Military History & Warfare

George Walsh / Whip the Rebellion - Ulysses' S Grant's Rise to Command (Large Paperback)

How the unprepossessing Ulysses S. Grant, whose military genius ultimately preserved the Union, came to the forefront in the Civil War is a story as surprising as it is compelling. Forced to resign his commission in the peacetime army for drinking, and...

Peter Padfield / Battleship (Large Paperback)

This acclaimed naval historian's book tells the complete history of the battleship - the greatest and most awe-inspiring class of ship ever built - from its origins in the 1850s to what the author regards as the end of the era, the sinking of the...

Edward Young / One of Our Submarines (Large Paperback)

The Wordsworth Military Library covers the breadth of military history, including studies of individual leaders and accounts of major campaigns and great conflicts.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Chris Ayres / War Reporting for Cowards (Large Paperback)

PB - 2006 Chris Ayres is a small-town boy, a hypochondriac, and a neat freak with an anxiety disorder. Not exactly the picture of a war correspondent. But when his boss asks him if he would like to go to Iraq, he doesn't have the guts to say no. After...

C.S. Forester / The Age of Fighting Sail (Large Paperback)

The Age of Fighting Sail: The Story of the Naval War of 1812 No one has been so well equipped as C. S. Forester to dramatize the sea battles of the War of 1812, to characterize the heroes more skillfully, or to comprehend more shrewdly the world unrest...

Saul David / SBS - Silent Warriors (Large Paperback)

Operation Frankton in Bordeaux, fictionalized in the 1955 film The Cockleshell Heroes, is the best-known mission of the Special Boat Service but similarly daring raids in small boats and midget submarines were carried out during the Second World War in...

Bernard Montgomery - The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery - PB -1960

A paperback reprint, Fontana PB, 1960 ( Originally Collins 1958) - the Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery , internally unmarked, (  good overall - in an rubbed coverthat shows tanning and creasing to edges.  Perhaps known to history best as...

Evan Mawdsley / Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War 1941-1945 (Large Paperback)

The battles in Russia played the decisive part in Hitler's defeat. Gigantic, prolonged, and bloody, they contrasted with the general nature of the fighting on other fronts. The Russians fought on their own in "their" theater of war and with an...

Damien Brown / Band-Aid for a Broken Leg (Large Paperback)

A powerful, surprisingly funny, and ultimately uplifting account of life on the medical front line, and a moving testimony of the work done by Medecins Sans FrontieresDamien Brown, a young doctor, thinks he's ready when he arrives for his first...

George Francis Robert Henderson / The Civil War (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Michael McFaul / From Cold War to Hot Peace: The Inside Story of Russia and America (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Tim Bouquet / 617: Going To War With Todays Dambusters (Hardback)

In May 1943, 617 Squadron RAF executed one of the most daring operations in military history. Flying barely 50 feet above black marble waters, Wing Commander Guy Gibson and his bombers mounted a raid against hydroelectric dams in Germany. Bold,...

Lucas Delattre / Betraying Hitler : The Story of Fritz Kolbe (Hardback)

In 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central Intelligence Agency. That man was Fritz Kolbe, who had decided to betray his country after years of...

Danny Collins / The Bloodiest Battles: True Stories of the Fiercest Firefights from the Afghan War (Hardback)

Since the U.S.- and U.K.-led war in Afghanistan removed the Taliban from power in October 2001, coalition forces have remained on the battlefield to try and restrict Al-Qaeda's movement and bring peace and stability to a country ravaged by brutal...

Howard Blum / The Brigade: An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation & World War II (Hardback)

A story of three soldiers who served in a Jewish fighting force against the Nazis in the autumn of 1944. Initially about vengence as the men faced the atrocities of the Nazi regime, the story is ultimately about salvation. The men went off to kill...

Donald Yacovone / A Voice of Thunder: The Civil War Letters of George E. Stephens (Hardback)

What was it like to be an African-American soldier during the Civil War?The writings of George E. Stephens thunder across the more than a century that has passed since the war, answering that question and telling us much more.A Philadelphia cabinetmaker...

Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland, Volume XXV Summer 2006 - Number 99

The Irish Sword is the journal of the Military History Society of Ireland, In very good condition overall, as new.  Depiction (by Seán Ó Brógáin) of soldiers of Sir Phelim O’Neill’s Regiment of Foot...

Ali H. Soufan / Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State (Large Paperback)

To eliminate the scourge of terrorism, we must first know who the enemy actually is, and what his motivations are. In Anatomy of Terror, former FBI special agent and New York Times best-selling author Ali Soufan dissects Osama bin...

