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Quick view sku: wW5711H Denis Avey / The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz : The Extraordinary True Story (Hardback) THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III.In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW5957H David Talbot / Brothers : The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (Hardback) Robert F. Kennedy was the first conspiracy theorist about his brother's murder. In this astonishingly compelling and convincing new account of the Kennedy years, acclaimed journalist David Talbot tells in a riveting, superbly researched narrative... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88154H Albert Reynolds / Albert Reynolds : My Autobiography (Hardback) I was a businessman, a risk taker.' - Albert Reynolds. 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6380H Noam Chomsky / Optimism Over Despair An essential overview of the problems of our world today -- and how we should prepare for tomorrow -- from the world's leading public intellectualWe have two choices. We can be pessimistic, give up, and help ensure that the worst will happen. Or we... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG5, Michael Kelly - Martyrs' Day : Chronicle of a Small War - HB 1st Ed 1993 - Desert Storm Iraq This eyewitness account differs from the many other books on the Persian Gulf War in that it deals primarily with human-interest elements rather than military matters. Kelly, a journalist who traveled extensively in the countries that were affected by... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8806E Jason Hewitt / The Dynamite Room July 1940. Eleven-year-old Lydia walks through a village in rural Suffolk on a baking hot day. She is wearing a gas mask. 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95722H Conor Cruise O'Brien / The Long Affair : Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution (Hardback) Jefferson and his enthusiasm and commitment to the French Revolution are discussed here. The book also considers his initial motivations and how he sought to best exploit the upheavals in France for his own advantage at home... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X87669H William Shawcross / Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother : The Official Biography (Hardback) Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon,the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, was born on 4 August 1900. It might reasonably have been expected that she would lead a life of ease and privilege but few could have imagined the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5609H Stephen Walker / Hide and Seek : The Irish Priest in the Vatican Who Defied the Nazi Command. the Dramatic True Story of Rivalry and Survival During WWII. (Hardback) Irish Sunday Times Bestseller A true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priest The story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII, when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler, SS Obersturmbanfuhrer, and Monsignor Hugh... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8639H Anthony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble (Hardback) On 16 December 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes on the Belgian/German border. Although Hitler's generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88104H Tim Pat Coogan / Wherever Green is Worn : The Story of the Irish Diaspora (Hardback) Far more Irishmen live outside Ireland than within it. This study aims to reveal why this is, how it has come about and what the realities are today - political, economic, religious and cultural - for the Irish populations in America,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86258H Joseph O'Neill / Blood-Dark Track (Hardback) In this story of a family and its place in history, Joseph O'Neill reconstructs the fate of two men he never met and who never met each other, but who have had a profound effect on his life. His Turkish and Irish grandfathers, Joseph... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW8665H Bob Woodward / Obama's Wars (Hardback) Bob Woodward's new book draws from hundreds of interviews with key administration figures, their deputies and other firsthand sources. In addition, the book is based on extensive documentation, including internal memos, letters,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87830H Robert Hutchinson / Weapons of Mass Destruction : The no-nonsense guide to nuclear, chemical and biological weapons today (Hardback) When Tom Lehrer sang 'We'll all go together when we go', the world was gripped by fear of nuclear holocaust. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the threat was assumed to have gone away. But Libya, Iraq, Iran and North Korea and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: wW7652H Michael Foley / Kings of September : The Day Offaly Denied Kerry Five in a Row (Large Paperback) On the 19th September 1982 Kerry ran out in Croke Park chasing immortality. Victory over Offaly in the All-Ireland football final would secure them five titles in a row, a record certain never to be matched again.It had taken Offaly six... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88638H Stephen Collins / The Power Game : Ireland Under Fianna Fáil (Large Paperback) New Updated EditionThe Power Game lifts the lid on the modern struggles for power within Fianna Fail, including the heaves against Charles Haughey and the shafting of Albert Reynolds. It also explores in detail the careers of Jack Lynch,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6680H Paul Brickhill / The Dam Busters Originally published in 1951 by Evans Brothers this is the story of the 1943 raid when nearly 350 tons of water crashed into the valleys of the Ruhr, when the Lancasters of 617 squadron breached the giant Moehne and Eder dams with 'blockbuster'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6659H Antonio Mendez / Argo : How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio - the declassified CIA story behind the Oscar-winning filmWINNER OF 'BEST PICTURE' AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE BAFTAS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBESTehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75326H Richard Holmes / Redcoat Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X46615E Malise Ruthven / Fury for God: Islamic Attack on America (Large Paperback) In this thoughtful and authoritative book, Malise Ruthven provides an analysis of the terrible events of September 11 in New York and Washington. He discusses the role of the global market, the mystique of the twin towers and of New York... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8385H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers (Large Paperback) Based on personal accounts from the survivors, "Ghost Soldiers" tells of a mission of mercy - the rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945, which was the largest and most successful operation of... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... 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Kelly, a journalist who traveled extensively in the countries that were affected by... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8806E Jason Hewitt / The Dynamite Room July 1940. Eleven-year-old Lydia walks through a village in rural Suffolk on a baking hot day. She is wearing a gas mask. The shops and houses are empty, windows boarded up and sandbags green with mildew, the village seemingly deserted. Leaving it... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58004H George Millar / The Bruneval Raid : Stealing Hitler's Radar One of the reasons the British won the 'radar war' with Nazi Germany was that we knew precisely how the enemy system worked. This was thanks to a daring commando raid on a German Wurzburg radar site at Bruneval in northern France. Ostensibly, the... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X87669H William Shawcross / Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother : The Official Biography (Hardback) Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon,the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, was born on 4 August 1900. It might reasonably have been expected that she would lead a life of ease and privilege but few could have imagined the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5609H Stephen Walker / Hide and Seek : The Irish Priest in the Vatican Who Defied the Nazi Command. the Dramatic True Story of Rivalry and Survival During WWII. (Hardback) Irish Sunday Times Bestseller A true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priest The story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII, when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler, SS Obersturmbanfuhrer, and Monsignor Hugh... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86258H Joseph O'Neill / Blood-Dark Track (Hardback) In this story of a family and its place in history, Joseph O'Neill reconstructs the fate of two men he never met and who never met each other, but who have had a profound effect on his life. His Turkish and Irish grandfathers, Joseph... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW8665H Bob Woodward / Obama's Wars (Hardback) Bob Woodward's new book draws from hundreds of interviews with key administration figures, their deputies and other firsthand sources. In addition, the book is based on extensive documentation, including internal memos, letters,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87830H Robert Hutchinson / Weapons of Mass Destruction : The no-nonsense guide to nuclear, chemical and biological weapons today (Hardback) When Tom Lehrer sang 'We'll all go together when we go', the world was gripped by fear of nuclear holocaust. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the threat was assumed to have gone away. But Libya, Iraq, Iran and North Korea and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: wW7652H Michael Foley / Kings of September : The Day Offaly Denied Kerry Five in a Row (Large Paperback) On the 19th September 1982 Kerry ran out in Croke Park chasing immortality. Victory over Offaly in the All-Ireland football final would secure them five titles in a row, a record certain never to be matched again.It had taken Offaly six... