781399014908

Weight: 385g

Original Price: £14.99

Nestled deep in the Surrey countryside stands the Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial. Maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, its panels contain the names of nearly 3,500 men and women of the land forces of Britain and the Commonwealth who died in the Second World War and who have no known grave.

Author: Paul Johnson

Publisher: Frontline

Hardback. 239pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781399011822

Weight. 0.721kg

Original Price: £25.00

How a military life guided Winston's finest hours.

Author: Brian Lavery.

Publisher: Casemate.

Hardback. 570pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9781910860229

Original Price: £25.00

The Roman conquests of Macedonia in the 2nd century BC led directly to the extension of their authority over the troublesome tribes of Thrace to the south of the Danube. But their new neighbour on the other side of the mighty river, the kingdom of the Dacians, was to pose an increasing threat to the Roman empire. Inevitably this eventually provoked Roman attempts at invasion and conquest.

Author: Michael Schmitz

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 149pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781848848245

Weight. 445g

Original Price: £19.99

Edmund of Cornwall, The Man Behind England’s Greatest King

Born at Christmas 1249 to Richard, Edmund of Cornwall was nephew to Henry III and cousin to Edward I. His eventful childhood took him to Germany when his father was elected king there. He was captured at the Battle of Lewes and imprisoned for more than a year. Returning from crusade, he witnessed the brutal murder of his half-brother, which left him as heir to his father, the richest man in the kingdom.

Author: Michael Ray.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 255pp. 16x24x2.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399093545

Weight: 650g.

Original Price: £25.00

Henry VIII is one of history’s most memorable monarchs. Popularly known for his six wives, and the unfortunate fate which befell Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, Henry initiated many reforms and changes which still affect our lives today.

Author: Paul Kendall

Publisher: Frontline Books

Paperback. 339pp. 17cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN 9781526767196

Weight. 0.864 kg

Original Price: £19.99

Sir Henry Percy and the Myth of Chivalry

On 21 July 1403 Sir Henry Percy – better known as Hotspur – led a rebel army out at Shrewsbury to face the forces of the king Henry IV. The battle was both bloody and decisive. Hotspur was shot down by an arrow and killed.

Author: John Sadler, Foreword by Ralph Percy.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16x24x2.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399003889

Weight: 600g

Original Price: £25.00

Keeping the Home Fires Burning tells the story of how the troops and the general public were kept happy and content during the First World War. Between 1914 and 1918 there was entertainment of the masses for the sole purpose of promotion of the war effort.

Author: Phil Carradice

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 210pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781399004411

Weight. 0.530 kg

Original Price: £20.00

Based on his own recollections, as told to the author Marcus Nannini, this is Harry Watson’s exciting account of the air war told, unusually, through the words of a transport pilot.

Author: Marcus A. Nannini.

Publisher: Air World.

Hardback. 216pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526792730

Weight: 646

Original Price: £20.00

Unravelling the Truth of the Battle of Hastings and the Events of 1066.

Recent challenges to the traditional site of the Battle of Hastings have led to a surge of interest in the events surrounding England’s most famous battle. 

Author: Robert Allred.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 204pp. 16x24x2cm.

ISBN: 9781399088039

Weight: 550g.

Original Price: £25.00