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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This work begins in August 1900 during the war in South Africa, when mounted Boer commandos ranging across the veldt superseded pitched battles of massed armies and heavy weaponry.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

Father of the modern circus. The life and times of Philip Astley.

Author: Steve Ward.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 128pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9781526706874

Original Price: £12.99

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

The Battle of Fishguard, 1797.

Author: Phil Caradice

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 217pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526743268

Weight: 568g

Original Price: £19.99

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

The quest for the ancestry of the British.

Author: Anthony Adolph.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 240pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9781526781802

Original Price: £15.99

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

Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive analysis of eleventh century warfare as exposed in the record of the Norman Conquest of England.

Author: Arthur C Wright.

Publisher: Frontline Books.

Hardback.214pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526773708

Weight:

Original Price: £30.00

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

Justinian II became Roman emperor at a time when the Empire was beset by external enemies.

Author: Dr Peter Crawford

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 430pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526755308

Weight: 934

Original Price: £30.00

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

70 years on we picture the locations of the robberies and shoot-outs and seek out graves of those who died, lest their victims be overshadowed and forgotton by the legendary exploits of Bonnie and Clyde.

Author: Winston G. Ramsey

Publisher: After the Battle

Hardback. 204pp. 22cm by 30cm.

ISBN: 9781870067515

Original Price: £29.95

Pirates and Privateers tells the fascinating story of the buccaneers who were the scourge of merchants in the 18th Century. 

Author: Mike Rendell.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 173pp. 16x24x1.7cm.

ISBN: 9781526731654

Weight: 600g.

Original Price: £19.99

A historian’s account of the experience of Poland’s people and its military before, during, and after World War II—from 1918 to 1991.

Author: Andrew Rawson

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 212pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526743923

Original Price: £19.99

When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC, he left an empire that stretched from the shores of the Adriatic to the mountains of Afghanistan. This empire did not survive Alexander's death, and rapidly broke into several successor states. 

Author: Dr Philip Matyszak.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 168pp. 16x24x2cm..

ISBN: 9781473874763

Weight: 500g.

Original Price: £19.99

150 Years of Blood and Fire

Author: Stephen Huggins.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16x24x2cm.

ISBN: 9781399098229

Weight: 700g.

Original Price: £25.00

Exploring entirely new ground to investigate 150 years of murder and present it through the "Then & Now" theme of comparison photographs.

Edited by Winston Ramsey.

Publisher: After the Battle..

Hardback. 368pp. 21cm by 30cm.

ISBN: 9781870067751

Weight: 1810

Original Price: £39.95

John, Lord Wenlock and the Wars of the Roses.

John Wenlock, first Lord Wenlock, was a leading diplomat, courtier and soldier during the Wars of the Roses whose remarkable career offers us a fascinating insight into one of the most turbulent periods in English medieval history.

Author: Dr Alexander Brondarbit.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 195pp. 16x24x2.3cm.

ISBN: 9781399003476

Weight: 550g.

Original Price: £19.99

How the pandemic unfolded on each continent.

Author: Jaime Breitnauer.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 144pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9781526766427

Original Price: £12.99

Wolfe Frank was Chief Interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials where he was dubbed ‘The Voice of Doom’. A playboy turned resistance worker he had fled Germany for England in 1937 having been branded an ‘enemy of the state – to be shot on sight’.

Author: Wolfe Frank

Publisher: Frontline

Hardback. 322pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781526738738

Weight. 0.750Kg

Original Price: £25.00

Owain Glyndwr, the Last Prince of Wales.

Author: Phil Carradice

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 204pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399002653

Weight: 545g

Original Price: £20.00