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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... 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The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2516 Jim Maher - The Oath is Dead and Gone - HB - BRAND NEW - Fianna Fáil & the Treaty The Oath of Allegiance clause in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which obliged all elected representatives to swear allegiance to the British monarch, was perhaps the major immediate cause of the Civil War. The anti-Treatyites were defeated in the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 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: BIG756 Raymond Murray - The SAS in Ireland - HB Edition 1990 - Northern Ireland Troubles A hardcover first edition, Mercier Press Cork, of Raymond Murray's account of the role the SAS played in Northern Ireland from the 1970's onwards. Also includes an examination of the events surrounding the Gibraltar attacks and what followed at the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91859H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Large Paperback) An explosive expose of the disastrousness of US involvement in Iraq from 1991 onwards. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1865 T.P Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers - Irish Military History PB - 1980 ( Originally1969 ) On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. On the following day, the mutineers sent... 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MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... 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Quick view First World War Thomas Kettle - The Day's Burden : Writings - PB - Gill & Macmillan - 1968 - WW1 This edition published by Gill & Macmillan, 1968. A collection of essays ' political, literary and miscellaneous' as well as a brief essay by Kettle's sister published after his death on the Somme in 1916. Light edgewear to the paper... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88202H,rR3178H Antony Beevor / Berlin : The Downfall 1945: The Number One Bestseller THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ON THE LAST DAYS OF THE THIRD REICH'Recounts, in harrowing detail and with formidable skill, the brutal death-throes of Hitler's Reich at the hands of the rampaging Red Army' Boyd Tonkin, Independent'An irresistibly... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92144H Norman Davies / Europe at War 1939-1945 : No Simple Victory (Hardback) What was the biggest operation of World War II in Europe? It wasn't D-Day* What was the name of the largest concentration camp operating in Europe between 1939 and 1945. It wasn't Auschwitz** What European nationality lost the largest number of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4700H Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback) 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: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91969H General Mike Jackson / Soldier : The Autobiography (Large Paperback) General Sir Mike Jackson's career in the British Army has spanned almost forty-five years. His autobiography exhibits all the qualities for which he is admired: professionalism, honesty, exuberance and a sense of humour. Most of all it gives a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4831H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA (Hardback) Ed Moloney's authoritative and devastating Penguin history of the IRA is just around the corner' SUNDAY TIMES 11.12.01For decades the British and Irish have 'got used to' a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72046H,77776H Michael Burns / Bader : Man And His Men Despite losing both legs in a pre-war accident, Douglas Bader returned to active service, leading squadrons to victory in the Battle of Britain. This volume portrays Bader as a pilot and leader, whose endeavours and techniques were emulated by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2983H Max Hastings / The Secret War : Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 `As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times`Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph`A serious work... 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 Quick view sku: X96341H Antony Beevor / D-Day : The Battle for Normandy (Hardback) The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2516 Jim Maher - The Oath is Dead and Gone - HB - BRAND NEW - Fianna Fáil & the Treaty The Oath of Allegiance clause in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which obliged all elected representatives to swear allegiance to the British monarch, was perhaps the major immediate cause of the Civil War. The anti-Treatyites were defeated in the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 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: BIG756 Raymond Murray - The SAS in Ireland - HB Edition 1990 - Northern Ireland Troubles A hardcover first edition, Mercier Press Cork, of Raymond Murray's account of the role the SAS played in Northern Ireland from the 1970's onwards. Also includes an examination of the events surrounding the Gibraltar attacks and what followed at the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91859H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Large Paperback) An explosive expose of the disastrousness of US involvement in Iraq from 1991 onwards. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1865 T.P Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers - Irish Military History PB - 1980 ( Originally1969 ) On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. On the following day, the mutineers sent... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 52697H,62684H Patrick Cockburn / The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011 Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 88202H,rR3178H Antony Beevor / Berlin : The Downfall 1945: The Number One Bestseller THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ON THE LAST DAYS OF THE THIRD REICH'Recounts, in harrowing detail and with formidable skill, the brutal death-throes of Hitler's Reich at the hands of the rampaging Red Army' Boyd Tonkin, Independent'An irresistibly... