Title: Do your homework
Product review: Over all a pretty good book. I just watched the film Michael Collins and I wanted to read a book about the same subject so I checked out 1916 and 1921. Llywelyn does an quality job of making history come alive but there were several errors that almost ruined the book for me. In the list of characters she writes that the Wolfe Tone the Irish revolutionary died in 1828 when in fact he slit his throat in 1798 after the failed uprising. Is this a mistake on her part or merely a typo? She also wrote that during the Boer War the Boers raised an army from among the native South Africans. If she meant whites born in South Africa this is true. If she meant blacks then this is completly false. The Boers would have fit in with the KKK and would never have fought alongside "kaffirs". I know these points seem trivial but they made me feel uncomfortable reading the book. I wonder if these facts are wrong what other mistakes did I miss?
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