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88638H Stephen Collins / The Power Game : Ireland Under Fianna Fáil (Large Paperback) New Updated EditionThe Power Game lifts the lid on the modern struggles for power within Fianna Fail, including the heaves against Charles Haughey and the shafting of Albert Reynolds. It also explores in detail the careers of Jack Lynch,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6680H Paul Brickhill / The Dam Busters Originally published in 1951 by Evans Brothers this is the story of the 1943 raid when nearly 350 tons of water crashed into the valleys of the Ruhr, when the Lancasters of 617 squadron breached the giant Moehne and Eder dams with 'blockbuster'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6659H Antonio Mendez / Argo : How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio - the declassified CIA story behind the Oscar-winning filmWINNER OF 'BEST PICTURE' AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE BAFTAS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBESTehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75326H Richard Holmes / Redcoat Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82730H Robert Lomas / The Invisible College In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of 12 men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature. At a time when superstition and magic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96596H Sam Najjair / Soldier for a Summer : One Man's Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising (Large Paperback) Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8561E Simon Cox / Cracking the Da Vinci Code This is the first non-fiction companion to Dan Brown's mega-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code". Its simple A-Z format tells you everything you need to know about the facts behind the fiction, and reveals the latest theories about the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80174H Simon Reid-Henry / Fidel and Che (Large Paperback) FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the peasant's son, scholar, and rebel -- Fidel Castro, and his fateful meeting with the itinerant doctor Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Not yet thirty, and both in exile, they met in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96690H Marc McMenamin / Code-Breaker : The untold story of Richard Hayes the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (Large Paperback) The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8815H Doug Beattie / An Ordinary Soldier On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR6380H Noam Chomsky / Optimism Over Despair An essential overview of the problems of our world today -- and how we should prepare for tomorrow -- from the world's leading public intellectualWe have two choices. We can be pessimistic, give up, and help ensure that the worst will happen. Or we... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG5, Michael Kelly - Martyrs' Day : Chronicle of a Small War - HB 1st Ed 1993 - Desert Storm Iraq This eyewitness account differs from the many other books on the Persian Gulf War in that it deals primarily with human-interest elements rather than military matters. Kelly, a journalist who traveled extensively in the countries that were affected by... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8806E Jason Hewitt / The Dynamite Room July 1940. Eleven-year-old Lydia walks through a village in rural Suffolk on a baking hot day. She is wearing a gas mask. The shops and houses are empty, windows boarded up and sandbags green with mildew, the village seemingly deserted. Leaving it... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58004H George Millar / The Bruneval Raid : Stealing Hitler's Radar One of the reasons the British won the 'radar war' with Nazi Germany was that we knew precisely how the enemy system worked. This was thanks to a daring commando raid on a German Wurzburg radar site at Bruneval in northern France. Ostensibly, the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91108H Anne Simpsons / Blooming Dublin : Choice, Change and Contradiction (Hardback) Dublin is the city of Joyce and verbal swagger. Since the 1970s Dublin has experienced more than its fair share of excitement: a Papal visit; a period of unaccustomed stability following a damaging inflationary dash for growth; the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95722H Conor Cruise O'Brien / The Long Affair : Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution (Hardback) Jefferson and his enthusiasm and commitment to the French Revolution are discussed here. The book also considers his initial motivations and how he sought to best exploit the upheavals in France for his own advantage at home... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X87669H William Shawcross / Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother : The Official Biography (Hardback) Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon,the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, was born on 4 August 1900. It might reasonably have been expected that she would lead a life of ease and privilege but few could have imagined the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5609H Stephen Walker / Hide and Seek : The Irish Priest in the Vatican Who Defied the Nazi Command. the Dramatic True Story of Rivalry and Survival During WWII. (Hardback) Irish Sunday Times Bestseller A true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priest The story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII, when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler, SS Obersturmbanfuhrer, and Monsignor Hugh... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8639H Anthony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble (Hardback) On 16 December 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes on the Belgian/German border. Although Hitler's generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88104H Tim Pat Coogan / Wherever Green is Worn : The Story of the Irish Diaspora (Hardback) Far more Irishmen live outside Ireland than within it. This study aims to reveal why this is, how it has come about and what the realities are today - political, economic, religious and cultural - for the Irish populations in America,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86258H Joseph O'Neill / Blood-Dark Track (Hardback) In this story of a family and its place in history, Joseph O'Neill reconstructs the fate of two men he never met and who never met each other, but who have had a profound effect on his life. His Turkish and Irish grandfathers, Joseph... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW8665H Bob Woodward / Obama's Wars (Hardback) Bob Woodward's new book draws from hundreds of interviews with key administration figures, their deputies and other firsthand sources. In addition, the book is based on extensive documentation, including internal memos, letters,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87830H Robert Hutchinson / Weapons of Mass Destruction : The no-nonsense guide to nuclear, chemical and biological weapons today (Hardback) When Tom Lehrer sang 'We'll all go together when we go', the world was gripped by fear of nuclear holocaust. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the threat was assumed to have gone away. But Libya, Iraq, Iran and North Korea and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: wW7652H Michael Foley / Kings of September : The Day Offaly Denied Kerry Five in a Row (Large Paperback) On the 19th September 1982 Kerry ran out in Croke Park chasing immortality. Victory over Offaly in the All-Ireland football final would secure them five titles in a row, a record certain never to be matched again.It had taken Offaly six... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88638H Stephen Collins / The Power Game : Ireland Under Fianna Fáil (Large Paperback) New Updated EditionThe Power Game lifts the lid on the modern struggles for power within Fianna Fail, including the heaves against Charles Haughey and the shafting of Albert Reynolds. It also explores in detail the careers of Jack Lynch,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6680H Paul Brickhill / The Dam Busters Originally published in 1951 by Evans Brothers this is the story of the 1943 raid when nearly 350 tons of water crashed into the valleys of the Ruhr, when the Lancasters of 617 squadron breached the giant Moehne and Eder dams with 'blockbuster'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6659H Antonio Mendez / Argo : How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio - the declassified CIA story behind the Oscar-winning filmWINNER OF 'BEST PICTURE' AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE BAFTAS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBESTehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75326H Richard Holmes / Redcoat Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X46615E Malise Ruthven / Fury for God: Islamic Attack on America (Large Paperback) In this thoughtful and authoritative book, Malise Ruthven provides an analysis of the terrible events of September 11 in New York and Washington. He discusses the role of the global market, the mystique of the twin towers and of New York... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8385H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers (Large Paperback) Based on personal accounts from the survivors, "Ghost Soldiers" tells of a mission of mercy - the rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945, which was the largest and most successful operation of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82730H Robert Lomas / The Invisible College In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of 12 men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature. At a time when superstition and magic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96596H Sam Najjair / Soldier for a Summer : One Man's Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising (Large Paperback) Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8561E Simon Cox / Cracking the Da Vinci Code This is the first non-fiction companion to Dan Brown's mega-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code". Its simple A-Z format tells you everything you need to know about the facts behind the fiction, and reveals the latest theories about the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80174H Simon Reid-Henry / Fidel and Che (Large Paperback) FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the peasant's son, scholar, and rebel -- Fidel Castro, and his fateful meeting with the itinerant doctor Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Not yet thirty, and both in exile, they met in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96690H Marc McMenamin / Code-Breaker : The untold story of Richard Hayes the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (Large Paperback) The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... 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This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... 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Quick view sku: BIG5, Michael Kelly - Martyrs' Day : Chronicle of a Small War - HB 1st Ed 1993 - Desert Storm Iraq This eyewitness account differs from the many other books on the Persian Gulf War in that it deals primarily with human-interest elements rather than military matters. Kelly, a journalist who traveled extensively in the countries that were affected by... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8806E Jason Hewitt / The Dynamite Room July 1940. Eleven-year-old Lydia walks through a village in rural Suffolk on a baking hot day. She is wearing a gas mask. The shops and houses are empty, windows boarded up and sandbags green with mildew, the village seemingly deserted. Leaving it... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58004H George Millar / The Bruneval Raid : Stealing Hitler's Radar One of the reasons the British won the 'radar war' with Nazi Germany was that we knew precisely how the enemy system worked. 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86258H Joseph O'Neill / Blood-Dark Track (Hardback) In this story of a family and its place in history, Joseph O'Neill reconstructs the fate of two men he never met and who never met each other, but who have had a profound effect on his life. His Turkish and Irish grandfathers, Joseph... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW8665H Bob Woodward / Obama's Wars (Hardback) Bob Woodward's new book draws from hundreds of interviews with key administration figures, their deputies and other firsthand sources. In addition, the book is based on extensive documentation, including internal memos, letters,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87830H Robert Hutchinson / Weapons of Mass Destruction : The no-nonsense guide to nuclear, chemical and biological weapons today (Hardback) When Tom Lehrer sang 'We'll all go together when we go', the world was gripped by fear of nuclear holocaust. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6680H Paul Brickhill / The Dam Busters Originally published in 1951 by Evans Brothers this is the story of the 1943 raid when nearly 350 tons of water crashed into the valleys of the Ruhr, when the Lancasters of 617 squadron breached the giant Moehne and Eder dams with 'blockbuster'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6659H Antonio Mendez / Argo : How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio - the declassified CIA story behind the Oscar-winning filmWINNER OF 'BEST PICTURE' AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE BAFTAS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBESTehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75326H Richard Holmes / Redcoat Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8815H Doug Beattie / An Ordinary Soldier On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
