Killing Rage

Collins, Eamon; McGovern, Mick

ISBN 10: 1862070474 / ISBN 13: 9781862070479

Editore: Granta Books, 1998

Codice articolo 559695-n

Riassunto:

Since the 1970s, people have been murdering their neighbors in Northern Ireland. This book is the true account of the small-town violence and terror which lies behind the headlines.

Product Description: Eamon Collins's book is the most devastating account we have of what actually went on within the IRA during its years of 'armed struggle'. Collins revealed the banality, the ignorance and psychotic inhumanity of the little men pumped up into village Napoleons by the Troubles - Fintan O'Toole, The Independent on SundayThe most convincing honest book ever written about the IRA - Jim Cusack, The Irish TimesA moving, even thrilling book... I would recommend it very strongly indeed - Daily Telegraph This is an account of how an angry young man can cross the line that divides theoretical support for violence from a state of 'killing rage', in which the murder of neighbour becomes thinkable. Over 3000 people have died in Northern Ireland since 1969, and most of them have died at the hands of their neighbours. The intimacy of the Ulster conflict, what it means to carry out a political murder when in all probability the victim is personally known, or lives in a nearby street, is described accurately by an honest participant. The book does not attempt to soften the impact of the events it describes through euphemism or rhetoric. It is a truthful picture of the brutality and waste caused by the IRA's unwinnable campaign, and of its human consequences. It is also a self-portrait of the despair and disintegration, the hardening to conscience and grief, that accompany political violence.

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Titolo: Killing Rage
Casa editrice: Granta Books
Data di pubblicazione: 1998
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: New