Gene Kerrigan

The Scrap

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In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse. In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of Saurin and his comrades.The Scrap is the true story of the rising, from first-hand evidence, as seen by one rebel unit - F Company, 2nd Battalion - following them from the first skirmish in Fairview to the inferno of the GPO.Told in the context of some of the major events of that week, the story of F Company brings alive the excitement, the humour, the horror and the contradictions of that decisive mome… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4735-4040-8
EAN: 9781473540408
Produktnummer: 19024834
Verlag: Transworld Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 384 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'829 KB

Über den Autor

Gene Kerrigan was born and lives in Dublin, where he has covered politics, crime and scandals for over thirty years. He wrote for Magill magazine and the Sunday Tribune, and currently writes for the Sunday Independent. Among his non-fiction books are the bestselling Hard Cases, Another Country, This Great Little Nation and The Big Lie: Who Profits From Ireland's Austerity? He is also the author of four novels, the latest of which, The Rage, won the UK's top crime fiction award, the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, at the 2012 Crime Writers' Association awards.