Warfare on Scotland's Northern Frontier in the Early Middle Ages
by Chris Peers
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781526797452
Pub Date: 2025-08-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
224 Pages
The wars fought in Scotland’s northern and western highlands between the ninth and fourteenth centuries were a key stage in the military history of the region, yet they have rarely been studied in-depth before. Out of this confused and turbulent period came the more settled and familiar history of the region.
Cataphracts were the most heavily armoured form of cavalry in the ancient world, with riders and mounts both clad in heavy armour. Originating among the wealthiest nobles of various central Asian steppe...
Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate...
Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas: TheWhite Death of the Saracens is the first ever English-language biography of the man who broke the stranglehold of Islam over Byzantine Rome so that by the year 968 his...
From Masterly Commander to Masterful Emperor of Rome
by Lindsay Powell
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781473837973
Pub Date: 2025-05-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
516 Pages
History has not been kind to the memory of Tiberius Caesar (42 BC-AD 37), second emperor of the Romans. His reputation for capable generalship and sensible civic leadership are marred by reports of...
Throughout most of the classical period, Persia was one of the great superpowers, placing a limit on the expansion of its Western rivals. Until the conquest by Alexander the Great, the Achaemenid Persian...
Petilius Cerealis is one of the few Imperial Roman officers, below the level of Emperor, whose career it is possible to follow in sufficient detail to write a coherent biography. Fortunately his career...
Pompey, Labienus and Caesar's Final Battle of the Third Roman Civil War
by Gareth C Sampson
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781526793706
Pub Date: 2025-04-28
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
224 Pages
After four years of fighting and two major victories, Julius Caesar had the upper hand in the Third Roman Civil War and had control of Rome itself. Yet despite this success, his surviving opponents...
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