British Voices of the Irish War of Independence
William Sheehan
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Beschreibung
?Ireland's War of Independence generated a wealth of published material but very little from a British perspective. Yet many British servicemen left accounts of their time in Ireland from 1918 to 1921. They describe military operations, the IRA, the Irish, the actions of their own forces, morale and relationships with local communities. There is Brigadier Vinden's strange tale of a drinking session with Michael Collins and humour in the sending of Gaelic-speaking Highlanders into a public house to eavesdrop in the belief that Sinn Féiners always spoke Irish to each other. The author has gone deep into British military archives to unearth these never-published accounts. Supplemented with unpublished photographs from the Imperial War Museum and the Irish National Library, these accounts form a landmark oral history told through the personal experiences of men from across the ranks.
Kundenbewertungen
Captain R.D. Jeune, War of Independence, Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, British Military, Brigadier F.H. Vinden, Major General Douglas Wimberley, Major General Hawes, Anglo-Irish War, Major Reginald Graham, Vice Admiral H.T. Baillie Grohman, Lieutenant Colonel Evelyn Lindsay Young, Major Gerald Stone, Lieutenant Colonel Hughes-Hallett, Lieutenant General A.E. Percival, Flying Officer F.C. Penny, Brigadier Frederick Clarke, Commander B. De L'Faunce, Private Swindlehurst