Blood-Dark Track: A Family History
Author(s): Joseph O'Neill
A fascinating family memoir from Joseph O'Neill, whose grandfathers - one Irish, one Turkish - were both imprisoned during the Second World War. The Irish grandfather, a handsome rogue from a family of small farmers, was an active member of the IRA and was interned with hundreds of his comrades. O'Neill's other grandfather, a hotelier from a tiny and threatened Turkish Christian minority, was imprisoned by the British in Palestine, on suspicion of being a spy. At the age of thirty, Joseph O'Neill set out to uncover his grandfather's stories, what emerges is a narrative of two families and two charismatic but flawed men. It is a story of murder, espionage, paranoia and fear, of memories of violence and of fierce commitments to political causes.
General Information
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- : Harper Perennial
- : Harper Perennial
- : 0.228
- : 30 April 2009
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Joseph O'Neill
- : Paperback
- : 7-Sep
- : English
- : 940.5/472/092
- : 352