Trade Catalogue April - September 2026

INTRODUCTION APRIL 2026

Welcome to our Trade Catalogue — pull up a chair and have a browse. Inside you’ll find our shiny new releases, and a few titles we think are about to become firm favourites.

We make books we are proud of and love working with the people who put them into readers’ hands. We hope this catalogue sparks ideas, fills shelves, and helps you match the right book with the right reader.

Happy selling — and happy reading.

2026 marks the centenary of the births of two unforgettable female icons: Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe — who, fun fact, even met each other once! Crowned: Coronations from Queen Victoria to King Charles III takes readers inside Elizabeth II’s 1953 Coronation, a moment that united the nation while stirring a royal scandal. Meanwhile, Nobody’s Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot pulls back the curtain on Marilyn Monroe, revealing how she balanced her star persona with the personal and professional pressures of filming.

Music lovers can dive into Fonthill’s Song by Song series, which offers in-depth, track-by-track analyses of iconic artists’ careers — from studio recordings to hits and rare gems. Sing along with legends like Paul Weller, Bob Dylan, P!nk, Simple Minds, Donna Summer, and Crowded House, discovering the stories behind every track.

White Owl’s video game list keeps levelling up, and this time The History of Resident Evil is holding the controller. Every mainline game, spin-off, remake, and juicy piece of lore from 1996 to today is explored in full — think of it as a cheat code for hardcore fans. Other unlockable titles include The Tetris Story, Aliens: The Video Games, Doom Video Games, and more, packed with nostalgia, epic moments, and high scores guaranteed to please both longtime players and new recruits.

Military History highlights are equally compelling. The Silent War tells a deeply personal story of survival through brutal combat zones and the PTSD that followed, capturing what war takes and the quiet, defiant choice to keep going. Op TELIC 9 – Arnhem in Basra offers a uniquely honest perspective on Iraq, making it a must-read for all generations and a lesson in resilience and endurance.

Frontline Books brings gripping true stories to the catalogue. Goering’s Suicide: ‘They Will Not Hang Me!’ reveals the hidden truth behind Hermann Goering’s final days before the Nuremberg trials. No Ordinary Neighbour tells the remarkable story of Erwin Stahlberg, a seemingly ordinary neighbour whose wartime secrets remained hidden for eighty years — until he finally entrusted them to the author.

For anyone keen to uncover their family history, we’ve got you covered. Tracing Your Victorian Ancestors is clear, accessible, and packed with practical tips — the perfect companion for exploring your roots in Victorian Britain. Or take a deep dive with Tracing Your Ancestors Using Newspapers, a step-by-step guide to unlocking hidden stories from the past — from court cases and military records to lost pets and personal triumphs — complete with real examples and resources for researchers of all levels.

AIR WORLD

9781036195939 • £25.00

240 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Woking, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

9781036196509 • £25.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Belgium

September 2026 • WLR

9781036183318 • £25.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 134 mono illustrations

ALA: Australia

September 2026 • WLR

FROM BOMBER COMMAND TO

ROYAL COMMAND

A LAncAster PiLot’s AutobiogrAPhy: thousAnd bomber rAid’s to civiL AviAtion trAiLbLAzer

Mary Johnstone

• Relates his extraordinary personal experience during the daylight attack against the Schneider factory at Le Creusot in 1942 with a mid-air crew crisis.

• Took part in three individual bombing runs, returning home solo across Europe’s dangerous skies and was involved in transferring pilots from and to Pakistan and India during the difficult Independence transition period.

DOOLITTLE RAID PILOT

the story of cAPtAin donALd smith, survivor of the bombing of tokyo in 1942

Geert Rottiers

• The Doolittle Raid marked the first time in WW2 that American aircraft attacked the Japanese archipelago.

• This book focuses on just one of the 80 men who took part in the raid –pilot Donald G. Smith.

• Shows how Smith’s crew ditched, were rescued, evaded Japanese patrols and eventually reached American lines.

CATALINA FLYING BOAT CAPTAIN

A PiLot’s WAr from the AtLAntic to the indiAn oceAn

Denis Saunders

• This is one flying boat pilot’s previously unpublished memoir of his wartime service.

• Throughout his service, Bruce maintained a huge, detailed, candid, and personal daily diary.

• The account covers 1,233 days of operational wartime service in theatres of war from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.

9781036199296 • £25.00

240 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 100 colour, 100 mono illustrations

ALA: Marlow, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

9781036181789 • £22.00

192 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Crowthorne, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

9781036190897 • £25.00

304 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Canada

May 2026 • WLR

HELMUT LENT’S LOGBOOK

the combAt service of one of the toP-scoring night fighter Aces of ALL time

Chris Goss

• Helmut Lent was one of the most successful German night-fighter aces of the Second World War.

• The book explores Lent’s life and service career in a unique style, through his logbooks and personal archive.

• Highly-illustrated throughout; many of the images and documents have never been published before.

BOMBER CREW ESCAPER

one WArtime AirmAn’s story of bALing out, cAPture, imPrisonment And escAPe

Ian Richardson

• This book is based around the previously unpublished memoirs of Sergeant Jack Sowter.

• Includes a detailed look at the infamous firebombing of Hamburg, Operation Gomorrah, in which the author’s aircraft was shot down.

• The author evaded or escaped German captivity no less than three times in the weeks and months that followed and aach escape attempt is recounted in graphic detail.

SPITFIRE GIRLS TRAILBLAZER

heLen mArceLLe hArrison: AtA ferry PiLot, WArtime instructor, And fLying boAt And Jet AviAtor

Sheila C Serup

• The biography of a remarkable female pilot and early member of the famous wartime Air Transport Auxiliary.

• Reveals the risks and dangers involved in being an ATA pilot.

• In her career, Helen logged 14,000 hours and flew over 100 aircraft types and bevame the first woman inducted into Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame.

AIR WORLD

BEAUFIGHTER STRIKE

the untoLd story of A PiLot’s survivAL And Lrdg rescue

Ross J Robertson, Konstantinos Giannakos

Discovered years after his death, Bill Hayter’s journal tells of his escape from France, enlistment in the RAF, and service as a Beaufighter pilot. Shot down near Naxos in 1943 and badly wounded, he survived with Greek resistance help and was rescued by the Long Range Desert Group, forming lasting bonds.

• This is one man’s remarkable story of survival and rescue in WW2, recounted in his own words.

• Provides background details of Harper who flew defensive Beaufighter night interception missions over the UK and in support of the invasion of Sicily.

• Details his rescue with the help of the Long Range Desert Group patrol.

9781036199050 • £25.00

232 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Greece

September 2026 • WLR

PUBS, PILOTS, AND THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

Justin Omps

9781036193041 • £25.00

240 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 125 mono illustrations

ALA: United States

September 2026 • WLR

WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT

A vietnAm us Army PiLot refLects on his service And beyond

Francis A Doherty

Vietnam veteran Francis Doherty reflects on mortality, combat, and lifelong trauma after flying covert S.O.G. missions over the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Writing with direct honesty, he recalls responsibility, grief, and male friendship, exploring PTSD, love, and loss without claiming heroism, as war continues to shape his final years.

• A pilot in the US Army, the author flew operations in the Vietnam War in 1974 and 1975.

• The author undertook numerous reconnaissance missions over the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

• This is a collection of essays and stories revealing how his military service shaped and defined the rest of the author’s life.

9781036183356 • £25.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: United States

August 2026 • WLR

COLD WAR LONGRANGE JET FIGHTER PROGRAM

William Wolf

9781036196080 • £29.99

320 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 150 mono illustrations

ALA: United States

September 2026 • WLR

COLD WAR AIR THIEVES

Steven Taylor

9781036143497 • £22.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Dundee, Tayside, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

BEAUFIGHTER

the

ALLies’ muLti-roLe combAt AircrAft

Edward Rippeth

The Bristol Type 156 Beaufighter defined the modern multi-role combat aircraft, serving as a night fighter, anti-shipping strike aircraft, maritime air superiority fighter, and ground-attack platform. Despite its hurried design as a heavy fighter, it transformed RAF night defences and Coastal Command operations. Highly effective in every theatre, it served with the RAAF, USAAF, and Allied forces, disrupting Axis logistics across Europe, the Mediterranean, and the jungles of Burma and New Guinea. Beaufighter explores the aircraft’s crucial role in radarequipped night operations, shipping interdiction, and key campaigns, showing how this once-awkward design became one of Britain’s most versatile and successful wartime aircraft, influencing events from the Blitz to operations affecting Stalingrad and even the path to Indian independence.

• Explores the aircraft in the context of a global conflict, and how it worked to take on so many roles where the RAF was failing.

• The book explores the sheer, usually bloody, excitement that came with the Beaufighter – covering both wellknown and obscure actions.

• Includes the story Welsh ace Alwyn Downing’s solo nocturnal massacre of a critical air convoy of Junkers Ju 52s near Tunis; he claimed five, yet Luftwaffe records show eight went down.

9781036144692 • £25.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 mono illustrations

ALA: Cambridge, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

DUNKIRK AND BATTLE OF BRITAIN TOP GUN

WW2 Ace PiLot officer WiLLiAm mcknight

Shelly McElroy

In February 1939, 21-year-old William Lidstone McKnight left his medical studies in Alberta to join the RAF on a Short Service Commission. Flying with No. 242 Squadron, he scored his first victory, a Messerschmitt 109E, on 19 May 1940. By June he had destroyed nine enemy aircraft, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross, and later a Bar for further victories. Under Squadron Leader Douglas Bader, McKnight claimed 23 enemy aircraft, becoming Canada’s leading ace. On 12 January 1941, during a low-level Rhubarb sortie over Pas-de-Calais, he went missing in action. This biography explores both ‘Willie’, the skilled fighter pilot, and ‘Bill’, the young man navigating a violent, transformative era.

• This is the first biography of the most outstanding Canadian fighter pilot in the first half of WW2.

• Awarded 16.5 confirmed ‘kills’ in just eight months.

• Was a leading RAF Ace of the Dunkirk Evacuation and the leading Canadian fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain.

9781036149260 • £25.00

248 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Canada

July 2026 • WLR

THE LUFTWAFFE’S LAST BOMBER OFFENSIVE

oPerAtion steinbock, 1944

Chris Goss

Operation Steinbock, called the ‘Baby Blitz’ by the British, was the Luftwaffe’s last major air offensive against the UK, launched January–May 1944 under Generalmajor Dietrich Peltz. Targeting London, Bristol, Hull, and Portsmouth, the raids faced severe Luftwaffe shortages of aircraft, fuel, and trained crews. Losses were catastrophic: over 500 aircraft, 63% of those committed, were destroyed or damaged. Despite 1,556 deaths, the raids caused limited damage and had little effect on British morale or industry. Steinbock highlighted the Luftwaffe’s declining power and marked its final sustained strategic bombing of the UK, demonstrating the futility of offensive operations under Allied air superiority.

• Explores the background to why the operation was launched by the Luftwaffe.

• Examines how Steinbock unfolded and whether it achieved any of its aims, as well as the RAF’s response.

• Profusely illustrated throughout by an unparalleled selection of wartime images, many never published before.

9781036112622 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 150 mono illustrations

ALA: Marlow, United Kingdom

August 2026

THE LIGHTWEIGHT MUSTANGS

the best fighters of WW2

James William Marshall

After America entered World War II, the USAAF sought fighters capable of long-range missions over Europe and the Pacific, focusing on extending the range of tactical aircraft. The P-51 Mustang and Lockheed P-38J were developed to escort bombers, following disastrous raids on Schweinfurt in 1943 using short-range P-47 Thunderbolts. Improvements led to Lightweight Super Mustangs with bubble canopies and Packard V-1650 engines, producing agile, powerful fighters arguably superior to contemporary Spitfires. This book details the P-51’s evolution and final production model, the P-51H, while addressing myths such as the ‘Bomber Mafia conspiracy’, revealing how the United States ultimately created one of the war’s most effective long-range single-seat fighters.

• Reveals how weight comparisons of the P-51B against the Spitfire IX led to the XP-51F Lightweight Mustang.

• Describes the differences between escort missions and offensive fighter missions.

• Shows how the extremely lightweight Mustangs were impressive fighters that were arguably better than any Spitfire then in service.

9781036180959 • £25.00

272 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 mono illustrations

ALA: United States

August 2026

9781473881259 • £29.99

360 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 75 illustrations

ALA: Reading, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

9781036193324 • £29.99

256 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 100 colour, 100 mono illustrations

ALA: Peterborough, UK September 2026 • WLR

9781036197735 • £29.99

224 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 160 colour, 20 mono

ALA: Spain

September 2026 • WLR

THE DEFIANT

the turreted fighter

PLAne

Andrew Long

• The full story of the RAF’s only Second World War turreted interceptor aircraft.

• Covers its inception, and the issues that arose from producing a technically advanced fighter of its time, through to the formulation of new air fighting tactics.

• The combat record of the Defiant is examined, with success during the Dunkirk campaign, through to its involvement in the Battle of Britain.

9781036102326 • £25.00

232 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 16 colour, 110 mono illustrations

ALA: Cranleigh, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

HAWKER SIDDELEY TRIDENT

A Pioneer in AviAtion technoLogy

Graham M Simons

• The Trident was one of the most technologically advanced airliners of its era.

• It had a unique rear-mounted tri-jet configuration with all three engines located at the tail.

• Trident was one of the fastest subsonic airliners ever built aircraft, but an engineering marvel.

9781036148416 • £29.99

240 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 80 mono, 70 colour illustrations

ALA: Blackboys, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

GRUMMAN F-14 TOMCAT

A nAvy Jet in service

Salvador Mafé Huertas

• The full story of one of the most significant naval aircraft of all time.

• Shows how the F-14 was a cornerstone of US Navy air power from the 1970s through to its retirement in 2006.

• Reveals the types extensive military service, including Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988); Vietnam War evacuation; Gulf War (1991); Balkans Conflicts; Afghanistan (2001–2002).

9781036194321 • £29.99

256 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 100 colour, 100 mono

ALA: Peterborough, UK

August 2026 • WLR

HAWKER’S NAVAL FIGHTERS

cAmeL to seA hArrier

Christopher Budgen

• Hawker Aircraft Ltd was the most successful and long-lasting manufacturer of military aircraft in Great Britain and Europe.

• Includes early designs and developments in naval aviation and links with Admiralty.

• Reveals how the start of the Cold War saw the emergence of Hawker’s turbo-jet aircraft such as the Sea Hawk.

FOLLAND GNAT

red ArroW And coLd WAr fighter

Ray Deacon

• Full and comprehensive account of the origins, design, and of the Folland Gnat.

• Envisioned as an affordable light fighter, in contrast to the rising cost and size of typical combat aircraft, it was procured as a trainer for the RAF.

• Reveals its use by the famous Yellowjacks and Red Arrows aerobatic teams.

BOEING 727

the best-seLLing commerciAL JetLiner thAt heLPed AcceLerAte the Jet Age

Graham M Simons

• The Boeing 727 is an American narrow-body airliner developed and produced by Boeing which was to be used on shorter routes from smaller airports.

• The 727’s popularity undoubtedly helped accelerate the jet age.

B-29 SUPERFORTRESS

strAtegic Air WAr in the PAcific

Peter Saxton

The B-29 Superfortress, a pivotal long range bomber in the Second World War, enabled operations across the Asia Pacific and contributed significantly to Japan’s defeat through fire bombing and later atomic missions. This account traces the broader air, land, and sea campaigns—from Europe to the Pacific—highlighting turning points such as Midway, Guadalcanal, and the Marianas. It also explores crew training, combat experiences, and the aircraft’s technical capabilities, underscoring the B 29’s unique and decisive role in aviation history.

• Marking the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, this book offers a powerful and timely reflection on the B-29 Superfortress—an aircraft that played a decisive role in ending World War II. From firebombing campaigns to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the B-29’s legacy is explored in depth, making this a must-have for commemorative collections and historical retrospectives.

• Whether for military professionals, academics, or general enthusiasts, the book delivers accessible yet detailed coverage of the B-29’s technical capabilities—including its bomb-load, range, and strategic deployment across vast theatres like Asia Pacific. Readers gain a clear understanding of how this advanced bomber reshaped aerial warfare.

9781036148232 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Mursley, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

HURRICANE GIRL

James Brown

9781036197933 • £22.00

192 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 36 mono illustrations

ALA: Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

FATAL FLIGHTS OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS

Alastair Goodrum

The theme of this book is to recall some of the perils of twenty-three internationally-famous celebrity air travellers between 1919 and 2020. Supported by high quality, previously unpublished images, the stories here showcase aeroplanes from the golden age of biplanes to helicopters, biz-jets and airliners. They also illustrate the fallibility of people and technology, while demonstrating the social progress of air transport over the past century. Sadly, the climax of these particular stories culminates in air crashes that took the lives of the celebrities involved.

• What does a mild-mannered Swedish diplomat have in common with a raffish English Formula One World Champion? The answer is that they and twenty-three prominent international celebrities, died in aeroplane accidents between 1919 and 2020, at the height of their fame and often in mysterious circumstances.

• This book brings together the stories of celebrity air accident victims from a wide spectrum of genres, explaining how they became famous, and then how their lives at the top of the tree became fragile, vulnerable and ultimately doomed.

• Previously unpublished information sheds new light on their fascinating stories, dispelling some of the myths and mysteries surrounding their lives and deaths.

BONEYARDS OF STEEL

Lorraine Evans

9781036141165 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 mono illustrations

ALA: Stromness, United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

9781036138080 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 mono illustrations

ALA: Spalding, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

MAXIMUM AFTERBURNER

Paul White

9781036138134 • £25.00

240 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 20 colour illustrations

ALA: United States

September 2026 • WLR

9781036196738 • £25.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 2x16 b&w plate

sections

ALA: United States

May 2026 • WLR

9781036185886 • £25.00

240 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 mono illustrations

ALA: Oxford, United Kingdom September 2026 • WLR

9781036181741 • £25.00

232 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Grange-over-Sands, UK

September 2026 • WLR

OPERATION SPIDER’S WEB

ukrAine’s devAstAting drone AttAck on russiA’s Long-rAnge AircrAft

Christopher A Lawrence

• The full, in-depth story of a covert drone attack that changed military warfare forever.

• Describes how the Security Service of Ukraine prepared for the attack that took place deep inside Russia.

• Reveals how four air bases across the vast expanse of Russia, from a base above the arctic circle near Murmansk, to the heart of European Russia, out to the middle of Siberia, near Lake Baikal were targeted.

NO ORDINARY NEIGHBOUR

conversAtions With one of the LAst surviving veterAns of hitLer’s ss

Bruce D Thompson

• This is the revealing personnel recollections of one of the last surviving members of the Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler.

• The story emerged over a 20-year period during discussions with is next door neighbour.

• Reveals the authors part in the brutal fighting on the Eastern Front, where he served two tours and his fighting in Normandy following the D-Day landings 1944.

A SAPPER OFFICER’S WAR 1915-1917

the memoirs of rALPh A. bAgnoLd, founder of the Long rAnge desert grouP in WW2

Christopher Ralph Bagnold

• The First World War memoirs of a soldier who gained fame in the Second World War.

• The narrative contains many observations seen at first hand: how trenches are made so they don’t collapse; the importance of occupying higher ground; the instigation of the creeping barrage.

9781036193638 • £25.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Stirling, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

9781036191917 • £25.00

272 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Dinas Powys, United Kingdom July 2026 • WLR

9781036124489 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 250 mono illustrations

ALA: Barnstaple, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

COLD WAR II

hoW the WAr in ukrAine chAnged the WorLd

Marc Ewert

• Explores the global consequences of the War in Ukraine and its effects on the complicated web of international relationships and commitments.

• This book explores drone, subterranean, and air warfare and how they have become prominent conducts of warfare, citing certain events that occurred in Ukraine and Gaza.

• The book explores the military objectives and rationale behind Zelensky’s 2024 Kursk offensive.

FROM D-DAY TO A DEFEATED GERMANY

one soLdier’s Account of the fighting from normAndy to the heArt of hitLer’s third reich

Matt Morris

• A memoir that follows one soldier’s journey through the whole of WW2.

• Detailed description of the D-Day landings; the author’s unit went ashore on Jig Sector on Gold Beach on 6 June.

• Includes the author’s assessment of the Arnhem airborne landings, Operation Market Garden.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

the mAking of A WArLord

Anthony Tucker-Jones

• A visually rich journey featuring rare and striking archival photographs that chart Churchill’s remarkable rise from adventurous young officer to emerging war leader.

• Expert commentary by Anthony Tucker-Jones, offering authoritative insight into the conflicts, campaigns, and experiences that forged Churchill’s strategic mindset.

9781036195700 • £25.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 1x16 b&w pages

plates

ALA: United States

July 2026 • WLR

9781036181901 • £25.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 64 mono illustrations

ALA: United States

September 2026 • WLR

9781036190132 • £25.00

296 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: United States

June 2026 • WLR

FATHER OF THE GREEN BERETS

generAL WiLLiAm yArborough: the mAn Who forged the green berets And AmericA’s PArAtrooPers

Christopher Eric ‘Moon’ Mullins

• The first biography of a US Army General described as the ‘Father of the Modern Green Berets’.

• Reveals a journey of historical reckoning, a critical examination of a man who dared to write the new rules of airborne warfare.

• Details his challenging tenure as Army ACSI during Vietnam and civil unrest, and his senior Cold War commands in Korea and the Pacific.

COMBAT EFFECTIVENESS IN THE PACIFIC WAR

hoW AmericAn And JAPAnese forces fought their cAmPAigns in WW2

Richard Burklund

• Reveals how strategic culture was of equal importance to victory in the Pacific War as the imbalance of power ratio.

• Japan’s martial culture contributed to both its initial successes and its eventual failure.

• Explains how the will to fight is an essential element of combat effectiveness and a keystone of tactical culture because willpower determines how well a unit fights and whether it succeeds in the fight.

HITLER’S WAR AGAINST THE FRENCH RESISTANCE

1940-1944

Antonio J Muñoz

• Complete orders of Battle for the German Army formations that took part in this struggle, from companysized Secret Field Police units to entire divisions.

• An in-depth view of the VichyFrench units which took part in this struggle and their actions, including the operations of the Gendarmerie Nationale de Réserve.

• Includes a history of the Milice Française, from its formation in 1943 to its end in 1944.

9781036198930 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 2x16 b&w plate sections

ALA: Manchester, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

9781036183660 • £25.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 mono illustrations

ALA: Gillingham, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

9781036199258 • £25.00

320 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 2x16 b&w plates

ALA: United States

August 2026 • WLR

THE BATAAN DEATH MARCH TO MACARTHUR’S RETURN

revisiting the bAttLefieLds of the PAcific WAr in the PhiLiPPines

Chris Hulme

• The Philippines campaign is one of WW2’s most dramatic yet underexplored theatres.

• Unlike traditional military histories, this book combines immersive travel writing with historical storytelling.

• Features extraordinary human stories and cinematic moments, from the first attack on the Philippines through to its liberation from late 1944.

GOERING’S SUICIDE

‘they WiLL not hAng me!’ - nuremberg’s ‘thunderboLt’

Paul Hooley

• This book sets the scene at the Nuremberg War Crimes trials, the largest such trials to have taken place.

• Provides details of the six officers responsible for monitoring Goering

• Demonstrates that Goering’s claim that he would not be hanged came true.

HITLER’S FOREIGN FIGHTERS

foreign recruitment in the heer And WAffen-ss 1939-1945

Antonio J Muñoz

• Reveal the extent to which the Third Reich was a multinational war machine, despite its own racist ideology.

• Shows how many of these volunteers came from such places as the USSR, the Balkans and even North Africa and the Middle East.

• The author describes the story of these men and the units in which they served throughout the war, including their combat service.

9781036195465 • £22.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 mono illustrations

ALA: Australia

April 2026 • WLR

9781036147716 • £25.00

320 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: United States

August 2026 • WLR

9781036190187 • £14.99

192 pages • Paperback

234x156 • 60 mono illustrations

ALA: Hailsham, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

THE HUNT FOR HITLER

hoW i discovered the true story of the führer’s fAte

Cyril Jones

• In 1992 the author was responsible for a documentary entitled Hitler: The Final Chapter which was broadcast around the world.

