Charles Townshend's The Republic gets to the truth, painting a far more nuanced and sceptical picture than previous accounts have done - but never losing sight of the ordinary heroism of countless Irish men and women trapped in terrible times.
Charles Townshend is the author of the highly praised Easter 1916-The Irish Rebellion. His other books include The British Campaigns in Ireland, 1919-21 and When God Made Hell- The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Making of Iraq, 1914-21.
Electric ... [a] magisterial and essential book
*Irish Times*
[A] tour de force ... wonderful ... brilliantly written history ...
Townshend's book can only inspire admiration
*Irish Mail on Sunday*
Highly detailed and rich ... [a] magisterial and judicious
narrative ... this must surely be one of the definitive texts on
this period of Anglo-Irish history
*Literary Review*
Charles Townshend's monumental work [is] bold in ambition, scope
and execution ... a work of broad and confident understanding,
characterised by a uniform care in its approach to complex and
controversial material ... An intensely compelling and often
discomfiting narrative, which candidly explores four years of
personal and intimate violence
*Tablet*
Magisterial ... intensely gruelling but hugely impressive ... for
people who prefer to know the facts ... [a] fine achievement of
breathing new life into a subject that some historians might assume
had already been done to death
*Sunday Business Post*
For those interested in a reliable and empathetic introduction to
the topic, this is now the best place to start
*BBC History Magazine*
A great read ... it has certainly set a very high standard for
others to measure up to
*Times Higher Education*
A well-sourced, severely objective account of the origins and
courses of the wars that followed the Easter Rising
*Irish Catholic*
Charles Townshend's The Republic . . . nails the Irish
revolutionary events of 1918-23 with his inimitable kind of
forensic panache
*Times Literary Supplement BOOKS OF THE YEAR*
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