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MSRP: €4.00 Was: €4.00 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG44 Trevor Ryle - The Gordon Highlanders : A Concise History - Scotland - HB - 2007 The Gordons , a notable Scottish regiment in the wider BRITISH Army recruited from the north-east of Scotland and the regiment's character was moulded by men from the farming counties of Aberdeenshire, Moray and Nairn. It was raised in 1794 by an... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80407H Gwen Edelman / War Story 'Later he would say: I met you in a whorehouse. 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Coolim Books Publishing - CORK | sku: MED8107,MED8108,MED8109,MED8110,MED8111,MED8112,MED8113,MED8114,MED8115,MED8116 William Casey - The Cradle Of Fenianism : Skibbereen And The Early Fenian Movement, 1850–67 - BRAND NEW - SIGNED The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), commonly known as the Fenian movement, had a profound impact on modern Irish history. This book examines how Skibbereen town became known as the 'cradle of Fenianism'. It looks at the formation of the Phoenix... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4149 Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 1970 - First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is the first paperback printing - 1971 edition of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably has not been supplanted since, certainly in impact. Written in 1970 after... 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MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80407H Gwen Edelman / War Story 'Later he would say: I met you in a whorehouse. Or was it an all night poker game. I met you in a bookstore, Kitty would remind him. In a bookstore? Impossible. I never set foot in bookstores. What nonsense. I found you in a bordello. You were only... 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Quick view sku: MED1819 Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 7th Revised Edition - 1981 First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is a revised 7th impression, September 1981 edition in paperback of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably has not been supplanted since, certainly in impact... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88283H Sophie Hardach / Confession with Blue Horses Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2019. Tobi and Ella's childhood in East Berlin is shrouded in mystery. Now adults living in London, their past is full of unanswered questions. Both remember their family's daring and terrifying attempt to... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79600H Jack Richardson / Jack in the Navy All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. 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MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED8717,MED8718,MED8719 Liam Cahill - Forgotten Revolution : The Limerick Soviet 1919 - SIGNED - Centenary Edition 2019 - Brand NEW PB This is a completely updated, revised and enlarged edition of the author's original book on the Limerick Soviet, first published in 1990. It is the Spring of 1919. The first shots are already fired in the Irish War of Independence and the separatist... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW31495H Lisa Mundy / Michelle: a Biography (Hardback) It will be a deeply reported book tracing Michelle's life from her beginnings to now. She was every parent's dream, skipping second grade because of her smarts, going on to Princeton and then Harvard Law School. The book will describe the South... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40722H Janice Y. K. Lee / The Piano Teacher (Large Paperback) A rare and exquisite story . . . 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Coolim Books Publishing - CORK | sku: MED8107,MED8108,MED8109,MED8110,MED8111,MED8112,MED8113,MED8114,MED8115,MED8116 William Casey - The Cradle Of Fenianism : Skibbereen And The Early Fenian Movement, 1850–67 - BRAND NEW - SIGNED The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), commonly known as the Fenian movement, had a profound impact on modern Irish history. This book examines how Skibbereen town became known as the 'cradle of Fenianism'. It looks at the formation of the Phoenix... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4149 Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 1970 - First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is the first paperback printing - 1971 edition of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably has not been supplanted since, certainly in impact. Written in 1970 after... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30340H Nigel Cawthorne / History's Greatest Battles : Masterstrokes of War History's Greatest Battles covers the gamut of warfare, from huge sea battles to single engagements where regiments dug in and fought on, long past the time for surrender. All of our books are second hand, and while... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2003H Aung San Suu Kyi / Freedom from Fear : And Other Writings All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43489H A. L. Kennedy / Day (Hardback) Alfred Day wanted his war. 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MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80407H Gwen Edelman / War Story 'Later he would say: I met you in a whorehouse. Or was it an all night poker game. I met you in a bookstore, Kitty would remind him. In a bookstore? Impossible. I never set foot in bookstores. What nonsense. I found you in a bordello. You were only... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Federal Ministry For All German Affairs - In The Heart of Germany in the Twentieth Century : The Zonal Border - PB - 1965 - Iron Curtain, Cold War Published by The Federal Ministry for All-German Affairs, Bonn, Germany, 1965Used - Very Good. 96 pages, mostly composed of full page black and white photographs of the Iron Curtain taken from West Germany. An interetsing Cold War era piece,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR50199H Paul Moorcraft / Inside the Danger Zones All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X81639H Philip Ziegler / Edward Heath : The Authorised Biography (Hardback) The masterly official biography of Britain's former prime minister, which captures all the political drama of the 1970s, so relevant for the present day Distinguished biographer Philip Ziegler offers a timely reassessment of Edward Heath's... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33087H Hillary Rodham Clinton / The Book of Gutsy Women (Hardback) She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your question," her father urged, nudging her forward. She smiled shyly and said, "You're my hero. Who's yours?"Many people-especially girls-have asked us that same question... 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW40727H Susan Ottaway / Fire Over Heathrow: the Tragedy of Flight 712 (Hardback) One and a half minutes after take-off on the clear and sunny afternoon of 8 April 1968, the Number 2 engine of BOAC Boeing 707 G-ARWE broke away from its mounting pylon and fell, tumbling in flames. Captain Cliff Taylor managed an extremely... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR53263H Franci Rabinek Epstein / Franci's War Discover unrelenting spirit and strength in the extraordinary true story of Franci: a woman who survived the holocaust against all of the odds'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope. Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58138H Leo McKinstry / Spitfire : Portrait of a Legend In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45557H Peter Ackroyd / The Life of Thomas More Thomas More is one of the great figures in English history. Pre-eminent as a courtier and as a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of Utopia, More's life and career epitomise the great transformation of England in the space of 35 years... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79914H G. Cabrera Infante / Mea Cuba 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: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED8717,MED8718,MED8719 Liam Cahill - Forgotten Revolution : The Limerick Soviet 1919 - SIGNED - Centenary Edition 2019 - Brand NEW PB This is a completely updated, revised and enlarged edition of the author's original book on the Limerick Soviet, first published in 1990. It is the Spring of 1919. The first shots are already fired in the Irish War of Independence and the separatist... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW31495H Lisa Mundy / Michelle: a Biography (Hardback) It will be a deeply reported book tracing Michelle's life from her beginnings to now. She was every parent's dream, skipping second grade because of her smarts, going on to Princeton and then Harvard Law School. The book will describe the South... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40722H Janice Y. K. Lee / The Piano Teacher (Large Paperback) A rare and exquisite story . . . Transports you out of time, out of place, into a world you can feel on your very skin. --Elizabeth GilbertThe New York Times bestsellerJanice Y.K. Lee's latest novel, The Expatriates, is now available from PenguinIn... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92240H Johnson Beharry / Barefoot Soldier - A Story of Extreme Valour (Large Paperback) Born in 1979 in Grenada as one of eight children, living in a two-bedroom hut, surviving on meagre meals of beans and rice and walking barefoot, three miles to school. At 13 Johnson Beharry quit school and worked as a decorator and labourer. