History Books
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Colonel Strutts Daring Royal Mission
Book SynopsisThis is one of the great adventure stories of the Great War and Col. Strutt deserves to be better known.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Living in Early Victorian London
Book SynopsisAn overview of what life was like in London when Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale and Charles Dickens were young.
£18.70
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Romes Enemies Within
Book SynopsisThe greatest danger to Roman Emperors was the threat of deadly conspiracies arising among the Senate, the Imperial Court or even their own families All the emperors that reigned from Augustus to the end of the 1st century AD faced such efforts to overthrow or assassinate them. John McHugh uncovers these conspiracies, narrating them and seeking to explain them. The underlying cause in many cases was the decline in influence, patronage and status granted by emperors to the Senatorial class, leading some to seek power for themselves or a more generous candidate. Attempted assassinations or coups led the Emperors to be mistrust the senate and rely more on freedmen, causing more resentment. Paranoid emperors often reacted to the merest hint of treason, real or imagined, with punishments and executions, leading more of those around them to consider desperate measures out of self-preservation. And of course, amid this vicious circle of poisonous mistrust, there were ambitious family members p
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Profumo Affair
Book SynopsisIn the hot and steamy July of 1961, a hedonistic weekend at Lord Astor's Buckinghamshire estate Cliveden set in motion a chain of events like no other. It was where John Profumo, Secretary of State for War, first decided he must bed the 19-year-old Christine Keeler, a model and showgirl. But that weekend Keeler headed home to London with diplomat, and known Russian spy, Yevgeny Ivanov instead.Undeterred, Profumo quickly started dating Keeler, and begun to mix in her circle, which included society osteopath Stephen Ward and fellow model Mandy Rice-Davies. But alongside flirting with the decadent upper classes, Ward and Keeler also enjoyed the seedier side of city life, becoming entangled with violent petty criminals.The heady mix of sex and espionage soon exploded. With Profumo exposed as a fraud, the government was left scrabbling to protect its reputation. Had its war minister been duped by the Soviets into careless pillow talk instigated by a Communist sympathiser? Both Ward and Keel
£18.70
Pen & Sword Books Ltd US Naval Aviation 1945 2003
Book SynopsisCovers events from the end of the Second World War to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sequel to US Naval Aviation 1898-1945.
£15.29
Pen & Sword Books Ltd 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer
Book SynopsisCovers the operations of a leading SS Cavalry Regiment. Latest in the Author's popular SS Divisions/ Images of War series.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Surviving the Holocaust and Stalin
Book SynopsisA Jewish memoir that goes beyond the Holocaust and ask what happened after Soviet liberation'.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Second World War Illustrated
Book SynopsisA quick, convenient visual history of the world's worst life-changing conflict.
£16.99
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Windfall Battleships
Book SynopsisThe full story of the four capital ships taken over from foreign orders during the First World War. Insights into the Latin-American and Balkan naval races that preceded the First World War. The first overview of the naval export trade in Europe and the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The End of the Spanish Civil War
Book SynopsisThe Spanish Civil War ended in Alicante. After Catalonia fell to the Hitler andMussolini backed military rebellion of Franco's Nationalists at the outset of1939, the legitimate Republican government of Dr Negrín was faced with achoice between apparently futile resistance or unconditional surrender to thetriumphant Nationalists. Choosing the path of continued defiance until theycould force concessions or at least implement a mass evacuation of thoseRepublicans most at risk in Franco's new Spain, the government withdrew toElda in the province of Alicante.However, their plans were thwarted by a new rebellion of Republican officers,led by Colonel Segismundo Casado, who resented Negrín's reliance on theCommunist Party and the USSR and believed themselves better equipped tonegotiate a peace settlement with Franco. They were misguided, Franco hadno wish, and ultimately no need to negotiate. Meanwhile, faced with theimminent risk of arrest by the new junta, the Prime Minister and his cabinetwe
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Endeavour Journals
Book SynopsisIn 1770 H.M. Bark Endeavourarrived in New Holland, Australia, the ''Continent of Smoke''. On board were Lieutenant James Cook, gentleman naturalist Joseph Banks, natural history artist Sydney Parkinson, and Midshipman James Magra.For the first time, this book combines the journals of these men to present a single, cohesive narrative that brings the story to life as never before. The journals are complimented by over 300 images, including charts, costal profiles, plans of harbours, and many original drawings executed during the voyage of the animals, people and landscape unique to the region.Of the many titles that are available concerning Cook and his voyaging, few focus on Cook's New Holland experience. Most commonly these titles are interpretative accounts, and heavily weighted with the author's opinion. However, here the story of New Holland is told in the words of the explorers themselves, containing first hand accounts of all the elements of drama, risk and first discovery.Focusin
£28.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Creators of Winnie the Pooh
