Decoding the IRA

✍ Scribed by Mahon, Tom; Gillogly, James J

• Book ID: 107494090
• Publisher: Mercier Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 4 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Decoding the IRA: the true story of the Irish Republican Army's international network of violence and espionage

From espionage in America, to plotting a poison gas attack on Dublin - this ''fascinating'' history of the IRA is based on the breaking of the organization's secret code. Decoding the IRA is an intriguing and unsettling account of IRA secrets, hidden for over 80 years; including its alliance with the Soviet Union and a conspiracy to aid Chiang Kai-shek and his Chinese nationalists. The book uncovers operations ranging from the ingenious to the bizarre.

Decoding the IRA provides a unique insight into what was one of the most innovative and important revolutionary organizations of the twentieth century, a group that created an international network (extending from New York to Moscow) decades before al-Qaeda. It reveals for the first time the IRA's espionage for the Soviet Union - threatening the security of the United States. This book changes our understanding of the...