Military History & Warfare

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

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...

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

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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)

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Seán Cronin - Frank Ryan : The Search for the Republic - PB 1980

Frank Ryan born in Knocklong, Limerick  in 1902  was a prominent member of the Irish Republican Army, editor of An Phoblacht, leftist activist and leader of Irish volunteers on the Republican side in...

Gerry White & Brendan O'Shea - A Great Sacrifice : Cork Servicemen who Died in the Great War - HB - 2010

In excellent condition, apart from some x's and underlining a of a few names in the text by a previous owner.  Maps of Europe before WW1 and after WW1 to front and rear endpages respectively.  I...

Correlli Barnett / The Swordbearers: Supreme Command in the First World War

Four of

Donald L. Miller / Masters of the Air

‘Seconds after Brady’s plane was hit, the Hundredth’s entire formation was broken up and scattered by swarms of single-engine planes, and by rockets launched by twin-engine planes that flew...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIV No. 98 Winter 2005

Contents include -  Aspects of Anglo-Norman secular settlement in Longford and Roscommon c. 1300 (Illustrated) -Linda Doran  Gaelic military organisation and the Nine Years' War - the army of Red...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIV No. 97 Summer 2005

Contents include -  he Celtic cross at Limburg an der Lahn, Germany: a sentimental journey by Anthony O'Brien 241Irish participation in Scandinavian armies during the Thirty Years’ War by Alexia...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XX- No. 95 Summer 2004

Contents -  Irish tents in Spanish Flanders, winter 1641 (Illustrated) by Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin and Gérard Aubert  ‘They lived and loved and died’: the integration of the Irish military at...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XVI- No. 65 Winter 1986

Note there is a tea stain splash on the pink front cover, internally unmarked Contents -  The Battle of Ridgeway, 2 June 1866 by Peter Berresford Ellis 245Kilrush, Co. Clare and the Royal Munster...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXI- No. 86 Winter 1999

Contents -  The standard of the Muskerry Cavalry (Illustrated) R.J. Tonson Rye Page 361Contemporary accounts of the battle of Rathmines, 1649 (Illustrated) Kenneth Ferguson Page 363Irish military men...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXII- No. 88 Winter 2000

Contents -  Three Castles: a sentinel in stone watching the north-west frontier of Gaelic Leinster Kenneth Ferguson Page 121Weston St.John Joyce - Author of Ireland's Battles and Battlefields Page...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXII- No. 89 Summer 2001

Contents -  ‘His Lordship, A sketch in the Phoenix’: The 7th Earl of Cardigan at Sword exercise in Phoenix Park, Dublin. Castles and the Pallas placename: a German insight by Kenneth FergusonSome...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XX- No. 82 Winter 1997 ( Essays on the Irish Civil War)

Contents -  The British Military Evacuation - Anthony Kinsella The Civil War From a pro- Treaty Perspective - Michael Hopkinson The Irish Civil War - An Anti-Treaty Perspective - Brian...

Richard Doherty - Irish Volunteers in the Second World War - HB - 2002

This book looks at the contributions of a range of Irish men and women to the Allied cause between 1939 and 1945. Many Irish soldiers served in armoured regiments from the desert to Germany itself...

David E. Sanger / The Perfect Weapon - War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age (Large Paperback)

From the premiere New York Times Washington correspondent, a stunning and incisive look into how cyberwarfare is influencing elections, threatening international security, and bringing us to the...

Louise Richardson / What Terrorists Want (Large Paperback)

What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat

John Connors - Seán Hogan - His lIfe : A Troubled Journey - PB - BRAND NEW- 2019

Famously rescued by his more illustrious comrades at Knocklong railway station in May of 1919, Sean Hogan, the man central to the event did in time, become relegated to relative anonymity. This book...

John Connors - Dan Breen : The Man Behind the Myth - PB - BRAND NEW

Delivery within Ireland is included in the cost.  Dan Breen: The Man Behind the Myth - Tipperary's Famous Revolutionary.  Anyone with an interest in Irish history is aware of the legend of Dan Breen...

Rod Smith / The Destroyer of Worlds - Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb (Large Paperback)

The Destroyer of Worlds - Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb   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...

Russell Warren Howe - Weapons - PB

Abacus Books, 1980.  Explores the complex Cold War weapons game being played by major and minor powers alike, discussing arms-limitation talks, arms-sales restrictions, the arms systems of major...

