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New paperback edition - Fifty years on, a compelling new perspective on one of the most violent and controversial events of The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

New B-format paperback - The first book to show that during the era of Wild West, the most dangerous place to be was in the Wilder East, far from the American frontier.

Fifty years on, a compelling new perspective on one of the most violent and controversial events of The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

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Over the last century the novel 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' has been credited with having more influence on the growth of the labour and trade union movement than Marx and Engels. Yet for a long time little was known about the author, a house-painter called 'Robert Tressell.'Ian Hernon has traced his life from Victorian Ireland and South Africa to Edwardian Hastings and, ultimately, Liverpool. It is the story of how arguably the gre...

An important new book about a key, headline-grabbing event of the election. As allegations of anti-Semitism continue to rock the Labour Party, political journalist Ian Hernon traces the row since Corbyn became leader, the schisms and their causes, the death threats and social media nastiness. The final chapter completed after the general election.

During the era of the Wild West the East proves even wilder in this history of the gunfights, massacres and race-on-race conflagration occurring far from the frontier. Widespread and journalistic use of primary sources.

The third in Ian Hernon's 'Forgotten Wars' trilogy focuses on colonial conflicts in farflung places that have somehow been lost from the nation's collective memory. Some were mere skirmishes, others major campaigns, but all are astonishing stories of courage, occasional cowardice, dogged determination and endurance, incompetence and confusion

Following the Armada, there was the bloodless invasion of 1688, Bonnie Prince Charlie's march south, the remarkable American John Paul Jones' attack on Whitehaven during the American War of Independence, the German occupation of the Channel Islands and - the great what if of British, perhaps world history - the threat of Operation Sealion.

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This is a collection of Ian Hernon's three books, "Massacre and Retribution, " "The Savage Empire, " and "Blood in the Sand." Much has been written about the great British military triumphs of the 19th century, but there are many more astonishing stories which have been largely forgotten. These forgotten wars cannot hope to compete in history with the Crimean War or the Boer War, but for acts of sheer courage and endurance, they deserve to be ...

Covers almost 200 years of civil disturbance on mainland Britain, and gives a voice to some of the remarkable people involved. This work shows that resistance played a part, not always beneficially, in the creation of proper parliamentary democracy, the welfare state, the trade union movement, and the rights of immigrants and civil liberties.

Exposes Britain's secret history of political killings, murder and intrigue.

Exposes Britain's secret history of political killings, murder and intrigue.