Prelude to the Easter Rising: Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany

by Reinhard R. Doerries

Book Overview

Prelude to the Easter Rising casts light upon the clandestine activities of Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany from 1914 to 1916.

German military intelligence and the Imperial Foreign Office had far-reaching plans to use the Irish in the war against Britain. Radical Irish-American leaders were behind Casement's mission to Berlin. It took some time for the highly sensitive and idealistic Casement to realize that neither the German General...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714680702
• ISBN13: 9780714680705
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"