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Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: This is a gripping narrative of the most critical years in modern Ireland's history — from Charles Townshend, author of Easter 1916. The protracted, terrible fight for independence pitted the Irish against the British and the Irish against other Irish. It was both a physical battle of shocking violence against a regime increasingly seen as alien and unacceptable and an intellectual battle for a…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: This book charts a path through the outpouring of efforts to understand and explain modern terrorism, by asking what makes terrorism different from other forms of political, military action; what makes it effective; and what can be done about it. It unravels complex central questions such as whether terrorists are criminals, whether terrorism is a kind of war, what kind of threat terrorism…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin’s inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London’s rule but there remained a vast and conflicting range of visions of that future: far more immediate was the unfolding disaster of the First World War that had put ‘home…