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92144H Norman Davies / Europe at War 1939-1945 : No Simple Victory (Hardback) What was the biggest operation of World War II in Europe? It wasn't D-Day* What was the name of the largest concentration camp operating in Europe between 1939 and 1945. It wasn't Auschwitz** What European nationality lost the largest number of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4700H Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback) 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: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91969H General Mike Jackson / Soldier : The Autobiography (Large Paperback) General Sir Mike Jackson's career in the British Army has spanned almost forty-five years. His autobiography exhibits all the qualities for which he is admired: professionalism, honesty, exuberance and a sense of humour. Most of all it gives a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4831H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA (Hardback) Ed Moloney's authoritative and devastating Penguin history of the IRA is just around the corner' SUNDAY TIMES 11.12.01For decades the British and Irish have 'got used to' a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72046H,77776H Michael Burns / Bader : Man And His Men Despite losing both legs in a pre-war accident, Douglas Bader returned to active service, leading squadrons to victory in the Battle of Britain. This volume portrays Bader as a pilot and leader, whose endeavours and techniques were emulated by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2983H Max Hastings / The Secret War : Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 `As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times`Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph`A serious work... 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 Quick view sku: X96341H Antony Beevor / D-Day : The Battle for Normandy (Hardback) The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2516 Jim Maher - The Oath is Dead and Gone - HB - BRAND NEW - Fianna Fáil & the Treaty The Oath of Allegiance clause in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which obliged all elected representatives to swear allegiance to the British monarch, was perhaps the major immediate cause of the Civil War. The anti-Treatyites were defeated in the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 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: BIG756 Raymond Murray - The SAS in Ireland - HB Edition 1990 - Northern Ireland Troubles A hardcover first edition, Mercier Press Cork, of Raymond Murray's account of the role the SAS played in Northern Ireland from the 1970's onwards. Also includes an examination of the events surrounding the Gibraltar attacks and what followed at the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91859H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Large Paperback) An explosive expose of the disastrousness of US involvement in Iraq from 1991 onwards. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1865 T.P Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers - Irish Military History PB - 1980 ( Originally1969 ) On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. On the following day, the mutineers sent... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 52697H,62684H Patrick Cockburn / The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011 Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X92144H Norman Davies / Europe at War 1939-1945 : No Simple Victory (Hardback) What was the biggest operation of World War II in Europe? It wasn't D-Day* What was the name of the largest concentration camp operating in Europe between 1939 and 1945. It wasn't Auschwitz** What European nationality lost the largest number of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4700H Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback) 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: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91969H General Mike Jackson / Soldier : The Autobiography (Large Paperback) General Sir Mike Jackson's career in the British Army has spanned almost forty-five years. His autobiography exhibits all the qualities for which he is admired: professionalism, honesty, exuberance and a sense of humour. Most of all it gives a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4831H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA (Hardback) Ed Moloney's authoritative and devastating Penguin history of the IRA is just around the corner' SUNDAY TIMES 11.12.01For decades the British and Irish have 'got used to' a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72046H,77776H Michael Burns / Bader : Man And His Men Despite losing both legs in a pre-war accident, Douglas Bader returned to active service, leading squadrons to victory in the Battle of Britain. This volume portrays Bader as a pilot and leader, whose endeavours and techniques were emulated by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2983H Max Hastings / The Secret War : Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 `As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times`Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph`A serious work... 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 Quick view sku: X96341H Antony Beevor / D-Day : The Battle for Normandy (Hardback) The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2516 Jim Maher - The Oath is Dead and Gone - HB - BRAND NEW - Fianna Fáil & the Treaty The Oath of Allegiance clause in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which obliged all elected representatives to swear allegiance to the British monarch, was perhaps the major immediate cause of the Civil War. The anti-Treatyites were defeated in the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 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: BIG756 Raymond Murray - The SAS in Ireland - HB Edition 1990 - Northern Ireland Troubles A hardcover first edition, Mercier Press Cork, of Raymond Murray's account of the role the SAS played in Northern Ireland from the 1970's onwards. Also includes an examination of the events surrounding the Gibraltar attacks and what followed at the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91859H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Large Paperback) An explosive expose of the disastrousness of US involvement in Iraq from 1991 onwards. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1865 T.P Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers - Irish Military History PB - 1980 ( Originally1969 ) On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. On the following day, the mutineers sent... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 52697H,62684H Patrick Cockburn / The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011 Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW4700H Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback) 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: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91969H General Mike Jackson / Soldier : The Autobiography (Large Paperback) General Sir Mike Jackson's career in the British Army has spanned almost forty-five years. His autobiography exhibits all the qualities for which he is admired: professionalism, honesty, exuberance and a sense of humour. Most of all it gives a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4831H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA (Hardback) Ed Moloney's authoritative and devastating Penguin history of the IRA is just around the corner' SUNDAY TIMES 11.12.01For decades the British and Irish have 'got used to' a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72046H,77776H Michael Burns / Bader : Man And His Men Despite losing both legs in a pre-war accident, Douglas Bader returned to active service, leading squadrons to victory in the Battle of Britain. This volume portrays Bader as a pilot and leader, whose endeavours and techniques were emulated by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2983H Max Hastings / The Secret War : Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 `As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times`Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph`A serious work... 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 Quick view sku: X96341H Antony Beevor / D-Day : The Battle for Normandy (Hardback) The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2516 Jim Maher - The Oath is Dead and Gone - HB - BRAND NEW - Fianna Fáil & the Treaty The Oath of Allegiance clause in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which obliged all elected representatives to swear allegiance to the British monarch, was perhaps the major immediate cause of the Civil War. The anti-Treatyites were defeated in the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 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: BIG756 Raymond Murray - The SAS in Ireland - HB Edition 1990 - Northern Ireland Troubles A hardcover first edition, Mercier Press Cork, of Raymond Murray's account of the role the SAS played in Northern Ireland from the 1970's onwards. Also includes an examination of the events surrounding the Gibraltar attacks and what followed at the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91859H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Large Paperback) An explosive expose of the disastrousness of US involvement in Iraq from 1991 onwards. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1865 T.P Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers - Irish Military History PB - 1980 ( Originally1969 ) On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. On the following day, the mutineers sent... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 52697H,62684H Patrick Cockburn / The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011 Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X91969H General Mike Jackson / Soldier : The Autobiography (Large Paperback) General Sir Mike Jackson's career in the British Army has spanned almost forty-five years. His autobiography exhibits all the qualities for which he is admired: professionalism, honesty, exuberance and a sense of humour. Most of all it gives a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4831H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA (Hardback) Ed Moloney's authoritative and devastating Penguin history of the IRA is just around the corner' SUNDAY TIMES 11.12.01For decades the British and Irish have 'got used to' a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72046H,77776H Michael Burns / Bader : Man And His Men Despite losing both legs in a pre-war accident, Douglas Bader returned to active service, leading squadrons to victory in the Battle of Britain. This volume portrays Bader as a pilot and leader, whose endeavours and techniques were emulated by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2983H Max Hastings / The Secret War : Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 `As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times`Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph`A serious work... 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 Quick view sku: X96341H Antony Beevor / D-Day : The Battle for Normandy (Hardback) The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2516 Jim Maher - The Oath is Dead and Gone - HB - BRAND NEW - Fianna Fáil & the Treaty The Oath of Allegiance clause in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which obliged all elected representatives to swear allegiance to the British monarch, was perhaps the major immediate cause of the Civil War. The anti-Treatyites were defeated in the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 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: BIG756 Raymond Murray - The SAS in Ireland - HB Edition 1990 - Northern Ireland Troubles A hardcover first edition, Mercier Press Cork, of Raymond Murray's account of the role the SAS played in Northern Ireland from the 1970's onwards. Also includes an examination of the events surrounding the Gibraltar attacks and what followed at the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91859H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Large Paperback) An explosive expose of the disastrousness of US involvement in Iraq from 1991 onwards. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1865 T.P Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers - Irish Military History PB - 1980 ( Originally1969 ) On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. On the following day, the mutineers sent... