History

The first book ever devoted solely to torture as practiced in Britain and its empire.

Author: Simon Webb.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 146pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781526719294

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:

Original Price: £

This anthology analyzes a number of case studies and provides insights into themes and topics that characterized the so-called ‘reconstitution’ of armies in their historical and social contexts.

Edited by Matthias Strohn.

Publisher: Casemate.

Hardback. 196pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781612006017

Weight: 425

Original Price: £50.00

A Year in the Life of PLantagenet England.

Author: Dan Jones

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Hardback. 360pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781838934828

Weight: 860

Original Price: £25.00

Missed clues and reflections on Victorian society. The book takes the lid off Victorian mindsets, exposing a dark and unnatural place as topsy-turvy as that inhabited by the killer himself.

Author: M.J. Trow

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 185pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526739292

Weight: 473g

Original Price: £19.99

My family, the holocaust and my search for truth.

Author: Esther Safran Foer

Publisher: Harper Collins

Paperback. 231pp. 13cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9780008297640

Weight: 222g

Original Price: £9.99

This book contains the complete reason Jack the Ripper came to be. It sheds new light on the mystery of the killer. After all, who is going to suspect a policeman going about his daily duties of being one of the world's most infamous serial killers.

Author: Rod Beattie

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 144pp. cm by cm.

ISBN: 9781399017527

Weight: 408g

Original Price: £20.00

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial is the extraordinary story of John Gunther, H.R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson: a close-knit band of wildly famous American reporters who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism.

Author: Deborah Cohen

Publisher: William Collins Books

Hardback. pp. cm by cm.

ISBN: 9780008305864

Weight: 917g

Original Price: £25.00

The expression ‘justice without law’ was never truer than in the formative years of the West.

Author: Terry C Treadwell.

Publisher: Frontline Books.

Hardback. 246pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526782335

Weight: 744

Original Price: £25.00

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

The Making and Legacy of The Great Charter.

Author: Dan Jones

Publisher: The Landmark Library / Bloomsbury

Paperback. 238pp. 13.5cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9781838933340

Weight: 406g

Original Price: £12.99

Epic tales from Britain's wildest century.

Including: Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirate queens of the Caribbean

Tipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who kept the British at bay

Olaudah Equiano, the former slave whose story shocked the world

Mary Wollstonecraft, the feminist who fought for women’s rights

Ladies of Llangollen, the lovers who built paradise in a Welsh valley

Author: Robert Peal

Publisher: William Collins Books

Hardback. 268pp. 15.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9780008437022

Weight: 512g

Original Price: £18.99