Arming the Irish Revolution : Gunrunning and Arms Smuggling, 1911- 1922 /

"Supply is so critical to warfighting that armies win and lose wars over it. In Arming the Irish Revolution, W.H. Kautt uses the complicated history of Ireland's revolution as a backdrop to examine in detail how the Irish rebels acquired their weapons to fight the most powerful army in the...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Kautt, William H. (William Henry), 1968- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2021]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Logistics.
Illegal arms transfers.
HISTORY > Europe > Ireland.
Armes > Trafic > Irlande > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Illegal arms transfers > Ireland > History > 20th century.
Ireland.
Irlande > Histoire > 1919-1921 (Guerre d'independance) > Logistique.
Ireland > History > War of Independence, 1919-1921 > Logistics.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Arming before the War of Independence
  • Arms acquisition in the early part of the War for Independence
  • Rebel arms manufacturing and bomb making
  • IRB arms centers : buying and moving the "stuff"
  • "Sweet Mauser music" : overseas suppliers & rebel operations to the close of the Revolutionary Era
  • The Northern Divisions : from truce and treaty to civil war
  • The costs, the dangers, and the counters : accident, arrest, imprisonment, death
  • Assessment of the Republican arms procurement campaigns, 1918-1921
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix: Other munitions factories and shops.

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