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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... 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I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.'Recruited after... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38899H Michael Veranov / The Third Reich at War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. 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MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... 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MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED799 James Thompson - Psychological Aspects of Nuclear War - PB - 1985 A cheerful title from the mid 1980's , pulished by the British Psychological Society, who invited Thompson to write on 'the psychological assumptions behind current civil defence planning and the likely psychological state of those who survive the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2125H Doug Gold / The Note Through The Wire An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest hour.In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One is an... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35947H,rR41743H Tom Marcus / Soldier Spy The first ever true story told by an MI5 officer - an explosive, shocking and honest account revealing never-before-seen detail into MI5's operation.'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.'Recruited after... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38899H Michael Veranov / The Third Reich at War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37204H Ian Kershaw / Fateful Choices : Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War.The hurricane of events that marked the opening... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR31312H Con Coughlin / Churchill's First War Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.'Recruited after... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38899H Michael Veranov / The Third Reich at War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. 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MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.'Recruited after... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38899H Michael Veranov / The Third Reich at War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37204H Ian Kershaw / Fateful Choices : Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War.The hurricane of events that marked the opening... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR31312H Con Coughlin / Churchill's First War Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force,... 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All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED799 James Thompson - Psychological Aspects of Nuclear War - PB - 1985 A cheerful title from the mid 1980's , pulished by the British Psychological Society, who invited Thompson to write on 'the psychological assumptions behind current civil defence planning and the likely psychological state of those who survive the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2125H Doug Gold / The Note Through The Wire An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest hour.In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One is an... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35947H,rR41743H Tom Marcus / Soldier Spy The first ever true story told by an MI5 officer - an explosive, shocking and honest account revealing never-before-seen detail into MI5's operation.'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.'Recruited after... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38899H Michael Veranov / The Third Reich at War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37204H Ian Kershaw / Fateful Choices : Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War.The hurricane of events that marked the opening... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR31312H Con Coughlin / Churchill's First War Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... 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MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED799 James Thompson - Psychological Aspects of Nuclear War - PB - 1985 A cheerful title from the mid 1980's , pulished by the British Psychological Society, who invited Thompson to write on 'the psychological assumptions behind current civil defence planning and the likely psychological state of those who survive the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2125H Doug Gold / The Note Through The Wire An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest hour.In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One is an... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35947H,rR41743H Tom Marcus / Soldier Spy The first ever true story told by an MI5 officer - an explosive, shocking and honest account revealing never-before-seen detail into MI5's operation.'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.'Recruited after... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38899H Michael Veranov / The Third Reich at War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37204H Ian Kershaw / Fateful Choices : Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War.The hurricane of events that marked the opening... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR31312H Con Coughlin / Churchill's First War Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40988H Eileen Reid / Eileen (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED799 James Thompson - Psychological Aspects of Nuclear War - PB - 1985 A cheerful title from the mid 1980's , pulished by the British Psychological Society, who invited Thompson to write on 'the psychological assumptions behind current civil defence planning and the likely psychological state of those who survive the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2125H Doug Gold / The Note Through The Wire An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest hour.In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One is an... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35947H,rR41743H Tom Marcus / Soldier Spy The first ever true story told by an MI5 officer - an explosive, shocking and honest account revealing never-before-seen detail into MI5's operation.'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.'Recruited after... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38899H Michael Veranov / The Third Reich at War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37204H Ian Kershaw / Fateful Choices : Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War.The hurricane of events that marked the opening... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR31312H Con Coughlin / Churchill's First War Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40988H Eileen Reid / Eileen (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED799 James Thompson - Psychological Aspects of Nuclear War - PB - 1985 A cheerful title from the mid 1980's , pulished by the British Psychological Society, who invited Thompson to write on 'the psychological assumptions behind current civil defence planning and the likely psychological state of those who survive the... 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If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: rR59694H Pauline Bracken / Light of Other Days : A Dublin Childhood MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 11019M Gillian Slovo / Every Secret Thing MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR58255H Bill V. Mullen / W.E.B. Du Bois MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: wW36688H Michael Cohen / Disloyal: A Memoir (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR53722H Jonathan Guinness / The House of Mitford The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families.Among the six daughters and one son born to David, second Lord Redesdale, and his wife Sydney were Nancy, the novelist and historian; Diana, who married fascist leader... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40988H Eileen Reid / Eileen (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED799 James Thompson - Psychological Aspects of Nuclear War - PB - 1985 A cheerful title from the mid 1980's , pulished by the British Psychological Society, who invited Thompson to write on 'the psychological assumptions behind current civil defence planning and the likely psychological state of those who survive the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2125H Doug Gold / The Note Through The Wire An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest hour.In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One is an... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35947H,rR41743H Tom Marcus / Soldier Spy The first ever true story told by an MI5 officer - an explosive, shocking and honest account revealing never-before-seen detail into MI5's operation.'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.'Recruited after... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38899H Michael Veranov / The Third Reich at War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37204H Ian Kershaw / Fateful Choices : Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War.The hurricane of events that marked the opening... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR31312H Con Coughlin / Churchill's First War Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: 11019M Gillian Slovo / Every Secret Thing MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR58255H Bill V. Mullen / W.E.B. Du Bois MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: wW36688H Michael Cohen / Disloyal: A Memoir (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR53722H Jonathan Guinness / The House of Mitford The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families.Among the six daughters and one son born to David, second Lord Redesdale, and his wife Sydney were Nancy, the novelist and historian; Diana, who married fascist leader... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40988H Eileen Reid / Eileen (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED799 James Thompson - Psychological Aspects of Nuclear War - PB - 1985 A cheerful title from the mid 1980's , pulished by the British Psychological Society, who invited Thompson to write on 'the psychological assumptions behind current civil defence planning and the likely psychological state of those who survive the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2125H Doug Gold / The Note Through The Wire An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest hour.In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One is an... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35947H,rR41743H Tom Marcus / Soldier Spy The first ever true story told by an MI5 officer - an explosive, shocking and honest account revealing never-before-seen detail into MI5's operation.'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.'Recruited after... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38899H Michael Veranov / The Third Reich at War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37204H Ian Kershaw / Fateful Choices : Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War.The hurricane of events that marked the opening... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR31312H Con Coughlin / Churchill's First War Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED799 James Thompson - Psychological Aspects of Nuclear War - PB - 1985 A cheerful title from the mid 1980's , pulished by the British Psychological Society, who invited Thompson to write on 'the psychological assumptions behind current civil defence planning and the likely psychological state of those who survive the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2125H Doug Gold / The Note Through The Wire An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest hour.In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One is an... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35947H,rR41743H Tom Marcus / Soldier Spy The first ever true story told by an MI5 officer - an explosive, shocking and honest account revealing never-before-seen detail into MI5's operation.'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.'Recruited after... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38899H Michael Veranov / The Third Reich at War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37204H Ian Kershaw / Fateful Choices : Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War.The hurricane of events that marked the opening... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR31312H Con Coughlin / Churchill's First War Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: wW36688H Michael Cohen / Disloyal: A Memoir (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £4.42 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR53722H Jonathan Guinness / The House of Mitford The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families.Among the six daughters and one son born to David, second Lord Redesdale, and his wife Sydney were Nancy, the novelist and historian; Diana, who married fascist leader... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40988H Eileen Reid / Eileen (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED799 James Thompson - Psychological Aspects of Nuclear War - PB - 1985 A cheerful title from the mid 1980's , pulished by the British Psychological Society, who invited Thompson to write on 'the psychological assumptions behind current civil defence planning and the likely psychological state of those who survive the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2125H Doug Gold / The Note Through The Wire An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest hour.In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One is an... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35947H,rR41743H Tom Marcus / Soldier Spy The first ever true story told by an MI5 officer - an explosive, shocking and honest account revealing never-before-seen detail into MI5's operation.'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.'Recruited after... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38899H Michael Veranov / The Third Reich at War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37204H Ian Kershaw / Fateful Choices : Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War.The hurricane of events that marked the opening... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR31312H Con Coughlin / Churchill's First War Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR53722H Jonathan Guinness / The House of Mitford The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families.Among the six daughters and one son born to David, second Lord Redesdale, and his wife Sydney were Nancy, the novelist and historian; Diana, who married fascist leader... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW40988H Eileen Reid / Eileen (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED799 James Thompson - Psychological Aspects of Nuclear War - PB - 1985 A cheerful title from the mid 1980's , pulished by the British Psychological Society, who invited Thompson to write on 'the psychological assumptions behind current civil defence planning and the likely psychological state of those who survive the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2125H Doug Gold / The Note Through The Wire An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest hour.In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One is an... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35947H,rR41743H Tom Marcus / Soldier Spy The first ever true story told by an MI5 officer - an explosive, shocking and honest account revealing never-before-seen detail into MI5's operation.'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.'Recruited after... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38899H Michael Veranov / The Third Reich at War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37204H Ian Kershaw / Fateful Choices : Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War.The hurricane of events that marked the opening... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR31312H Con Coughlin / Churchill's First War Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW40988H Eileen Reid / Eileen (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED799 James Thompson - Psychological Aspects of Nuclear War - PB - 1985 A cheerful title from the mid 1980's , pulished by the British Psychological Society, who invited Thompson to write on 'the psychological assumptions behind current civil defence planning and the likely psychological state of those who survive the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2125H Doug Gold / The Note Through The Wire An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest hour.In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One is an... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35947H,rR41743H Tom Marcus / Soldier Spy The first ever true story told by an MI5 officer - an explosive, shocking and honest account revealing never-before-seen detail into MI5's operation.'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.'Recruited after... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38899H Michael Veranov / The Third Reich at War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37204H Ian Kershaw / Fateful Choices : Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War.The hurricane of events that marked the opening... