Full name: Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike

Author: David Beresford Year: 1987 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780871137029 087113702X

In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long Kesh prison in Belfast. While a stunned world watched and distraught family members kept bedside vigils, one "soldier" after another slowly went to his death in an attempt to make Margaret Thatcher's government recognize them as political prisoners rather than common criminals. Drawing extensively on secret IRA documents and letters from the prisoners smuggled out at the time, David Beresford tells the gripping story of these strikers and their devotion to the cause. An intensely human story, Ten Men Dead offers a searing portrait of strife-torn Ireland, of the IRA, and the passions -- on both sides -- that Republicanism arouses. Similar books: Rebel Hearts by Kevin Toolis The IRA by Tim Pat Coogan A Secret History of the IRA by Ed Moloney The Graves Are Walking by John Kelly Armed Struggle by Richard English Fractured Emerald: Ireland by Emily Hahn The Transformation of Ireland by Diarmaid Ferriter The Famine Plot by Tim Pat Coogan Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff Making Sense of the Troubles by David McKittrick America by Dinesh D'Souza Unfreedom of the Press by Mark R. Levin One Nation by Ben Carson A Warning by Anonymous American Nations by Colin Woodard The Story of the Irish Race by Seumas MacManus Justice on Trial by Mollie Hemingway Control by Glenn Beck