First World War

Alan Drumm - Kerry and the Royal Munster Fusiliers - PB -2010

Ballymullen Barracks in Tralee was the regimental depot of the Royal Munster Fusiliers prior to the establishment of the Irish Free State. It was through the barracks gates that Kerrymen...

Arthur Marwick / The Deluge - British Society and the First World War(Vintage Paperback)

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Bostridge Mark / Vera Brittain & The First World War (Large Paperback)

 As the much anticipated film adaptation of Vera Brittain's First World War testimony 'Testament of Youth' arrives in cinemas in 2014/15, this book from Mark Bostridge (her biographer) tells the...

Daniel Schönpflug / A World on Edge: The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age (Large Paperback)

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Gerry White & Brendan O'Shea - A Great Sacrifice : Cork Servicemen who Died in the Great War - HB - 2010

In excellent condition, apart from some x's and underlining a of a few names in the text by a previous owner.  Maps of Europe before WW1 and after WW1 to front and rear endpages respectively...

Henry Brook / The First World War

 Offering an approachable insight into key events, this book contains true stories of courage, heroism and disaster from the First World War.      All of our books are second...

Ian Wilson - HMS Drake : Rathlin Island Shipwreck - PB - 2011

Paperback, published by Rathlin Island Press, 2011, in as new condition, 86 pages with photographs  The Royal Navy warship HMS Drake was torpedoed by the German U79 on October 2 1917 - this is...

Jeremy Paxman / Great Britain's Great War (Large Paperback)

 Jeremy Paxman's magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people.NOW A MAJOR BBC TELEVISION...

Joe Power - Clare and the Great War - PB - 2015

This book delves in to the economic and political life during the terrible conflict of the Great War in County Clare. The Great War united thousands of Clare men and women to a cause which many of...

John Elliott - Fall of Eagles : The End of the Great European Dynasties - PB - 1974

Paperback, published by BBC Books, 1974, moderate to heavy age tanning to pages, tied in to a BBC TV series of the same name. The book examines the fall of three lareg European Empires as a direct...

John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback)

Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John...

John Terraine - To Win a War : 1918 : The Year of Victory - HB - 1981 ( Originally 1978)

Hardcover, first US edition, 1981, originally published in the UK in 1978.  Written by one of the most respected and readable historians of the First World War, this book tells the story of how...

Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB

Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work...

Martin Marix Evans / 1918: The Year of Victories

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Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011

Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with...

Paul Fussell / The Great War and Modern Memory (Large Paperback)

The year 2000 marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Fussell illuminates a war that changed a generation and...

Robin Neillands / The Great War Generals On The Western Front, 1914-1918 (Hardback)

On the basis of the evidence … it is surely not possible for any reasonable, fair- minded person to sustain the accusation that the British generals, as a group, were entirely to blame for...

Roy Stokes - Death in the Irish Sea : The Sinking of the RMS Leinster - HB

Published by Collins Press, 1998. Hardcover, in slightly edgeworn dustjacket ( especially at the top edges.  Illustrated.  On October 10 1918, the Dublin to UK mailboat, the RMS Leinster...

Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong - HB Modern Classics Edition - 2010

A Vintage Modern Classics hardback. Clothbound with a design influenced by typography. This special edition was first published in 2010 and is hard to find. About the Book: A novel of overwhelming...

Stephen Walker / Forgotten Soldiers (Hardback)

Drawing on war diaries, interviews with veterans and family members and court martial papers, 'Forgotten Soldiers' tells the story of the 28 Irishmen in the British Army who were executed during...

Steve Little / More Than Just A Life (Large Paperback)

Young Eddie Wilson was a footballer on the threshold of a professional career with a prominent club. Then came the Great War of 1914-1918. Once called up into the Army he was sent without completing...