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Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War: Britain's Counterinsurgency Failure Hardcover – October 1, 2011

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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc; 2011 no other dates edition (October 1, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1597975354
  • ISBN-13: 978-1597975353
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsHighly recommended
By Ron Fritze on January 2, 2012
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Americans live in a society that often has little regard for the lessons of history. The study of history is deemphasized in school and college curriculums while the History Channel has drifted into such inspired programming as Ice Road Truckers and Ancient Aliens. Yet as experience and memory are essential for an individual's survival and success, so a knowledge of history is essential for a society and a nation's survival and success. J. B. E. Hittle's Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War is a fine example of history that informs and enlightens the reader, it also teaches some valuable lessons about fighting terrorism and insurgency.
Hittle's book is not a biography of Michael Collins or a survey of the war that raged in Ireland from 1919 to 1921. Rather it is a study of the struggle between the Irish nationalists and the British to achieve and maintain superior intelligence about their opponent. The English had dominated the Irish since the seventeenth century and had transformed the Ireland into a colony--a very unhappy colony. Ireland experienced a rebellion against English rule about every generation but they all failed. England possessed massive military superiority but equally important, the English maintained a system of spies and informers that allowed them to nip Irish uprisings in the bud. Geographically, Ireland was essential to England's security, so it was fully incorporated into the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1801. The hope was that the Irish would become British but they didn't. The Potato Famine and the Irish cultural renaissance combined to reignite Irish discontent with British rule. The British government promised home rule for Ireland but the advent of World War I put that plan on hold and the Easter Uprising of 1916 followed.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThis volume is really the best book ever published about Collins and the era--- without ...
By General Phil Sheridan on February 19, 2015
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Having studied Irish history Socratically since completing an undergraduate course at Notre Dame in 1969, I have read about fifty books on the Michael Collins era of Irish Nationalism. This volume is really the best book ever published about Collins and the era--- without any doubt. The author peels away the layers of myth around Collins until only the truth remains. Especially interesting is his seminal work on tracing Collin's dedication to the cause while he spent ten years in England before 1916. Also interestingly, the author traces Collins' rise within the IRB and IRA as a virtual outsider from England against .the hardcore leadership in Ireland..In one of those interesting twists Collins was set to emigrate too the USA in 1905 when he suddenly switched directions, joined the IRB, and became totally committed to the movement and action in Ireland.Extremely unpublished details about the man and the organization (IRA) permeate the volume. If a novice asked me which book to buy first for a serious study of the man and organization--I would uneqivocaly recommend MICHAEL COLLINS AND THE ANGLO-IRISH WAR! .
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4.0 out of 5 starsGood account, using both sides material
By Dalcassian on April 6, 2016
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A well-done account of the intelligence war that constituted the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) with a professional critic's understanding of both intelligence and "asymmetric warfare" (as we call empires pummeling the locals). Although the author says he doesn't want to add to the seemingly superhuman lionization of IRA and IRB rebel Collins, he ends up doing just that a bit anyway, perhaps more a testimony to Collins's actual success as insurgent intelligence leader than simplr admiration. The narrative and appendixes add some human and historical insights to the whole story as well. Readable prose, some jargon, but easy to follow. By incorporating what information the author could on the British side, he adds a bit to history. It is a nice complement to the pro-British (but also still useful) http://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Tans-Richard-Bennett/dp/1848843844.
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4.0 out of 5 starsMore than it promises, and less.
By Frank Lynch on September 5, 2013
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In his introduction, Hittle says that his goal has been to describe Collins's efforts (and those of the British) in terms of strengths and weaknesses in intelligence and counterintelligence. What I've found so far, though (60-75% in) is that Hittle has not organized his book around practices or principles so much as events, and described strengths and weaknesses along the way as he tells his tale. It's a different kind of instruction, as a result; it's a history repurposed as an intel lesson rather than an intel lesson using history to support it.

That's not necessarily a bad thing; but if you read his introduction and expect the latter you'll be surprised. Whether or not that's a disappointment will be a matter of your preferences.

I would also like to point out that if you don't read his end notes (on the Kindle they're endnotes, I don't know what they are in the print version) you will miss a lot of the information. Many of the end notes are explanatory, and add significant context to what you've read, sometimes embellishing a story or sometimes defining a term used in the body of the text so you know what's being talked about. Hittle sometimes uses jargon ("dangle," for instance) and his meaning isn't always clear.

I would also like to add, as a Kindle user who clicks on notes regularly, this book's notes are coded in the most wonderful way. Typically when you advance the cursor to a line with a note, you then have to curse right (or left) to get to the note. In this book, you simply have to advance one click past the line (after moving down the page) and the cursor automatically goes to the note. Very easy, and especially valuable when the notes are so often "speaking" notes.
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