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As a leading expert on non-conventional weapons and explosives, the author focuses on the bombs and explosives and shows how the IRA became the most adept and experienced insurgency group the world has ever seen through their bombing expertise and how - after generations of conflict - it all came to an end. The book is a comprehensive account of more than 150 years of Irish republican strategic, tactical, and operational details and analysis covering the IRA's mission, doctrine, targeting, and acquisition of weapons and explosives. Oppenheimer also colourfully presents the story behind the bombs; those who built and deployed them, those who had to deal with and dismantle them, and those who suffered or died from them. He analyses where, how, and why the IRA's bombs were built, targeted and deployed and explores what the IRA was hoping to accomplish in its unrivalled campaign of violence and insurgency through covert acquisition, training, intelligence and counter-intelligence. The b

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Warfare & defence Weapons & equipment

• Full title: IRA: The Bombs and the Bullets
• Subtitle: A History of Deadly Ingenuity
• Author: A.R. Oppenheimer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780716528951
• ISBN: 9780716528951
• ID: 03015830
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press Ltd
• Weight: 614 g
• Dimensions: 232 × 156 × 34 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. October 2008

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