First was Osprey New Vanguard #177: Humber Light Reconnaissance Car 1941 – 45, which detailed the versions and uses of a British armored car of WWII vintage. Mildly interesting.
Second was Osprey Campaign #213: Ireland 1649 – 52: Cromwell’s Protestant Crusade, which deals with the battles to stomp Royalist forces by the Roundheads during the English Civil War period. I can almost hear my wife gnashing her teeth over the English marching around the Emerald Isle...