Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP - Ronan Mcgreevy

Descriere Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP - Ronan Mcgreevy

THE IRISH TOP 10 BESTSELLER \nA gripping investigation into one of Irish \nhistory's greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals the true story behind one of the most \nsignificant political assassinations to ever have been committed on British \nsoil. \n \nHeart-stopping \n. . . The book is both forensic and a page-turner, and ultimately deeply \ntragic, for Ireland as much as for the murder victim. - MICHAEL PORTILLO\n \nGripping from start to finish. McGreevy turns a forensic \nmind to a political assassination that changed the course of history, \nuncovering a trove of unseen evidence in the process. - ANITA ANAND, author of The Patient Assassin \n \nInvaluable. IRISH TIMES \n \nIntelligent and insightful. IRISH INDEPENDENT \n \nOn 22 June 1922, Sir Henry Wilson - the former head of the British army and one \nof those credited with winning the First World War - was shot and killed by two \nveterans of that war turned IRA members in what was the most significant \npolitical murder to have taken place on British soil for more than a century. \nHis assassins were well-educated and pious men. One had lost a leg during the \nBattle of Passchendaele. Shocking British society to the core, the shooting caused \nconsternation in the government and almost restarted the conflict between \nBritain and Ireland that had ended with the Anglo-Irish Treaty just five months \nearlier. Wilson's assassination triggered the Irish Civil War, which cast the \ndarkest of shadows over the new Irish State. \nWho ordered the killing? Why did two English-born Irish nationalists kill an \nIrish-born British imperialist? What was Wilson's role in the Northern Ireland \ngovernment and the violence which matched the intensity of the Troubles fifty \nyears later? Why would Michael Collins, who risked his life to sign a peace \ntreaty with Great Britain, want one of its most famous soldiers dead, and how \ndid the Wilson assassination lead to Collins' tragic death in an ambush two \nmonths later? \n \nDrawing upon newly released archival material and never-before-seen \ndocumentation, Great Hatred is a revelatory work that sheds light on a moment that changed the \ncourse of Irish and British history for ever.\n

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