Torn Apart: Fifty Years of the Troubles, 1969-2019
By: Ken Wharton
4.23
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
In the early twentieth century there was a war brewing on Britain's doorstep. Northern Ireland was …
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1. MRF Shadow Troop: The untold true story of top secret British military intelligence undercover operations in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1972-1974
By: Simon Cursey
4.16
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
“They are not in business to make arrests, but they are specialists operating in areas of greater r… read more
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2. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
By: Dee Brown
4.25
Format: 509 pages, Paperback
Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling his… read more
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"It is too often the case,"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
3. Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (The History of England, #1)
By: Peter Ackroyd
4.04
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Peter Ackroyd, whose work has always been underpinned by a profound interest in and understanding o… read more
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- nonfiction
"History is about longing and belonging. It is about the need for permanence and the perception of continuity. It concerns the atavistic desire to find deep sources of identity. We live again in the t…"-Peter Ackroyd, Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (The History of England, #1)
4. Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution (The History of England, #3)
By: Peter Ackroyd
2.64
Format: 110 pages, Hardcover
Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people.… read more
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5. The Longest Kill: The Story of Maverick 41, One of the World's Greatest Snipers
By: Craig Harrison , Craig Harrison
4.75
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as yo… read more
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- nonfiction
6. Revolution (The History of England, #4)
By: Peter Ackroyd
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolutio… read more
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7. Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)
By: Peter Ackroyd
4.53
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, Tudors recounts the transformation of Englan… read more
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8. 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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"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
9. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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- nonfiction
10. Ascent into Hell
By: Fergus White
4.48
Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition
There is but one aim: the summit, the summit of Mount Everest. What starts with a trouble-free tre… read more
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- nonfiction
11. 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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12. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
By: Max Hastings
4.40
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more
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13. Cruise Ship SOS: The Life-Saving Adventures of a Doctor at Sea
By: Ben MacFarlane
4.42
Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition
What happens to patients when it all goes wrong at sea? Say hello to Dr Ben MacFarlane. After spen… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Napoleon: The Man behind the Myth
By: Adam Zamoyski
4.27
Format: 728 pages, Hardcover
A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English t… read more
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15. Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story
By: Neil Samworth
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Neil ‘Sam’ Samworth spent eleven years working as a prison officer in HMP Manchester, aka Strangewa… read more
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16. The Filth: The explosive inside story of Scotland Yard's top undercover cop
By: Duncan MacLaughlin
4.10
Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition
Duncan MacLaughlin was an elite officer at London's New Scotland Yard. The best of the best. In thi… read more
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17. Prison Days: True Diary Entries by a Maximum Security Prison Officer, June 2018
By: Simon King
4.14
Format: 108 pages, Kindle Edition
Direct from behind the walls of a maximum-security prison comes the day-today stories you never hea… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Life in the Max
By: Tom Hill
4.35
Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition
Life in the Max is drawn from over 32 years as a prison officer. Serving at one of only six categor… read more
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19. HMP Manchester Prison Officer: I Survived Terrorists, Murderers, Rapists and Freemason Officer Attacks in Strangeways and Wormwood Scrubs (UK Prison Officer Book 1)
By: John Sutton
3.88
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
“Shocking, darkly hilarious and eye-opening. The treacherous attacks from Freemason prison officers… read more
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20. Killing for Britain: 2018 Edition
By: John Black
3.85
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
This new 2016 edition of John Black's dark memoir of his time in the UVF in early 1970s Belfast ben… read more
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21. The Tour: What to expect from your first war
By: Bobby Williams
4.41
Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition
To all soldiers about to deploy on your first tour, you should already know this by your life is g… read more
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22. Irish History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Ireland
By: Captivating History
3.94
Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition
Did you know that a poet named William Drennan was the first to name Ireland the “Emerald Island”? … read more
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23. Dominion: The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (The History of England, #5)
By: Peter Ackroyd
3.86
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
"Ackroyd, as always, is well worth the read." ― Kirkus , starred review Dominion , the fifth volum… read more
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24. The Prison Teacher: Stories from Britain's Most Notorious Women's Prison
By: Mim Skinner
4.03
Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition
"Headlines and news reports of prison leave us with a boiled-down narrative of goodies and baddies … read more
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25. Killer (Charlie Seiga)
By: Charlie Seiga
4.18
Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition
“An epic story about a Liverpool gangster with old-school gentleman values” – Shaun Attwood, true c… read more
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26. Pain of Confinement: Prison Diaries
By: Jimmy Boyle
3.66
Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition
Scotland had a brutal prison system in the 1970s – and Jimmy Boyle spent fifteen years locked up.Bo… read more
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27. The Life Of A Gym Screw: Parkhurst to Longlartin and every gym I’ve worked in
By: Phil Currie
4.43
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
A fascinating and gripping account of prison life from phil currie, retired physical education offi… read more
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28. A Tale of Two Screws
By: Bob Richards
3.70
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
Bob Richards and Steve Shepherd are two Ex Prison Officers with 43 years’ experience between them. … read more
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29. A Winter in Belfast: Northern Ireland 26th November 1976 – 16th March 1977: D Company 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment
By: David Ellis
4.13
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
A Winter in Belfast is a frank diary transcript of a young officer’s experiences in The Parachute R… read more
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30. Torn Apart: Fifty Years of the Troubles, 1969-2019
By: Ken Wharton
4.23
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
In the early twentieth century there was a war brewing on Britain's doorstep. Northern Ireland was … read more
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31. INSIDE NUREMBERG PRISON the compelling story of the only German-Jewish translator to work in Nuremberg Prison (Helen Fry’s World War Two True Stories)
By: Helen Fry
4.48
Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition
THE COMPELLING AND MOVING TRUE STORY OF THE ONLY GERMAN-JEWISH TRANSLATOR TO WORK AT NUREMBERG.‘I c… read more
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