Product Description: Journalist and broadcaster Robert Kee served as an RAF bomber pilot in World War II. His plane was shot down over Nazi-occupied Holland, and he subsequently spent more than three years in a German POW camp. After several false starts he finally escaped...read more

Based on the PBS television series, this account of Ireland's complex history traces the nation's development and the forces that shaped it from the ancient period to the present day

Product Description: Officers aren't born--they're carefully molded. In Nazi Germany this training took place in a horrific "factory," where the men received both military and ideological indoctrination, preparing them to fight successfully for the fatherland...read more

Product Description: "The Green Flag" stands as the most comprehensive and illuminating history of Irish Nationalism yet published. For many years available as three separate volumes ("The Most Distressful Country", The Bold Fenian Men" and "Ourselves Alone"), this outstanding history is now available as a single volume...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A biography of Charles Stewart Parnell, who gave Irish nationalism its most effective political shape for centuries. He died aged 45, his career destroyed by the O'Shea divorce scandal. Kee here traces Parnell's early years in politics and stresses how his character affected his achievements...read more

Product Description: A history of Ireland from the earliest prehistory to the 1910s and 1920s written by the author of "Modern Ireland".

Product Description: The history of Irish Nationalism is the subject of Robert Kee's "The Green Flag". In Volume 1, he opens with the question "Who are the Irish?" and ranges from Ireland's earliest beginnings to the Great Famine of 1845.

Product Description: This is the third and final volume of Kee's history "The Green Flag". This book looks at the history of the Irish Nationalist Movement between 1916-1923, from the Easter Rising to the creation of the Irish Free State.

Focusing on American and British news, cartoons, advertisements, and photographs, this illustrated volume revives the tension, confusion, and suspense of the pivotal year of 1939