Fifty Dead Men Walking: The Heroic True Story Of A British Secret Agent Inside The IRA
by McGartland, Martin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1857821785
- ISBN 13
- 9781857821789
- Seller
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Blake Publishing, 1997 1857821785. Hardback. First edition. Fifth printing in year of publication. Fine/Fine except for some numbers in biro on front end page. DW is NOT price-clipped. Note the word 'True' in the title whereas most copies seem to have the word 'Terrifying' instead. Also note that htere are no bands across the right hand bottom of DW as in stock photo. 304 pages "For more than four years, Martin McGartland lived the remarkable double life of a secret agent. To the IRA, he was a trusted Intelligence Officer and an integral memeber of an active service unit. To the British Government, he was "Agent Carol". By night, he would sit down with notorious IRA members to plan bombings and shootings of innocent people. Within hours he would have passed on details of the planned atrocities to intelligence chiefs in Belfast. He foiled a plan to fill a holiday caravan with explosives in order to obliterate a lorry crammed with British soldiers; he saved the lives of more soldiers and police officers, who would have been killed by bombs planted under their vehicles and he risked his life by stopping a machine-gun raid on a pub full of young British servicemen. Finally, his cover was blown. Martin was taken from Sinn Fein headquarters in Belfast to an IRA safehouse for questioning and almost certain execution. He showed remarkable calm and daring. Though guarded by three armed men, he dived from a third floor window in a desperate bid for freedom. Fifty Dead Men Walking is not simply an incredible true adventure story, but also a fascinating and unique insight into the workings and methods of the secret world of the IRA." .
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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2381
- Title
- Fifty Dead Men Walking: The Heroic True Story Of A British Secret Agent Inside The IRA
- Author
- McGartland, Martin
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1857821785
- ISBN 13
- 9781857821789
- Publisher
- London: Blake Publishing, 1997 1857821785
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- July 1997
- Keywords
- Ireland. IRA. Spies Espionage Agents British Secret Service Intelligence Bombings Shootings QSE
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David Edward Hellawell
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands
About David Edward Hellawell
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