Burning of Cork

"On the night of 11 December 1920, Cork City experienced an orgy of unprecedented terror at the hands of the British forces of law and order. The War of Independence was in its second year and the previous nine months had witnessed a dramatic escalation of the conflict." "In Cork, attacks on the crown forces by the Irish Volunteers were being answered with vicious reprisals, and the streets had become the battleground of a bloody and personalised war of attrition." "With two lord mayors dead, several British officers either kidnapped or assassinated, and tension increasing on a daily basis, the fuse had been lit for a night of violence and arson that the people of Cork city would never forget."--BOOK JACKET.White, Gerry is the author of 'Burning of Cork', published 2006 under ISBN 9781856355223 and ISBN 1856355225.