The Squad: And the Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins - Softcover

Dwyer, T. Ryle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856354695 ISBN 13: 9781856354691

Verlag: The Mercier Press Ltd, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

In 1919, Michael Collins conceived of a scheme to knock out the eyes and ears of the British Administration at Dublin Castle by undermining and terrorising the police so that the British would react blindly and drive the Irish people to support of the Irish Republican Army. The Bureau of Military History interviewed those involved in this scheme in the early 1950s with the assurance that the material would not be published in their lifetimes. A few of the contributions were made available by the families of those involved, but the bulk of them have only recently been released. This is the first book to make use of those interviews. It makes fascinating, almost unique reading, because they contain first-hand descriptions in which men speak candidly of their involvement in killing selected people at close range. As a result it throws a considerable amount of new light on the activities of the Squad and the intelligence operations of Michael Collins.

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T. Ryle Dwyer is a regular columnist with the Irish Examiner and has published many books on different aspects of twentieth-century Irish history, including a highly-acclaimed book on Charles J. Haughey, Haughey’s Forty Years of Controversy.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The Mercier Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1856354695
• ISBN 13: 9781856354691
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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