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Quick view Bailey, Christopher J. / The Uncertain Power : Political History of the United States Since 1929 This is a short political history of the United States since 1929, focusing on the national political agenda. The book deals with civil rights, the anti-communist crusade, social reform, foreign policy and includes a discussion of military strategy... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Kung, Hans / The Catholic Church Hans Kung describes the history of the Roman Catholic Church from its origins in St Paul's Rome, through the disputes of the medieval era to the modern world. He examines the historic tension in the Church between pluralism and exclusivity; how the... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Farman, John / Very Bloody History Of Britain Warning: This book could change your ideas about history for ever!! Do you know why the Celts got the best girls? Or who had his portrait painted after he was dead? And have you any idea who planned the first Channel Tunnel? From the dawn of... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Leonard, Hugh / Parnell and the Englishwoman : A Love Story This is the story of the great love affair between Charles Stewart Parnell and Katharine O'Shea that led to Parnell's downfall as leader of the Irish party at Westminster in 1889. It is a story of political wrangling and intrigue over Home Rule in... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view O'Connor, Frank / The Big Fellow : Life of Michael Collins All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Hammond, Mark / Immediate Response : The Centenary Collection The gripping true story of a Royal Marine helicopter pilot at war in Afghanistan. Major Mark Hammond was awarded the DFC, which ranks third after the VC, for remarkable feats in Afghanistan in his Chinook helicopter. Like the other Chinook pilots... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Ruane, Donal / WLTM On his first ever blind date Donal Ruane fainted. Undaunted, he decided to plough on in search of a soulmate. He tried the friend-of-a-friend angle, but that didn't pan out too well either. The speedating thing was an out and out travesty. The... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Kealy, Sr. Marie / Dominican Education in Ireland 1820-1930 (Large Paperback) Focusing on the part played by Dominican women in schools and colleges from 1820 to 1930, this book brings new findings to the history of the Catholic education of women and makes an important contribution to the general history of education in... €3.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Cushman, Karen / Catherine, Called Birdy An account of life in medieval England, and runner-up for the 1995 Newbery Medal. Catherine is spirited, stubborn and longing for adventure. Her journal paints a picture full of danger, hardships, and romance. Here are bawdy villagers, travelling... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Astor, Gerald / The Greatest War - Volume II: D-Day and the Assault on Europe Told by soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines, this series is an oral history of World War II from those who were there. This second volume examines the storming of Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the advance of allied forces across Europe to the... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Feeney, Paul / A 1950s Childhood : From Tin Baths to Bread and Dripping Do you remember Pathe News? Taking the train to the seaside? The purple stains of iodine on the knees of boys in short trousers? Knitted bathing costumes? Then the chances are you were born in or around 1950. To the young people of today, the 1950s... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Gracie, Archibald / "Titanic" : A Survivor's Story This text provides a record of one of the most traumatic events in maritime history - the sinking of the Titanic. Not only does Colonel Archibald Gracie detail his own experiences on that fateful night, he has traced other survivors and catalogued... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Roth, Melinda / From Baghdad, With Love When Marines enter an abandoned house in Fallujah, Iraq, and hear a suspicious noise, they clench their weapons, edge around a corner, and prepare to open fire.What they find during the US-led attack on the 'most dangerous city on Earth', however,... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Ellis, Nesta Wyn / John Major An analysis of the history and character of John Major, not even an MP until 1979 but Prime Minister at the age of 47. It charts his story from poverty to power and is updated to include details of the G7 summit, the BCCI affair and the Citizen's... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Coote, Stephen / Royal Survivor : Life of Charles II This sweeping narrative takes the reader from palaces and battlefields through exile, bitterness, triumph and deceit. Charles is revealed as a fascinating, brave and dangerous man - a gambler, a fixer, a survivor. The twists and turns of... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Dimbleby, Jonathan / The Last Governor : Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong In July 1997, Hong Kong will ceased to be a British colony and will reverted to the People's Republic of China. Five million people lost their status as British subjects and became citizens of a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. It was... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Robinson, Jeffrey / Rainier and Grace A biography of the Grimaldi royal family of Monaco, in which Prince Rainier speaks of his romance with Grace Kelly; Princess Stephanie recounts the tragic car crash that killed her mother; and Prince Albert and Princess Caroline reveal the private... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Boston, Anne / Wave Me Goodbye/Hearts Undefeated An invaluable omnibus that brings together women as diverse as Barbara Cartland, Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, a Soho street-sweeper and an air-raid warden. Containing fiction and non- fiction from some of the most well-known writers of the... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Saylor, Steven / Rubicon Caesar is marching on Rome: his intent, civil war. Pompey and the terrified Senate prepare to flee the city. The murder of a visitor in the house of gordianus the Finder could not occur at a worse time, especially since the dead man is Pompey's... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Colville, John Rupert / The Fringes of Power: October 1941-April 1955 v. 2 : Downing Street Diaries, 1939-55 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Edsel, Robert M. / The Monuments Men Now a major film starring GEORGE CLOONEY, MATT DAMON, CATE BLANCHETT, BILL MURRAY, JOHN GOODMAN, HUGH BONNEVILLE, BOB BALABAN, JEAN DUJARDIN and DIMITRI LEONIDAS. What if I told you that there was an epic story about World War II that has not... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Wilson, Andrew / Living with Glasnost Andrew Wilson is an award-winning journalist and author. His work has appeared in a wide variety of publications including the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Sunday Times, and the Smithsonian Magazine. He is the author of four acclaimed... