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The Green Ribbon Books: The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence, by Richard J. Aldrich
Bloodsong: An Account of Executive Outcomes in Angola, by Jim Hooper
Defending the Realm: MI5 and the Shayler Affair, by Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding
Public Servant, Secret Agent: The Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave, by Paul Routledge
The Day Britain Died, by Andrew Marr
The Squad and the Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins, by T Ryle Dwyer
The Politics of Englishness, by Arthur Aughey
Unfinished Business: State Killings and the Quest for Truth, by Bill Rolston
Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards: US Covert Action and Counterintelligence, by Roy Godson
The Irish: A Photohistory: 1840-1940
The Green Flag: A History of Irish Nationalism, by Robert Kee
The Dublin and Monaghan Bombings, by Don Mullan
Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer, by Peter Wright
My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy
Stalker: Ireland, 'Shoot to Kill' and the 'Affair'
Big Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA
MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, by Stephen Dorril
The Wilson Plot: The Astounding Truth about the Spycatchers who dabbled in Treason, By David Leigh
Blair, by Anthony Seldon
Who Framed Colin Wallace? by Paul Foot
In the Public Interest: A devastating account of the Thatcher Government's involvement in the covert arms trade
Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror
Making a Killing: How Corporations use Armed Force to do Business
The Nationalists of Northern Ireland 1918-1973
To Hell or Barbados: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland
Hell or Connaught: The Cromwellian Colonisation of Ireland 1652-1660
Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion by Charles Townshend
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution by Christopher Hill
Paine: Political Writings
After Britain: New Labour and the Return of Scotland by Tom Nairn
Nationalism, Devolution and the Challenge to the United Kingdom State by Arthur Aughey
The Irish Republican Brotherhood from the Land League to Sinn Fein by Owen McGee
The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa by Adam Roberts
Renovation or Revolution? New Territorial Politics in Ireland and the United Kingdom
A Deeper Silence: The Hidden Origins of the United Irishmen by A.T.Q. Stewart
Choosing the Green? Second Generation Irish and the Cause of Ireland by Brian Dooley
The Men who Built Britain: A Celebration of the Irish Navvy by Ultan Cowley
An Unconsidered People - The Irish in Sixties London by Catherine Dunne
Smear: Wilson and the Secret State by Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril
The Isles: A History by Norman Davies
The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the man who sent Charles I to the scaffold by Geoffrey Robertson
Free-Born John: The Biography of John Lilburne by Pauline Gregg
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