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SALE Quick view sku: 58004H George Millar / The Bruneval Raid : Stealing Hitler's Radar One of the reasons the British won the 'radar war' with Nazi Germany was that we knew precisely how the enemy system worked. This was thanks to a daring commando raid on a German Wurzburg radar site at Bruneval in northern France. Ostensibly, the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: X91108H Anne Simpsons / Blooming Dublin : Choice, Change and Contradiction (Hardback) Dublin is the city of Joyce and verbal swagger. Since the 1970s Dublin has experienced more than its fair share of excitement: a Papal visit; a period of unaccustomed stability following a damaging inflationary dash for growth; the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95722H Conor Cruise O'Brien / The Long Affair : Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution (Hardback) Jefferson and his enthusiasm and commitment to the French Revolution are discussed here. The book also considers his initial motivations and how he sought to best exploit the upheavals in France for his own advantage at home... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X87669H William Shawcross / Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother : The Official Biography (Hardback) Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon,the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, was born on 4 August 1900. It might reasonably have been expected that she would lead a life of ease and privilege but few could have imagined the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5609H Stephen Walker / Hide and Seek : The Irish Priest in the Vatican Who Defied the Nazi Command. the Dramatic True Story of Rivalry and Survival During WWII. (Hardback) Irish Sunday Times Bestseller A true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priest The story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII, when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler, SS Obersturmbanfuhrer, and Monsignor Hugh... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8639H Anthony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble (Hardback) On 16 December 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes on the Belgian/German border. Although Hitler's generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88104H Tim Pat Coogan / Wherever Green is Worn : The Story of the Irish Diaspora (Hardback) Far more Irishmen live outside Ireland than within it. This study aims to reveal why this is, how it has come about and what the realities are today - political, economic, religious and cultural - for the Irish populations in America,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86258H Joseph O'Neill / Blood-Dark Track (Hardback) In this story of a family and its place in history, Joseph O'Neill reconstructs the fate of two men he never met and who never met each other, but who have had a profound effect on his life. His Turkish and Irish grandfathers, Joseph... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW8665H Bob Woodward / Obama's Wars (Hardback) Bob Woodward's new book draws from hundreds of interviews with key administration figures, their deputies and other firsthand sources. In addition, the book is based on extensive documentation, including internal memos, letters,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87830H Robert Hutchinson / Weapons of Mass Destruction : The no-nonsense guide to nuclear, chemical and biological weapons today (Hardback) When Tom Lehrer sang 'We'll all go together when we go', the world was gripped by fear of nuclear holocaust. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the threat was assumed to have gone away. But Libya, Iraq, Iran and North Korea and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: wW7652H Michael Foley / Kings of September : The Day Offaly Denied Kerry Five in a Row (Large Paperback) On the 19th September 1982 Kerry ran out in Croke Park chasing immortality. Victory over Offaly in the All-Ireland football final would secure them five titles in a row, a record certain never to be matched again.It had taken Offaly six... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88638H Stephen Collins / The Power Game : Ireland Under Fianna Fáil (Large Paperback) New Updated EditionThe Power Game lifts the lid on the modern struggles for power within Fianna Fail, including the heaves against Charles Haughey and the shafting of Albert Reynolds. It also explores in detail the careers of Jack Lynch,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6680H Paul Brickhill / The Dam Busters Originally published in 1951 by Evans Brothers this is the story of the 1943 raid when nearly 350 tons of water crashed into the valleys of the Ruhr, when the Lancasters of 617 squadron breached the giant Moehne and Eder dams with 'blockbuster'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6659H Antonio Mendez / Argo : How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio - the declassified CIA story behind the Oscar-winning filmWINNER OF 'BEST PICTURE' AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE BAFTAS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBESTehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75326H Richard Holmes / Redcoat Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X46615E Malise Ruthven / Fury for God: Islamic Attack on America (Large Paperback) In this thoughtful and authoritative book, Malise Ruthven provides an analysis of the terrible events of September 11 in New York and Washington. He discusses the role of the global market, the mystique of the twin towers and of New York... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8385H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers (Large Paperback) Based on personal accounts from the survivors, "Ghost Soldiers" tells of a mission of mercy - the rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945, which was the largest and most successful operation of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82730H Robert Lomas / The Invisible College In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of 12 men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature. At a time when superstition and magic... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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. 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Quick view sku: X95722H Conor Cruise O'Brien / The Long Affair : Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution (Hardback) Jefferson and his enthusiasm and commitment to the French Revolution are discussed here. The book also considers his initial motivations and how he sought to best exploit the upheavals in France for his own advantage at home... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X87669H William Shawcross / Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother : The Official Biography (Hardback) Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon,the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, was born on 4 August 1900. It might reasonably have been expected that she would lead a life of ease and privilege but few could have imagined the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5609H Stephen Walker / Hide and Seek : The Irish Priest in the Vatican Who Defied the Nazi Command. the Dramatic True Story of Rivalry and Survival During WWII. (Hardback) Irish Sunday Times Bestseller A true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priest The story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII, when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler, SS Obersturmbanfuhrer, and Monsignor Hugh... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8639H Anthony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble (Hardback) On 16 December 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes on the Belgian/German border. Although Hitler's generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88104H Tim Pat Coogan / Wherever Green is Worn : The Story of the Irish Diaspora (Hardback) Far more Irishmen live outside Ireland than within it. This study aims to reveal why this is, how it has come about and what the realities are today - political, economic, religious and cultural - for the Irish populations in America,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86258H Joseph O'Neill / Blood-Dark Track (Hardback) In this story of a family and its place in history, Joseph O'Neill reconstructs the fate of two men he never met and who never met each other, but who have had a profound effect on his life. His Turkish and Irish grandfathers, Joseph... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW8665H Bob Woodward / Obama's Wars (Hardback) Bob Woodward's new book draws from hundreds of interviews with key administration figures, their deputies and other firsthand sources. In addition, the book is based on extensive documentation, including internal memos, letters,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87830H Robert Hutchinson / Weapons of Mass Destruction : The no-nonsense guide to nuclear, chemical and biological weapons today (Hardback) When Tom Lehrer sang 'We'll all go together when we go', the world was gripped by fear of nuclear holocaust. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the threat was assumed to have gone away. But Libya, Iraq, Iran and North Korea and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: wW7652H Michael Foley / Kings of September : The Day Offaly Denied Kerry Five in a Row (Large Paperback) On the 19th September 1982 Kerry ran out in Croke Park chasing immortality. Victory over Offaly in the All-Ireland football final would secure them five titles in a row, a record certain never to be matched again.It had taken Offaly six... