War and an Irish Town (Pluto Classics)
By: Eamonn McCann
4.11
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Eamonn McCann's account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto - first…
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1. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
By: Donald L. Miller
4.18
Format: 671 pages, Hardcover
Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
2. The Twelfth Day of July (Kevin and Sadie, #1)
By: Joan Lingard
3.96
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The first chapter takes place in a Protestant street. Tommy and Sadie Jackson are already looking f… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
3. The Blanket Men
By: Richard O'Rawe
4.23
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
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- history
- memoir
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- ireland
- irish literature
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4. Resurrection Man
By: Eoin McNamee
3.69
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
'An extraordinary book, illuminating not only the political map of Belfast but also the dark ring-r… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
5. Cal
By: Bernard MacLaverty
3.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980's, Caltells the story of a young Catholic man living in a P… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
6. A Star Called Henry
By: Roddy Doyle
4.11
Format: 96 pages,
Born at the beginning of the twentieth century, Henry Smart lives through the evolution of modern I… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
7. 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
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- ireland
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8. 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
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- ireland
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9. A Kestrel for a Knave
By: Barry Hines
3.60
Format: 253 pages,
With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hin… read more
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10. The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
By: None
3.87
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It's around 7:00 A.M. on December 4, 1969, and attorney Jeff Haas is in a police lockup in Chicago,… read more
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11. The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution
By: Dominic Lieven
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
An Economist Best Book of the Year A Financial TimesBest Book of the Year "Lieven has a double gift… read more
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12. Lies of Silence
By: Brian Moore
4.05
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is … read more
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13. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
By: China Miéville
3.82
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months … read more
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14. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- ireland
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
15. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
16. 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
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- history
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- ireland
- irish literature
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"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
17. Milkman
By: Anna Burns
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attem… read more
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- ireland
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"how much I’d been thwarted into a carefully constructed nothingness by that man"-Anna Burns, Milkman
"It’s not about being happy,’ he said, which was, and still is, the saddest remark I’ve ever heard."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"also found the situation unworkable. Not just unworkable – ridiculous. Not just ridiculous – perturbing."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"even though it was weird to talk on the telephone. Only eight times, seven, maybe six, ever had I done so."-Anna Burns, Milkman
18. 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
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- history
- biography
- politics
- nonfiction
- european history
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
19. Azadi
By: Arundhati Roy
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and the Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"...as the Covid-19 pandemic burns through us, our world is passing through a portal. We have journeyed to a place from which it looks unlikely that we can return, at least not without some kind of se…"-Arundhati Roy, Azadi
20. A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
By: China Miéville
3.95
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and… read more
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- audiobook
"Like the authors of the Manifesto, I don’t believe that the generalised mass misery of the world, all the unbearable checklists of deprivation and depravity, is irrelevant, nor unrelated to the econo…"-China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
21. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By: Mariame Kaba
4.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more
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"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
22. The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
By: Benjamin Carter Hett
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic … read more
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- politics
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- european history
- audiobook
"Alongside the viciousness of much of German politics in the Weimar years was an incongruous innocence: few people could imagine the worst possibilities. A civilized nation could not possibly vote for…"-Benjamin Carter Hett, The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
23. The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin
By: Aoife Moore
3.82
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking… read more
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24. 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
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- ireland
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25. On Bloody Sunday: A New History Of The Day And Its Aftermath – By The People Who Were There
By: Julieann Campbell
4.54
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The first ever complete oral history of one of the darkest episodes in modern Irish history *** I… read more
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- european history
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26. Country
By: Michael Hughes
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Northern Ireland, 1996. After twenty-five years of vicious conflict, the IRA and the British ha… read more
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"it was raining love"-Michael Hughes, Country
27. Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place
By: Martin Doyle
4.31
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles … read more
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28. Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent
By: Priyamvada Gopal
4.18
Format: 631 pages, Hardcover
How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empireInsurgent Empire shows how Britain’s ens… read more
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- politics
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29. Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
By: Henry Hemming
4.33
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Four Shots in the Night is the story of the killing of Frank Hegarty, an IRA member turned British … read more
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- european history
- ireland
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30. War and an Irish Town (Pluto Classics)
By: Eamonn McCann
4.11
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Eamonn McCann's account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto - first… read more
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31. Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island
By: Ian Cobain
4.21
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a… read more
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