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Michael Collins: The Lost Leader - A biography of Irish politician Michael Collins - cover

Michael Collins: The Lost Leader - A biography of Irish politician Michael Collins

Margery Forester

Publisher: Gill Books

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Summary

In print continuously for more than thirty years, this book is long established as a reliable and affectionate portrait of Michael Collins.
First, published in 1971, its great strength is that the author was able to interview Collins' surviving contemporaries and was offered unrestricted access to personal and family material.
Michael Collins: The Lost Leader has been praised by authorities such as Robert Kee and Maurice Manning and remains compulsive reading even today.
Available since: 09/12/2006.
Print length: 411 pages.

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