Book SynopsisIn 1962, children's writer Roger Lancelyn Green coined the phrase The Golden Age of Children's Books'. A. A. Milne's two Winnie-the-Pooh books, published in 1926 and 1928, which were so beautifully illustrated by artist and book illustrator E. H. Shepard, fall into this category.Milne was clearly motivated to compose his Winnie-the-Pooh stories in order to entertain his young son. However, Christopher Robin came to resent the fact that his father had used his real first names as the names of Pooh's owner in the books.Was there a deeper reason why Milne created Winnie-the-Pooh? Possibly yes. The author had served as a soldier in the First World War, and by creating Pooh and his Hundred Acre Wood', he had created a world into which he could withdraw whenever he chose, and thereby mitigate the post-traumatic stress disorder which all military combatants suffer, to a greater or lesser degree. The same applied to Shepard, who also served in that conflict.Having been given the Pooh books as
£19.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Sweating Sickness Epidemic
Book SynopsisThis book teases out the similarities and differences between the sweat' and its better-known, if equally feared, contemporary infectious disease, bubonic plague.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Roman Emperors of Britain
Book SynopsisIn 55 BC, on a stretch of beach near Deal in East Kent, the Romans' first invasion was in great danger of being pushed back into the sea by a host of Britons defending the beach. The eagle bearer of the Tenth Legion jumped into the surf and urged his comrades to follow him, a pivotal moment in Julius Caesar's first invasion. It was to be another ninety years before Claudius finally subdued part of the island and paraded in triumph into the stronghold at Camulodunum. Roman authority quickly expanded, from Vespasian's dramatic campaign against the hillforts of southern Britain to Hadrian's famous Wall in the north.This book will cover not the reign of Emperors but what posts they held in Britain prior to their achieving the throne. Titus served as a tribune directly after the Boudiccan revolt. Pertinax served in three posts: equestrian tribune of the Sixth Legion; praefectus of an auxiliary unit; and finally as a governor of Britannia. It will cover the civil war between Clodius Albinus
£18.70
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Life in PostWar Britain
Book SynopsisLife in Post-War Britain: Toils and Efforts Ahead tells what it was like to live in Britain as the nation battled to recover while still facing many hardships, including food rationing that, ironically, was to become more severe than that in wartime.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Actresses of the Restoration Period
Book SynopsisThe life and times of Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle, two of the Restoration's most celebrated actresses.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The First Royal Media War
Book SynopsisFind out more about Edward VIII, the first celebrity monarch.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Borderlands
Book SynopsisExplores the conflict zone of the borderland of South Yorkshire that existed between the kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria. An accessible read that will interest anyone who wants to know more about South Yorkshire in this pivotal era.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Women Against the Raj
Book SynopsisThis is the story of the women from the Indian Subcontinent who fought against British imperial power from the 1600s until the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947. It begins by looking at the Partition of India, and the unique impact this had on women who in addition to the displacement and violence which affected millions of South Asians, suffered uniquely through a campaign of rape, abduction, and forced suicides which left a lasting impact on the souls of women from every community. It then seeks to shine a light on the often-forgotten story of these women who were not just passive victims of British, and later, communal violence, but who fought alongside (or sometimes at the head of) their male counterparts to secure the fall of the British Raj and the independence of their own nation. The stories of up to forty women, are examined, from various religious and racial communities across South Asia who advocated for Indian Independence and should be remembered and celebrated
£22.50
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Military Air Power in Europe Preparing for War
Book SynopsisThe author explores how the major European nations dealt with the development of their air forces in the lead-up to the Second World War.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Criminal Classes
Book SynopsisWe explore why the idea of the criminal class came into being. Starting with garrotters lurking in dark Victorian alleyways, the fiend Jack the Ripper stalking London's streets to the menace of violent gangs, the Scuttlers', Peaky Blinders, and Liverpool's High Rip, all the way through to 1970s joyriders, 1990s ravers, and the modern drug trade that brings guns and knives to our streets. It describes the actions taken to control the hard-core group increasingly harsh punishments, executions, floggings, long prison sentences and the ways that society learns about crime, dangerous areas, and the people who habitually offend against society. How do we know what dangers apparently lurk in the inner cities? What part did the newspapers, authors and social investigators play in sensationalising some crimes, and were they right to do so? The book compares real-life criminals (and their lives) with fictional accounts, such as the Artful Dodger, Pinkie in Brighton Rock, and the scenes that soc
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Dieppe Raid
Book SynopsisIn the introduction the authors explore just why Winston Churchill authorised a super-raid' upon German-held territory. Examines why the French port of Dieppe was selected as the target.
