{"product_id":"9780571297405-fatal-path","title":"Fatal Path","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBritish Government and Irish Revolution 1910-1922\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in  Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to  destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the  United Kingdom. It was a time, argues Ronan Fanning, when  violence and the threat of violence trumped democratic politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in  Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to  destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the  United Kingdom. It was also the decade of the cataclysmic Great War, of  an officers' mutiny in an elite cavalry regiment of the British Army and  of Irish armed rebellion. It was a time, argues Ronan Fanning, when  violence and the threat of violence trumped democratic politics. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis  is a contentious view. Historians have wished to see the events of that  decade as an aberration, as an eruption of irrational bloodletting. And  they have have been reluctant to write about the triumph of physical  force. Fanning argues that in fact violence worked, however much this  offends our contemporary moral instincts. Without resistance from the  Ulster Unionists and its very real threat of violence the state of  Northern Ireland would never have come into being. The Home Rule party  of constitutionalist nationalists failed, and were pushed aside by the  revolutionary nationalists Sinn Fein. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBleakly realistic,  ruthlessly analytical of the vacillation and indecision displayed by  democratic politicians at Westminster faced with such revolutionary  intransigence, \u003ci\u003eFatal Path\u003c\/i\u003e is history as it was, not as we would wish it to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449759215990,"sku":"9780571297405","price":10.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36343297.jpg?v=1760446654","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571297405-fatal-path","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}