Adam Robinson / Bin Laden: Behind the Mask of the Terrorist (Hardback)

    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...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVII - No 108 - SUMMER 2010

PAPERBACK, DARK GREEN COVERS.  As well as the usual queries, replies, book reviews,shorter notes on military history, shorter articles, 

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XVI - No 64 - SUMMER 1986

Metallic rust offset stain to front cover ( external only)  Colonel Henry, Eight Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen by Harman Murtagh 133Aspects of the military history of the Anglo-Norman invasion...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XVI - No 62 - 1984

Uneven tanning to page block edges.  An Officer of the 8th The King’s Royal Irish Hussars by F. Glenn Thompson 1Some Documents Relating to the Involvement of the Irish Brigade in the Rebellion of...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XIII- No.50 - Summer 1977

Uneven tanning to page block edges.      As well as the usual queries, replies, book reviews,shorter notes on military history, shorter articles, 

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XVI- No.63 - 1985

Contents The Belfast Blitz by Robson S. Davison 65Imperial Yeomanry Notes by F. Glenn Thompson 84Irishmen in the Stuart Navy, 1660 – 90 by Hector McDonnell 87Terence Bellew McManus: Fenian by...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXII- No.87 Summer 2000

Contents Vol. XXII Summer 2000 No 87 The Military History Society of Ireland, 1949-99: a message to mark the golden jubilee (Illustrated)Donal O'Carroll Page 1The battle of Manning Ford, 4 June 1643...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXIII- No. 94 Winter 2003

Photograph of a collar and two armlets worn by a negro in the band of the Kilkenny Militia, c. 1793 facing page 361Preserving Donegal - the battle of Glenmaquin, 16 June 1642 by Patrick McCarthy...

Saul David / SBS - Silent Warriors (Large Paperback)

Operation Frankton in Bordeaux, fictionalized in the 1955 film The Cockleshell Heroes, is the best-known mission of the Special Boat Service but similarly daring raids in small boats and midget...

James Mann / Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet (Hardback)

When G.W

Peter Carroll / Gurkha: The True Story of a Campaign for Justice (Hardback)

The full, true story of the campaign that

Bruce W. Watson / Military Lessons of the Gulf War (Hardback)

    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...

Tim Bouquet / 617: Going To War With Todays Dambusters (Hardback)

In May 1

Lucas Delattre / Betraying Hitler : The Story of Fritz Kolbe (Hardback)

In 1943 a young official f

Danny Collins / The Bloodiest Battles: True Stories of the Fiercest Firefights from the Afghan War (Hardback)

Since th

Ali H. Soufan / Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State (Large Paperback)

To eliminate the scourge of terrorism, we must first know who the enemy actually is, and what his motivations are. In Anatomy of Terror, former FBI special agent and New York Times best-selling...

Douglas C Dildy - Denmark and Norway 1940 - 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 accounts of forces, military commanders, how battles...

Stephen Starr / Revolt in Syria: Eye-witness to the Uprising (Large Paperback)

In January of 2011, President Bashar al-Assad officially declared Syrian society stable and the government immune to revolt. In the months that followed, and as regimes fell in Egypt and Tunisia,...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVIII- No. 113 - Summer 2012

Contents -  Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment, N.Y.S.M. from the Seat of War’ (1862), by Louis Lang  Camp California, Virginia: where Meagher’s men steeled themselves for war (illustrated) by Niall...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVIII- No. 114 - Winter 2012

Contents -  Soldiers Three – A visit to the Royal Hospital’: a painting of 1899 by The Mac Egan [Darius Joseph MacEgan] (1856-1939)  A description of the painting by F. Glenn Thompson  A note on the...

The Irish Sword - Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland - PB Vol XXVIII- No. 112 - Winter 2011

Contents -  James Kirkland and other Potsdam Grenadiers of Irish birth (Illustrated) by Kenneth Ferguson  Beheaded at Cork and buried with a piper: the traditional fate (and strange afterlife) of...

Darach MacDonald / The Chosen Fews : Exploding Myths in South Armagh (Large Paperback)

In the early 1970s, Britain's then Northern Secretary Merlyn Rees disdainfully dubbed South Armagh Bandit Country. The name stuck. Crossmaglen, a town with a peaceful past, was transformed into the...