I received this book yesterday and have already plowed through about half its pages. For someone looking to get a good "feel" for the ten year period the title covers, this is probably a good book to start with. Illustrated with color maps and black and white photos, Peter Cottrell has edited an easy to read book that strays from offering opinions and stays on the facts. I am no Ireland expert, nor will I claim to ever be, so my opinion of the book may be off kilter a bit, but I have this title to be a straightforward account and a solid starting point for my understanding of The Troubles. It will not give the reader many details useful for gaming scenarios, it will not delve into minutia relative to skirmishes and battles and the forces and weapons involved in same, but it will provide a chronological history and biographical background on the major players. This allows the reader to understand how the Easter Rising led into the War of Independence, and how those who fought side by side in these earlier conflicts were later rivals during the Civil War.
The War for Ireland: 1913-1923. Peter Cottrell (editor). Osprey Publishing, 2009. Hardcover, 248 pages.
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