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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... 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Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45326E Mark Felton / Castle of the Eagles : Escape from Mussolini's Colditz (Hardback) Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35548E H. C. G. Matthew / Gladstone 1809-74 (Hardback) William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) has been hailed as the most characteristic and extraordinary of Victorians. His expansive public career--in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times Prime Minister--was consistently controversial and... 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Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... 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Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35738E W. Sydney Robinson / The Last Victorians : A Daring Reassessment of Four Twentieth Century Eccentrics (Hardback) “We of this age behold with amazement the sweep and range of the great Victorians.” – Morning Post, May 1921 Ever since the publication of Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians in 1918 it has been fashionable to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35707E Renia Spiegel / Renia's Diary : A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Hardback) **The New York Times bestseller** 'Extraordinary... It is a privilege to read these pages' - Frances Wilson, Daily Telegraph (5* review)'At a moment when basic agreement over simple truths has become a political battleground and history a weapon,... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45326E Mark Felton / Castle of the Eagles : Escape from Mussolini's Colditz (Hardback) Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35548E H. C. G. Matthew / Gladstone 1809-74 (Hardback) William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) has been hailed as the most characteristic and extraordinary of Victorians. His expansive public career--in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times Prime Minister--was consistently controversial and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45095E Anthony Smith / The Machine Gun : The Story of the Men and the Weapon That Changed the Face of War (Hardback) A fascinating history of the men who invented the machine gun - and the devastating impact it had on the course of war Why did the British start the First World War with only 264 machine guns, far fewer than the other great powers? Why were the... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35503E Sidney Blumenthal / A Self-Made Man : The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol.I 1809-1849 (Hardback) The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful... 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Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45326E Mark Felton / Castle of the Eagles : Escape from Mussolini's Colditz (Hardback) Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35548E H. C. G. Matthew / Gladstone 1809-74 (Hardback) William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) has been hailed as the most characteristic and extraordinary of Victorians. His expansive public career--in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times Prime Minister--was consistently controversial and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45095E Anthony Smith / The Machine Gun : The Story of the Men and the Weapon That Changed the Face of War (Hardback) A fascinating history of the men who invented the machine gun - and the devastating impact it had on the course of war Why did the British start the First World War with only 264 machine guns, far fewer than the other great powers? Why were the... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35503E Sidney Blumenthal / A Self-Made Man : The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol.I 1809-1849 (Hardback) The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful... 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Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... 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Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35738E W. Sydney Robinson / The Last Victorians : A Daring Reassessment of Four Twentieth Century Eccentrics (Hardback) “We of this age behold with amazement the sweep and range of the great Victorians.” – Morning Post, May 1921 Ever since the publication of Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians in 1918 it has been fashionable to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35707E Renia Spiegel / Renia's Diary : A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Hardback) **The New York Times bestseller** 'Extraordinary... It is a privilege to read these pages' - Frances Wilson, Daily Telegraph (5* review)'At a moment when basic agreement over simple truths has become a political battleground and history a weapon,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56644H Edward Klein / The Kennedy Curse : Why America's First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years (Hardback) Death was merciful to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for it spared her a parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. But if Jackie had lived to see her son, JFK Jr., perish in a plane crash on his way to his cousin's wedding, she would have been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35598E Erna Paris / Long Shadows : Truth Lies and History (Hardback) This work addresses a pressing contemporary issue - who owns and controls the past? - for decisions taken by those in power in the past cast long shadows into the future. From the starting point of conversations with those who have lived that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45326E Mark Felton / Castle of the Eagles : Escape from Mussolini's Colditz (Hardback) Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35548E H. C. G. Matthew / Gladstone 1809-74 (Hardback) William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) has been hailed as the most characteristic and extraordinary of Victorians. His expansive public career--in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times Prime Minister--was consistently controversial and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45095E Anthony Smith / The Machine Gun : The Story of the Men and the Weapon That Changed the Face of War (Hardback) A fascinating history of the men who invented the machine gun - and the devastating impact it had on the course of war Why did the British start the First World War with only 264 machine guns, far fewer than the other great powers? Why were the... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35503E Sidney Blumenthal / A Self-Made Man : The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol.I 1809-1849 (Hardback) The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful... 