Military History & Warfare

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

James M. McPherson / Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era

   Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History'Read it. It will open your eyes about race history in America. It will shock you for what it tells you about politics in America today.' Richard Ford'A remarkably wide-ranging synthesis of the...

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen / Hitler's Willing Executioners : Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

   Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled, and his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true. That question is: How could the Holocaust happen? His response is an...

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...

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...

Cornelius Ryan - The Longest Day : The D-Day Story HB Gollancz 1st Edition 1959

A reprint, Gollancz UK, 1971, of the classic ( and standard account ) of the D-day landings in Normandy - The Longest Day , by Cornelius Ryan ( originally 1960)  .    For the forces of the Allies, this would be their ultimate day of truth,...

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...

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...

Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB 6th Revised Edition 1980

First published in hardcover in 1971, this is a revised 1980 edition in paperback of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably was hardly supplanted for many years, certainly as a bestseller. Written in 1970-71...

Max Hastings / The Secret War (Large Paperback)

 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...

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...

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 total panic and close to maximum brutality...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Helen Litton / The Irish Civil War : An Illustrated History

The Irish Civil War has inspired passion, hatred, and idealism. This concise history provides a stimulating rethink for all who know the period well, and an informative introduction for those who want to understand it for the first time.All of our books...

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 another extraordinary band of brothers - the men who...

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...

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 believe that the end of the world truly is nigh, he takes...

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...

Mark Bowden / Black Hawk Down

Already winning acclaim as one of the best accounts of combat ever written, Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute, heart-stopping account of the 1993 raid on Mogadishu, Somalia. Late in the afternoon of Sunday, October 3 1993, 140 elite US Soldiers...

Stephen E. Ambrose / D-Day June 6, 1944

On the basis of 1,400 oral histories from the men who were there, bestselling author and World War II historian Stephen E. Ambrose reveals for the first time anywhere that the intricate plan for the invasion of France in June 1944 had to be abandoned...

Bernard Montgomery - The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery - HB -1958

A hardcover, Collins 1958 - the Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery , internally unmarked, (  good overall - in an edgeworn dustjacket that shows small closed tears to the edges)  Perhaps known to history best as the victorious general at the...

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 all odds, one young lieutenant survives. Louise...

Anthony Swofford / Jarhead

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John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam - Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad

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Patrick Bishop / 3Para

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Harry Patch / The Last Fighting Tommy

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Michael Moore / Will they ever Trust us again?

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John Simpson / News From No Man's Land

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Max Hastings / Going to the Wars

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