£16.99
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Carthaginian Armies of the Punic Wars 264146 BC
Book SynopsisGabriele Esposito describes the organization, equipment and tactics of the Carthaginian forces that fought the three Punic wars with Rome, and analyses the campaigns, battles and sieges. Lavishly illustrated with high-quality photographs of replica weapons and equipment in use by reenactors.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Catiline Rebel of the Roman Republic
Book SynopsisThis is the ONLY modern, scholarly biography of Catiline and is based on an exhaustive study of the ancient sources and modern scholarship.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd French Invasions of Britain and Ireland 1797 1798
Book SynopsisIn this book, the author explores how a network of spies spread out across the England, Scotland and Ireland to further the aims of the landings. Written by an acknowledged expert on the era.
£23.80
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Royal Women Who Made England
Book SynopsisThroughout the tenth century, England, as it would be recognised today, formed. No longer many Saxon kingdoms, but rather, just England. Yet, this development masks much in the century in which the Viking raiders were seemingly driven from England's shores by Alfred, his children and grandchildren, only to return during the reign of his great, great-grandson, the much-maligned Æthelred II.Not one but two kings would be murdered, others would die at a young age, and a child would be named king on four occasions. Two kings would never marry, and a third would be forcefully divorced from his wife. Yet, the development towards England' did not stop. At no point did it truly fracture back into its constituent parts. Who then ensured this stability? To whom did the witan turn when kings died, and children were raised to the kingship?The royal woman of the House of Wessex came into prominence during the century, perhaps the most well-known being Æthelflæd, daughter of King Alfred. Perhaps the
£18.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The City Dairy
Book SynopsisThe first social and family history of the city dairy in Britain, looking at its origins and development.
£15.29
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Georgian Feminists
Book SynopsisFor centuries women's history has been dismissed, or ignored entirely. Women make up half of society, and yet few pages have been written about women's history, their lives, and contributions. It is time to redress this imbalance and recognize the significant involvement and impact women have had throughout history. Enter the Georgian period, hailed as the Age of Enlightenment. Amidst a backdrop of cultural blossoming, intellectual fervour, and the whirlwind of the Industrial Revolution, society underwent seismic shifts politically, socially, and technologically. However, for women, the landscape remained largely unchanged; the expectations of domesticity, marriage, and motherhood persisted as steadfast norms. Embarking on a journey through diverse backgrounds, from aristocracy to enslavement, this book introduces ten remarkable women who defied societal norms during the Georgian period. Among them are political activists, social reformers, a literary luminary, a pioneer in palaeon
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Trooping the Colour
Book SynopsisToday Trooping the Colour gathers crowds of tourists; along with the pomp and ceremony it is an event filled with tradition that spans many hundreds of years. In that history lies duty, a call to arms, and a rallying in battle. The regimental colours were presented to the soldiers daily so that they would recognize it in the melee of battle and rally toward it. In 1748 the Grenadier Guards began this tradition, also called the Kings Birthday Parade, which is now held annually at Horse Guards Parade in London. Boots, buckles and busbies gleaming, formations perfect and eyes right, Trooping the Colour is the culmination of months of hard work by the staff of the London District and the Royal Household, without whom state ceremonial and public duties would not exist. From regimental bands and gun salutes to Lord Lieutenants and Yeoman, it is the personalities and traditions that make the history of ceremonial duties so colourful. Trooping the Colour describes the histories of the key
£22.50
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The History of the Gothic Video Game
Book SynopsisStep into a world of darkness!Towering castlesmagical spellsdemonic creaturescertain DEATH. The gothic video game has crossed generations, from 8-bit computers to the most powerful 4K PCs and consoles, to deliver dark thrills filled with atmosphere and peril. Gathered in this book are some of the most prominent and enduring games to be developed under a veil of gothic presentation, from their gloomy settings to spine-chilling audio design. Follow the histories of some of gaming's most popular franchises, such as the decade-spanning Castlevania series and FromSoftware's Soulsborne titles (Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Elden Ring). Packed with over a hundred screenshots that encompass all generations of gaming - with home console, handheld and PC gaming included - and featuring trivia and recommendations across a variety of genres such as strategy games, hack-and-slashers and first-person shooters, _The History of the Gothic Video Game_ is an essential book for fans of all things macabre.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Great Battles of the Early Roman Empire
Book SynopsisDr Simon Elliott describes eight of the greatest, most decisive of the Roman Empire of the first to third centuries. The list includes battles fought from the highlands of Scotland and the forests of Germany to the deserts of the Middle East. They show how the vaunted Roman legions adapted to extremes of terrain and climate as well as a wide array of very different foes, from the wild Caledonian tribes to the sophisticated, combined-arms armies of Sassanid Persia with their war elephants and superb cavalry. Some of the battles even pit the Roman legions against their own kind in brutal civil wars.After an introductory chapter on the Imperial Roman army, detailing its organization, equipment, tactics and doctrine, the author moves on to describing each battle in detail. He sets the strategic context and background of the chosen engagement before analysing the size and composition of the opposing forces, also detailing the nature of the enemy faced. The manoeuvres leading up to the battl
