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First published by Allen Lane 2005
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Penguin Books 2006
Published with a new Preface 2015
Copyright © Charles Townshend, 2005, 2015
Cover photograph © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis. Cover design: Antonio Colaço.
The moral right of the author has been asserted
Lines from W. B. Yeats’ ‘Easter 1916’ reproduced by permission of A. P. Watt Ltd, on behalf of Michael B. Yeats
ISBN: 978-0-141-90276-0