Military History & Warfare

Gordon L Rottman - Guam 1941 & 1944 - Loss and Reconquest - HB ( Battles of World War II)

Hardcover, published by Osprey UK, 2009, originally 2004. Osprey are probably the preeminent publisher of battle histories, with detailed account sof forces, military commanders, how battles...

Brian J. Ford - Allied Secret Weapons : The War of Science - PB

Explores the scientific and technical advances made by Allied scientists during WW2, from advances in photography and spycraft to bouncing bombs , rocketry and much more.  Paperback, 2nd printing...

Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977

Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th...

Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009

Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau...

Tony Gaynor - Commanders of the British Forces in Ireland - 1796-1922 - HB - BRAND NEW

In December 1922 General Nevil Macready sailed away from Dublin for the last time, marking the end of British rule in most of Ireland. Macready was the last in a long line of commanders of the...

Lin Rose Clark - Swift Blaze Of Fire : The Life of Robert Hilliard - PB - BRAND NEW

Celebrated in song by Christy Moore and affectionately recalled in many memoirs, Robert "Bob" Hilliard, the author's grandfather, is one of Ireland's best-known International Brigadistas. His short...

Paddy Woodworth / Dirty War, Clean Hands: ETA, the GAL and Spanish Democracy (Hardback)

"Democracy is defended in the sewers as well as in the salons". This is how Spanish prime minister Felipe González responded to allegations that his government was fighting the Basque separatist...

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

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...

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

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...

Jackie Ui Chionna / Queen of Codes (Large Paperback)

One of the greatest codebreakers of the twentieth century' Suzannah LipscombAn astounding story of codebreaking, personal sacrifice and a life lived in the shadows.The history of British codebreaking...

Jim Corbett - Not While I Have Ammo : A History of Captain Connie Mackey - BRAND NEW ( 2nd Edition 2025)

During the Irish Civil War, between the 15 and 20 July 1922, the Republican-held Strand Barracks in Limerick, on what is now Clancy’s Strand, came under constant ferocious attacks from Free State...

Ken Connor / Ghost Force : Secret History of the SAS (Coffee Table Book)

Containing explosive details of operations unknown even to 99% of serving SAS men, this is the definitive history of the regiment written by an ex-SAS soldier of 23 years experience. From it's eye...

Dan Barry / A Nation Challenged : A Visual History of 9/11 and Its Aftermath (Coffee Table Book)

The "New York Times" has opened its archives on September 11 and its consequences, including the anthrax scare, the bombing campaign in Afghanistan, the fall of the Taliban and the efforts to rebuild...

Rowland White / Phoenix Squadron (Hardback)

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Gaz Hunter & William Pearson / The Shooting Gallery (Hardback)

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Stephen E. Ambrose / Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944 (Large Paperback)

In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Pegasus Bridge was the...

Emma Larkin / Everything Is Broken : The Untold Story of Disaster Under Burma's Military Regime (Large Paperback)

On May 2, 2008, an enormou

Owen O'Shea - One Man's Ireland - Memoirs of Dan Mulvihill, Maverick Republican - PB - BRAND NEW - KERRY

In this revealing memoir – which remained unpublished for almost 50 years – Dan Mulvihill, a leading figure in Irish republicanism recounts the fight for Irish independence over the course of several...

David Monnery , Shaun Clarke / SAS: Stories of Heroes V

      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...

Airey Neave / Nuremberg: A personal record of the trial of the major Nazi war criminals

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H. Norman Schwarzkopf / Road to Triumph

      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...

D. Michael Abrashoff / It's Your Ship : Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy (Hardback)

The story of Captain D. Michael Abrashoff and his command of USS Benfold has become legendary inside and outside the Navy. Now Abrashoff offers this fascinating tale of top-down change for anyone...

Clemantine Wamariya / The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After (Large Paperback)

‘Sharp, moving memoir . . . Wamariya tells her own story with feeling, in vivid prose. She has remade herself, as she explains was necessary to do, on her own terms.’ New York TimesA riveting tale of...

Heinz Hohne / The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS (Large Paperback)

  The SS was the terror of Europe. Swearing eternal allegiance to Adolf Hitler, it infiltrated every aspect of German life and was responsible for the deaths of millions. This gripping history...

Stephen Budiansky / Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Large Paperback)

A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of...

Jack Harte , Sandra Mara / To the Limits of Endurance: One Irishman's War (Large Paperback)

Revealing World War II memoir of Jack Harte, who ran away from home to join the British army with just a penny in his pocket and served in Malta and the Middle East, as well as becoming a member of...

Benjamin Daniel & Simon Steven / The Next Attack - The Globalization of Jihad

The West is losing the 'war on terror'. Not only have we been slow in attending to the globalisation of the Jihad movement - from Indonesia to the Caucasus and from Pakistan to Western Europe - we...

Sinclair McKay / Dresden : The Fire and the Darkness

In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the Elbe'. Explosive bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs fell every seven and a half seconds and an estimated 25,000 people were killed...

Malcolm Brown / The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front

It was on the Western Front that the First World War was lost and won - in France and Belgium, where the horrific nature of trench warfare scarred not only the landscape and those who fought there,...