• Made just as the Iron Curtain was crumbling, the author interviewed Elena Rzhevskaya, a Russian military translator, was among the first to enter the Reich Chancellery after Berlin fell.

BENITO MUSSOLINI AND THE ART OF TYRANNY

fAscist itALy’s infAmous dictAtor

William Nester

• Explores Benito Mussolini’s journey to the leadership of Fascist Italy in the years after the end of the First World War.

• Explains Italy’s economic and political problems which led to Mussolini gaining popular support for his fascist principals.

• Analyses Mussolini’s relationship with Adolf Hitler and his incarceration and dramatic rescue in a German airborne operation.

THE GUINEA PIG CLUB IN NUMBERS

ArchibALd mcindoe And reconstructing inJured AircreW in WW2

Colin Pateman

• The Guinea Pig Club was formed in 1940 for Allied aircrew who had undergone at least two operations for burns or other disfigurements.

• By the end of WW2, it had over 600 members from various Allied nations.

• The history of the club is explored through a fascinating series of numbers.

• Supported by individual stories or suffering and resilience.

9781036146573 • £22.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Jersey

June 2026 • WLR

9781036198244 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: London, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

9781036196851 • £29.99

264 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 100 mono illustrations

ALA: Gloucester, United Kingdom April 2026 • WLR

STALIN’S TOP SPIES

from WW2 into the coLd WAr

Norman Ridley

• This book explores five of Stalin’s and the Soviet Union’s greatest spies.

• Reveals the successes and failures of each spy.

• Assesses the extent to which they influenced world events during their time as a spy or afterwards.

RADAR’S ROLE IN DEFEATING THE NAZIS

from dunkirk to diePPe And d-dAy: the siLent WeAPon thAt defeAted hitLer

Basil Samuels

• Written by an expert on the subject, who saw special forces service first hand in the Dieppe Raid.

• The author was involved in radar development from 1936 through the entire war.

• Demonstrates how developments in warfare were brought together for the largest amphibious landing the world had ever witnessed and may never see again.

BLITZKRIEG 1940

defying hitLer: tWo vcs And the forgotten infAntry bAttLe of 21 mAy 1940

Dilip Sarkar MBE FRHistS FRAeS

• Explores the full story of the 1st Guards Brigade during the Blitzkrieg and Dunkirk campaign.

• Reveals events on a day-byday basis, setting the personal experience into the wider context of events.

• Describes some of the heaviest fighting of the Blitzkrieg, yet it is not even mentioned in the Official History.

9781036194567 • £25.00

320 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: East Malling, UK September 2026 • WLR

9781036195229 • £25.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 60 mono illustrations

ALA: Peterborough, UK August 2026 • WLR

9781036186470 • £25.00

232 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 colour, 16 mono

ALA: Blandford Forum, UK September 2026 • WLR

SUBTERFUGE AND SABOTAGE DURING HITLER’S BLITZKRIEG

secret british oPerAtions during the germAn AdvAnce in hoLLAnd And beLgium, 1939-40

Clive Holden

• Reveals the story of British special operations in Holland and Belgium in May 1940.

• How a Territorial Army unit was tasked with denying vital resources to Hitler’s advancing armies.

• Based on original documents, war diaries, and personal narratives.

OPERATION BACKFIRE

britAin’s coLd WAr guided missiLe ProgrAmme

Graham M Simons

• Reveals the full story of the start of Britain’s programme to develop guided missiles at the end of WW2.

• Details how the UK acquired the eight V-2 rockets that it used in the tests codenamed Operation Backfire.

• Explains how the British recruited German personnel, even those transferred from US custody and due to be returned, to assist with this missile programme.

SAS PINK PANTHER LAND ROVER

the sPeciAL Air service regiment’s unique PAtroL vehicLe

Adrian Hayward-Wills

• The first SAS Pink Panther was a highly modified Land Rover Series IIA 109 used by the British SAS from the 1960s onwards.

• Details the design’s enduring significance in global special forces history.

• Explores the various campaigns the Pink Panther was in, such as the Oman Dhofar Rebellion and various Middle Eastern and North African covert operations.

9781036133801 • £25.00

272 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Wakefield, United Kingdom August 2026 • WLR

9781036186791 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Frome, United Kingdom July 2026 • WLR

THE DUNKIRK EVACUATION: THE FRENCH PERSPECTIVE

oPerAtion dynAmo And the untoLd story of the french sAcrifice to sAve the bef

Paul L Dawson

• Follows the author’s discovery of vast amounts of previously unseen documents in the French and Belgian archives.

• Reveals how many French units made tenacious stands against overwhelming odds.

• Shows how the evacuation of the BEF was in no small part successful due to the French defenders at Dunkirk.

SHERMAN TANK CREWMAN

shArPshooter snAPshots: from d-dAy to the defeAt of the third reich

Mary Coventry

• One Sherman tank crewman’s remarkable autobiography detailing his part in the Liberation of Europe in WW2.

• The author was involved in one of the most famous tank battles of the war – against the Tigers of SS-Obersturmführer Michael Wittmann’s unit.

• Describes the fighting across northern Europe through France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

9781036192013 • £14.99

192 pages • Paperback

234x156 • 120 mono illustrations

ALA: Worthing, United Kingdom August 2026 • WLR

9781036186753 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 16 colour, 100 mono illustrations

ALA: Cheltenham, United Kingdom April 2026 • WLR

9781036192075 • £25.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Manchester, United Kingdom September 2026 • WLR

THE DEATH RAILWAY IN NUMBERS

the humAn trAgedy of the thAiLAnd-burmA rAiLWAy in WW2

John Grehan

Between May 1942 and October 1943 Allied prisoners of war built and maintained the railway linking Thailand and Burma. The Death Railway in Numbers uses figures to show how many men worked on it, how many died, the line’s total length, and the number of stations and work camps along the route. The book records how often Allied bombers attacked the railway and even how Japanese soldiers were injured by elephants.

Daily life is revealed through numbers. Prisoners struggled through mud during monsoon periods, walked long distances to work sites, and laboured for hours during the oppressive ‘speedo’ period. They cleared vast quantities of earth, rock, and jungle before returning to camp. Figures highlight the harshness of Japanese engineers and guards, and the scale of suffering endured by the men under brutal conditions.

Numbers also illuminate moments of dark humour and irony. Prisoners dressed as women to embarrass a Japanese guard, and some senior Allied officers were invited to lavish meals while others survived on starvation rations. By combining figures with first-hand accounts, the book shows both the enormous physical effort required to build the railway and the deliberate cruelty imposed by the guards. The statistics make clear the full scope of human suffering, the endurance of those who survived, and the shocking cost of this engineering project. They help readers grasp the scale of this remarkable and tragic episode, where the numbers themselves reveal more than words alone could convey.

• By the end of WW2, over 100,000 prisoners and civilians had died during its construction.

• Covers all aspects of the railway, from its construction, to use, attacks by Allies and post-war fate.

• Supported by individual stories of suffering and resilience.

• Written by a renowned expert in the field who had full access to the archives of the Thailand-Burma Railway Centre in Kanchanaburi, Thailand.

THE GLOSTERS IN THE KOREAN WAR

from mobiLisAtion to the bAttLe of the imJin river And beyond

Robert Dixon

On 25 June 1950 North Korea invaded South Korea, prompting a rapid United Nations response. Britain committed ground forces, including the 1st Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment. The Glosters in the Korean War traces the battalion from its warning for deployment in Colchester in 1950, through training, arrival in Korea, combat service, and the return of its last prisoners of war in 1953.

In February 1951 the Glosters, serving with the 29th British Independent Infantry Brigade, were committed to heavy fighting during the UN advance north. They led the assault to retake Hill 327 from Chinese forces, helping to restore the UN line. Only weeks later, during the Chinese Spring Offensive in April 1951, the battalion faced its most severe test. On 22 April, three divisions of the Chinese 63rd Army, more than 27,000 troops, attacked across the Imjin River. The Glosters, numbering just over 700 men, were ordered to hold a front of roughly five miles.

For three days they withstood repeated infantry assaults, sustained artillery fire and close combat. By the time withdrawal orders were issued, their positions were nearly encircled. Although most were unable to break out, their stand delayed the Chinese advance and allowed UN forces time to reorganise and stabilise the front north of Seoul.

The cost was heavy. Of the 620 men engaged, many were killed or wounded and more than 500 were taken prisoner. For this action the battalion received the United States Presidential Unit Citation, an award rarely given to non-American units.

• Details events from the battalion’s mobilisation through to deployment and training in theatre

• Over 500 men from 1 Glosters were taken prisoner – the book reveals the experiences they endured prior to release and return home.

SPORTSPEOPLE ON TITANIC

James W Bancroft

Among those aboard RMS Titanic when it struck an iceberg on the night of 14/15 April 1912 were at least thirty passengers with notable connections to sport. Collectively, they had participated in twenty two major spectator sports, including the Olympic Games and numerous national championships in Great Britain and the United States. Drawn from all walks of life—aristocrats, business figures and ordinary travellers—many had already achieved distinction in disciplines such as boxing, swimming, motor racing, baseball and American football. Tragically, a significant number did not survive.

One prominent passenger was Karl Howell Behr, a leading lawn tennis player, Davis Cup representative and Wimbledon finalist. Among the women on board was Lucile Carter, a pioneering sportswoman who became the first woman to play polo astride rather than side saddle and who also competed in coach and four racing.

Several survivors went on to enjoy remarkable sporting careers despite their ordeal. These included a young boy whose father fought for his place in a lifeboat, who later became a celebrated golfer, playing more than 1,000 courses worldwide, and earning a mention in Ripley’s Believe It or Not. Another was a lawn tennis player who narrowly avoided the amputation of both legs due to frostbite, but through determination regained full use of them and subsequently won Olympic gold.

In Sportspeople on Titanic, James Bancroft traces the lives of these sporting figures before the voyage, their actions during the ship’s final hours, and the extraordinary paths taken by those who survived—or the legacy left by those who perished.

• This is the story of some 30 or more people who were on Titanic that night and who have connections to various sports.

• Between them, these individuals had been involved in 22 major spectator sports, including the Olympic Games.

• Sports featured include as tennis, football, boxing, swimming, motor-racing, golf, baseball and American Football.

WELLINGTON ON NAPOLEON

the duke’s commentAry on nAPoLeon’s disAstrous 1812 invAsion of russiA

William Robinson

The Duke of Wellington rarely wrote about his campaigns, famously comparing them to the “history of a ball” and discouraging attempts to publish such works. By 1825, however, he began researching Napoleon’s 1812 Russian invasion, purchasing books and studying them closely. He wrote a 25,000-word memorandum, criticising every decision from Smolensk to Borodino, blaming Napoleon entirely, and proposing his own alternatives. Despite the scale of the work, it was never intended for public view and circulated only among a small group of friends. Publicly, Wellington praised Napoleon, but privately he condemned him, and this book now reveals those private views in full, showing how Wellington shifted from admiration to damning appraisal.

• Includes an in-depth explanation of Wellington’s memorandum and the meanings behind his criticism, going through the work step-by-step to describe the arguments.

• Uses Wellington’s own writing which has been largely ignored by historians, publishing a view that was kept hidden from the public by Wellington himself.

• Draws extensively on primary sources from archives to describe the context of the work.

9781036185008 • £25.00

240 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 8 mono illustrations

ALA: Rotherham, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

THE SPANISH ARMADA FROM THE SPANISH PERSPECTIVE

the tudors’ greAtest nAvAL victory

J J Herrero Giménez

The Spanish Armada From The Spanish Perspective examines the 1588 campaign from Spain’s viewpoint for the first time in English. Drawing on contemporary Spanish accounts and modern histories, it details the Armada’s organization, composition, and seven fleets, and profiles commanders including the inexperienced Duke of Medina-Sidonia. The book covers the five battles off Plymouth, Portland, the Isle of Wight, and Brulotes (Calais), and the harrowing return along Scotland and Ireland, where many sailors perished. It explores the fate of prisoners, lists fallen commanders such as Juan Martínez de Recalde and Miguel de Oquendo, and considers the wider consequences. The work reassesses the Armada’s defeat, the role of weather, and Spain’s postcampaign recovery, offering a balanced perspective contrasting traditional English narratives of Drake and the Royal Navy.

• The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, with orders to participate in the overthrow of Queen Elizabeth I.

• This victory is one of the turning points in English history, and it was perhaps the defining episode in the long reigns of Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain.

9781036119324 • £25.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 mono illustrations

ALA: Spain

June 2026 • WLR

NAPOLEON’S OFFICERS

uniforms And equiPment

Paul L Dawson

Napoleon’s Officers: Uniforms and Equipment provides the most complete study of the dress of the Grande Armée’s staff in over 200 years. Using period regulations, archival records, contemporary illustrations, and original uniforms, the book details generals, adjutants, secretaries, aides-de-camp, ordnance officers, couriers, topographical officers, war commissioners, and inspectors of review. It highlights flamboyant uniforms like General Lasalle’s wardrobe and Berthier’s aides’ scarlet pantaloons and black dolmans, showing the essential staff who managed campaigns, transmitted orders, mapped routes, and ensured the army was fed and clothed. This work combines historical accuracy and visual detail, providing an authoritative reference for wargamers, artists, and historians alike, capturing both the function and splendour of the Grande Armée’s officers and supporting personnel.

• Details the little-known regulations to curb the excessive flamboyance of the notorious aides-de-camp to the Marshals of the Empire.

• Supported by an unrivalled collection of full colour illustrations, many of which have never been published before.

• Draws on a huge array of primary source material, much of which is held in French military archives in Paris and translated into English for the first time by the author.

9781036141844 • £40.00

256 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 200 colour illustrations

ALA: Wakefield, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

AMERICAN INDIANS AT WAR

the tribes And their bAttLes

Robert Allred

American Indians at War examines conflict among Native American nations and against invaders from the earliest times through the twentieth century. It covers foot and mounted warfare, canoe battles, and tribal methods across regions from the Pacific Coast to the southwestern cliff dwellings. The book explores famous warriors such as Geronimo and Sitting Bull, and their roles in the Seven Years War, the Revolutionary War, and the American Civil War, where Indians fought for both Union and Confederate forces. It also details twentieth-century service, including the Navajo and Comanche code talkers in both World Wars, showing how diverse Indian nations adapted to evolving warfare while defending their lands, people, and cultural traditions.

• Shows how battles were ‘paused’ so that individual warriors could engage in ‘honourable’ single-combats.

• Details inspirational stories of famous warriors as Geronimo and Sitting Bull, who defeated Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

• Reveals the part played by American Indians in the Revolutionary War against Britain and in the American Civil War.

• Examines both world wars – including the famous code talkers.

9781399052450 • £25.00

288 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: United States

September 2026 • WLR

AFTER THE BATTLE

GERMAN OCCUPATION & FRENCH RESISTANCE

resistAnce And LiberAtion 1944 then And noW

Jean Paul Pallud

By early 1944, the French Resistance had grown in strength and unity under the FFI, though only 10 per cent were armed. After Special Forces reports, large airdrops of weapons began in June, July, August, and September. FFI forces, numbering 5,000 at Mont Mouchet and elsewhere, fought German attacks. In June, the FFI seized Tulle, provoking the 2. SS-Panzer-Division to hang 99 men and kill 642 at Oradoursur-Glane. Rail sabotage and attacks on communications increased after D-Day, while German reprisals murdered civilians across France. The Vercors plateau stronghold saw 8,000–10,000 German troops attack under Operation Bettina, destroying villages like Vassieux. Resistance actions aided Allied advances in the south-west, Brittany, and Provence, later joining the French Army to support the liberation of France and final victory over Germany.

• Told through Then and Now comparison photographs that bring history to life, this book tells the story of the liberation of France.

• Many civilians were murdered throughout the Vercors, villages were burned, and Vassieux was one of the four war crimes cases submitted by France to the International Tribunal at Nuremberg.

9781036156077 • £25.00

104 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 200 b&w images

September 2026

THE BATTLE FOR BRITTANY

the tAking of brest, 1944 – then And noW

Jean Paul Pallud

In August 1944, the Third US Army swiftly captured the Brittany peninsula, forcing German forces into Lorient, St Nazaire, and Brest, where they could only await siege operations. Key ports remained unusable: St Malo was destroyed beyond repair, and Nantes suffered extensive demolition. VIII Corps launched a six-week siege on Brest, culminating in Generalleutnant Ramcke’s surrender on 19 September. American casualties totalled 9,831, while 38,000 Germans were captured, including over 20,000 combat troops. Reconstruction of Brest was abandoned on 13 September due to the extensive damage. The Allies faced a serious port shortage until Antwerp became available in November. Though three divisions and supplies were tied up at Brest, this had minimal effect on the advance beyond the Seine, as the main effort continued unhindered.

• Told through more than a hundred ‘Then and Now’ comparison photographs.

• By pinpointing for the first time, the locations where so many photographs were taken, this book will allow the reader to walk in the footsteps of the heroes of this great moment in history.

• This book brings to life the story of the long siege of Festung Brest.

9781036153229 • £22.00

120 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 200 b&w images

April 2026

THE BATTLE OF CHERBOURG

first ALLied victory in normAndy

Jean Paul Pallud

SHAEF planners aimed to secure deepwater ports to supply hundreds of thousands of troops, with Cherbourg on the Cotentin Peninsula a key target. On 6 June, paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions landed to secure exits and Douve River crossings. By 10 June, Carentan was captured, linking with Omaha Beach. VII Corps advanced, isolating the peninsula; by 18 June, the 9th Infantry Division reached the west coast, joined by the 4th, 9th, and 79th Divisions. General von Schlieben refused to surrender, demolishing the port. VII Corps assaulted on 22 June, capturing Fort du Roule on 26 June; remaining forts fell by 29 June. VII Corps suffered 22,000 casualties; Germans lost 39,000 prisoners. Cherbourg was heavily damaged, usable by mid-August.

• This is the story of the capture of Cherbourg, the first Allied victory in Normandy, told through more than a hundred ‘Then and Now’ comparison photographs.

• The book really brings history to life.

• Readers will thus be able to walk precisely in the footsteps of the heroes of this great moment in history.

9781036196813 • £25.00

112 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 25 colour, 200 mono illustrations

ALA: France

June 2026 • WLR

THE FRENCH SAS IN HOLLAND

oPerAtion ‘Amherst’, the LAst Airborne oPerAtion of WW2

Karel Margry

On the night of 7/8 April 1945, 700 men of the 3rd and 4th French SAS Battalions parachuted into north-eastern Holland to support the First Canadian Army’s advance to the North Sea by creating confusion behind German lines and capturing vital bridges. Dropped from high altitude in strong winds, many landed off target, yet they quickly regrouped. They laid ambushes, attacked headquarters, and seized bridges. Relief was expected within 72 hours, but some held out until 14 April.

The SAS claimed 269 Germans killed, 70 wounded, 187 captured, 29 vehicles destroyed, and three railway lines cut. French losses were 33 killed, 35 wounded, and 92 missing, almost a quarter of the men, making Amherst a costly and daring operation.

• It is an account illustrated with a remarkable collection of rare combat photos, each of them accompanied by their present-day comparisons – the format for which After the Battle is famous.

• The exploits of the SAS in WW2 are rightfully legendary, but few people realise that nearly half of the SAS Brigade was in fact made up of French soldiers.

• Reveals that this was the only action where the two French SAS units were deployed side by side in one single undertaking.

9781036183271 • £25.00

144 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 100 mono illustrations

ALA: Netherlands

September 2026 • WLR

9781805002321 • £25.00

272 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 integrated b&w illustrations

May 2026

9781805001041 • £25.00

432 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 305 integrated b&w photos

ALA: United Kingdom

April 2026

9781805001072 • £25.00

192 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 80 integrated b&w photos

ALA: United Kingdom

July 2026

STALINGRAD SURVIVOR

A memoir of cAPtivity 1943–1946

Introduction by Nik Cornish

These startling memoirs offer a rare insight into the experiences of a prisoner of war within the brutal Russian camp system. The book begins with the capture of Austrian infantryman Wolfram ‘Wolfie’ Redler amid the chaos following the fall of Stalingrad. It recounts the forced march eastwards and Redler’s transportation to Siberia during the merciless Russian winter. Stricken with typhus, he somehow manages to survive this ‘death camp’. The story continues with his transfer to a labour camp, describing in harrowing detail the deprivations endured by Redler and his comrades. That he, or anyone, was able to survive is nothing short of a miracle. Brutality, starvation, disease, and hard labour took their toll on over ninety per cent of the troops who were captured in those first few months of 1943.

Translated into English for the first time, this honest and unflinching account is a stark reminder of the cruelty of war. However, the great lesson of this book is not how we die, but how we live. Despite the suffering he witnessed and endured, ‘Wolfie’ remained a man who showed everyone around him what it truly means to live.

• Provides a unique account of an Austrian soldier’s time as a Soviet prisoner of war – a point of view rarely covered in Western sources.

• First English translation of a book first published in 1975 akin to classic books of that era, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, although Redler’s book is significantly shorter and more readable for the average audience.

• For Soviet experts who do not read German, this translation will provide a fresh perspective of life in the gulags.

• Will appeal to readers interested in stories of survival, scholars of European and Russian history, military historians, anyone interested in World War II, and members currently serving in the military.

THROUGH FIRE AND SKY

voLume i: from infAntrymAn in frAnce to LuftWAffe reconnAissAnce over soviet Lines, 1938–1944

Karl Knoblauch Foreword by Robert Forczyk

‘A well-written and rewarding memoir that provides keen insight into the mindset of a patriotic young man willing to make sacrifices for his country.’ — Robert Forczyk

In this masterful two-volume account, Prussian solider and officer Karl Knoblauch draws on his wartime diaries to detail his fascinating military career during the Second World War. In this first volume, he recounts the years leading up to the outbreak of the war through to 1944.

In 1938, just before the outbreak of war, a 17-year-old Karl Knoblauch volunteered for military service and began his career as an infantryman before joining the air force as aircrew. Later, Knoblauch was seriously wounded in a Russian fighter attack over Wjazma and had to leave his squadron. After recuperating, he returned to the frontline as an officer in the ‘Hermann Göring’ Division, where this first volume comes to a close. Knoblauch describes his experiences in sober and stark detail, creating a gripping and comprehensive first-hand account of his time fighting for the Wehrmacht. Supplemented by several photographs and appendices, this is a must-read for any military history enthusiast.

• The first of two volumes of Karl Knoblauch’s wartime memoirs, translated into English here for the first time.

• An incredibly detailed look at the first few years of the Second World War, seen through the eyes of a Prussian soldier and officer.

THROUGH FIRE AND SKY

voLume ii: With the 2nd PArAchute PAnzer fusiLier bAttALion ‘hermAnn göring’ in eAst PrussiA in 1944–45

Karl Knoblauch

Foreword by Peter Caddick-Adams

In this second of two impressive volumes, Prussian solider and officer Karl Knoblauch describes his military career during the final stages of the Second World War. This volume picks up where the first book left off, with Knoblauch’s experiences as an officer in the 2nd Parachute Panzer Fusilier Battalion ‘Hermann Göring’. His account takes readers through the highs and lows of his time in this armoured Luftwaffe division, from 1944 through to the death of Hitler, Knoblauch’s capture and time as a PoW, and the end of the war. Supplemented by fascinating photographs and a detailed set of appendices, this volume brings Knoblauch’s epic first-hand account of fighting for the Wehrmacht to a fascinating close. Together with the first volume, this is a must-read for any military history enthusiast.

• The second of two volumes of Karl Knoblauch’s wartime memoirs, translated into English here for the first time.

• Covers Knoblauch’s time in the ‘Hermann Göring’ Division from 1944 to the death of Hitler, including his time as a POW.

• Provides insights into German training structures, as well as a closer look at the relationship between officers and crew.

