Raids And Rallies

Author : Ernie O'Malley
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1856357155
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raids and Rallies written by Ernie O'Malley and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is O'Malley's tribute to his fellow soldiers, in which he provides an account of various offensives against the British in 1920-21.

Author : Dominique Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781739200411
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raids, Rallies & Reserves written by Dominique Allen and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. George Boyce
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134981376
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Thought in Ireland Since the Seventeenth Century written by D. George Boyce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These pioneering essays provide a unique study of the development of political ideas in Ireland from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The book breaks away from the traditional emphasis in Irish historiography on the nationalism/unionism debate to focus instead on previously neglected areas such as the role of the Scottish Enlightenment and early Irish socialism and conservatism. A wide range of original primary sources are used from pamphlets to journalism, devotional tracts to poetry.

Author : D. M. Leeson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191618918
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black and Tans written by D. M. Leeson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries, the most notorious police forces in the history of the British Isles. During the Irish War of Independence (1920-1), the British government recruited thousands of ex-soldiers to serve as constables in the Royal Irish Constabulary, the Black and Tans, while also raising a paramilitary raiding force of ex-officers - the Auxiliary Division. From the summer of 1920 to the summer of 1921, these forces became the focus of bitter controversy. As the struggle for Irish independence intensified, the police responded to ambushes and assassinations by the guerrillas with reprisals and extrajudicial killings. Prisoners and suspects were abused and shot, the homes and shops of their families and supporters were burned, and the British government was accused of imposing a reign of terror on Ireland. Based on extensive archival research, this is the first serious study of the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries and the part they played in the Irish War of Independence. Dr Leeson examines the organization and recruitment of the British police, the social origins of police recruits, and the conditions in which they lived and worked, along with their conduct and misconduct once they joined the force, and their experiences and states of mind. For the first time, it tells the story of the Irish conflict from the police perspective, while casting new light on the British government's responsibility for reprisals, the problems of using police to combat insurgents, and the causes of atrocities in revolutionary wars.

Author : Michael Hopkinson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773570764
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irish War of Independence written by Michael Hopkinson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002-11-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war was prosecuted ruthlessly by the Irish Republican Army which, paralleling the political efforts of Sinn Féin, hoped to break Britain's will to rule Ireland and create an independent Irish republic. The British retaliated by introducing two new irregular forces into Ireland, the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries. Fighting took place principally in counties Cork, Limerick, Tipperary, Monaghan, Armagh, Clare, Kerry, and Longford. It was sporadic but vicious, with fewer than 2,000 IRA volunteers facing over 50,000 crown forces. The IRA depended upon energetic local leaders -- where there were none, there was little fighting.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1684 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cycle World Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 1684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Middlebrook
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473819059
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Berlin Raids written by Martin Middlebrook and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “meticulously documented” account that covers the RAF’s controversial attempt to end World War II by the aerial bombing of Berlin (Kirkus Reviews). The Battle of Berlin was the longest and most sustained bombing offensive against one target in the Second World War. Bomber Command Commander-in-Chief, Sir Arthur Harris, hoped to wreak Berlin from end to end and produce a state of devastation in which German surrender was inevitable. He dispatched nineteen major raids between August 1943 and March 1944—more than ten thousand aircraft sorties dropped over thirty thousand tons of bombs on Berlin. It was the RAF’s supreme effort to end the war by aerial bombing. But Berlin was not destroyed and the RAF lost more than six hundred aircraft and their crews. The controversy over whether the Battle of Berlin was a success or failure has continued ever since. Martin Middlebrook brings to this subject considerable experience as a military historian. In preparing his material he collected documents from both sides (many of the German ones never before used); he has also interviewed and corresponded with over four hundred of the people involved in the battle and has made trips to Germany to interview the people of Berlin and Luftwaffe aircrews. He has achieved the difficult task of bringing together both sides of the Battle of Berlin—the bombing force and the people on the ground—to tell a coherent, single story. “His straightforward narrative covers the 19 major raids, with a detailed description of three in particular, and includes recollections by British and German airmen as well as German civilians who weathered the storm.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Erik V. Nordheim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Major Events of the Nuclear Age written by Erik V. Nordheim and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Mills
Publisher : LULU
ISBN 13 : 1483408442
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zero to Sixty written by David Mills and published by LULU. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Mills first discovered the legendary Dakar Rally during a three-month motorcycle tour of South America. In 2012, he became an embedded member of a Chilean Dakar team with unprecedented access to the rally; now he shares the story of his experiences. This firsthand account describes the three grueling weeks he lived with the tight-knit Dakar community as they battled the brutal conditions in the ultimate long-distance, off-road competition. Zero to Sixty shares stories of crossing the driest deserts on the planet, visiting lush vineyards and wine regions, getting lost on mountain passes, encountering earthquakes and landslides, enduring drastic temperature changes, and experiencing altitude sickness at more than 15,500 feet. Zero to Sixty offers a unique, behind-the-scenes look at the legendary Dakar Rally, its people and its history, providing insight as to what drives these athletes to live on the edge of disaster while attempting to finish what is the world's deadliest sporting event.

Author : Ernie O'Malley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1589790049
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Another Man's Wound written by Ernie O'Malley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001-12-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captures the feel of Ireland more than any other book.