Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #298516 in Books
• Published on: 1998-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 239 pages

Synopsis
Collects all of Bobby Sands' writings from Long Kesh prison, written during the sentence which ended in his death from hunger strike in 1981.

Customer Reviews

Sands wasn't a murderer.
A great book and a helpful insight to a man that carries with him so much misunderstanding and myth.

Sands was convicted of an attepmted commercial bombing (i.e. bombing of an empty business property in a fight against capitalism and british emperialism in Ireland).

He was never convicted of murder. So, no, he was not a murderer.

Nor was he a terrorist thug. He was a young, brave and galant man who gave his life that the struggle for Irish freedom be continued despite the British attempts to demoise and criminalise the revolutionaries.

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The story of true idealism.
To those who would harp on about the actions of the men who died with Bobby in 1981, just read the book for what it is. Not the rantings of a right-wing racist and sectarian like those who controlled the state that he gave his life trying to reform. On the contrary, this book represents the thoughts and experiences of a man who gave his life for his ideals. He died for the working men and women of his country (which include loyalists and protestants). The ordinary (and extraordinary) people who encountered the same fate and experiences that he lived through. He gave everything. What did his critics give? Those who have the most give the least, those who have the least give the most. To those anonymous people who categorise him with Timothy McVeigh, I suggest you educate yourself about Irish history before you betray your lack of understanding. If Sands was a psychopathic murderer, then so were Geronimo, Che Guevara, Salvador Allende and Nelson Mandela. This book answers the most important question that nobody is brave enough to ask. WHY?

A Book to Read and to REMEMBER
After I finished this book I found myself crying and It took a long time to recover. It's incredible that in the heart of old Europe an entire and divided people suffer and so much people are ignorant about it (or pretend to be). You, in your confortable home, try to spend a few hours and read these pages.

..how many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry, Yes n how many deaths will it take till he know that too many people have died, Yes n how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just didnt see..

Bobby, you'll never be forgotten.