• Will appeal to military history enthusiasts; academic and research audiences; readers interested in the psychology, morale, and decision-making in wartime; and those who enjoy personal stories of soldiers.

GREENHILL BOOKS

9781805002505 • £25.00

288 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 250 colour illustrations

ALA: Germany; Teignmouth, UK

September 2026

9781805002161 • £25.00

288 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 pages of plates

ALA: London, United Kingdom July 2026

9781805002222 • £25.00

240 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 pages b/w plates

ALA: Banbury, United Kingdom

September 2026

BLITZKRIEG IN COLOUR

rAre coLour

PhotogrAPhs from WorLd WAr ii

Ian Spring, Simon Forty

• A visual chronicle of Germany’s early blitzkrieg campaigns of 1939 and 1940 with more than 200 previously unpublished photos from Ian Stewart Spring’s Pixpast collection.

• The images are from original colour slides – no colourisation involved –and provide a genuine, vivid look at the past as it was originally seen.

• Accompanied by fascinating text by Simon Forty that puts the images in context.

TITUS

conqueror of rome

Nicholas Jackson

‘An excellent book.’ – Simon Elliott

• A definitive biography of Titus – the conqueror of Jerusalem (70 CE) and Roman emperor (79–81 CE) at the time of the eruption of Vesuvius.

• Details the fascinating life and enduring legacy of a celebrated yet often-overlooked emperor during one of Rome’s most turbulent eras.

• Well-researched with an extensive bibliography, detailed endnotes and colour plates.

9781805002444 • £18.99

304 pages • Hardback

246x172 • Over 200 b/w photos

ALA: Australia June 2026

9781805002253 • £25.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 pages b/w plates

ALA: United Kingdom April 2026

ALAN TURING AND THE ENIGMA CODE

secrets, Lies And myths of bLetchLey PArk in WorLd WAr ii

Joel Greenberg

Foreword by Dermot Turing

• Exposes 20 of the most common myths about Bletchley Park during World War II and the truth behind each one.

• A wholly unique look at Bletchley Park that will be invaluable to anyone interested in the world of intelligence work carried out during World War II.

• Written by Joel Greenberg, a leading authority on Bletchley Park.

9781805002475 • £15.99

224 pages • Paperback

234x156 • 24 pages b/w plates

ALA: Bourne, United Kingdom April 2026

IMAGES OF WAR: PANZERTRUPPE, PANZER I, 1934–1941

rAre PhotogrAPhs from WArtime Archives

David Mitchelhill-Green

• Traces the development of Hitler’s first mass-produced tank, the Panzer I, which helped German forces train for and execute their Blitzkrieg operations.

• Part of the Images of War series, combining a treasure trove of rare and unpublished photographs with well-researched text.

• A valuable source for students of the war, modellers and anyone fascinated by military technology, armoured warfare and the evolution of the tank.

FIGHTING THE SULTAN’S WAR

the memoir of A british infAntry officer in omAn’s dhofAr WAr, 1974–1976

David Freeman

Introduced by Calvin H. Allen Foreword and Notes by Peter Willdridge

• An eye-opening first-hand account of one British Infantry Officer’s experiences during the last few months of the Dhofar War in Oman.

• An extraordinarily detailed and candid look at the operations, tactics, challenges and successes of this lesser known ‘small war’ of the Cold War era.

LUFTWAFFE FIGHTER ACES

the exPLoits And tActics of nAzi germAny’s greAtest PiLots

Mike Spick

Introduction by Dilip Sarkar MBE

• Compelling account of how the Luftwaffe’s leading fighter pilots were able to outscore their allied counterparts during WWII.

• Examines the methods and tactics of each of the aces in every major theatre.

• Uses first-hand sources wherever possible to put the reader right alongside the pilot in the cockpit.

9781036142827 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 mono illustrations

ALA: United States

July 2026 • WLR

9781036144791 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 21 mono illustrations

ALA: United States

April 2026 • WLR

9781036142773 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: Cheltenham, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

CAULDRON OF TERROR – HAMAS, ISRAEL, AND THE WORLD

five hundred dAys in gAzA

Mark D Silinsky

• Traces the history of Hamas from its origins in the Islamic Brotherhood, through the promulgation of Hamas’ Charter of 1988, to the group’s status.

• Identifies the roles of that international organizations, such as the United Nations and the International Criminal Court, play in decision and opinion making. Early in Cauldron of Terror, the reader learns about the origins and philosophy of Hamas.

AMERICA’S FAVORITE WARLORD

the Life And deAth of generAL rAziq of kAndAhAr

Jacob Hagstrom

• First book-length biography of Abdul Raziq Achakzai, the most significant Afghan ally of the United States during the Global War on Terrorism.

• Traces Raziq’s development from adolescent refugee from the Taliban, through his seven-year term as Kandahar Chief of Police, to his assassination in 2018 that foretold the collapse of the Republic of Afghanistan.

• Analyzes the allegations against Raziq, in terms of corruption, torture, and summary executions.

ICE WARRIORS

from bAttLefieLd to bobsLeigh

Colin H Snowball

• A true story of determination and infectious optimism to achieve success at the highest level against the odds and wishes of the establishment.

• Applying the same values and ethos instilled during training, British Paratroopers apply the same approach with great success to Bobsleigh.

• Focusing on personal sacrifice, Airborne Brotherhood and determination set against a thrilling sports narrative on the road to the Olympics.

9781036180294 • £25.00

184 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 10 mono illustrations

ALA: Bathgate, United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

9781036198626 • £25.00

248 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: Merseyside, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

9781036148287 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 34 mono illustrations

ALA: Bath, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

THE SILENT WAR

A PrivAte miLitAry contrActor’s memoir from edinburgh to bAghdAd

Scott White

• A personal story of the journey of survival.

• The memoir of a Private Military Contractor and deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan at the height of their wars.

• Includes gripping stories of escorting high-value targets under fire and running convoys through kill zones.

• Recounts tales of a brotherhood of men who would die for each other without hesitation.

• Depicts the silent war of PTSD, and the issues of suicide and addiction among veterans.

IRAQ OPERATION TELIC 9

Arnhem in irAq

Carl Gardner

• Details how the author and his soldiers adapt to challenges of being in a war zone under the constant threat of direct and indirect fire fights with the Basra City insurgents.

• First contact (firefight) with the enemy and the first time he has to use lethal force.

• Describes the effect on him and his family losing a good friend in a devastating bomb attack.

• A truly aggressive night where they are in a constant fire fight with the enemy insurgents for over five hours, with bullets, RPGs and bombs flying everywhere.

SAS ROGUE HERO GENTLEMAN JIM THE SEQUEL

oPerAtions 1945-2005

Lorna Almonds-Windmill

“Gentleman Jim’ Almonds is a Special Forces hero… and he is one of mine too” – Sir Ranulph Fiennes, OBE

“One of the most courageous men who has ever served his monarch and his country” - Lord Ashcroft, KCMG PC, military historia

“Fascinating to read about how the Malayan Scouts became the SAS. It helped fill in gaps for me.” General Sir Peter de la Billière. KCB, DSO, Mc & Bar,

9781036139285 • £25.00

248 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 mono illustrations

ALA: Wilpshire, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

9781036193829 • £20.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Cardiff, United Kingdom April 2026 • WLR

9781036195502 • £25.00

240 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 5 mono illustrations

ALA: Leicester, United Kingdom September 2026 • WLR

RUSSIA AND ITS NEIGHBOURS

couLd history hAve Predicted russiA’s WAr on ukrAine?

Jonathan S. Swift

• Shows how the Russian re-invasion of Ukraine on 24th February 2022 was predictable, and a continuation of Russian aggression which has been happening for over a hundred years.

• Discusses how Soviet leaders have relied on the military and actively encouraged its personnel to display unprecedented levels of violence as a means of striking fear into the populations they have attacked and occupied.

MEMOIR OF A POLISH RESISTANCE FIGHTER

defying nAzi And russiAn occuPAtion in WorLd WAr ii

Len Czekaj

• Stanislaw (Stan) came from a poor family and had a tough early childhood. He was only 15 when the Germans and Russians invaded Poland in September 1939.

• He was recruited into the Polish resistance and gives detailed, sometimes graphic accounts of his operations with them as they resisted first German and then (after the retreat of the Germans) Soviet occupation.

THE LIFE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN GIS IN BRITAIN IN WWII

A WAr

Within A

Liam McCarthy

WAr

• Reveals the experiences of African Americans GIs in Britain, who were welcomed as equals by white British civilians.

• Dives into the stories of individuals, including a Black chaplain fighting military inequalty, and an African American GI that was able to marry his English sweetheart.

• Uses new material from American military archives, personnel records, court martial papers, family archives and personal letters.

9781036132163 • £25.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 50 mono illustrations

ALA: Tetbury, United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

9781036148966 • £25.00

232 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 40 mono illustrations

ALA: Ipswich, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

9781036194680 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 100 mono illustrations

ALA: Norwich, United Kingdom June 2026 • WLR

MAYHEM IN MOGADISHU, SOMALIA 1991–94

N S Nash

• A deep-dive inside the UN’s intervention in Somalia in the early 90s, from its initial causes, planning and implementation to its aftermath.

• Explains UNOSOM I and II –ill-fated operations that drew heavy criticism for human rights violations and excessive force – as well as Operation Restore Hope and the Bloody Monday raid.

• Gives details on the Battle of Mogadishu, which was featured in the 2001 film Black Hawk Down directed by Ridley Scott.

• Illustrated with over 60 integrated B&W photographs and 6 maps.

FROM LONGSTOP HILL TO THE GOTHIC LINE

With 142nd regiment, royAL Armoured corPs, 1943-45 – second to none

Mark Forsdike

• Unique Heritage: Chronicles 142nd Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, formed from the 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, and fiercely maintaining its infantry traditions.

• Crucial Support Role: Details the Regiment’s vital, yet often overlooked, support of infantry in Tunisia and Italy, including the breakthrough of the Hitler Line.

BOX OF LIONS

first-hAnd Accounts of stoPPing the JAPAnese At imPhAL

Christopher Johnson

• The result of 30 years of author research and includes first-hand accounts, veteran interviews and oral history.

• Details the Battle of Imphal, fought during March–July 1944 between Japanese invaders and British/Indian troops, resulting in a significant turning point in the Burma campaign.

• Fully integrated with over 130 rare and unpublished black and white images, complete with detailed captions.

9781036198541 • £29.99

272 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 200 mono illustrations

ALA: Lymington, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

9781036139339 • £25.00

224 pages

• Hardback

234x156 • 50 mono illustrations

ALA: Bury St Edmunds, UK

June 2026 • WLR

9781036126490 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 mono illustrations

ALA: United States

April 2026

• WLR

SLAPTON SANDSTHE MISSING MEN

the Lost documents behind the e-boAt Action

Gary Sterne

• It offers readers a gripping account of a forgotten disaster that shaped the course of D-Day preparations.

• Award-winning author Gary Sterne uses newly unearthed British, American, and German documents to reconstruct the events with unprecedented detail. His meticulous research resolves an 80-year-old mystery and reveals the fate of every missing soldier for the first time.

• It’s a powerful blend of military history and human drama that will resonate with readers interested in truth, remembrance, and the hidden costs of war.

NORMANDY –THE BOCAGE TO BELSEN

the memoirs of LieutenAnt coLoneL

hArry mAinWAring mc

Jes Mainwaring

• First-hand account from a Royal Artillery officer who served with the 53rd Heavy Regiment from 1940–45, covering coastal defence, mechanisation, and the full NorthWest Europe campaign from Normandy to Germany.

• Detailed insight into artillery operations—command challenges, fire planning, unit organisation, and the realities of combat during the 11-month advance after D-Day.

MONTY’S FLYING FORTRESS

Zita Ballinger Fletcher

• Names of all of Montgomery’s air crewmen published for first time in one volume.

• Biographical details of forgotten US aviators restored.

• First comprehensive overview of Montgomery’s land campaign to win the Fortress.

• Highlights the courage of U.S aviators amid evolving German aerial threats.

• New historical perspectives about Montgomery and his relationships with Americans.

• A closer look at the US-UK collaboration that drove the development of the B-17.

9781036197230 • £29.99

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 112 mono illustrations

ALA: St Leonards Park, UK

August 2026 • WLR

9781036136123 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Barnsley,UK

June 2026 • WLR

9781036194130 • £22.00

208 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 26 mono illustrations

ALA: Norwich, United Kingdom

May 2026

• WLR

THE TUNISIAN CAMPAIGN

north AfricA 1942-1943

Philip Lamb

• ‘Chronicles the intense battles that left the sands of North Africa littered with debris and blood, leading to the first major Allied land victory. The definitive account.’ Damien Lewis.

• This book offers a compelling look at how the Axis powers targeted the oil-rich regions of Egypt, Iraq, and Iran to fuel their war machine— and how Churchill and the Allies responded with decisive force. It’s a gripping narrative of strategy, logistics, and global stakes that shaped the outcome of the war.

BRITAIN’S MUNITIONS INDUSTRY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

fighting fit

Andrew Rawson

• Discover how Britain faced severe munitions shortages early in WWI, prompting major organisational changes, expansion of private firms, and the creation of state-run factories under new industrial regulations.

• Learn how production planning evolved through experience, while unchecked enlistment drained skilled labour, leading to efforts to retrieve essential workers from the armed forces.

UNDERSTANDING WW2

Why first-hAnd Accounts Are so imPortAnt

Andrew Sangster

• Explores the merits and pitfalls of oral history, specialising in oral history examples taken from the Second World War.

• Split into 6 chapters which analyse private letters, diaries and recorded notes from key Second World War players such as Rommel, Patton and Himmler, as well as lesser-known examples.

THE PERPETRATORS OF AUSCHWITZ

hoW the cAmP WAs run And the PeoPLe invoLved

Ian Baxter

Perpetrators of Auschwitz examines the men and women of the SS who ran the Nazi regime’s most notorious concentration camp. Drawing on archives, diaries and eyewitness testimony, it reconstructs the lives, routines and social world of over 7,000 perpetrators, from guards and doctors to commandant Rudolf Höss and his family. The book exposes how ordinary people sustained genocide while pursuing domestic normality, offering a disturbing, richly illustrated study of the human machinery behind systematic mass murder.

• A comprehensive study behind the personal responsible for the genocide carried out at Auschwitz-Birkenau, which resulted in the death of over 1 million people including 200,000 children.

• Contains just shy of 400 archive photographs, architectural plans and original documents, as well as modern-day photographs that show what the site looks like today.

• Explains the roles of the 7,000 SS personal who ran the camp through original diaries, eyewitness testimony and photographs, complimented by detailed text and captions.

• Written by Ian Baxter, an expert in the field with over 60 Images of War books to his credit.

9781036136178 • £25.00

256 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 300 mono illustrations

ALA: Witham, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

THE LAST SECRETS OF THE NAZIS

Krzysztof Drozdowski

9781036182380 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 80 mono illustrations

ALA: Poland

July 2026 • WLR except Polish

TO DIE FOR HITLER: CHILD SOLDIERS OF THE THIRD REICH

A story of Light, hoPe And Promise –gone Wrong

Gina M DiNicolo

This is the story of light, hope, and promise gone wrong: a generation trained to live and die for the Reich. Millions of boys absorbed National Socialism and rushed to war, loyal to Adolf Hitler.

To Die for Hitler chronicles the leaders who moulded them—Schirach, Axmann, Goebbels—and the youths they shaped.

Through boys like Rudi Schulz, Robert Ullrich, and Gerhard Wolf, it traces devotion carried to an incomprehensible, tragic end.

• Details how a fledging youth group in the 1920s became the proficient German youth juggernaut that threatened Allied forces.

• Recounts the efforts of German Reich leaders to hone a generation-plus of German youth through targeted education, training and cultural envelopment.

• Highlights the Allied perspective of German youth in Adolf Hitler’s Germany and efforts to undermine their indoctrination.

9781036143398 • £25.00

232 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 18 mono illustrations

ALA: United States

May 2026 • WLR

GENERALOBERST

ERICH HOEPNER

Philip Kay-Bujak

9781036133016 • £25.00

272 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Chelwood Gate, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

HEINZ GUDERIAN AND THE RISE AND FALL OF HITLER’S TANK UNITS

Jaap Jan Brouwer

9781036141011 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 70 mono illustrations

ALA: Netherlands

July 2026 • WLR rights except Dutch language

9781036135881 • £29.99

224 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 100 colour, 200

mono illustrations

ALA: Witham, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

9781036182694 • £25.00

264 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: Norway

September 2026 • WLR

9781036148867 • £25.00

200 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Shifnal, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

THE PANZERWAFFE

vehicLes, equiPment, WeAPons, uniforms And insigniA

Ian Baxter

• Over 200 original and rare photographs of the Panzerwaffe throughout the Second World War, including the vehicles used and their paint schemes, plus the uniforms of the crews and divisional insignia.

• Includes over 40 colour photographs, tank profiles and artworks specially commissioned for this book.

• Detailed text on the role of this important vehicle arm of the German army, supported by full captions.

• Written by Ian Baxter, an expert in the field with over sixty Images of War books to his credit.

BIOWEAPONS

the history, the Present And the future

Stig S Frøland

• Provides a comprehensive overview over biological weapons throughout history to present day.

• Reveals the variety of bioweapons used across the ages, such as poison arrows, smallpox, anthrax, and even toxins from bacteria and fungi.

• Uncovers previous bioweapons programmes of various countries, including Britain, the USA, and South Africa.

• Gives several examples of use of bioweapons in war and by terrorist organizations and criminals.

• Considers the threat of bioweapons today and the allegations that modern day viruses, such as HIV, Covid-19, or Monkeypox, could have been developed as a bioweapons.

COLDITZ: THE ESCAPES

Peter

Hawthorne

• For the first time in one book, all the daring escapes from Oflag IV-C Colditz Castle are explained in meticulous detail.

• The book chronicles each of the thirty-three successful escapes from the ‘escape-proof’ Castle, with a dedicated chapter for each escape.

• Covers the various means of escape such as via tunnels, over rooves, cunning disguises and daring hiding places.

9781036190309 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 mono illustrations

ALA: Bressingham, UK

August 2026 • WLR

9781036136413 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 50 mono illustrations

ALA: Douglas, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

9781399079204 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 colour illustrations

ALA: United States

August 2026

• WLR

PARTY B AND JAPANESE PRISONER OF WAR PROPAGANDA

bushido for bArbAriAns Richard Baker

• First ever book on Japanese Prisoner of War Propaganda.

• First ever book to argue that the International Committee of the Red Cross was systematically duped by the Japanese, with Party B camps playing a major part.

• Graphic and highly detailed descriptions of everyday life at camps, written contemporaneously.

• New information on ‘Germ Warfare camp’, Mukden (Manchuria).

• New information on Bunka camp, Tokyo, where prisoners were coerced into creating propaganda broadcasts.

MI9 AND THE SECRET WAR IN GREECE 1941–1945

the remArkAbLe story of mAJor frAnk mAcAskie

Matthew Richardson

• Offers a fresh perspective on the war in Greece and Crete, often overshadowed by Normandy and D-Day.

• A tale of romance, resistance, and espionage, blending military action with the shadow world of intelligence.

• Combines Macaskie’s private journey with the larger story of modern Greece’s fight for freedom and stability.

CHINOOKS IN THE DARK

mh-47s, And the 160th soAr night stALkers

Alan C Mack

• Never before published accounts by some of America’s most skilled special operations helicopter aviators.

• Ride in the cockpit of Special Operations Chinooks with call signs like Razor 03, Sumo 23, and Turbine 31.

9781036148713 • £29.99

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: Harrogate, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

9781036139711 • £25.00

232 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 84 mono illustrations

ALA: London, United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

9781036144746 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 10 mono illustrations

ALA: Mablethorpe, UK

May 2026 • WLR

ONE DAY AT PASSCHENDAELE, 9 OCTOBER 1917

hAig’s gAmbLe

Andrew Jackson

• The first in-depth study of the neglected, initial battle for the Passchendaele ridge fought on 9 October 1917.

• Fresh insights into the astonishing efforts made by the assaulting battalions of 49th (West Riding) and 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Divisions to break through the enemy lines under the most atrocious conditions.

• Use of accounts from German regimental and battalion histories, previously unpublished in English, to give the story from ‘both sides of the wire’.

A SOLDIER ON THE SOMME AND PASSCHENDAELE

more thAn mAn cAn beAr

Philip Crockatt

• Tells the story of a 19 year old serving in the ambulance corps with his pal and the shock of life on the Western Front before joining the Machine Gun Corps at the Battle of the Somme in 1916.

• Details the battles on Ancre, Pilkhem Ridge, Menen Road and Passchendaele.

• Recounts Douglas’ breakdown and repatriation as well as his rehabilitation after being wounded and how he managed to survive the trauma of war.

TROOPER OF THE HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY

memoir of A PiccAdiLLy coWboy

Simon Wallington

• Memoir highlighting the journey of a young man who’s only obsession was horses, charting his journey from not wanting to join the army but having to.

• Details the ups and downs of being a junior soldier in the toughest regiments in the army, The Brigade of Guards at The Guards Depot Pirbright Camp in the seventies.

9781036190354 • £25.00

248 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 mono illustrations

ALA: Hampton, Australia

September 2026 • WLR

9781036119027 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 mono illustrations

ALA: Ellesmere Port, UK

July 2026 • WLR

9781036192853 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 25 mono illustrations

ALA: Worcester, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

TO GALLIPOLI AND THE SOMME

f. s keLLy; WAr hero, oLymPic chAmPion And PiAnist comPoser

Martin Cross, Therese Radic

• This is the first full biography of Frederick Septimus Kelly, a revered composer and a rowing legend.

• Gives an inside look at Edwardian high society that was to be ripped apart in 1914.

• Examines the very different worlds of Edwardian music, sport and warfare.

• Reveals Kelly’s bravery and how he grows into quirky but accomplished commander, as well as his unforgettable last moments leading a company in a major assault.

THE STORY OF DONALD SIMPSON BELL VC

footbALL’s WAr hero

Iain McMullen

• The first full biography of the only English professional footballer to receive the Victoria Cross during the First World War.

• Features a wealth of previously unpublished material, including letters and photographs from the Bell family’s private archive.

• Provides the first detailed account of Bell’s VC action at Horseshoe Trench and his death at Contalmaison five days later.

• Explores how professional football has honoured and commemorated Bell’s sacrifice from 1916 to the present day.

THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT

A definitive Account of the most decorAted infAntry regiment in british history

Matthew A. Holden

• The first complete history of the battle honours won by the most decorated infantry Regiment in British history.

• Based on unique archival documents, including personal accounts, secret documents and private diaries.

• Covers never previously explored periods of the Gloster’s history such as the campaigns in the West Indies and India.

9781036185220 • £19.99

64 pages • Paperback

297x210 100 colour, 100 mono illustrations

ALA: Australia

July 2026 • WLR

9781399037976 • £14.99

248 pages • Paperback

246x172 • 300 mono illustrations

ALA: Ulceby, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

9781036122775 • £14.99

128 pages • Paperback

246x172 • 200 mono illustrations

ALA: Witham, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

TANK CRAFT 50 PANZER III LIGHT TANK

stALingrAd And the cAucAsus, 1942

Dennis Oliver

• Contains 12 pages of full colour illustrations depicting over 20 different vehicles and their markings.

• Includes a gallery of photographs of outstanding models.

• Colour photographs of model kits and modelling products in available scales.

9781036185251 • £19.99

64 pages • Paperback

234x156 • 100 colour, 100 mono illustrations

ALA: Australia

September 2026 • WLR

PARTISANS & GUERRILLAS OF WORLD WAR TWO

PoLAnd, the soviet union, czechosLovAkiA, itALy, frAnce

Philip Jowett

• This volume features a rich collection of over 300 wartime images—many previously unpublished—offering readers a vivid and authentic visual journey through the partisan and guerrilla movements across Europe during WWII. It’s a powerful resource for historians, educators, and collectors alike.

