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Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War : Britain's Counterinsurgency Failure /

As leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and then the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Michael Collins developed a bold, new strategy to use against the British administration of Ireland in the early twentieth century. His goal was to attack its well-established system of spies and informers, wear...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hittle, J. B. E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1 England's Troubled Colony 1
  • 2 Colonial Security Policy 10
  • 3 The Irish Nationalist 33
  • 4 The Phoenix 47
  • 5 Revolution in Earnest 60
  • 6 In the Shadow of Gunmen 72
  • 7 Spies at the Window 91
  • 8 Unification by Force 113
  • 9 Within the Gates 141
  • 10 Endgame 185
  • 11 Conclusion 216.