Henry Patterson Livres

As Northern Ireland braces itself for a return to conflict after eighteen months of peace, the new edition of this path-breaking study could scarcely be more timely. Covering the entire period between partition and the end of the IRA's ceasefire in 1996, the authors take issue with the stereotypes which portray the old Unionist state and the Protestant population as unchanging and monolithic and Catholics as uniformly alienated from the political establishment. Three of Ireland's most respected historians have written an accessible yet sophisticated history which shows how the divisions between the old Orange elite and the broader Protestant population created an explosive political dynamic. Using a wide range of primary sources, they lay bare the key issues of Northern Ireland's history from the establishment of the B Specials after partition to the stark realities of Direct Rule from London.'Revisionist' history has been much discussed in recent years. In an Irish context this does not mean denying past realities, but reassessing the country's history in a way which acknowledges the importance of specifically Irish factors in bringing about historical change rather than laying responsibility for all Ireland's woes at England's door. This highly acclaimed study is a landmark in that new history.

Il semble désormais véridique d'expliquer la rapide invasion de la Sicile, par les Alliés en 1943, grâce à la collaboration de la mafia locale et à l'intervention personnelle du gangster Lucky Luciano qui était alors en prison aux Etats-Unis et qui fut gracié dès 1946 par le président Roosevelt. Quoiqu'il en soit, l'anecdote est très bien exploitée et semble être un épisode de l'histoire occulte de cette époque, comme l'auteur en racontait un semblable à propos d'un attentat commis envers Churchill dans son roman ##L'aigle s'est envolé## (1976).

"It is night in Manhattan. The President of the United States is scheduled to have dinner with an old friend, but in the building across the street, a man has disabled the security and stands at a window, a rifle in his hand." Fortunately, he is not successful - but this is only the beginning. Someone is recruiting a shadowy network of agents with the intention of creating terror. Their range is broad, their identities masked, their methods subtle. White House operative Blake Johnson and his opposite number in British intelligence, Sean Dillon, set out to trace the source of the havoc, but behind the first man lies another, and behind him another still. And that man is not pleased by the interference. Soon he will target them all: Johnson, Dillon, Dillon's colleagues. And one of them will fall.

Een agent van de Britse geheime dienst moet in Tibet een geleerde ophalen die een manier heeft ontdekt om uit de ruimte energie te winnen.

De dochter van een denkbeeldige president van de Verenigde Staten wordt gegijzeld door Israëlische fanatici die de vernietiging van Irak, Iran en Syrië willen afdwingen.

Een voormalig majoor van het Engelse leger moet via wapenleveranties in de Ira zien te infiltreren.

Met een in Groenland neergestort vliegtuig blijkt meer aan de hand te zijn dan aanvankelijk werd gedacht.

Een groepje Duitse parachutisten wordt in de Tweede Wereldoorlog naar Engeland gezonden om Churchill te kidnappen.