TANKS AND ARMOUR IN THE BATTLE FOR MOSCOW

Ian Baxter

• Over 130 original and unpublished wartime images showing the German Panzerwaffe during Operation Typhoon – the failed German offensive to take Moscow in the winter of 1941/42.

• The book also explores the first Rzhev-Sychyovka offensive operation in 1942.

• As well as main text detailing the background to each battle, every picture is complimented by a detailed caption.

• Written by Ian Baxter, an expert in his field with over 60 Images of War in print with Pen & Sword.

9781036122591 • £14.99

144 pages • Paperback

246x172 • 200 mono illustrations

ALA: Witham, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

9781036143077 • £18.99

192 pages • Paperback

246x172 • 150 colour illustrations

ALA: Brazil

September 2026 • WLR

TANK CRAFT 51 PANZER IV MEDIUM TANK

oPerAtion bAgrAtion And the retreAt in the eAst, 1944

Dennis Oliver

• Gallery of photographs of outstanding models.

• Colour photographs of model kits and modelling products in available scales.

• A must have for modellers, war gamers, military historians and the general reader.

TANKS AND ARMOUR AT LENINGRAD 1941–1944

Ian Baxter

• 150 original and rare black and white images showing tanks and their crews throughout the Barbarossa campaign.

• A full explanation of the campaign is given, and supplemented by detailed captions.

• Written by acclaimed author Ian Baxter, with over 60 titles to his name in the Images of War series.

AMERICAN TANK MODELS

buiLding miLitAry modeLs of WWii

Marcos Augustus Serra

• Each chapter provides detailed, easy-to-follow instructions for building iconic U.S. WWII tanks in 1/35 scale, from basic kits to advanced scratch-built models.

• Perfect for both beginners and experienced modelers looking to refine their techniques.

• Lavishly illustrated in full color throughout, showcasing every stage of the modeling process.

• High-quality images make complex techniques clear and inspire creativity.

AXIS VEHICLES OF THE NORTH AFRICA CAMPAIGN

buiLding miLitAry modeLs of the WAr in the desert

Marcos Augustus Serra

Step into the world of 1/35 scale modeling with this detailed guide to German and Italian vehicles, including rare captured British machines. Clear, step by step instruction makes advanced techniques accessible to beginners and experienced modelers alike. Richly illustrated in full color, the book covers assembly, painting, weathering, and finishing while integrating historical context on each vehicle’s wartime role. Both practical manual and historical journey, it is an essential companion for military modeling enthusiasts.

• Each chapter provides detailed, easyto-follow instructions for building 1/35 scale models of German and Italian vehicles including captured British ones.

• Perfect for both beginners and experienced modelers looking to refine their techniques.

• Lavishly illustrated in full color throughout, showcasing every stage of the modeling process.

• Combines modeling expertise with historical context, appealing to both hobbyists and military history enthusiasts.

9781036143152 • £18.99

192 pages • Paperback

246x172 • 150 colour illustrations

ALA: Brazil

September 2026 • WLR

PAINTING SCI-FI WARGAMING FIGURES

Lloyd Davies

9781036140922 • £18.99

160 pages • Paperback

297x210 200 colour illustrations

ALA: Llanelli, Wales, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

THE LITTLE GUN THAT LED THE BLITZKRIEG

the rise of the germAn 3.7cm Anti-tAnk gun

Jacek Zabielski

Often overlooked beside Germany’s famous panzers, the Kfz. 13 and Kfz. 14 scout cars quietly shaped the birth of German armoured warfare. Built when tanks were forbidden, these lightly armed “Bathtubs” trained crews, tested doctrine, and gave industry vital experience. Though obsolete by 1939, their influence lived on in the soldiers and ideas that drove Blitzkrieg. This book delivers the first full history, blending technology, operations, and rare imagery to illuminate an essential but forgotten chapter of mechanised warfare development.

• First in-depth exploration of early German armored scout car development.

• Insight into crew training, organisation, and early mechanised doctrines of Reichswere and Wehrmacht.

• Extensive visual and historical documentation including over 200 images.

9781036196356 • £16.99

224 pages • Paperback

246x172 • 280 mono illustrations

ALA: Poland

September 2026 • WLR

ARMOURED VEHICLES IN EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICA 1939-42

Andy Singleton

9781036116682 • £18.99

192 pages • Paperback

234x156 • 300 colour illustrations

ALA: Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

HITLER’S VENGEANCE WEAPONS

Ian Baxter

9781036128807 • £14.99

144 pages • Paperback

246x172 • 200 mono illustrations

ALA: Witham, Essex, United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

9781036148911 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Ireland

September 2026 • WLR

9781036184209 • £22.00

200 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 mono illustrations

ALA: United States; Iceland September 2026 • WLR

9781399040938 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 mono illustrations

ALA: Canada

July 2026 • WLR

IRELAND’S REVOLUTIONARY ERA

first-hAnd Accounts from the eAster rising to the AngLo-irish treAty

Eamonn Duggan

• Traces the events of Ireland’s Revolutionary Era with use of important personal recollections.

• Highlights the determination and bravery of the men and women of the Easter Rising

• Shows how the War of Independence was predominantly marked by guerrilla tactics with the IRA using its vast knowledge of the often-harsh rural terrain to inflict major damage on the famed British forces.

VIOLENCE IN VIKING SOCIETY

brutAL WArriors or Just fArmers?

William R Short, Reynir A Óskarson

• A fresh re-appraisal of the evidence for the role of violence in Viking life and culture.

• A convincing rebuttal of the revisionist view, widespread among academics since the late 20th century, that Vikings were primarily ‘just farmers’.

• Draws on a wide range of evidence to demonstrate that violence was central to Norse society and was glorified in Viking culture. Violence was central to their identity and it was what they strove to be celebrated and remembered for.

MEDIEVAL MILITARY MEDICINE OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES

Brian Burfield

• Explores the evolution of battlefield medicine from traditional swords, arrows, and pikes to the introduction of gunpowder weapons in late medieval Europe.

• Examines both minor and catastrophic injuries, showing how small wounds could be fatal while severe injuries were sometimes survivable, highlighting the unpredictability of wartime medicine.

9781036105594 • £25.00

264 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 65 mono illustrations

ALA: Watford, United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

9781036147907 • £30.00

232 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 35 colour, 115 mono illustrations

ALA: Canada

August 2026 • WLR

9781036146238 • £25.00

272 pages • Hardback

234x156 • None

ALA: Ayr, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

SONS OF RAGNAR

viking WArriors Who terrorised britAin And ireLAnd

Paul Harper

• Reveals the true story of Ragnar and his five sons whose bloody exploits left an enduring legacy.

• Exciting new research investigates the locations of famous battles involving the sons of Ragnar.

• Legendary burial sites connected to Bjorn Ironside, Ubba and Ivar the Boneless are explored.

• Features the numerous ancient sources which tell of Ragnar’s sons raiding Paris, in the Mediterranean and leading a huge Viking army to avenge their father’s death.

• Popular characters from the Viking TV series such as Lagertha and Bishop Heahmund are also investigated.

MEDIEVAL MILITARY CLOTHING 1320–1620

WhAt knights And soLdiers Wore under their Armour

Sean Manning

• There are numerous references on medieval armour but almost none on the clothing worn under and with it. This book reveals what lay beneath.

• Sean Manning details what was worn and how, the materials used and how garments were made.

• Traces the changes across the period which followed the evolution of armour and the whims of fashion.

THE SCOTTISH REBELLION AGAINST ROBERT THE BRUCE

exiLes And trAitors

James Turner

• The first full length account of the history of the army of disinherited sons and grandsons of Scotland who fought in both Wars of Scottish Independence.

• Discusses the origins and circumstances of their rivalry with the Bruce monarchy and their audacious attempt to turn back the clock and regain their former position of dominance at the heart of Scottish politics.

SPARTACUS AND ROME’S SERVILE WARS

Sotirios F Drokalos

The famous revolt of gladiators and slaves led by Spartacus is often cast in ideological terms, frequently removed from the actual political, social, and economic context in which it happened and portrayed as a symbol of freedom and a precursor of modern revolution. However, the views of ancient historians and the Italian peninsula’s populations who experienced the uprising were very different. This book examines the three slave wars of the Roman era in their historical context, offering a balanced and critically informed account.

• Covers all three Servile Wars (slave revolts) fought by Rome, the most famous being the Third, involving Spartacus.

• From the fields of Sicily and the mines of Laurion, to the gladiator schools of Capua, the book explores the conditions that sparked the revolts, the tactical successes of the insurgents, and the fierce Roman response that ultimately crushed them.

• Sets these events in the wider context of social, political and economic upheaval of the late Roman Republic.

• Challenges commonly held myths and perceptions by viewing these events through the lens of the ancient sources and evidence rather than modern sensibilities and political ideology.

9781036195342 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 colour illustrations

ALA: Greece

May 2026 • WLR

THE BATTLE OF LEUCTRA, 371 BC

Jeffrey Smith

9781036118181 • £25.00

240 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 18 colour illustrations

ALA: United States

May 2026 • WLR

THE SONS OF POMPEY THE GREAT

gnAeus PomPeius the younger And sextus PomPeius Lee Fratantuono

After the death of their father in 48 BC, the sons of Pompey carried on the struggle against Julius Caesar in Spain, Africa, and Sicily. In 45 BC they were defeated at Munda and Gnaeus was killed but Sextus escaped to Sicily and fought the Caesarian faction for a further decade. Sicily became a secure stronghold, supporting his powerful fleet in far-flung operations until finally caught and executed in 35 BC. Lee Fratantuono skilfully narrates the role of the sons of Pompey in these dramatic events.

• After Pompey the Great’s death, his sons continued the war against Caesar and his faction for over a decade.

• The brothers were on the losing side against Caesar at Thapsus and again at Munda, where Gnaeus was killed.

• Sextus escaped to Sicily, built a formidable fleet and allied with Caesar’s assassins against the Second Triumvirate.

• Sextus defeated Octavian (the future Augustus) at Messina (37 BC) but was defeated by Agrippa and eventually caught and executed without trial in 35 BC.

9781526795663 • £25.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 colour illustrations

ALA: United States

June 2026 • WLR

MAKING PEACE IN THE HELLENISTIC WORLD

John D Grainger

9781036186005 • £25.00

272 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 6 mono illustrations

ALA: Evesham, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

DEMETRIUS THE BESIEGER

Simon Elliott

9781399069885 • £25.00

232 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 colour illustrations

ALA: Creswell, United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

ARMIES OF ARTHURIAN BRITAIN

history, orgAnizAtion And equiPment

Gabriele Esposito

Gabriele Esposito describes how the Late Roman system of military defence crumbled in Britannia and how its remnants gave birth to the ‘Sub-Roman’ armies of the so-called ‘Arthurian Age’. He considers the most recent theories regarding the historicity of the figure of Arthur, and provides full detail on the military history of the Britons’ enemies: Picts, Scots, Saxons, Angles and Jutes. The greatest attention is given to detailed descriptions of the organization, equipment and tactics of the various military forces, with numerous colour photographs showing replica weapons, armour and costume in use.

• Describes the armies of post-Roman Britain, both the ‘Sub-Roman’ British and their Pictish, Caledonian, Saxon, Angle and Jutish enemies.

• Gives an overview of the military campaigns from the mid-fifth century to the completion of the Anglo-Saxon expansion.

• Considers the latest theories regarding the historical basis behind the legendary figure of Arthur.

• Clear text supported by numerous colour pictures of replica weapons, armour and dress in use.

9781036137342 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 70 colour illustrations

ALA: Italy

July 2026 • WLR

THE ARMY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, 1775–1783

Gabriele Esposito

9781036130138 • £25.00

144 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 60 colour illustrations

ALA: Italy

• April 2026 • WLR

GENERALSHIP IN THE ANCIENT WORLD

timeLess insights on commAnd from the greeks And romAns

Charles Vandepeer

How do you understand yourself and the enemy? How do you choose a battlefield? How do you use surprise and deception in war? What makes a good general? These timeless questions challenged ancient generals and commanders and continue to play on the minds of military leaders to this day.

Drawing on extensive historical research and his own military experience, Charles Vandepeer provides insights into the decision-making of ancient generals that have enduring relevance to modern conflict and military command.

• Analyses Classical military history to derive insights into generalship in the ancient world.

• Answers a series of enduring questions of warfare facing modern military commanders by critically examining the ancient literature.

• Covers Classical Greek, Macedonian and Roman warfare across nearly nine centuries of warfare.

• Draws on the evidence of dozens of generals, campaigns and battles, from Marathon (490 BC) to Adrianople (AD 378).

• Considers the various factors that go into making a good general, or conversely a bad general.

THE BRITISH ARMY OF THE AMERICAN WAR OF

INDEPENDENCE

Gabriele Esposito

9781036130084 • £25.00

128 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 60 colour illustrations

ALA: Italy • April 2026 • WLR

9781036184803 • £22.00

232 pages • Hardback

234x156

ALA: Australia

September 2026 • WLR

THE

BATTLE OF ULUNDI, 4 JULY 1879

Adrian Greaves

9781036141790 • £25.00

208 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 mono illustrations

ALA: Tenterden, Kent, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

SEAFORTH PUBLISHING

COAL SHIP!

hoW bLAck diAmonds trAnsformed the royAL nAvy 1830–1918

Steve Dunn

The vast British fleet that helped deliver victory in the First World War was one largely fuelled by coal. During the preceding century, the burgeoning industrial revolution, and the Royal Navy that emerged, had become wholly dependent on the precious ‘black diamonds’. Free wind was replaced by expensive coal; ships became faster, their offensive capabilities more devastating and the Royal Navy’s control of the seas of Britain’s growing empire undisputed. Steve Dunn describes how coal, at the heart of this revolution, affected every aspect of the Navy.

• Tells the little understood story of the Royal Navy’s total dependence on coal and its global distribution.

• First time this oft-ignored subject has been tackled.

• A wide-ranging subject that embraces so many aspects of naval history.

9781036192365 • £25.00

288 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 50 mono illustrations

ALA: Birmingham, UK

August 2026 • WLR

AIRCRAFT CARRIER FURIOUS

Stephen

James Watters

9781036198855 • £35.00

208 pages • Hardback

260x220 • One 8-page colour gatefold, 6 colour plane, 100 b/w photos

ALA: Burgess Hill, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR. US & Canadian rights sold

BRITISH LIGHT CRUISERS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

ArethusA to enterPrise: design, deveLoPment And service history, 1912-1948

Aidan Dodson

A superbly detailed history of this valiant class of cruiser that was introduced into the Royal Navy in 1912 and was to be the fastest and most heavily armed torpedo vessel to go to sea under the white ensign. They fought in the North Sea throughout WWI and in every theatre during WWII. One of their number, HMS Cardiff, led the German High Sea Fleet into internment at Scapa Flow, while HMS Caroline, restored in Belfast is the last British ship left that fought at Jutland.

• The full and first account of forty-six cruisers that played crucial roles in its operations between 1914 and 1945.

• Extensively illustrated with photographs and line-drawings.

• Includes HMS Caroline, the last survivor of the battle of Jutland and now a museum ship in Belfast.

9781036133702 • £35.00

240 pages • Hardback

276x219 • 250 mono illustrations

ALA: Bristol, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR. US & Canadian rights sold

SHIPCRAFT 19

Les Brown

9781036157043 • £18.99

64 pages • Paperback

297x210 • 130 b&w, colour and line illustrations

ALA: Fareham, United Kingdom

June 2026

SHIPCRAFT 36: AKAGI & KAGA

Kerry Jang

9781036146627 • £16.99

64 pages • Paperback

297x210 60 colour, 40 mono illustrations

ALA: Canada

July 2026 • WLR

9781036148560 • £29.99

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 23 colour, 33 mono illustrations

ALA: Ermington, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

9781036136772 • £25.00

248 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: Chichester, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

9781036145446 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 23 colour, 33 mono illustrations

ALA: Ermington, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

A LIFE UNDER SAIL

the AquAtic Adventures of A royAL mArine

Ewen Southby-Tailyour

Ewen Southby-Tailyour’s lifetime involvement with small boats—civilian and military alike—began with an unusual christening and endured until he sold his final vessel on his 80th birthday. Between these two moments lies a sailing life defined not by sunlit anchorages but by cold, remote, and often uncharted waters. He sailed extensively in the Falkland Islands and among the unsurveyed fjords of north-west Iceland and northern Norway, frequently in winter, choosing challenge and exploration over comfort.

His love of the sea was kindled at the age of four, trawling under sail, and deepened through decades crewing the classic pilot cutter Olga. During over thirty years of family ownership, he sailed her every Easter and summer holiday, absorbing navigation, seamanship, and ships’ husbandry by lived experience. At Nautical College Pangbourne he passed O Levels in celestial navigation, seamanship, and signals and, despite being captain of sailing, declined an Olympic trial in favour of deep-water cruising and exploration.

An accomplished navigator, he took part in six Fastnet Races, skippered six two-handed Round Britain races, sailed single-handed around Majorca, and competed in a two-handed race to Iceland. Abroad, he sought to understand indigenous craft, sailing Arabian dhows, Chinese junks, Kenyan outriggers, and square-riggers wherever opportunity allowed. In the Falkland Islands, finding charts unchanged since the nineteenth century, he conducted his own surveys— work that later informed amphibious planning in 1982.

His sailing life was not without drama. He fell overboard twice, once while alone, and survived extreme weather, including being trapped off an Icelandic lee shore in a Force 11—an ordeal later recounted in the seminal textbook Heavy Weather Sailing.

BATTLES OF THE RUSSIAN NAVY 1793–1815

Philip MacDougall

In the naval war fought against France between 1793 and 1815, the activities of the Russian navy have been substantially neglected by Western historians. This book seeks to redress this oversight. After Great Britain and France, Russia had, during these years, the world’s third most powerful navy, with squadrons of warships primarily active in the Baltic, North Sea, Black Sea, Mediterranean and Adriatic. Active in the war against Revolutionary France as an ally of Great Britain, the central theme of this book is that of evaluating the effectiveness of the Russian navy during those war time years, giving particular attention to its co-operation with the British Royal Navy in several campaigns. Viewing the Russian navy of this period as one fundamentally created by Catherine the Great (r.1762-96), its establishment by Peter the Great (r.1682-1725), and its original purpose is not ignored. Throughout, the book is informed by first hand writings and documents, many not available in Britain, these highlighting the tactics and strategies adopted by Russian commanders. Often played down by western naval historians, those strategies and tactics were often in advance of accepted naval doctrine, and achieved several notable victories. Not forgotten is the importance of the land-based infrastructure that was so essential in supporting Russia’s seagoing navy, conditions of service on Russian ships and the nature of the command structure.

• Undertakes a deep exploration into the role of the Russian Navy in the war against France 1793–1815.

• Provides an understanding of the social and economic dynamics that underpinned the Navy’s operational performance and administrative structure.

• Gives an overview of the Navy from its foundation under Peter the Great to its later reconstruction by Catherine the Great.

• Considers the cooperation between the British and Russian Navies, their effectiveness and moments of friction and misunderstanding.

AMPHIBIOUS WARFARE POST WWII

A royAL mArine’s AnthoLogy

Ewen Southby-Tailyour

Amphibious Warfare Post WWII is a collection of essays and articles written for various military publications during the author’s 32 years’ service. Following retirement he was able to express his opinions and views in a rather more forthright manner as the Editor of Jane’s Amphibious and Special Forces. As a renowned practitioner of amphibious operations much of what he has to say remains relevant and seminal to this day. The author also describes his time as a European Community Monitor in the Former Yugoslavia (from which he resigned after being ordered to falsify his daily reports to Brussels) and his experiences as a company commander during the Dhofar War.

• Written by a seasoned officer with 32 years’ service, this book offers hard won lessons drawn directly from planning and conducting amphibious operations, making it essential reading for professionals and serious students of modern warfare.

• Compiled after retirement and sharpened by the author’s tenure as Editor of Jane’s Amphibious and Special Forces, these essays provide candid, unfiltered assessments rarely found in official doctrine or contemporary accounts.

• The author’s firsthand experiences—from commanding troops in the Dhofar War to monitoring the Former Yugoslavia—add depth, credibility, and moral clarity, ensuring the book remains relevant and provocative in today’s evolving amphibious and expeditionary landscape.

9781036117023 • £20.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: St Athan, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

9781036112424 • £22.00

232 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: Southend-on-Sea, UK

June 2026 • WLR

9781036128159 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 mono illustrations

ALA: London, United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

OLIVER CROMWELL

stAtesmAn, PoLiticiAn & soLdier

Phil Carradice

• Explores Cromwell as soldier, statesman and devout Puritan without myth or caricature.

• Analyses key battles, political rivals and the creation of Britain’s first republic in rich historical context.

• Phil Carradice’s elegant style brings post Tudor Britain and Cromwell’s complex legacy vividly to life.

9781036123895 • £25.00

232 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 40 mono illustrations

ALA: Buxton, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

EDWARD VI’S LORD CHANCELLOR, RICHARD RICH

viLLAin or LoyAL servAnt?

Laura Adkins

• Reassesses one of the Tudor era’s most notorious figures, exploring Richard Rich’s rise from lawyer to Lord Chancellor and his role in key moments under Henry VIII and Edward VI.

• Examines Rich’s involvement in religious persecution, courtroom intrigue and political survival under four monarchs, questioning whether pragmatism or betrayal defined his career.

CROWNED: CORONATIONS FROM QUEEN VICTORIA TO KING CHARLES III

Yvonne Covell

• The story of royal coronations from Queen Victoria to King Charles III, is the story of a nation that has changed almost beyond recognition. From the rise and decline of the British Empire, through two world wars, the abdication, the widespread abolition of European monarchies, and the emergence of the digital age, this book is a fascinating account of how our six most recent coronations, over a period of 185 years, have both reflected and shaped modern history.

9781036181543 • £29.99

288 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 8 mono illustrations

ALA: Lymington, United Kingdom September 2026 • WLR

9781036192181 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 mono illustrations

ALA: Doncaster, United Kingdom August 2026 • WLR

PREPARING STUART KINGS AND PRINCES TO RULE

the men And Women Who trAined the royALs

Julia A Hickey

• Reveals the overlooked lives of the governors and governesses who shaped Stuart princes and princesses during one of Britain’s most turbulent centuries.

• Explores the rewards and dangers of royal service, from patronage and power to imprisonment, execution and financial ruin amid religious and political strife.

BORN TO BE KINGS?

the JAcobites, their sovereigns And their PeoPLe

Timothy Venning

• Explores how the British state confronted existential threats from Jacobite rebellion and foreign intervention during its rise as a European great power.

• Analyses the political, religious and military crises surrounding the Hanoverian succession, from the Glorious Revolution to the defeats of 1715 and 1745.

• Presents a rigorous yet engaging account of fear, invasion scares and high level panic that shaped government policy in eighteenth century Britain.

PRINCESSES OF THE LATER MIDDLE AGES

royAL dAughters of the PLAntAgenets

Sharon Bennett Connolly

• Reclaims the agency of medieval English princesses, showing how marriage abroad often made them diplomats and political connectors rather than forgotten exiles.

• Explores the lives of royal daughters from Henry III to Edward IV, revealing how legitimacy, loyalty and power shaped their fortunes.

9781036142926 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 colour illustrations

ALA: United States

September 2026 • WLR

9781036123840 • £25.00

272 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Lymington, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

9781036142377 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 12 colour illustrations

ALA: Newton Abbot, UK

August 2026 • WLR

TUDOR CHILDBIRTH IN THE ROYAL COURT

the midWives And mothers

Brigitte Barnard

• Uncovers the private realities of royal childbirth in the Tudor court, where fertility was inseparable from power, politics and dynastic survival.

• Brings early modern midwives to the forefront, revealing their vital roles, expertise and risks in an era shaped by superstition, danger and secrecy.

• Combines rigorous research with vivid storytelling to explain how reproductive failure, belief and medical practice contributed to the ultimate collapse of the Tudor dynasty.

