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    Godfrey's Ghost

    by Nicolas Ridley ...
    Narrated by Nicholas Ridley, Terry Molloy ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 35 min

    Godfrey’s Ghost By Nicholas Ridley. Godfrey’s Ghost is, at its heart, the story of a father written by his son. As a young man, Arnold Ridley was chiefly known as the author of the long running comedy thriller, The Ghost Train. Today he is remembered for his television performances as Private Godfrey, the oldest member of the Dad’s Army platoon. But Dad’s Army came towards the close of a long life ... Read more

    $21.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Far From Suitable?

    Haig, Gough and Passchendaele: a Reappraisal

    by Nicholas Ridley ...
    Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, until in recent decades eclipsed by the Somme, stood as the representative image of First World War frightfulness and fruitless endeavor. Post-war memory of its myriad horrors arose from the dissemination of traumatic personal experience; the tradition of futility largely from the 1930s condemnation by military historian Basil Liddell Hart ... Read more

    $25.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Michael Collins and the Financing of Violent Political Struggle

    by Nicholas Ridley ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    Michael Collins was a pivotal figure in the Irish struggle for independence and his legacy has resonated ever since. Whilst Collins’ role as a guerrilla leader and intelligence operative is well documented, his actions as the clandestine Irish government Minister of Finance have been less studied. The book analyses how funds were raised and transferred in order that the IRA could initiate and ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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    by Dr. Jonathan Swift ...
    A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests that impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their ... Read more

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  • Voices from the Grave

    Two Men's War in Ireland

    by Ed Moloney ...
    A candid and brutal account of murder, abduction, and violence during the Troubles in Northern Ireland-from two men on opposite sides of the conflict.After 'the long war' in Ireland came to an end, very few paramilitary leaders on either side spoke openly about their role in that bloody conflict, but in Voices from the Grave, two leading figures from opposing sides reveal their involvement in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Hunting in the Shadows

    The Pursuit of al Qa'ida since 9/11

    by Seth G. Jones ...
    From one of our most trusted counterterrorism experts, a sweeping, insider's account of the decade-long chase for America's deadliest enemy.This landmark history chronicles the dramatic, decade-long war against al Qa’ida and provides a model for understanding the ebb and flow of terrorist activity. Tracing intricately orchestrated terrorist plots and the elaborate, multiyear investigations to ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Early Irish Myths and Sagas

    First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle freely with the gods. From the vivid adventures of the great Celtic hero Cu Chulaind, to the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Wreck of the Neva: The Horrifying Fate of a Convict Ship and the Women Aboard

    by Cal McCarthy, Kevin Todd ...
    The 'Neva' sailed from Cork on 8 January 1835, destined for the prisons of Botany Bay. There were 240 people on board, most of them either female convicts or the wives of already deported convicts, and their children. On 13 May 1835 the ship hit a reef just north of King's Island in Australia and sank with the loss of 224 lives - one of the worst shipwrecks in maritime history. The authors have ... Read more

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  • David McWilliams' The Generation Game

    David McWilliams Ireland 3

    by David McWilliams ...
    As the BOTOX ECONOMY was laid bare and the financial filler of other people's money became evident, the JAGGERS, JUGGLERS and BONO BOOMERS struggled to maintain their slice of a diminished pie. However the author saw a possible solution to Ireland's quandaries. Taking a trip around the globe from Shanghai to New York, from Latin America to Central Europe, he says we can learn from history and ... Read more

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  • Joe Cahill

    A Life in the IRA

    by Brendan Anderson, Joe Cahill ...
    'I was born in a united Ireland, I want to die in a united Ireland.'Born in Belfast in 1920, Joe Cahill has been an IRA man motivated by this ambition all his life. IRA activists rarely speak about their lives or their organisation, but here Cahill gives his full and frank story, his viewpoint, his experiences -- from Northern Irish prison cells of the 1940s, on a death sentence, to Washington ... Read more

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  • Al-Shabaab in Somalia

    The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group

    by Stig Jarle Hansen ...
    Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the 'Shabaab', or youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained acceptance (and praise) from Ayman al-Zawahiri and 'AQ centre' in Afghanistan. Itself an offshoot of the Islamic Courts Union, which split in 2006, Shabaab has imposed Sharia law and is also heavily ... Read more

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  • The IRA and Armed Struggle

    by Rogelio Alonso ...
    Series series Political Violence
    The IRA is one of the oldest terrorist organizations in the world and conducted a ferociously violent campaign for almost thirty years. Now deeply enmeshed in the Northern Ireland peace process, Rogelio Alonso asks why one of the bloodiest terrorist movements of our time decide to swap weapons for the ballot box?Based on over seventy interviews conducted with former and existing members of the IRA ... Read more

    $68.99 USD