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  • Fairy Tales and War Stories
    Jr. PhD J Thomas Hennessey
    What’s the difference between a fairy tale and a war story? In the author’s experience, 'A fairy tale started with the phrase ’Once upon a time.’ On the other hand, a war story started with the phrase, ’Now, this is no bullshit.’'This collection of compelling memoirs spans fifty years and two entirely different cultures: more than twenty years in the US Army and twenty years in...
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    22,63 €

  • Bringing Home the Cost of War
    Jr. PhD J. Thomas Hennessey
    A Memoir of Combat, Duty, and the Families Who Bear the BurdenIn this powerful and deeply human memoir, James Foster recounts a soldier’s journey from the brutal battlefields of Vietnam to the quiet, grief-filled living rooms of American families waiting for news no one wants to deliver.Serving twenty-four months in combat as a young officer with the 82nd and 101st Airborne Div...
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    12,48 €

  • An Irishman’s Odyssey
    J. Thomas Hennessey Jr. PhD
    A fugitive fleeing the gallows. A soldier forged in battle. A hero returning home.In 1832, Ireland is in the grip of the Tithe War, and County Kilkenny is a powder keg waiting to explode. When teenage friends Liam Flaherty and Michael Nolan stand against the British constables to protect a widow’s farm, the consequences are deadly. With his best friend hanged for murder and a b...
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    12,41 €

  • Ghost Soldiers of Gandamak
    Jr. PhD J. Thomas Hennessey
    Ghost Soldiers of Gandamak is a gripping military fiction novel that brings two centuries of warfare face to face in the mountains of Afghanistan. When Lieutenant Roger Short and the surviving members of his modern U.S. Army platoon crash during a winter extraction flight in 2023, they expect a long trek through enemy territory. What they do not expect is to encounter a shatter...
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    12,48 €

  • Out of Time in the Desert
    Jr. PhD J. Thomas Hennessey
    A modern U.S. Army platoon. A century-old battlefield. One impossible mission for survival.When Lieutenant Greg Evans and his 82nd Airborne platoon set out on what should have been a routine reconnaissance patrol in Iraq, nothing prepares them for the supernatural sandstorm that hurls them back in time straight into the year 1920, at the height of the Iraqi Revolt against Briti...
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    12,55 €

  • Ghost Soldiers of Gandamak
    J. Thomas Hennessey PhD
    Two young officers, one from the eighteenth century and one from the twenty-first century, meet on a cold January day near a small village. The eighteenth-century soldier, having survived the brutal British retreat from Kabul, finds himself among the fifty survivors planning to make a last stand on a small hilltop near the village of Gandamak. The twenty-first-century soldier a...
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    11,91 €

  • Britain’s Korean War
    Thomas Hennessey
    Available in paperback for the first time, this book assesses the strains within the ’Special Relationship’ between London and Washington and offers a new perspective on the limits and successes of British influence during the Korean War. The interaction between the main personalities on the British side - Attlee, Bevan, Morrison, Churchill and Eden - and their American counter...
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    40,35 €

  • Dividing Ireland
    Thomas Hennessey
    This book provides an original assessment of the First World War in Ireland and its consequences, the key to understanding the complexities of the nation today. Hennessey explores how the War transformed the Irish and Ulster questions. ...
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    85,17 €

  • From Jazz to Swing
    THOMAS J. HENNESSEY / THOMAS JHENNESSEY
    In the 1920s, many black regional jazz bands were recorded and became products of the entertainment industry, which was altering the face of America from the handmade, homemade, homemade society of the ninteenth century to the mass-produced, mass-consumed technological culture of the twentieth century.Making use of the files of African American newspapers, such as the Chicago D...
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    35,53 €