Here's a recommendation. Michael Collins. Few people know about this chap but he is what many would consider the man who created modern Ireland through bullets, blood and spying. This is a man who a British military poll ranked as the most successful enemy of Great Britain, a man who succeeded in going up against Europe's best armed forces and intelligence service and won hands down.
To do this, he created modern asymmetric warfare, and modern terrorism. The intelligence gathering service he built would put many 21st century spy agencies to shame and then we get to the paramilitary unit he built......
This biography reveals quite a lot about the man, a person whom Rabin in Israel and Mao Zedong took notes from.
Few people know about this chap but he is what many would consider the man who created modern Ireland through bullets, blood and spying. This is a man who a British military poll ranked as the most successful enemy of Great Britain, a man who succeeded in going up against Europe's best armed forces and intelligence service and won hands down.
To do this, he created modern asymmetric warfare, and modern terrorism. The intelligence gathering service he built would put many 21st century spy agencies to shame and then we get to the paramilitary unit he built......
This biography reveals quite a lot about the man, a person whom Rabin in Israel and Mao Zedong took notes from.