A Secret History of the IRA

Brimming with disclosures, *A Secret History of the IRA* is a story from deep inside the belly of the beast. Spanning three decades and several continents, and based on unprecedented access to the IRA, Ed Moloney reveals the inner workings and furtive plots of the IRA, its link to Arab terrorism and its connection to many international figures, including Margaret Thatcher, Colonel Qaddafi, George W. Bush and Pope John Paul II. Moloney provides fascinating new material on Gerry Adams's unrelenting rise to power establishing Adams as one of the most complex and ruthless political figures of his time and the 30-year-war as one of the most important conflicts of the last half of the twentieth century.

This is a riveting account of how one of the world's oldest and most ruthless terrorist groups was maneuvered into ending its violent, thirty-year-long conflict with Britain.