Canadian Spy Story: Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police

by David A. Wilson

In the mid-nineteenth century a group of Irish revolutionaries, known as the Fenians, set out to destroy Britain's North American empire. Between 1866 and 1871 they launched a series of armed raids into Canadian territory. In Canadian Spy Story David Wilson takes readers into a dark and dangerous world of betrayal and deception, spies and informers, invasion and assassination, spanning Canada, the United States, Ireland, and Britain. In Canada there...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228011175
• ISBN13: 9780228011170
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 2.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"