Our shop is located on James Street in the beautiful old Georgian part of Westport between the tree-lined Mall and the Octagon, one of the town’s well known landmarks.

Our shop is located on James Street in the beautiful old Georgian part of Westport between the tree-lined Mall and the Octagon, one of the town’s well known landmarks.


West Coast Rare Books

West Coast Rare Books

Westport / Ireland

Bowen, Heroic Option – The Irish In the British Army.

Bowen, Heroic Option - The Irish In the British Army.

Bowen, Jean / Bowen, Desmond. Heroic Option – The Irish In the British Army. South Yorkshire, Pen & Sword Military, 2005. 24cm x 16.4cm. XVII, 331 pages. With historic illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author.

Includes for example the following chapters: Ireland’s Warrior People / The Wars with France in North America & India, 1702-1803 / The Irish in the Peninsular War, North America and Waterloo / The Irish, The British Army and the Early Victorians in India / The Irish in the Crimea / The Irish and India from Mid-Nineteeth Century / The Irish and the Late Nineteenth Century Colonial Wars / Irish in the Second Anglo-Boer War / The Irish in the Great War, 1914-15, 1926-1928.

Our price: EUR 30,-- 

Bowen, Heroic Option - The Irish In the British Army.
Bowen, Heroic Option – The Irish In the British Army.

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