YORKSHIRE-based Pen & Sword has bought Greenhill Books and Chatham Publishing in a deal that re-launches them as Frontline Books and Seaforth Press imprints.

The company will continue to publish military and maritime history books respectively. The deal excludes Greenhill's and Chatham's backlist titles, which continue to be distributed under their original imprints by Greenhill's founder, Lionel Leventhal.

His son Michael will run Frontline Books with Kate Baker; their first acquisition is a memoir of Che Guevara's first wife, Hilda Gadea, published next summer. Pen & Sword MD Charles Hewitt said he hoped the deal would increase his company's turnover by 50% by 2010.

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