ROYAL MYSTERIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

Timothy Venning

• Investigates the mysteries, rivalries and power struggles of rulers from ancient Mesopotamia to Greece, Rome and the Persian Empire at the centre of early world geopolitics.

• Separates legend from history through rigorous use of primary and secondary sources, covering figures from Cyrus and Alexander to Caesar and Constantine.

• Reveals the intimate, often ruthless world of ancient elites, where ambition, intrigue and violence shaped the rise and fall of empires.

QUEEN ELIZABETH I’S CHILDHOOD GOVERNESS

gentLe miss AstLey

Rosemary Griggs

• A new biography of Katherine Astley, née Champernowne, known as ‘Kat Ashely’, Governess to the young Queen Elizabeth I.

• Brings into the limelight a wellknown but little understood figure who played an important part in Tudor history.

• Challenges long-held assumptions about Katherine’s character, motivations and actions and Invites further debate.

• Includes newly discovered evidence from the historical record.

9781399079402 • £22.00

240 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: Guisborough, Redcar and Cleveland, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

9781036104870 • £25.00

264 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: North Shields, UK

August 2026 • WLR

9781036149864 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 mono illustrations

ALA: United States

April 2026

• WLR

ROYAL FAVOURITES OF THE TUDOR AND STUART AGE

April Taylor

• Explores the trusted friends, favourites and confidants who shaped the personal and political lives of sixteenth and seventeenth century monarchs.

• Brings together vivid portraits of figures from Henry VII to Queen Anne, revealing loyalty, ambition, devotion and betrayal at the heart of royal power.

• Shows how friendship, trust and personal bonds were often as influential as policy or bloodline in shaping decisions during Britain’s most uncertain dynastic age.

HENRY VIII’S QUEST FOR AN HEIR

the king’s greAt mAtter

Helene Harrison

• Examines Henry VIII’s “Great Matter” as the defining crisis of the Tudor century, revealing how a marital dispute reshaped church, crown and country.

• Explores the collision of personal desire, dynastic anxiety and political power that led to England’s break with Rome and the creation of the Church of England.

• Shows how the consequences of Henry’s decision reverberated far beyond his reign, transforming the lives of his wives, his heirs and the future of England itself.

THE HUNT FOR ANNA PAVLOVNA’S STOLEN JEWELS

decePtion, diPLomAcy, And An imPeriAL heist

Jenni Wiltz

• Royal intrigue meets American justice in this story of scandal, theft, and a transatlantic manhunt, ending in a trial that stunned both Europe and America.

• Draws on newly unearthed documents and sources in five languages.

• A true crime thriller where The Crown meets Catch Me If You Can.

9781036115012 • £20.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 mono illustrations

ALA: Leyland, United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

9781036126216 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 mono illustrations

ALA: London, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

9781036129477 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: Chadderton, UK

July 2026 • WLR

THE WINTER QUEEN & HER LEGACY: THE CHILDREN OF ELIZABETH STUART

Beverley Adams

• Gives a detailed look at the life of Elizabeth Stuart from her birth in Scotland as the daughter of King James VI to her marriage with Frederick V, Elector Palatine and through to her death in London at the court of her nephew King Charles II.

• Looks at the legacy Elizabeth Stuart left in her children and grandchildren and how they weaved their way across Europe and became members of Europe’s ruling dynasties.

GREAT WOMEN OF LONDON

A history of the rebeLs Who insPired others

Esther Freeman

• Never-before heard stories of women who changed society.

• Exposing the fake news scandal involving suffragette leader, Christabel Pankhurst.

• What East End women taught Ghandi.

• First-hand accounts from women at the Greenham Common peace camp.

• The real women behind the awardwinning movie, Pride

TRAILBLAZING MEDIEVAL WOMEN

Ashley Sarah Firth

• Brings medieval women out of historical silence, revealing rulers, warriors, writers and consorts who defied convention and shaped their world.

• Spans centuries from Anglo Saxon England to the Wars of the Roses, challenging assumptions about women’s exclusion from power and influence.

• Combines meticulous research with powerful storytelling to restore forgotten female voices and demonstrate the lasting impact of women on medieval history.

9781036182267 • £25.00

248 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 120 mono illustrations

ALA: Evesham, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

9781036132866 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 mono illustrations

ALA: York, United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

9781036116491 • £20.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: Roath, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

LADIES WHO RULED

femALe monArchs from Ancient sumer to the modern WorLd John D Grainger

• A survey of the many women who have ruled in their own right, over 300 entries.

• Takes a truly global view of the phenomenon of female rulers, which throws up interesting insights and surprises, such as the surprising number of female rulers from Muslim countries and their almost complete absence from North America, China and elsewhere.

• Covers around 5,000 years of history, from Ancient Sumer (the queens Puaba and Ku-Baba) to the modern world.

TRAILBLAZING WOMEN OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Paul Chrystal

• Describes the long struggle educated and able women had in order to get educated, gain empowerment and agency in a men’s world.

• Examines women’s battle to qualify as medical doctors and earn medical degrees; likewise women in science.

• Women in industry & commerce; women in the professions.

• Votes for women.

• How women were treated in the justice system.

THE FORGOTTEN HEROES OF THE BRITISH SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

Andrew Griffiths

• Highlights the often overlooked activists of the suffrage movement, revealing the personal sacrifices behind the fight for women’s voting rights.

• Traces the evolution of suffrage from early campaigning to militant action, showing how frustration, urgency and political resistance shaped the struggle.

9781036125769 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: Sweden

September 2026 • WLR

9781036105129 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 mono illustrations

ALA: Tilehurst, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

9781036199753 • £29.99

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 100 mono illustrations

ALA: London, United Kingdom September 2026 • WLR

FEMALE STEM PIONEERS WHO SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST

Victoria Van Orden Martínez

• Highlights Holocaust survivors who became pioneers in science and medicine, revealing how they overcame persecution, displacement and gender discrimination.

• Weaves personal wartime experiences with postwar scientific careers in male dominated fields, from neurobiology to cancer research.

• Offers a powerful intersection of history, gender and science, showing how resilience and sacrifice shaped groundbreaking contributions to modern STEM disciplines.

POWER COUPLES OF THE RENAISSANCE

infLuentiAL duos thAt shAPed the history of their time

Jo Romero

• Reveals how influential partnerships lay at the heart of Renaissance power, shaping politics, culture, exploration and empire across Europe and beyond.

• Explores how love, ambition and strategy combined to multiply influence, showing that behind many of the Renaissance’s greatest achievements stood enduring and dynamic alliances.

THE ILLUSTRATED STUART DICTIONARY

Simon Sandys-Winsch

• Unique reference book for the revolutionary events of seventeenthcentury England.

• Detailed, clear, concise and easy to use, packed with key facts and bizarre trivia

• A range of over 150 iconic and fascinating illustrations.

• Aimed at any student or lover of history.

9781036190743 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 45 mono illustrations

ALA: Richmond, United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

9781399032254 • £22.00

248 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 50 mono illustrations

ALA: Royston, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

9781036130381 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 mono illustrations

ALA: London, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

MARY O’SHAUGHNESSY: UNDERCOVER OPERATIVE

scourge of the gestAPo And rAvensbrück survivor

Nicholas Bentley

• The first full account of Mary O’Shaughnessy, an unsung British heroine whose clandestine wartime service spanned MI5, MI6, and the SOE, despite never holding an official position.

• Gripping true story of courage: Mary aided Allied airmen, smuggled intelligence, survived torture, and endured Ravensbrück, one of the war’s most brutal concentration camps.

SEX AND SEXUALITY IN ANCIENT GREECE

L J Trafford

• Explores the shocking and unfamiliar sexual values of Ancient Greece, revealing a culture far removed from modern assumptions about morality and gender.

• Confronts myths about women, relationships and sexuality through vivid examples drawn from medicine, religion, sport and everyday life.

• Presents a provocative yet accessible study that challenges idealised views of classical Greece and invites readers to rethink one of history’s most influential civilizations.

KEY DATES IN GEORGIAN HISTORY

Nicholas Travers

• Offers a meticulous examination of the Georgian era, providing a detailed and concentrated exploration of its developments, dates, and events.

• Each entry delves into a wide array of Georgian subjects, spanning royalty, politics, medicine, music, art, science, and innovation.

• This book is structured for easy, engaging reading and exploration, allowing readers to dip in and out effortlessly and discover something new with each entry.

9781399032452 • £20.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: Canada

May 2026 • WLR

9781036110321 • £25.00

168 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 12 mono illustrations

ALA: Glossop, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

9781036134051 • £16.99

264 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 colour illustrations

ALA: Truro, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

THE LIFE AND LASTING INFLUENCE OF SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN

An Aim At eternity

Rachel McMillan

• Presents an accessible and engaging portrait of Sir Christopher Wren, revealing how his work connected architecture, science, culture and history.

• Explores the dramatic seventeenth century world Wren lived through, showing how resilience and creativity shaped his enduring legacy beyond St Paul’s Cathedral.

• Encourages readers to see London and its skyline anew, peeling back the layers of a man whose influence still defines Britain’s cultural identity.

THE BARD OF COLOUR, ROBERT ROSE

the Life of A Poet And Activist in the nineteenth century

Glynis Cooper

• Reclaims an erased literary figure, bringing urgently needed representation to nineteenth-century British history.

• Offers fresh insights into race, class, and creative ambition in the Victorian era.

• Appeals to readers of literary history, Black British studies, and narrative non-fiction, as well as fans of hiddenhistory discoveries.

• Combines archival detective work with a compelling narrative.

TRENT PARK HOUSE: A CENTURY OF SECRETS

Sue Elliott

• Brings to life for the first time the full fascinating story of Trent Park from its origins as a royal hunting ground through its many ‘lives’ and characters – upstairs and downstairsto the present day.

• Focuses on its key 20th century incarnations: an inter-war pleasure palace for royalty, the rich and famous; then a highly unusual wartime prison camp with a Top Secret role.

9781036194178 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 12 mono illustrations

ALA: London, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

9781036194994 • £25.00

240 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 36 mono illustrations

ALA: Bowdon, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

9781036136222 • £25.00

312 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 12 colour, 12 mono

ALA: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

August 2026 • WLR

CHARLES DICKENS AND HIS HIDDEN FAMILY HISTORY

Theresa Musgrove

• Essential reading for Dickens enthusiasts and literary historians.

• Presents Dickens not just as a literary icon, but as a man shaped by hidden family influences, secrets, and acts of redemption.

• Draws on new archival research to challenge long-held assumptions about Dickens’s origins and personal life.

• Explores how Dickens’s fear of inherited madness, his complex relationship with Jewish communities, and his acts of private atonement influenced characters and themes across his novels.

EMMELINE’S LOVING COMRADE, RICHARD MARSDEN PANKHURST

the mAn Who insPired the suffrAgette LeAder

Joanna M Williams

• Casts a new light on the origins of the women’s suffrage movement.

• Uses source materials which have not previously been mined including rare photographs.

• Offers a radical new model of the Victorian family Deals with the life of a remarkable and controversial Manchester figure, famous in his own day but now forgotten.

HADRIAN’S WALL

exPLoring the PAst, Present And future of the romAn stronghoLd John Sadler

• From the Roman invasion to conquest, and from construction of the wall to current day, this is a comprehensive history of Hadrian’s Wall from experienced and expert author, John Sadler.

• Blends archaeology, history, and vivid storytelling, making complex eras accessible and compelling.

• Explores both the Wall and the landscape around it, bringing to life forts, milecastles, command posts, and the peoples who lived on either side.

9781036180133 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 mono illustrations

ALA: Norwich, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

9781036183011 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Lymington, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

9781036194024 • £25.00

248 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 mono illustrations

ALA: United States

June 2026 • WLR

THE HAUNTED CASTLES OF ENGLAND

Neil R Storey

• Explores England’s most haunted castles and fortresses, uncovering centuries of murder, betrayal, torture and violent siege hidden within their walls.

• Blends history and legend through chilling tales of ghosts, tragic lovers and restless spirits, told by renowned historian and ghost hunter Neil R. Storey.

• Offers a darkly entertaining journey through England’s blood stained strongholds, perfect for lovers of history, the macabre and the supernatural.

CONSPIRACY AND MURDER IN THE LATE ROMAN EMPIRE

Timothy Venning

• Presents a vivid, revisionist history of Roman imperial power, exposing murder, conspiracy and betrayal behind the survival of the empire East and West.

• Reassesses famous emperors from Hadrian and Commodus to Constantine and Julian, highlighting both achievement and failure in an age of constant crisis.

• Blends rigorous academic research with immersive storytelling to place readers inside the dangerous world of imperial families, rivals and collapsing orders.

THE VIKING CONQUEST OF ENGLAND

hoW dAnish monArchs ruLed from 1013-1042

Brandon Michael Bender

• Explores the dramatic Danish conquest of England in the early eleventh century, a violent and volatile era shadowed by the later Norman invasion.

• Recounts battles, betrayals and succession crises involving figures such as Swein Forkbeard, Thorkell the Tall and Cnut, as power shifted repeatedly.

9781036136079 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: United States

May 2026 • WLR

9781036114916 • £20.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 mono illustrations

ALA: Denmark

June 2026 • WLR

9781036130480 • £25.00

336 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 colour illustrations

ALA: Windsor, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

WHEN IN ROME

A neW Look At oLd gods

Lynn Hamilton

• Re examines Roman gods, heroes and myths to explain how ancient people made sense of nature, seasons and survival before modern science.

• Retells timeless stories such as Pluto and Proserpina alongside figures like Jupiter, Venus and Hercules, grounding myth in Roman culture and belief.

• Draws on classical sources including Ovid and Virgil to reveal why these stories endured and how they shaped Roman views of the world and humanity.

FROM THE CELTS TO THE VIKINGS

history, mystery And myth

Anette Guldager Boye

• Explores the pre Christian beliefs of Germanic and Celtic peoples, revealing how myth and folklore shaped daily life across Northern Europe.

• Examines how faith, magic and superstition coexisted with organised religion, blurring the boundaries between the sacred and the everyday.

• Brings fairies, spirits and ancient traditions to life through historical context and storytelling, inviting readers into a world of enduring mystery and belief.

GLADIATORS IN THE GREEK WORLD

hoW A romAn bLood sPort took Ancient greece by storm

Alexandra Sills

• Unique focus on the export to/ adoption in Greece of gladiatorial games

• Reveals how the Greeks made gladiatorial combat their own, integrating it with their own ideals and the heroic mythology of the Iliad. * Draws on a detailed reappraisal of the literary and particularly archaeological evidence to present a thoroughly up-to-date and original perspective.

9781036128203 • £25.00

216 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

April 2026 • WLR

9781036101237 • £20.00

216 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 80 mono illustrations

ALA: Northampton, UK

May 2026 • WLR

9781036142247 • £25.00

264 pages

• Hardback

234x156 • 10 mono illustrations

ALA: London, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

TOMBSTONES OF ROMAN BRITAIN

A guide to encountering the deAd

Stephanie Holton

• Discusses the many Roman tombstones discovered in Britain and explains what they tell us about the individuals whose final resting places they marked.

• Covers both military and civilian gravestones, across gender and social classes, from across the province and through the roughly four centuries of occupation.

• Discusses changes in funerary rites and attitudes to death, as well as a host of other social aspects.

• Shows the great diversity of the population of Roman Britain.

THE MEDIEVAL PILGRIM

the roAds to sALvAtion

Michael Brown

• Explores the enduring appeal of pilgrimage in medieval England, from local shrines to perilous journeys to Rome, Santiago and the Holy Land.

• Examines who the pilgrims were, what inspired their journeys, and the hardships, dangers and hopes they carried along the way.

• Reveals pilgrimage as a deeply human story of faith, fear and transformation, showing how travel shaped lives in both this world and the next.

IMPERIAL RULE IN INDIA

PAternAL governAnce

And conquest under the LAWrences And montgomery

Jonathan Orr

• Traces the intertwined careers of the Lawrence brothers and Robert Montgomery, revealing how a shared Irish background shaped British colonial administration in India.

• Explores hands on governance through revenue surveying, district administration and social reform, including campaigns against criminal practices.

9781036104979 • £20.00

208 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 mono illustrations

ALA: Ulverston, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

9781036138035 • £22.00

208 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: Kenilworth, United Kingdom August 2026 • WLR

9781036145194 • £25.00

240 pages • Hardback

234x156

ALA: France; United Kingdom April 2026 • WLR

MURDER AND MAYHEM IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND

vioLence in the thirteenth And fourteenth centuries

Kathryn Warner

• Reveals the brutal realities of late medieval England, where violence, feuds and homicide were a grim part of everyday life.

• Paints a vivid picture of a society quick to anger and armed by custom, offering a compelling study of crime and justice in the Middle Ages.

THE SLAVE TRADER

the story of bryAn bLundeLL, mAster mAriner, PhiLAnthroPist And sLAve trAder

Ben Shaw

• Brings to life the story of a key figure in Liverpool’s rise as a maritime hub, whose legacy has long been celebrated but rarely scrutinised.

• Illuminates not only Blundell’s journey but also the city’s transformation, making it essential reading for those interested in British history, maritime history, and the history of slavery.

• Speaks directly to today’s debates about monuments, memory, and the legacies of slavery.

PIRATES AND PRIVATEERS OF THE ATLANTIC AND THE CARIBBEAN

Hunt Janin, Nicole Sheehan

• First-hand historical accounts of privateering.

• Covers international waterways, ships, and men not usually discussed in other books on privateering.

• Discusses details of the allimportant “prize game” - that is, the capture in wartime of enemy ships by privateers and then selling or burning them.

• Shows the power, beauty, and grace of ships under sail.

9781036142339 • £25.00

184 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 colour, 30 mono illustrations

ALA: Milford, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

9781036145392 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 40 mono illustrations

ALA: Norwich, United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

9781036194482 • £25.00

240 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 mono illustrations

ALA: Port Charlotte, UK

August 2026 • WLR

A HISTORY OF THE COMPANY OF PIKEMEN AND MUSKETEERS

Richard Frase

• Traces the rich history of the Company of Pikemen and Musketeers, from its seventeenth century origins to its modern ceremonial role in the City of London.

• Explores the pageantry, tradition and military heritage behind one of London’s most recognisable civic sights, tied to the Honourable Artillery Company.

• Shows how this unique unit has stood as a living witness to centuries of change, guarding halls, ceremonies and civic life as history unfolds around it.

MURDER ON IONA

the strAnge And mysterious deAth of norAh fornArio

Neil R Storey

• Investigates the mysterious death of Norah Fornario in 1929, uncovering troubling contradictions, neglected evidence and unanswered questions.

• Blends meticulous historical research with occult intrigue, linking the case to Aleister Crowley, secret societies and supernatural belief in the roaring twenties.

• Delivers a gripping true crime narrative set against folklore rich Iona, where superstition, ritual and modern investigation collide in a haunting historical mystery.

IN HORIZON’S SHADOW

the true story of the british Post office scAndAL

Alastair Redman

• Exposes the full scale of the Post Office Horizon scandal, revealing how technological failure and institutional denial devastated hundreds of innocent lives.

• Combines rigorous research with the author’s first hand experience as a former sub postmaster affected by the flawed Horizon system.

• Traces the fight for justice from early accusations to High Court victories, giving voice to those who challenged power, cover ups and corporate arrogance.

9781036110802 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: Worthing, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

9781036145248 • £25.00

240 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: London, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

9781036192143 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 12 mono illustrations

ALA: New Zealand

May 2026 • WLR

THE REAL STORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

sePArAting myth from reALity

Mike Wells

• Takes a critical look at the American Revolution, challenging familiar myths while recognising its role in shaping the modern world.

• Gives voice to those often overlooked, revealing the conflict as a brutal civil war that affected women, Black Americans and Native Americans in different ways.

• Reassesses famous figures and dramatic events to present a more complex, sometimes unsettling picture of independence, liberty and their human cost.

THE TOOTING TRAGEDY

choLerA, crueLty

And chiLdren of the victoriAn Poor

William Ellis-Rees

• Tells the powerful true story of the Surrey Hall cholera tragedy, exposing neglect, cruelty and profit driven abuse within a Victorian residential school.

• Brings the children’s voices to the fore, revealing shocking conditions and testimonies that led to a major Old Bailey manslaughter trial.

• Shows how national outrage, amplified by Charles Dickens, transformed a local disaster into a landmark moment in the reform of care for the poor.

EVEREST SURGEON

michAeL WArd And the exPLorAtion of high AsiA

Riaz Dean

• The first biography written of Michael Ward CBE, describing his achievements as a mountaineer, surgeon, scientist, explorer and writer.

• It examines his role as expedition doctor in the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 and answers the ‘burning question’: Why did this expedition succeed when other equally well-resourced attempts before it had failed?

THE ASCENT OF MARITIME TRADE 1700-2025

enLightening the WorLd

Nick Collins

SCOTTISH WARLOCKS, WIZARDS AND MAGICIANS

A historicAL quest

Keith Coleman

9781036138899 • £29.99

304 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Purley, United Kingdom

Third volume of the critically-acclaimed series stressing maritime trade as the driver of world history, wealth-creation, technologiical inventiveness, art and literature. This book tackles the Maritime Enlightenment, which spurred economic liberalism and humanitarianism, unlike its continental version, breaking free from historic attitudes to slavery and serfdom, contextualising current debates on imperial history. The immediate cause of America’s War of Independence is revealed to be about illegal maritime trade. Jefferson and Madison never understood the latent wealth-creating power of US trade, misdirecting energies for some years. US north-south divisions were exacerbated by trade tariffs more than than slavery. The failure of France’s Revolution and Germany’s 20th-century wars were also failures to appreciate its importance. The post 1945 rise of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, China and UAE were directly because of their encouragement of maritime trade and shipping. Britain’s decline was heralded by political indifference then hostility, contrasting with its previous encouragement; its greatest strength. Nick’s chapter on shipping’s efforts to achieve net-zero is a must read for anyone involved in the green debate.

April 2026 • WLR

SOMERLED, LORD OF THE ISLES

the WArrior Who redefined Western scotLAnd Alastair Redman

Somerled: Lord of the Isles explores the life and legacy of one of the most remarkable figures in Scottish and Hebridean history. In the turbulent twelfth century, Somerled rose from obscurity to challenge Norse rule in the Hebrides and forge a kingdom that blended Gaelic and Norse traditions. As a warrior, statesman, and founder of a powerful dynasty, his influence stretched across the western seaboard and shaped the identity of the Highlands and Islands for centuries to come. This book charts Somerled’s journey from minor chieftain to sea king, examining the political, cultural, and military forces that enabled his rise. It follows the establishment of the Lordship of the Isles by his descendants, a unique maritime kingdom that endured long after his death. Richly detailed and drawing upon the latest archaeological and historical research, Somerled: Lord of the Isles brings to life a period often overlooked in mainstream history. It is a compelling account of resilience, ambition, and the forging of an identity rooted in land and sea, providing new insights into the man who would become a legend.

• Traces Somerled’s ascent from minor chieftain to challenger of Norse dominance and founder of a powerful maritime realm.

• Explores how Somerled blended Gaelic and Norse traditions to shape the identity of the Highlands and Islands.

9781036134907 • £22.00

272 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: Port Charlotte, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

The story of Scotland’s male witches and wizards always promised to be a convulted one, and the tale indeed turns out to be a strange tree with many twisted branches. The nation has several venerable magical figures who compete in stature with the legendary Merlin. Michael Scot, Thomas of Erceldoune and Coinneach Odhar were, respectively scholar, poet and seer, but they still command enormous presence in the national imagination. The forgotten men who got caught up in the national witch hunts were as unfortunate as the far greater number if women persecuted. Among those prosecuted were healers like Andro Man, who practiced his skills for decades before being examined. For every sincere practitioner or innocent, there were many more frauds and distorted characters caught up in the supernatural net. Major Weir left a dark stain on Edinburgh for a century after his death and Gregor Willox Macgregor is still remembered in the north with a mixture of doubtful contempt and fear.

• Explores the overlooked stories of male witches, wizards, and seers who shaped — and haunted — the national imagination.

