Military History & Warfare

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...

Pierre Montagnon - La Guerre d'Algerie - PB 1984 ( French Language Edition)

James Ashcroft / Escape from Baghdad (Hardback)

 The gripping true story of James Ashcroft’s audacious return to war-torn Iraq to save his friend. In James Ashcroft’s first book, Making a Killin

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...

Patrick Bishop / 3 Para (Hardback)

 Afghanistan, Summer 2006. This is war.Afghanistan in the summer of 2006. In blazing heat in remote outposts the 3 Para battlegroup is pitted against a stubborn enemy who keep on coming. Until now,...

Peter Pigott / Canada in Afghanistan: The War So Far (Hardback)

 It has been said that Canada is a country with too much geography and too little history. Afghanistan has too much of both. As the war escalates in Afghanistan, more Canadians are asking what we are...

Helen Litton / The World War II Years: The Irish Emergency : An Illustrated History

 This account of Ireland during World War II years challenges a few entrenched perceptions as well as providing new photographs of the bombed scenes at East Wall in Dublin and elsewhere. As always,...

Matthew Parker / Monte Cassino : The Story of the Hardest-Fought Battle of World War Two

 The six-month battle for Monte Cassino was Britain's bitterest and bloodiest encounter with the German army on any front in World War Two.At the beginning of 1944 Italy was the western Allies' only...

Winston S. Churchill / Triumph and Tragedy the Second World War

 From the Allied landings in Normandy in June 1944 the Second World War had only fourteen months to run. This final volume of the account covers events right up to the unconditional surrender of...

Ruth Cowen / A Nurse at the Front: The Great War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton

 The second of four unique war diaries produced in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum, this book tells the story of the experiences of a nurse working close to the Western Front in the First...

Lyn Macdonald / 1914 : The Days of Hope

 This is an account of the first few months of the Great War, from the build-up of the fighting to the first Battle of Ypres, written by the author of "Somme", "They called it Passchendaele" and "The...

Martin Gilbert / The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy

 This is a very thorough account of the experience of the Jews of Europe during World War II. It is virtually a day-by-day account, in men and women's own words, of the horrifying events of the...

Stuart Hills / By Tank Into Normandy

 A World War II tank commander gives a direct, harrowing, and exciting account of fighting at the invasion front. On June 4, 1944, 20-year old Stuart Hills, fresh from Officer Cadet Training, went to...

Piers Wauchope - The Siege of Londonderry 1689 - HB - BRAND NEW

As Ireland descended into war in 1689, Londonderry was isolated and besieged. Unable to stop the Irish advance or to control the “ungovernable rabble” that flooded into the city, the governor...

Thomas E. Ricks / The Gamble - Petraeus and the US Surge in Iraq (Large Paperback)

The Gamble tells the gripping story of how, in the Iraq War's darkest hour, an unlikely collection of dissident generals, scholars and foreign experts pulled the country back from the edge of the...

Betsy L. Howell / Acoustic Shadows (Large Paperback)

After the deaths of her parents, 31-year-old Betsy Howell faces a lonely future filled with regret and unanswered questions about her family's past. She is haunted by conflicted memories of her...

Mike Paine / The Crusades - An Introduction (Hardback) ( Pocket Essentials)

Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about...

Asher. Michael / The Real "Bravo Two Zero" (Hardback)

'Bravo Two Zero' was the code-name of the famous SAS a classic story of bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. BRAVO TWO ZERO by patrol commander 'Andy McNab' became an international best-seller,...

Joe Duffy - Children of the Rising : The Untold Story of the Young Lives Lost During Easter 1916- HB

Children of the Rising is the first ever account of the young lives violently lost during the week of the 1916 Rising: long-forgotten and never commemorated, until now.Boys, girls, rich, poor,...

John Ellis / Cassino: The Hollow Victory: The Battle for Rome January-June 1944

 The struggle to capture Monte Cassino, the impregnable heights barring the Allied advance on Rome in 1944, was the longest land battle fought in Western Europe in World War II and among the most...

Linda Polman / We Did Nothing: Why The Truth Doesn't Always Come Out When The UN Goes In

 In recent years our newspapers and televisions have brought us stories of the failure of the UN to keep the peace in the modern world. During the 1990s Linda Polman visited peacekeeping missions in...

Scott Mann / Mission America: Straight Talk About Military Transition

 Ever since the days of Homer, warriors have faced an epic battle for which many were ill-prepared - coming home after a life of military service. Whether you served three years or thirty,...

Colby Buzzell / My War: Killing Time in Iraq

 ' Once we passed the checkpoint at the border, it hit me. I was like, Holy Shit, this is it, I'm entering a combat zone. Cool! '

John Nichol / Tornado (Large Paperback)

 Former Tornado Navigator John Nichol tells the incredible story of the RAF Tornado force during the First Gulf War in 1991; the excitement and the danger, the fear and the losses. It is an...

