Mick The Real Michael Collins
, by Hart, PeterNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780143038542 | 0143038540
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/30/2007
Few leaders in history have been as mythologized as Michael Collins. Before his death at 31, he had fought in the Easter Rising, organized the IRA and out-spied British intelligence, negotiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty, and run the first independent government in Ireland. Peter Hart’s groundbreaking biography restores humanity to this mythical figure. Drawing on previously unknown sources, delving into Collins’s pre-revolutionary past, and assessing the methods—and the costs—of his rise to power, Mickreveals a man of often ruthless ambition, more politician than soldier, whose friendships went no farther than his interests. A work as thrilling as it is authoritative.