• Blends revered figures and folk heroes with the grim truths of witch hunts, frauds, and persecution.

9781036119973 • £20.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 80 colour, 30 mono illustrations

ALA: Redruth, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

PATRIOTS, RADICALS AND REVOLUTIONARIES

the british roLe in AmericAn indePendence Leanne O-Boyle

This book tells the story of American independence from the British side, following five sharply contrasting lives in the run up to 1776, all championing liberty, though rarely agreeing on what that meant in practice. Through the eyes of a king, a statesman, a general, a radical, and a diplomat, it explores a revolution that was as much about competing visions of freedom as it was about a rebellion against perceived tyranny. This book offers a fresh perspective on a well-known story. It reveals the American Revolution not as a simple tale of tyranny and resistance, but as a shared, ongoing global struggle over the meaning of liberty itself.

• A fresh British perspective on the American Revolution as it reaches its 250th anniversary: Tells the story of independence from this side of the Atlantic, revealing how debates over liberty unfolded in Britain as well as America.

• Five lives, five visions of liberty: Follows King George III, Benjamin Franklin, Lord North, General Thomas Gage, and Thomas Paine, showing how radically different ideas of freedom collided in 1776.

9781036134143 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 224 b&w illustrations

June 2026 • WLR

• History meets travel guide: Combines narrative history with curated, walkable tours across London, Oxfordshire, and Sussex, allowing readers to experience the Revolution through real places.

DR JOSEPH GOEBBELS

A bender of minds - A study of A ProPAgAndA exPert

Andrew Sangster

Joseph Goebbels remains one of the most disturbing figures of the Nazi regime. Exceptionally intelligent and academically gifted, he was raised in a Roman Catholic household and once considered the priesthood. Supported in his studies by Jewish scholars, Goebbels’ ambitions were sharpened by a lifelong physical disability and the turmoil of post war Germany. Drawn to Nazism in the 1920s, he became one of Hitler’s most loyal lieutenants and, as Reich Minister of Propaganda, engineered the lies and narratives that sustained hatred, Total War and false hope for a collapsing regime. His private life was marked by obsession and turmoil. In 1945, he and his wife murdered their six children before taking their own lives. This biography charts the rise and catastrophic fall of a man whose talents were devoted to destruction rather than achievement.

• Charts the meteoric rise and cataclysmic fall of Joseph Goebbels, Reichminister for Propaganda and Hitler’s right-hand man.

• Explores Goebbels’ early life as a Roman Catholic and his schooling by Jewish teachers.

• We learn of his close relationship with Hitler, his intense personal ambition and his rise to power.

9781036197391 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 12 mono illustrations

ALA: Norwich, United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

STALIN’S SECRET SERVICES

henchmAn And Poisoned tiPPed umbreLLAs

Andrew Sangster

Stalin’s Secret Services: Henchmen and Poisoned Tipped Umbrellas traces the rise of the Soviet secret police from Tsarist origins to the terror of Stalin’s regime. Central to the narrative is Lavrentiy Beria, head of the NKVD, whose ambition helped create a paranoid state where murder became policy. The story continues with Pavel Sudoplatov, a master assassin who orchestrated Trotsky’s murder and espionage against the West. Drawing unsettling parallels with Nazi Germany, the book explores atrocities such as the Katyn massacre and examines how ideology collapsed into brutality. In its closing chapters, it reflects on autocracy, moral freedom and the corrupting nature of power, offering a sobering warning about how easily societies descend into darkness.

• Split into four main chapters, the book explores the nature of intelligence work and the secret police from Tsarist Russia to the height of Stalin’s regime.

• Chapter One gives a detailed insight into the life and work of Lavrenty Beria, head of the NKVD and organiser of the Katyn massacre. During WWII Beria became the most powerful security chief in Soviet history.

• Chapter Two explores Beria’s key secret agents, most notably Pavel Sudoplatov, who was the chief organiser behind the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

9781036147419 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Norwich, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

THE RISE OF FASCISM IN BRITAIN

from the suffrAge movement to osWALd mosLey

Anthony J Randall

This powerful and unsettling book explores how fascism came perilously close to taking root in Britain. It begins with the White Feather Brigade: women from the Suffrage movement who, abandoned by Emmeline Pankhurst at the outbreak of the First World War, redirected their energies into pressuring men to enlist. When peace arrived and they were still largely denied the vote, some were drawn to a new ideology that promised recognition and purpose: British fascism. Tracing the movement from the early British Fascisti through the General Strike, the book charts Oswald Mosley’s rise, his links to Hitler and members of the Royal Family, and his eventual downfall during the Second World War. Rigorous yet accessible, it reveals how fear of socialism, national trauma and misplaced patriotism briefly nurtured authoritarian ideas in Britain, and why they ultimately failed.

• Reveals how fascism almost became a reality in Britain

• Explores how women from the suffrage movement became early participants in shaping authoritarian ideologies.

• Examines Mosley’s rise, his connections to Hitler and the British Royal Family, and the political tensions of interwar Britain.

• Based on contemporary newspapers, first-hand accounts, and primary sources.

9781036184087 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 21 mono illustrations

ALA: Sheringham, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

DUNKIRK, D-DAY, KOHIMA AND THE DEATH RAILWAY

the royAL norfoLk regiment in the second WorLd WAr

Neil R Storey

The Royal Norfolk Regiment earned a fighting reputation second to none during the Second World War, with five Victoria Crosses awarded—more than any other line infantry regiment. Its battalions saw action across every major theatre: D Day and the advance through Europe, the massacre at Le Paradis during the 1940 retreat to Dunkirk, the brutal campaigns of Burma and Kohima, and captivity on the Japanese ‘Death Railway’ following the fall of Singapore. Despite devastating losses, units were repeatedly rebuilt and returned to battle. Drawing on diaries, memoirs and firsthand testimony, this book honours the courage, endurance and sacrifice of a regiment that fought with distinction from 1939 to 1945.

• Follows the Royal Norfolk Regiment from Dunkirk and D Day to Burma, Kohima, and the Far East.

• Tells the story of a unit awarded five Victoria Crosses despite devastating losses and repeated rebuilding.

• Draws on diaries and firsthand testimony to honour the endurance and sacrifice of ordinary soldiers in extraordinary circumstances.

9781036149918 • £25.00

240 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: Norwich, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

TRUE CRIME

TWENTIETH CENTURY COP

the fLying squAd detective Who Wrote ‘the biLL’

Barry Appleton, Oliver Crocker

Barry Appleton investigated some of the most notorious crimes of the twentieth century, from major robberies to murders that shocked the world. Policing the East End under the Krays, he earned commendations for courage before joining the Flying Squad and going undercover on highprofile cases, including the assassination of Martin Luther King. Injured in the line of duty after years on the ‘Sweeney’, he later found success as lead scriptwriter on The Bill. Twentieth Century Cop is a gripping memoir of crime, courage and an extraordinary life on the streets and on screen.

• ‘When the armed robber faced me with a sawn-off shotgun, I had to decide in that split second whether it was going to be him or me who had to fall… having a wife and kids waiting for me to get home safely was the greatest incentive imaginable.’

• Before legendary telly coppers Frank Burnside and Jim Taggart investigated countless murders, one of their scriptwriters did it for real. Serving with the Metropolitan Police between 1957-1977, Barry Appleton rose the ranks from beat bobby to Detective Inspector.

9781036199517 • £25.00

304 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 12 mono illustrations

ALA: Cyprus; United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

A HISTORY OF CRIMINAL TUDOR ENGLAND

Stephen Wade

9781036195267 • £22.00

208 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 mono illustrations

ALA: Scunthorpe, United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

SCOTLAND YARD’S SUPERGRASS YEARS

the fLying squAd’s WAr AgAinst Armed robbers

Dick Kirby

Supergrasses were a powerful weapon against organised crime in the 1970s and 1980s, but Donald Barrett was unique. After turning informer, he returned to crime, committing £1.6 million in armed robberies using terrifying proxy bomb tactics. Following his arrest for bullion robbery, Barrett became the Metropolitan Police’s only double supergrass. Written by a Flying Squad officer who debriefed him, this gripping true crime account reveals the criminal underworld, its leading figures and the dangerous bargains struck for justice.

• Grasses and Supergrasses were valuable crime-fighting assets in the late 20th century but there was only one ‘Double Supergrass’ – Donald Walter Barrett.

• This is the inside story of Barrett’s exploits as the Author, a senior retired Scotland Yard detective, was personally involved in his handling and debriefing.

• Also provides a unique insight into shadowy world of police informers and ‘grasses.

• A wholly accurate and thrilling account of Barrett’s criminal activities. deceit and daring.

MURDER IN THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT

Martyn Frost

9781036129521 • £15.99

224 pages • Paperback

234x156 • 12 mono illustrations

ALA: Lincoln, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

9781036193287 • £25.00

240 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 46 mono illustrations

ALA: Bury St Edmund’s, UK

June 2026 • WLR

YORK CASTLE PRISON

Gareth Verney

9781036198053 • £15.99

224 pages • Paperback

234x156 • 40 mono illustrations

ALA: York, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

A DEATH UNDESERVED

Andrew Clark

Twenty years ago, Victoria Fanshaw vanished without a trace, leaving her family and a Yorkshire community haunted by suspicion. With the police investigation stalled, her father turns to ex-Detective Inspector Rachel Barnes and her elite team. Unhindered by bureaucracy, Rachel uncovers secrets, corruption, and dangerous connections in the seemingly quiet village of Evesham. Ten suspects, all linked to Victoria, conceal dark truths. As past and present collide, loyalties shatter, and threats escalate. At a glittering event, masks fall, a murderer is revealed, and justice comes at a devastating cost in this gripping, tense thriller.

• A gripping cold-case thriller centred on the haunting disappearance of a young woman and the explosive secrets buried in a wealthy Yorkshire village.

• Introduces ex-Detective Inspector Rachel Barnes and her elite enquiry team, a fresh investigative ensemble perfect for fans of character-driven crime series.

• A classic whodunnit structure with a modern, high-stakes twist.

• Combines psychological suspense with procedural precision.

• A twist-laden plot that weaves together corruption, organised crime, and long-buried betrayals.

9781036183097 • £12.99

232 pages • Paperback

234x156

ALA: York, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

IN THE SHADOW OF THE RIPPER

M J Trow

9781036144401 • £25.00

240 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 mono illustrations

ALA: Ryde, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

April 2026

• WLR

TRUE CRIME

JEREMY BAMBER

murder And turmoiL At White house fArm Helen Saxton

In the early hours of 7 August 1985, 24-year-old Jeremy Bamber claims to have received a chilling phone call from his father. ‘Your sister’s gone berserk, and she’s got a gun’. When the line went dead, Jeremy called the police. What was eventually discovered inside White House Farm shocked the nation; Nevill and June Bamber, their daughter Sheila, and her twin sons had all been shot dead with a rifle. This compelling book revisits the original investigation, trial, and the sometimes outlandish theories that have kept the case in the public eye since 1985.

• Timeline of events spanning from 1985 right up to the present day and Jeremy Bamber’s most recent attempt at appeal.

• Examination of the evidence his campaign team argue proves his innocence.

• First major publication since the submission of Jeremy’s latest appeal in 2021.

• Featuring exclusive correspondence with Jeremy Bamber himself.

9781036128753 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: Newbury, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

JACK THE RIPPER: THE FIRST SUSPECTS

M J Trow

9781036195779 • £22.00

216 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 mono illustrations

ALA: Ryde, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

September 2026

• WLR

JEFFREY DAHMER

Brittany Ann Jones

9781036115241 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 mono illustrations

ALA: Streethay, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

TRACING YOUR VICTORIAN ANCESTORS

A guide for fAmiLy historiAns

Jonathan Oates

The Victorian era was a time of dramatic change, marked by industry, democracy, mass literacy, expanding towns, and a growing Empire. It also left an unprecedented wealth of records for family historians. Tracing Your Victorian Ancestors goes beyond civil registration and census records to explore military and employment documents, religious archives, property records, school logs, workhouse files, and newspapers. Whether tracing your family tree or exploring social history, it reveals how Victorians worked, worshipped, travelled, learned, and entertained themselves. Clear, accessible, and full of research tips, this book is an essential guide to uncovering lives and stories in Victorian Britain.

• Helps readers understand the social world of their ancestors, giving context to occupations, housing, religion, migration, and daily life.

• Discusses lesser-known Victorian record sets, such as military, school, workhouse, property, trade union, and more.

• Includes clear guidance on where to find records, both online and onsite, including practical advice for planning archive visits.

• Offers a fresh way to explore the Victorian era through surviving documents.

9781036149680 • £15.99

168 pages • Paperback

234x156 • 40 mono illustrations

ALA: Iver, Buckinghamshire, UK

August 2026 • WLR

RECORDING THE NATIONS

the Lives, duties And history of the census tAkers

Mish J Holman

Recording the Nations takes readers behind the scenes of Britain’s census from its start in 1801, exploring its history, bureaucracy, and the enumerators who carried it out. From recruitment and supervision to householders’ sometimes suspicious or humorous reactions, the book draws on newspapers, personal accounts, and anecdotes to reveal enumerators as real people with their own struggles. The lives of two men are examined in detail, offering rare insight into the job. Based on extensive evidence, this is a lively, human history of the census and its enduring legacy.

• Explains the history, administration, and operational structure of the Census.

• Details how ordinary people reacted to bureaucracy, authority, and intrusion into their private lives.

• Draws on rare sources and combines official reports, enumerator accounts, and newspaper coverage to build a fuller picture.

• Includes the life stories and testimonies of two enumerators, bringing their experiences into focus.

• Examines the perils and difficulties of census work and the lasting legacy of the enumerators.

9781399061339 • £22.00

192 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 36 mono illustrations

ALA: Rainham, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

TRACING YOUR ANCESTORS USING NEWSPAPERS

A guide for fAmiLy historiAns

Chloe O’Shea

Tracing Your Ancestors Using Newspapers shows how historical newspapers can bring your family history to life. While digitisation has made searching easier, finding meaningful results and confirming they truly refer to your ancestor requires skill. This book guides you through uncovering, interpreting, and assessing articles, from court cases and military exploits to lost pets, letters, and local events. Learn to trace relatives across regions, evaluate reliability, and exploit online archives. Beyond names, newspapers reveal the world your ancestors lived in, their challenges, and everyday lives. Packed with practical guidance, tips, and examples, this book helps you break down brick walls and uncover the stories behind your family tree.

• Discover how to use newspapers to unlock stories from your family history that may have been forgotten, from court cases and military records to lost pets and personal triumphs.

• Learn how to go beyond simple name searches with expert tips for navigating digital archives and uncovering elusive articles.

• Develop the skills to assess article accuracy, verify identities, and understand historical context.

9781036134730 • £15.99

184 pages • Paperback

234x156 • 40 mono illustrations

ALA: Derby, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

STRANGE WILL REQUESTS AND BEQUESTS

AJ Griffiths-Jones

Tucked away in Somerset House is a treasure trove of Britain’s Last Wills and Testaments. Beyond legal instructions, these documents reveal the character, conflicts, and lives of the deceased. From vengeful codicils and heartfelt farewells to wills written on eggshells or hidden in bedposts, this book uncovers bizarre and entertaining bequests. Some settle scores, impose odd conditions, or deliver a final laugh. For family historians, these wills reveal values, relationships, secrets, and social customs, showing that even in death, people could leave a vivid, sometimes mischievous mark on the living.

• Features over a century’s worth of strange, scandalous, and darkly humorous wills held in the historic vaults of Somerset House.

• Offers rich insights into personal lives, social customs, and long-lost family stories hidden in the language of legal documents.

• From petty revenge and moral stipulations to last laughs and emotional legacies, this book reveals the human side of death.

• Combines archival discoveries with engaging storytelling that appeals to both casual readers and historical researchers.

• For those interested in social history, family history, legal curiosities, dark humour, and even mystery, this book is proof that wills are more than just necessary paperwork.

9781036194963 • £16.99

248 pages • Paperback

234x156 • 12 mono illustrations

ALA: Turkey

April 2026 • WLR

9781036148669 • £29.99

240 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 35 mono illustrations

ALA: Chelwood Gate; Twickenham, UK

July 2026 • WLR

9781036117900 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 colour illustrations

ALA: Yelverton, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

9781399004022 • £20.00

208 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 b&w illustrations

ALA: Poole, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

MADELINE SMITH, BOND GIRL

from 60s fAshion modeL to hALf A century on stAge And screen

Philip Kay-Bujak, Madeline Smith

• The first official biography of this one-time shop girl plucked from obscurity and thrust into fame as a model and then actress.

• Best remembered for her role as Miss Carusso in Live and Let Die, she also starred in such comedy classics as Carry on Matron and Up Pompeii, as well as Hammer House of Horror films such as The Vampire Lovers and Theatre of Blood….and many, many more.

THE RACE THAT NEVER ENDED: THE MAKING OF BEN HUR

Geri Parlby

• A sweeping cultural history – Traces Ben-Hur’s journey from an 1870s painting and Wallace’s bestselling novel to stage spectacles, silent cinema, and Hollywood blockbusters.

• Behind-the-scenes drama – Reveals courtroom battles, theatrical innovations, and studio rivalries that shaped Ben-Hur’s rise across media.

• A story of reinvention – Shows how Ben-Hur has been continually reimagined through reboots, television, and modern interpretations.

HOLLYWOOD STARS WHO DIED TOO YOUNG

Katherine Bebo

• Why were Elvis Presley’s autopsy results sealed for fifty years?

• Which legendary mother-daughter duo died within a day of each other?

• Why did the FBI bug Marilyn Monroe’s home and tap her phones?

• Which star unwittingly escaped a gruesome death thanks to his voracious libido?

• Who was all set to star in Ghostbusters before he died?

9781036102128 • £35.00

192 pages • Hardback

282x216 • 80 colour, 40 mono illustrations

ALA: Norwich, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

9781036138806 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 mono illustrations

ALA: United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

HELL ON WHEELS: A HISTORY OF BIKER MOVIES

Stephen Carver

• First comprehensive cultural history of biker movies, covering almost 300 films across seven decades, from The Wild One (1953) to The Bikeriders (2023) and Furiosa (2024).

• Unique focus on the motorcycles themselves. Every identifiable bike is named and discussed, a rare and exciting level of detail for both film and motorcycle enthusiasts.

• Covers overlooked subgenres including British kitchen sink rocker drama, mod revival movies, and motorcycle horror, areas rarely explored in film studies.

NOBODY’S PERFECT: THE MAKING OF SOME LIKE IT HOT

Lucy Santos

• Draws on fresh primary sourcesincluding previously unpublished documents and newly released archival materials that shed new light on the film’s creation.

• Explores the human side of production - revealing how actors, directors, crew members, and studio politics collided and collaborated during the making of this Hollywood classic.

• Timed to coincide with the centenary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth -releasing in the wake of global celebrations marking 100 years since her arrival (June 1, 1926).

9781036186906 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 colour illustrations

ALA: London, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

9781036133955 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 colour illustrations

ALA: March, United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

9781036123352 • £25.00

224 pages

• Hardback

234x156 • 32 colour illustrations

ALA: United States

May 2026 • WLR

STAR TREK: DISCOVERING THE TV SERIES

voyAger And enterPrise 1996-2005

Tom Salinsky

• An episode guide to the whole of Star Trek, written in a breezy, engaging style to give a personal assessment of each episode or movie, while tracing the developments of various iconic elements.

• This book doesn’t just tell you what’s a “good” or a “bad” episode. Tom’s aim is to pinpoint what works, what doesn’t and why, or why notinformed by his own experience as a storytelling consultant, scriptwriter and author.

LOST IN THE ECHO: THE STORY OF LINKIN PARK

Matt Karpe

• An in-depth analysis of every studio album, and the stories behind the songs.

• Extended section covering the band’s formative years- before they became known as Linkin Park.

• A detailed account of their triumphant reformation in 2024.

• Exclusive interviews and contributions from musicians who have toured with, or been influenced by Linkin Park.

THE MUSIC AND INFLUENCE OF CHER

Angela Andaloro

• The first biography of Cher to be published after her best-selling memoir’s release, allowing for the star’s most up-to-date insights to be included.

• Includes a selection of photos that both celebrate major career moments and also share rare glimpses into Cher’s life offstage.

• Presents a well-rounded look at the artist’s life, paying attention to her relationships with her children, her romantic life, and her beloved friendships inside and outside of the music industry.

9781036125462 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 colour illustrations

ALA: Clydebank, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

9781036129279 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 colour illustrations

ALA: Ludlow, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

9781036145545 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 colour illustrations

ALA: Ayia Napa, Cyprus

May 2026

• WLR

THE REAL AL PACINO: HIS DEFINING ROLES ON STAGE AND SCREEN

Tom Brogan

• Behind-the-scenes revelationsdetails about the making of classics like The Godfather, Scarface, Dog Day Afternoon, and Heat, including production challenges and creative decisions.

• Acting craft insights - Deep exploration of Pacino’s Method acting techniques, his work with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, and his unique approach to character development.

PINK FLOYD: ALBUM BY ALBUM

Stephen Palmer

• Analyses the music as well as the context it was created in.

• Covers every significant album.

• Underlines the unique contributions of each of the five members to the group.

• Includes concert photographs from fans.

• Written by a musician who is a long-standing Pink Floyd fan.

EUROVISION: THE STORY OF EUROPE’S GREATEST SHOW

Nathan Morely

• A full-scale biography tracing Eurovision’s evolution from its modest 1956 debut to the global spectacle watched by hundreds of millions – uncovering long forgotten stories and Britain’s often uneasy relationship with the contest.

• Exclusive interviews with an exceptional roster of artists, presenters, jurists, and composers, offering rare first hand insight into the contest’s inner workings.

9781036117955 • £22.00

200 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 colour illustrations

ALA: Glasgow, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

9781036131241 • £25.00

192 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 80 colour illustrations

ALA: Bath, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

9781399097062 • £25.00

248 pages • Hardback

297x210 • 120 colour integrated

ALA: Bristol, United Kingdom August 2026 • WLR

THE TETRIS STORY

Anthony McGlynn

• Features new interviews with multiple personalities integral to the popularity of Tetris over the years.

• Provides detailed overview of the game’s wide-reaching influence beyond Nintendo and the Game Boy.

• Includes previously unseen development stories behind several key versions, from the Apple II to the PlayStation 2.

• Breaks down the mechanics of Tetris, with insight from some of the best players on how they achieve their scores.

9781036127718 • £29.99

184 pages • Hardback

297x210 • 120 colour illustrations

ALA: Brighton, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

THE HARDEST VIDEO GAMES EVER MADE

Aleksha McLoughlin

• Original high-quality imagery from arcade, retro, and modern video games in colour.

• In-depth interviews with some of the creators behind the hardest games ever made.

• Thorough analysis of nearly twenty games with tips and tricks on how to beat them.

• Background on the history of video games from the industry’s infancy.

● Analysis of how difficulty in gaming has evolved over four decades.

9781036130282 • £29.99

232 pages • Hardback

297x210 • 120 colour illustrations

ALA: United States

July 2026 • WLR

PREPARE TO QUALIFY

the evoLution of rAcing video gAmes

Martin Bigg

• The most comprehensive history of racing games, from its 1970s arcade roots to modern realistic simulators and open-world games, chronicling the genre’s evolution and cultural impact.

• Written by an industry expert with a lifelong passion for the genre and experience writing for racing gamefocused websites, including Traxion. GG and RacingGames.GG.

• Packed with images and screenshots illustrating the visual and technical advancements across multiple eras.

9781399043663 • £25.00

144 pages • Hardback

297x210 • 150 colour illustrations

ALA: Rochester, United Kingdom April 2026 • WLR

ALIENS: THE VIDEO GAMES

An unofficiAL guide

Mike Diver

• Details every officially licensed Alien series video game - including Alien vs Predator titles - from early ‘80s computer and console releases to cutting-edge virtual reality.

• Includes over 20 brand-new (and exclusive to this book) interviews with game developers, providing first-hand insight into the development of Alien games, across a period of 40 years.