Des Ekin - The Brutish Empire : Four Centuries of Colonial Atrocities- PB - BRAND NEW

For centuries, a small island nation cast a shadow across the world. The British Empire’s methods of expansion were often brutal, usually devastating. From Amritsar to Zululand, from the Opium Wars...

Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB

Patrick Casey, Joe Duignan & Kevin Cullen - Irish Doctors in the Second World War - HB- BRAND NEW

DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST This highly anticipated sequel charts the contributions of Irish doctors in the Second World War, a conflict that demonstrated to the world that the

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen / Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (Large Paperback)

This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those...

John Hughes-Wilson / Eve of Destruction: The Inside Story of Our Dangerous Nuclear World

'It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler's crowd or Stalin's did not discover this atomic bomb. It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered' ­- US President Harry S...

Olga Watkins, James Gillespie / A Greater Love

The true story of a woman's incredible journey into the heart of the Third Reich to find the man she loves. When the Gestapo seize 20-year-old Olga Czepf's fiance she is determined to find him and...

Eric Lomax / The Railway Manm - PB

Eric Lomax (1919-2012) had always been fascinated by steam locomotives; during the Second World War he became a railway man on the notorious Japanese Burma route. In this memoir he describes the...

Steven Matthews / The Day the Nazis Came : The True Story of a Childhood Journey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp (Hardback)

An poignant and timeless true story of one child’s journey to a German prison camp during World War II.The Day the Nazis Came is an utterly unique memoir, depicting the world of prison camps through...

Philip Trewhitt / Armoured Fighting Vehicles (Hardback)

A compendium of influential military vehicles, including the crude tanks that fought on the Western Front; World War II models, such as the Panzer IV, Panther, Tiger, Sherman, and T-34; and recent...

Patrick Bishop / Fighter Boys : Saving Britain 1940

This bestselling account of the Battle of Britain weaves together the personal experiences of the young pilots of Fighter Command, from the Phoney War of 1939 to the massed German raids of Autumn...

Jonathan Freedland / The Escape Artist

"A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information - and misinformation. Is it possible to stop mass murder by telling the truth?" - Yuval Noah...

Ewen Montagu / The Man Who Never Was: The Remarkable Story of Operation Mincemeat

The Man Who Never Was provides an exciting and accurate record of the counter-intelligence conspiracy, Operation Mincemeat, which paved the way for the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943.     All...

Brian Hughes / 16 Lives - Michael Mallin

Michael Mallin was an Irish rebel who took an active role in the 1916 Easter Rising. Born in Dublin, Mallin was second in command of the Irish Citizen Army under James Connolly and commanded the...

David Almond, John Boyne / The Great War: An Anthology Inspired by Objects from the First World War (Hardback)

 An anthology of stories inspired by objects from the First World War. It is a collection of stories by bestselling authors, each inspired by a different object from the First World War. Each object...

Phil Campion / Born Fearless: From Kids' Home to SAS to Pirate Hunter - My Life as a Shadow Warrior

 Hard eyes stare out of massive beards, their faces marked by the scars of battle. With these guys their webbing looks like it belongs to them, rather than it's been hung on a pair of reluctant...

Aidan O'Hara - A Damn Yankee , Am I ? Thanks ! - Portraits of the Irish in the era of the American Civil War - PB - BRAND NEW

The era of the American Civil War is assessed as being from the start of abolitionism in the 1830s, through the war itself and its aftermath. This fascinating book deals in detail with the Ireland...

Ciarán Wallace - Meath : The Irish Revolution, 1912−1923 - BRAND NEW

This book looks at the people of Meath during the turmoil of the revolutionary era. As politics, war and revolution intruded on daily life, some embraced the chance for change, risking life and...

Cormac Moore - Laois : The Irish Revolution, 1912−1923 - BRAND NEW

The turbulent revolutionary period in modern Irish history from 1912 to 1923 had a profound impact on the political, economic and social make-up of Laois. The issue of land that had dominated the...

Donal Hall & Eoin Magennis - Armagh The Irish Revolution, 1912-23 - BRAND NEW

County Armagh was one of the most controversial theatres of political and military conflict during the 1912–23 period. The county’s long-standing antipathy between unionism and nationalism...

Jon E. Lewis / World War II: The Autobiography

 The history of WWII from September 1939 to VJ day through the personal accounts of soldiers, speeches, diaries and official records. The War as told by those who were there..How will the Second...

Monty Halls / Escaping Hitler: Stories Of Courage And Endurance On The Freedom Trails (Large Paperback)

 I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun. I just thought that was it, the game was up . . .’Downed airman Bob Frost faced danger at...

Richard Holmes / Battlefield: Decisive Conflicts in History (Large Paperback)

 The Peloponnesian war, the decisive English victory at Agincourt, the brilliant sea battle of Trafalgar, the bloody three-day struggle at Gettysburg, the ferocious fighting on the beaches of...

John Hackett - The Third World War : The Untold Story - Alternative History HB - 1982

General John Hackett's vision of a future that never was - the invasion of West Germany and Northern Europe by Warsaw Pact forces in August 1985, triggering a brief deadly third World War. Originally...