Military History & Warfare

Edward J Bourke - Murder by the Throat : Espionage, Assassination, Collaboration and Execution in the Irish War of Independence- PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

Lloyd George boasted that he had “murder by the throat” in a London Guildhall speech on 10 November 1920.  He had flooded Ireland with troops, Black and Tans, Auxiliaries, secret service, touts and...

Andrew Lambert / Admirals

  The true story of how Britain's maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world's economy, Admirals celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped the most...

Paul Jones - The Irish Brigade - Vintage NEL PB - 1971 - Irish in the US Civil War

First published in 1969, this is the first NEL PB edition , 1971.  Condition - tanning to page block, , creases to spine, internally unmarked , no inscriptions or marks noted. Light sun fade to...

Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback)

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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,...

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...

Christopher Hibbert - Benito Mussolini : A Biography - The Rise and Fall of Il Duce - HB 1st Edition 1962

With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary complexities and contradictions that characterized Benito Mussolini. Mussolini was born on a Sunday...

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...

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...

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...

Séamus Ó Loingsigh - The 1798 Rebellion in Meath - PB 1997

Published 1987, the first and only edition issued, this is an account by Séamus ó Loingsigh of the events surrounding the 1798 Rebellion in Meath.  In excellent condition, as new, no isbn, larger...

Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Large Paperback)

 

Adam Zamoyski / 1812 : Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow

 Adam Zamoyski's bestselling account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history.In 1812 the most powerful man in...

Reinhard Rurup - Berlin 1945 : A Documentation - WW2 - PB

Published by Arenhovel, Germany - this is the English language translation of the original documents, 5th Revised edition 2007.  A detailed examination of the conditions in Berlin in the fateful year...

Donal O'Donovan - Kevin Barry and his Time - No More Lonely Scaffolds - PB 1st Ed 1989 - War of Independence

A paperback first edition, 1989 of Donal O'Donovan's Kevin Barry and his Time ( also known by the subtitle No More Lonely Scaffolds') , published by Glendale Press as a paperback original. The...

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...

Desmond Ryan - Michael Collins and the Invisible Army - Vintage PB Anvil Press - War of Independence

Desmond Ryan, the literary executor of Padraig Pearse, was a pupil of his in St. Enda's College, Rathfarnham,  in the General Post Office, Dublin, in 1916, as did Michael Collins. He had the inside...

Alan Bullock - Hitler and Stalin : Parallel Lives - HB Book Club Edition 1991 - Dual Biography

Alan Bullock's 1991 classic Hitler and Stalin was his crowning achievement, the magnum opus of one of the century's most admired historians--the distinguished Oxford scholar and author of the now...

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...

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...

Peter de la Billiere / Looking for Trouble : SAS to Gulf Command - The Autobiography (Hardback)

 "Storm Command" was the account of the last command held by Britain's most decorated officer. Now, in Sir Peter de la Billiere's story leading up to the Gulf War, we have a portrait of life in the...

Robert Kee - Ourselves Alone - ( The Green Flag , Volume 3 ) PB

Ourselves Alone - Volume Three of the Green Flag  covers the period from the executions of the 1916 rebels to the 1920-21 War of Independence and the eventual Treaty.  The smallest of the three...

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...

Frank O'Connor - The Big Fellow : Michael Collins & the Irish Revolution, HB 1965

Originally published in 1937, this is the revised and expanded 1965 edition of Frank O'Connor's biography of Michael Collins - The Big Fellow, published by Clonmore & Reynolds, Dublin.    Condition -...

Michael Herr / Dispatches

   With an introduction by Kevin PowersA groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket.We took space back quickly, expensively, with...

Len Deighton - Fighter - The True Story of the Battle of Britain - HB 1977

Summer, 1940: western Europe has been conquered, and all that stands between Hitler and the invasion of England is the matter of air supremacy. And the RAF...Hitler's top-secret Directive No. 16,...

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...

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...

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...

Tim Pat Coogan- On the Blanket : The H-Block Story - PB Northern Ireland

A paperback ( Ward River Press, Dublin,  reprint 1980) of Tim Pat Coogan's influential account of the H-Block prison 'Dirty Protest' in the 1970's to the time of publication.

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...

Tom Barry - Guerilla Days in Ireland - Vintage Anvil Press PB - War of Independence - 1971 Edition

A paperback edition, (the first decimal priced edition) - 1971 Anvil Press/ Kerryman of the classic account by Tom Barry of the War of Independence - Guerilla Days in Ireland. Originally published in...

Stephen E. Ambrose / The Wild Blue: 741 Squadron: On a Wing and a Prayer Over Occupied Europe

In the bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, Stephen E. Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battlegrounds of World War II. THE WILD BLUE brings to life...

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...

Stephen E. Ambrose / Crazy Horse and Custer

On June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode towards the banks of the Little Bighorn where three thousand Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great war leaders would...

John Simpson / Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales (Hardback)

John Simpson has been travelling the world as a journalist for forty years, reporting on the many disasters that have befallen us in that time. Today, at a time when many of us might legitimately...

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...

Laura Hillenbrand / Unbroken

The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Against...

Meda Ryan / The Day Michael Collins Was Shot

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Stephen E. Ambrose / Pegasus Bridge

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George Crile / Charlie Wilson's War

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Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn / 102 Minutes - The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive inside the Twin Towers

At 8.46 am on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the Twin Towers in New York - reading emails, making calls, eating croissants...over the next 102 minutes each would become part of the...

Stephen E. Ambrose / Band of Brothers

In Band of Brothers , Stephen E. Ambrose pays tribute to the men of Easy Company, a crack rifle company in the US Army. From their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to the dangerous parachute...

Patrick Bishop / 3Para

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Harry Patch / The Last Fighting Tommy

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John Simpson / News From No Man's Land

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Max Hastings / Going to the Wars

Max Hastings grew up with romantic dreams of a life amongst warriors. But after his failure as a parachute soldier in Cyprus in 1963, he became a journalist instead. Before he was 30 he had reported...