14 Best nonfiction books like Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland by Martin Ingram

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Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

By: Martin Ingram

3.82

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

An explosive exposé of how British military intelligence really works, from the inside. The stories…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland by Martin Ingram , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Killing Rage by Eamon Collins, Mick McGovern

1. Killing Rage

By: Eamon Collins , Mick McGovern

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Paperback

Since the 1970s, people have been murdering their neighbors in Northern Ireland. This book is the t… read more

Similar categories in Eamon Collins's Killing Rage book and Martin Ingram's Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • irish literature
  • ireland
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2. Voices From The Grave

By: Ed Moloney

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Ed Moloney's 'Voices From The Grave' is the best-informed account yet written of the IRA's evolutio… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature

3. Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh

By: Toby Harnden

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

South Armagh was described as "Bandit Country" by Merlyn Rees when he was Northern Ireland Secretar… read more

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4. The Shankill Butchers: The Real Story of Cold-Blooded Mass Murder

By: Martin Dillon

3.91

Format: 631 pages, Paperback

Reprint of the 1989 edition with a new afterword. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (book… read more

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Cover of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

5. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Hardcover

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Radden Keefe's Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland book and Martin Ingram's Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Cover of BOX 88 (BOX 88, #1) by Charles Cumming

6. BOX 88 (BOX 88, #1)

By: Charles Cumming

4.07

Format: 482 pages, Paperback

An organisation that doesn’t exist. A spy that can’t be caught. 1989: The fall of the Berlin … read more

Similar categories in Charles Cumming's BOX 88 (BOX 88, #1) book and Martin Ingram's Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

  • crime
Cover of Code Red (Rogue Warrior #1) by Ian Loome

7. Code Red (Rogue Warrior #1)

By: Ian Loome

4.29

Format: 460 pages, Kindle Edition

Bob is just another homeless guy. So why is he being hunted by a crack team of assassins? Bob Si… read more

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8. The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.39

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the … read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7) book and Martin Ingram's Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

9. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

Similar categories in Rory Carroll's There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History book and Martin Ingram's Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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10. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

Similar categories in Gary Stevenson's The Trading Game: A Confession book and Martin Ingram's Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Low Attack: The Story of Two Mosquito Squadrons in World War Two (Memoirs of World War Two in the Air Book 4) by John Wooldridge

11. Low Attack: The Story of Two Mosquito Squadrons in World War Two (Memoirs of World War Two in the Air Book 4)

By: John Wooldridge

4.08

Format: 140 pages, Kindle Edition

A vivid account of two Mosquito squadrons which revolutionised aerial warfare.Perfect for people wh… read more

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12. The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive

By: Philippe Sands

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadeführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on wh… read more

Similar categories in Philippe Sands's The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive book and Martin Ingram's Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. Double Agent: My Secret Life Undercover in the IRA

By: Kevin Fulton

4.08

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

'"I am a British soldier," I told my reflection. "I am a British soldier and I'm saving lives. I'm … read more

Similar categories in Kevin Fulton's Double Agent: My Secret Life Undercover in the IRA book and Martin Ingram's Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
Cover of Fishers of Men - The Gripping True Story of a British Undercover Agent in Northern Ireland by Rob Lewis

14. Fishers of Men - The Gripping True Story of a British Undercover Agent in Northern Ireland

By: Rob Lewis

3.66

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

Fishers of Men is the true account of secret operations in Northern Ireland carried out by the Brit… read more

Similar categories in Rob Lewis's Fishers of Men - The Gripping True Story of a British Undercover Agent in Northern Ireland book and Martin Ingram's Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • ireland
Cover of Undercover War: Britain's Special Forces and their secret battle against the IRA by Harry McCallion

15. Undercover War: Britain's Special Forces and their secret battle against the IRA

By: Harry McCallion

4.20

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

When British troops first deployed to Northern Ireland in 1969, to halt the threat of a new rising … read more

Similar categories in Harry McCallion's Undercover War: Britain's Special Forces and their secret battle against the IRA book and Martin Ingram's Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War by Richard O'Rawe

16. Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War

By: Richard O'Rawe

4.02

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

In this sensational exposé of British Intelligence’s top informer in the upper ranks of the IRA, Ri… read more

Similar categories in Richard O'Rawe's Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War book and Martin Ingram's Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest who Armed the IRA with Gaddafi’s Money by Jennifer O'Leary

17. The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest who Armed the IRA with Gaddafi’s Money

By: Jennifer O'Leary

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

For almost two decades, Father Patrick Ryan evaded intelligence agencies across Europe and was, for… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer O'Leary's The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest who Armed the IRA with Gaddafi’s Money book and Martin Ingram's Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland by Martin Ingram

18. Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

By: Martin Ingram

3.82

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

An explosive exposé of how British military intelligence really works, from the inside. The stories… read more

Similar categories in Martin Ingram's Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland book and Martin Ingram's Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of Dead Time (DCI Michael Lambert #4) by Matt Brolly

19. Dead Time (DCI Michael Lambert #4)

By: Matt Brolly

4.48

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Someone is recreating murders from the past; from DCI Lambert’s pastA man is found electrocuted in … read more

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  • crime
Cover of Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland by Peter Taylor

20. Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland

By: Peter Taylor

4.40

Format: 487 pages, Kindle Edition

On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gri… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
Cover of Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite by Sam McBride

21. Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite

By: Sam McBride

4.27

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

One of the most shocking scandals in Northern Irish political history: originally a green-energy in… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature

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Eamon Collins , Mick McGovern

4.04

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Voices From The Grave

Ed Moloney

3.44

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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

4.46

Transform Your Habits

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

Rory Carroll

4.38

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London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets

Peter Ackroyd

3.46

Transform Your Habits

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Eamon Collins , Mick McGovern

4.04

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Hampton Sides

4.51

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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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