Bobby Sands: Nothing But an Unfinished Song

This is the best-selling biography of the IRA resistance fighter and hunger-striker Bobby Sands. In this updated new edition Denis O’Hearn draws from a wealth of interviews with friends comrades fellow prisoners and prison wardens to provide a faithful and shocking insight into life in Northern Ireland’s H-Block prisons an exploration of the motivations and thoughts of the Republican strikers and the story of one of the world’s most radical inspirational figures. Following his journey from its very beginnings - an ordinary boy from a working-class background in Belfast to a highly politicised articulate revolutionary whose death in HM Prison Maze sent reverberations around the world Bobby Sands: Nothing But An Unfinished Song captures the atmosphere of the time and the vibrancy of the man: a militant anti-imperialist who held on to his humanity despite living through a bitter ugly struggle.