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 52697H,62684H Patrick Cockburn / The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011 Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW4831H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA (Hardback) Ed Moloney's authoritative and devastating Penguin history of the IRA is just around the corner' SUNDAY TIMES 11.12.01For decades the British and Irish have 'got used to' a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72046H,77776H Michael Burns / Bader : Man And His Men Despite losing both legs in a pre-war accident, Douglas Bader returned to active service, leading squadrons to victory in the Battle of Britain. This volume portrays Bader as a pilot and leader, whose endeavours and techniques were emulated by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2983H Max Hastings / The Secret War : Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 `As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times`Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph`A serious work... 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 Quick view sku: X96341H Antony Beevor / D-Day : The Battle for Normandy (Hardback) The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2516 Jim Maher - The Oath is Dead and Gone - HB - BRAND NEW - Fianna Fáil & the Treaty The Oath of Allegiance clause in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which obliged all elected representatives to swear allegiance to the British monarch, was perhaps the major immediate cause of the Civil War. The anti-Treatyites were defeated in the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 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: BIG756 Raymond Murray - The SAS in Ireland - HB Edition 1990 - Northern Ireland Troubles A hardcover first edition, Mercier Press Cork, of Raymond Murray's account of the role the SAS played in Northern Ireland from the 1970's onwards. Also includes an examination of the events surrounding the Gibraltar attacks and what followed at the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91859H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Large Paperback) An explosive expose of the disastrousness of US involvement in Iraq from 1991 onwards. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1865 T.P Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers - Irish Military History PB - 1980 ( Originally1969 ) On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. On the following day, the mutineers sent... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 52697H,62684H Patrick Cockburn / The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011 Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 72046H,77776H Michael Burns / Bader : Man And His Men Despite losing both legs in a pre-war accident, Douglas Bader returned to active service, leading squadrons to victory in the Battle of Britain. This volume portrays Bader as a pilot and leader, whose endeavours and techniques were emulated by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2983H Max Hastings / The Secret War : Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 `As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times`Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph`A serious work... 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 Quick view sku: X96341H Antony Beevor / D-Day : The Battle for Normandy (Hardback) The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2516 Jim Maher - The Oath is Dead and Gone - HB - BRAND NEW - Fianna Fáil & the Treaty The Oath of Allegiance clause in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which obliged all elected representatives to swear allegiance to the British monarch, was perhaps the major immediate cause of the Civil War. The anti-Treatyites were defeated in the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 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: BIG756 Raymond Murray - The SAS in Ireland - HB Edition 1990 - Northern Ireland Troubles A hardcover first edition, Mercier Press Cork, of Raymond Murray's account of the role the SAS played in Northern Ireland from the 1970's onwards. Also includes an examination of the events surrounding the Gibraltar attacks and what followed at the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91859H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Large Paperback) An explosive expose of the disastrousness of US involvement in Iraq from 1991 onwards. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1865 T.P Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers - Irish Military History PB - 1980 ( Originally1969 ) On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. On the following day, the mutineers sent... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 52697H,62684H Patrick Cockburn / The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011 Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR2983H Max Hastings / The Secret War : Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 `As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times`Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph`A serious work... 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 Quick view sku: X96341H Antony Beevor / D-Day : The Battle for Normandy (Hardback) The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2516 Jim Maher - The Oath is Dead and Gone - HB - BRAND NEW - Fianna Fáil & the Treaty The Oath of Allegiance clause in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which obliged all elected representatives to swear allegiance to the British monarch, was perhaps the major immediate cause of the Civil War. The anti-Treatyites were defeated in the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 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: BIG756 Raymond Murray - The SAS in Ireland - HB Edition 1990 - Northern Ireland Troubles A hardcover first edition, Mercier Press Cork, of Raymond Murray's account of the role the SAS played in Northern Ireland from the 1970's onwards. Also includes an examination of the events surrounding the Gibraltar attacks and what followed at the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91859H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Large Paperback) An explosive expose of the disastrousness of US involvement in Iraq from 1991 onwards. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1865 T.P Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers - Irish Military History PB - 1980 ( Originally1969 ) On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. On the following day, the mutineers sent... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 52697H,62684H Patrick Cockburn / The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011 Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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 Quick view sku: X96341H Antony Beevor / D-Day : The Battle for Normandy (Hardback) The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2516 Jim Maher - The Oath is Dead and Gone - HB - BRAND NEW - Fianna Fáil & the Treaty The Oath of Allegiance clause in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which obliged all elected representatives to swear allegiance to the British monarch, was perhaps the major immediate cause of the Civil War. The anti-Treatyites were defeated in the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 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: BIG756 Raymond Murray - The SAS in Ireland - HB Edition 1990 - Northern Ireland Troubles A hardcover first edition, Mercier Press Cork, of Raymond Murray's account of the role the SAS played in Northern Ireland from the 1970's onwards. Also includes an examination of the events surrounding the Gibraltar attacks and what followed at the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91859H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Large Paperback) An explosive expose of the disastrousness of US involvement in Iraq from 1991 onwards. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1865 T.P Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers - Irish Military History PB - 1980 ( Originally1969 ) On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. On the following day, the mutineers sent... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 52697H,62684H Patrick Cockburn / The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011 Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X96341H Antony Beevor / D-Day : The Battle for Normandy (Hardback) The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2516 Jim Maher - The Oath is Dead and Gone - HB - BRAND NEW - Fianna Fáil & the Treaty The Oath of Allegiance clause in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which obliged all elected representatives to swear allegiance to the British monarch, was perhaps the major immediate cause of the Civil War. The anti-Treatyites were defeated in the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 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: BIG756 Raymond Murray - The SAS in Ireland - HB Edition 1990 - Northern Ireland Troubles A hardcover first edition, Mercier Press Cork, of Raymond Murray's account of the role the SAS played in Northern Ireland from the 1970's onwards. Also includes an examination of the events surrounding the Gibraltar attacks and what followed at the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91859H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Large Paperback) An explosive expose of the disastrousness of US involvement in Iraq from 1991 onwards. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1865 T.P Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers - Irish Military History PB - 1980 ( Originally1969 ) On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. On the following day, the mutineers sent... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 52697H,62684H Patrick Cockburn / The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011 Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED2516 Jim Maher - The Oath is Dead and Gone - HB - BRAND NEW - Fianna Fáil & the Treaty The Oath of Allegiance clause in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which obliged all elected representatives to swear allegiance to the British monarch, was perhaps the major immediate cause of the Civil War. The anti-Treatyites were defeated in the... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 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: BIG756 Raymond Murray - The SAS in Ireland - HB Edition 1990 - Northern Ireland Troubles A hardcover first edition, Mercier Press Cork, of Raymond Murray's account of the role the SAS played in Northern Ireland from the 1970's onwards. Also includes an examination of the events surrounding the Gibraltar attacks and what followed at the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91859H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Large Paperback) An explosive expose of the disastrousness of US involvement in Iraq from 1991 onwards. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1865 T.P Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers - Irish Military History PB - 1980 ( Originally1969 ) On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. On the following day, the mutineers sent... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 52697H,62684H Patrick Cockburn / The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011 Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €2.50 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: BIG756 Raymond Murray - The SAS in Ireland - HB Edition 1990 - Northern Ireland Troubles A hardcover first edition, Mercier Press Cork, of Raymond Murray's account of the role the SAS played in Northern Ireland from the 1970's onwards. Also includes an examination of the events surrounding the Gibraltar attacks and what followed at the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91859H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Large Paperback) An explosive expose of the disastrousness of US involvement in Iraq from 1991 onwards. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1865 T.P Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers - Irish Military History PB - 1980 ( Originally1969 ) On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. On the following day, the mutineers sent... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 52697H,62684H Patrick Cockburn / The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011 Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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: Now: €2.50 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: BIG756 Raymond Murray - The SAS in Ireland - HB Edition 1990 - Northern Ireland Troubles A hardcover first edition, Mercier Press Cork, of Raymond Murray's account of the role the SAS played in Northern Ireland from the 1970's onwards. Also includes an examination of the events surrounding the Gibraltar attacks and what followed at the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91859H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Large Paperback) An explosive expose of the disastrousness of US involvement in Iraq from 1991 onwards. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1865 T.P Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers - Irish Military History PB - 1980 ( Originally1969 ) On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. On the following day, the mutineers sent... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 52697H,62684H Patrick Cockburn / The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011 Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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: BIG756 Raymond Murray - The SAS in Ireland - HB Edition 1990 - Northern Ireland Troubles A hardcover first edition, Mercier Press Cork, of Raymond Murray's account of the role the SAS played in Northern Ireland from the 1970's onwards. Also includes an examination of the events surrounding the Gibraltar attacks and what followed at the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91859H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Large Paperback) An explosive expose of the disastrousness of US involvement in Iraq from 1991 onwards. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1865 T.P Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers - Irish Military History PB - 1980 ( Originally1969 ) On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. On the following day, the mutineers sent... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 52697H,62684H Patrick Cockburn / The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011 Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG756 Raymond Murray - The SAS in Ireland - HB Edition 1990 - Northern Ireland Troubles A hardcover first edition, Mercier Press Cork, of Raymond Murray's account of the role the SAS played in Northern Ireland from the 1970's onwards. Also includes an examination of the events surrounding the Gibraltar attacks and what followed at the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91859H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Large Paperback) An explosive expose of the disastrousness of US involvement in Iraq from 1991 onwards. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1865 T.P Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers - Irish Military History PB - 1980 ( Originally1969 ) On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. On the following day, the mutineers sent... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 52697H,62684H Patrick Cockburn / The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011 Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X91859H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Large Paperback) An explosive expose of the disastrousness of US involvement in Iraq from 1991 onwards. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1865 T.P Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers - Irish Military History PB - 1980 ( Originally1969 ) On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. On the following day, the mutineers sent... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 52697H,62684H Patrick Cockburn / The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011 Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED1865 T.P Kilfeather - The Connaught Rangers - Irish Military History PB - 1980 ( Originally1969 ) On 28 June 1920, a company of the Connaught Rangers stationed at Jullundur on the plains of the Punjab refused to perform their military duties as a protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. On the following day, the mutineers sent... MSRP: Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 52697H,62684H Patrick Cockburn / The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011 Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 52697H,62684H Patrick Cockburn / The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011 Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Mercier Press Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011 Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 46441H Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... 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Quick view sku: MED1662 Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA, and united Irish and British public opinion against the government measures. This books tells their... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG11, Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles : War, Peace and the Course of History - HB UK 1st Ed An attempt to reinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of World War I until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The author... MSRP: €24.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR4110H Ed Moloney / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X91140H John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback) You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true' That was Simon... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG176 Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016 On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 70475H Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4993H Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1835 Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket -The H Block Story - 1980 1st Ed PB Northern Ireland A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin, 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication. This is the true first edition, no hardcover was issued. In itself, the book was... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3015H,rR5951H Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83096H Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 56218H Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the motives for war, he offered some explanation for it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG10, Thomas E Ricks- Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq - HB A hardcover copy, Penguin , 2006 of US Pentagon journalist and author Thomas E Ricks of the consequences of the US military invasion and subsequent occuption of Iraq, and the huge subsuquent insurgency it created. Cutting through the headlines and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED1412 William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5323H Hugh Ambrose / The Pacific (Large Paperback) THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.Between America's retreat from China in late November... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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