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Friedman, Thomas L. / The World is Flat The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization - a `flattening' of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Thatcher, Margaret / Statecraft A collection of the former Prime Minister's speeches and articles, `Statecraft' brought Margaret Thatcher's unrivalled political experience to bear on the challenges of the early new millennium. Margaret Thatcher's influence on modern politics... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Darylmple, William / From the Holy Mountain A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Ardagh, John / Germany And the Germans Aims to capture the diversity and contradictions of the Germany of the mid-1990s. This new edition looks at events such as Chancellor Kohl's re-election in 1994, the recession, the flare up of racial violence, and the continued malaise in the east... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Janik, Erika / A Short History of Wisconsin Rediscover Wisconsin history from the very beginning. "A Short History of Wisconsin" recounts the landscapes, people, and traditions that have made the state the multifaceted place it is today. With an approach both comprehensive and accessible,... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Constitution of Ireland / Bunreacht na hEireann (English and Irish Edition) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Grant, Garvan / The Trueish History of Ireland Did you ever think there was something funny about Irish history? Turns out you were right. As the centenary of 1916 approaches, 'The True(ish) History of Ireland' reveals the funny side of Ireland's story. Using hearsay, rumour and some... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Woodward, Bob / Bush at War With his unmatched investigative skill, Bob Woodward tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President George W. Bush and his top national security advisers led the nation to war. Extensive quotations from the secret deliberations of the National... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Amis, Martin / The Moronic Inferno And Other Visits to America A collection of essays on America by the author of London Fields, Money and Yellow Dog. At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Summers, Julie / Jambusters The Second World War was the WI's finest hour. The whole of its previous history - two decades of educating, entertaining and supporting women and campaigning on women's issues - culminated in the enormous collective responsibility felt by... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Sebald, W.G. / Austerlitz In the summer of 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on one of the Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales. For reasons of their own, the childless Calvinist couple erase from the boy all knowledge of... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Walsh, Liz / The Final Beat : The Gardai Killed in the Line of Duty No member of the Garda Siochana died in the line of duty between 1942 and 1970. Since that date, fourteen members of the force have paid the supreme price. 'The Final Beat' is their story. From Richard Fallon, who died while trying to stop a bank... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Scally, John / Mother Teresa Mother Teresa of Calcutta was a twentieth-century icon, a living example of the power of love. She is now on the fast track to sainthood. This book marks the 100th anniversary of her birth on August 26th 1910. Irish people feel a special... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Keena, Colm / Haughey's Millions : Charlie's Money Trail In 1979, when Charlie Haughey was voted leader of Fianna Fail and Taoiseach he gave a press conference. At it, he was asked where his money came from. He said the question presumed he was rich, which mightn't be the case: 'Ask my bank... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Kreitner, Richard / Who is Hillary Clinton? : Two Decades of Answers from the Left Who is Hillary Clinton? is a fascinating time-lapse depiction of the leading Democratic presidential candidate as seen from the left. But it is also much more than that. A carefully-edited anthology of The Nation's coverage of Clinton's career,... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Healy, Dermot / The Bend For Home A funny, direct, lively and moving account of growing up in small-town Ireland. Healy lovingly coaxes his childhood into being until, one day, his elderly mother hands him the coded diary he kept as a teenage tearaway and the uncut past burst in... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Sheehy, Gail / Hillary's Choice This is a portrait of one of America's First Ladies, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school through to the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair. The biography covers Hillary Clinton's love and ambition in life and in politics, and asks why would... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view O'Rourke, P.J. / Give War a Chance Opening with an introduction entitled 'Hunting the Virtuous -- and How to Clean and Skin Them', the author provides his own comments on the people, places and events behind the newspaper headlines, before launching into an account of the first Gulf War... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Ali, Ayaan Hirsi / Infidel Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of today's most admired and controversial political figures. She burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened she would be next. An international bestseller, her life story... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Shaw, Julie / Our Vinnie: The True Story of Yorkshire's Notorious Criminal Family The infamous Canterbury Estate in Bradford, a hotbed of crime, drink and drugs, was a law unto itself in the '70s. So when one of their own was wronged in any way, the community always had its own way of dealing with it.The first title in a series of... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Ferguson, Niall / The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call it what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is the foundation of all human progress and the lifeblood of history.From the cash injection that funded the... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Humphreys, Margaret / Empty Cradles In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated a woman's claim that, aged four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. At first incredulous, Margaret discovered that this was just the tip of an enormous... €0.50 Add to Cart
Quick view Seldon, Anthony / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Chomsky, Noam / Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance Hegemony or Survival is Noam Chomsky's essential polemic on American foreign policy.Noam Chomsky, the world's foremost intellectual activist, presents an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that... €2.00 Add to Cart
