Pick of the bunch.

Conflict was rife among the Greeks of the Classical period, including some of the most famous wars and battles of the whole ancient period, such as the defeat of the Persians at Marathon, the Spartans' heroic last stand at Thermopylae, the gruelling Pelopponesian War and the epic March of the Ten Thousand.

Author: Gabriele Esposito

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 18cm by 25.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526751898

Weight: 845g

Original Price: £25.00

The locomotives are classified between 81 and 92 inclusive, and this book of photographs by David Cable covers all the classes in a variety of locations and duties.

Author: David Cable

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 160pp. 24.5cm by 19cm.

ISBN: 9781473896376

Weight: 1.02kg

Original Price: £30.00

Cruisers 1865-1939, Part 2 - The Perkins Identification Albums.

Author: Richard Perkins

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

Hardback. 192pp. 30.5cm by 39.5cm.

ISBN: 9781473891494

Weight: 2.38kg

Original Price: £60.00

Coastal Command, created in 1936 alongside Fighter and Bomber Commands in the reorganisation of the RAF in its preparations for the coming war, was Britain’s mainstay in the battle against the German submarine.

Author: David Smith.

Publisher: After the Battle.

Hardback. 280pp. 30cm by 22cm.

ISBN: 9781870067874

Weight: 1.5kg.

Original Price: £37.50

On the battlefields of Europe and North Africa during the Second World War tanks played a key role, and the intense pressure of combat drove forward tank design and tactics at an extraordinary rate. In a few years, on all sides, tank warfare was transformed.

Author: Simon Forty, Jonathan Forty

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 240pp. 18cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526767622

Weight: 786g

Original Price: £14.99

Most pictures have never been published before. Taken between 1962 and 1968, they transport the reader back to a wonderful land with many quaint forms of public transport, particularly trolleybuses!

Author: Jim Blake

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 112pp. 23cm by 29cm.

ISBN: 9781473861466

Weight: 814g

Original Price: £19.99

A fascinating and entertaining collection of facts, quotes and stories, celebrating Sir David Attenborough's wicked sense of humour and astute wisdom.

Author: Chas Newkey-Burden

Publisher: Octopus

Hardback. 264pp. 11.5cm by 18.5cm.

ISBN: 9781856755269

Weight: 263g

Original Price: £14.99