• Foreword by renowned writer and ‘creative thing doer’ Andy Kelly (Other Places, Dark Stock Photography, author of Perfect Organism: An Alien Isolation Companion).

DOOM VIDEO GAMES

hoW one doomed sPAce mArine chAnged gAming forever

Mat Bradley-Tschirgi

• Includes over a dozen new interviews with game designers, programmers, Doom enthusiasts, and more!

• Features thoughtful analysis of over 30 Doom games, ports, and fanmade levels!

• Over 120 pictures featuring your favourite moments from both Doom games and games that inspired Doom!

• Discusses the newest Doom game, Doom: The Dark Ages!

BEYOND FEAR: INSIDE ACTION HORROR GAMES

Nick Akerman

• A collection of intimate original interviews with industry-defining names from the last 30 years, including John Romero, Ken Levine and Maggie Robertson. The interviewees share stories and anecdotes they haven’t mentioned publicly before.

• Many of the personalities and series’ included have new games coming out in the thriving action horror genre: Romero (unannounced project), Levine (Judas), Alistair Hope (Alien Isolation 2), Housemarque (Saros) and Resident Evil (Requiem).

9781036113353 • £29.99

200 pages • Hardback

297x210 • 100 colour illustrations

ALA: Weston Coyney, UK September 2026 • WLR

9781036186838 • £22.00

352 pages • Paperback

210x148 • 100 colour illustrations

ALA: Bradford, United Kingdom August 2026 • WLR

9781036197544 • £15.99

224 pages • Paperback

234x156 • 32 mono illustrations

ALA: Nottingham, UK September 2026 • WLR

THE HISTORY OF RESIDENT EVIL

Tommy Keough

• A complete, richly detailed exploration of the Resident Evil series, covering every mainline game, spin-off, remake, and key piece of lore from 1996 to the present day.

• Exclusive pictures, that includes a selection of high-quality screenshots, rare promotional images, and previously unseen photographs sourced from collectors, influencers, and content creators across YouTube and Instagram.

• Comprehensive Character & Creature Bios, Features detailed profiles of every major hero, villain, B.O.W., as well as supporting characters.

YEARBOOK OF ASTRONOMY 2027

Brian Jones

• Longest-running astronomy book of its kind in the world (has appeared every year since 1962): an indispensable guide to the night sky and a wellproduced and informative follow up to the highly popular 2026 edition.

• Details and locations for comets, minor planets, meteor showers throughout the year, as well as information on lunar phases, lunar occultations and eclipses to look out for in 2027.

• Includes authoritative sky charts for both the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere and a series of detailed Monthly Sky Notes, including finder charts for all the major planets – Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – showing their positions in the sky throughout the year.

EXTREME GHOSTS

disturbing And dAngerous PArAnormAL cAses

Adam Bull

• Blending memoir and investigation, these are first-hand accounts from a long list of a collection of personal case files, never published before.

• Authentic British hauntings told exactly as witnesses experienced them.

• A rare insider’s view from a seasoned investigator who grew up in a genuinely haunted home.

• Explores the human cost of hauntings, showing how ordinary families are changed forever by extraordinary events.

9781036111458 • £25.00

208 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 101 colour illustrations

ALA: Alburgh, United Kingdom August 2026 • WLR

9781399036559 • £25.00

208 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 80 colour illustrations

ALA: Bradford, United Kingdom May 2026 • WLR

9781036193003 • £25.00

240 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 173 mono illustrations

ALA: St Albans, United Kingdom June 2026 • WLR

101 FACTS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT DEEP SPACE

beyond our soLAr system

Mark Thompson

• Discover astonishing facts like deep space smelling of rum and raspberries, diamond stars, and gamma-ray bursts that outshine entire galaxies—each fact challenges everything you thought you knew about the universe.

• Complex astrophysics made easy to understand through Mark Thompson’s engaging, conversational style, perfect for casual stargazers and dedicated astronomy buffs alike, no science degree required.

ASTRONOMY IN POPULAR CULTURE

Brian Jones

• Possibly the only book you will find devoted to the discovery and inclusion of astronomy in our everyday lives: appearing in movies, music, art, food and science-fiction, astronomy has influenced us more than you may think.

• Packed with colour photographs and illustrations, delve into the world of famous paintings, stamps, astrology and even chocolate bars!

• From the ancient to modern day, unique chapters offer interesting insights into astronomy and wildlife, the calendar, our connection with celestial clocks . . . and just how do you pronounce Uranus?

MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE

AnsWerAbLe & unAnsWerAbLe questions

Peter Altman

• Unique style - considers 14 popular questions and gives answers or Best Guesses.

• Richly illustrated with nearly 200 photographs and drawings.

• Aimed at anyone with an interest in Science.

• Appendix describes how astronomers measure distances to stars and galaxies.

• Includes a FREE GIFT.

A READER’S GUIDE TO TERRY PRATCHETT 1962-1999

Marc Burrows

This book takes Pratchett seriously as a literary figure without taking the fun out of him. Moving chronologically from his earliest short stories through to 1999’s The Fifth Elephant, this first volume charts how an angry young journalist from Beaconsfield turned genre parody into something far more ambitious: a body of work concerned with belief, power, identity, and what happens when enough people believe the same thing at once. A second volume will cover The Truth (2000) through to Pratchett’s final novel, The Shepherd’s Crown.

• Foreword by Rob Wilkins — Sir Terry Pratchett’s assistant and business manager, and now the co-manager of his literary estate and the author of the other award-winning biography of Sir Terry, A Life with Footnotes.

• The perfect companion for new readers and old Kevins — whether you’re wondering where to start or ready to revisit old favourites with fresh eyes, this is the guide the Discworld (and beyond) has been waiting for.

• Criticism you’ll actually enjoy reading — sharp, funny, and written in the spirit of Pratchett himself.

9781036135683 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 mono illustrations

ALA: Kingswood, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

THE BOOK LOVER’S GUIDE TO VENICE

Rachael Martin

9781036111953 • £15.99

160 pages • Paperback

190x140 120 colour illustrations

ALA: Italy

April 2026 • WLR

THE BOOK LOVER’S GUIDE TO OXFORD

Angela Youngman

Discover the world of Oxford, its Town and Gown links, and how nearby places Blenheim and Wantage have contributed to create a booklovers paradise. Find the Narnia door and lamppost, sit beside a statue of Agatha Christie, explore locations linked to the Dark Materials trilogy, the tavern where Shakespeare stayed, and Dylan Thomas’ home. Drink in the pubs frequented by Inspector Morse and Tolkien. This is an area full of literary associations.

• Discover the vast range of literary and film locations in the home of Tolkien, C S Lewis, Lewis Carroll, Morse, Agatha Christie, and many more famous authors.

• Locations in Oxford and surrounding villages offer a fascinating variety to explore.

• This comprehensive exploration of literary and linked film locations found around Oxford cover every genre from fantasy to crime.

• It will inspire readers to revisit favourite books and find new authors.

9781036118143 • £14.99

192 pages • Paperback

190x140 • 120 colour illustrations

ALA: Norwich, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

THE REAL FRANKENSTEIN

Laura Silverman

9781036126636 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 mono illustrations

ALA: London, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

BAKING TARTS FOR ALL OCCASIONS

Debby Donnelly-Addison

9781036142872 • £25.00

208 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 100 colour illustrations

ALA: Sefton, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

P E P PROTOTYPE TRAINS, CLASSES

313, 314, 315, 507, 508

the cLAss of 1972

Graeme Gleaves

By the late 1960s British Rail faced decline after steam’s end and the Beeching cuts. A fightback began with bold modernisation and a focus on urban commuters. Extensive design and testing produced five closely related train classes that proved highly successful. Serving major cities across England and Scotland, these units carried millions, outlived their intended service lives and became favourites with enthusiasts, with examples preserved after withdrawal. This book traces their story from conception to the end of their working lives.

• This is the complete story of a family of trains from concept to design to delivery and into service.

• These units were the unsung workhorse of their regions for decades.

• The PEP prototypes and the production units that derived from them marked the beginning of the modern railway we know today and this was a turning point in the eveolution of our commuter railways.

• Despite looking nearly identical there were many differences hidden between the types and this book explains them all.

9781036102470 • £35.00

160 pages • Hardback

240x250 • 180 colour, 20

mono illustrations

ALA: Croydon, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY 1923–1935

Charles Phillips

9781036104726 • £25.00

216 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 100 mono illustrations

ALA: Ingatestone, Essex, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

THE BRITISH RAIL HIGH SPEED TRAIN

the evoLution of the inter city 125 Tim Hillier-Graves

After fifty years of service, the High Speed Train 125s are nearing the end of their working lives. Created as a practical response to delays in the Advanced Passenger Train programme, they quickly proved transformative, delivering fast, reliable services across Britain for decades. Operated by British Rail and later private companies, the 125s exceeded all expectations and became icons of the network. This book pays tribute to their designers, operators and enduring impact on modern British rail travel.

• This book celebrates fifty years of the HST 125’s outstanding service to Britain.

• As a stopgap, in support of BR’s much delayed APT programme, it far exceeded all expectations and, undoubtedly, helped save a ailing network.

• As their lives finally draw to a close this richly illustrated book (300 plus pictures) looks closely at their evolution and those responsible for the project’s success.

• The author then goes on to consider what drove the project forward and the way these trains so effectively served both BR and the privatized companies that followed.

9781399034258 • £35.00

248 pages • Hardback

240x250 • 230 colour, 20 mono illustrations

ALA: Dilton Marsh, UK

June 2026 • WLR

THE ENGLISH ELECTRIC CLASS 55

David Mather

9781399033305 • £35.00

248 pages • Hardback

240x250 • 70 colour illustrations, 180 mono illustrations

ALA: York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

BRITISH MIXED TRAFFIC LOCOMOTIVES OF THE 20TH CENTURY

David Maidment

9781036113025 • £35.00

240 pages • Hardback

240x250 • 30 illustrations, 300 mono illustrations

ALA: Nantwich, Cheshire, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

LONDON’S SMALLER BUS TYPES SINCE 1986

David Beddall

Since the 1980s, London’s streets have been dominated by familiar bus types from AEC, Leyland, Dennis, Volvo and others. Alongside these mainstays, many lesser used models also served the capital in smaller numbers. This book focuses on those overlooked bus types introduced since 1986, from niche Dennis and Volvo designs to vehicles from Wrightbus, Optare, MCW, Renault, Mercedes Benz and MAN. It explores how these smaller fleets complemented London’s bus network and added variety to the capital’s evolving transport scene.

• A previously undocumented period of London bus history.

• Contains a collection of previously unpublished photographs.

• Newly Researched Information with Informative Captions.

• Useful to Modellers.

9781036109653 • £29.99

216 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 180 colour illustrations

ALA: Rushden, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

THE GREAT TRAMWAYS CONSPIRACY

Mick Hamer

9781036143343 • £29.99

232 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 20 colour, 60 mono illustrations

ALA: Hove, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

LAMBORGHINI’S HOLY TRINITY

the evoLution of the countAch, diAbLo And murcieLAgo bLoodLine

Thillainathan Pathmanthan, Anne Christina Reck

This is the first book that examines this supercar triumvirate as a single discrete entity. Here, two passionate Lamborghini enthusiasts, who have owned their Countach for a quarter of a century and their Murcielago for a decade, meticulously describe the conception, development and production of Lamborghini’s Holy Trinity, and each of the models’ sub-variants.

Uniquely, the authors also elaborate on the evolutionary golden thread that weaves its way between and through these three supercars.

• The first book to look at the Lamborghini Countach, Diablo and Murcielago as a single discrete entity.

• The first book to look how technological innovations and the sociopolitico-economic factors forced the Countach to evolve into the Diablo and thence the Murcielago.

• Detailed descriptions of the conception, development and production of the Countach, Diablo and Murcielago and their sub-variants.

• Contemporary societal concerns are examined in the context of supercar evolution, including air pollution legislation, climate change pressures, driver, passenger and pedestrian safety laws, wars and revolutions, economic crises and global recessions, fuel availability and prices, and Central Bank interest rates.

9781036100742 • £30.00

184 pages • Hardback

210x297 • 80 colour illustrations

ALA: Dorchester, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

THE RAILWAY MURDERS

Malcolm Clegg

9781036192228 • £25.00

192 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 12 mono illustrations

ALA: Swansea, West Glamorgan, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

LONDON UNDERGROUND GALLERY (1954-2000)

Kevin McCormack

9781036129804 • £25.00

120 pages • Hardback

282x216 • 250 colour illustrations

ALA: United Kingdom • May 2026 • WLR

9781036156619 • £22.00

208 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 40 colour, 2 b&w

ALA: United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

9781036156398 • £22.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 colour

ALA: London, United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

9781036194215 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 colour illustrations

ALA: London, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

PAUL WELLER: SONG BY SONG

Kevin Sedelmeier

• Cites dozens of reviews and commentaries written about the songs when they were released; uses a plethora of sources including periodicals, books, online articles, videos, and interviews.

• Written by a former music writer who has followed Weller’s career for over four decades, an American who is able to provide an unusual perspective.

• Written by a fan for fans, with brief personal anecdotes of how the music has affected the author.

• Discusses b-sides and rare tracks, including other artists that Weller worked with during this period.

• Includes a number of concert images never before printed.

P!NK: SONG BY SONG

Steve Bishop

• Explores the stories behind the songs, including interviews with songwriters and producers.

• Allows the reader to see the connected nature of the P!nk music ‘universe’.

• Laden with untold stories and anecdotes from throughout P!nk’s long and diverse career.

• Covers the cultural impact and enduring legacy of her music, as well as her iconic music videos.

• Breaks down each song, one by one, including unreleased/live material, and songs written for other artists.

DONNA SUMMER: SONG BY SONG

Marc Andrews

• The first book to trace Donna Summer’s musical career with every song included across six decades.

• Re-examines Donna’s canon of work from disco to dance music and everything else in-between.

• Examines her personal journey through life, the controversies that dogged her and how they informed her music.

• Highlights Donna’s forgotten talent as a songwriter and how she battled sexism to have her voice heard.

• Traces the rise and fall of the disco era and how it gave birth to house music, techno, club music and EDM.

9781036156275 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 colour

ALA: United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

9781036156923 • £22.00

208 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 25 colour, 8 b&w

ALA: United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

9781036156152 • £22.00

160 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 colour

ALA: United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

BOB DYLAN: SONG BY SONG

voLume 1: 1962–1969

Jack Walters

• An extensive insight into one of the most acclaimed musicians of the last sixty years.

• Detailed examination of every song on every studio album from The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan to Nashville Skyline

• Includes stories behind the tracks with lyrical and musical analysis.

• Part of the exciting and expanding Song by Song series.

SIMPLE MINDS: SONG BY SONG

Larelle Read

• Provides a detailed chronology of Simple Minds’ songs and a history of the band.

• There is no other book like this currently available.

• An essential compendium for the Simple Minds music collector.

BLACKPINK: SONG BY SONG

Lynn Jatania

• Next to BTS, Blackpink is the most famous K-pop group internationally, selling out stadiums worldwide.

• The most in-depth examination available of Blackpink’s music, and the solo careers of the bandmembers.

• With three fluent English speakers in the band and many fully English songs, Blackpink boasts a strong reputation internationally.

9781036156770 • £22.00

176 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 40 colour illustrations

ALA: United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

9781036156350 • £25.00

240 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 b&w, 27 colour

ALA: United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

9781036156732 • £35.00

424 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 71 b&w illustrations

ALA: United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

CROWDED HOUSE: SONG BY SONG

Paul Clark

• A full appraisal of every song ever produced by the band to date.

• Includes a deep dive into Niel Finn’s solo career.

• The band continues to tour with dates scheduled for February 2026 in Australia.

9781036147563 • £22.00

224 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 105 mono illustrations

ALA: United States

September 2026 • WLR

THE SOCIAL LIFE OF A GEORGIAN NOVELIST

eLizAbeth hervey And her JournALs

Dianne Barre

• An illuminating new source on life in late Georgian high society, previously unpublished and never intended for publication.

• Includes new material on William Beckford and Fonthill Abbey.

• Provides insights into protofeminism via Hervey’s links to the Bluestockings and Walpole’s Strawberry Hill set.

• Touches on themes of women’s travel, interior design and gardening.

THE BUTCHER’S BOY FROM CLUN

my Life As A heArt surgeon

Francis C. Wells

• An autobiography integrating the arts and medicine.

• Portrays the intensity of training to be a surgeon.

• An account of a surgeon’s life at the top of his field, with many exciting, nail-biting episodes.

• A valuable commentary on working in the NHS.

• Includes anecdotes involving several famous characters, friends of the author, including Sir Stirling Moss.

9781036156435 • £20.00

160 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 20 b&w illustrations

ALA: United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

9781036156510 • £22.00

216 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 33 b&w illustrations

ALA: United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

FROM HITLER TO HOLLYWOOD

When the eArth feLL from its Axis And hoLLyWood mAde its greAtest movies

Robert Marc Kantrowitz

• Encapsulates an extraordinary year via a selection of compelling stories and snapshot biographies.

• Incorporates a whole host of topics including war, murder, sex, scandal, famine, earthquakes, and human frailty.

• Examines the origins of some of the greatest Hollywood movies ever made and how they added to cultural landscape in the US.

ILEANA OF ROMANIA

Princess, exiLe And mother suPerior

Thom Nickels

• Biography based on a series of private interviews with Mother Elizabeth of Palm Coast, Florida, a close friend of the princess.

• Includes critical new information about the demise of Ileana’s relatives, the Romanov family, during the Bolshevik Revolution.

• Places Ileana’s struggles in the context of wider European social and political upheaval before, during and after World War II.

PAMELA COLMAN SMITH, TAROT ARTIST

the Pious Pixie

Dawn Robinson-Walsh

• Includes previously unpublished material from interviews with Smith’s errand boy in Bude.

• Uncovers unseen Catholic archive information about her later years in Cornwall.

• Investigates the rumours that Pamela was a lesbian and biracial, as well as claims she was a synaesthete and the ‘adopted’ daughter of Ellen Terry.

A GUIDE TO MUDLARKING ON THE RIVER THAMES

hunting for treAsure

Emmylou Vaxby

Mudlarking is a bridge between the past and present, helping us learn about the lives of people who came before us. Maybe a fruit-seller lost a shilling while carting his wagon across the street and it rolled into the Thames? Or perhaps someone threw a bottle into the water with a message inside, just for us to find? A Guide to Mudlarking on the River Thames: Hunting for Treasure is your companion to mudlarking, a guide from the perspective of a young enthusiast but written for anyone interested in looking for clues about the past and finding lost treasures, whether from the modern era, the Victorian period, or even as far back as the Roman Empire!

• Everything you need to know to get started with mudlarking.

• Written from a young person’s perspective and suitable for young audiences.

• Includes photos of multiple examples of what can be found on the Thames foreshore.

• Gives insights into London’s history and that of the River Thames.

9781036147013 • £15.99

216 pages • Paperback

190x135 • 150 colour illustrations

ALA: London, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

MEMORIALS TO THE DEAD

A Journey into engLAnd’s most unusuAL grAves

Kate Cherrell

In churchyards and cemeteries across England, curious monuments rise between the graves; beautiful, unusual, striking and downright… odd. England’s oldest identifiable cemetery was established over 10,000 years ago, founded before the first bricks of the pyramids were laid. Since then, the English have memorialised their dead in ever-changing ways, affording taphophiles a glorious pick-and-mix of social histories and archaeological mysteries on their doorstep. Memorials of the Dead chronicles over 100 of the grandest and strangest graves on English soil, unveiling a little-known world of death and remembrance that exists alongside our own.

• The first of its kind to document unusual English graves.

• Features sites appealing to cemetery enthusiasts, folklorists and historians alike.

• Has international and national appeal, as the sites are not limited to major cities, but cover all counties.

• An aide memoire for those wishing to expand their knowledge of English burial sites.

• Fully researched to a high standard.

9781036156589 • £14.99

96 pages • Paperback

246x172 • 150 colour

ALA: United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

CROSS THE MERSEY

the trAnsformAtion of A river

Robert Littlewood

The River Mersey is one of Britain’s greatest rivers, though it has a troublesome past. A trade link to the colonies of the New World, its waters were the principal hub for the British slave trade, and since the Industrial Revolution, levels of pollution rose to such a degree that it was dubbed the most polluted river in western Europe. But in recent years, the river has been transformed. In this book, Robert Littlewood travels the Mersey, crisscrossing it via its many bridges, ferry crossings and tunnels, exploring stretches never mentioned in other books, and all the while telling its rich and complex story—a story of transformation.

• Explores many areas never recorded in any previous book about the River Mersey.

• The first book to record every crossing point of the Mersey.

• Contains stunning photography captured over a 3-year period of every stretch of the Mersey and every bridge and crossing.

• Uses aerial photography for some unique images as well as traditional methods.

• Shares stories about every area of the Mersey from Stockport to Liverpool via Manchester, Urmston, Warrington, Widnes and Birkenhead.

9781036147372 • £16.99

160 pages • Paperback

235x170 • 254 colour illustrations

ALA: Manchester, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

THE VINEYARD VENTURE

An engLish fAmiLy’s Life in sAuternes

Nigel Reay-Jones

In July 1986, Nigel Reay-Jones and his wife Georgea sold their house in the Cotswolds and moved, with their five small children, to Château de Commarque, a dilapidated medieval fortified farm-turned hotel-restaurant in the tiny commune of Sauternes, near Bordeaux, with a small vineyard attached in even worse condition than the house. This book, a brilliantly entertaining account written after a decade of laughter, adventure and, without hyperbole, momentous struggle, is a tale for winelovers, Francophiles and dreamers. It is the story of a life lived off the beaten path… down a bumpy track and at the end of a narrow lane in one of Bordeaux’s smallest and most revered wine-producing areas.

• A brilliantly written and often hilarious account of taking a giant leap of faith.

• A book for Francophiles – introduces an array of memorable characters.

• An excellent introduction to the art of winemaking – will appeal to anyone with a serious interest in wine.

• A joyful book to make you love France and, refreshingly, be proud to be British

9781036186715 • £22.00

264 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 16 colour

ALA: United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

9781036193706 • £25.00

176 pages

• Hardback

246x172 • 250 colour illustrations

ALA: Shaftesbury, United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

9781036147327 • £25.00

176 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 175 colour & 58 maps

ALA: Hawarden, United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

9781036157005 • £22.00

176 pages

• Hardback

234x156 • 94 b&w illustrations

ALA: Stechford, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

PRESERVED BULLEID PACIFICS

heritAge And mAin Line

Mark V Pike

The Bulleid Pacifics of BR’s former Southern Region have always generated great interest. Some were in service right up to 1967, when steam operations ended in the south of England, often running in a deplorable state of repair. But with their eventual demise, interest only strengthened. Over thirty of these locomotives still exist in preservation today in one form or another, with some returning to steam on heritage lines, and even to the main line where they have now gained a whole new following of enthusiasts. With over 240 previously unpublished colour photographs ranging from the 1990s right up to the mid-2020s, Preserved Bulleid Pacifics: Heritage and Main Line showcases these iconic locomotives in the south of England like never before.

• Bulleid Pacifics are among the most popular of steam locomotives.

• An exciting array of unpublished photographs.

• A focus on preserved locomotives in the south of England.

GWR STATIONS

cotsWoLds And southWest engLAnd

Allen Jackson

There was never an old railway company so loved and revered as the Great Western. Great Western stations of the old company have survived for nearly 200 years in some cases, but modernisation in the shape of enhanced access, security and electrification means that many have lost their essential character GWR Stations: Cotswolds and Southwest England shows the stations as they were for many years, before recent modernisation, and the survivors that have managed to retain their character, usually by keeping a low profile and quietly carrying on with what they were built for so many years ago. The stations featured are, for the most part, not main line behemoths, but more modest structures found on secondary main lines and branch lines. Many of the old GWR names have been shortened in recent years, but the former names, usually derived from the original Act of Parliament for the line, are used here. It is hoped that these images of lesser historic structures will encourage people to visit the corners of the Cotswolds and Southwest where they are, and help inspire railway modellers to make replicas in miniature.