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88638H Stephen Collins / The Power Game : Ireland Under Fianna Fáil (Large Paperback) New Updated EditionThe Power Game lifts the lid on the modern struggles for power within Fianna Fail, including the heaves against Charles Haughey and the shafting of Albert Reynolds. It also explores in detail the careers of Jack Lynch,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6680H Paul Brickhill / The Dam Busters Originally published in 1951 by Evans Brothers this is the story of the 1943 raid when nearly 350 tons of water crashed into the valleys of the Ruhr, when the Lancasters of 617 squadron breached the giant Moehne and Eder dams with 'blockbuster'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6659H Antonio Mendez / Argo : How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio - the declassified CIA story behind the Oscar-winning filmWINNER OF 'BEST PICTURE' AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE BAFTAS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBESTehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75326H Richard Holmes / Redcoat Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X46615E Malise Ruthven / Fury for God: Islamic Attack on America (Large Paperback) In this thoughtful and authoritative book, Malise Ruthven provides an analysis of the terrible events of September 11 in New York and Washington. He discusses the role of the global market, the mystique of the twin towers and of New York... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8385H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers (Large Paperback) Based on personal accounts from the survivors, "Ghost Soldiers" tells of a mission of mercy - the rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945, which was the largest and most successful operation of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82730H Robert Lomas / The Invisible College In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of 12 men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature. At a time when superstition and magic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96596H Sam Najjair / Soldier for a Summer : One Man's Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising (Large Paperback) Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8561E Simon Cox / Cracking the Da Vinci Code This is the first non-fiction companion to Dan Brown's mega-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code". Its simple A-Z format tells you everything you need to know about the facts behind the fiction, and reveals the latest theories about the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80174H Simon Reid-Henry / Fidel and Che (Large Paperback) FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the peasant's son, scholar, and rebel -- Fidel Castro, and his fateful meeting with the itinerant doctor Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Not yet thirty, and both in exile, they met in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96690H Marc McMenamin / Code-Breaker : The untold story of Richard Hayes the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (Large Paperback) The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8815H Doug Beattie / An Ordinary Soldier On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X87669H William Shawcross / Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother : The Official Biography (Hardback) Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon,the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, was born on 4 August 1900. It might reasonably have been expected that she would lead a life of ease and privilege but few could have imagined the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5609H Stephen Walker / Hide and Seek : The Irish Priest in the Vatican Who Defied the Nazi Command. the Dramatic True Story of Rivalry and Survival During WWII. (Hardback) Irish Sunday Times Bestseller A true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priest The story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII, when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler, SS Obersturmbanfuhrer, and Monsignor Hugh... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8639H Anthony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble (Hardback) On 16 December 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes on the Belgian/German border. Although Hitler's generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88104H Tim Pat Coogan / Wherever Green is Worn : The Story of the Irish Diaspora (Hardback) Far more Irishmen live outside Ireland than within it. This study aims to reveal why this is, how it has come about and what the realities are today - political, economic, religious and cultural - for the Irish populations in America,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86258H Joseph O'Neill / Blood-Dark Track (Hardback) In this story of a family and its place in history, Joseph O'Neill reconstructs the fate of two men he never met and who never met each other, but who have had a profound effect on his life. His Turkish and Irish grandfathers, Joseph... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW8665H Bob Woodward / Obama's Wars (Hardback) Bob Woodward's new book draws from hundreds of interviews with key administration figures, their deputies and other firsthand sources. In addition, the book is based on extensive documentation, including internal memos, letters,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87830H Robert Hutchinson / Weapons of Mass Destruction : The no-nonsense guide to nuclear, chemical and biological weapons today (Hardback) When Tom Lehrer sang 'We'll all go together when we go', the world was gripped by fear of nuclear holocaust. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the threat was assumed to have gone away. But Libya, Iraq, Iran and North Korea and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: wW7652H Michael Foley / Kings of September : The Day Offaly Denied Kerry Five in a Row (Large Paperback) On the 19th September 1982 Kerry ran out in Croke Park chasing immortality. Victory over Offaly in the All-Ireland football final would secure them five titles in a row, a record certain never to be matched again.It had taken Offaly six... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88638H Stephen Collins / The Power Game : Ireland Under Fianna Fáil (Large Paperback) New Updated EditionThe Power Game lifts the lid on the modern struggles for power within Fianna Fail, including the heaves against Charles Haughey and the shafting of Albert Reynolds. It also explores in detail the careers of Jack Lynch,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6680H Paul Brickhill / The Dam Busters Originally published in 1951 by Evans Brothers this is the story of the 1943 raid when nearly 350 tons of water crashed into the valleys of the Ruhr, when the Lancasters of 617 squadron breached the giant Moehne and Eder dams with 'blockbuster'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6659H Antonio Mendez / Argo : How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio - the declassified CIA story behind the Oscar-winning filmWINNER OF 'BEST PICTURE' AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE BAFTAS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBESTehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75326H Richard Holmes / Redcoat Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X46615E Malise Ruthven / Fury for God: Islamic Attack on America (Large Paperback) In this thoughtful and authoritative book, Malise Ruthven provides an analysis of the terrible events of September 11 in New York and Washington. He discusses the role of the global market, the mystique of the twin towers and of New York... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8385H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers (Large Paperback) Based on personal accounts from the survivors, "Ghost Soldiers" tells of a mission of mercy - the rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945, which was the largest and most successful operation of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82730H Robert Lomas / The Invisible College In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of 12 men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature. At a time when superstition and magic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96596H Sam Najjair / Soldier for a Summer : One Man's Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising (Large Paperback) Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8561E Simon Cox / Cracking the Da Vinci Code This is the first non-fiction companion to Dan Brown's mega-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code". Its simple A-Z format tells you everything you need to know about the facts behind the fiction, and reveals the latest theories about the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80174H Simon Reid-Henry / Fidel and Che (Large Paperback) FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the peasant's son, scholar, and rebel -- Fidel Castro, and his fateful meeting with the itinerant doctor Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Not yet thirty, and both in exile, they met in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96690H Marc McMenamin / Code-Breaker : The untold story of Richard Hayes the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (Large Paperback) The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8815H Doug Beattie / An Ordinary Soldier On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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. 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Quick view sku: wW5609H Stephen Walker / Hide and Seek : The Irish Priest in the Vatican Who Defied the Nazi Command. the Dramatic True Story of Rivalry and Survival During WWII. (Hardback) Irish Sunday Times Bestseller A true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priest The story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII, when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler, SS Obersturmbanfuhrer, and Monsignor Hugh... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8639H Anthony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble (Hardback) On 16 December 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes on the Belgian/German border. Although Hitler's generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88104H Tim Pat Coogan / Wherever Green is Worn : The Story of the Irish Diaspora (Hardback) Far more Irishmen live outside Ireland than within it. This study aims to reveal why this is, how it has come about and what the realities are today - political, economic, religious and cultural - for the Irish populations in America,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86258H Joseph O'Neill / Blood-Dark Track (Hardback) In this story of a family and its place in history, Joseph O'Neill reconstructs the fate of two men he never met and who never met each other, but who have had a profound effect on his life. His Turkish and Irish grandfathers, Joseph... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW8665H Bob Woodward / Obama's Wars (Hardback) Bob Woodward's new book draws from hundreds of interviews with key administration figures, their deputies and other firsthand sources. In addition, the book is based on extensive documentation, including internal memos, letters,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87830H Robert Hutchinson / Weapons of Mass Destruction : The no-nonsense guide to nuclear, chemical and biological weapons today (Hardback) When Tom Lehrer sang 'We'll all go together when we go', the world was gripped by fear of nuclear holocaust. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the threat was assumed to have gone away. But Libya, Iraq, Iran and North Korea and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: wW7652H Michael Foley / Kings of September : The Day Offaly Denied Kerry Five in a Row (Large Paperback) On the 19th September 1982 Kerry ran out in Croke Park chasing immortality. Victory over Offaly in the All-Ireland football final would secure them five titles in a row, a record certain never to be matched again.It had taken Offaly six... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88638H Stephen Collins / The Power Game : Ireland Under Fianna Fáil (Large Paperback) New Updated EditionThe Power Game lifts the lid on the modern struggles for power within Fianna Fail, including the heaves against Charles Haughey and the shafting of Albert Reynolds. It also explores in detail the careers of Jack Lynch,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6680H Paul Brickhill / The Dam Busters Originally published in 1951 by Evans Brothers this is the story of the 1943 raid when nearly 350 tons of water crashed into the valleys of the Ruhr, when the Lancasters of 617 squadron breached the giant Moehne and Eder dams with 'blockbuster'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6659H Antonio Mendez / Argo : How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio - the declassified CIA story behind the Oscar-winning filmWINNER OF 'BEST PICTURE' AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE BAFTAS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBESTehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75326H Richard Holmes / Redcoat Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X46615E Malise Ruthven / Fury for God: Islamic Attack on America (Large Paperback) In this thoughtful and authoritative book, Malise Ruthven provides an analysis of the terrible events of September 11 in New York and Washington. He discusses the role of the global market, the mystique of the twin towers and of New York... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8385H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers (Large Paperback) Based on personal accounts from the survivors, "Ghost Soldiers" tells of a mission of mercy - the rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945, which was the largest and most successful operation of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82730H Robert Lomas / The Invisible College In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of 12 men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature. At a time when superstition and magic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96596H Sam Najjair / Soldier for a Summer : One Man's Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising (Large Paperback) Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8561E Simon Cox / Cracking the Da Vinci Code This is the first non-fiction companion to Dan Brown's mega-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code". Its simple A-Z format tells you everything you need to know about the facts behind the fiction, and reveals the latest theories about the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80174H Simon Reid-Henry / Fidel and Che (Large Paperback) FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the peasant's son, scholar, and rebel -- Fidel Castro, and his fateful meeting with the itinerant doctor Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Not yet thirty, and both in exile, they met in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96690H Marc McMenamin / Code-Breaker : The untold story of Richard Hayes the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (Large Paperback) The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8815H Doug Beattie / An Ordinary Soldier On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: wW8639H Anthony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble (Hardback) On 16 December 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes on the Belgian/German border. Although Hitler's generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88104H Tim Pat Coogan / Wherever Green is Worn : The Story of the Irish Diaspora (Hardback) Far more Irishmen live outside Ireland than within it. This study aims to reveal why this is, how it has come about and what the realities are today - political, economic, religious and cultural - for the Irish populations in America,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86258H Joseph O'Neill / Blood-Dark Track (Hardback) In this story of a family and its place in history, Joseph O'Neill reconstructs the fate of two men he never met and who never met each other, but who have had a profound effect on his life. His Turkish and Irish grandfathers, Joseph... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW8665H Bob Woodward / Obama's Wars (Hardback) Bob Woodward's new book draws from hundreds of interviews with key administration figures, their deputies and other firsthand sources. In addition, the book is based on extensive documentation, including internal memos, letters,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87830H Robert Hutchinson / Weapons of Mass Destruction : The no-nonsense guide to nuclear, chemical and biological weapons today (Hardback) When Tom Lehrer sang 'We'll all go together when we go', the world was gripped by fear of nuclear holocaust. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the threat was assumed to have gone away. But Libya, Iraq, Iran and North Korea and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: wW7652H Michael Foley / Kings of September : The Day Offaly Denied Kerry Five in a Row (Large Paperback) On the 19th September 1982 Kerry ran out in Croke Park chasing immortality. Victory over Offaly in the All-Ireland football final would secure them five titles in a row, a record certain never to be matched again.It had taken Offaly six... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88638H Stephen Collins / The Power Game : Ireland Under Fianna Fáil (Large Paperback) New Updated EditionThe Power Game lifts the lid on the modern struggles for power within Fianna Fail, including the heaves against Charles Haughey and the shafting of Albert Reynolds. It also explores in detail the careers of Jack Lynch,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6680H Paul Brickhill / The Dam Busters Originally published in 1951 by Evans Brothers this is the story of the 1943 raid when nearly 350 tons of water crashed into the valleys of the Ruhr, when the Lancasters of 617 squadron breached the giant Moehne and Eder dams with 'blockbuster'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6659H Antonio Mendez / Argo : How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio - the declassified CIA story behind the Oscar-winning filmWINNER OF 'BEST PICTURE' AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE BAFTAS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBESTehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75326H Richard Holmes / Redcoat Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X46615E Malise Ruthven / Fury for God: Islamic Attack on America (Large Paperback) In this thoughtful and authoritative book, Malise Ruthven provides an analysis of the terrible events of September 11 in New York and Washington. He discusses the role of the global market, the mystique of the twin towers and of New York... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8385H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers (Large Paperback) Based on personal accounts from the survivors, "Ghost Soldiers" tells of a mission of mercy - the rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945, which was the largest and most successful operation of... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... 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This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... 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And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88638H Stephen Collins / The Power Game : Ireland Under Fianna Fáil (Large Paperback) New Updated EditionThe Power Game lifts the lid on the modern struggles for power within Fianna Fail, including the heaves against Charles Haughey and the shafting of Albert Reynolds. It also explores in detail the careers of Jack Lynch,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6680H Paul Brickhill / The Dam Busters Originally published in 1951 by Evans Brothers this is the story of the 1943 raid when nearly 350 tons of water crashed into the valleys of the Ruhr, when the Lancasters of 617 squadron breached the giant Moehne and Eder dams with 'blockbuster'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6659H Antonio Mendez / Argo : How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio - the declassified CIA story behind the Oscar-winning filmWINNER OF 'BEST PICTURE' AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE BAFTAS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBESTehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75326H Richard Holmes / Redcoat Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X46615E Malise Ruthven / Fury for God: Islamic Attack on America (Large Paperback) In this thoughtful and authoritative book, Malise Ruthven provides an analysis of the terrible events of September 11 in New York and Washington. He discusses the role of the global market, the mystique of the twin towers and of New York... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8385H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers (Large Paperback) Based on personal accounts from the survivors, "Ghost Soldiers" tells of a mission of mercy - the rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945, which was the largest and most successful operation of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82730H Robert Lomas / The Invisible College In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of 12 men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature. At a time when superstition and magic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96596H Sam Najjair / Soldier for a Summer : One Man's Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising (Large Paperback) Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8561E Simon Cox / Cracking the Da Vinci Code This is the first non-fiction companion to Dan Brown's mega-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code". Its simple A-Z format tells you everything you need to know about the facts behind the fiction, and reveals the latest theories about the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80174H Simon Reid-Henry / Fidel and Che (Large Paperback) FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the peasant's son, scholar, and rebel -- Fidel Castro, and his fateful meeting with the itinerant doctor Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Not yet thirty, and both in exile, they met in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96690H Marc McMenamin / Code-Breaker : The untold story of Richard Hayes the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (Large Paperback) The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8815H Doug Beattie / An Ordinary Soldier On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: X86258H Joseph O'Neill / Blood-Dark Track (Hardback) In this story of a family and its place in history, Joseph O'Neill reconstructs the fate of two men he never met and who never met each other, but who have had a profound effect on his life. His Turkish and Irish grandfathers, Joseph... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW8665H Bob Woodward / Obama's Wars (Hardback) Bob Woodward's new book draws from hundreds of interviews with key administration figures, their deputies and other firsthand sources. In addition, the book is based on extensive documentation, including internal memos, letters,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87830H Robert Hutchinson / Weapons of Mass Destruction : The no-nonsense guide to nuclear, chemical and biological weapons today (Hardback) When Tom Lehrer sang 'We'll all go together when we go', the world was gripped by fear of nuclear holocaust. