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Quick view Dale, Graham / The Green Marine : An Irishman's War in Iraq Dubliner Graham Dale, an IT specialist living in Texas, was working as a volunteer with a fire department when he heard that an airplane had hit the World Trade Centre in New York. As the tragic events unfolded before his eyes, he suddenly realised... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Romains, Jules / Verdun February 1916 saw the opening stages of one of the most fearful battles of the World War I, at Verdun, between France and Germany. The German High Command believed in a strategy of attrition and felt that Germany could, by choosing a point... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Schreiber, Marion / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Jack, Albert / Red Herrings and White Elephants Have you ever wondered what phrases such as 'square meal', 'load of old codswallop', 'egg on your face' or 'in the limelight' mean? Where do they come from? Have you ever taken a moment to wonder what we say actually means? The origins... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Pagden, Anthony / Peoples and Empires Anthony Pagden begins his history with the ancient Greeks, who saw themselves as 'extreme voyagers'. They were explorers, they lived in many different places and they were witnesses to one of the most decisive turning points in human... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Chang, Jung / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Simpson, Paul / A Brief History of the Spy : Modern Spying from the Cold War to the War on Terror From the end of the Second World War to the present day, the world has changed immeasurably. The art of spying has changed too, as spies have reacted to changing threats. Here you will find the fascinating stories of real-life spies, both famous... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Henderson, Ernest F. - Germany's War Machine - HB 1st Ed 1914 Publuished by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianoplis, 1914, this is an account of the German military machine written in the summer of 1914, just as the First World War was in it's infancy. Henderson had spent much of 1913 and 1914 in Germany, and was the author of... €12.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Price, Dominic / The Flame and the Candle This title tells the story of Mayo men and women active during the War of Independence and the Civil War, a story largely untold or forgotten. It details the impact of the militarized RIC, agrarian unrest and the Republican courts, the Black and... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Weir, Alison / Traitors of the Tower More than four hundred years ago, seven people were beheaded in the Tower of London. Three had been queens of England. The others were found guilty of treason. Why were such important people put to death?Alison Weir's gripping book tells their... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Flem-Ath, Rand / The Atlantis Blueprint : Unlocking the Mystery of a Long-Lost Civilisation In 1982, the American scholar Charles Hapgood made an astonishing claim to a young librarian, Rand Flem-Ath - that civilization was almost 100,000 years old and he had the evidence to prove it. Before he could substantiate this remarkable... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Collins, Eamon / Killing Rage This is an account of how an angry young man can cross the line that divides theoretical support for violence from a state of 'killing rage', in which the murder of neighbour becomes thinkable. Over 3000 people have died in Northern Ireland since... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Llywelyn, Morgan / 1014: Brian Boru & the Battle for Ireland The date was Good Friday, April 23rd in the Year of Our Lord 1014. The most ferocious battle ever fought in Ireland was about to begin...In the three decades since Morgan Llyweyln wrote the bestselling novel Lion of Ireland, she has studied the... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view World Serial Killers Some serial killers have taken on an almost mythical identity in the eyes of the public. Individuals such as Charles Manson, Ted Bundy and Jack the Ripper have come to be seen as real-life monsters, evil creatures who exist on the very edge of... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view A Very Short Introduction: Ancient Warfare Greek and Roman warfare differed from other cultures and was unlike any other forms of warfare before and after. The key difference is often held to be that the Greeks and Romans practised a 'Western Way of War', where the aim is an open, decisive... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Barry, Michael J - The Fight For Irish Freedom : An Illustrated History of the War of Independence - HB 2018 This volume is the acclaimed books by Michael Barry which tell the story of the Irish Revolution in illustrated form over the period from 1916 to 1923. Guerrilla warfare is the struggle of the weak against the strong. During the War of Independence, the... €25.00 €15.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Brome, Vincent - The International Brigades : Spain 1936-1939 - HB 1ST Edition 1965 An excellent, ironic, deeply felt study of the foreigners who banded into brigades in Spain to help the Republican Army fight Franco's Nationalists...This is the first study devoted solely to these brigades themselves , including many Irishmen,... €12.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Coogan, Tim Pat - SIGNED - De Valera : Long Fellow, Long Shadow - HB 1st Edition 1993 From the 1916 Rising, the troubled Treaty negotiations and the Civil War, right through to his retirement after a longer period in power than any other 20th-century leader, Eamon de Valera has both defined and divided Ireland. He was directly responsible... €25.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Malcone, Michael J. / The Guillotine Choice In 1920s French-controlled Algeria, Kaci is in the frame for the brutal murder of his French boss. Kaci is faced with a stark choice: name his cousin as the killer and win his freedom, or keep quiet and face 25 years' hard labour in the... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view De Paor, Liam - Milestones in Irish History - PB 1986 The 13 essays in this slim volume cover 13 benchmark events in recorded Irish history - The building of Newcrange and the Boyne tombs Coming of Christianity, Brain Boru and the Battle of Clontaft 1014 the Norman invasion, The flight of the... €6.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Lewis, Jon E. / The Mammoth Book of Combat : Reports from the Frontline Over a hundred eyewitness accounts of the reality of combat from some of the finest writers of the last century and our own. Lucid, vivid, complex images of conflict, from Walt Whitman on the American Civil War to contemporary reporting... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Wilson, T.W - Japan's Fight for Freedom : Russo -Japanese War - HB 3 VOLUME SET 1904-1906 Illustrated Military History JAPAN FIGHTS FOR FREEDOM: The Story of the War Between Russia and Japan. 3 volume Set of hardcover uniformly bound in red cloth with Russo Japanese war to spine in goldPublisher: Amalgamated Press, London, 1904 ( volume 1) 1905 ( volume 2) and... €60.00 Add to Cart
