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Michael Collins
Tim Pat Coogan
其他書名
A Biography
出版
Bloomsbury Publishing
, 2015-12-16
主題
History / Modern / 20th Century / General
Biography & Autobiography / Historical
ISBN
1784975362
9781784975364
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cymiEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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When President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord Birkenhead, 'I may have signed my actual death warrant.'
In August 1922 during the Irish Civil War, that prophecy came true – Collins was shot and killed by a fellow Irishman in a shocking political assassination.
So ended the life of the greatest of all Irish nationalists, but his visions and legacy lived on.
This authorative and comprehensive biography presents the life of a man who became a legend in his own lifetime, whose idealistic vigour and determination were matched only by his political realism and supreme organisational abilities. Coogan's biography provides a fascinating insight into a great political leader, whilst vividly portraying the political unrest in a divided Ireland, that can help to shape our understanding of Ireland's recent tumultuous socio-political history.