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Dispatches by Michael Herr
RRP: €21.60Booksplease Price: €14.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679735250Author Michael HerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint < -
Kubrick by Michael Herr 9780802138187
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802138187Author Michael HerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint < -
Granta 12: The Rolling Stones by William Boyd
Booksplease Price: €19.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140075656Author William BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint < -
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Dispatches by Michael Herr 9781447275060 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €3.22With an introduction by Kevin Powers.A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket.We took space back quickly, expensively, with... -
Dispatches: Introduction by Robert Stone Michael Herr 9780307270801
RRP: €33.60Booksplease Price: €22.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307270801Author Michael HerrFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.54'You will be a great hero, a general, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Ambassador of France!'For his whole life, Romain Gary's fierce, eccentric motherhad only one aim: to make her son a great man. And she did... -
The Anatomy of Myth: The Art of Interpretation from the Presocratics to the Church Fathers by Michael Herren 9780190936723
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Bad Baby Names: The Worst True Names Parents Saddled Their Kids With, and You Can Too! by Michael Sherrod 9781593313142
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €7.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593313142Author Michael SherrodFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35**WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE for NON-FICTION 2016**In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose... -
Blue Blood by Edward Conlon 9780091940324
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €18.28'Superb. The most stunning memoir ever written about the cop world' Joseph Wambaugh'Beautiful and inspiring, terrifying and heartbreaking'James Frey'More chilling than even the most realistic cop... -
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Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War by Anthony Swofford 9780743275378 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €2.24Anthony Swofford's grandfather fought in WWII; his father fought in Vietnam; and he - a directionless, testosterone-battered teenager - became a scout/sniper in the marines and fought in the Gulf War... -
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Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War by Anthony Swofford 9780743239196 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €3.50Anthony Swofford's grandfather fought in WWII; his father fought in Vietnam; and he - a directionless, testosterone-battered teenager - became a scout/sniper in the marines and fought in the Gulf War... -
The Mammoth Book of the Vietnam War by Jon E. Lewis
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60By 1969, following the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, over 500,000 US troops were 'in country' in Vietnam. Before America's longest war had ended with the fall of Saigon in 1975, 450,000 Vietnamese... -
New Journalism by Tom Wolfe
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60'The hell with it . . . let chaos reign . . . louder music, more wine . . . All the old traditions are exhausted and no new one is yet established. All bets are off! The odds are cancelled! It's... -
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €7.64The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. 'The Things They Carried' is, on its surface, a... -
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.32As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza... -
My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself by Rian Malan
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORIn '70s' South Africa, Rian Malan - descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, friend to blacks - went to work as a crime reporter for a... -
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We Did Nothing: Why the truth doesn't always come out when the UN goes in by Linda Polman 9780141012902 [USED COPY]
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €3.10Linda Polman's We Did Nothing: Why the truth doesn't always come out with the UN goes in is an eye-opening account of peace-keeping operations across the globe.In recent years our newspapers and... -
Whistles from the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera on War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan by Miles Lagoze 9781668000038
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €17.10"The most bracingly honest, refreshing account of the Afghan war" (Sebastian Junger, New York Times bestselling author) from a Marine Corps Combat Cameraman and director of the acclaimed documentary... -
My War Gone by, I Miss it So by Anthony Loyd 9781912836048
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54My War Gone By, I Miss It So is a uniquely powerful piece of writing, unparalleled in the genre. Ex-infantry officer Anthony Loyd arrived in the Balkans hoping to become a war correspondent. He... -
Kursk: Film tie-in Robert Moore 9780857504135
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €10.66____________________NOW OUT IN CINEMAS, STARRING COLIN FIRTH, MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS AND LEA SEYDOUX 'It takes you through each nail-biting moment . . . heart-breaking, humane and, at times, all too... -
Generation Kill by Evan Wright
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have... -
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story by Matti Friedman 9781785900433
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €9.83It was just one remote hilltop in an unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt today, foreshadowing the chaos of 21stcentury conflicts in the Middle East. The... -
No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan by Ben Anderson 9781851689774
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €24.55The war in Afghanistan is over ten years old. It has cost countless lives and hundreds of billions of pounds. Politicians talk of progress, but the violence is worse than ever. In this... -
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Generation Kill by Evan Wright 9780552158930 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €2.89Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have... -
If I Am Coming to Your Town, Something Terrible Has Happened: The Life and Times of a Domestic War Correspondent by Justin Glawe 9781588385734
RRP: €31.14Booksplease Price: €20.46If I Am Coming to Your Town, Something Terrible Has Happened offers one journalist's version of the truth about how we ended up here and how nasty, sad, and disturbing it really is. This is the real,... -
Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage by James Marcus 9780231159302
RRP: €100.80Booksplease Price: €79.61The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. Launched in 2004 by John Palattella, who was then editor of the magazine's... -
Bulletproof Vest by Kenneth R. Rosen
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €10.25A WIRED 2020 Book of the Year Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. "Nothing's bulletproof," the salesman said. "The... -
The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror by Dexter Filkins 9780099523048
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.79There are already many books on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and about the War on Terror - but this is something very different. In The Forever War, award-winning New York Times correspondent... -
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Ice Man, Captain America, and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright
RRP: €19.20Booksplease Price: €12.49Based on Evan Wright's National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO (R) original mini-series.Within hours... -
Burning the Days by James Salter
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11This is the brilliant memoir of a man who starts out in Manhattan and comes of age in the skies over Korea, before emerging as one of America's finest authors in the New York of the 1960s. Burning... -
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61'Stanley Booth's book is the only one I can read and say, "Yeah, That's how it was"' KEITH RICHARDS'An epic, behind-the-scenes record of life with the greatest rock band in the world' ObserverThe... -
A Rumor Of War by Philip Caputo
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.29The first memoir of the Vietnam War and an all-time classic of war literature|40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION|In March 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat... -
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips 9780349725550
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11A powerful tale of grief and survival - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch'This novel is cut like a diamond, with such sharp authenticity and bursts of light' ALICE... -
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 9781529157178
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.78SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024ONE OF PROSPECT'S POLITICS & REPORTAGE BOOKS OF THE YEAR... -
The Storm is Here: America on the Brink Luke Mogelson 9781529418736
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle a story of mounting civic breakdown and violent disorder, in a vivid eyewitness narrative of revelatory...