Military History & Warfare

E. B. Sledge / With the Old Breed

 "Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific--the terror, the...

Jon Swain / River of Time

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

Mark Urban / Task Force Black

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

Pauline Bracken / Light of Other Days : A Dublin Childhood

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

Geoffrey Hindley / A Brief History of the Crusades

 Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorise cultural genocide in Provence? How could a Christian army sack Christian Constantinople in...

Gillian Slovo / Every Secret Thing

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

Michael Cohen / Disloyal: A Memoir (Hardback)

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

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

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

Lissa Evans / Old Baggage

 As featured on BBC Radio 4 Good Reads'A timely, bittersweet comic novel' Guardian____________________What do you do next, after you've changed the world?It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through...

Sebastian Junger / War

 From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger's almost fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army.For 15 months, Sebastian Junger accompanied a single...

Robert S. Wistrich / Hitler and the Holocaust

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

Caroline Moorehead / A Train in Winter

 A moving and extraordinary book about courage and survival, friendship and endurance - a portrait of ordinary women who faced the horror of the holocaust together.On an icy morning in Paris in...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chris Kyle / American Sniper

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

Tom O'Neill - The Battle of Clonmult : The IRA'S Worst Defeat - 1921 - Revised Edition 2019 - BRAND NEW

The Battle of Clonmult was the IRA's greatest loss of volunteers in a single engagement against Crown Forces. On Sunday, 20 February 1921, at Clonmult near Midleton in County Cork, almost the entire...

Michael Smith / Station X - The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park

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

Joshua Levine / Forgotten Voices of the Somme

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

Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco

  Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence...

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

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

Brendan O'Brien / O'Brien Pocket History of the IRA

 An accessible, clearly-written account of the IRA from its beginnings to today. It covers the origins and history of the organisation, its aims, the political and military thinking which has driven...

Andrew Lambert / Admirals

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

Antony Beevor / Berlin : The Downfall 1945

 THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ON THE LAST DAYS OF THE THIRD REICH'Recounts, in harrowing detail and with formidable skill, the brutal death-throes of Hitler's Reich at the hands of the rampaging Red...

Paul Jones - The Irish Brigade - Vintage NEL PB - 1971 - Irish in the US Civil War

First published in 1969, this is the first NEL PB edition , 1971.  Condition - tanning to page block, , creases to spine, internally unmarked , no inscriptions or marks noted. Light sun fade to...

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

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

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

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

Puk Damsgard / The ISIS Hostage : One Man's True Story of 13 Months in Captivity

 The Number One International BestsellerThe dramatic story of freelance photographer Daniel Rye, who was held hostage for 13 months by ISIS, as told by an award-winning writer.In May 2013, freelance...

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

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

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

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

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

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

John Ray / The Battle Of Britain

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

William Craig / Enemy at the Gates : The Battle for Stalingrad

 Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million men and women. It was perhaps the single most important engagement of World War II and...

Laurence Rees / Their Darkest Hour : People Tested to the Extreme in WWII

   How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi...

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

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

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

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

Stan D. O'Brien - John Joe's Story - Commandant John Joe O'Brien - War of Independence, Limerick - Galbally -2016

JOHN JOE'S STORY COMMANDANT JOHN JOE O'BRIEN - War of Independence, Limerick & Tipperary   The author, Stan D. O'Brien is the son of John Joe O'Brien.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peter de la Billiere / Looking for Trouble : SAS to Gulf Command - The Autobiography (Hardback)

 "Storm Command" was the account of the last command held by Britain's most decorated officer. Now, in Sir Peter de la Billiere's story leading up to the Gulf War, we have a portrait of life in the...

John Keegan / The American Civil War

 The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. It is also one of the most mysterious. It has captured the imagination of writers, artists and film-makers for decades but...

T. Ryle Dwyer / The Squad

 In 1919, Michael Collins conceived of a scheme to knock out the eyes and ears of the British Administration at Dublin Castle by undermining and terrorising the police so that the British would react...

Joseph T Carroll - Ireland in the War Years 1939-45 HB - 1st Ed 1975 - Emergency

A hardcover 1st Edition co published by David & Charles UK and Crane Russak USA, 1975, a detailed account of Ireland 's history during WW2 , referred to in Ireland at the time as 'The Emergency'...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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