• A valuable record of the recent past.

• Richly illustrated with colour images.

• Contains several maps of the secondary main lines and branch lines.

THE GREAT RAILWAY SPECULATIONS

voLume 2: the exPAnsion of the midLAnd rAiLWAy netWork in engLAnd 1848–1860

Ray Shill

The establishment of the core railway network in the Midlands by the mid-nineteenth century led to further expansion and the creation of four principal operators: Great Northern Railway, Great Western Railway, London & North Western Railway and the Midland Railway. A host of new independent companies also appeared and various joint lines and railways remained under independent ownership, but the operation of trains was in the hands of one of these four main concerns. It was a period marked by intense rivalries, especially between the Great Western Railway, a broad-gauge operator, and the other companies which operated on standard gauge. In a short-term compromise, the mixed gauge was created, enabling the Great Western Railway to reach the West Midlands. Mergers and amalgamations were another key aspect of the period, with authorised routes being continually absorbed by the principal operators. Their shareholders profited from these takeovers, but there were plenty of schemes in which investors lost money, especially those that were authorised but, for various reasons, never happened. This second volume of The Great Railway Speculations explores a period of outstanding progress in civil engineering and locomotive design, when the four principal operating companies expanded their networks and consolidated their operations to provide an improved public service for passengers, freight and parcels traffic. Opportunities to make astonishing returns on investments remained as rich as ever, and yet there were also many projects that ended in failure and ruin.

• Tackles new ground on the subject of speculation and the methods adopted to curb it.

• Examines the contest between broad- and standard-gauge operators in the battle to expand rival networks.

• Investigates the contractors used to build the Midland Railway Network.

9781036147518 • £25.00

192 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 61 mono illustrations

ALA: Topsham, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

9781036156312 • £25.00

240 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 121 b&w illustrations

ALA: United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

9781781559291 • £40.00

544 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 556 b&w illustrations

ALA: United States; Germany

August 2026 • WLR

FROM THE ROYAL FLYING

CORPS TO THE RACE TO CIRCUMNAVIGATE THE GLOBE

the Adventures of squAdron LeAder ArchibALd stuArtmAcLAren

Vanessa Ascough

• Stuart-MacLaren was one of the greats of the early days of aviation and a fascinating character – a highly decorated war hero and pioneering adventurer.

• Written by Stuart-MacLaren’s granddaughter, bringing unique family insight to the story.

SALT IN HIS VEINS

the Life of vice AdmirAL sir ALbert PoLAnd kbe cb dso dsc

Vice Admiral Peter Jones AO DSC RAN (Ret’d)

• An exciting biography of one of Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham’s most trusted captains.

• Poland was involved in several of the Royal Navy’s most significant and challenging operations of both world wars.

• Donald Macintyre famously described Albert Poland as the most bombed officer in the Royal Navy.

• Dramatically describes the growing threat of aircraft to the Royal Navy in both world wars and the measures taken to counter it.

SA-FÜHRER

the senior LeAdershiP of hitLer’s storm trooPs, 1920–1945, voLume 2 (sA-obergruPPenführer, b - g)

Michael D. Miller & Andreas Schulz

• A collection of twenty-three detailed biographies tracing the lives and careers of every member of Hitler’s Storm Troops holding the rank of SAObergruppenführer.

• Includes over 550 photos, many of them rare and unpublished.

• Draws on an abundance of translated documents, letters, and speeches, giving valuable insight into the mindsets and attitudes of the Storm Troop leaders.

9781781559635 • £29.99

424 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 284 b&w illustrations

ALA: United Kingdom

May 2026 • WLR

9781036156695 • £35.00

432 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 346 b&w illustrations

ALA: Sherborne, United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

9781036156541 • £25.00

304 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 111 b&w illustrations

ALA: London, United Kingdom

June 2026 • WLR

ALAN CAMPBELL ORDE

Pioneer AviAtor, test PiLot And AirLine chief

Fiona Somerville

• The life story of one of the great pioneers of British aviation.

• Tells the origin story of civil aviation in the UK.

• Tells how British Airways was established and how it facilitated Neville Chamberlain’s flights to see Hitler.

• Shows the scope of BOAC’s assistance to the RAF during WWII.

• Gives the inside story for the first time of how BOAC reequipped its fleet after being ravaged in support of the war effort and the politics behind the government’s ‘buy British’ policy.

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS 1919 TO 1929

hoW the rAf secured its indePendence

Vic Flintham

• No comparable book exists: this is be a unique record of the RAF’s history in the 1920s.

• Includes extensive orders of battle.

• Provides the political context for air actions across the globe.

• Supported by excellent maps and a huge number of photographs.

SHERWOOD BOYS

biogrAPhy of A bAttALion voLume 2: sePtember 1943–mArch 1946

Michael Somerville

• A comprehensive history based on over 150 personal accounts, covering every rank and role in the 2/5th Sherwood Foresters.

• Covers the experiences of a typical battalion rather than an elite unit.

• Written to appeal to the nonspecialist reader looking to understand the ordinary soldier’s experience of war.

• Includes chapters on training, captivity and post-war operations that are often left out of conventional unit histories.

9781036192815 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 260 mono illustrations

ALA: Poland

June 2026 • WLR

9781036192662 • £25.00

176 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 250 colour illustrations

ALA: United States

August 2026 • WLR

9781036190651 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 183 mono illustrations

ALA: Morden, United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

PANZER 35(T)

history, design And oPerAtionAL use of the Lt vz. 35/PzkPfW 35(t)

Jacek Zabielski

• The only comprehensive publication currently available focusing exclusively on the Panzer 35(t).

• Multi-national operational coverage offering an unprecedented comparative analysis of the tank’s combat performance.

• Rare and unpublished visual content.

• Detailed camouflage and markings section.

• Comprehensive combat history from pre-war Czechoslovak deployment to operations in Poland, France, the Balkans, and the Eastern Front.

DECADES OF THE AIRLINERS

the 1970s

George W Hamlin

• High-quality colour images of historic aircraft.

• Coverage of the global airline industry.

• Knowledgeable commentary from an airline industry veteran.

• Airline/airliner development from a historical perspective.

• Part one of a series covering five decades from the 1970s to the 2010s.

9781036156961 • £15.99

96 pages • Paperback

246x172 • 73 b&w illustrations

ALA: Rowlands Gill, UK

September 2026 • WLR

9781036156473 • £25.00

160 pages • Hardback

276x215 • 232 b&w illustrations

ALA: United States

May 2026 • WLR

THE PANZER ARCHIVES, VOLUME 1

PAnzer ii–iv, PrAgA tnh-P (PAnzer 38(t)), e-100, mouse 1-mAn tAnk And Armoured cArs

Craig Moore

• Declassified War Office reports on captured enemy armoured vehicles and tanks.

• A fascinating window into secret wartime appraisals of German tanks and armoured cars.

• Goes into terrific detail about each model.

• Photographs will be of great interest to modellers.

9781036156237 • £25.00

224 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 282 b&w illustrations

ALA: United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

ANATOMY OF A SHIP: SCHARNHORSTCLASS BATTLESHIPS

Daniel Knowles

• An in-depth analysis of the characteristics, components and systems which combined to help make the Scharnhorst-class the most successful German battleships of World War II.

• Discover how the Scharnhorst-class compared to other contemporary battleships.

• Beautifully illustrated and expertly researched.

• Combining technical precision with visual depth, this book is a musthave reference for naval historians, maritime engineers, scale modellers, and military enthusiasts.

PICTURE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PASSENGER SHIPS 1955

William H Miller

• An international directory of worldwide passenger ships and their services at the height of a boom.

• Includes mostly unpublished photos.

• Concise, well-researched captions with little-known facts and statistics.

• Written by the legendary ‘Mr Ocean Liner’, a renowned expert on passenger ships.

TANKS ON THE BATTLEFIELD: T-34

Francis Edward Pulham

• A unique collection of never-before published photographs of the T-34.

• A detailed, factory-by-factory guide to T-34 production.

• Provides photographical analysis of the T-34’s combat performance.

• Easy-to-digest descriptions of the T-34’s battlefield impact.

• Includes photographs spanning over fifty years of service.

9781036196042 • £22.00

208 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 21 mono illustrations

ALA: Kings Langley, UK

April 2026 • WLR

9781781559376 • £19.99

160 pages • Paperback

246x172 • 190 colour, 7 b&w

ALA: United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

9781036156848 • £29.99

240 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 163 b&w & 104 colour

ALA: Stevenage, United Kingdom August 2026 • WLR

THE BIRTH OF BRITISH SPECIAL FORCES

hoW the guArds regiments heLPed forge the sAs, commAndos And PArAs

Charles Richard Trumpess

• Reveals the previously underexplored role of Britain’s most prestigious regiments in creating legendary special forces units like the Commandos, LRDG, SAS, and Parachute Regiment during the early years of the war, when Britain stood alone.

• Exposes the paradox of how traditional, class-conscious Guards officers became innovative pioneers of unconventional warfare, challenging the military hierarchy and forever transforming modern combat.

COLD WAR AIRCRAFT IN SCALE: ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIGHTNING

Geoff Coughlin

* Your essential companion to the scale modelling of the legendary English Electric Lightning * Combines meticulous reference material with step-by-step guidance to achieve the highest standards * Includes colour profiles illustrating markings and variants and many unique and unpublished photographs * Includes contributions from a host of scale modellers renowned for their skills

ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIGHTNING

the rAf’s first mAch 2 fighter

Philip Birtles

* Comprehensive history of design, development and service of the Lightning * Illustrated with many previously unpublished photos

* Includes detailed appendices with data on the production, service and performance, and details on preserved examples

9781036191481 • £25.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 64 colour, 100 mono illustrations

ALA: Chilthorne Domer, UK

September 2026 • WLR

9781036156886 • £29.99

344 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 100 illustrations

ALA: London, United Kingdom

September 2026 • WLR

9781036145644 • £29.99

256 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 10 colour, 382 mono

ALA: Rowlands Gill, UK July 2026 • WLR

THE ROYAL AIR FORCE GERMANY HARRIER FORCE

voLume 1: deveLoPment And dePLoyment 1970-1973

Tim Brandt

• An in-depth examination of the RAF Harrier Force in Germany in the first stage of its 21-year Cold War history.

• Takes into account all members of the Force, including pilots, engineers, suppliers, cooks, Royal Engineers, Royal Signals, RAF Regiment and many others.

• Provides many insights into the training and preparation necessary for fast-jet flying in the Cold War, as well as the many risks.

• Well illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs.

THE COMPLETE MEDAL OF HONOR

voLume 3: 1941-1945

Kevin Brazier

• A unique chronicle of some of the most extraordinary tales of heroism ever recorded.

• This volume lists the full citation of every recipient of the Medal of Honor during World War II.

• Includes all known burial locations of recipients and the history of the award.

• These four volumes comprise the only complete published reference of the Medal of Honor citations.

• A valuable resource for military historians and a source of pride for military families.

US NAVY LOSSES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Daniel Knowles

• A unique examination of the losses incurred by the US Navy during the Second World War.

• Extensively illustrated with unpublished photographs.

• A complete reference guide that is highly readable with fascinating descriptions.

DEFENDING HERTFORDSHIRE

the miLitAry LAndscAPe from Prehistory to the Present Mike Osborne

Hertfordshire occupies a dominant position on the northern approaches to London and has been the scene of momentous battles and the location of defensive structures since the days of the Roman Empire. Defending Hertfordshire guides the reader through the centuries, from the Roman Era, through the Middle Ages, the Civil War, the Victorian period and the two world wars to the present day, providing a comprehensive and thoroughly researched account of the county’s fascinating military heritage.

• A detailed survey of the military landscape of Hertfordshire based on fieldwork and documentary evidence.

• An engaging narrative, placing the structures in their social, political and military context.

• Richly illustrated with photographs and maps.

• Supplemented with appendices providing extensive details on specific sites and monuments in the county.

9781036156817 • £16.99

240 pages • Paperback

234x156 • 119 b&w illustrations

ALA: Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

MIL MI-24 HIND

Jakub Fojtík

9781036190996 • £29.99

264 pages • Hardback

246x172 • 200 colour illustrations

ALA: United Kingdom

August 2026 • WLR

THE 28TH INFANTRY DIVISION IN THE HÜRTGEN FOREST

forgotten sAcrifice

Walter S Zapotoczny Jr

The five-month Battle of the Hürtgen Forest (September 1944–February 1945) was one of the most disastrous U.S. campaigns of the war. The 28th Infantry Division bore much of the pain, losing 6,840 men killed, wounded, or missing. But despite these losses, the division played a crucial role in the broader Allied effort to repel the German forces in the region. Drawing on many first-hand accounts, this book tells the story of the most gruelling and costly chapter of that supreme effort.

• Draws on first-hand accounts, revealing the harrowing stories of individual soldiers.

• Provides in-depth analysis of the decisions taken.

• Charts the course of the battle in detail and the daily experiences of the soldiers, while also examining the wider context.

9781036156657 • £22.00

216 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 32 b&w illustrations

ALA: United Kingdom

July 2026 • WLR

RED STAR AND ROUNDEL

Philip Wilkinson

9781036156121 • £16.99

368 pages • Paperback

234x156

ALA: Andover, Hants, United Kingdom

April 2026

BRITAIN’S VICTORY, DENMARK’S FREEDOM

Mikkel Plannthin

9781036156190 • £25.00

256 pages • Hardback

234x156 • 30 b&w illustrations

ALA: United Kingdom

April 2026 • WLR

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Aces at Kursk • The Battle for Aerial Supremacy on the Eastern Front, 1943 • Christopher A Lawrence • 9781399081474 • 30/08/2026 • £19.99

RAF West Malling • The RAF’s First Night Fighter Airfield - WWII to the Cold War • Anthony J Moor • 9781399022446 • 30/09/2026 • £14.99

The Battle of Berlin • Bomber Command over the Third Reich, 1943–1945 • Martin W Bowman • 9781526797933 • 30/07/2026 • £19.99

Mosquito Special Operations in the Second World War • The Ultimate Fighter Bomber • Peter Saxton • 9781399059497 • 30/06/2026 • £14.99

More Luck of a Lancaster • 109 Operations, 315 Crew, 101 Killed in Action • Gordon Thorburn • 9781399030977 • 30/08/2026 • £14.99

Napoleon’s Library • The Emperor, His Books and Their Influence on the Napoleonic Era • Louis N Sarkozy • 9781399055246 • 30/09/2026 • £14.99

M.I.9 • An Official History of the Secret Escape and Evasion Organisation • An Official History • 9781399079563 • 30/09/2026 • £14.99

Battle of Stalingrad • The Beginning of the End for Hitler in the East • Dmitry Degtev • 9781399052368 • 30/06/2026 • £14.99

The Kennedy Assassinations • JFK and Bobby Kennedy - Debunking The Conspiracy Theories • Mel Ayton • 9781399081337 • 30/07/2026 • £14.99

SOE in Czechoslovakia • The Special Operations Executive’s Czech Section in WW2 • An Official History • 9781399082792 • 30/09/2026 • £14.99

Pearl Harbor’s Revenge • How Battleships Sunk or Damaged in 1941 Returned To War • Rod Macdonald • 9781399013338 • 30/08/2026 • £14.99

Storming Hitler’s British Fortress • The Commando Raids on the Channel Islands in World War II • Simon Hamon, John Grehan • 9781526799630 • 30/04/2026 • £18.99

Napoleon’s Peninsular War • The French Experience of the War in Spain from Vimeiro to Corunna, 1808–1809 • Paul L Dawson • 9781526797735 • 30/09/2026 • £15.99

Churchill Cold War Warrior • Winston Churchill and the Iron Curtain • Anthony Tucker-Jones • 9781399047463 • 30/07/2026 • £14.99

French Tanks of the Great War • Development, Tactics and Operations • Tim Gale • 9781036151508 • 30/04/2026 • £14.99

Marching, Fighting, Dying • Experiences of Soldiers in the Peninsular War • Gareth Glover • 9781526799333 • 30/04/2026 • £15.99

Special Forces Hero • Anders Lassen VC MC • Thomas Harder • 9781526797131 • 30/09/2026 • £16.99

WW2 Codebreaking People and Places • A Wartime Glossary • Ronald Koorm • 9781399053501 • 30/07/2026 • £14.99

Wellington and the British Army’s Indian Campaigns 1798 - 1805 • • Martin R Howard • 9781399021111 • 30/04/2026 • £14.99

The Royal Marines on the Western Front • • Daniel J McLean • 9781526796080 • 30/09/2026 • £14.99

The V1 Flying Bomb Campaign 1944-1945 • The Doodlebug Summer and After • Jan Gore • 9781399065825 • 30/08/2026 • £14.99

Hitler the Scientist • How Pseudo-Science and Anti-Semitism Shaped Hitler’s Destiny • Andrew Pike • 9781399079754 • 30/07/2026 • £14.99

1314: The Year of Bannockburn • • Callum Watson • 9781399035194 • 30/09/2026 • £16.99

Operation Bagration • An Incomplete Truth • Boris Sokolov, Richard W Harrison • 9781399050937 • 30/07/2026 • £16.99

The Flight of the Vikings • Daring Escapes in Small Boats from Nazi-Occupied Norway, 1940-45’ • Andrew William Orr • 9781036103699 • 30/04/2026 • £16.99

Waterloo: The Attack of I Corps • • Graeme Callister • 9781399045438 • 30/09/2026 • £14.99

In the Service of the Sultan • A First Hand Account of The Dhofar Insurgency • Ian Gardiner • 9781036156138 • 30/05/2026 • £14.99

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SAS South Georgia Boating Club • An SAS Trooper’s Memoir and Falklands War Diary • Tony Shaw • 9781399087803 • 30/04/2026 • £14.99

Napoleon’s Undefeated Marshal • Louis Davout and the Art of Leadership • Martin Sullivan • 9781399053150 • 30/07/2026 • £16.99

Faithful in Adversity • The Royal Army Medical Corps in the Second World War • John Broom • 9781399022439 • 30/08/2026 • £14.99

Captured at Singapore • A Diary of a Far East Prisoner of War • Jan Slimming, Jill Robertson • 9781399085724 • 30/04/2026 • £14.99

Publius Quinctilius Varus • The Man Who Lost Three Legions in the Teutoburg Disaster • Joanne Ball • 9781399088367 • 30/09/2026 • £14.99

Nuclear Terror • The Bomb and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Wrong Hands • Al J Venter • 9781399085335 • 30/04/2026 • £14.99

Cromwell Against the Scots • The Last Anglo-Scottish War 1650-1652 (Revised edition) • John D Grainger • 9781399018579 • 30/04/2026 • £14.99

Supplying the British Army in the First World War • • Janet Macdonald • 9781399021869 • 30/04/2026 • £15.99

My Father Joachim von Ribbentrop • Hitler’s Foreign Minister, Experiences and Memories • Rudolf von Ribbentrop • 9781399022286 • 30/04/2026 • £16.99

The Kaiser’s U-Boat Assault on America • Germany’s Great War Gamble in the First World War • Hans Joachim Koerver • 9781399021524 • 30/04/2026 • £14.99

British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603–1714 • Design Construction, Careers and Fates • Rif Winfield • 9781036157128 • 30/09/2026 • £25.00

French Battleships of World War One • • John Jordan, Philippe Caresse • 9781036157098 • 30/07/2026 • £25.00

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French Cruisers, 1922–1956 • • John Jordan, Jean Moulin • 9781036157180 • 30/05/2026 • £25.00

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Before the Battlecruiser • The Big Cruiser in the World’s Navies 1865–1910 • Aidan Dodson • 9781036157173 • 30/04/2026 • £19.99

The Fall of Roman Britain • and Why We Speak English • John Lambshead • 9781399075602 • 30/04/2026 • £14.99

Clem Beckett: Motorcycle Legend and War Hero • • Rob Hargreaves • 9781399098465 • 30/04/2026 • £14.99

Creating Hitler’s Germany • The Birth of Extremism • Tim Heath • 9781399021944 • 30/09/2026 • £14.99

Mary Queen of Scots’ Secretary • William Maitland - Politician, Reformer and Conspirator • Robert Stedall • 9781399001557 • 30/04/2026 • £15.99

Rearming the RAF for the Second World War • Poor Strategy and Miscalculation • Adrian Phillips • 9781399006286 • 30/08/2026 • £14.99

Edward I’s Regent • Edmund of Cornwall, the man behind England’s Greatest King • Michael Ray • 9781399093583 • 30/07/2026 • £16.99

Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou • A Marriage of Unequals • Amy Licence • 9781399078931 • 30/04/2026 • £14.99

Titanic: Day by Day • • Simon Medhurst • 9781399011471 • 30/04/2026 • £14.99

The Land Army’s Lost Women • • Emily Ashworth • 9781399077682 • 30/09/2026 • £14.99

Edward I and Wales, 1254–1307 • • David Pilling • 9781399016391 • 30/06/2026 • £14.99

Children of the 1940s • A Social History • Mike Hutton • 9781399049511 • 30/07/2026 • £14.99

Reporting the Nuremberg Trials • How Journalists Covered Live Nazi Trials and Executions • Noël Marie Fletcher • 9781399045834 • 30/06/2026 • £14.99

In A Flanders Field • A Territorial Battalion at Ypres, October 1917 • John Waite • 9781399037242 • 30/04/2026 • £16.99

Rowntree’s – The Early History • • Paul Chrystal • 9781526794369 • 30/04/2026 • £15.99

Eyewitness at Dieppe • The Only First-Hand Account of WWII’s Most Disastrous Raids • Ross Reyburn • 9781399059985 • 30/08/2026 • £14.99

The Civil War in Wales • The Scouring of the Nation • Terry John • 9781399004800 • 30/04/2026 • £15.99

Henry VIII and the Plantagenet Poles • The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty • Adam Pennington • 9781399071758 • 30/06/2026 • £16.99

Wartime Entertainment • How Britain Kept Smiling Through the Second World War • Anton Rippon, Nicola Rippon • 9781399034852 • 30/09/2026 • £14.99

The Life of LTC Rolt • Where Engineering Met Literature • Victoria Owens • 9781399056625 • 30/06/2026 • £14.99

The 1066 Norman Bruisers • How European Thugs Became English Gentry • Helen Kay • 9781399024242 • 30/04/2026 • £14.99

An American Uprising in Second World War England • Mutiny in the Duchy • Kate Werran • 9781399021357 • 30/04/2026 • £14.99

Royal Mysteries: The Medieval Period • Timothy Venning • 9781526780553 • 30/09/2026 • £14.99

D-Day to VE Day • The Final Year of the War in Europe • Anton Rippon • 9781399056229 • 30/06/2026 • £14.99

The Tragic Life of Lady Jane Grey • • Beverley Adams • 9781399052719 • 30/08/2026 • £14.99

Rebellion in the Reign of Charles II • • Julian Whitehead • 9781399078375 • 30/05/2026 • £14.99

Identifying Cap Badges • A Family Historian’s Guide • Graham Bandy • 9781399021043 • 30/09/2026 • £14.99

The Great Train Robbery • Expounding the Myths • Jim Morris • 9781399038324 • 30/08/2026 • £14.99

Jack the Ripper - The Policeman • A New Suspect • Rod Beattie • 9781399017565 • 30/07/2026 • £14.99

The Real Bogie and Bacall • • Catherine Curzon • 9781399074063 • 30/06/2026 • £14.99

The Secret Life of a Woodland Habitat • Life Through the Seasons • Chloé Valerie Harmsworth • 9781399093385 • 30/04/2026 • £16.99

Red Dwarf: Discovering the TV Series • Volume I: 1988-1993 • Tom Salinsky • 9781399034951 • 30/08/2026 • £14.99

Saab Celebration • Swedish Style Remembered • Lance Cole • 9781036156107 • 30/04/2026 • £19.99

The History of the London Underground Map • • Caroline Roope • 9781399006859 • 30/08/2026 • £14.99

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