![]() ![]() End papers professionally repaired, rubbing to the corners and spine ends, surface marks to the boards. ![]() His final words, spoken to the firing squad, were: 'Take a step or two forward, lads, it will be easier that way.' Contains folding map frontispiece, xii, 336, (4) pp publisher's advertisements with 3 further maps and charts. He also obtained a promise from his then 16-year-old son, the future President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers, to seek out and shake the hand of every man who had signed his death sentence. Before his execution he shook hands with the firing squad. ![]() He was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War on 24 November 1922, by firing squad at the Beggars Bush Barracks in Dublin. Childer's became a supporter of Irish Republicanism and smuggled guns into Ireland in his sailing yacht Asgard. Second impression hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, completely faded lettering down the spine, Dulcibella yacht in white to the front board. ![]()
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