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the threat was assumed to have gone away. But Libya, Iraq, Iran and North Korea and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: wW7652H Michael Foley / Kings of September : The Day Offaly Denied Kerry Five in a Row (Large Paperback) On the 19th September 1982 Kerry ran out in Croke Park chasing immortality. Victory over Offaly in the All-Ireland football final would secure them five titles in a row, a record certain never to be matched again.It had taken Offaly six... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88638H Stephen Collins / The Power Game : Ireland Under Fianna Fáil (Large Paperback) New Updated EditionThe Power Game lifts the lid on the modern struggles for power within Fianna Fail, including the heaves against Charles Haughey and the shafting of Albert Reynolds. It also explores in detail the careers of Jack Lynch,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6680H Paul Brickhill / The Dam Busters Originally published in 1951 by Evans Brothers this is the story of the 1943 raid when nearly 350 tons of water crashed into the valleys of the Ruhr, when the Lancasters of 617 squadron breached the giant Moehne and Eder dams with 'blockbuster'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6659H Antonio Mendez / Argo : How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio - the declassified CIA story behind the Oscar-winning filmWINNER OF 'BEST PICTURE' AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE BAFTAS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBESTehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75326H Richard Holmes / Redcoat Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X46615E Malise Ruthven / Fury for God: Islamic Attack on America (Large Paperback) In this thoughtful and authoritative book, Malise Ruthven provides an analysis of the terrible events of September 11 in New York and Washington. He discusses the role of the global market, the mystique of the twin towers and of New York... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8385H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers (Large Paperback) Based on personal accounts from the survivors, "Ghost Soldiers" tells of a mission of mercy - the rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945, which was the largest and most successful operation of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82730H Robert Lomas / The Invisible College In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of 12 men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature. At a time when superstition and magic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96596H Sam Najjair / Soldier for a Summer : One Man's Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising (Large Paperback) Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8561E Simon Cox / Cracking the Da Vinci Code This is the first non-fiction companion to Dan Brown's mega-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code". Its simple A-Z format tells you everything you need to know about the facts behind the fiction, and reveals the latest theories about the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80174H Simon Reid-Henry / Fidel and Che (Large Paperback) FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the peasant's son, scholar, and rebel -- Fidel Castro, and his fateful meeting with the itinerant doctor Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Not yet thirty, and both in exile, they met in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96690H Marc McMenamin / Code-Breaker : The untold story of Richard Hayes the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (Large Paperback) The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... 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This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80174H Simon Reid-Henry / Fidel and Che (Large Paperback) FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the peasant's son, scholar, and rebel -- Fidel Castro, and his fateful meeting with the itinerant doctor Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Not yet thirty, and both in exile, they met in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96690H Marc McMenamin / Code-Breaker : The untold story of Richard Hayes the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (Large Paperback) The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... 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And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: X87830H Robert Hutchinson / Weapons of Mass Destruction : The no-nonsense guide to nuclear, chemical and biological weapons today (Hardback) When Tom Lehrer sang 'We'll all go together when we go', the world was gripped by fear of nuclear holocaust. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the threat was assumed to have gone away. But Libya, Iraq, Iran and North Korea and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: wW7652H Michael Foley / Kings of September : The Day Offaly Denied Kerry Five in a Row (Large Paperback) On the 19th September 1982 Kerry ran out in Croke Park chasing immortality. Victory over Offaly in the All-Ireland football final would secure them five titles in a row, a record certain never to be matched again.It had taken Offaly six... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88638H Stephen Collins / The Power Game : Ireland Under Fianna Fáil (Large Paperback) New Updated EditionThe Power Game lifts the lid on the modern struggles for power within Fianna Fail, including the heaves against Charles Haughey and the shafting of Albert Reynolds. It also explores in detail the careers of Jack Lynch,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6680H Paul Brickhill / The Dam Busters Originally published in 1951 by Evans Brothers this is the story of the 1943 raid when nearly 350 tons of water crashed into the valleys of the Ruhr, when the Lancasters of 617 squadron breached the giant Moehne and Eder dams with 'blockbuster'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6659H Antonio Mendez / Argo : How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio - the declassified CIA story behind the Oscar-winning filmWINNER OF 'BEST PICTURE' AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE BAFTAS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBESTehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75326H Richard Holmes / Redcoat Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X46615E Malise Ruthven / Fury for God: Islamic Attack on America (Large Paperback) In this thoughtful and authoritative book, Malise Ruthven provides an analysis of the terrible events of September 11 in New York and Washington. He discusses the role of the global market, the mystique of the twin towers and of New York... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8385H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers (Large Paperback) Based on personal accounts from the survivors, "Ghost Soldiers" tells of a mission of mercy - the rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945, which was the largest and most successful operation of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82730H Robert Lomas / The Invisible College In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of 12 men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature. At a time when superstition and magic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96596H Sam Najjair / Soldier for a Summer : One Man's Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising (Large Paperback) Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8561E Simon Cox / Cracking the Da Vinci Code This is the first non-fiction companion to Dan Brown's mega-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code". Its simple A-Z format tells you everything you need to know about the facts behind the fiction, and reveals the latest theories about the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80174H Simon Reid-Henry / Fidel and Che (Large Paperback) FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the peasant's son, scholar, and rebel -- Fidel Castro, and his fateful meeting with the itinerant doctor Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Not yet thirty, and both in exile, they met in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96690H Marc McMenamin / Code-Breaker : The untold story of Richard Hayes the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (Large Paperback) The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8815H Doug Beattie / An Ordinary Soldier On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... 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Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: wW7652H Michael Foley / Kings of September : The Day Offaly Denied Kerry Five in a Row (Large Paperback) On the 19th September 1982 Kerry ran out in Croke Park chasing immortality. Victory over Offaly in the All-Ireland football final would secure them five titles in a row, a record certain never to be matched again.It had taken Offaly six... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88638H Stephen Collins / The Power Game : Ireland Under Fianna Fáil (Large Paperback) New Updated EditionThe Power Game lifts the lid on the modern struggles for power within Fianna Fail, including the heaves against Charles Haughey and the shafting of Albert Reynolds. It also explores in detail the careers of Jack Lynch,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6680H Paul Brickhill / The Dam Busters Originally published in 1951 by Evans Brothers this is the story of the 1943 raid when nearly 350 tons of water crashed into the valleys of the Ruhr, when the Lancasters of 617 squadron breached the giant Moehne and Eder dams with 'blockbuster'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6659H Antonio Mendez / Argo : How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio - the declassified CIA story behind the Oscar-winning filmWINNER OF 'BEST PICTURE' AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE BAFTAS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBESTehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75326H Richard Holmes / Redcoat Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X46615E Malise Ruthven / Fury for God: Islamic Attack on America (Large Paperback) In this thoughtful and authoritative book, Malise Ruthven provides an analysis of the terrible events of September 11 in New York and Washington. He discusses the role of the global market, the mystique of the twin towers and of New York... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8385H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers (Large Paperback) Based on personal accounts from the survivors, "Ghost Soldiers" tells of a mission of mercy - the rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945, which was the largest and most successful operation of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82730H Robert Lomas / The Invisible College In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of 12 men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature. At a time when superstition and magic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96596H Sam Najjair / Soldier for a Summer : One Man's Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising (Large Paperback) Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8561E Simon Cox / Cracking the Da Vinci Code This is the first non-fiction companion to Dan Brown's mega-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code". 