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Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35738E W. Sydney Robinson / The Last Victorians : A Daring Reassessment of Four Twentieth Century Eccentrics (Hardback) “We of this age behold with amazement the sweep and range of the great Victorians.” – Morning Post, May 1921 Ever since the publication of Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians in 1918 it has been fashionable to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35707E Renia Spiegel / Renia's Diary : A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Hardback) **The New York Times bestseller** 'Extraordinary... It is a privilege to read these pages' - Frances Wilson, Daily Telegraph (5* review)'At a moment when basic agreement over simple truths has become a political battleground and history a weapon,... 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Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... 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Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Sydney Robinson / The Last Victorians : A Daring Reassessment of Four Twentieth Century Eccentrics (Hardback) “We of this age behold with amazement the sweep and range of the great Victorians.” – Morning Post, May 1921 Ever since the publication of Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians in 1918 it has been fashionable to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35707E Renia Spiegel / Renia's Diary : A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Hardback) **The New York Times bestseller** 'Extraordinary... It is a privilege to read these pages' - Frances Wilson, Daily Telegraph (5* review)'At a moment when basic agreement over simple truths has become a political battleground and history a weapon,... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45326E Mark Felton / Castle of the Eagles : Escape from Mussolini's Colditz (Hardback) Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35548E H. C. G. Matthew / Gladstone 1809-74 (Hardback) William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) has been hailed as the most characteristic and extraordinary of Victorians. His expansive public career--in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times Prime Minister--was consistently controversial and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45095E Anthony Smith / The Machine Gun : The Story of the Men and the Weapon That Changed the Face of War (Hardback) A fascinating history of the men who invented the machine gun - and the devastating impact it had on the course of war Why did the British start the First World War with only 264 machine guns, far fewer than the other great powers? Why were the... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35503E Sidney Blumenthal / A Self-Made Man : The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol.I 1809-1849 (Hardback) The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful... 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Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55023H Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect : A Novel(Large Paperback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: x56768H Lara Marlowe / Love in a Time of War : My Years with Robert Fisk (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 82336E Slavomir Rawicz / The Long Walk : The True Story of a Trek to Freedom MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 29962H John Nichol / The Last Escape : The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-1945 MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35750E Sgt Trevor Greenwood / D Day to Victory (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35738E W. Sydney Robinson / The Last Victorians : A Daring Reassessment of Four Twentieth Century Eccentrics (Hardback) “We of this age behold with amazement the sweep and range of the great Victorians.” – Morning Post, May 1921 Ever since the publication of Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians in 1918 it has been fashionable to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35707E Renia Spiegel / Renia's Diary : A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Hardback) **The New York Times bestseller** 'Extraordinary... It is a privilege to read these pages' - Frances Wilson, Daily Telegraph (5* review)'At a moment when basic agreement over simple truths has become a political battleground and history a weapon,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56644H Edward Klein / The Kennedy Curse : Why America's First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years (Hardback) Death was merciful to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for it spared her a parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. But if Jackie had lived to see her son, JFK Jr., perish in a plane crash on his way to his cousin's wedding, she would have been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35598E Erna Paris / Long Shadows : Truth Lies and History (Hardback) This work addresses a pressing contemporary issue - who owns and controls the past? - for decisions taken by those in power in the past cast long shadows into the future. From the starting point of conversations with those who have lived that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45326E Mark Felton / Castle of the Eagles : Escape from Mussolini's Colditz (Hardback) Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35548E H. C. G. Matthew / Gladstone 1809-74 (Hardback) William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) has been hailed as the most characteristic and extraordinary of Victorians. His expansive public career--in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times Prime Minister--was consistently controversial and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45095E Anthony Smith / The Machine Gun : The Story of the Men and the Weapon That Changed the Face of War (Hardback) A fascinating history of the men who invented the machine gun - and the devastating impact it had on the course of war Why did the British start the First World War with only 264 machine guns, far fewer than the other great powers? Why were the... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35503E Sidney Blumenthal / A Self-Made Man : The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol.I 1809-1849 (Hardback) The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful... 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Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... 