Military History & Warfare

Morris Dees, James Corcoran / Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat (Hardback)

A renowned civil rights lawyer & an award-winning journalist team up to write a controversial, informed & shocking expose of the far right militia network--& to issue a passionate plea against hate,...

Avigdor Haselkorn / The Continuing Storm: Iraq, Poisonous Weapons, and Deterrence (Hardback)

Provides an assessment of the Persian Gul

Peter Crossland / Victor Two : Inside Iraq - The Crucial SAS Mission (Hardback)

The inside story of the SAS mission that turned the tide of the first Gulf WarThe Israeli government was persuaded at the last minute not to enter the Gulf War when they were told that it was the SAS...

Rose Doyle / Heroes of Jadotville: The Soldiers' Story (Large Paperback)

In 1961, a company of Irish UN troops was forced to surrender to troops loyal to the Katangese Prime Minister Moise Tshombe. The contingent of Irish UN troops sent to protect the Belgian colonists...

David Downing / Saddam Hussein and Iraq (Large Paperback)

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Fred Halliday / Two Hours That Shook the World: September 11, 2001: Causes and Consequences (Large Paperback)

Fred Halliday examines the causes and rise of Islamic fundamentalism and how terror became an instrument of political and military conflict. Sobering and encouraging, Two Hours That Shook the World...

Elizabeth Heaney / The Honor Was Mine (Large Paperback)

Winner of the Nautilus Book Award and the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal. A young combat veteran hides in his closet under a pile of clothes on bad nights. Another, home for five...

Colin Smith / England's Last War Against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-1942 (Large Paperback)

The last shots fired between England and France took place during World War II, when Vichy, France was left unoccupied by the Nazi regime in return for their collaboration. From the summer of 1940...

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...

Michael Farrell - Northern Ireland : The Orange State - PB 2nd Edition 1980 ( Originally 1976)

Despite being a very inflential title, this book remains hard to come by, in either the first edition or in subsequent reprints This is a 2nd edition 1980 ( the first edition was 1976, and the second...

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...

Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading...

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

Tom Renouf / Black Watch: Liberating Europe and Catching Himmler - My Extraordinary WW2 With the Highland Division

As a 19-year old Black Watch conscript Tom Renouf's war began with some of the most vicious fighting of the conflict€”against Himmler's fanatical "Hitler Youth" SS Division. It ended with the capture...

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...

George Friedman / America's Secret War : Inside the hidden worldwide struggle between the United States and its enemies (Large Paperback)

Dubbed by Barron's as "The Shadow CIA," Stratfor, George Friedman's global intelligence company, is one of the world's most respected private global intelligence firms with an unmatched ability to...

Michael R. Gordon, Bernard Trainor / Cobra II: The Inside Story Of The Invasion And Occupation Of Iraq

There have been many reports about the Iraq war, yet, none has told the complete story. Having unparalleled, behind-the-scenes access to the decision-making processes that determined involvement in...

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...

Paul Shemella / Fighting Back: What Governments Can Do About Terrorism (Large Paperback)

Since terrorism became a global national security issue in the new millennium, all governments have wrestled with its effects. Yet strong measures against terrorism have often made the root causes of...

Tom Clonan / Whistleblower, Soldier, Spy: A Journey Into the Dark Heart of the Global War on Terror (Large Paperback)

From Dublin to Beirut, Guantanamo Bay to Iraq - and all the way back - Tom Clonan takes the reader on a very personal journey through the Global War on Terror. The book deals with a variety of themes...

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...

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...

Donald L. Miller / Masters of the Air: How The Bomber Boys Broke Down the War Machine

 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...

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...

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...

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...

Mitchell Zuckoff / Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11

 This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerising,...

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...

Nicholas Rankin / Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII

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Des Ekin - Hell or Some Worse Place : Kinsale 1601 - PB - BRAND NEW

Kinsale, Ireland: Christmas Eve, 1601 As thunder crashes and lightning rakes the sky, three very different commanders line up for a battle that will decide the fate of a nation. General Juan del...

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...

Ben MacIntyre / Colditz (Large Paperback)

The true story of one of history's most notorious prisons--and the remarkable cast of POWs who tried relentlessly to escape their captors.In this narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most...

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...