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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN408 Peadar O'Donnell- Salud ! : An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: BNL29 Callaghan, Stephen - Birr Military Cemetery - PB - BRAND NEW - 2020 - SIGNED Birr Military Cemetery: A history of the Cemetery and those interred there by Stephen Callaghan. This newly published book details the history of Birr Military Cemetery and the people identified as buried there. While only 52 memorials remain... 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MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view Bobbitt, Philip - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 teh three volumes , only light tanning to pages... 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Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure". The battle became the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28234H Robert Mason / Chickenhawk A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the U.S. Army gave him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between August 1965 and July... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view 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... 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Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure". The battle became the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28234H Robert Mason / Chickenhawk A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the U.S. Army gave him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between August 1965 and July... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view 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... 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That afternoon she went with her fiancé to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across... MSRP: €16.99 Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Neill, Tom - The Battle of Clonmult : The IRA'S Worst Defeat - 1921 - Revised Edition 2019 - BRAND NEW The Battle of Clonmult was the IRA's greatest loss of volunteers in a single engagement against Crown Forces. On Sunday, 20 February 1921, at Clonmult near Midleton in County Cork, almost the entire east Cork flying column was wiped out having been... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57278H Meda Ryan / The Day Michael Collins Was Shot (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN408 Peadar O'Donnell- Salud ! : An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: BNL29 Callaghan, Stephen - Birr Military Cemetery - PB - BRAND NEW - 2020 - SIGNED Birr Military Cemetery: A history of the Cemetery and those interred there by Stephen Callaghan. This newly published book details the history of Birr Military Cemetery and the people identified as buried there. While only 52 memorials remain... 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MSRP: €15.00 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BNL39 Maher, Jim - 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: 31999H 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 sku: 2363E Laurence Rees / Their Darkest Hour : People Tested to the Extreme in WWII How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? 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Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure". The battle became the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28234H Robert Mason / Chickenhawk A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the U.S. Army gave him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between August 1965 and July... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view 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... 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If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN408 Peadar O'Donnell- Salud ! : An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: BNL29 Callaghan, Stephen - Birr Military Cemetery - PB - BRAND NEW - 2020 - SIGNED Birr Military Cemetery: A history of the Cemetery and those interred there by Stephen Callaghan. This newly published book details the history of Birr Military Cemetery and the people identified as buried there. While only 52 memorials remain... 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Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure". The battle became the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28234H Robert Mason / Chickenhawk A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the U.S. Army gave him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between August 1965 and July... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view 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... 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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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28761H Stephen E. Ambrose / Band of Brothers To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6079M Patrick Bishop / 3Para To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 10369E Wherever You Are: The Military Wives From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46151E Paul L. Williams / Al Qaeda: Brotherhood of Terror (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN408 Peadar O'Donnell- Salud ! : An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view First Editions | sku: BNL29 Callaghan, Stephen - Birr Military Cemetery - PB - BRAND NEW - 2020 - SIGNED Birr Military Cemetery: A history of the Cemetery and those interred there by Stephen Callaghan. This newly published book details the history of Birr Military Cemetery and the people identified as buried there. While only 52 memorials remain... MSRP: Was: €20.00 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: BNL22 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 informers. Eighteen months later... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 12911E 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 UCD PRESS | sku: BN245 Patrick Sarsfield O'Hegarty - The Victory of Sinn Féin - UCD Centenary Classics PB - BRAND NEW - 2015 ( Originally 1924) The Victory of Sinn Fein, originally published in 1924, is an eyewitness account of events in Ireland from the Easter Rising of 1913 until 1923. It is written from a now almost forgotten viewpoint - that of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. O'Hegarty's... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BNL39 Maher, Jim - 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... 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MSRP: €15.00 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BNL39 Maher, Jim - 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: 31999H 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 sku: 2363E Laurence Rees / Their Darkest Hour : People Tested to the Extreme in WWII How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? 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MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view Bobbitt, Philip - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 teh three volumes , only light tanning to pages... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60497H 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edwards, Ruth Dudley - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21000E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 2950E Robert Cowley / What If?: Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been 'Anyone interested in military history or indeed history in general will find it fascinating to read.' Spectator. What If? is a collection of counterfactual essays dealing with military events. Concentrating on some of the most intriguing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 5307M Anthony Swofford / Jarhead To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28761H Stephen E. Ambrose / Band of Brothers To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6079M Patrick Bishop / 3Para To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28761H Stephen E. Ambrose / Band of Brothers To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6079M Patrick Bishop / 3Para To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view Bobbitt, Philip - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 teh three volumes , only light tanning to pages... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60497H 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edwards, Ruth Dudley - 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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Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure". The battle became the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28234H Robert Mason / Chickenhawk A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the U.S. Army gave him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between August 1965 and July... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view 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: Was: €9.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 - BRAND NEW 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: 12057E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18800E 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. 