History

This extraordinarily original work of detective biography is also a uniquely personal account of one of the most disturbing chapters in Britain’s colonial past.

Author: Richard Atkinson

Publisher: 4th Estate

Paperback. 502pp. 13cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9780007509232

Weight: 408g

Original Price: £9.99

This book, the first to make full use of this astonishing new evidence, considers its implications for our understanding of the case, and suggests where the real truth might lie.

Author: Matthew Coniam.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 242pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399009720

Weight: 608

Original Price: £25.00

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

We follow King John at that vulnerable time, day by day, and reveal for the first time some surprising and interesting answers to the many questions posed by the mystery of his lost treasure.

Author: Shirley Charters.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 154pp. 15.5x23.3x1.3cm.

ISBN: 9781399020855

Weight: 300g.

Original Price: £12.99

Author: Christina Scott

Publisher: Welbeck

Paperback. 128pp. 13cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9780233006192

Original Price: £8.99

In this volume, master modeller Tony Hardwood shares his years of experience and presents the reader with a wide range of projects for the Napoleonic era.

Author: Tony Harwood.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 160pp. 17cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526716392

Weight: 529g

Original Price: £14.99

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

Many able men had volunteered to fight in the trenches, and others would soon be called up, so this vital work was to be undertaken by the ordinary men and women left behind. Ordnance is the story of these men and women. 

Author: Philip Hamlyn Williams

Publisher: History Press

Paperback. 240pp. 15.5x23.3x1.3cm.

ISBN: 9780750984416

Weight: 521g

Original Price: £17.99

Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court

Author: Simon Thurley

Publisher: William Collins Books

Hardback. 543pp. 15.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9780008389963

Weight: 897g

Original Price: £25.00

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

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

Rebels Against the Raj tells the little-known story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own: foreigners to India who across the late 19th to late 20th century arrived to join the freedom movement fighting for independence.

Author: Ramachandra Guha

Publisher: William Collins

Hardback. 496pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9780008498764

Original Price: £25.00