Charles Townshend

Praise for The Partition

A model of research and analysis ... Townshend's concise and intelligent book ... tells a painful story that is probably not yet over.

Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph

A layered and mostly fair assessment of the dynamics, deal, prejudices and delusions that created the Border in Ireland ... This is a timely and important book, not just because of the centenary of the creati ...

Diarmaid Ferriter, Irish Times

The completion of the trilogy is delivered with Townshend's characteristic scholarly panache ... he brings into unforgiving focus the carelessness, double-dealing and myopia which has bedevilled Britain's gov ...

Roy Foster, The Spectator

A model of research and analysis ... Townshend's concise and intelligent book ... tells a painful story that is probably not yet over.

Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph

A layered and mostly fair assessment of the dynamics, deal, prejudices and delusions that created the Border in Ireland ... This is a timely and important book, not just because of the centenary of the creati ...

Diarmaid Ferriter, Irish Times

The completion of the trilogy is delivered with Townshend's characteristic scholarly panache ... he brings into unforgiving focus the carelessness, double-dealing and myopia which has bedevilled Britain's gov ...

Roy Foster, The Spectator

A model of research and analysis ... Townshend's concise and intelligent book ... tells a painful story that is probably not yet over.

Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph

A layered and mostly fair assessment of the dynamics, deal, prejudices and delusions that created the Border in Ireland ... This is a timely and important book, not just because of the centenary of the creati ...

Diarmaid Ferriter, Irish Times

The completion of the trilogy is delivered with Townshend's characteristic scholarly panache ... he brings into unforgiving focus the carelessness, double-dealing and myopia which has bedevilled Britain's gov ...

Roy Foster, The Spectator

Books by Charles Townshend