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Michael Collins's Intelligence War | |||
| The Struggle between the British and the IRA, 1919-1921 | History | |||
| Michael T Foy | ||||
| Sutton 2006 281 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750942673 | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| Michael Collins (1890-1922), the charismatic but ruthless leader of the IRA during the Anglo-Irish war of 1919-1921, was the first on his side to fully understand the need for effective intelligence in military planning. He quickly set up his own network of spies and informers which matched and even outclassed its British counterpart. Using previously unavailable sources, the distinguished Irish historian Michael Foy investigates Collins's role in depth, and places his secret war in the context of the wider conflict. | ||||
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After the Victorians | |||
| 1901-1953 | History | |||
| AN Wilson | ||||
| Hutchinson 2005 609 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0091794846 | ||||
| Published Price £25.00 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
| 'A portrait of an age, rather than a formal history', Wilson's book begins in 1901, as Edward VII becomes king and Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world had ever seen: it ends with the coronation of Elizabeth II and Britain, although victorious in the Second World War, ruined as a world power. How this dramatic decline in power and influence came about is one of the questions AN Wilson seeks to answer, looking particularly at the dominant roles of the economic challenges of the 1930s and the Second World War. | ||||
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The Savage Border | |||
| The Story of the North-West Frontier | History | |||
| Jules Stewart | ||||
| Sutton 2007 240 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750944528 | ||||
| Published Price £19.99 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| Today the presumed hiding place of Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders, Pakistan's North-West Frontier has long been home to the belligerent Pathan whose code of honour requires them to protect anyone who asks for sanctuary. Stewart focuses on the period since the first British contact with the area and includes first-hand accounts of Frontier life since the Second World War. Discussing attempts to deal with the Pathans in the past, he asks whether the tribesmen can be persuaded to give up the terrorists. | ||||
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