History

Why The Vikings Caused the Normqan Conquest.

Author: Martyn Whittock, Hannah Whittock

Publisher: The Crowood Press

Paperback. 160pp. 15.5cm by 23.3cm.

ISBN: 9780719819193

Weight: 258g

Original Price: £12.99

Code-breaking From Room 40 to Berkeley Street and the Birth of GCHQ.

Author: Joel Greenberg

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 328pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399077453

Weight: 485g

Original Price: £14.99

Tales from the Long Eighteenth Century

Take a romp through the long eighteenth-century in this collection of 25 short tales. Marvel at the Queen’s Ass, gaze at the celestial heavens through the eyes of the past and be amazed by the equestrian feats of the Norwich Nymph. Journey to the debauched French court at Versailles, travel to Covent Garden and take your seat in a box at the theatre and, afterwards, join the mile-high club in a new-fangled hot air balloon.

Author: Joanne Major, Sarah Murden.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 170pp. 17.3x24.5x1.2cm.

ISBN: 9781526757852

Weight: 550g.

Original Price: £16.99

This book, using both contemporary sources as well as post-war analyses, examines these matters alongside images that take us back to the period and help us understand its intricacies.

Author: Colin Turbett.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 234pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526776587

Weight: 792

Original Price: £25.00

From the foundation of Rome to the start of the Second Punic War,

Author: Gabriele Esposito.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 182pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN 9781526751850

Original Price: £25.00

This volume draws on Dr Evans' expertise in studying topography in relation to ancient events and specifically his original research into the battlefield of Magnesia.

Author: Dr Richard Evans

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 176pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399085212

Weight: 312g

Original Price: £14.99

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This work begins in August 1900 during the war in South Africa, when mounted Boer commandos ranging across the veldt superseded pitched battles of massed armies and heavy weaponry.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

The Battle of Fishguard, 1797.

Author: Phil Caradice

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 217pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526743268

Weight: 568g

Original Price: £19.99

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

From the "Images of the Past" series.

Author: Nigel Blundell.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 158pp. 19cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781526748683

Original Price: £14.99

The history of the Fabii Maximii is in many ways that of the Roman Republic. In the legends and historical scraps that survived the Republic, the members of the Fabius clan were, more often than not, the hammers that forged the empire.

Author: Jeremiah McCall.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 202pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781473885615

Weight. 508g.

Original Price: £19.99