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Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: 82336E Slavomir Rawicz / The Long Walk : The True Story of a Trek to Freedom MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 29962H John Nichol / The Last Escape : The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-1945 MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35750E Sgt Trevor Greenwood / D Day to Victory (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35738E W. Sydney Robinson / The Last Victorians : A Daring Reassessment of Four Twentieth Century Eccentrics (Hardback) “We of this age behold with amazement the sweep and range of the great Victorians.” – Morning Post, May 1921 Ever since the publication of Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians in 1918 it has been fashionable to... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35598E Erna Paris / Long Shadows : Truth Lies and History (Hardback) This work addresses a pressing contemporary issue - who owns and controls the past? - for decisions taken by those in power in the past cast long shadows into the future. From the starting point of conversations with those who have lived that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45326E Mark Felton / Castle of the Eagles : Escape from Mussolini's Colditz (Hardback) Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35548E H. C. G. Matthew / Gladstone 1809-74 (Hardback) William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) has been hailed as the most characteristic and extraordinary of Victorians. His expansive public career--in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times Prime Minister--was consistently controversial and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45095E Anthony Smith / The Machine Gun : The Story of the Men and the Weapon That Changed the Face of War (Hardback) A fascinating history of the men who invented the machine gun - and the devastating impact it had on the course of war Why did the British start the First World War with only 264 machine guns, far fewer than the other great powers? Why were the... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35503E Sidney Blumenthal / A Self-Made Man : The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol.I 1809-1849 (Hardback) The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful... 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Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55023H Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect : A Novel(Large Paperback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: 29962H John Nichol / The Last Escape : The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-1945 MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35750E Sgt Trevor Greenwood / D Day to Victory (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35738E W. Sydney Robinson / The Last Victorians : A Daring Reassessment of Four Twentieth Century Eccentrics (Hardback) “We of this age behold with amazement the sweep and range of the great Victorians.” – Morning Post, May 1921 Ever since the publication of Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians in 1918 it has been fashionable to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35707E Renia Spiegel / Renia's Diary : A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Hardback) **The New York Times bestseller** 'Extraordinary... It is a privilege to read these pages' - Frances Wilson, Daily Telegraph (5* review)'At a moment when basic agreement over simple truths has become a political battleground and history a weapon,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56644H Edward Klein / The Kennedy Curse : Why America's First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years (Hardback) Death was merciful to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for it spared her a parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. But if Jackie had lived to see her son, JFK Jr., perish in a plane crash on his way to his cousin's wedding, she would have been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35598E Erna Paris / Long Shadows : Truth Lies and History (Hardback) This work addresses a pressing contemporary issue - who owns and controls the past? - for decisions taken by those in power in the past cast long shadows into the future. From the starting point of conversations with those who have lived that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45326E Mark Felton / Castle of the Eagles : Escape from Mussolini's Colditz (Hardback) Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35548E H. C. G. Matthew / Gladstone 1809-74 (Hardback) William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) has been hailed as the most characteristic and extraordinary of Victorians. His expansive public career--in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times Prime Minister--was consistently controversial and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45095E Anthony Smith / The Machine Gun : The Story of the Men and the Weapon That Changed the Face of War (Hardback) A fascinating history of the men who invented the machine gun - and the devastating impact it had on the course of war Why did the British start the First World War with only 264 machine guns, far fewer than the other great powers? Why were the... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35503E Sidney Blumenthal / A Self-Made Man : The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol.I 1809-1849 (Hardback) The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57093H Tim Shipman / All Out War : The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The best political book of the year' Andrew Marr'A superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history' GuardianThe only... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35459E Clark Kent Ervin / Open Target : Where America is Vulnerable to Attack (Hardback) Based on first-hand experiences and observations of how the Department of Homeland Security is failing to make America safe, Ervin reveals the biggest threats to America - from nuclear attack, to subway vulnerability, border weakness and how easy... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 25615H Jung Chang / Big Sister Little Sister Red Sister *SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020* Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling author of Wild Swans.They were the most famous sisters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84619M Jordan Wylie / Running For My Life This is the extraordinary true story of how a former British soldier turned extreme adventurer set out to run marathons in the world's most dangerous countries. In 2018, Jordan Wylie trained and ran in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan to raise... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32527H Paul Brickhill / Escape or Die : True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55023H Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect : A Novel(Large Paperback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x35750E Sgt Trevor Greenwood / D Day to Victory (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35738E W. Sydney Robinson / The Last Victorians : A Daring Reassessment of Four Twentieth Century Eccentrics (Hardback) “We of this age behold with amazement the sweep and range of the great Victorians.” – Morning Post, May 1921 Ever since the publication of Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians in 1918 it has been fashionable to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35707E Renia Spiegel / Renia's Diary : A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Hardback) **The New York Times bestseller** 'Extraordinary... It is a privilege to read these pages' - Frances Wilson, Daily Telegraph (5* review)'At a moment when basic agreement over simple truths has become a political battleground and history a weapon,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56644H Edward Klein / The Kennedy Curse : Why America's First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years (Hardback) Death was merciful to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for it spared her a parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. But if Jackie had lived to see her son, JFK Jr., perish in a plane crash on his way to his cousin's wedding, she would have been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35598E Erna Paris / Long Shadows : Truth Lies and History (Hardback) This work addresses a pressing contemporary issue - who owns and controls the past? - for decisions taken by those in power in the past cast long shadows into the future. From the starting point of conversations with those who have lived that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45326E Mark Felton / Castle of the Eagles : Escape from Mussolini's Colditz (Hardback) Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35548E H. C. G. Matthew / Gladstone 1809-74 (Hardback) William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) has been hailed as the most characteristic and extraordinary of Victorians. His expansive public career--in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times Prime Minister--was consistently controversial and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45095E Anthony Smith / The Machine Gun : The Story of the Men and the Weapon That Changed the Face of War (Hardback) A fascinating history of the men who invented the machine gun - and the devastating impact it had on the course of war Why did the British start the First World War with only 264 machine guns, far fewer than the other great powers? Why were the... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35503E Sidney Blumenthal / A Self-Made Man : The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol.I 1809-1849 (Hardback) The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57093H Tim Shipman / All Out War : The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The best political book of the year' Andrew Marr'A superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history' GuardianThe only... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35459E Clark Kent Ervin / Open Target : Where America is Vulnerable to Attack (Hardback) Based on first-hand experiences and observations of how the Department of Homeland Security is failing to make America safe, Ervin reveals the biggest threats to America - from nuclear attack, to subway vulnerability, border weakness and how easy... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 25615H Jung Chang / Big Sister Little Sister Red Sister *SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020* Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling author of Wild Swans.They were the most famous sisters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84619M Jordan Wylie / Running For My Life This is the extraordinary true story of how a former British soldier turned extreme adventurer set out to run marathons in the world's most dangerous countries. In 2018, Jordan Wylie trained and ran in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan to raise... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32527H Paul Brickhill / Escape or Die : True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55023H Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect : A Novel(Large Paperback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x35738E W. Sydney Robinson / The Last Victorians : A Daring Reassessment of Four Twentieth Century Eccentrics (Hardback) “We of this age behold with amazement the sweep and range of the great Victorians.” – Morning Post, May 1921 Ever since the publication of Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians in 1918 it has been fashionable to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35707E Renia Spiegel / Renia's Diary : A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Hardback) **The New York Times bestseller** 'Extraordinary... It is a privilege to read these pages' - Frances Wilson, Daily Telegraph (5* review)'At a moment when basic agreement over simple truths has become a political battleground and history a weapon,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56644H Edward Klein / The Kennedy Curse : Why America's First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years (Hardback) Death was merciful to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for it spared her a parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. But if Jackie had lived to see her son, JFK Jr., perish in a plane crash on his way to his cousin's wedding, she would have been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35598E Erna Paris / Long Shadows : Truth Lies and History (Hardback) This work addresses a pressing contemporary issue - who owns and controls the past? - for decisions taken by those in power in the past cast long shadows into the future. From the starting point of conversations with those who have lived that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45326E Mark Felton / Castle of the Eagles : Escape from Mussolini's Colditz (Hardback) Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35548E H. C. G. Matthew / Gladstone 1809-74 (Hardback) William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) has been hailed as the most characteristic and extraordinary of Victorians. His expansive public career--in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times Prime Minister--was consistently controversial and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45095E Anthony Smith / The Machine Gun : The Story of the Men and the Weapon That Changed the Face of War (Hardback) A fascinating history of the men who invented the machine gun - and the devastating impact it had on the course of war Why did the British start the First World War with only 264 machine guns, far fewer than the other great powers? Why were the... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35503E Sidney Blumenthal / A Self-Made Man : The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol.I 1809-1849 (Hardback) The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57093H Tim Shipman / All Out War : The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The best political book of the year' Andrew Marr'A superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history' GuardianThe only... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35459E Clark Kent Ervin / Open Target : Where America is Vulnerable to Attack (Hardback) Based on first-hand experiences and observations of how the Department of Homeland Security is failing to make America safe, Ervin reveals the biggest threats to America - from nuclear attack, to subway vulnerability, border weakness and how easy... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 25615H Jung Chang / Big Sister Little Sister Red Sister *SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020* Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling author of Wild Swans.They were the most famous sisters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84619M Jordan Wylie / Running For My Life This is the extraordinary true story of how a former British soldier turned extreme adventurer set out to run marathons in the world's most dangerous countries. In 2018, Jordan Wylie trained and ran in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan to raise... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32527H Paul Brickhill / Escape or Die : True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55023H Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect : A Novel(Large Paperback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x35707E Renia Spiegel / Renia's Diary : A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Hardback) **The New York Times bestseller** 'Extraordinary... It is a privilege to read these pages' - Frances Wilson, Daily Telegraph (5* review)'At a moment when basic agreement over simple truths has become a political battleground and history a weapon,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56644H Edward Klein / The Kennedy Curse : Why America's First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years (Hardback) Death was merciful to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for it spared her a parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. But if Jackie had lived to see her son, JFK Jr., perish in a plane crash on his way to his cousin's wedding, she would have been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35598E Erna Paris / Long Shadows : Truth Lies and History (Hardback) This work addresses a pressing contemporary issue - who owns and controls the past? - for decisions taken by those in power in the past cast long shadows into the future. From the starting point of conversations with those who have lived that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45326E Mark Felton / Castle of the Eagles : Escape from Mussolini's Colditz (Hardback) Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35548E H. C. G. Matthew / Gladstone 1809-74 (Hardback) William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) has been hailed as the most characteristic and extraordinary of Victorians. His expansive public career--in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times Prime Minister--was consistently controversial and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45095E Anthony Smith / The Machine Gun : The Story of the Men and the Weapon That Changed the Face of War (Hardback) A fascinating history of the men who invented the machine gun - and the devastating impact it had on the course of war Why did the British start the First World War with only 264 machine guns, far fewer than the other great powers? Why were the... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35503E Sidney Blumenthal / A Self-Made Man : The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol.I 1809-1849 (Hardback) The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful... 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Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55023H Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect : A Novel(Large Paperback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x56644H Edward Klein / The Kennedy Curse : Why America's First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years (Hardback) Death was merciful to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for it spared her a parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. But if Jackie had lived to see her son, JFK Jr., perish in a plane crash on his way to his cousin's wedding, she would have been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35598E Erna Paris / Long Shadows : Truth Lies and History (Hardback) This work addresses a pressing contemporary issue - who owns and controls the past? - for decisions taken by those in power in the past cast long shadows into the future. From the starting point of conversations with those who have lived that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45326E Mark Felton / Castle of the Eagles : Escape from Mussolini's Colditz (Hardback) Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35548E H. C. G. Matthew / Gladstone 1809-74 (Hardback) William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) has been hailed as the most characteristic and extraordinary of Victorians. His expansive public career--in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times Prime Minister--was consistently controversial and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45095E Anthony Smith / The Machine Gun : The Story of the Men and the Weapon That Changed the Face of War (Hardback) A fascinating history of the men who invented the machine gun - and the devastating impact it had on the course of war Why did the British start the First World War with only 264 machine guns, far fewer than the other great powers? Why were the... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35503E Sidney Blumenthal / A Self-Made Man : The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol.I 1809-1849 (Hardback) The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57093H Tim Shipman / All Out War : The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The best political book of the year' Andrew Marr'A superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history' GuardianThe only... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35459E Clark Kent Ervin / Open Target : Where America is Vulnerable to Attack (Hardback) Based on first-hand experiences and observations of how the Department of Homeland Security is failing to make America safe, Ervin reveals the biggest threats to America - from nuclear attack, to subway vulnerability, border weakness and how easy... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 25615H Jung Chang / Big Sister Little Sister Red Sister *SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020* Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling author of Wild Swans.They were the most famous sisters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84619M Jordan Wylie / Running For My Life This is the extraordinary true story of how a former British soldier turned extreme adventurer set out to run marathons in the world's most dangerous countries. In 2018, Jordan Wylie trained and ran in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan to raise... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32527H Paul Brickhill / Escape or Die : True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55023H Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect : A Novel(Large Paperback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x35598E Erna Paris / Long Shadows : Truth Lies and History (Hardback) This work addresses a pressing contemporary issue - who owns and controls the past? - for decisions taken by those in power in the past cast long shadows into the future. From the starting point of conversations with those who have lived that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45326E Mark Felton / Castle of the Eagles : Escape from Mussolini's Colditz (Hardback) Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35548E H. C. G. Matthew / Gladstone 1809-74 (Hardback) William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) has been hailed as the most characteristic and extraordinary of Victorians. His expansive public career--in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times Prime Minister--was consistently controversial and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45095E Anthony Smith / The Machine Gun : The Story of the Men and the Weapon That Changed the Face of War (Hardback) A fascinating history of the men who invented the machine gun - and the devastating impact it had on the course of war Why did the British start the First World War with only 264 machine guns, far fewer than the other great powers? Why were the... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35503E Sidney Blumenthal / A Self-Made Man : The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol.I 1809-1849 (Hardback) The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57093H Tim Shipman / All Out War : The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The best political book of the year' Andrew Marr'A superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history' GuardianThe only... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35459E Clark Kent Ervin / Open Target : Where America is Vulnerable to Attack (Hardback) Based on first-hand experiences and observations of how the Department of Homeland Security is failing to make America safe, Ervin reveals the biggest threats to America - from nuclear attack, to subway vulnerability, border weakness and how easy... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 25615H Jung Chang / Big Sister Little Sister Red Sister *SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020* Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling author of Wild Swans.They were the most famous sisters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84619M Jordan Wylie / Running For My Life This is the extraordinary true story of how a former British soldier turned extreme adventurer set out to run marathons in the world's most dangerous countries. In 2018, Jordan Wylie trained and ran in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan to raise... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32527H Paul Brickhill / Escape or Die : True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X45326E Mark Felton / Castle of the Eagles : Escape from Mussolini's Colditz (Hardback) Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35548E H. C. G. Matthew / Gladstone 1809-74 (Hardback) William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) has been hailed as the most characteristic and extraordinary of Victorians. His expansive public career--in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times Prime Minister--was consistently controversial and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45095E Anthony Smith / The Machine Gun : The Story of the Men and the Weapon That Changed the Face of War (Hardback) A fascinating history of the men who invented the machine gun - and the devastating impact it had on the course of war Why did the British start the First World War with only 264 machine guns, far fewer than the other great powers? Why were the... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35503E Sidney Blumenthal / A Self-Made Man : The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol.I 1809-1849 (Hardback) The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 25615H Jung Chang / Big Sister Little Sister Red Sister *SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020* Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling author of Wild Swans.They were the most famous sisters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84619M Jordan Wylie / Running For My Life This is the extraordinary true story of how a former British soldier turned extreme adventurer set out to run marathons in the world's most dangerous countries. In 2018, Jordan Wylie trained and ran in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan to raise... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32527H Paul Brickhill / Escape or Die : True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55023H Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect : A Novel(Large Paperback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x35548E H. C. G. Matthew / Gladstone 1809-74 (Hardback) William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) has been hailed as the most characteristic and extraordinary of Victorians. His expansive public career--in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times Prime Minister--was consistently controversial and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45095E Anthony Smith / The Machine Gun : The Story of the Men and the Weapon That Changed the Face of War (Hardback) A fascinating history of the men who invented the machine gun - and the devastating impact it had on the course of war Why did the British start the First World War with only 264 machine guns, far fewer than the other great powers? Why were the... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35503E Sidney Blumenthal / A Self-Made Man : The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol.I 1809-1849 (Hardback) The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57093H Tim Shipman / All Out War : The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The best political book of the year' Andrew Marr'A superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history' GuardianThe only... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35459E Clark Kent Ervin / Open Target : Where America is Vulnerable to Attack (Hardback) Based on first-hand experiences and observations of how the Department of Homeland Security is failing to make America safe, Ervin reveals the biggest threats to America - from nuclear attack, to subway vulnerability, border weakness and how easy... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 25615H Jung Chang / Big Sister Little Sister Red Sister *SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020* Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling author of Wild Swans.They were the most famous sisters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84619M Jordan Wylie / Running For My Life This is the extraordinary true story of how a former British soldier turned extreme adventurer set out to run marathons in the world's most dangerous countries. In 2018, Jordan Wylie trained and ran in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan to raise... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32527H Paul Brickhill / Escape or Die : True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55023H Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect : A Novel(Large Paperback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X45095E Anthony Smith / The Machine Gun : The Story of the Men and the Weapon That Changed the Face of War (Hardback) A fascinating history of the men who invented the machine gun - and the devastating impact it had on the course of war Why did the British start the First World War with only 264 machine guns, far fewer than the other great powers? Why were the... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35503E Sidney Blumenthal / A Self-Made Man : The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol.I 1809-1849 (Hardback) The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful... 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Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55023H Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect : A Novel(Large Paperback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x35503E Sidney Blumenthal / A Self-Made Man : The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol.I 1809-1849 (Hardback) The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57093H Tim Shipman / All Out War : The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The best political book of the year' Andrew Marr'A superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history' GuardianThe only... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35459E Clark Kent Ervin / Open Target : Where America is Vulnerable to Attack (Hardback) Based on first-hand experiences and observations of how the Department of Homeland Security is failing to make America safe, Ervin reveals the biggest threats to America - from nuclear attack, to subway vulnerability, border weakness and how easy... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 25615H Jung Chang / Big Sister Little Sister Red Sister *SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020* Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling author of Wild Swans.They were the most famous sisters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84619M Jordan Wylie / Running For My Life This is the extraordinary true story of how a former British soldier turned extreme adventurer set out to run marathons in the world's most dangerous countries. In 2018, Jordan Wylie trained and ran in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan to raise... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32527H Paul Brickhill / Escape or Die : True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55023H Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect : A Novel(Large Paperback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x57093H Tim Shipman / All Out War : The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The best political book of the year' Andrew Marr'A superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history' GuardianThe only... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x35459E Clark Kent Ervin / Open Target : Where America is Vulnerable to Attack (Hardback) Based on first-hand experiences and observations of how the Department of Homeland Security is failing to make America safe, Ervin reveals the biggest threats to America - from nuclear attack, to subway vulnerability, border weakness and how easy... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 25615H Jung Chang / Big Sister Little Sister Red Sister *SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020* Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling author of Wild Swans.They were the most famous sisters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84619M Jordan Wylie / Running For My Life This is the extraordinary true story of how a former British soldier turned extreme adventurer set out to run marathons in the world's most dangerous countries. In 2018, Jordan Wylie trained and ran in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan to raise... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32527H Paul Brickhill / Escape or Die : True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55023H Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect : A Novel(Large Paperback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x35459E Clark Kent Ervin / Open Target : Where America is Vulnerable to Attack (Hardback) Based on first-hand experiences and observations of how the Department of Homeland Security is failing to make America safe, Ervin reveals the biggest threats to America - from nuclear attack, to subway vulnerability, border weakness and how easy... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 25615H Jung Chang / Big Sister Little Sister Red Sister *SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020* Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling author of Wild Swans.They were the most famous sisters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84619M Jordan Wylie / Running For My Life This is the extraordinary true story of how a former British soldier turned extreme adventurer set out to run marathons in the world's most dangerous countries. In 2018, Jordan Wylie trained and ran in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan to raise... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32527H Paul Brickhill / Escape or Die : True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 25615H Jung Chang / Big Sister Little Sister Red Sister *SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020* Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling author of Wild Swans.They were the most famous sisters in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84619M Jordan Wylie / Running For My Life This is the extraordinary true story of how a former British soldier turned extreme adventurer set out to run marathons in the world's most dangerous countries. In 2018, Jordan Wylie trained and ran in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan to raise... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32527H Paul Brickhill / Escape or Die : True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55023H Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect : A Novel(Large Paperback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 84619M Jordan Wylie / Running For My Life This is the extraordinary true story of how a former British soldier turned extreme adventurer set out to run marathons in the world's most dangerous countries. In 2018, Jordan Wylie trained and ran in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan to raise... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32527H Paul Brickhill / Escape or Die : True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55023H Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect : A Novel(Large Paperback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 32527H Paul Brickhill / Escape or Die : True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55023H Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect : A Novel(Large Paperback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 84455M Martin Gilbert / The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55023H Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect : A Novel(Large Paperback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X44380E Bob Carruthers / Stuka: Trumpets of Jericho (Large Paperback) This comprehensive overview of the stuka dive bomber was compiled by emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55023H Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect : A Novel(Large Paperback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X44622E Graham Allison / Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? (Large Paperback) A book of the year for The Sunday Times, the FT, and The National.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants.The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor-sharp analysis, is Thucydides's Trap. This... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55023H Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect : A Novel(Large Paperback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X44823E Caroline Moorehead / A Bold and Dangerous Family : The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Large Paperback) Praise for A Train in Winter: "A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one." (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: "An uplifting tale of courage and morality." (The Sunday... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55023H Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect : A Novel(Large Paperback) THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x60438H Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf ( The Wild Hunt Series - Prequel ) (Large Paperback) Shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel AwardThe long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first novel The Wild Hunt'Picking up an Elizabeth Chadwick novel you know you are in for a sumptuous ride'Daily... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533394c Denis Donoghue / Warrenpoint (Large Paperback) This is a coming of age story of Northern Ireland, of a father and son, and of the intellectual apprenticeship of one of America's most eminent writers and critics. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x533365c Adrian Hadland / The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Large Paperback) This biography of Thabo Mbeki uncovers the way in which he looks at and deals with life on a day-to-day basis, his relationship with his family and his past, his preferences, and his major speeches and his key interactions. All of... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x531897c Kieran McKeown / Changing Fathers? : Experience of Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland(Large Paperback) The book explores the relationship between fathers and their children, fathers and mothers, and mothers and children, looking at the meaning of fatherhood in Irish society. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: x59125H David O'Donoghue / Hitler's Irish Voices (Large Paperback) It is nearly 75 years since Nazi Germany began targeting neutral Ireland with night-time radio propaganda programmes following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. In one of Dr. Josef Goebbels' more unusual ploys, two German academics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x57329H Priests de la Resistance! : The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century (Hardback) 'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X45044E Jim Rasenberger / The Brilliant Disaster : JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs (Hardback) A REMARKABLY GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S BAY OF PIGS CRISIS, DRAWING ON LONG-HIDDEN CIA DOCUMENTS AND DELIVERING, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE VIVID TRUTH--AND CONSEQUENCES--OF FIVE PIVOTAL DAYS IN APRIL 1961 The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X53019H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills : The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Hardback) Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years. In that time he has not been afraid to criticise his party. But despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention and Africa, for example - he has held several... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X43821E Chris Cleave / Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Hardback) 'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday TimesSummer... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Finnegan, Michael - And Soon Would Reap : The 1916 Easter Rising ( Cavan County Museum) A 54 page booklet, giving a concise history of the events of 1916 ( and the events that led up to the Rising) published and sponsored by the Cavan County Museum. Illustrated throughout. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 84150M Walton Golightly / Amazulu 1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, fifteen hundred men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 84083M Vanessa Curtis / The Earth is Singing Winner of the Young Quills Historical Novel Award. Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. My name is Hanna Michelson. I am 15. I am Latvian.I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing - taken by the Russians.I have a boyfriend... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 84004E David Zucchino / Thunder Run Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 83767M Dan Waddell / Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x46254E Eric Carter / Force Benedict (Large Paperback) Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 14189E Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda Jason Burke's bestseller Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'.Prize-winning journalist Jason Burke's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view