Karen Farrington / Handbook of World War II (Large Paperback)

   This new reference relates the gripping tale of the greatest conflict the world has ever known. Almost every nation on earth was affected by the dreadful events spanning 1939 to 1945, and this...

Rupert Matthews / Hitler : Military Commander

      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...

Ariana Neumann / When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

 In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz...

Barry McLoughlin & Emmet O'Connor - In Spanish Trenches : The Minds and Deeds of the Irish Who Fought for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War - PB - BRAND NEW

The Spanish Civil War has an enduring fascination, not least for the way it drew some 35,000 non-Spaniards to risk their lives to halt the march of fascism. It has also acquired renewed relevance...

Christopher Hudson - The Killing Fields ( Vintage Pan Paperback)

An account of war and friendship in Cambodia ( Kampuchea) during the heinous regeime changeover by the Khmer Rouge.  Paperback, this is a film tie in edition. 

P.J. O'Rourke / Give War A Chance - Eyewitness Accounts Of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice And Alcohol-free Beer (Hardback)

 The bestselling author of Parliament of Whores now dismantles victims ranging from backpack liberals to Lee Iacocca and surveys the collapse of communism, celebrity, and liberalism. "Whatever your...

Joe Ambrose - Seán Treacy and the Tan War - PB - 2007

The opening shots of the War of Independence were fired by the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, led by the charismatic Seán Treacy. He was a gifted guerrilla fighter and an inspirational leader...

Alex Von Tunzlemann / Red Heat (Hardback)

   America's secret war in the Caribbean during the Cold War is revealed in this story of the machinations and blunders of superpowers, and the daring of the mavericks who took them on. Alex...

Michael Moore / Will They Ever Trust Us Again? Letters from the War Zone (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...

Tim Collins / Rules Of Engagement: A Life In Conflict (Large Paperback)

 Born in Belfast and commissioned into the army in 1981, after several tours of duty in Northern Ireland and the Falklands, Tim Collins volunteered for the SAS, where he was appointed operations...

Fergal Keane / The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD (Large Paperback)

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Eugene Downing - One Foot In A Spanish Grave - Memoir Of The International Brigades In Spain - PB BRAND NEW ( OCT 2023 )

Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican...

Amira Keidar / Holocaust Child Lalechka

 In 1941 at the height of World War II, in a Polish ghetto, a baby girl named Rachel is born. Her parents, Jacob and Zippa, are willing to do anything to keep her alive. They nickname her Lalechka...

Simon Winchester - Prison Diary : Argentina ( A Falklands Story) - PB - 1983

The British journalist Simon Winchester recounts his experiences in a remote Argentinian jail during the Falklands War in 1983 , having been detained with two other journalist on suspicion of spying...

Allan Little , Laura Silber / The Death Of Yugoslavia

 The Death of Yugoslavia" is a survey of the pressures and events that contributed to the break-up of former Yugoslavia, considered from a historical rather than a political or sociological point of...

Peter Burke - True to Ireland : Éire's Conscientious Objectors' in New Zealand in World War II

Irish men and women came to New Zealand in the 1930s to seek a better life, many carrying bitter memories of atrocities committed by the British. With WWII came the threat of conscription, but many...

Rebecca Donner / All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler (Hardback)

 The untold story of Mildred Harnack, an American woman who was the leader of the largest anti-Nazi resistance group in Germany, a role she was later executed for.

Alistair Cooke / Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Stories From The Home Front 1942 (Hardback)

 Alistair Cooke, then a Washington correspondent for The Guardian, recognized a great story to be told in investigating at first hand, the effects of the Second World War on America and the daily...

Lyn Smith / Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust (Hardback)

 'My parents were in despair because they heard that children were being taken. They tried for a while to hide me by pushing me into one of those handcarts and piling luggage on top of me.

Noam Chomsky / Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs (Large Paperback)

 Described by the New York Times as "an exploder of received truths," Noam Chomsky is an articulate opponent of political hypocrisy, state brutality, and abuse of power. Rogue States is the result of...

Damien Lewis / SAS Nazi Hunters

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Paul Jankowski / All Against All : The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War (Hardback)

 A narrative history, cinematic in scope, of a process that was taking shape in the winter of 1933 as domestic passions around the world colluded to drive governments towards a war few of them wanted...

Mary Warnock / Mary Warnock : A Memoir - People and Places (Hardback)

   Mary Warnock reflects on her involvement in the philosophical world of Oxford during its heyday in the fifties and sixties and on her life as a major, yet controversial, player in British...

J. T. Molloy / The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Hardback)

 *** NOW A MAJOR MOVIE STARRING ZAC EFRON, RUSSELL CROWE AND BILL MURRAY

Ben Parkinson / Losing the Battle Winning the War (Hardback)

 'A great and inspiring book from Doncaster's bravest son. Read it in a day' - Jeremy Clarkson 'Ben is the embodi

Timothy P. Shriver / Fully Alive (Hardback)

 As chairman of Special Olympics, Timothy P. Shriver has dedicated his life to the world's most forgotten minority - people with intellectual disabilities. And in a time when we are all more...