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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

Author: Max Hastings

Publisher: William Collins

Hardback. 576pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9780062980137

Original Price: £35.00

The Families that Ruled the Classical World, circa 1000 BC to AD 750

Author: John D Grainger

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 376pp. 16.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526746757

Weight: 930g

Original Price: £30.00

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

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

Pitman Shorthand Messages from the Golden Age of the Postcard

Author: Kathryn Baird

Publisher: History Press

Paperback. 128pp. 20cm by 21.5cm.

ISBN: 9781803990460

Weight: 354g

Original Price: £15.99

The Battles of Salamis, Plataea, Mycale and after

The dramatic conclusion to this trilogy explains the reversal of fortunes and final defeat of Xerxes’ Persian invasion of Greece; not as unlikely as usually presupposed.

Author: Manousos E Kambouris

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 250pp. 17.5x25x2cm.

ISBN: 9781399097802

Weight: 900g.

Original Price: £30.00

The British have been baking for centuries. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how our relationship with this much-loved art has changed, evolved and progressed over time.

Author: Emma Kay

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 15.9cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526757487

Weight: 700g

Original Price: £25.00

This is the story of how Jubilee celebrations have become vital to the success of Britain’s Royal Family and to its place at the heart of a nation.

Author: June Woolerton

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 217pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399062763

Weight: 404g

Original Price: £15.99

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

Author: Stuart Laycock, Philip Laycock

Publisher: The History Press

Hardback. 320pp. 14cm by 21.5cm.

ISBN: 9780750998796

Original Price: £15.99

The Lives of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford and Georgina Gordon, Duchess of Bedford.

Author: Keir Davidson

Publisher: Pimpernel Press

Hardback. 592pp. 18.5cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781910258255

Weight: 2kg

Original Price: £40.00

With devastating clarity and gentle humour, Mabel Hewitt takes us through her extraordinary life, from her childhood in the shadow of the First World War right up to the present day.

Author: Mabel Hewitt, Barbara Jones

Publisher: History Press

Paperback. 176pp. 13cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9781803991191

Weight: 200g

Original Price: £10.99

This work explains how Philip took the traditional forces of Macedon and reformed them into the most modern and sophisticated combined-arms force in the Mediterranean world.

Author: Gabriele Esposito.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 142pp. 17.5x25x1.2cm.

ISBN: 9781526787354

Weight: 650g.

Original Price: £20.00

England, Hungary, and the Game that Changed Football Forever

Author: Matt Clough

Publisher: History Press

Hardback. 240pp. 15.6cm by 23.4cm.

ISBN: 9780750998147

Weight: 516g

Original Price: £20.00

These intriguing remedies include Sir Walter Raleigh’s Receipt against Plague, Viper Broth and Snail Milk Water.

Author: Marilyn Yurdan, Nicola Lillie

Publisher: History Press

Paperback. 150pp. 13cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9781803993577

Weight: 168g

Original Price: £12.99

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

The Women at the top of Hitler's Germany.

Author: James Wyllie

Publisher: St Martin's Press

Hardback. 288pp. 16cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781250271563

Weight: 483g

Original Price: £22.72

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

Xerxes' Invasion: Thermopylae, Artemisium and the Destruction of Athens.

This is the epic story of the Great Persian War of 481-479 BC, the major land and sea Persian invasion of Greece under Xerxes. 

Author: Manousos E Kambouris.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 226pp. 17.5x25x1.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399097758

Weight: 800g.

Original Price: £25.00

Volume 1 - Monarchy and Consular Age.

Author: Fabrizio Casprini

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 304pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781526778338

Weight: 1.22kg

Original Price: £35.00

Author: Alan Moss. Keith Skinner

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 400pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9780750998635

Original Price: £22.00

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

For two centuries Sparta's warriors were acknowledged as second to none. Yet at only one period in its long history did the home of these grim warriors seem set to entrench itself as the dominant power in the Greek world.

Author: Mike Roberts, Bob Bennett

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 320pp. 16cm by 23.4cm.

ISBN: 9781399077132

Weight: 450g

Original Price: £14.99

Author: Cita Stelzer

Publisher: Head of Zeus

Paperback. 400pp. 13cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9781786695871

Weight: 310g

Original Price: £9.99