Military History & Warfare

Peter Watson / Tiger Moths to Typhoons(Large Paperback)

Tiger Moths to Typhoons: The Story of a World War II Fighter Pilot

Bob Porter / The Long Return (Large Paperback)

"A true story of a young W.W. II airman - one of two survivors of a plane which was blown up over nazi-occupied Holland."   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

John Terraine / The Great War (Large Paperback)

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

Chris Terrill / Shipmates: Inside the Royal Navy Today (Coffee Table Book)

A tie-in book to a BBC documentary about the inner workings of the naval base at Plymouth through the eyes of key characters — a young recruit, a shipboard chaplain, a submarine commander, and other...

Jason Fox / Life Under Fire (Hardback)

Life Under Fire: How to Build Inner Strength and Thrive Under Pressure

Fergus Kennedy - Ballybunion to the River Kwai : An Irishman's Story of Survival on the Death Railway - PB

Ballybunion to the River Kwai is the remarkable story of Don Kennedy’s harrowing experience as an Irish prisoner of war under the Japanese from 1942–45. Vividly narrated by Don’s son Fergus, this is...

Roger Burbach & Ben Clarke / September 11 and the U.S. War (Large Paperback)

September 11 and the U.S. War: Beyond the Curtain of Smoke

Robert Needham / Team Secrets of the Navy Seal (Large Paperback)

The Elite Military Force's Leadership principles for Business   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the sam

AJP Taylor - The Second World War : An Illustrated History - HB

Hardcover, illustrated with period photographs, artwork, propaganda posters and ma This edition published by Hamish Hamilton UK , 1984, originally published in 1985.  One of the more notable...

John Parker / Strike Command (Large Paperback)

The two key components of air warfare conducted by the Royal Air Force virtually for the whole of the 20th century were the fighters and the bombers. By the 1960s these two roles had evolved into a...

Dan Stone - The Holocaust : An Unfinished History - HB - 2023 - BRAND NEW

An authoritative, revelatory new history of the Holocaust, from one of the leading scholars of his generation The Holocaust is much-discussed, much-memorialized and much-portrayed. But there are...

Kevin Ivison / Red One - A Bomb Disposal Expert on the Front Line (Large Paperback)

The true story of bomb disposal that won Ivison a George Medal - and started a lifetime of flashbacks.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Aaron Cohen / Brotherhood Of Warriors (Large Paperback)

At the age of eighteen, Aaron Cohen left Beverly Hills to prove himself in the crucible of the armed forces. He was determined to be a part of Israel's most elite security cadre, akin to the American...

Helga Weiss / Helga's Diary (Large Paperback)

A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp In 1939, Helga Weiss was an eleven-year-old Jewish schoolgirl in Prague, enduring the first wave of the Nazi invasion. As Helga witnessed Nazi...

John Moffat / I Sank the Bismarck

May 1941, the pilots of fifteen canvas-covered biplanes struggled to hold their Swordfish aircraft steady as they aimed towards the German battleship Bismarck. They flew low over a wind-cracked...

A.J.P Taylor - English History 1914-1945 - HB ( Oxford History of England ) 1986 ( Originally 1965)

Hardcover, a standalone volume as part of the wider 15 volme series of teh Oxford History of England , this edition initially 1966, here in a reprint ( with revisions and expanded bibliography)  AJP...

Lorcan Collins - James Connolly ( 16 Lives) - PB - BRAND NEW

James Connolly (1868-1916) was one of the leaders in Ireland's quest for freedom from British rule in 1916. Written in a detailed but accessible style, this biography is an accurate and...

Richard Campbell / For Five Shillings a Day - Personal Histories of World War II (Hardback)

This selection of eyewitness accounts has been edited into chronological order to form an oral history of the British and Commonwealth forces at war.We follow some 60 interviewees from the Army, RAF...

Shane Hegarty & Fintan O'Toole - Irish Times Book of 1916 Rising - HB

This book focuses on the events of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, rather than the background and the consequences. In a widely expanded version of the supplement that appeared in The Irish Times...

Peter L. Bergen / Manhunt - The Search for Bin Laden (Hardback)

Al Qaeda expert and CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen paints a multi-dimensional picture of the hunt for bin Laden over the past decade, as well as the recent campaign that gradually...

Saul David / SBS - Silent Warriors (Hardback)

From award-winning historian Saul David, the first authorised history of the SBS.Britain’s SBS – or Special Boat Section – was the world’s first maritime special operations unit. Founded in the dark...

Mel Mermelstein - By Bread Alone : The Story of A4685 - A Survivor of the Nazi Holocaust - PB

Published 1979, this is the 1981 edition , reprint, paperback , illustrated.  By Bread Alone is the powerful story of the author's survival and of the decimation of his family, many friends, and...

Ian Wilson - HMS Drake : Rathlin Island Shipwreck - PB - 2011

Paperback, published by Rathlin Island Press, 2011, in as new condition, 86 pages with photographs  The Royal Navy warship HMS Drake was torpedoed by the German U79 on October 2 1917 - this is the...

Rowland White / Phoenix Squadron (Large Paperback)

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Richard Holmes / Wellington: The Iron Duke

Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain’s greatest-ever soldier, the man who posed the most serious threat to Napoleon. The Duke...

