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Author Bell, J. Bowyer

Title The Secret Army : the IRA
Edition 2nd ed
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (617 pages)
Contents Cover Page; The Secret Army: The IRA; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction to the Transaction Edition; Foreword to the 1979 Edition; Foreword to the 1970 Edition; Part I The Glorious Years: 1916-1927; I The Rising: The Republic Proclaimed, The Army Committed, April-September 1916; II The Tan War: The IRA Triumphant, September 1916-July 1921; III The Irregular Years: Schism, Terror, and Despair, June 1921-August 1923; IV The Legion of the Rearguard: The Response to Defeat, May 1923-August 1927; Part II The Cosgrave Years: 1927-1932
V The IRA Goes to Ground: Perseverance on the Road to the Republic, September 1927-February 1932Part III The De Valera Years: 1932-1938; VI De Valera in Power: The Devil We Don't Know, March 1932-June 1936; VII De Valera Pre-empts the Stage: The IRA without Direction, June 1936-March 1938; Part IV The War Years: 1938-1945; VIII The English Campaign: Bombs for Britain, April 1938-September 1939; IX The Momentum Ebbs: Conspiracy, Coercion, and Desperate Men, September 1939-April 1941; X Turmoil at the Centre: The Stephen Hayes Affair, April 1941-September 1941
XI The Edge of Chaos: Twilight of the Gunmen, October 1941-December 1944Part V The Campaign Years: 1945-1969; XII The IRA Endures: The Agonizing Reconstruction, 1945-1951; XIII The IRA on the Move: The Great Arms Raids, 1951-1954; XIV The Campaign: The Build-up, 1954-1956; XV The Campaign: The IRA on the Offensive, December 1956-July 1957; XVI The Campaign: The IRA on the Defensive, August 1957-March 1962; XVII The Gun on the Shelf: The IRA in the Doldrums, March 1962-July 1969; Part VI; XVIII The North Explodes and the Army Divides; XIX The Rise of the Provos: 1970-1972
XX The Bloody Watershed, 1972-1974XXI A War of Attrition, 1974-1979; Part VII; XXII The First Decade, The Nature of the Long War, 1979-1980; XXIII Unconventional Conflict, The Hunger Strikes, January 1980-October 3, 1981; XXIV The Protracted Struggle, September 1981-January 1984; XXV War, Politics, and the Split, January 1984-December 1986; XXVI The Troubles as Institution, 1987-1990; XXVII The Armed Struggle Transformed, 1991-1996, The End Game; Sources; Addenda 1979; Addenda 1996; Index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Ireland -- History, Military
Subject Ireland
Genre/Form Military history
Form Electronic book
Author Bell, J. Bowyer
ISBN 9781351474450
1351474456