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8815H Doug Beattie / An Ordinary Soldier On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: X88638H Stephen Collins / The Power Game : Ireland Under Fianna Fáil (Large Paperback) New Updated EditionThe Power Game lifts the lid on the modern struggles for power within Fianna Fail, including the heaves against Charles Haughey and the shafting of Albert Reynolds. It also explores in detail the careers of Jack Lynch,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6680H Paul Brickhill / The Dam Busters Originally published in 1951 by Evans Brothers this is the story of the 1943 raid when nearly 350 tons of water crashed into the valleys of the Ruhr, when the Lancasters of 617 squadron breached the giant Moehne and Eder dams with 'blockbuster'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6659H Antonio Mendez / Argo : How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio - the declassified CIA story behind the Oscar-winning filmWINNER OF 'BEST PICTURE' AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE BAFTAS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBESTehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75326H Richard Holmes / Redcoat Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X46615E Malise Ruthven / Fury for God: Islamic Attack on America (Large Paperback) In this thoughtful and authoritative book, Malise Ruthven provides an analysis of the terrible events of September 11 in New York and Washington. He discusses the role of the global market, the mystique of the twin towers and of New York... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8385H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers (Large Paperback) Based on personal accounts from the survivors, "Ghost Soldiers" tells of a mission of mercy - the rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945, which was the largest and most successful operation of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82730H Robert Lomas / The Invisible College In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of 12 men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature. At a time when superstition and magic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96596H Sam Najjair / Soldier for a Summer : One Man's Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising (Large Paperback) Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8561E Simon Cox / Cracking the Da Vinci Code This is the first non-fiction companion to Dan Brown's mega-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code". Its simple A-Z format tells you everything you need to know about the facts behind the fiction, and reveals the latest theories about the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80174H Simon Reid-Henry / Fidel and Che (Large Paperback) FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the peasant's son, scholar, and rebel -- Fidel Castro, and his fateful meeting with the itinerant doctor Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Not yet thirty, and both in exile, they met in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96690H Marc McMenamin / Code-Breaker : The untold story of Richard Hayes the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (Large Paperback) The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8815H Doug Beattie / An Ordinary Soldier On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR6680H Paul Brickhill / The Dam Busters Originally published in 1951 by Evans Brothers this is the story of the 1943 raid when nearly 350 tons of water crashed into the valleys of the Ruhr, when the Lancasters of 617 squadron breached the giant Moehne and Eder dams with 'blockbuster'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6659H Antonio Mendez / Argo : How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio - the declassified CIA story behind the Oscar-winning filmWINNER OF 'BEST PICTURE' AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE BAFTAS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBESTehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75326H Richard Holmes / Redcoat Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X46615E Malise Ruthven / Fury for God: Islamic Attack on America (Large Paperback) In this thoughtful and authoritative book, Malise Ruthven provides an analysis of the terrible events of September 11 in New York and Washington. He discusses the role of the global market, the mystique of the twin towers and of New York... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8385H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers (Large Paperback) Based on personal accounts from the survivors, "Ghost Soldiers" tells of a mission of mercy - the rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945, which was the largest and most successful operation of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82730H Robert Lomas / The Invisible College In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of 12 men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature. At a time when superstition and magic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96596H Sam Najjair / Soldier for a Summer : One Man's Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising (Large Paperback) Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8561E Simon Cox / Cracking the Da Vinci Code This is the first non-fiction companion to Dan Brown's mega-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code". Its simple A-Z format tells you everything you need to know about the facts behind the fiction, and reveals the latest theories about the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80174H Simon Reid-Henry / Fidel and Che (Large Paperback) FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the peasant's son, scholar, and rebel -- Fidel Castro, and his fateful meeting with the itinerant doctor Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Not yet thirty, and both in exile, they met in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96690H Marc McMenamin / Code-Breaker : The untold story of Richard Hayes the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (Large Paperback) The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8815H Doug Beattie / An Ordinary Soldier On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR6659H Antonio Mendez / Argo : How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio - the declassified CIA story behind the Oscar-winning filmWINNER OF 'BEST PICTURE' AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE BAFTAS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBESTehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75326H Richard Holmes / Redcoat Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X46615E Malise Ruthven / Fury for God: Islamic Attack on America (Large Paperback) In this thoughtful and authoritative book, Malise Ruthven provides an analysis of the terrible events of September 11 in New York and Washington. He discusses the role of the global market, the mystique of the twin towers and of New York... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8385H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers (Large Paperback) Based on personal accounts from the survivors, "Ghost Soldiers" tells of a mission of mercy - the rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945, which was the largest and most successful operation of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82730H Robert Lomas / The Invisible College In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of 12 men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature. At a time when superstition and magic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96596H Sam Najjair / Soldier for a Summer : One Man's Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising (Large Paperback) Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8561E Simon Cox / Cracking the Da Vinci Code This is the first non-fiction companion to Dan Brown's mega-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code". Its simple A-Z format tells you everything you need to know about the facts behind the fiction, and reveals the latest theories about the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80174H Simon Reid-Henry / Fidel and Che (Large Paperback) FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the peasant's son, scholar, and rebel -- Fidel Castro, and his fateful meeting with the itinerant doctor Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Not yet thirty, and both in exile, they met in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96690H Marc McMenamin / Code-Breaker : The untold story of Richard Hayes the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (Large Paperback) The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8815H Doug Beattie / An Ordinary Soldier On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 75326H Richard Holmes / Redcoat Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X46615E Malise Ruthven / Fury for God: Islamic Attack on America (Large Paperback) In this thoughtful and authoritative book, Malise Ruthven provides an analysis of the terrible events of September 11 in New York and Washington. He discusses the role of the global market, the mystique of the twin towers and of New York... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8385H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers (Large Paperback) Based on personal accounts from the survivors, "Ghost Soldiers" tells of a mission of mercy - the rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945, which was the largest and most successful operation of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82730H Robert Lomas / The Invisible College In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of 12 men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature. At a time when superstition and magic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96596H Sam Najjair / Soldier for a Summer : One Man's Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising (Large Paperback) Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8561E Simon Cox / Cracking the Da Vinci Code This is the first non-fiction companion to Dan Brown's mega-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code". Its simple A-Z format tells you everything you need to know about the facts behind the fiction, and reveals the latest theories about the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80174H Simon Reid-Henry / Fidel and Che (Large Paperback) FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the peasant's son, scholar, and rebel -- Fidel Castro, and his fateful meeting with the itinerant doctor Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Not yet thirty, and both in exile, they met in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96690H Marc McMenamin / Code-Breaker : The untold story of Richard Hayes the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (Large Paperback) The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8815H Doug Beattie / An Ordinary Soldier On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: X46615E Malise Ruthven / Fury for God: Islamic Attack on America (Large Paperback) In this thoughtful and authoritative book, Malise Ruthven provides an analysis of the terrible events of September 11 in New York and Washington. He discusses the role of the global market, the mystique of the twin towers and of New York... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8385H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers (Large Paperback) Based on personal accounts from the survivors, "Ghost Soldiers" tells of a mission of mercy - the rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945, which was the largest and most successful operation of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82730H Robert Lomas / The Invisible College In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of 12 men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature. At a time when superstition and magic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96596H Sam Najjair / Soldier for a Summer : One Man's Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising (Large Paperback) Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8561E Simon Cox / Cracking the Da Vinci Code This is the first non-fiction companion to Dan Brown's mega-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code". Its simple A-Z format tells you everything you need to know about the facts behind the fiction, and reveals the latest theories about the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80174H Simon Reid-Henry / Fidel and Che (Large Paperback) FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the peasant's son, scholar, and rebel -- Fidel Castro, and his fateful meeting with the itinerant doctor Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Not yet thirty, and both in exile, they met in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96690H Marc McMenamin / Code-Breaker : The untold story of Richard Hayes the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (Large Paperback) The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8815H Doug Beattie / An Ordinary Soldier On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: wW8385H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers (Large Paperback) Based on personal accounts from the survivors, "Ghost Soldiers" tells of a mission of mercy - the rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945, which was the largest and most successful operation of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82730H Robert Lomas / The Invisible College In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of 12 men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature. At a time when superstition and magic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96596H Sam Najjair / Soldier for a Summer : One Man's Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising (Large Paperback) Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8561E Simon Cox / Cracking the Da Vinci Code This is the first non-fiction companion to Dan Brown's mega-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code". Its simple A-Z format tells you everything you need to know about the facts behind the fiction, and reveals the latest theories about the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80174H Simon Reid-Henry / Fidel and Che (Large Paperback) FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the peasant's son, scholar, and rebel -- Fidel Castro, and his fateful meeting with the itinerant doctor Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Not yet thirty, and both in exile, they met in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96690H Marc McMenamin / Code-Breaker : The untold story of Richard Hayes the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (Large Paperback) The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8815H Doug Beattie / An Ordinary Soldier On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 82730H Robert Lomas / The Invisible College In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of 12 men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature. At a time when superstition and magic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96596H Sam Najjair / Soldier for a Summer : One Man's Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising (Large Paperback) Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8561E Simon Cox / Cracking the Da Vinci Code This is the first non-fiction companion to Dan Brown's mega-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code". Its simple A-Z format tells you everything you need to know about the facts behind the fiction, and reveals the latest theories about the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80174H Simon Reid-Henry / Fidel and Che (Large Paperback) FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the peasant's son, scholar, and rebel -- Fidel Castro, and his fateful meeting with the itinerant doctor Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Not yet thirty, and both in exile, they met in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96690H Marc McMenamin / Code-Breaker : The untold story of Richard Hayes the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (Large Paperback) The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8815H Doug Beattie / An Ordinary Soldier On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: X96596H Sam Najjair / Soldier for a Summer : One Man's Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising (Large Paperback) Housam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8561E Simon Cox / Cracking the Da Vinci Code This is the first non-fiction companion to Dan Brown's mega-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code". Its simple A-Z format tells you everything you need to know about the facts behind the fiction, and reveals the latest theories about the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80174H Simon Reid-Henry / Fidel and Che (Large Paperback) FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the peasant's son, scholar, and rebel -- Fidel Castro, and his fateful meeting with the itinerant doctor Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Not yet thirty, and both in exile, they met in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96690H Marc McMenamin / Code-Breaker : The untold story of Richard Hayes the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (Large Paperback) The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8815H Doug Beattie / An Ordinary Soldier On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
SALE Quick view sku: 8561E Simon Cox / Cracking the Da Vinci Code This is the first non-fiction companion to Dan Brown's mega-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code". Its simple A-Z format tells you everything you need to know about the facts behind the fiction, and reveals the latest theories about the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: X80174H Simon Reid-Henry / Fidel and Che (Large Paperback) FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the peasant's son, scholar, and rebel -- Fidel Castro, and his fateful meeting with the itinerant doctor Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Not yet thirty, and both in exile, they met in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96690H Marc McMenamin / Code-Breaker : The untold story of Richard Hayes the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (Large Paperback) The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8815H Doug Beattie / An Ordinary Soldier On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: X96690H Marc McMenamin / Code-Breaker : The untold story of Richard Hayes the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII (Large Paperback) The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8815H Doug Beattie / An Ordinary Soldier On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
SALE Quick view sku: 8423E Christopher Portway / A Dangerous Devotion During the ferocious Normandy campaign of World War Two, 20-year-old Christopher Portway was taken prisoner, transported to Silesia and forced to work as a slave in a Polish coalmine. Escaping on foot and by train he was eventually caught... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: 58461H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives; a subject of enduring fascination.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: rR8815H Doug Beattie / An Ordinary Soldier On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... 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And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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. 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Quick view sku: rR6477H Mark Curtis / Web Of Deceit In his explosive new book, Mark Curtis reveals a new picture of Britain's role in the world since 1945 and in the 'war against terrorism' by offering a comprehensive critique of the Blair government's foreign policy. Curtis argues that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
SALE Quick view sku: 73859H John Ray / The Battle Of Britain Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted different ideas and air defences... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: rR4109H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... 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And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
SALE Quick view sku: 37395H Derek Robinson / War Story June, 1916. Fresh out of public school and setting the skies as his limit, Oliver Paxton is convinced that his king and country are relying on him to "smite the hun". Leading his first solo flight, Oliver's mission is to take a convoy... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: 57046H David Rooney / Military Mavericks What makes a maverick? This study of heroes who broke the rules shows how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view sku: BIG139 Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The late 1990s saw a number of attacks against American... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR12541H Tony Judt / Ill Fares The Land 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
SALE Quick view sku: 57518H Alex Salmond / The Dream Shall Never Die The completely revised and updated paperback edition of Alex Salmond's referendum dairy, which contains an exclusive new 45-day diary.In May 2015 the SNP changed the face of British politics when they swept to a historic victory in the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: rR1024H,rR3608H Mimi Alford / Once upon a Secret The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.During the 18 months that Mimi Alford was President John F Kennedy's lover,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR10069H William Dalrymple / The Age of Kali : Travels and Encounters in India William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77110H James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7198H Frank McDonough / The Gestapo 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 55137H Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81320H Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81455H Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67969H Ryszard Kapuscinski / The Soccer War Kapuscinski has witnessed 27 revolutions and coups. This is his account of the revolutions he has seen, a chronicle of the Third World establishing its independence and coming into its own. The book consists of more than 20 set pieces -... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
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