Military History & Warfare

Jon Swain / River of Time

  Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and the...

Mark Urban / Task Force Black

 The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing...

Pauline Bracken / Light of Other Days : A Dublin Childhood

  Through her father, Charles E. Kelly, who was Director of Broadcasting in Radio Eireann and Editor of Dublin Opinion, Pauline's family encountered all sorts of talented and entertaining people...

Gillian Slovo / Every Secret Thing

  This autobiography provides an investigation into the past of Gillian Slovo's family and country. Brought up in exile, Gillian Slovo retains the closest of ties with South Africa. After her...

Bill V. Mullen / W.E.B. Du Bois

 On the 27th August, 1963, the day before Martin Luther King electrified the world from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with the immortal words, 'I Have a Dream', the life of another giant of the...

Michael Cohen / Disloyal: A Memoir (Hardback)

 A #1 New York Times Bestseller!"I read it cover-to-cover. I did not intend to, but I started at the beginning and didn't put it down until it was over."-Rachel Maddow, MSNBCThis book almost didn't...

Thomas Pakenham - The Year of Liberty : The Great Irish Rebellion of 1789 - HB - SIGNED

This classic account of the great Irish rebellion of 1798 remained for many years the only full-scale history of that tragic event ( some new histories were published for the bicentenary in...

Michael Lenihan - Cork Burning - PB - BRAND NEW - War of Independence 1920

A tale of arson, loot and murder' was how one source described the events that would befall Cork city on the night of 11-12 December 1920. In a scene of almost unprecedented destruction, members of...

T. Ryle Dwyer / Nice Fellow : A Biography of Jack Lynch (Hardback)

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Robert S. Wistrich / Hitler and the Holocaust

  Robert Wistrich begins by exploring the origins of anti-Semitism in Europe, and especially in Germany, to try to explain how millions of Jews came to be killed systematically by the Third Reich...

Dan Breen - My Fight For Irish Freedom- PB - BRAND NEW

In 1919 a group of young men barely out of their teens, poorly armed, with no money and little training, renewed the fight, begun in 1916, to drive the British out of Ireland. Dan Breen was to become...

William Blum / Rogue State : A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

 'This is not a book for anyone who wishes to maintain any cosy illusions about their own liberty - let alone the liberty of anyone in any country to whose domestic policy the United States...

Rick Atkinson / In The Company Of Soldiers (Large Paperback)

 During the recent war in Iraq, renowned historian Rick Atkinson was embedded with the 101st Airbourne Division of the US forces. He had access to the headquarters command post and the top-secret...

Anthony Horowitz / Crocodile Tears ( Alex Rider Series - Book 8 ) (Large Paperback)

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Tom Barry - Guerilla Days in Ireland - Mercier PB - War of Independence - BRAND NEW

DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST.  The classic account by Tom Barry of the War of Independence - Guerilla Days in Ireland, originally published in 1949 as a hardback by The Irish Press...

Chris Kyle / American Sniper

 Former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle tells the story of his legendary career, from 1999-2009, during which time he recorded the most confirmed sniper kills (officially a record 155, though the real...

Michael Smith / Station X - The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park

 In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire:...

Tom Johnstone / Orange, Green and Khaki (Large Paperback)

  Nearly a third of a million Irishmen fought in the Great War and 50,000 died. There was a significant Irish presence in every major theatre of war. The Irish were mobilised in three divisions -...

Joshua Levine / Forgotten Voices of the Somme

 1916. The Somme. With over a million casualties, it was the most brutal battle of World War I.It is a clash that even now, over 90 years later, remains seared into the national consciousness,...

Edward J Bourke - Murder by the Throat : Espionage, Assassination, Collaboration and Execution in the Irish War of Independence- PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

Lloyd George boasted that he had “murder by the throat” in a London Guildhall speech on 10 November 1920.  He had flooded Ireland with troops, Black and Tans, Auxiliaries, secret service, touts and...

Andrew Lambert / Admirals

  The true story of how Britain's maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world's economy, Admirals celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped the most...

Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback)

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General Mike Jackson / Soldier : The Autobiography (Large Paperback)

  General Sir Mike Jackson's career in the British Army has spanned almost forty-five years. His autobiography exhibits all the qualities for which he is admired: professionalism, honesty,...

Patrick Sarsfield O'Hegarty - The Victory of Sinn Féin - UCD Classics - PB 1998 ( Originally 1924)

The Victory of Sinn Fein, originally published in 1924, is an eyewitness account of events in Ireland from the Easter Rising of 1913 until 1923. It is written from a now almost forgotten viewpoint -...

Michael Kelly - Martyrs' Day : Chronicle of a Small War - HB 1st Ed 1993 - Desert Storm Iraq

This eyewitness account differs from the many other books on the Persian Gulf War in that it deals primarily with human-interest elements rather than military matters. Kelly, a journalist who...