Aeham Ahmad / The Pianist of Yarmouk (Hardback)

A man, a piano, a Syrian street under siege . . .One morning on the outskirts of war-torn Damascus, a starving man stumbles through a once familiar street - now just piles of rubble. Everything he once knew has been destroyed by famine and war.In despair...

Peter Tormey & Kevin Byrne - Irish Air Corps : A View from the Tower - PB

Signed with a dedication by a number of Air Corps pilots , ( not by the authors of the book .  1991, an illustrated history of the Irish Air Corps, with photographs throughout, personnel listings, historic aircraft, development of Baldonnell, etc...

Alan Sheppard - France 1940 : Blitzkrieg in the West - HB ( Battles of World War II)

Hardcover, published by Osprey UK, 2009, originally 2002. Osprey are probably the preeminent publisher of battle histories, with detailed accounts of forces, military commanders, how battles progessed , with maps, period photographs etc. 

Douglas C Dildy - Denmark and Norway 1940 - HB ( Battles of World War II)

Hardcover, published by Osprey UK, 2009, originally 2004. Osprey are probably the preeminent publisher of battle histories, with detailed accounts of forces, military commanders, how battles progessed , with maps, period photographs etc. 

Francis Stuart / The Wartime Broadcasts of Francis Stuart, 1942-1944 (Large Paperback)

Publishes for the first time the surviving transcripts of over one hundred broadcasts on German radio to Ireland given by Francis Stuart. They have been at the heart of a long-running controversy over Stuart.   This book is second hand, and while...

Stephen Starr / Revolt in Syria: Eye-witness to the Uprising (Large Paperback)

In January of 2011, President Bashar al-Assad officially declared Syrian society stable and the government immune to revolt. In the months that followed, and as regimes fell in Egypt and Tunisia, thousands of ordinary Syrians took to the streets calling...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVIII- No. 113 - Summer 2012

Contents -  Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment, N.Y.S.M. from the Seat of War’ (1862), by Louis Lang  Camp California, Virginia: where Meagher’s men steeled themselves for war (illustrated) by Niall R. Brannigan  Captain...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVIII- No. 114 - Winter 2012

Contents -  Soldiers Three – A visit to the Royal Hospital’: a painting of 1899 by The Mac Egan [Darius Joseph MacEgan] (1856-1939)  A description of the painting by F. Glenn Thompson  A note on the artist by James...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVIII- No. 112 - Winter 2011

Contents -  James Kirkland and other Potsdam Grenadiers of Irish birth (Illustrated) by Kenneth Ferguson  Beheaded at Cork and buried with a piper: the traditional fate (and strange afterlife) of Captain Súgán ––...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVIII- No. 111 - Summer 2011

Contents -  Heinrich Trajektin von Solms–Braunfels (1638-93): Williamite General in Ireland (Illustrated) by Daniel Herbert  The artillery train of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, 1640 by Malcolm Mercer  The Ulster Army of the...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVII- No. 110 Winter 2010 ( Essays on the Irish War of Independence)

Contents -  DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THEWAR OF INDEPENDENCE, 1919-1921No. 110 (Winter 2010) Aerial Mail, 1919-22: records of the Post Office and AirMinistry touching the carriage of mail by aeroplane duringthe conflict in Ireland - Douglas N. Muir...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVII- No. 109 Autumn 2010 ( Essays on the Irish War of Independence)

Contents -  ESSAYS ON THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, 1919-1921PART II - No. 109 (Autumn 2010) Leo Whelan’s painting of the I.R.A. G.H.Q. staff, 1921 -Risteárd Mulcahy  Enlistment of ex-soldiers in the Royal Irish Constabulary ..............

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVII - No. 107 - SPRING 2010

A special issue on 'the Irish Rebellion ( Irish War of Independence) in the 6th Divisional Area ( ie Munster - 6th Divisional Area was teh Britiah Army designation for Munster in this period.  An account compiled in 1922 by Sir Peter Strickland, and...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXX - No. 120 - Winter 2015

Irish Faces on the Plains of Abraham: West’s painting; the letters home of Lieutenant Henry Browne; and the ancestry of Major-General James Wolfe by Kenneth Ferguson 121AppendicesThe Genealogy of James Wolfe by Anthony R. Wagner (1908-1995) 141Some...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXX - No. 119 - Summer 2015 ( Battle of Waterloo)

WaterlooSergeant James Graham (1791-1845) of Clones, Hougoumont, and the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham by Kenneth Ferguson 1Ireland and the Waterloo Campaign by Peter Molloy 13A fabricated speech put into the mouth of the Duke of Wellington by Kenneth...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIX - No. 118 - Winter 2014

Irish Command Headquarters, Parkgate, Dublin’ by Anthony Kinsella 361The Duke of Parma's Company of Irish Guards, 1702-1733 by Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin 363John Ryan of Ballynakill (1768-1811): an elusive Wild Goose by N. H. H. Adams...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIX - No. 117 - Summer 2014

  As well as the usual queries, replies, book reviews, shorter notes on military history ETC. 