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21000E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 2950E Robert Cowley / What If?: Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been 'Anyone interested in military history or indeed history in general will find it fascinating to read.' Spectator. What If? is a collection of counterfactual essays dealing with military events. Concentrating on some of the most intriguing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 5307M Anthony Swofford / Jarhead To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28761H Stephen E. Ambrose / Band of Brothers To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6079M Patrick Bishop / 3Para To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: BN245 Patrick Sarsfield O'Hegarty - The Victory of Sinn Féin - UCD Centenary Classics PB - BRAND NEW - 2015 ( Originally 1924) The Victory of Sinn Fein, originally published in 1924, is an eyewitness account of events in Ireland from the Easter Rising of 1913 until 1923. It is written from a now almost forgotten viewpoint - that of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. O'Hegarty's... MSRP: €15.00 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BNL39 Maher, Jim - 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: 31999H 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 sku: 2363E Laurence Rees / Their Darkest Hour : People Tested to the Extreme in WWII How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi concentration camp? Award-winning... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Morley Safer - Flashbacks : On Returning to Vietnam (1990, Hardcover) CBS reporter Morley Safer brought Vietnam into American living rooms. Twenty-five years later, Safer returns to Vietnam for a compelling look back at the war and the legacy it left in that fateful land. Vivid and powerfully written, Flashbacks is... MSRP: Now: €6.00 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... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view Bobbitt, Philip - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 teh three volumes , only light tanning to pages... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60497H 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edwards, Ruth Dudley - 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: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31555H 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 SALE Quick view sku: x4356E 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x55101H Antony Beevor / Stalingrad (Large Paperback) A timely analysis and re-creation of the turning point of World War II. In october 1942, a panzer officer wrote "Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure". The battle became the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28234H Robert Mason / Chickenhawk A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the U.S. Army gave him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between August 1965 and July... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view 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: Was: €9.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 - BRAND NEW 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: 12057E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18800E 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. 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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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28761H Stephen E. Ambrose / Band of Brothers To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6079M Patrick Bishop / 3Para To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BNL39 Maher, Jim - 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: 31999H 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 sku: 2363E Laurence Rees / Their Darkest Hour : People Tested to the Extreme in WWII How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi concentration camp? Award-winning... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Morley Safer - Flashbacks : On Returning to Vietnam (1990, Hardcover) CBS reporter Morley Safer brought Vietnam into American living rooms. Twenty-five years later, Safer returns to Vietnam for a compelling look back at the war and the legacy it left in that fateful land. Vivid and powerfully written, Flashbacks is... MSRP: Now: €6.00 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... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view Bobbitt, Philip - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 teh three volumes , only light tanning to pages... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60497H 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edwards, Ruth Dudley - 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: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31555H 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 SALE Quick view sku: x4356E 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x55101H Antony Beevor / Stalingrad (Large Paperback) A timely analysis and re-creation of the turning point of World War II. In october 1942, a panzer officer wrote "Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure". The battle became the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28234H Robert Mason / Chickenhawk A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the U.S. Army gave him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between August 1965 and July... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view 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: Was: €9.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 - BRAND NEW 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: 12057E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18800E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 3429M Max Arthur / Forgotten Voices of the Second World War To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Montgomery, Bernard - 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... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21000E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 2950E Robert Cowley / What If?: Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been 'Anyone interested in military history or indeed history in general will find it fascinating to read.' Spectator. What If? is a collection of counterfactual essays dealing with military events. Concentrating on some of the most intriguing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 5307M Anthony Swofford / Jarhead To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28761H Stephen E. Ambrose / Band of Brothers To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6079M Patrick Bishop / 3Para To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 31999H 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 sku: 2363E Laurence Rees / Their Darkest Hour : People Tested to the Extreme in WWII How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi concentration camp? Award-winning... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Morley Safer - Flashbacks : On Returning to Vietnam (1990, Hardcover) CBS reporter Morley Safer brought Vietnam into American living rooms. Twenty-five years later, Safer returns to Vietnam for a compelling look back at the war and the legacy it left in that fateful land. Vivid and powerfully written, Flashbacks is... MSRP: Now: €6.00 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... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view Bobbitt, Philip - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 teh three volumes , only light tanning to pages... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60497H 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edwards, Ruth Dudley - 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: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31555H 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 SALE Quick view sku: x4356E 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x55101H Antony Beevor / Stalingrad (Large Paperback) A timely analysis and re-creation of the turning point of World War II. In october 1942, a panzer officer wrote "Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure". The battle became the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28234H Robert Mason / Chickenhawk A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the U.S. Army gave him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between August 1965 and July... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view 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: Was: €9.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 - BRAND NEW 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: 12057E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18800E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 3429M Max Arthur / Forgotten Voices of the Second World War To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Montgomery, Bernard - 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... