Mick: The Real Michael Collins - Rilegato

Peter Hart is the Canada Research Chair of Irish Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the author of The I.R.A. and Its Enemies (winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize) and two other books on modern Irish history.

Few people have had as profound an impact on their country's history in so short a time as Michael Collins had on twentieth-century Ireland. Dead at thirty-one, he remains a hero and an icon both in his native country and abroad. Peter Hart's compelling and comprehensive biography draws on many hitherto unseen sources to explore the life of Michael Collins and to ask what made him such an extraordinary and complex man. Set to become the definitive work, Hart's is the first book fully to investigate Collins's life before becoming a revolutionary and the first to take a critical look at his rise to power and its consequences. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 485 pages; Description: xxi, 485 p. , [16] p. Of plates : ill. , map ; 24 cm. Originally published: London : Macmillan, 2005. Includes index. Subjects: Collins, Michael, 1890-1922. Revolutionaries - Ireland - Biography. Ireland - History - War of Independence, 1919-1921