£18.70
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Henry V A History of His Most Important Places
Book SynopsisNew title exploring the life of Henry V through the places he lived and visited.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Crime and Punishment in Tudor England
Book SynopsisCrime and Punishment in Tudor England tells the story of the enactment of law and its penalties from Henry VII to Elizabeth I.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Rebellion Against Henry VIII
Book SynopsisFresh perspective of Henry VIII, focusing on the turbulence of his reign.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Battle of the Cities
Book SynopsisGraphic account of the role key cities played in shaping the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Chapters on the fighting for Moscow, Odessa, Kharkov, Sevastopol, Leningrad, Grozny, Sta-lingrad, Belgorod, Minsk, Warsaw, Budapest, K nigsberg, Prague and Berlin.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Corinthian War 395387 BC
Book SynopsisAt the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC, Sparta reigned supreme in Greece. Having vanquished their rival Athens and quickly dismantled the wealthy and powerful Athenian Empire, Sparta set its sights on dominating the Mediterranean world and had begun a successful invasion of the vast Persian Empire under their legendary king Agesilaus II. But with their victory over Athens came the inheritance of governing Athens's empire - and Sparta desperately lacked both a cogent vision of empire and the essential economic and trade infrastructure to survive in the role of hegemon. Sparta's overextension of empire compounded with internal political conflict to antagonize the rest of Greece with heavy-fisted and uneven interventionism. Soon the unlikely confederacy of Athens, Corinth, Thebes, Argos, and Persia united against Sparta in a war that, despite a Spartan victory, had devastating ramifications for their empire.The Corinthian War (395 - 387 BC) was a fascinating entanglement of clashin
£18.70
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Sir Garnet Wolseley
Book SynopsisField Marshal Lord Wolseley was aneminent Victorian, one of a handful of latenineteenth-century military men whosereputation transcends his age. He servedthe British empire in Burma, India, China,the Crimea, Canada, Asante, Egypt, SouthAfrica and the Sudan. He excelled as aregimental soldier, staff officer, armycommander and reformer and eventuallycommander-in-chief. Yet there has beenno substantial work on Wolseley for ageneration and a reassessment based upon afresh look at the man and his achievementsis long overdue. That is why StephenManning's perceptive military biography,which sets Wolseley firmly in the context ofhis period and seeks to strip away the legendthat developed during his lifetime, is sotimely and important.Each of Wolseley's campaigns is examinedin vivid detail and there are graphicdescriptions of the major battles in which hetook part, either as an officer or a general.His performance as a commander, from hisgreat success during the expedition againstthe Asante to
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Emperor Leo III the Isaurian
Book SynopsisThe Roman Empire (long since ruled from Constantinople) was in a perilous and tumultuous position in the early eighth century. Surrounded by expansionist enemies, most notably the Muslim Arab Umayyad Caliphate but also the Khazars, Slavs, Avars, Bulgars and Lombards, it was also riven by religious controversy and internal political instability. When a plot brought Leo III to the throne in 717, he was the fourth Emperor since Justinian II's assassination six years earlier. Within weeks of his accession he was faced with the year-long siege of his capital by the Arabs. The siege was eventually broken (with the help of the secret weapon, Greek fire) but was only the first of many crises Leo faced in his twenty-four-year reign. His tenure saw a number of rebellions, and Peter Crawford considers how Leo dealt with these (and the extent to which his own policies caused them). Space is given to the great religious development of his reign, the initiation of Iconoclasm, its impact on the emp
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Italian Campaign 1943 1945
Book SynopsisThe Second World War Italian campaign in over 300 wartime photographs.
£17.09
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Jihad A Short History
Book SynopsisWit and history seldom go together. In Jihad: A short history they are inseparable.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Imperial Brothers
Book SynopsisOriginal dual biography of the brothers Valentinian and Valens allows comparison of their achievements and contrasting reputations.
£14.39
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Underground Structures of the Cold War
Book SynopsisWorld-wide guide to the underground structures of the Cold War.
£999.99
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Second Barons War
Book SynopsisLucid study of the struggle between king and nobility in thirteenth-century England.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Fixer and Fighter
Book SynopsisFirst full-length popular biography of Hubert de Burgh.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Dark Side of East London
Book SynopsisVivid reconstructions of crimes and misdeeds illustrate the little-known richness of local history beyond the stereotypes.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Greatest Escape
Book SynopsisA highly personal account of one airman's struggle for survival in the air and on the ground in the heart of the Reich during the bomber war.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Military History of Late Rome 602641
Book SynopsisMagnificent concluding part to this ambitious series, covering from the usurpation of Phocas to the death of Heraclius.
£24.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Great Battles of the Classical Greek World
Book SynopsisGives a clear narrative for 18 selected battles and sieges from the Classical Greek period.
£13.49
