Thomas M. Coffey (1922–2000)
Autor(a) de Decision over Schweinfurt : The U.S. 8th Air Force Battle for Daylight Bombing
About the Author
Image credit: Sélection du Reader's Digest
Obras por Thomas M. Coffey
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Coffey, Thomas M.
- Data de nascimento
- 1922
- Data de falecimento
- 2000-02-24
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Aberdeen, South Dakota, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Santa Monica, California, USA
- Locais de residência
- Aberdeen, South Dakota, USA
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Santa Monica, California, USA - Educação
- University of Wisconsin
- Ocupações
- biographer
historian
military pilot
critic
Membros
Críticas
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 346
- Popularidade
- #69,043
- Avaliação
- 3.3
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 19
- Línguas
- 2
You probably couldn’t have picked a group of revolutionaries more out of touch with reality if you tried. The people who signed the independence proclamation were a tobacconist (Thomas Clarke), a newspaper editor (John MacDermott), poet (Thomas MacDonagh), another poet (Patrick Pearse), accountant (Eamonn Ceannt), socialist activist (John Connolly), and still another poet (Joseph Plunkett). None had any military experience. MacDermott was crippled by polio and could only walk with difficulty; Plunkett was dying of tuberculosis and would not have lasted long even if he hadn’t been executed after he surrendered. Doctrinaire Marxist Connolly was convinced that the capitalists would never damage their own property and thus they would be safe in the General Post Office; he was astonished when artillery opened up on the building. (Connolly also advised his followers to keep their weapons after independence, since he anticipated another war between Irish workers and Irish capitalists after the British were kicked out). All were amazed when the population of Dublin failed to rise, inspired by their example; when they were being marched away as prisoners while angry Dubliners pelted them with obscenities, rotten fruit and rocks, someone asked Jim Ryan if he thought the British would let them go; Ryan, looking at the hostile mob, replied “Bejesus, I hope not”.
Certainly worth reading for the stories, but you’ll need several more works on Irish history to pick up enough background to understand what was going on and why. Published for the 50th anniversary and therefore dated, but it’s unlikely much new information has come to light in the interim. Decent endpaper maps of Dublin and the immediate vicinity of the GPO, but it could use some tactical maps showing how things changed during the battle; it’s hard to keep track of how groups outside the GPO proper moved around, since street names in Dublin often change every block.
… (mais)