Tom Barry - Guerilla Days in Ireland - Vintage Anvil Press PB - War of Independence 1967

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A paperback edition, undated but late 1960's ( still in predecimal pricing, the first decimal edition was 1971)  Anvil Press/ Kerryman of the classic account by Tom Barry of the War of Independence - Guerilla Days in Ireland. Originally published in 1949 as a hardback by The Irish Press group. 
Condition - usual age tanning to the page block - and creasing to the front cover - at upper corner mostly . Binding is tight, spine is only lightly creased, no paper loss to covers, and all pages tight.The spine corners are rubbed. One corner ( upper right hand) is curling slightly. 

In Guerilla Days in Ireland, which has been one of the classics of the War of Independence since its first publication, Tom Barry describes the setting up of the West Cork Flying Column, its training and its plan of campaign. As much a study of tactics as a direct history, it is one of the best accounts of the period, by a writer who was involved directly in much of what occurred. Tom Barry (1897-1980) commanded the West Cork Brigade, perhaps the most effective Irish Republican Army unit during the Black and Tan War. He was anti-Treaty and later served in the 1930's as IRA Chief of Staff.