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21000E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 2950E Robert Cowley / What If?: Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been 'Anyone interested in military history or indeed history in general will find it fascinating to read.' Spectator. What If? is a collection of counterfactual essays dealing with military events. Concentrating on some of the most intriguing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 5307M Anthony Swofford / Jarhead To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28761H Stephen E. Ambrose / Band of Brothers To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6079M Patrick Bishop / 3Para To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 2363E Laurence Rees / Their Darkest Hour : People Tested to the Extreme in WWII How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi concentration camp? Award-winning... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Morley Safer - Flashbacks : On Returning to Vietnam (1990, Hardcover) CBS reporter Morley Safer brought Vietnam into American living rooms. Twenty-five years later, Safer returns to Vietnam for a compelling look back at the war and the legacy it left in that fateful land. Vivid and powerfully written, Flashbacks is... MSRP: Now: €6.00 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... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view Bobbitt, Philip - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 teh three volumes , only light tanning to pages... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60497H 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Edwards, Ruth Dudley - 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: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31555H 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 SALE Quick view sku: x4356E 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x55101H Antony Beevor / Stalingrad (Large Paperback) A timely analysis and re-creation of the turning point of World War II. In october 1942, a panzer officer wrote "Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure". The battle became the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28234H Robert Mason / Chickenhawk A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the U.S. Army gave him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between August 1965 and July... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view 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: Was: €9.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 - BRAND NEW 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: 12057E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18800E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 3429M Max Arthur / Forgotten Voices of the Second World War To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Montgomery, Bernard - 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... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21000E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 2950E Robert Cowley / What If?: Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been 'Anyone interested in military history or indeed history in general will find it fascinating to read.' Spectator. What If? is a collection of counterfactual essays dealing with military events. Concentrating on some of the most intriguing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 5307M Anthony Swofford / Jarhead To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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Quick view Morley Safer - Flashbacks : On Returning to Vietnam (1990, Hardcover) CBS reporter Morley Safer brought Vietnam into American living rooms. Twenty-five years later, Safer returns to Vietnam for a compelling look back at the war and the legacy it left in that fateful land. Vivid and powerfully written, Flashbacks is... MSRP: Now: €6.00 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... 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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... MSRP: Now: €14.99 Add to Cart Quick view Bobbitt, Philip - 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... 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In october 1942, a panzer officer wrote "Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure". The battle became the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28234H Robert Mason / Chickenhawk A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the U.S. Army gave him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between August 1965 and July... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view 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: Was: €9.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 - BRAND NEW 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: 12057E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18800E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 3429M Max Arthur / Forgotten Voices of the Second World War To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Montgomery, Bernard - 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... 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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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28761H Stephen E. Ambrose / Band of Brothers To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6079M Patrick Bishop / 3Para To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Bobbitt, Philip - 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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 teh three volumes , only light tanning to pages... 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Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure". The battle became the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28234H Robert Mason / Chickenhawk A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the U.S. Army gave him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between August 1965 and July... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view 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: Was: €9.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 - BRAND NEW 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: 12057E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18800E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 3429M Max Arthur / Forgotten Voices of the Second World War To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Montgomery, Bernard - 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... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21000E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 2950E Robert Cowley / What If?: Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been 'Anyone interested in military history or indeed history in general will find it fascinating to read.' Spectator. What If? is a collection of counterfactual essays dealing with military events. Concentrating on some of the most intriguing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 5307M Anthony Swofford / Jarhead To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28761H Stephen E. Ambrose / Band of Brothers To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6079M Patrick Bishop / 3Para To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31555H 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 SALE Quick view sku: x4356E 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x55101H Antony Beevor / Stalingrad (Large Paperback) A timely analysis and re-creation of the turning point of World War II. In october 1942, a panzer officer wrote "Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure". The battle became the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28234H Robert Mason / Chickenhawk A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the U.S. Army gave him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between August 1965 and July... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view 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: Was: €9.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1 - BRAND NEW 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: 12057E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18800E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 3429M Max Arthur / Forgotten Voices of the Second World War To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Montgomery, Bernard - 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... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21000E 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 2950E Robert Cowley / What If?: Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been 'Anyone interested in military history or indeed history in general will find it fascinating to read.' Spectator. What If? is a collection of counterfactual essays dealing with military events. Concentrating on some of the most intriguing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 5307M Anthony Swofford / Jarhead To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28761H Stephen E. Ambrose / Band of Brothers To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6079M Patrick Bishop / 3Para To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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