Tag: IRA

Armed Struggle The History Of The Ira


Free Download Armed Struggle: The History Of The Ira By Richard English
2003 | 512 Pages | ISBN: 1405001089 | PDF | 89 MB
A timely work of major historical importance, examining the whole spectrum of events from the 1916 Easter Rising to the current and ongoing peace process, fully updated with a new afterword for the paperback edition.’An essential book … closely-reasoned, formidably intelligent and utterly compelling … required reading across the political spectrum … important and riveting’ Roy Foster,The Times’An outstanding new book on the IRA … a calm, rational but in the end devastating deconstruction of the IRA’ Henry McDonald,Observer’Superb … the first full history of the IRA and the best overall account of the organization. English writes to the highest scholarly standards … Moreover, he writes with the common reader in mind: he has crafted a fine balance of detail and analysis and his prose is clear, fresh and jargon-free … sets a new standard for debate on republicanism’ Peter Hart,Irish Times’The one book I recommend for anyone trying to understand the craziness and complexity of the Northern Ireland tragedy.’ Frank McCourt, author ofAngela’s Ashes

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The Outrages 1920-1922 The IRA and the Ulster Special Constabulary in the Border Campaign


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English | January 25, 2012 | ISBN: 1856358062 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 2.7 MB
The Outrages gives an account of the major incidents, now slipping from local memory, as the Irish War of Independence escalated from attacks on RIC barracks into internecine atrocities. The many lives lost in each border county are chronicled with factual accounts of attacks and reprisals, the impact these events had in Westminster, and how Churchill, Craig, and Collins reacted.

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Ira Hayes The Akimel O’odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism [Audiobook]


Free Download Ira Hayes: The Akimel O’odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BV4JY6WC | 2023 | 8 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 239 MB
Author: Tom Holm
Narrator: Shaun Taylor Corbett

The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes-a Native American icon and World War II legend who famously helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima but spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero. IRA HAYES tells the story of Ira Hamilton Hayes from the perspective of a Native American combat veteran of the Vietnam generation. Hayes, along with five other Marines, was captured in Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photograph of raising the stars and stripes on Mount Suribachi during the battle for the Japanese Island of Iwo Jima. Between the time he helped raise that flag and his death-and beyond-he was the subject of more newspaper columns than any other Native person. He was hailed as a hero and maligned as a chronic alcoholic unable to take care of himself. IRA HAYES explores these fluctuating views of Ira Hayes.

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Ira Hayes The Akimel O’odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism


Free Download Ira Hayes: The Akimel O’odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism by Tom Holm
English | August 1st, 2023 | ISBN: 1538709503 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 31.87 MB
The gripping, forgotten tale ofIraHayes-a Native American icon andWorld War II legendwho famously helped raise the flag at Iwo Jimabut spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero.

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The Lost Revolution The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party


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2010 | 672 Pages | ISBN: 0141028459 | EPUB | 2 MB
The story of contemporary Ireland is inseparable from the story of the official republican movement, a story told here for the first time – from the clash between Catholic nationalist and socialist republicanism in the 1960s and ’70s through the Workers’ Party’s eventual rejection of irredentism. A roll-call of influential personalities in the fields of politics, trade unionism and media – many still operating at the highest levels of Irish public life – passed though the ranks of this secretive movement, which never achieved its objectives but had a lasting influence on the landscape of Irish politics.

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The IRA, 1968-2000 An Analysis of a Secret Army


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English | 2000 | ISBN: 0714650706, 0714681199 | PDF | pages: 370 | 6.2 mb
Based on thousands of interviews over 35 years with the leaders and members of the Republican movement and the IRA itself, as well as the Irish, British and Americans involved in the Troubles, the focus of this study is on the workings of an organization involved in armed struggle.

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Killing Thatcher The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown [Audiobook]


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English | ISBN: 9780008476687 | 2023 | 11 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 326 MB
Author: Rory Carroll
Narrator: Gary Trainor

The gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher. Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet – an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles and the most daring conspiracy against the Crown since the Gunpowder Description. In this fascinating and compelling book, veteran journalist Rory Carroll retraces the road to the infamous Brighton bombing in 1984 – an incident that shaped the political landscape in the UK for decades to come. He begins with the infamous execution of Lord Mountbatten in 1979 – for which the IRA took full responsibility – before tracing the rise of Margaret Thatcher, her response to the ‘Troubles’ in Ireland and the chain of events that culminated in the hunger strikes of 1981 and the death of 10 IRA men, including Bobby Sands.

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