Michael Collins
eBook - A Life
This biography tells the story well, and with a life like Collins's - so crammed with action, so poignant, yet so clouded with rumour and doubt - this is no mean feat . . . Anyone trying to make sense of the enduring struggles in Ireland should read this book' " <i>Sunday Times</i>
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The most charismatic figure to emerge during the struggles for the independence of Ireland was undoubtedly Michael Collins. This remarkable biography, which draws on much hitherto unpublished material, charts the dramatic rise of the country boy who became head of the Free State and the commander-in-chief of the army.
Autorenportrait
Dr James Mackay has had a lifelong interest in Michael Collins. At Glasgow University he majored in Irish history and wrote his Masters's thesis on his boyhood hero. This biography realises a longstanding ambition to do justice to one of the great figures of the century. Widely regarded as the world's greatest authority on the life and works of Robert Burns, Mackay's definitive biography,<i>Burns</i>, won the 1994 Saltire Society Book of the Year award. He is also the author of<i>Vagabond of Verse: A Biography of Robert Service</i>,<i>Brave Heart: William Wallace</i>,<i>Allan Pinkerton: The Eye Who Never Slept</i>and<i>Sounds Out of Silence: A Life of Alexander Graham Bell</i>.
Weitere Details
Erschienen: 21.12.2012
Umfang: 320 S., 0.84 MB
Sprache: ENG
ISBN/EAN: 9781780575025
Umbreit-Nr.: 6454756
