{"product_id":"rewriting-the-troubles","title":"Rewriting The Troubles","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn this timely and meticulously researched book, Patrick Anderson compares and contrasts Algeria’s anti-colonial struggle for independence with the republican campaign to dismantle Britain’s colonial legacy. Comparing the French and British armies, the IRA and ALN, loyalists and OAS ‘counter-terrorists’, Anderson dissects, with devastating effect, the approach of ‘constitutional’ politicians and the respective media portrayals in an analogy that for critics will be too close for comfort.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAbout the book, historian Dr Brian Feeney, in the \u003cem\u003eIrish News\u003c\/em\u003e, said, ‘Unionists, including academics, have been aware of the striking analogies between Algeria and the north for decades: they all reject the uncanny similarities as dangerous… It’s easy to see why… Accepting any analogy or similarity means accepting that the north is illegal, a temporary arrangement, and that Britain will eventually leave Ireland as the French did Algeria.’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57311716114814,"sku":"NW9783949573026","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9783949573026.jpg?v=1778584298","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/rewriting-the-troubles","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}