Christopher Hibbert - Benito Mussolini : A Biography - The Rise and Fall of Il Duce - HB 1st Edition 1962

With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary complexities and contradictions that characterized Benito Mussolini. Mussolini was born on a Sunday...

Jim Maher - The Oath is Dead and Gone - HB - BRAND NEW - Fianna Fáil & the Treaty

The Oath of Allegiance clause in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which obliged all elected representatives to swear allegiance to the British monarch, was perhaps the major immediate  cause of the...

John Ray / The Battle Of Britain

    Based on over a decade of new resarch into the Battle of Britain, this book examines Dowding's tactics in detail, relating how everyday he was under personal attack from rivals who wanted...

Jane Corbin - The Base : In Search of Al-Qaeda

The definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation which represents the greatest threat to democracy since the end of the Cold War. The...

Séamus Ó Loingsigh - The 1798 Rebellion in Meath - PB 1997

Published 1987, the first and only edition issued, this is an account by Séamus ó Loingsigh of the events surrounding the 1798 Rebellion in Meath.  In excellent condition, as new, no isbn, larger...

Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Large Paperback)

 

Adam Zamoyski / 1812 : Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow

 Adam Zamoyski's bestselling account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history.In 1812 the most powerful man in...

Reinhard Rurup - Berlin 1945 : A Documentation - WW2 - PB

Published by Arenhovel, Germany - this is the English language translation of the original documents, 5th Revised edition 2007.  A detailed examination of the conditions in Berlin in the fateful year...

Donal O'Donovan - Kevin Barry and his Time - No More Lonely Scaffolds - PB 1st Ed 1989 - War of Independence

A paperback first edition, 1989 of Donal O'Donovan's Kevin Barry and his Time ( also known by the subtitle No More Lonely Scaffolds') , published by Glendale Press as a paperback original. The...

Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011

Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning...

Desmond Ryan - Michael Collins and the Invisible Army - Vintage PB Anvil Press - War of Independence

Desmond Ryan, the literary executor of Padraig Pearse, was a pupil of his in St. Enda's College, Rathfarnham,  in the General Post Office, Dublin, in 1916, as did Michael Collins. He had the inside...

Alan Bullock - Hitler and Stalin : Parallel Lives - HB Book Club Edition 1991 - Dual Biography

Alan Bullock's 1991 classic Hitler and Stalin was his crowning achievement, the magnum opus of one of the century's most admired historians--the distinguished Oxford scholar and author of the now...

Jason Burke / Al-Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam

 Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form...

Richard Bennett - The Black & Tans - Vintage PB NEL Edition, 1970 - War of Independence

Sent to Ireland in 1920 by Lloyd George's Coalition Cabinet, the Black and Tans acquired a fearsome reputation in their task of suppressing the IRA,  and united Irish and British public opinion...

Robert Kee - Ourselves Alone - ( The Green Flag , Volume 3 ) PB

Ourselves Alone - Volume Three of the Green Flag  covers the period from the executions of the 1916 rebels to the 1920-21 War of Independence and the eventual Treaty.  The smallest of the three...

John Simpson / The Wars Against Saddam : Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad (Hardback)

 You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the...

Frank O'Connor - The Big Fellow : Michael Collins & the Irish Revolution, HB 1965

Originally published in 1937, this is the revised and expanded 1965 edition of Frank O'Connor's biography of Michael Collins - The Big Fellow, published by Clonmore & Reynolds, Dublin.    Condition -...

Michael Herr / Dispatches

   With an introduction by Kevin PowersA groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket.We took space back quickly, expensively, with...

Len Deighton - Fighter - The True Story of the Battle of Britain - HB 1977

Summer, 1940: western Europe has been conquered, and all that stands between Hitler and the invasion of England is the matter of air supremacy. And the RAF...Hitler's top-secret Directive No. 16,...

Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016

On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week...

Antony Beevor / Ardennes 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble

From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler...

Chris Kyle / American Sniper (Large Paperback)

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From...

Robert Fisk / The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East

Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic...

Charles Townshend / Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion

Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to...

Tom Barry - Guerilla Days in Ireland - Vintage Anvil Press PB - War of Independence - 1971 Edition

A paperback edition, (the first decimal priced edition) - 1971 Anvil Press/ Kerryman of the classic account by Tom Barry of the War of Independence - Guerilla Days in Ireland. Originally published in...

Stephen E. Ambrose / The Wild Blue: 741 Squadron: On a Wing and a Prayer Over Occupied Europe

In the bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, Stephen E. Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battlegrounds of World War II. THE WILD BLUE brings to life...

Tim Collins / Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict

From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a public suspicious about the...