The Trial of Peter Barnes and Others The I.R.A. Coventry Explosion of 1939

Letitia Fairfield

Published by William Dodge, 1953

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Item Description The Trial of Peter Barnes and Others The I.R.A. Coventry Explosion of 1939; edited by Letitia Fairfield, C.B.E., M.D., Barrister-at-Law; William Dodge and Company Limited, London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, 1953. First publication. Notable British Trials Series Volume 77. From the blurb The arraignment of Peter Barnes and four others on a charge of murder at the Birmingham Assizes on 11th December, 1939, provided the most important, and most controversial, trial of any held during that year of persons charged with I.R.A. activities in Britain. At 2;30p.m. on 25th August, 1939, a bomb exploded in one of Coventry s busiest streets. Broadgate, killing 5 people, injuring some 60 others, and causing much damage. The accused were charged with the death of one person, and it was clearly proved that the bomb had been made at the house of one of them, and taken away in a carrier cycle. During 1939 many acts of sabotage were carried out by members of the Irish Republican Army, but fortunately only two other cases had fatal results. Barnes and Richards were convicted and executed; the others were acquitted. The trial is a fine example of how a case should be presented, and was eminently fair in the way it was conducted under English law. At the conclusion of the case the presiding judge congratulated the police on the excellence of their work. The book is illustrated with black-and-white photographs and has a fold-out street plan of Coventry. This book, 289 pages, is in very-good condition in a very-good dust jacket that is now enclosed in a protective mylar wrap.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Trial of Peter Barnes and Others The I.R.A. Coventry Explosion of 1939
• Publisher: William Dodge
• Publication Date: 1953
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good