Killing rage / Eamon Collins with Mick McGovern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Eamon.

Contributor:

McGovern, Mick, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collins, Eamon.

Irish Republican Army.

Paramilitary forces--Northern Ireland--History--20th century.

Paramilitary forces.

Political violence--Northern Ireland--History--20th century.

Political violence.

History.

Guerrilla warfare.

Northern Ireland.

Guerrilla warfare--Northern Ireland--History--20th century.

Revolutionaries--Northern Ireland--Biography.

Revolutionaries.

Irish Republican Army--History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

372 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Granta Books, 1997.

Summary:

This is the most important, and disturbing, book ever published about the IRA. It is the first, unsparingly detailed account of the reality of political violence in a small country divided by rival ideas of nationhood.

No book has ever documented so compulsively the dreadful cost of an unwinnable guerilla war.

This is a chilling book written by a former Intelligence Officer for the IRA whose job it was to plan the murders of local IRA victims who sometimes were his neighbors.

The book seems to come from the headlines of today's newspapers and, even with the current peace agreement, splinter groups of the IRA continue its attack on unarmed civilians. Last week (late June) one such attack critically injured a 15-year-old boy.

The author was captured by British forces, served years in detention before being released and writing about the IRA.

ISBN:

1862070083

OCLC:

37244275