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIX - No. 116 - Winter 2013

  As well as the usual queries, replies, book reviews, shorter notes on military history ETC. 

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIX - No. 115 -Summer 2013

  As well as the usual queries, replies, book reviews, shorter notes on military history ETC. 

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVI - No. 105 - Summer 2009

Detail from the Trinity College painting of the battle of Kinsale facing page 241Towards a new interpretation of the Nine Years’ War by Eoin Ó Néill 241The battle of Kinsale and other military associations with the Library of Trinity...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVI - No. 104 - Winter 2008

The upper r/h corner is dogeared slightly, otherwise unmarked.    As well as the usual queries, replies, book reviews, shorter notes on military history ETC. 

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVI - No. 103 -SUMMER 2008

Montcalm’s Irish soldiers, 1756-1757 (Illustrated) by René Chartrand 1Dunalong, Co. Tyrone –– the ‘fort of the ships’ by G. V. C. Young 3Anne Eleanor Burroughs (1898-1981) –– Women’s Army Auxiliary...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVI - No. 102 -Winter 2007

Depiction of a Grenadier of the Royal Irish Regiment, 1704 facing page 361The first gun in Ireland: 1332? by Randolph Jones 361Summit at Binche, 5 November 1607 by Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin 363Some Irish military connections with Minorca by...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVI - No. 106 -Winter 2009

    As well as the usual queries, replies, book reviews, shorter notes on military history ETC. 

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXV - No. 101 -Summer 2007

Contents -  Sandes Soldiers’ Homes (Illustrated) by Bryan MacMahon 241The Ulster Militia, 1630-31 by Clive L.C. Hollick 257King Charles I and his assignation for ‘swiving’ 261Crux Hiberniae: the Cross of Ireland (Illustrated) by...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXV - No. 100 -Winter 2006

Contents -  The Chapel of Dublin Barracks, three essays with a common thread by Kenneth Ferguson I: The Riding House with a Steeple: a puzzle connected with Dublin Barracks in the age of Lord Chesterfield (Illustrated) II: Methodist...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIV - No. 96 -Winter 2004

Contents -  The Colour of Berwick’s Regiment (Illustrated) by F.W. van Brock  West Cork and the Elizabethan Wars, 1565-1603 by Edward O’Mahony  A Prayer for the good successe of her Maiesties forces in Ireland...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XX111 - No. 92 -Winter 2002 ( Naval Themes)

Contents -  John Philip Holland - the inventor of the modern submarine, and his Japanese and Fenian connections by Séan G Ronan; The Coastguard in Ireland by Edmund P Symes; The place of Ireland in naval history by John de Courcy...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XX111 - No. 91 Summer 2002 ( IRELAND AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR )

Contents -  "The fighting 69th”: still going strong at 150 by Kenneth H. Powers  Out of Ireland into the Union Army: the battle over Irish emigration by Thomas J. Ryan  The charge of the Irish Brigade at Marye's Heights in the battle...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XVI - No. 83 1998

Contents -  The Soldiers' Palace: a note on the history and present use of the Hotel National des lnvalides (Illustrated) The influence of the lnvalides on the Royal Hospital , KilmainhamIrish veterans at the Hotel Royal des lnvalides...

Richard Collier / Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain (Hardback)

Collier's chronicle of the Battle of Britain, drawing heavily on eyewitness accounts from RAF and Luftwaffe combatants, gives a compelling account of history in the making. Over the English Channel, across southern Britain, and into the heart of the...

Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland, Volume XX Summer1997 - Number 81

The Irish Sword is the journal of the Military History Society of Ireland, In very good condition overall, as new.  Includes :  Irish casualties in the first world war (Illustrated) Patrick Casey The imperial service ofWilliam Aylmer ,...

Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland, Volume XX Winter 1996 - Number 80

The Irish Sword is the journal of the Military History Society of Ireland, In very good condition overall, some very slight bumping to the corners.  Includes :  Blaze away and stand to it boys': Captain Jack Donovan and the Irish Brigade at...

Frank M Richardson - Mars Without Venus : A Study of Some Homosexual Generals - HB

Hardcover, published by William Blackwood UK, 1981. An intriguing examination of several historic generals and military figures who were known to be gay - including Lawrence of Arabia, General godon and more.  Hardcover.