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Durnford-Slater, John - Commando - PB - 1975 ( Originally 1953) Commando is the real and exciting story of one of the most important units of World War II, John Durnford-Slater gives his first-hand and unique point of view on everything that happened.Brigadier Durnford-Slater raised and trained the first... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR21549H Gerri Chanel / Saving Mona Lisa In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley as part of the biggest museum evacuation in history.As the Germans neared Paris in 1940,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3512 Kieran Doyle & Alan O'Rourke - Monuments to Our Past : Understanding Commemoration and the Revolutionary Period in Cork 1914-23 - PB - BRAND NEW There is perhaps no other period in Irish history as richly commemorated in Cork as the period 1914 - 1923. Monuments to our Past is the first book to explore how rich these layers are in Cork. It examines not just the history, but the language,... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Coolim Books Publishing - CORK | sku: MED8107,MED8108,MED8109,MED8110,MED8111,MED8112,MED8113,MED8114,MED8115,MED8116 William Casey - The Cradle Of Fenianism : Skibbereen And The Early Fenian Movement, 1850–67 - BRAND NEW - SIGNED The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), commonly known as the Fenian movement, had a profound impact on modern Irish history. This book examines how Skibbereen town became known as the 'cradle of Fenianism'. It looks at the formation of the Phoenix... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4149 Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 1970 - First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is the first paperback printing - 1971 edition of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably has not been supplanted since, certainly in impact. Written in 1970 after... 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MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR56679H Yeonmi Park / In Order To Live 'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 79600H Jack Richardson / Jack in the Navy All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR40130H Roderick Bailey / Forgotten Voices of the Victoria Cross 'It wasn't until after he was safely back in the aircraft again that I heard that he'd actually been out on the wing to try to put the fire out ... Remember that we were flying at about 90 miles an hour at a height of 13,000 feet'Squadron Leader RP... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76927H Donald Jack / The Bandy Papers: It's Me Again As usual the RAF top brass don't know what to do with maverick flying ace and well-known loose cannon Major Bartholomew Bandy.They pack him off to a squadron where everything's as smart as paint and the flying record barely registers, thinking... 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MSRP: €4.00 Was: €4.00 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG44 Trevor Ryle - The Gordon Highlanders : A Concise History - Scotland - HB - 2007 The Gordons , a notable Scottish regiment in the wider BRITISH Army recruited from the north-east of Scotland and the regiment's character was moulded by men from the farming counties of Aberdeenshire, Moray and Nairn. It was raised in 1794 by an... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80407H Gwen Edelman / War Story 'Later he would say: I met you in a whorehouse. Or was it an all night poker game. I met you in a bookstore, Kitty would remind him. In a bookstore? Impossible. I never set foot in bookstores. What nonsense. I found you in a bordello. You were only... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Federal Ministry For All German Affairs - In The Heart of Germany in the Twentieth Century : The Zonal Border - PB - 1965 - Iron Curtain, Cold War Published by The Federal Ministry for All-German Affairs, Bonn, Germany, 1965Used - Very Good. 96 pages, mostly composed of full page black and white photographs of the Iron Curtain taken from West Germany. An interetsing Cold War era piece,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR50199H Paul Moorcraft / Inside the Danger Zones All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X81639H Philip Ziegler / Edward Heath : The Authorised Biography (Hardback) The masterly official biography of Britain's former prime minister, which captures all the political drama of the 1970s, so relevant for the present day Distinguished biographer Philip Ziegler offers a timely reassessment of Edward Heath's... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33087H Hillary Rodham Clinton / The Book of Gutsy Women (Hardback) She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your question," her father urged, nudging her forward. She smiled shyly and said, "You're my hero. Who's yours?"Many people-especially girls-have asked us that same question... 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW40727H Susan Ottaway / Fire Over Heathrow: the Tragedy of Flight 712 (Hardback) One and a half minutes after take-off on the clear and sunny afternoon of 8 April 1968, the Number 2 engine of BOAC Boeing 707 G-ARWE broke away from its mounting pylon and fell, tumbling in flames. Captain Cliff Taylor managed an extremely... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR53263H Franci Rabinek Epstein / Franci's War Discover unrelenting spirit and strength in the extraordinary true story of Franci: a woman who survived the holocaust against all of the odds'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope. Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58138H Leo McKinstry / Spitfire : Portrait of a Legend In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45557H Peter Ackroyd / The Life of Thomas More Thomas More is one of the great figures in English history. Pre-eminent as a courtier and as a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of Utopia, More's life and career epitomise the great transformation of England in the space of 35 years... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79914H G. Cabrera Infante / Mea Cuba All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49000H Jason Burke / The New Threat From Islamic Militancy SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016In The New Threat renowned expert and prize-winning reporter Jason Burke provides the clearest and most comprehensive guide to Islamic militancy today.From Syria to Somalia, from Libya to Indonesia, from Yemen... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW38642H John Major / My Old Man (Hardback) Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall.Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED8717,MED8718,MED8719 Liam Cahill - Forgotten Revolution : The Limerick Soviet 1919 - SIGNED - Centenary Edition 2019 - Brand NEW PB This is a completely updated, revised and enlarged edition of the author's original book on the Limerick Soviet, first published in 1990. It is the Spring of 1919. The first shots are already fired in the Irish War of Independence and the separatist... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW31495H Lisa Mundy / Michelle: a Biography (Hardback) It will be a deeply reported book tracing Michelle's life from her beginnings to now. She was every parent's dream, skipping second grade because of her smarts, going on to Princeton and then Harvard Law School. The book will describe the South... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40722H Janice Y. K. Lee / The Piano Teacher (Large Paperback) A rare and exquisite story . . . Transports you out of time, out of place, into a world you can feel on your very skin. --Elizabeth GilbertThe New York Times bestsellerJanice Y.K. Lee's latest novel, The Expatriates, is now available from PenguinIn... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92240H Johnson Beharry / Barefoot Soldier - A Story of Extreme Valour (Large Paperback) Born in 1979 in Grenada as one of eight children, living in a two-bedroom hut, surviving on meagre meals of beans and rice and walking barefoot, three miles to school. At 13 Johnson Beharry quit school and worked as a decorator and labourer. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Durnford-Slater, John - Commando - PB - 1975 ( Originally 1953) Commando is the real and exciting story of one of the most important units of World War II, John Durnford-Slater gives his first-hand and unique point of view on everything that happened.Brigadier Durnford-Slater raised and trained the first... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51694H David Nott / War Doctor : Surgery on the Front Line 'Brave, compassionate and inspiring - it left me in floods of tears' - Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to HurtA powerful and intensely moving memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones, operating under the most extreme circumstances... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11896M Paul Spicer / The Temptress In Kenya's 'Happy Valley' no one paid too much attention to the privileged colonial set as they farmed their estates, partied until dawn and indulged in extra-marital affairs. Not until Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was shot dead at the wheel of his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR21549H Gerri Chanel / Saving Mona Lisa In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley as part of the biggest museum evacuation in history.As the Germans neared Paris in 1940,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3512 Kieran Doyle & Alan O'Rourke - Monuments to Our Past : Understanding Commemoration and the Revolutionary Period in Cork 1914-23 - PB - BRAND NEW There is perhaps no other period in Irish history as richly commemorated in Cork as the period 1914 - 1923. Monuments to our Past is the first book to explore how rich these layers are in Cork. It examines not just the history, but the language,... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Coolim Books Publishing - CORK | sku: MED8107,MED8108,MED8109,MED8110,MED8111,MED8112,MED8113,MED8114,MED8115,MED8116 William Casey - The Cradle Of Fenianism : Skibbereen And The Early Fenian Movement, 1850–67 - BRAND NEW - SIGNED The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), commonly known as the Fenian movement, had a profound impact on modern Irish history. This book examines how Skibbereen town became known as the 'cradle of Fenianism'. It looks at the formation of the Phoenix... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4149 Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 1970 - First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is the first paperback printing - 1971 edition of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably has not been supplanted since, certainly in impact. Written in 1970 after... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30340H Nigel Cawthorne / History's Greatest Battles : Masterstrokes of War History's Greatest Battles covers the gamut of warfare, from huge sea battles to single engagements where regiments dug in and fought on, long past the time for surrender. All of our books are second hand, and while... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2003H Aung San Suu Kyi / Freedom from Fear : And Other Writings All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43489H A. L. Kennedy / Day (Hardback) Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3245H David Cameron / For the Record (Hardback) 'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday TimesThe referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most controversial political events of our times. For the first time, the man who called that vote talks about the decision and its... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43532H Stephen Pollard / David Blunkett (Hardback) David Blunkett has never been a conventional politician - or personality. Blind since childhood, seemingly a traditional 'old Labour' councillor in Sheffield, he is now Home Secretary and a key member of the Labour government. How did this son... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR56679H Yeonmi Park / In Order To Live 'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR40130H Roderick Bailey / Forgotten Voices of the Victoria Cross 'It wasn't until after he was safely back in the aircraft again that I heard that he'd actually been out on the wing to try to put the fire out ... Remember that we were flying at about 90 miles an hour at a height of 13,000 feet'Squadron Leader RP... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76927H Donald Jack / The Bandy Papers: It's Me Again As usual the RAF top brass don't know what to do with maverick flying ace and well-known loose cannon Major Bartholomew Bandy.They pack him off to a squadron where everything's as smart as paint and the flying record barely registers, thinking... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43929H Simon Winchester / The Map That Changed the World THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGYHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map of anywhere in the world. Its maker was... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79676H Boris Johnson / The Dream of Rome Focussing on how the Romans made Europe work as a homogenous civilisation and looking at why we are failing to make the EU work in modern times, this is an authoritative and amusing study from bestselling author Boris Johnson.In addition to his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X50060E Chas Newkey-Burden / 64 Geeks: Meet the Brains Who Changed the World (Hardback) We wouldn't have Bluetooth or Wi-Fi today without the ingenuity of an actress once described as "the most beautiful woman in the world."And we might have had mobile messaging as early as 1901, were it not for the fickleness of a banker.From... MSRP: €4.00 Was: €4.00 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X45253E Steven Emerson / American Jihad : The Terrorists Living among Us (Hardback) The United States government is actively monitoring terrorist cells affiliated with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network in eleven cities, from Florida to Boston to Denver to Houston. But al Qaeda is hardly our only threat. Hamas, formed in 1987, was... MSRP: €4.00 Was: €4.00 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG44 Trevor Ryle - The Gordon Highlanders : A Concise History - Scotland - HB - 2007 The Gordons , a notable Scottish regiment in the wider BRITISH Army recruited from the north-east of Scotland and the regiment's character was moulded by men from the farming counties of Aberdeenshire, Moray and Nairn. It was raised in 1794 by an... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80407H Gwen Edelman / War Story 'Later he would say: I met you in a whorehouse. 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW40727H Susan Ottaway / Fire Over Heathrow: the Tragedy of Flight 712 (Hardback) One and a half minutes after take-off on the clear and sunny afternoon of 8 April 1968, the Number 2 engine of BOAC Boeing 707 G-ARWE broke away from its mounting pylon and fell, tumbling in flames. Captain Cliff Taylor managed an extremely... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR53263H Franci Rabinek Epstein / Franci's War Discover unrelenting spirit and strength in the extraordinary true story of Franci: a woman who survived the holocaust against all of the odds'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope. Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58138H Leo McKinstry / Spitfire : Portrait of a Legend In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 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MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED8717,MED8718,MED8719 Liam Cahill - Forgotten Revolution : The Limerick Soviet 1919 - SIGNED - Centenary Edition 2019 - Brand NEW PB This is a completely updated, revised and enlarged edition of the author's original book on the Limerick Soviet, first published in 1990. It is the Spring of 1919. The first shots are already fired in the Irish War of Independence and the separatist... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW31495H Lisa Mundy / Michelle: a Biography (Hardback) It will be a deeply reported book tracing Michelle's life from her beginnings to now. She was every parent's dream, skipping second grade because of her smarts, going on to Princeton and then Harvard Law School. The book will describe the South... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40722H Janice Y. K. Lee / The Piano Teacher (Large Paperback) A rare and exquisite story . . . 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Coolim Books Publishing - CORK | sku: MED8107,MED8108,MED8109,MED8110,MED8111,MED8112,MED8113,MED8114,MED8115,MED8116 William Casey - The Cradle Of Fenianism : Skibbereen And The Early Fenian Movement, 1850–67 - BRAND NEW - SIGNED The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), commonly known as the Fenian movement, had a profound impact on modern Irish history. This book examines how Skibbereen town became known as the 'cradle of Fenianism'. It looks at the formation of the Phoenix... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4149 Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 1970 - First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is the first paperback printing - 1971 edition of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably has not been supplanted since, certainly in impact. Written in 1970 after... 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MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80407H Gwen Edelman / War Story 'Later he would say: I met you in a whorehouse. Or was it an all night poker game. I met you in a bookstore, Kitty would remind him. In a bookstore? Impossible. I never set foot in bookstores. What nonsense. I found you in a bordello. You were only... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Federal Ministry For All German Affairs - In The Heart of Germany in the Twentieth Century : The Zonal Border - PB - 1965 - Iron Curtain, Cold War Published by The Federal Ministry for All-German Affairs, Bonn, Germany, 1965Used - Very Good. 96 pages, mostly composed of full page black and white photographs of the Iron Curtain taken from West Germany. An interetsing Cold War era piece,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR50199H Paul Moorcraft / Inside the Danger Zones All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X81639H Philip Ziegler / Edward Heath : The Authorised Biography (Hardback) The masterly official biography of Britain's former prime minister, which captures all the political drama of the 1970s, so relevant for the present day Distinguished biographer Philip Ziegler offers a timely reassessment of Edward Heath's... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33087H Hillary Rodham Clinton / The Book of Gutsy Women (Hardback) She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your question," her father urged, nudging her forward. She smiled shyly and said, "You're my hero. Who's yours?"Many people-especially girls-have asked us that same question... 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW40727H Susan Ottaway / Fire Over Heathrow: the Tragedy of Flight 712 (Hardback) One and a half minutes after take-off on the clear and sunny afternoon of 8 April 1968, the Number 2 engine of BOAC Boeing 707 G-ARWE broke away from its mounting pylon and fell, tumbling in flames. Captain Cliff Taylor managed an extremely... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR53263H Franci Rabinek Epstein / Franci's War Discover unrelenting spirit and strength in the extraordinary true story of Franci: a woman who survived the holocaust against all of the odds'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope. Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58138H Leo McKinstry / Spitfire : Portrait of a Legend In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45557H Peter Ackroyd / The Life of Thomas More Thomas More is one of the great figures in English history. Pre-eminent as a courtier and as a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of Utopia, More's life and career epitomise the great transformation of England in the space of 35 years... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79914H G. Cabrera Infante / Mea Cuba 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: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED8717,MED8718,MED8719 Liam Cahill - Forgotten Revolution : The Limerick Soviet 1919 - SIGNED - Centenary Edition 2019 - Brand NEW PB This is a completely updated, revised and enlarged edition of the author's original book on the Limerick Soviet, first published in 1990. It is the Spring of 1919. The first shots are already fired in the Irish War of Independence and the separatist... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW31495H Lisa Mundy / Michelle: a Biography (Hardback) It will be a deeply reported book tracing Michelle's life from her beginnings to now. She was every parent's dream, skipping second grade because of her smarts, going on to Princeton and then Harvard Law School. The book will describe the South... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40722H Janice Y. K. Lee / The Piano Teacher (Large Paperback) A rare and exquisite story . . . Transports you out of time, out of place, into a world you can feel on your very skin. --Elizabeth GilbertThe New York Times bestsellerJanice Y.K. Lee's latest novel, The Expatriates, is now available from PenguinIn... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92240H Johnson Beharry / Barefoot Soldier - A Story of Extreme Valour (Large Paperback) Born in 1979 in Grenada as one of eight children, living in a two-bedroom hut, surviving on meagre meals of beans and rice and walking barefoot, three miles to school. At 13 Johnson Beharry quit school and worked as a decorator and labourer. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Durnford-Slater, John - Commando - PB - 1975 ( Originally 1953) Commando is the real and exciting story of one of the most important units of World War II, John Durnford-Slater gives his first-hand and unique point of view on everything that happened.Brigadier Durnford-Slater raised and trained the first... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR21549H Gerri Chanel / Saving Mona Lisa In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley as part of the biggest museum evacuation in history.As the Germans neared Paris in 1940,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3512 Kieran Doyle & Alan O'Rourke - Monuments to Our Past : Understanding Commemoration and the Revolutionary Period in Cork 1914-23 - PB - BRAND NEW There is perhaps no other period in Irish history as richly commemorated in Cork as the period 1914 - 1923. Monuments to our Past is the first book to explore how rich these layers are in Cork. It examines not just the history, but the language,... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Coolim Books Publishing - CORK | sku: MED8107,MED8108,MED8109,MED8110,MED8111,MED8112,MED8113,MED8114,MED8115,MED8116 William Casey - The Cradle Of Fenianism : Skibbereen And The Early Fenian Movement, 1850–67 - BRAND NEW - SIGNED The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), commonly known as the Fenian movement, had a profound impact on modern Irish history. This book examines how Skibbereen town became known as the 'cradle of Fenianism'. It looks at the formation of the Phoenix... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4149 Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 1970 - First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is the first paperback printing - 1971 edition of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably has not been supplanted since, certainly in impact. Written in 1970 after... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30340H Nigel Cawthorne / History's Greatest Battles : Masterstrokes of War History's Greatest Battles covers the gamut of warfare, from huge sea battles to single engagements where regiments dug in and fought on, long past the time for surrender. All of our books are second hand, and while... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2003H Aung San Suu Kyi / Freedom from Fear : And Other Writings All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43489H A. L. Kennedy / Day (Hardback) Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3245H David Cameron / For the Record (Hardback) 'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday TimesThe referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most controversial political events of our times. For the first time, the man who called that vote talks about the decision and its... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43532H Stephen Pollard / David Blunkett (Hardback) David Blunkett has never been a conventional politician - or personality. Blind since childhood, seemingly a traditional 'old Labour' councillor in Sheffield, he is now Home Secretary and a key member of the Labour government. How did this son... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR56679H Yeonmi Park / In Order To Live 'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR43929H Simon Winchester / The Map That Changed the World THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGYHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map of anywhere in the world. Its maker was... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79676H Boris Johnson / The Dream of Rome Focussing on how the Romans made Europe work as a homogenous civilisation and looking at why we are failing to make the EU work in modern times, this is an authoritative and amusing study from bestselling author Boris Johnson.In addition to his... 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MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED8717,MED8718,MED8719 Liam Cahill - Forgotten Revolution : The Limerick Soviet 1919 - SIGNED - Centenary Edition 2019 - Brand NEW PB This is a completely updated, revised and enlarged edition of the author's original book on the Limerick Soviet, first published in 1990. It is the Spring of 1919. The first shots are already fired in the Irish War of Independence and the separatist... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW31495H Lisa Mundy / Michelle: a Biography (Hardback) It will be a deeply reported book tracing Michelle's life from her beginnings to now. She was every parent's dream, skipping second grade because of her smarts, going on to Princeton and then Harvard Law School. The book will describe the South... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40722H Janice Y. K. Lee / The Piano Teacher (Large Paperback) A rare and exquisite story . . . 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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51694H David Nott / War Doctor : Surgery on the Front Line 'Brave, compassionate and inspiring - it left me in floods of tears' - Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to HurtA powerful and intensely moving memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones, operating under the most extreme circumstances... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11896M Paul Spicer / The Temptress In Kenya's 'Happy Valley' no one paid too much attention to the privileged colonial set as they farmed their estates, partied until dawn and indulged in extra-marital affairs. Not until Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was shot dead at the wheel of his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR21549H Gerri Chanel / Saving Mona Lisa In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley as part of the biggest museum evacuation in history.As the Germans neared Paris in 1940,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3512 Kieran Doyle & Alan O'Rourke - Monuments to Our Past : Understanding Commemoration and the Revolutionary Period in Cork 1914-23 - PB - BRAND NEW There is perhaps no other period in Irish history as richly commemorated in Cork as the period 1914 - 1923. Monuments to our Past is the first book to explore how rich these layers are in Cork. It examines not just the history, but the language,... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Coolim Books Publishing - CORK | sku: MED8107,MED8108,MED8109,MED8110,MED8111,MED8112,MED8113,MED8114,MED8115,MED8116 William Casey - The Cradle Of Fenianism : Skibbereen And The Early Fenian Movement, 1850–67 - BRAND NEW - SIGNED The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), commonly known as the Fenian movement, had a profound impact on modern Irish history. This book examines how Skibbereen town became known as the 'cradle of Fenianism'. It looks at the formation of the Phoenix... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4149 Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 1970 - First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is the first paperback printing - 1971 edition of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably has not been supplanted since, certainly in impact. Written in 1970 after... 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MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED6370 Leonard Cottrell - The Great Invasion ( Roman Britain) - Vintage PB 1975 ( Originally 1958) History of the Roman invasion and occupation of Britain from the first reconnaissance by Caesar in 55 B.C. to the final battle at Mons Graupius in 84 A.D. Based on both classic sources and archaeological evidence. Reprint Pan Edition, illustrated with... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80407H Gwen Edelman / War Story 'Later he would say: I met you in a whorehouse. Or was it an all night poker game. I met you in a bookstore, Kitty would remind him. In a bookstore? Impossible. I never set foot in bookstores. What nonsense. I found you in a bordello. You were only... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Federal Ministry For All German Affairs - In The Heart of Germany in the Twentieth Century : The Zonal Border - PB - 1965 - Iron Curtain, Cold War Published by The Federal Ministry for All-German Affairs, Bonn, Germany, 1965Used - Very Good. 96 pages, mostly composed of full page black and white photographs of the Iron Curtain taken from West Germany. An interetsing Cold War era piece,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR50199H Paul Moorcraft / Inside the Danger Zones All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X81639H Philip Ziegler / Edward Heath : The Authorised Biography (Hardback) The masterly official biography of Britain's former prime minister, which captures all the political drama of the 1970s, so relevant for the present day Distinguished biographer Philip Ziegler offers a timely reassessment of Edward Heath's... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33087H Hillary Rodham Clinton / The Book of Gutsy Women (Hardback) She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your question," her father urged, nudging her forward. She smiled shyly and said, "You're my hero. Who's yours?"Many people-especially girls-have asked us that same question... 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW40727H Susan Ottaway / Fire Over Heathrow: the Tragedy of Flight 712 (Hardback) One and a half minutes after take-off on the clear and sunny afternoon of 8 April 1968, the Number 2 engine of BOAC Boeing 707 G-ARWE broke away from its mounting pylon and fell, tumbling in flames. Captain Cliff Taylor managed an extremely... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR53263H Franci Rabinek Epstein / Franci's War Discover unrelenting spirit and strength in the extraordinary true story of Franci: a woman who survived the holocaust against all of the odds'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope. Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58138H Leo McKinstry / Spitfire : Portrait of a Legend In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world will move forward... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR56808H Jenni Murray / A History of the World in 21 Women From the bestselling author of A History of Britain in 21 WomenThe history of the world is the history of great women.Marie Curie discovered radium and revolutionised medical science. Empress Cixi transformed China. Frida Kahlo turned an... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR54464H Jessica Mitford / Hons and Rebels 'This book is just about my favourite book of all time ... I'm not entirely convinced I could like somebody who didn't like this book ... it's funny and moving and gives you an insight into this extraordinary moment as the war is about to begin ..... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45557H Peter Ackroyd / The Life of Thomas More Thomas More is one of the great figures in English history. Pre-eminent as a courtier and as a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of Utopia, More's life and career epitomise the great transformation of England in the space of 35 years... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79914H G. Cabrera Infante / Mea Cuba All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49000H Jason Burke / The New Threat From Islamic Militancy SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016In The New Threat renowned expert and prize-winning reporter Jason Burke provides the clearest and most comprehensive guide to Islamic militancy today.From Syria to Somalia, from Libya to Indonesia, from Yemen... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW38642H John Major / My Old Man (Hardback) Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall.Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED8717,MED8718,MED8719 Liam Cahill - Forgotten Revolution : The Limerick Soviet 1919 - SIGNED - Centenary Edition 2019 - Brand NEW PB This is a completely updated, revised and enlarged edition of the author's original book on the Limerick Soviet, first published in 1990. It is the Spring of 1919. The first shots are already fired in the Irish War of Independence and the separatist... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW31495H Lisa Mundy / Michelle: a Biography (Hardback) It will be a deeply reported book tracing Michelle's life from her beginnings to now. She was every parent's dream, skipping second grade because of her smarts, going on to Princeton and then Harvard Law School. The book will describe the South... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40722H Janice Y. K. Lee / The Piano Teacher (Large Paperback) A rare and exquisite story . . . Transports you out of time, out of place, into a world you can feel on your very skin. --Elizabeth GilbertThe New York Times bestsellerJanice Y.K. Lee's latest novel, The Expatriates, is now available from PenguinIn... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92240H Johnson Beharry / Barefoot Soldier - A Story of Extreme Valour (Large Paperback) Born in 1979 in Grenada as one of eight children, living in a two-bedroom hut, surviving on meagre meals of beans and rice and walking barefoot, three miles to school. At 13 Johnson Beharry quit school and worked as a decorator and labourer. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Durnford-Slater, John - Commando - PB - 1975 ( Originally 1953) Commando is the real and exciting story of one of the most important units of World War II, John Durnford-Slater gives his first-hand and unique point of view on everything that happened.Brigadier Durnford-Slater raised and trained the first... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51694H David Nott / War Doctor : Surgery on the Front Line 'Brave, compassionate and inspiring - it left me in floods of tears' - Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to HurtA powerful and intensely moving memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones, operating under the most extreme circumstances... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11896M Paul Spicer / The Temptress In Kenya's 'Happy Valley' no one paid too much attention to the privileged colonial set as they farmed their estates, partied until dawn and indulged in extra-marital affairs. Not until Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was shot dead at the wheel of his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR21549H Gerri Chanel / Saving Mona Lisa In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley as part of the biggest museum evacuation in history.As the Germans neared Paris in 1940,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3512 Kieran Doyle & Alan O'Rourke - Monuments to Our Past : Understanding Commemoration and the Revolutionary Period in Cork 1914-23 - PB - BRAND NEW There is perhaps no other period in Irish history as richly commemorated in Cork as the period 1914 - 1923. Monuments to our Past is the first book to explore how rich these layers are in Cork. It examines not just the history, but the language,... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Coolim Books Publishing - CORK | sku: MED8107,MED8108,MED8109,MED8110,MED8111,MED8112,MED8113,MED8114,MED8115,MED8116 William Casey - The Cradle Of Fenianism : Skibbereen And The Early Fenian Movement, 1850–67 - BRAND NEW - SIGNED The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), commonly known as the Fenian movement, had a profound impact on modern Irish history. This book examines how Skibbereen town became known as the 'cradle of Fenianism'. It looks at the formation of the Phoenix... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4149 Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 1970 - First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is the first paperback printing - 1971 edition of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably has not been supplanted since, certainly in impact. Written in 1970 after... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30340H Nigel Cawthorne / History's Greatest Battles : Masterstrokes of War History's Greatest Battles covers the gamut of warfare, from huge sea battles to single engagements where regiments dug in and fought on, long past the time for surrender. All of our books are second hand, and while... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2003H Aung San Suu Kyi / Freedom from Fear : And Other Writings All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43489H A. L. Kennedy / Day (Hardback) Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3245H David Cameron / For the Record (Hardback) 'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday TimesThe referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most controversial political events of our times. For the first time, the man who called that vote talks about the decision and its... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43532H Stephen Pollard / David Blunkett (Hardback) David Blunkett has never been a conventional politician - or personality. Blind since childhood, seemingly a traditional 'old Labour' councillor in Sheffield, he is now Home Secretary and a key member of the Labour government. How did this son... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR56679H Yeonmi Park / In Order To Live 'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: X50060E Chas Newkey-Burden / 64 Geeks: Meet the Brains Who Changed the World (Hardback) We wouldn't have Bluetooth or Wi-Fi today without the ingenuity of an actress once described as "the most beautiful woman in the world."And we might have had mobile messaging as early as 1901, were it not for the fickleness of a banker.From... MSRP: €4.00 Was: €4.00 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart
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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X81639H Philip Ziegler / Edward Heath : The Authorised Biography (Hardback) The masterly official biography of Britain's former prime minister, which captures all the political drama of the 1970s, so relevant for the present day Distinguished biographer Philip Ziegler offers a timely reassessment of Edward Heath's... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33087H Hillary Rodham Clinton / The Book of Gutsy Women (Hardback) She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your question," her father urged, nudging her forward. She smiled shyly and said, "You're my hero. Who's yours?"Many people-especially girls-have asked us that same question... 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Quick view Federal Ministry For All German Affairs - In The Heart of Germany in the Twentieth Century : The Zonal Border - PB - 1965 - Iron Curtain, Cold War Published by The Federal Ministry for All-German Affairs, Bonn, Germany, 1965Used - Very Good. 96 pages, mostly composed of full page black and white photographs of the Iron Curtain taken from West Germany. An interetsing Cold War era piece,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR50199H Paul Moorcraft / Inside the Danger Zones 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: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED8717,MED8718,MED8719 Liam Cahill - Forgotten Revolution : The Limerick Soviet 1919 - SIGNED - Centenary Edition 2019 - Brand NEW PB This is a completely updated, revised and enlarged edition of the author's original book on the Limerick Soviet, first published in 1990. It is the Spring of 1919. The first shots are already fired in the Irish War of Independence and the separatist... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW31495H Lisa Mundy / Michelle: a Biography (Hardback) It will be a deeply reported book tracing Michelle's life from her beginnings to now. She was every parent's dream, skipping second grade because of her smarts, going on to Princeton and then Harvard Law School. The book will describe the South... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40722H Janice Y. K. Lee / The Piano Teacher (Large Paperback) A rare and exquisite story . . . Transports you out of time, out of place, into a world you can feel on your very skin. --Elizabeth GilbertThe New York Times bestsellerJanice Y.K. Lee's latest novel, The Expatriates, is now available from PenguinIn... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92240H Johnson Beharry / Barefoot Soldier - A Story of Extreme Valour (Large Paperback) Born in 1979 in Grenada as one of eight children, living in a two-bedroom hut, surviving on meagre meals of beans and rice and walking barefoot, three miles to school. At 13 Johnson Beharry quit school and worked as a decorator and labourer. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Durnford-Slater, John - Commando - PB - 1975 ( Originally 1953) Commando is the real and exciting story of one of the most important units of World War II, John Durnford-Slater gives his first-hand and unique point of view on everything that happened.Brigadier Durnford-Slater raised and trained the first... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR21549H Gerri Chanel / Saving Mona Lisa In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley as part of the biggest museum evacuation in history.As the Germans neared Paris in 1940,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3512 Kieran Doyle & Alan O'Rourke - Monuments to Our Past : Understanding Commemoration and the Revolutionary Period in Cork 1914-23 - PB - BRAND NEW There is perhaps no other period in Irish history as richly commemorated in Cork as the period 1914 - 1923. Monuments to our Past is the first book to explore how rich these layers are in Cork. It examines not just the history, but the language,... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Coolim Books Publishing - CORK | sku: MED8107,MED8108,MED8109,MED8110,MED8111,MED8112,MED8113,MED8114,MED8115,MED8116 William Casey - The Cradle Of Fenianism : Skibbereen And The Early Fenian Movement, 1850–67 - BRAND NEW - SIGNED The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), commonly known as the Fenian movement, had a profound impact on modern Irish history. This book examines how Skibbereen town became known as the 'cradle of Fenianism'. It looks at the formation of the Phoenix... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4149 Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 1970 - First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is the first paperback printing - 1971 edition of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably has not been supplanted since, certainly in impact. Written in 1970 after... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30340H Nigel Cawthorne / History's Greatest Battles : Masterstrokes of War History's Greatest Battles covers the gamut of warfare, from huge sea battles to single engagements where regiments dug in and fought on, long past the time for surrender. All of our books are second hand, and while... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2003H Aung San Suu Kyi / Freedom from Fear : And Other Writings All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43489H A. L. Kennedy / Day (Hardback) Alfred Day wanted his war. 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MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR56679H Yeonmi Park / In Order To Live 'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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Who's yours?"Many people-especially girls-have asked us that same question... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X74448H Tom Moore / Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day (Hardback) Embark on an echanting journey into our country's past hundred years through the remarkable life of Captain Sir Tom Moore*** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER ***'A wonderful life story with lessons for us all . . . beautifully written' DAILY... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93328H Ant Middleton / First Man In (Hardback) NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNo one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life's challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In First Man In, he shares the core lessons he's learned... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW40727H Susan Ottaway / Fire Over Heathrow: the Tragedy of Flight 712 (Hardback) One and a half minutes after take-off on the clear and sunny afternoon of 8 April 1968, the Number 2 engine of BOAC Boeing 707 G-ARWE broke away from its mounting pylon and fell, tumbling in flames. Captain Cliff Taylor managed an extremely... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR53263H Franci Rabinek Epstein / Franci's War Discover unrelenting spirit and strength in the extraordinary true story of Franci: a woman who survived the holocaust against all of the odds'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope. Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58138H Leo McKinstry / Spitfire : Portrait of a Legend In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45557H Peter Ackroyd / The Life of Thomas More Thomas More is one of the great figures in English history. Pre-eminent as a courtier and as a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of Utopia, More's life and career epitomise the great transformation of England in the space of 35 years... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79914H G. Cabrera Infante / Mea Cuba 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: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED8717,MED8718,MED8719 Liam Cahill - Forgotten Revolution : The Limerick Soviet 1919 - SIGNED - Centenary Edition 2019 - Brand NEW PB This is a completely updated, revised and enlarged edition of the author's original book on the Limerick Soviet, first published in 1990. It is the Spring of 1919. The first shots are already fired in the Irish War of Independence and the separatist... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW31495H Lisa Mundy / Michelle: a Biography (Hardback) It will be a deeply reported book tracing Michelle's life from her beginnings to now. She was every parent's dream, skipping second grade because of her smarts, going on to Princeton and then Harvard Law School. The book will describe the South... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40722H Janice Y. K. Lee / The Piano Teacher (Large Paperback) A rare and exquisite story . . . Transports you out of time, out of place, into a world you can feel on your very skin. --Elizabeth GilbertThe New York Times bestsellerJanice Y.K. Lee's latest novel, The Expatriates, is now available from PenguinIn... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92240H Johnson Beharry / Barefoot Soldier - A Story of Extreme Valour (Large Paperback) Born in 1979 in Grenada as one of eight children, living in a two-bedroom hut, surviving on meagre meals of beans and rice and walking barefoot, three miles to school. At 13 Johnson Beharry quit school and worked as a decorator and labourer. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Durnford-Slater, John - Commando - PB - 1975 ( Originally 1953) Commando is the real and exciting story of one of the most important units of World War II, John Durnford-Slater gives his first-hand and unique point of view on everything that happened.Brigadier Durnford-Slater raised and trained the first... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51694H David Nott / War Doctor : Surgery on the Front Line 'Brave, compassionate and inspiring - it left me in floods of tears' - Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to HurtA powerful and intensely moving memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones, operating under the most extreme circumstances... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11896M Paul Spicer / The Temptress In Kenya's 'Happy Valley' no one paid too much attention to the privileged colonial set as they farmed their estates, partied until dawn and indulged in extra-marital affairs. Not until Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was shot dead at the wheel of his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR21549H Gerri Chanel / Saving Mona Lisa In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley as part of the biggest museum evacuation in history.As the Germans neared Paris in 1940,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3512 Kieran Doyle & Alan O'Rourke - Monuments to Our Past : Understanding Commemoration and the Revolutionary Period in Cork 1914-23 - PB - BRAND NEW There is perhaps no other period in Irish history as richly commemorated in Cork as the period 1914 - 1923. Monuments to our Past is the first book to explore how rich these layers are in Cork. It examines not just the history, but the language,... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Coolim Books Publishing - CORK | sku: MED8107,MED8108,MED8109,MED8110,MED8111,MED8112,MED8113,MED8114,MED8115,MED8116 William Casey - The Cradle Of Fenianism : Skibbereen And The Early Fenian Movement, 1850–67 - BRAND NEW - SIGNED The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), commonly known as the Fenian movement, had a profound impact on modern Irish history. This book examines how Skibbereen town became known as the 'cradle of Fenianism'. It looks at the formation of the Phoenix... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4149 Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 1970 - First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is the first paperback printing - 1971 edition of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably has not been supplanted since, certainly in impact. Written in 1970 after... 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MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR56679H Yeonmi Park / In Order To Live 'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79914H G. Cabrera Infante / Mea Cuba All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49000H Jason Burke / The New Threat From Islamic Militancy SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016In The New Threat renowned expert and prize-winning reporter Jason Burke provides the clearest and most comprehensive guide to Islamic militancy today.From Syria to Somalia, from Libya to Indonesia, from Yemen... 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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30340H Nigel Cawthorne / History's Greatest Battles : Masterstrokes of War History's Greatest Battles covers the gamut of warfare, from huge sea battles to single engagements where regiments dug in and fought on, long past the time for surrender. All of our books are second hand, and while... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2003H Aung San Suu Kyi / Freedom from Fear : And Other Writings All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43489H A. L. Kennedy / Day (Hardback) Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3245H David Cameron / For the Record (Hardback) 'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday TimesThe referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most controversial political events of our times. For the first time, the man who called that vote talks about the decision and its... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43532H Stephen Pollard / David Blunkett (Hardback) David Blunkett has never been a conventional politician - or personality. Blind since childhood, seemingly a traditional 'old Labour' councillor in Sheffield, he is now Home Secretary and a key member of the Labour government. How did this son... 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MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED8717,MED8718,MED8719 Liam Cahill - Forgotten Revolution : The Limerick Soviet 1919 - SIGNED - Centenary Edition 2019 - Brand NEW PB This is a completely updated, revised and enlarged edition of the author's original book on the Limerick Soviet, first published in 1990. It is the Spring of 1919. The first shots are already fired in the Irish War of Independence and the separatist... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW31495H Lisa Mundy / Michelle: a Biography (Hardback) It will be a deeply reported book tracing Michelle's life from her beginnings to now. She was every parent's dream, skipping second grade because of her smarts, going on to Princeton and then Harvard Law School. The book will describe the South... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40722H Janice Y. K. Lee / The Piano Teacher (Large Paperback) A rare and exquisite story . . . Transports you out of time, out of place, into a world you can feel on your very skin. --Elizabeth GilbertThe New York Times bestsellerJanice Y.K. Lee's latest novel, The Expatriates, is now available from PenguinIn... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92240H Johnson Beharry / Barefoot Soldier - A Story of Extreme Valour (Large Paperback) Born in 1979 in Grenada as one of eight children, living in a two-bedroom hut, surviving on meagre meals of beans and rice and walking barefoot, three miles to school. At 13 Johnson Beharry quit school and worked as a decorator and labourer. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Durnford-Slater, John - Commando - PB - 1975 ( Originally 1953) Commando is the real and exciting story of one of the most important units of World War II, John Durnford-Slater gives his first-hand and unique point of view on everything that happened.Brigadier Durnford-Slater raised and trained the first... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51694H David Nott / War Doctor : Surgery on the Front Line 'Brave, compassionate and inspiring - it left me in floods of tears' - Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to HurtA powerful and intensely moving memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones, operating under the most extreme circumstances... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11896M Paul Spicer / The Temptress In Kenya's 'Happy Valley' no one paid too much attention to the privileged colonial set as they farmed their estates, partied until dawn and indulged in extra-marital affairs. Not until Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was shot dead at the wheel of his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR21549H Gerri Chanel / Saving Mona Lisa In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley as part of the biggest museum evacuation in history.As the Germans neared Paris in 1940,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3512 Kieran Doyle & Alan O'Rourke - Monuments to Our Past : Understanding Commemoration and the Revolutionary Period in Cork 1914-23 - PB - BRAND NEW There is perhaps no other period in Irish history as richly commemorated in Cork as the period 1914 - 1923. Monuments to our Past is the first book to explore how rich these layers are in Cork. It examines not just the history, but the language,... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Coolim Books Publishing - CORK | sku: MED8107,MED8108,MED8109,MED8110,MED8111,MED8112,MED8113,MED8114,MED8115,MED8116 William Casey - The Cradle Of Fenianism : Skibbereen And The Early Fenian Movement, 1850–67 - BRAND NEW - SIGNED The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), commonly known as the Fenian movement, had a profound impact on modern Irish history. This book examines how Skibbereen town became known as the 'cradle of Fenianism'. It looks at the formation of the Phoenix... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4149 Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 1970 - First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is the first paperback printing - 1971 edition of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably has not been supplanted since, certainly in impact. Written in 1970 after... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30340H Nigel Cawthorne / History's Greatest Battles : Masterstrokes of War History's Greatest Battles covers the gamut of warfare, from huge sea battles to single engagements where regiments dug in and fought on, long past the time for surrender. All of our books are second hand, and while... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2003H Aung San Suu Kyi / Freedom from Fear : And Other Writings All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43489H A. L. Kennedy / Day (Hardback) Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3245H David Cameron / For the Record (Hardback) 'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday TimesThe referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most controversial political events of our times. For the first time, the man who called that vote talks about the decision and its... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43532H Stephen Pollard / David Blunkett (Hardback) David Blunkett has never been a conventional politician - or personality. Blind since childhood, seemingly a traditional 'old Labour' councillor in Sheffield, he is now Home Secretary and a key member of the Labour government. How did this son... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR56679H Yeonmi Park / In Order To Live 'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR49000H Jason Burke / The New Threat From Islamic Militancy SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016In The New Threat renowned expert and prize-winning reporter Jason Burke provides the clearest and most comprehensive guide to Islamic militancy today.From Syria to Somalia, from Libya to Indonesia, from Yemen... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW38642H John Major / My Old Man (Hardback) Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall.Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED8717,MED8718,MED8719 Liam Cahill - Forgotten Revolution : The Limerick Soviet 1919 - SIGNED - Centenary Edition 2019 - Brand NEW PB This is a completely updated, revised and enlarged edition of the author's original book on the Limerick Soviet, first published in 1990. It is the Spring of 1919. The first shots are already fired in the Irish War of Independence and the separatist... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW31495H Lisa Mundy / Michelle: a Biography (Hardback) It will be a deeply reported book tracing Michelle's life from her beginnings to now. She was every parent's dream, skipping second grade because of her smarts, going on to Princeton and then Harvard Law School. The book will describe the South... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40722H Janice Y. K. Lee / The Piano Teacher (Large Paperback) A rare and exquisite story . . . Transports you out of time, out of place, into a world you can feel on your very skin. --Elizabeth GilbertThe New York Times bestsellerJanice Y.K. Lee's latest novel, The Expatriates, is now available from PenguinIn... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92240H Johnson Beharry / Barefoot Soldier - A Story of Extreme Valour (Large Paperback) Born in 1979 in Grenada as one of eight children, living in a two-bedroom hut, surviving on meagre meals of beans and rice and walking barefoot, three miles to school. At 13 Johnson Beharry quit school and worked as a decorator and labourer. In... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Durnford-Slater, John - Commando - PB - 1975 ( Originally 1953) Commando is the real and exciting story of one of the most important units of World War II, John Durnford-Slater gives his first-hand and unique point of view on everything that happened.Brigadier Durnford-Slater raised and trained the first... 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Quick view sku: MED4149 Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB - 1970 - First published in hardcover in 1970 , this is the first paperback printing - 1971 edition of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably has not been supplanted since, certainly in impact. Written in 1970 after... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30340H Nigel Cawthorne / History's Greatest Battles : Masterstrokes of War History's Greatest Battles covers the gamut of warfare, from huge sea battles to single engagements where regiments dug in and fought on, long past the time for surrender. All of our books are second hand, and while... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2003H Aung San Suu Kyi / Freedom from Fear : And Other Writings All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43489H A. L. Kennedy / Day (Hardback) Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3245H David Cameron / For the Record (Hardback) 'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday TimesThe referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most controversial political events of our times. For the first time, the man who called that vote talks about the decision and its... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43532H Stephen Pollard / David Blunkett (Hardback) David Blunkett has never been a conventional politician - or personality. Blind since childhood, seemingly a traditional 'old Labour' councillor in Sheffield, he is now Home Secretary and a key member of the Labour government. How did this son... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR56679H Yeonmi Park / In Order To Live 'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR30340H Nigel Cawthorne / History's Greatest Battles : Masterstrokes of War History's Greatest Battles covers the gamut of warfare, from huge sea battles to single engagements where regiments dug in and fought on, long past the time for surrender. All of our books are second hand, and while... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2003H Aung San Suu Kyi / Freedom from Fear : And Other Writings All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43489H A. L. Kennedy / Day (Hardback) Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3245H David Cameron / For the Record (Hardback) 'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday TimesThe referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most controversial political events of our times. For the first time, the man who called that vote talks about the decision and its... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43532H Stephen Pollard / David Blunkett (Hardback) David Blunkett has never been a conventional politician - or personality. Blind since childhood, seemingly a traditional 'old Labour' councillor in Sheffield, he is now Home Secretary and a key member of the Labour government. How did this son... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR56679H Yeonmi Park / In Order To Live 'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR2003H Aung San Suu Kyi / Freedom from Fear : And Other Writings All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43489H A. L. Kennedy / Day (Hardback) Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3245H David Cameron / For the Record (Hardback) 'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday TimesThe referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most controversial political events of our times. For the first time, the man who called that vote talks about the decision and its... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43532H Stephen Pollard / David Blunkett (Hardback) David Blunkett has never been a conventional politician - or personality. Blind since childhood, seemingly a traditional 'old Labour' councillor in Sheffield, he is now Home Secretary and a key member of the Labour government. How did this son... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR56679H Yeonmi Park / In Order To Live 'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: wW43489H A. L. Kennedy / Day (Hardback) Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: wW3245H David Cameron / For the Record (Hardback) 'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday TimesThe referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most controversial political events of our times. For the first time, the man who called that vote talks about the decision and its... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: wW43532H Stephen Pollard / David Blunkett (Hardback) David Blunkett has never been a conventional politician - or personality. Blind since childhood, seemingly a traditional 'old Labour' councillor in Sheffield, he is now Home Secretary and a key member of the Labour government. How did this son... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: rR56679H Yeonmi Park / In Order To Live 'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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