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR31312H Con Coughlin / Churchill's First War Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED799 James Thompson - Psychological Aspects of Nuclear War - PB - 1985 A cheerful title from the mid 1980's , pulished by the British Psychological Society, who invited Thompson to write on 'the psychological assumptions behind current civil defence planning and the likely psychological state of those who survive the... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2125H Doug Gold / The Note Through The Wire An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest hour.In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One is an... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35947H,rR41743H Tom Marcus / Soldier Spy The first ever true story told by an MI5 officer - an explosive, shocking and honest account revealing never-before-seen detail into MI5's operation.'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.'Recruited after... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38899H Michael Veranov / The Third Reich at War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37204H Ian Kershaw / Fateful Choices : Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War.The hurricane of events that marked the opening... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR31312H Con Coughlin / Churchill's First War Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR2125H Doug Gold / The Note Through The Wire An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest hour.In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One is an... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35947H,rR41743H Tom Marcus / Soldier Spy The first ever true story told by an MI5 officer - an explosive, shocking and honest account revealing never-before-seen detail into MI5's operation.'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.'Recruited after... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38899H Michael Veranov / The Third Reich at War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37204H Ian Kershaw / Fateful Choices : Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War.The hurricane of events that marked the opening... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR31312H Con Coughlin / Churchill's First War Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR35947H,rR41743H Tom Marcus / Soldier Spy The first ever true story told by an MI5 officer - an explosive, shocking and honest account revealing never-before-seen detail into MI5's operation.'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.'Recruited after... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38899H Michael Veranov / The Third Reich at War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37204H Ian Kershaw / Fateful Choices : Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War.The hurricane of events that marked the opening... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR31312H Con Coughlin / Churchill's First War Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR38899H Michael Veranov / The Third Reich at War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37204H Ian Kershaw / Fateful Choices : Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War.The hurricane of events that marked the opening... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR31312H Con Coughlin / Churchill's First War Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 74533H Evelyn Prentis / A Nurse in Action 'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37204H Ian Kershaw / Fateful Choices : Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War.The hurricane of events that marked the opening... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR31312H Con Coughlin / Churchill's First War Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR52284H Kathryn Hughes / The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37204H Ian Kershaw / Fateful Choices : Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War.The hurricane of events that marked the opening... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR31312H Con Coughlin / Churchill's First War Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR37204H Ian Kershaw / Fateful Choices : Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War.The hurricane of events that marked the opening... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: rR31312H Con Coughlin / Churchill's First War Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view First World War | sku: rR31312H Con Coughlin / Churchill's First War Over a century ago, a young cavalry lieutenant wrote a riveting account of what he saw during his first major campaign, a vicious war against tribal insurgents on the North-West Frontier. Winston Churchill's The Story of the Malakand Field Force,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR11607H Jack Fairweather / The Good War - Afghanistan A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW7717H Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback) Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60702H Lily O'Connor / Dreams of Hope (Large Paperback) This memoir is a remarkable personal account of the emigrant lives of one Irish couple amongst the hundreds upon thousands forced to emigrate in the 1950s. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR1589H Piers Bizony / Atom No one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to be. Its tale is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius.Piers Bizony tells the story of the young misfit New... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... 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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... 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Quick view Mercier Press | sku: MED5527 John Borgonovo - The Battle For Cork : July- August 1922 ( Mercier Military History of the Civil War) At 2 AM on Tuesday 8th August 1922, Emmet Dalton and 450 Free State Soldiers landed at Passage West in Cork Harbour, in one of tHe most notable surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their target was Cork City, an important symbol of... MSRP: £13.40 Now: £12.51 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR28753H Michael Ondaatje / Warlight Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45531H David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED9291 Seán Ó Luing - Fremantle Mission - The Dramatic Story of a Daring Fenian Rescue - PB - 1965 The dramatic true story of the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Gaol, a penal colony on the coast of Western Australia in 1876 An uncommon title. Anvil Press, undated but late 1960's ( pre decimal price of 3/6) Moderate to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR47731H David Edmonds / Bobby Fischer Goes to War PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.'SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8752 Richard Roche- The Norman Invasion of Ireland - Vintage PB - 1970 - Anvil Press A first edition paperback, 1970, published by Anvil Press, Kerry. Light tanning At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96803H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle (Large Paperback) Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43189H Brian Fleming / The Vatican Pimpernel : The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Large Paperback) During the German occupation of Rome from 1942-1944, Irishman Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. He built a network of contacts and safe locations, and helpers included communists,... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10176H Helene Berr / Journal From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61249H Macer Gifford / Fighting Evil A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16304H Duncan Barrett / The Girls Who Went to War The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57541H Peter Harclerode / Secret Soldiers Terrorism took the world stage in 1970, when the PLO hijacked three airliners in Jordan. It has not been out of the news since. From 'Black September' to the massacre of the Israeli athletes at Munich, from the IRA to ETA and Osama Bin Laden's... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55909H Chalmers Johnson / Blowback This provocative & important book, with a new preface by the author written after the momentous events of 11 September, is a powerful account of the consequences of American global policies. The 21st century, Chalmers Johnson tells us, will be... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view
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