Neil Richardson - Dark Times, Decent Men : Stories of Irishmen in World War II - PB

At least 130,000 Irish - from north and south of the border - served during the Second World War. Seven thousand never returned. They fought as soldiers in Europe, North Africa and the Far East, as...

Charles Messenger - Northern Ireland : The Troubles - HB - Illustrated 1985

Co-published by Hamlyn Bison, 1985, a detailed illustrated history of The Troubles in Northern Ireland ( as well as providing historical background andf context)  Contains a myriad of press photos...

Life Time Books / World War II (11 Book Collection)

Life Time Books: World War II (11 Book Collection) Contains: The Battle of the bluge The Battle of britain war in the desert The Battle of the atlantic partisans and guerrillas victory in...

David Wason / Battlefield Detectives (Hardback)

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History of the Royal Navy / Air Force (2 Book Collection)

History of the Royal Navy / Air Force (2 Book Collection)     This collection is second hand unless otherwise stated in the description. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage...

David Edwards, Clodagh Tait & Padraig Lenihan ( Editors) - Age of Atrocity : Violence and Political Conflict in Early Modern Ireland -PB - BRAND NEW

This book examines one of the bloodiest epochs in Irish history. Part one covers the 16th century, revealing how efforts by the Tudor monarchy to curb the powers of the autonomous Irish lords...

Ulrich Schneckener / Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts (Large Paperback)

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Patrick O'Sullivan / The Lusitania : Unraveling the Mysteries (Coffee Table Book)

The book portrays the great liner against its war-time background, explaining how evidence was rigged and the cover-up at the tribunal with new evidence regarding the cargo.   This book is second...

Robin Neillands / The Great War Generals On The Western Front, 1914-1918 (Hardback)

On the basis of the evidence … it is surely not possible for any reasonable, fair- minded person to sustain the accusation that the British generals, as a group, were entirely to blame for the tragic...

John Campbell / The Experience of World War II (Coffee Table Book)

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

Barry Davies / The Complete Encyclopedia Of The SAS (Coffee Table Book)

Britain's Special Air Service (SAS) is the longest standing and most respected special forces unit in the world. Established during the North African campaigns of World War II, the SAS has gone on to...

Horace Greeley - The American Conflict - Two Volume Set 1865-67 - US First Printings

Hartford: O.D. Case & Company, 1865-7. First edition, first issue (copyright 1866; title page dated 1867). Hardcover set of two. Very good. Bound in embossed leather (?) over marbled paper boards,...

John McCormack / Twists of Fate : Stories Behind Famous Irish Battles and Sieges (Large Paperback)

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

James Durney - Special Powers : Civil War Internment At Newbridge Barracks and Tintown Camp - 1922-24 - PB BRAND NEW

he untold story of Ireland's forgotten prisoners In the shadow of civil war, over 5,500 republican prisoners found themselves trapped behind the wire at Newbridge Barracks and the Curragh internment...

Ed Macy / Apache - The Man, The Machine, The Mission(Hardback)

Apache : Inside the Cockpit of the World's Most Deadly Fighting Machine

Jonathan Freedland / The Escape Artist (Large Paperback)

April 1944. Nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became two of the very first Jews to successfully escape Auschwitz. Evading the thousands of SS men hunting them, Vrba and...

Chris Ryan / Fight to Win (Coffee Table Book)

Deadly skills of elite forces worldwide.    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title...

Ian Westwell / World War I Day by Day (Coffee Table Book)

Organized by year, this easy-to-use reference collection gives students side-by-side comparable facts on battles, war plans, and important key leaders in military history. This book is second hand,...

Andy McNab / The Rescue (Large Paperback)

The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab. It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted. A group...

Gerard Shannon - 2 BOOK LOT - Liam Lynch : To Declare a Republic & Rory O'Connor - To Defend the Republic - 2 x PB - BRAND NEW ( With 1 Signed Bookplate)

2 books on revolutionary era figures from historian Gerard Shannon. ( both also available singly)    Book 1- Liam Lynch - To Declare a Republic - PB - BRAND NEW The first major academic study on a...

Airey Neave - They Have Their Exits - PB 1970 (Originally 1953)

Airey Neave had the most distinguished of war records. Wounded and taken prisoner in the desperate fighting at Calais in 1940, he became a compulsive escaper and the first one of the very few to make...

Jonathan Asbury / IWM / IWM North Guidebook (Coffee Table Book)

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

Maj. Norris / Roll Again Second Armoured: Prelude to Fame, 1940-43 (Coffee Table Book)

Birth of the Second Armored The machines and the men; What is an Echelon? Machine gun company; Uniforms; Tank Unit ancestry and insignia; The Armored Force School; Tank Company; The mystique of...

Jack Fairweather / The Volunteer (Large Paperback)

William Weir / Soldiers in the Shadows (Coffee Table Book)

The lives and events surrounding ten unknown soldiers who each changed the course of history from the years leading up to the American Civil War to the Vietnam War.   This book is second hand, and...

Janice Anderson / The Complete War Years: Life in Britain During 1939 to 1945 (Coffee Table Book)

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

Michael Hodges - AK47: The Story of the People's Gun

Power, politics and passion combine in th