Michael Collins : a life / James Mackay
1996, First Edition. Edinburgh ; London N. Pomfret, VT : Mainstream Pub. ; Distributed by Trafalgar Square. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #446619
ISBN: 1851588574
Physical description; 320 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-311) and index. Contents; Introduction -- Prologue -- Boyhood, 1890-1906 -- London, 1906-16 -- The Easter Rising, 1916 -- Republican University, 1916 -- Prelude to war, 1917-18 -- The work of four men, 1918-19 -- The first dail, 1919 -- The intelligence war, 1919 -- The year of terror, 1920 -- The Black and Tans, 1920-21 -- Bloody Sunday, 1920 -- Peace process, 1921 -- Treaty, 1921 -- The split, 1922 -- Civil war, 1922 -- Pass of the flowers -- Epilogue. Subjects; Collins, Michael 1890-1922. Sinn Fein Officials and employees. Civil War (Ireland : 1922-1923). 1922-1923. Revolutionaries Ireland ; Biography. Revolutionaries. Revolutionaries Ireland. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. Colonialism & imperialism. National liberation & independence, post-colonialism. Land forces & warfare.
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