num_pages: 512
description: Few leaders in history have been as mythologized as Michael Collins. Before his death at 31, he had fought in the Easter Rising, organized the IRA and out-spied British intelligence, negotiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty, and run the first independent government in Ireland. Peter Hart’s groundbreaking biography restores humanity to this mythical figure. Drawing on previously unknown sources, delving into Collins’s pre-revolutionary past, and assessing the methods—and the costs—of his rise to power, Mick reveals a man of often ruthless ambition, more politician than soldier, whose friendships went no farther than his interests. A work as thrilling as it is authoritative.
language: English
title: Mick: The Real Michael Collins
titlecomplete: Mick: The Real Michael Collins
characters: Michael Collins
genres: Ireland, Irish Literature, History, Biography Memoir, War, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 235
publisher: Penguin Books