An attempt to provide a comprehensive account of the Siege of Derry, examining the historical background. The author draws on contemporary accounts, recreating the fluctuating moods of the defenders, the endless quarrelling of the leaders and the privations which left ten thousand dead. The author freely uses the doggerel verse which commemorates the siege to illustrate both the facts and the myths. Sir Patrick Macrory is an historian and the author of "Kabul Catastrophe".
- ISBN10 0340255331
- ISBN13 9780340255339
- Publish Date 1 July 1980
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 4 May 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Imprint Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 383
- Language English