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Chargement... Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916 (1990)par Peter De Rosa
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A very readable, thriller like account of the Easter Rising. Whilst excitingly written, with good pacing, it does read like a thriller where you know who all the players are. A dramatis personae, with roles described, would have been helpful. The maps could have been presented with a bit more detail & in the main body of the text too. Good book, interesting history but probably best for students of the subject who know about the people involved, their motivations & the setting of these events. This is an exciting summary of a people's history of the event, and if you need more historical, fact driven background, then look elsewhere. ( ) 2824 Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916, by Peter DeRosa (read 19 Jan 1996) This is officially fiction. It tells the story of the Rising in 1916 in Ireland and as far as I can tell it is very factual. I presume it is classified as fiction because of embellishments created by the author. This book was moving, though a little heavy on Irish blarney. I liked the very Catholic things emphasized by the author, and found such faith inspiring. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"A WORK OF GREAT DRAMATIC POWER climaxing in the final hundred pages where he writes a full, searing narrative of the patriot leaders' last days . . . It's powerful stuff." --The Sunday Press (Ireland) On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over the center of Dublin and proclaimed a republic. It was a rash, doomed, symbolic uprising, and the rebel leaders knew it. Crack British troops killed and wounded hundreds of the rebels in the week of fighting, and British artillery shells left Dublin's city center in ruins. But the Rising of 1916 was not in vain. The short-lived insurrection and the subsequent executions of sixteen rebel leaders galvanized the Irish people. The overthrow of seven centuries of British rule in Ireland began on Easter Monday, 1916. In Rebels, Peter de Rosa, author of the bestselling Vicars of Christ, tells the story of the 1916 Rising in all its terror and beauty. With the dramatic flair of a novelist and the scrupulous accuracy of a professional historian, de Rosa brings to life the people, passions, politics, and repercussions of this historic event. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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