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Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion
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by Charles Townshend
Sales Rank: 233291
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List Price: $28.95
$19.11
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on 12-27-2008
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Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher May 25, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 156663704X
ISBN-13: 978-1566637046
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.3 x 1.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Product Review
"This is a crisply written, balanced, and well-organized study" -- Journal of Military History
Summarizes some forty years of scholarship on the topic, adding its own dramatic flair and insights.A quite vivid reenactment. -- Library Bookwatch
Anyone interested in Irish history, of whatever political views, should be grateful to [Townshend] for pulling this material together andfor the wealth of detail. -- Live Journal
Enthralling and definitivehe writes with soldierly clarity but also delivers an emotional punch. -- Roy Foster in Times Literary Supplement
Peeling back the mythology to uncover the history. -- Martin Zimmerman in San Diego Union - Tribune
Peeling back the mythology to uncover the history. -- Martin Zimmerman in San Diego Union-Tribune
Remarkably evenhanded and insightful.The definitive study of the topic for all students of Irish history. -- Choice
The author may or may not have seen active military service but his interpretation of small unit actions and close-in fighting is sharp and realistic. -- John H. Carroll, Catholic News Service
Townshend is the first author to use the full compendium of the Irish Bureau of Military History records. -- HistoryWire.com
Vivid, authoritative and gripping, Easter 1916 is a major work. -- in Word Power
Product Description
Ireland's Easter Rising of 1916 is one of the handful of modern historical events that instantly created its own mythology and changed millions of lives forever. Charles Townshend's remarkable new book vividly re-creates this extraordinary time when, as Irish insurgents rose up and occupied Dublin, as British artillery retaliated ferociously and flattened the city center, as the last haggard rebels surrendered and their leaders were shot, a powerful narrative was born and Ireland was launched into a new world. Scraping away layer upon layer of myth, Easter 1916 reveals an Ireland polarized, confused, and fearful, hovering on the brink of war between Nationalists and Unionists, and presenting Britain with a seemingly insoluble problem.
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